4 years later

I’ve been revisiting some old posts form a group blog that I used to belong to…it’s been gone for a couple years, but some of the posts are still relevant…like this one from April 1st, 2007. I’m still a big believer in “energy” and the holistic.
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 for 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 thought… If You Build It they will come….if You Believe, It will happen.
Now: as an aside, one of the novellas in my new release, my frist 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??