To all,
Hello.
A fairly young co-worker of mine (45) died this weekend--and I feel this urge to send Reiki to him.
I've read about sending reiki to the deceased--what exactly does it do and why would one do it?
My colleague died after a brave (but painful) battle with cancer.
I really didn't know him too well (he worked at another site than myself)--but I keep thinking I should send him Reiki.
Please advise

Thanks,

Pete

go with what you feel buddy. any idea why you feel the need for this though? maybe it's you that needs Reiki?

In some churches they offer prayers
and light candles for the souls of
the dead. Reiki sent to the dead
may be symbolic according to your
belief system that you are helping
a soul find its way to "Heaven"

@Milarepa--hi Wayne. Re: why I feel the need to send Reiki to my recent deceased colleague--the only explanation I have--for you and myself--is that I almost never send reiki to others. And yes--Chi solas--I have read that sending Reiki to the deceased can help my colleague find his way to heaven more easily.
And Wayne--regarding my possible need for Reiki--I've gotten (somewhat) more skilled at Reiki--now when I have an occasional bout of insomnia due to excessive worry--I use Reiki to calm myself and usually within minutes I can get some sleep.
And using Reiki seems to decrease the migraine pain I get--but to completely eliminate it I think I would have to do Reiki for an hour--maybe 2.
But back to my initial post--I guess I figured by sending Reiki to my late colleague that I'd make a connection with him that might make his passing seem less painful...

Hi,

A few years ago I had an experience, where I felt the presence of someone who was important to me in the past. I was awe struck, when I got a sense of the identity of this spirit. It really seemed to be a knowing on more than one level, and it only happened once...

It`s kind a hard to explain how it felt, yet i walked away from it with a sense that I was not in mourning for my friend anymore, beacuse i had experienced her presence after death in a way...It really was like a burden lifted, and I feel so very lucky to have had the honor.

It`s really hard to "connect the dots of reason" with spiritual situations sometimes.

I`m thinking that you might get the answer to why you feel the need to connect with your co-worker,after you do it...Either way, I would expect it to be a good experience...


Jim

prdean111 wrote:
And Wayne--regarding my possible need for Reiki--I've gotten (somewhat) more skilled at Reiki--now when I have an occasional bout of insomnia due to excessive worry--I use Reiki to calm myself and usually within minutes I can get some sleep.
And using Reiki seems to decrease the migraine pain I get--but to completely eliminate it I think I would have to do Reiki for an hour--maybe 2.

i'm really glad with all this Pete! I'd sometimes thought about ya, and wondered only the other week how you were.

Jim,
Thanks for sharing your experience with me--I appreciate it. You've made it a tad easier to "connect the dots of reason" with spirituality--something that's become extremely important to me in the past few years.
And Wayne--thanks for the concern! I hope to one day be as good a mentor to others are you've been to me.
--Pete

The word dead can be used loosely ....
it can be dead right, dead on,dead center
dead party,dead silence, dead end, ect.

We use different vocabulary when speaking
about a person who has died,folks may say
s/he is deceased, passed on, passed over.
passed away,departed,we each have our belief.
Some folks believe that a soul/spirit that
has left the human body continues into a
higher eternal life.

So if we are talking sending Reiki to a
deceased person what does that mean? or
are we sending Reiki to the departed's
higher self that has transitioned to a
higher spiritual plane. if so then they
have attained a level of spiritually
beyond the level that we practice here
on the earth's plane.

chi_solas wrote:

So if we are talking sending Reiki to a
deceased person what does that mean? or
are we sending Reiki to the departed's
higher self that has transitioned to a
higher spiritual plane. if so then they
have attained a level of spiritually
beyond the level that we practice here
on the earth's plane.

This is a real good point. Is it going to make any difference to the person who has scooted on, or is it making more psychological difference to us. hmmm..

Hi Folks,

Personally, I believe we do have a "soul". And I do believe they have their own levels of attraction between one another. They do what they do, and we are mostly unaware. Who knows, there may even be different levels to the spirits existance as well.

Why do so many Reiki practioners claim to percieve spirits close by, while treating someone?

I never believed in guides, and i still do not communicate on any level with a "guide". Yet at times, I have closed my eyes and seen forms around people I was treating...not very often, but it did happen with a handful of individuals, and repeatedly with the same people.

