Dealing with chronic pain? Reiki can help.

Among the clients who visit me at Mintaka Reiki in Sandbach, there are usually some who are dealing with chronic pain, and I’m delighted to say that they all find Reiki to be a much-needed respite from the constant grind they endure every day.

As you can read below, I received a lovely recommendation earlier this week from one client who is waiting for a hit replacement - her bi-weekly Reiki Treatment really seems to help her stay on top of her pain.

But whatever the cause of their persistent pain, I think all of those clients have one thing in common – they feel isolated and unable to truly offload and explain what it is that they’re going through.

They just have to get on with life the best they can, so they suffer in silence.

Reiki can help with persistent pain.

The NHS has an excellent website which explains various ways to deal with chronic pain. You can check it out for yourself here:

NHS Chronic Pain

And among the various recommendations given in this NHS resource, relaxation and meditation are two of the self-help practices it endorses; there’s even a link to a free 20-minute meditation specifically designed to relieve the stress of pain by leading you into a deep state of relaxation.

I’ve listened to it, it’s very good; and you can check it out for yourself here:

NHS Meditation

I’m a huge advocate of meditation and wholeheartedly recommend it; I meditate most days and join an online early morning meditation group three times a week to meditate as a collective.

I’ll admit though, it’s taken me years of practice to be able to quickly settle my mind and enjoy the enormous benefits of meditation. So, I recognise that it’s not always easy to switch off and calm that chattering mind, especially when you’re in pain.

But that’s where a Reiki Therapist like me can help you.

Reiki healing is a deeply relaxing experience that doesn’t require the client to do anything except dedicate some time to their own well-being.

For anyone who doesn’t know, Reiki is a Japanese energy healing practice centred on relaxation and stress relief. It’s based on the belief that an unseen life force energy flows through us all, affecting both our physical and emotional health. During Reiki sessions, practitioners like me use hands-on techniques to transfer energy to a client, promoting healing and balance.

And when you decide to invest in your own self-worth, to do something that’s exclusively for you, you really can just hand everything over to Reiki healing.

For 45-minutes or so, you can just deeply relax, safe in the knowledge that your therapist, and Reiki, has got you, and that they’re intuitively working together to bring you relief from the pain.

It may not happen instantly, but over the coming hours and days, most people see a marked improvement in their pain level. The relief can last for a few days, and with regular Reiki top-ups, the duration of that relief gradually increases.

One of my clients confided once that, in the days before her first Reiki Treatment with me, she’d been looking online at ordering a mobility scooter because she was in so much pain she just couldn’t walk. But after that first Reiki session she immediately felt like she could sit up straight again, she wasn’t hunched up with the pain.

Reiki is not a replacement for orthodox medical treatment, but it is a complementary therapy that works perfectly in partnership with NHS treatment and medication.

And it works on so many other levels, too.

With Reiki widely available in so many hospital and hospice settings these days, it’d be wonderful if the NHS could recommend energy medicine in the same way it recommends meditation!

I think it will happen one day – even Cancer Research UK recognises the beneficial effects of Reiki.

But until that day comes, I’ll just keep continuing in my own small way to let people know that they don’t have to suffer in silence, there is something more you can do to help manage your pain. It’s called Reiki.

Until next week.

Much love,

Denise.