Reiki

[Kylie]

Anyone know anything about Reiki? I know its an odd thread but i also know there are a few people out there who do alternative therapies.

Just been to see someone and wondered if someone could shed a light on what she said cos i'm a bit confused, sort of see what she's saying but sort of not...

Won't go into details, but let me know if you know and i'll say more

[pale rider]

dont know if i can shed some light on what she said but i will give it a go unless its to personal

[Mitch]

My ex was a trained reiki healer (as in when I knew her, she did some courses and got some certificates - me and her split soon after...)

I might be able to help...

[Kylie]

Not particularly personal just didnt want to bore people if no-one had any experience.

The woman i saw said that she hasn't felt this in anyone before, but she felt that my energy was coming up my back over the top of my head and wanted to go down the front of my head/face, but something around my forehead was blocking it and the energy was being sent back. She said it felt bouncy or spongy, and that it was as if i needed to pull the plug out and let the energy flow through

Question is - how the feck do i do that then?

[pyro]

I have cleared my own leaves from time to time.

[Taff]

I know that its a load of old hippy bóllocks, and this tart's talking shíte.

[teltwosheds]

Get some one to give you masage from toes up, when they have gatherd it all between your sholder blades they need to shove it up the back of you kneck with back of hands and flick it off top of your head :confused: ;) .
i can talk as gooda **** as any one :p .

[Kylie]

I know that its a load of old hippy bóllocks, and this tart's talking shíte.

it might be, but i'm willing to give anything a try now so long as it doesn't involve a whole load more feckin drugs!

I'm sceptical as to whether it will work, but having had headaches for 9 months now pretty much every day i'm really bored of them.

[teltwosheds]

no harm in trying :)

[Simon B]

As Taff said a load of hippy bolloxs

Get someone to give you an Indian head massage, and it might sound daft but have you had an eye test of late?

[Mrs Reject]

Even though I am a witchy type person it has to be said that this sounds like total bollox!
Your GP is likely too busy to go through everything it might possibly be and needs to find out the cause of your headaches by a process of elimination, so why not help him/her out by making a chart of when the headaches occur and on a scale of 1 to 10 with what frequency, a food diary to see if any types of food trigger them off, ditto an activity diary - does it happen after you have been out in the cold, in a centrally heated room or other environment.
Any particular part of your cycle - could it be hormone related?
When you have done this take the chart along to your doctor and if there is no obvious pattern insist on further investigations i.e blood tests, MRI scan etc.
There is usually an underlying cause of some sort for chronic headaches.

[Dougie]

Stress.For months I was getting thumping headaches every day at work,some of which developed into migraines.I've been off work for the last few weeks and the only headaches I've had are from a beer too many......

[Mitch]

Even though I am a witchy type person it has to be said that this sounds like total bollox!
Yes... like I said... she did the courses, (about three I think) paid over some money and got some bits of paper. Never found it to be of any use me'sen.
There are folk who believe in it and some that don't. Each to their own.

[mickturate]

I did me reiki course; quite enjoyed it with all the hippy birds n all that...pulled one of em, got frolicky (stay wiv the hippy theme) and went back to her matress on the floor/joss sticks n patchouli...
we got frisky and down wiv it, when f*uck me, I put me hand on her fanny an it healed up!

be careful:powerful stuff that Reiki,

now did I tell you about me n the witch? careful else she'll turn ee into a frogg....

[pale rider]

dont take stuff for head ach there is a pressure point just behind the ear between the skull and mandable,press firmly with the thumb and hold for about 30 seconds repeat as needed,massage your temples at the same time with your two fingers, lay in bed at night and consantrate on feeling the chi running up your spine over your head and then down your face down the front then back up your spine go to sleep thinking only this.let me know how you get on.

[Kylie]

Even though I am a witchy type person it has to be said that this sounds like total bollox!
Your GP is likely too busy to go through everything it might possibly be and needs to find out the cause of your headaches by a process of elimination, so why not help him/her out by making a chart of when the headaches occur and on a scale of 1 to 10 with what frequency, a food diary to see if any types of food trigger them off, ditto an activity diary - does it happen after you have been out in the cold, in a centrally heated room or other environment.
Any particular part of your cycle - could it be hormone related?
When you have done this take the chart along to your doctor and if there is no obvious pattern insist on further investigations i.e blood tests, MRI scan etc.
There is usually an underlying cause of some sort for chronic headaches.

