Reikiing my father

I began reiking my father, long-distance (well, from my house to him in his!), about a month ago. Since having chemotherapy drained down a tube and into a hole drilled into his skull a few years ago (because of lymphoma which spread to his brain) he's slowly been getting dementia. It got so bad, that a couple times he ended up in the hospital not really knowing who or where he was, then started acting normally there, and they released him again.

When I recently returned from BC to show him the new yoga book I'd published, he didn't even know what it was. Just flipped through it in the car and put it back on his lap. "What's the book about?" I asked him. "Oh, this and that," he said.

Then, at the restaurant, he wasn't even sure how to sign the credit card slip. I had to do it for him. That's when I REALLY knew he was in bad shape. So, since his wife keeps trying to put him in a nursing home, I thought I'd send him long-distance reiki every day as I did with my grandmother when she got really bad (that story is for another post).

As I've done this, he's become much more coherent and like his old self (good in some ways, not in others!), so much so that compared to the past few years, he sounds like a new person! The doctor's going to be shocked.

Doesn't sound like a zombie, remembers things, and is driving his employees people nuts again!

Stay tuned--he may even start cooking for himself, doing yoga and driving soon! Now, that would be scary!

Grinding no more!

Recently, the power of reiki has truly been confirmed to me by a little four year old boy. My friend's son has to go from one parent's home to the other parent's each week, and as his father has abused him in the past (and the legal system has once again failed), he grinds his teeth all night. I witnessed it. It's awful. Thankfully, the night I slept at my friend's apt., it finally dawned on me that I could try reiki on him. I've never actually tried to treat an illness, let alone teeth-grinding, but I thought I'd give it a shot.

So, while he slept in the living room on the air mattress with his mother's arms wrapped around him, I told her I'd try it and, in the air, I did the three key symbols above his body. Then, he stopped and sighed. While still asleep. It was the most astounding thing I think I've ever seen!

I had to do it the next night as he started up again, then he stopped again. And when I went home for his last two nights there, I sent it long distance, and that worked too.

So, reiki has been a blessing for both of us, not that I didn't think it worked anyways; I was just astonished that even giving symbols without a full reiki treatment would work. But it's all in the intention, I was reminded.

Off to bed now, and to do some more symbols over his beautiful etheric body.