Reiki contraindications

Can Reiki be harmful?

This is a gray area for many. Some say it is impossible for Reiki to do harm, and there are others who say it can be used to intentionally harm someone. I tend to believe that Reiki itself cannot cause harm, but the practitioner’s intent, or lack of due diligence, can have unintended consequences.

Diabetes

There are two types of diabetes; Interestingly, it’s called Type 1 and Type 2. Type 1 is the one to be very careful with, as this is where the sufferer needs to inject insulin every day to make up for the fact that their body just doesn’t . do enough for yourself.

Now, at first glance, this may seem like an ideal opportunity for our Reiki healer to practice with his long-suffering family member; But what if the treatment really works? I mean ‘ANY’ Reiki treatment. Even if you do not intend to treat the diabetes itself, as experience grows, any Reiki practitioner will tell you that sometimes a treatment will improve another condition that they were not aware of.

So our new therapist decides to treat her diabetic mother’s bunion. Forty minutes later, the bunion feels much less painful and looks less inflamed. A very grateful mother goes to bed unaware that her pancreas has also been affected and now she is starting to produce some insulin. Over the next day, your natural insulin production slowly builds, and unfortunately, while coming home from a restaurant meal one night, you forget to test your blood sugar and, out of habit, inject yourself. Twenty-four hours later, she dies from an insulin overdose.

Now, Reiki didn’t cause the overdose, the mother, being human, did. She can never trust her patient, whoever she is, to properly and regularly check on her own condition. People have died from insulin overdoses after Reiki treatments. This is why most client registration forms have questions about certain conditions and the client is asked to sign it prior to initial therapy so that the physician cannot be sued for negligence later.

With type 1 diabetes, Reiki can and does help to cure the problem, but it cannot guarantee that the patient will check their blood regularly and before each injection, no matter how much they protest that they will. A death on her conscience will almost certainly dent her faith in therapy and quite possibly put him out of business.

Schizophrenia

With any mental illness, the patient should be instructed to see their GP before initial treatment. This is mainly to make your GP aware that your patient might show a higher rate of recovery, leading to more regular monitoring of the dosage level of any medication you are taking. However, if the client is schizophrenic, it is best to avoid any Reiki treatment. The energies imparted through Reiki can easily increase schizophrenic symptoms, even if only in the short term, and this can be very unpleasant for the patient. The increased hallucinations that occur during a Reiki session are very likely to cause intense distress as well, so in the sole interest of the client, please refuse any and all Reiki treatments to anyone suffering from this condition. .

Pacemaker

Avoid treating someone with a pacemaker. Reiki energies have a habit of speeding up pacemakers or slowing them down. It’s not a very comfortable experience for either the therapist or the client, and having to take one of your patients to the ER with the blue lights flashing is not good advertising for your practice.

Please note that Reiki does not cause harm to the client here, but has an undesirable effect on an unnatural implant in the human body. I suppose this could be chalked up to semantics, but no physical, mental, or spiritual harm is being done directly to the client.

The pregnancy

As long as the mom-to-be is past the first trimester, treating a pregnant woman should have no ill effects. However, the baby should be carefully monitored and any signs of discomfort should cause the treatment session to end early.

During the first trimester, the fetus is always at a higher risk of complications and the best policy is to avoid treatments such as Reiki during this time.

Earphones

Reiki can and does cause howling or feedback in hearing aids. It’s a bit like Jimi Hendrix in the 1960s. Great when you’re excited and at a live show, but when you’re trying to relax and ease your back pain, it can be a bit of a shock. To avoid this, the client should be asked to remove any hearing aids before treatment and, if they have very limited hearing, some sort of signal should be arranged before the start so that the client can be informed when the treatment is complete.

Conclution

Reiki will always have at least one of two effects:

• No initial noticeable effect to the client (although beneficial, the effect may be on a spiritual or energetic level that takes time to manifest)
• A beneficial effect on the condition, be it the symptom treated or another (the universe doesn’t always take the path we expect or think best).

The contraindications listed above are not examples of ‘Reiki doing harm’, but more to do with sensible precautions. The example of schizophrenia could be considered harmful, but the Reiki treatment, if continued, would end up being beneficial; it is just the nature of the condition that the client is already in a higher state of energetic upheaval, and Reiki energies could exacerbate this in the initial stages. With clients’ already hectic mindsets, it is highly unlikely that they will be willing to proceed with treatment anyway after symptoms momentarily amplify, so it is best to avoid the issue and recommend a different form of therapy.

Can Reiki be used to intentionally harm someone? I doubt it (unless you know that the person you are targeting has one of the above conditions and you impose Reiki energy on them). I haven’t heard of any examples of this and would never try to find out myself. Anyone who attempts to do so will only become spiritually attuned and Reiki attunements have a distinctive habit of slowly altering the mindset of practitioners; so hurting another person is not something they wish to do.