At times when I have been giving reiki treatments on people I have experienced strange feelings, which I can't explain. I suppose it all began when I was learning reiki two years ago.
One day I got the feeling my deceased maternal granny was with me. This has now happened on numerous occasions. Her name pops into my head and I feel very emotional and sometimes cry. It's very comforting the feeling I have when it happens and not distressing. Three psychics have confirmed she is with me and have even given me her name - as at times I can still be quite cynical. I like to have concrete facts and evidence, that's the journalist in me! I need to have proof.
When I was practising reiki on my friends while doing my level 1, I learnt a lot of things about them. While treating my best friend I felt immense joy - I have never felt such a feeling. This was while my hands were in the heart area. Afterwards she said she had thought she was floating in the air and believed that she if she had opened her eyes, she would have found herself suspended in the air!
At work one day, a colleague who had heard I did reiki asked me to demonstrate, so I started scanning her body and talking to her about why I was doing this. It was then I suddenly got a very strong sensation in my hands in the area of her abdomen and felt a sharp pain in my body in the same place. On telling her this, her face fell and she confirmed she had been suffering with problems in that area and the pain I described was exactly what she felt. Suffice to say she came to me for some treatments after that, as she was blown away - so was I, as I had never experienced that before.
It happened again while I was treating a family member. I was treating them when I experienced crippling pains in my abdomen, which were excruciating. They disappeared, what felt like minutes, after. It was then after the treatment, that the person said that was exactly the pain they suffered. Now you could say they were family and I knew their problem. I did, but did not know how the pain felt that they experienced. It gave me an insight into their life and what they suffer.
This has happened on numerous occasions picking up on people's pains, but I've also felt happy sensations and feelings of joy but also sadness and frustration. On one colleague while their head rested in my hands, I felt immense anger and felt my face grimace and my teeth clench. I felt like I wanted to throttle someone. Afterwards I asked my friend what she had felt and she had felt the same experience - was that me? Or her?
On other occasions I've also felt as if someone was helping me do the treatments. I've felt a very strong presence - very loving - and the right hand side of my face feels strange. It feels tingly and goes warm. One psychic has said I have an Arab spirit guide, who was coming through stronger and stronger. The person told me I had healing powers, though I had never mentioned I practised reiki.
I did read somewhere that most healers have Arab guides - has anyone else experienced this?
I had a very strange encounter one day while taking time out and I'm not sure whether it was with this guide. It was a summer's evening and I had decided to go lay down for a bit on my bed for some peace and quiet. My son was playing downstairs. As I lay there practising my breathing I felt as if someone was giving me a reiki treatment, starting at my head and working down my body. I couldn't move, but was aware of my surroundings and could hear my son downstairs.
I felt very relaxed and comforted. I don't know whether there was something there or whether it was my imagination but I can remember hearing the dog run upstairs and push open the door - now normally this excitable terrier would dive on the bed, but on this occasion he didn't and I heard him go back downstairs. I cannot explain this, but know that it felt like someone was giving me reiki.
The most strangest experience was after I had treated my sister in my parents bedroom. I had given her a full reiki treatment, for which she was very grateful. The next day I got a phone call from my parents asking what I had unleashed in their bedroom and would I come round and cleanse the room.
It seems my father had gone into the room in the evening to see the lightshade swinging violently from side to side and heard a whooshing noise as if someone had let go of a balloon. My father is a very down to earth, rational man and he was totally perplexed by the incident, as was my mother whom he'd shouted to come and witness the event.
I went round the next day and on entering the room suddenly felt the right hand side of my face prickle and burn. I told my mother what I was feeling and when I turned round to face her, she noticed a red mark on my face. When I stood on the bed to to look at the lampshade I felt very strong energy which made my hands tingle. I then cleansed the room and went through the whole house as they said they felt very disrupted. Did the treatment I gave my sister cause this? I don't know, but I do know from being very young, we had always experienced strange things in the house - from smelling cigarette smoke to seeing black shadows walk past doors. So had I simply enraged this spirit? I'm not sure as I can't explain. I know only the other day when I had gone round and was sat talking to my mum and sister, we all distinctly heard a stone being thrown in the hallway. On investigation we could not find anything and there was no-one else in the house. Does anyone have any answers?
