Reiki Treatments and Surgery
Reiki Prior to Surgery
Administering Reiki prior to surgery can be helpful to the person (or animal) by preparing his or her mind/body for the procedure. Reiki works with the natural healing process of the body. Since Reiki is a balancing and harmonizing energy, it helps to release stress and tension and places the body in its optimal state for healing. Reiki is not just for physical healing. Reiki works at all levels ... physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. The very first step is to get permission of the person who is undergoing or has undergone the surgery to treat him or her with Reiki. If the person's energy level is in the average or good range, I suggest a complete Reiki session the same day or on the eve of the surgery. However, if the person's energy level is low, then it would be more beneficial to him or her to receive a series of Reiki sessions prior to surgery. Start at least one week prior to surgery, giving daily sessions.
Administering Reiki prior to surgery can be helpful to the person (or animal) by preparing his or her mind/body for the procedure. Reiki works with the natural healing process of the body. Since Reiki is a balancing and harmonizing energy, it helps to release stress and tension and places the body in its optimal state for healing. Reiki is not just for physical healing. Reiki works at all levels ... physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. The very first step is to get permission of the person who is undergoing or has undergone the surgery to treat him or her with Reiki. If the person's energy level is in the average or good range, I suggest a complete Reiki session the same day or on the eve of the surgery. However, if the person's energy level is low, then it would be more beneficial to him or her to receive a series of Reiki sessions prior to surgery. Start at least one week prior to surgery, giving daily sessions.
Reiki Treatment Post Surgery
Surgery is normally a traumatic experience for the body and mind, in spite of anesthesia. Many surgeons and surgical staff are unaware that your unconscious mind is open and alert all through the operation, and absorbing what is going on and being said. Inappropriate remarks made about you whilst on the operating table stick in your unconscious mind. After surgery, treat the patient with Reiki as would an emergency treatment (injury). I will go to the affected site ... or the surgical incision, and deliver Reiki energy from above. After treating the area, I release the memory of the surgery from the body by treating the adrenal glands. Adrenal glands hold the memory of an injury (or surgery) in the body. Reiki may be effective for controlling pain and discomfort following surgery and in particular assisting the body to heal well and rapidly.
Reiki Treatments During the Period of Convalescence
For the first week or so following surgery, I suggest continue to administer Reiki treatments daily. I Concentrate more time over the area that had surgery. Depending on how well the person is doing, We may gradually decrease the frequency of treatments ... for example, three treatments during the second week, two treatments the third week, etc. As always, we welcome questions. If you have a questions or comments, please don't hesitate to contact us I will be more than happy to answer it.
Research studies repeatedly show that people who prepare for surgery are less anxious, have less pain, fewer complications, and a faster recovery. Reiki as a healing modality provides one of the easiest and most beneficial ways of doing this. The efficacy of Reiki is born out by the increasing number of hospitals that offer Reiki to patients undergoing surgery. Portsmouth Regional Hospital in New Hampshire was a pioneer in making Reiki available to patients preparing for surgery. Surgeons can perform operations. That is the technical part. However, they don’t have the power to heal the tissues that have been injured. That is up to the patient and the body’s natural ability to heal itself. This is where Reiki and other healing modalities come in Complementary therapies help the person harness the healing power of the human body and the human spirit. They empower patients to be partners in their own healing process. They acknowledge the mind-body connection that is so important in the healing process. The first program began as a hospital sponsored Reiki clinic, offering Reiki to the community two times a week. In 1997, it expanded to the pre-op area as a trial to see if it could decrease patients’ anxiety and stress. The program was so successful that the option of receiving Reiki before surgery was included in the initial pre-op phone registration. The Reiki program then expanded to every department of the hospital. People having surgery began to request Surgery at Portsmouth because of the Reiki program!
Neighboring Wentworth-Douglas Hospital in Dover, NH saw the popularity of the program and in 2000 began an Integrative Therapies program, which included Reiki. In the early 1990s, Dr. Mehmet Oz, FACS, a renowned cardiovascular surgeon at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, formed a center to do research and inform the public about alternative therapies. He was a pioneer in setting up a program that combined the best of Western medicine with complementary therapies. Patients who receive Reiki prior to surgery are sent a follow up survey to evaluate their response. Patients have reported decreased anxiety, decreased discomfort, an improved sense of calm before and after surgery, and a great deal of satisfaction. Anesthesiologists, surgeons, and nursing personnel have observed that the patients utilizing these adjunctive therapies appear to require less sedation and Patients who have received Reiki prior to surgery have reported an improved sense of calm both before and after.
Surgery is normally a traumatic experience for the body and mind, in spite of anesthesia. Many surgeons and surgical staff are unaware that your unconscious mind is open and alert all through the operation, and absorbing what is going on and being said. Inappropriate remarks made about you whilst on the operating table stick in your unconscious mind. After surgery, treat the patient with Reiki as would an emergency treatment (injury). I will go to the affected site ... or the surgical incision, and deliver Reiki energy from above. After treating the area, I release the memory of the surgery from the body by treating the adrenal glands. Adrenal glands hold the memory of an injury (or surgery) in the body. Reiki may be effective for controlling pain and discomfort following surgery and in particular assisting the body to heal well and rapidly.
Reiki Treatments During the Period of Convalescence
For the first week or so following surgery, I suggest continue to administer Reiki treatments daily. I Concentrate more time over the area that had surgery. Depending on how well the person is doing, We may gradually decrease the frequency of treatments ... for example, three treatments during the second week, two treatments the third week, etc. As always, we welcome questions. If you have a questions or comments, please don't hesitate to contact us I will be more than happy to answer it.
Research studies repeatedly show that people who prepare for surgery are less anxious, have less pain, fewer complications, and a faster recovery. Reiki as a healing modality provides one of the easiest and most beneficial ways of doing this. The efficacy of Reiki is born out by the increasing number of hospitals that offer Reiki to patients undergoing surgery. Portsmouth Regional Hospital in New Hampshire was a pioneer in making Reiki available to patients preparing for surgery. Surgeons can perform operations. That is the technical part. However, they don’t have the power to heal the tissues that have been injured. That is up to the patient and the body’s natural ability to heal itself. This is where Reiki and other healing modalities come in Complementary therapies help the person harness the healing power of the human body and the human spirit. They empower patients to be partners in their own healing process. They acknowledge the mind-body connection that is so important in the healing process. The first program began as a hospital sponsored Reiki clinic, offering Reiki to the community two times a week. In 1997, it expanded to the pre-op area as a trial to see if it could decrease patients’ anxiety and stress. The program was so successful that the option of receiving Reiki before surgery was included in the initial pre-op phone registration. The Reiki program then expanded to every department of the hospital. People having surgery began to request Surgery at Portsmouth because of the Reiki program!
Neighboring Wentworth-Douglas Hospital in Dover, NH saw the popularity of the program and in 2000 began an Integrative Therapies program, which included Reiki. In the early 1990s, Dr. Mehmet Oz, FACS, a renowned cardiovascular surgeon at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, formed a center to do research and inform the public about alternative therapies. He was a pioneer in setting up a program that combined the best of Western medicine with complementary therapies. Patients who receive Reiki prior to surgery are sent a follow up survey to evaluate their response. Patients have reported decreased anxiety, decreased discomfort, an improved sense of calm before and after surgery, and a great deal of satisfaction. Anesthesiologists, surgeons, and nursing personnel have observed that the patients utilizing these adjunctive therapies appear to require less sedation and Patients who have received Reiki prior to surgery have reported an improved sense of calm both before and after.
