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Power of the Mind? Magic?
 By Sasha White The other day on my Chat Loop we got on the topic of holistic healing. I find it very interesting because I do believe in being able to manipulate a person’s energy or Chi. So I though maybe I’d share my own experience with Reiki: After 18 years of bartending, and ten years of martial arts training where I got to be the “demonstration dummy” for a lot of wrist locks and throws, I developed carpal tunnal in both my wrists. It was diagnosed over 8 years ago, for the first while it just caused numbness in my fingers. About 5 years ago it got to the point that I would wake up in tears in the middle of the night because of the pain, my fingers would get so swollen and so mishappen that I couldn’t hold a comb or toothbrush let alone get dressed and do up a freakin bra in the morning. Doctors told me I needed surgery, but surgery would only give me 50/50 chance of it getting better, as well as it might even get worse. I hate Dr’s and surgeries to start with unless it something that can ONLY be fixed by surgery…so I chose another route. Since I had a lot of martial arts experience I already knew the power of the mind when it comes to controlling and managing pain (I’d been in some pretty rough competitive fights, as well as worked as private security and a bodyguard for a couple of years) So I thought about acupunctur but in researching it heard about Reiki. Instead of going to see someone who does it, I took a course on it. *grin*. It was amazing. I got my first level through the course and it really did help. A year later when I was in South Africa, (No such things as coincidence) it turns out that one of the girls who I lived with was a massage therapist from Italy, and the other was into Reiki, (her mother was a Reiki master) I have no more offical training, but I’ve learned alot about mediation and energy flow and all sorts of holistic things just through being open to it..and you know what? I never had surgery and I don’t need to wear wrist braces anymore…and I’m a writer fro a living. Typing being something that anyone with carpal tunnal knows, can be extremely painful. I think the best thing about Reiki and manipulating energy in any way is that people can get what they need from it. I needed healing, I got healing. Erin just needed relaxation, she got it. :) It’s all about believing, in my opinion. Sort of the Field OF Dreams school of though… If You Build It they will come….if You Believe, It will happen. Now: as an aside, one of the novellas in my April/07 single author anthology LUSH has a massage therapist for a heroine - one who see auras and is a bit of a healer. Like I said, I believe in this sort of thing. Do you? Have you had any experiences with holistic healing or energy manipulation? And if you hasven’t had an experince yet, but found it might be an option if you needed healing, would you try it?? I’ve got coverflaps for LUSH to give away to anyone who answers my questions and wants one. :) UPDATE: Those tyhat commented and want coverflaps, I’m emailing right now. If You haven’t recieved an email please contact me via my wesbite. :) 9 Responses to “Power of the Mind? Magic?” |
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September 21st, 2006 at 7:02 am
Fortunately I’ve never had a need for surgery, but if I ever do, I would keep my options open. I like the idea that some of these methods aren’t invasive, which I think would be much less traumatizing to the body.
Fascinating stuff Sasha - I’m going to read more about it. Thanx.
September 21st, 2006 at 7:36 am
I haven’t had any serious difficulties as of yet. However, I have always been open to different forms of healing from the Western style. I would likely try it. Since there has been more interest in the last several years, there have been more studies to research the effectiveness of different methods.
I have taken some basic acupressure classes and use it on my family. Surprisingly, what I do for the kids as they begin to get the fever, cold and cough frequently clears thing sup within a day or two. However, I do the session focusing on face and head with some points in the arms a couple of times in the day and warm the base of the neck near torso and must must begin on the day they are beginning symptoms. Since having learned this, I have rarely needed cold medicine for the kids.
Neat to hear about your experience with carpal tunnel syndrome, reassuring in the case that I should find myself in that position.
Would dearly love a cover flat!!
September 21st, 2006 at 8:32 am
Sasha,
I do believe in holistic healing. Although, I’ve never needed it for myself. I would definitely be willing to give it a try. I have a friend who is a massage therapist and she works with cancer patients. She’s the one who got me believing in Reiki. A lot of the other women in my book club are fascinated by it as well.
September 21st, 2006 at 11:46 am
Very cool about the accupresure helping with the kids colds and stuff. I’ve never really thought of it for every day things like that. :)
I think holistic healing can help ease a lot cancer patients. Not heal them, but help to ease them a bit simply because alot of it is mental, and I think one thing a cancer patient really needs is to feel that they are doing somethign to help themselves, so they don’t feel so helpless. At least that’s what the people I knwo who’ve had cancer have said.
September 21st, 2006 at 2:51 pm
I have an open mind and would be willing to try holistic healing and energy manipulation, if I needed it.
Would love a cover flat!
September 21st, 2006 at 4:55 pm
I’ve not had any experience with holistic healing or energy manipulation but I believe they can help. Unfortunately I don’t have the discipline to try it on my own. If I had a someone to guide me and teach me I’d certainly try it.
I’m so happy for you that you got better and didn’t need surgery.
Oh I’d love a cover of Lush too.
September 21st, 2006 at 5:42 pm
Sasha,
I have not had the type of experience you describe, but I have had problems with depression off and on for years. After I lost my mother and daddy within 18 months of one another, it got really, really bad.
I was taking a prescribed sleeping aid every night..couldn’t sleep without it. Had gone for weeks on 2 or 3 hours of sleep a night..maybe, if I was lucky.
I was up to to taking two different depression meds and I was still a wreck.
The day my doc wanted to add a third depression med, I’d had enough.
Through prayer and meditation I finally overcame my need for the meds. It has been seven years since I last had to take any sort of meds for sleep or depression. Which is not to say that I don’t have bad days sometimes, just like we all do, but I have not had the need for daily medication and have not suffered from the horrible bouts of depression as I did in the past. I firmly believe in holistic approaches to healing!
September 23rd, 2006 at 5:06 am
Angie, Thanks so much for sharing. I love to knwo that others have also been able to find ways to help heal themselves. Keep at it! *hugs*
September 27th, 2006 at 3:05 pm
Hey Sasha!
I’m very much a believer in alternative therapies and have a friend who is a Reiki master, and an art therapist. I myself am an herbalist and pracitioner of the “wise arts”, including healing. I have had tremendous success with my little green friends (herbs not the Martians-LOL) and with distance healing through the use of “white light” prayer, and candle magicks. Am I an oddball? Of course. Does it work? Oh yes, indeed. If it didn’t, I wouldn’t be here. :)