Cancer and Reiki
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Everyone knows someone who has experienced cancer. The knowledge of having to receive a diagnosis of cancer is a total experience that involves feelings, thoughts, physical sensations, as well as questioning of one's connection to a higher power. The western medical way is to treat the symptoms or "cut out" the problem. These solutions put the body further out of balance because the body has to adjust to the new medicine and its side effects, or the removal of a part of the body thus changing the way it functions. The "cure" often creates more problems for the person to deal with then what they were first experiencing. For example, chemotherapy or radiation treatments are necessary poisons to the body and create their own miseries. A different way to approach the experience of surgery or a cancer diagnosis and treatment is to consider the use of Reiki. It works on the mind, body and spirit. Reiki can calm the emotions, decrease or remove physical pain, calm the anxious and chattering mind and help one to reconnect with their spirituality. It also helps to cleanse the body of toxins and speed up and strengthen the body's ability to heal itself. It can make the experience of chemotherapy, radiation, or surgery, more tolerable. The people I have worked with that are currently undergoing chemotherapy, or radiation treatment, have told me that the Reiki treatments help them feel better. Reiki can help release the toxins of their treatment and lessen their discomfort. Reiki can also calm their emotions, help them to deal with the fatigue, and strengthen them so that they can "keep on keeping on" during the difficult time. Some people have even told me that after a Reiki treatment, the nausea and vomiting is far less. A Reiki treatment is also good for the caregiver or support person. Reiki can help them stay strong for their loved ones.
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