Reiki: Dealing With Pain
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Reiki: Dealing With Pain
WQAD, IL - May 11, 2005 News Channel 8
Pain is a very real response the body has to something that may be wrong.
And most of us treat that pain with something that's very real or tangible -- like medication.
But what about treating it with something you can't see?
That's what people who look to Reiki treatment do.
We take a look in part two of our series on pain.
Understanding the ancient Eastern philosophy and practice of Reiki -- and how it works to heal the body of pain -- isn't easy.
"Reiki has the ability to heal and rebalance and strengthen our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual being," says Reiki instructor Rita Melissano, Ph.D.
But for Rosalie Michalski - it works to ease her shoulder pain. Eases it in ways pain pills and other physical methods haven't.
"Oh yes, I've had that and heating pad and massage," says Rosalie.
It's this healing of the "ki" or "chi" that's made a difference.
"Chi is the vital universal energy which composes, permeates adn moves everything that exists. When Chi flows there is health. When Chi is blocked there is sickness and disease," reads Melissano.
So the Reiki practioner works to restore the 'chi' or 'ki' and its flow through the body. Rita Melissano does that by placing her hands over 7 "shakras" -- or centers where the body's "meridians" intersect.
While the energy flow may be invisible to the eye -- it's results are something that can really be felt.
"People have very different, very subjective experiences. They feel very relaxed," says Dr. Melissano.
"Believe it or not, this heat coming from the hands of the practitioner is more intense than the heating pad and it's very, very soothing," says Rosalie.
More than the heat -- there are colors a relaxed Reiki patient can see when their eyes are closed during a session.
"When she was in the heart shakra area, I saw a beautiful color of green," says Rosalie.
She's a former health educator, so turning to a non-traditional form of pain relief was easy.
"Fear is what stops everything and you have to have faith and you have to believe in what your body can do for itself with someone helping," she says.
And it's helped her shoulder and more.
"More movement, more range of motion for my shoulder and my foot."
"Sometimes it's just the experience itself that makes a believer out of you," says Dr. Melissano.
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