Elaine Grundy has been teaching Reiki for over 15 years, started her training in Hong Kong and has since been teaching around the world in the UK, Portugal, USA, Malaysia and Singapore. Elaine has trained hundreds of Reiki practitioners whilst keeping her feet firmly planted in the corporate world, having spent over ten years in advertising, market research, training and coaching. For years she has balanced her corporate life with a deep respect and love of spiritual teachings. Elaine, who was born in Hong Kong, is currently based in Singapore where she runs the Reiki Centre in the East Coast.
This question is a frequent one, whether asking about Reiki’s ability to cure an ailment, disease, pain, injury or asking about the validity of Reiki in replacing surgery or medical intervention. It is so important to understand that Reiki is not a replacement for any kind of intervention advised by your doctor….ever!
Reiki compliments, it doesn’t replace, medical practice. Of course over my years working with Reiki I have found I need less and less visits to the Doctor and I believe this is due to the fact that Reiki works as an amazing balancing factor in the body. In being balanced, the body is much clearer in its signals, and I am much more aware of what my body needs – so it breaks down less and less.
Why do we get sick?
Every specialist will have their own theory on this. If you talk to a nutritionist, they will tell you your diet is lacking some nutrient; if you chat to a chiropractor, they will tell you your spinal alignment is creating issues; your energy healer will tell you your Chakra’s are blocked; your Feng Shui Master will tell you the health quadrant in your home needs fixing; your doctor will give you the reason why biochemically things are malfunctioning….etc etc. Each one of them may be partially or fully correct, so how do you know what to do?
If you rely on outside ‘experts’ then of course you will be running around in circles. How can any outside expert know your body better than you? The sad fact is that most of us actually think this insane belief to be true – so we rush out and consult with all manner of ‘experts’ trying to find the reason for our illness, and trying to weigh up what to do – without ever consulting the real expert: ourselves. For many of us, it is with good reason – we have no clue how to consult with our inner wisdom! We are so out of balance, so external focused, so out of touch with our own bodies, that we have no idea what is going on inside – we live in our bodies but we have never ever been within, we spend every second of every day in our bodies, yet we don’t know what the heck is going on…insane!
Get in touch with yourself, your body, your pulse again and all the doubts, the indecision, and the fear will disappear. Get to know yourself, and you will know what to do – which medicine to take, when to get a second opinion, when to go to the Doctor, when to go to the Nutritionist, and when to simply go to bed with a good book. It becomes easy, fearless, honest. It doesn’t mean you never go to the Doctor again. Thinking you don’t need a Doctor is as insane as thinking you need a Doctor. Doctors, Nutritionists, Chiropractors, Energy healers…we are all tools to help you to heal, to help you to cure. Use us, of course, but keep your inner power, your inner knowledge and never give that away to some outside ‘expert’. Provide your own counsel, but make sure you know yourself first or your inner counsel will be flawed, filled with fear and erroneous beliefs (like: I don’t need a Doctor! I don’t need surgery! I can heal myself!). Yes, sometimes you can, and sometimes you can’t. Make sure you have the wisdom to tell the difference.
This wisdom comes with balance, and balance comes from inner awareness. Reiki is one of many pathways to inner awareness – in my search for balance, I have found it the easiest. It requires little effort, exercise, or change in lifestyle. It works for anyone over time, and I have found it such an easy self-help tool that for me, it has become my foundational tool.
When I do my Reiki self-treatments I find myself becoming calmer, more at peace and as the stress melts away, I become clearer. with clarity comes all kinds of information, wisdom and inner knowledge. Its sometimes as simple as getting still, and listening. In this age of constant noise, getting still is quite a challenge, and that is why therapies like Reiki become so important. Reiki cannot cure you of anything, only you can do that. But Reiki can provide the quiet for you to be able to listen to yourself, and make the right decisions for your own health. And yes, that may be as simple as – do your Reiki – and your body will do the rest.
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