REIKI IN HOSPITALS
Concrete exemples :
There are now in Quebec, doctors who suggest to their patients to get initiated or to receive treatments, especially after an operation or cancer treatment (chemo). «In my area, I have a friend who was mostly called by doctors to assist dying people at the hospital. » Carole Normand, www.fr-reiki.com
Dr. Mehmet Oz, cardiothoracic surgeon at “Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center” hospital of New York was assisted by a Reiki practician, called Julie Motz, during 11 open heart operations and heart transplant.
His conclusions were that none of the 11 patients treated has suffered from usual effects post operational as depression, aches or weakness in the legs and none of the patients who have received a transplant has rejected the new organ. Dr. David Guillion, oncologist at the same hospital: «We have to do everything we can to help the patient. Here, we practice a medicine of high level, but healing is a multidimensional process. I maintain the idea that there is a potential healing in using energy. »
SINCE MAI 1995, IT EXISTS A REIKI CLINIC AT “TUCSON MEDICAL CENTER” OF ARIZONA.
From the beginning, this initiative has been accepted in the care wing of cancer cases and doctors have to give their consentment. Now, we practice Reiki in many other departments of the hospital and it is the nurses that have to make the demand, without having to go thru the doctor.
Patients like Reiki sessions and ask for them. Nurses note positive effects with patients as: less pain, more relaxation, better sleep, better appetite and a better cooperation of their part.
The “California Pacific Medical Center”,
one of the biggest hospital of northern California includes a clinic (“Health and Healing Clinic”) where we use a big variety of complementary techniques: Reiki, Chinese Medicine, hypnoses, biofeedback, acupuncture, homeopathy, phytotherapy, aromatherapy, and nutritional therapy.
- Dr. Mike Cantwell, specialist in infectious diseases and Reiki master, gives a Reiki session that can go from one to three hours, after that, the patient is followed by another Reiki practician. If the patient wishes to implicate himself more in the process of healing, we propose to him to get initiated in order to continue himself.
- Dr. Cantwell: «I feel that Reiki is very efficient in the treatment of sharp diseases, wounds, muscles and skeleton pains, head aches, sharp infections, asthma. Also, Reiki is useful to patients suffering from chronicle diseases, especially the one associated with chronicle pain. »
- Mary Lee Radka, nurse and Master in Reiki, enlivens stages for medical personal at the “University of Michigan Hospital” at Ann Arbour.
Nancy Eso, doctor and Master in Reiki, uses constantly Reiki when she works at urgency, at “Foote” hospital, at Jackson, Michigan. In that hospital, there are at least 5 other doctors Master in Reiki and many nurses initiated.
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