The only thing that they can come up with is stress, but they started when I got clobbered round the head with a hockey stick. Almost every day, at least 5 days out of 7. No other patterns, no relation to food, activities, weather (although they did improve slightly while I was in Spain), only thing that eases them is weed.... No chance its hormone related, I don't have a cycle. Am already seeing a neurologist who can't give me an explanation just said "ignore them they'll go away"!!! And I've had several sets of blood tests and a CT scan all coming up clear. My GP keeps writing to the neurologist asking him to see me sooner than February which is when I am due to go back and he keeps ignoring her.

The wierd thing is that when I asked my mate at work about it (she does indian head massage) she said that it would be a chakra she was talking about being blocked, and she asked if i had my eyes shut when I had the reiki and if i saw colours, i didnt but the ceiling kept changing colour from purple to green and back, and my mate pointed me in the direction of some info and purple which was predominantly what i was seeing relates to the chakra at the point the reiki woman was talking about and if its not balanced causes headaches, tension, lack of concentration etc etc basically all the symptoms I've had for the last 9 months! It's made me consider whether it really is a load of bollox.

And yes I've had my eyes tested very recently, they're fine, slight prescription (I've always been a teeny bit long sighted) but nothing they'd bother with and the fact i have the headaches even when i don't look at anything close up all day means its unlikely to be that causing them.

[Kylie]

dont take stuff for head ach there is a pressure point just behind the ear between the skull and mandable,press firmly with the thumb and hold for about 30 seconds repeat as needed,massage your temples at the same time with your two fingers, lay in bed at night and consantrate on feeling the chi running up your spine over your head and then down your face down the front then back up your spine go to sleep thinking only this.let me know how you get on.

I rarely (about once or twice a month) take painkillers for the headaches. I'll try the suggestions. The woman yesterday tapped a pressure point just below my eye and i just randomly burst into tears - not just eyes watering, proper full on waterworks!

[pale rider]

try amazon typ in open the energy gates of your body,wish i could get my hands on you,think some ti che would work but would need to teach you maybe find a ti che or yogi teacher if you feeling up for it.

[Kylie]

an ex of mine used to do tai chi, he never really did it after we got together, but i know he used to and said it helped him relax.

[pale rider]

pain etc is usualy the effect of somthing else like liver dissfunction,the problem is that in western medican you go to the doc with head ach thay look at your head,were in eastern medican thay will look at what organ in the body effects the head and treat that,go to the chinese clinic in the center of leeds i think you live near there

[Kylie]

pain etc is usualy the effect of somthing else like liver dissfunction,the problem is that in western medican you go to the doc with head ach thay look at your head,were in eastern medican thay will look at what organ in the body effects the head and treat that,go to the chinese clinic in the center of leeds i think you live near there

I do live in leeds and I work in the centre of leeds. Didn't even know there was a chinese clinic tho!

[pale rider]

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[Kylie]

Just looking at the same article actually! (must be the lunchtime browsing of the news time)

I've had wifi for 2 or 3 years with no problems (same access point) and can't blame works wifi cos that was only installed in September or October.

[Mrs Reject]

I'm a teeny bit sceptical about alternative practitioners unless they really have years of experience and know their medical facts as well as the therapy being used, mostly because I have met a lot of complete idiots who know nothing and are charging folk for it.
Lets face it me and Mitch dance round bonfires naked in an attempt to cure people :) but we also have medical training and are realists too! The hockey stick incident sounds like a probably trigger. I thought this article was quite interesting:

http://www.headache-help.org/Articles/Headaches-After-Head-Injuries.htm

[Friar Tuck]

I wonder about alternative medicines/treatments.

I was watching Brainiacs the other day, and they had one of their technicians giving up smoking. So they sent him along to an chinese accuncturist. This Chinese guy was all dressed up in a suit, and the guy giving up smoking was laying down. The chinese guy duly started to prick this others guy back with a pair of geometry dividers, which seemed a little strange to me.

Except that Richard Hammond told the audience that the Chinese guy really owned the local chinese chippy and didn't have a clue about accupuncture, but the tv crew ommitted to tell the Techy bloke! They sent the techy to this "Chinese Accupuncturist" for about six sessions and at the end of it, the "Chinese Accupuncturist" gave the Techy a box of cocktail sticks and said that when the techy felt the need to have a fag he was to take a fresh stick (hygiene!!) and lightly prick his ear to relieve the desire to smoke!

The strange thing that the TV crew couldn't get over was that the guy never had a fag after going to this chinese chippy accupuncturist and had stayed off the fags for 6 months!

so how much of this alternative medicine/treatments actually work and how much of it actually is in your mind? They obviously work on the psychy, in such a way that your "belief" in the method is actually stronger than the root cause of the existing problem and therefore replaces the existing problem as the new "crutch" so to speak, to rely on.

But if it works don't knock it. I just get pissed off with fraudsters working this as a scam to get easy money off vulnerable people.