Originally Posted by
Gav
My Reiki practitioner wasn't one of them. It was all done for free.
I don't believe in Reiki.
When I had Bell's Palsy, half my face was totally paralysed and "conventional" medicine could only tell me that it might get better on it's own if I'm lucky, but there's no real treatment for it, in fact they're not even sure what causes it. They offered me lots of anti-virals and steroids that may or may not help.
I was offered electro-stimulation therapy, by NHS doctors and so thought it was the best thing. Good thing I did some research on it because it turns out that there is no proof that it works at all. In fact there are an alarmingly high number of cases where permanent disfigurement has occured after treatment.
Anyway, a friend and Reiki practitioner offered me a session. She doesn't charge anyone for it because she believes that treating other people helps her too.
It couldn't possibly do any harm so I agreed.
It was wonderfully relaxing and my face showed immediate signs of improvement. Later sessions had similar effects.
A tiny part of me wants to believe that it was this mystical energy healing me, but the far greater part knows that it was the relaxation that made a difference.
The point is that "conventional medicine/science" could not only not help, but offered me unproved and potentially dangerous treatments.
Even if you don't believe in Reiki, it still helped me, no-one made any money out of it and there were no risks involved.
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