That for me was enough of an idicator that we have relationships on another level that we are unaware of, mostly speaking.

I would hazard to guess that occasionally, their interaction manifests itself in some small way in our tactile existance...maybe this is whats going on with prdean and his passed on friend.

You posed a good question Wayne...I have wracked my brain for an answer, but it will not come...

Jim

To all,
As usual, I get quite an education reading your responses--thank you all!
To Chi Solas, I meant to send reiki to a departed soul's higher self that has transitioned to a higher spiritual plane (though I wasn't thinking of it that way last night when I sent the reiki for 20 minutes. Only reaction I got was warmth in my hands.)
Wayne--I guess the goal of sending reiki to Steven (my departed colleague) psychological--I was shocked when Steven died.
To Wayne, Chisolas et al...is the action of channeling reiki to a departed higher self more successful when one has a close relationship with that person (I talked to Steven about once every 2 months at certain work-related meetings)?
Or does it just take practice?
I'd like to send Reiki to my grandparents' souls, as they've all passed on.
And right now, I'm leaving my computer to send reiki to my headache pills--so I won't need to take more than 2 (that's worked 100% in the past.)
Thanks for all your upcoming responses.
--Pete

prdean111 wrote:
Wayne--I guess the goal of sending reiki to Steven (my departed colleague) psychological--I was shocked when Steven died.

when we experience Reiki, or begin the process for another, we're also experiencing it for ourselves. This is because Reiki is an auric experience, and if we are in their auric field, it helps us. It leads me to say that this is why in absent treatment the pracititioner doesn't experience Reiki also, cause they usually aren't close enough.

prdean111 wrote:
To Wayne, Chisolas et al...is the action of channeling reiki to a departed higher self more successful when one has a close relationship with that person (I talked to Steven about once every 2 months at certain work-related meetings)?

Is it even possible. Or, needed. It's maybe a bit futile for the universal life force energy folks maybe, hehe. I'm not that way myself. What could be the outcome of such a thing as a Reiki experience for someone who has died.

warmest wishes
Wayne

Good point.
Thanks again, Wayne.
--Pete

Hiya Pete

An interesting discussion going on... Jim's and Wayne's views give us good hint at the versatility such thought provoking questions like yours may invite

Your question is something that relates to technical stuff within reiki as much as it relates to the dogmatic/personal views about life after death.. Many dogmatic groups and religions do talk about life after death and some do talk about reincarnation from another perspective... Whatever we choose to accept or dispel among such thoughts, we at least come to focus on one thing, that is, we area out to send reiki to somebody who once had a physical body which is non- existent for the time being... So we are talking about sending reiki to a spirit or soul in whatever connivance this term may be taken... So within reiki, we are not applying "whole" of the ingredients of a reiki treatment... For example, it is not easy to ask permission from a dead buddy, unless of course, you hire help of a professional spirit operator or that buddy comes to your dreams asking for reiki provided it is that buddy exactly himself that is asking help...

Secondly, as we change formula within reiki (that is, sending reiki to a soul without a body) we are not certain if reiki would work in a way we anticipate of it in good gesture... It might also happen that reiki tampers with the non-corporeal existence of the poor soul in some in-warranted way and adds misery to her plight instead of easing it off...

Personally speaking, I would restrain myself from sending reiki to a deceased buddy until I find an authority on the certainty of effects of such action... "reiki does no harm" might lose some of it's workability when applied 'out of domain'

I hAve learnt from various people that something that soothes the broken bond of a deceased person back to earth is sometimes very uncomfortable for her final crossing over ( if I can borrow this christain concept)


There is sure another safe way... That is, you pray for the departed soul without including a reiki intent into the process



Take care
Salman

Lambs-Wool wrote:Hiya Pete


I hAve learnt from various people that something that soothes the broken bond of a deceased person back to earth is sometimes very uncomfortable for her final crossing over ( if I can borrow this christain concept)


There is sure another safe way... That is, you pray for the departed soul without including a reiki intent into the process



Take care
Salman

Hi Salman,

I was wondering if you could add a little verbage to the above ideas? I find myself strongly disagreeing with a couple of comments. It`s quite possible that I`m missing something...at least I hope so...

Jim