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Recieved: 2002/07/02 11:16
Subject: [K-list] Reiki is just one form of healing
From: carolynmaloneyrrmt
On 2002/07/02 11:16, carolynmaloneyrrmt posted thus to the K-list:
All the oriental modalities are the same in healing, Reiki is just one
we are more familiar with. All these healers have had a shamanic
experience which probably raised the K in them and enabled them to do
healing on themselves and others.
Subject: My Daughter, my Gift...
I have a story that I would like to share. This was before I knew
anything about Reiki. Healing seemed to be a path for me already,
Reiki just gave me structure and reference to remember what I seemed
to already know.
My daughter was born,(six weeks premie) at Kaiser Hospital in
Honolulu, Hawaii in 1974. At birth she had meconium aspiration
syndrome, a condition that in its worst form strikes one or two of
1,000 babies each year nationwide. At birth my baby passed
meconium,(an abrasive substance created by her own waste matter) into
the amniotic fluid. The doctor originally thought that the lung damage
was small. The results of the tests were different after looking at
the xrays. There was only a small space (the size of a fingertip),
that was not damaged after she inhaled the contaminated fluid. The
doctor said we should call a Priest if we were Catholic because he
didn't think she was going to survive. However the hope he gave us was
that, the more days she lived, the more her lungs would grow and the
more of a chance she had at survival.
There was major fear when she would completely stop breathing. A
traveling emergency nurse, named Bonnie, just happened to be in the
hospital. There wasn't the equipment that was available in "da
Mainland"(continental US). Bonnie set up a system of "bagging" her
with the other nurses, to make baby breathe. Then Makamae developed
pneumonia, thrush, jaundice and problems due to medications. Hope was
fading. Bonnie remained hopeful and encouraged everyone to keep trying
and not stop. I prayed, cried, was depressed, worried and experienced
every emotion possible.
The other kaimaina nurses and staff, began telling me that I should
call a priest. We called everyone we knew. The Central Union Church Of
Christ (where my oldest daughter, only 11 made a special request), The
Mormans, the Buddist, and a dozen of the different religious groups in
diverse Hawaii. After all this was a week away from one of the rare
Easter times where the Christian observance was at the same time as
the Jewish observance and Islamic observance of a holy day.
I was released from the hospital within three days, but Makamae
couldn't go home and stayed there. I was in the hospital visiting
daily, all day long. When they allowed me, I would stand over her
watching her breathe. About a week later, which was Easter, there was
a brief time that it seemed that her eyes focused right on mine and I
felt a strange recognition between us. I knew in that moment that she
would live and I went home and made up her bed and prepared for her
homecoming.
Makamae stayed in the hosptial another month before she was finally
released. She had her head shaved, marks on her heels from taking
blood, marks on her head. She appeared as someone that had been in a
terrible accident. She did have some slight neuromuscular problems but
she was alive and in my arms. But she slowly began becoming a normal
fussy healthy baby.
She seemed fine for a while, then began having petite mal seizures.
After all we had been through before this was nothing but nuisance
visits to the hospital. Then in preschool at Kaimuki Christian
Academy, at the age of 4 she had a gran mal seizure that frightened
her Pre School Teachers who sent her to Hospital Emergency. This was
diagnoised as a result of brain damage from the frightening birth
trauma and we were told it would probably never just go away. Some
children outgrow seizures over a period of time. So we began to adjust
to this new condition.
I think they used every drug they had on her over the period of years.
None of the medications would hold her seizures back, for any
significant time. Her seizures changed as the medications changed.
Makamae had ones where she walked in a circle, ones where she did the
traditional, shaking and falling on the floor. Some where she just
stood and stared with her face and head turning to the left. The most
dramatic seizure was just after we moved to the mainland. In 1982 when
Cecilia was 10 years old, She woke up screaming and screaming ...
wanting to run. We had to hold her. My husband held her down while I
called the Doctor, who was also a professor at University of Texas
Health Science Center. The doctor said if she continued for one more
minute to bring her into the hospital. (he had talked of experimental
surgery which might be better than nothing).
I panic'd. The very last thing in the world I wanted them to do was
operate on her and have people mess with her brain. She made it
through the birth trauma that most babies don't make it through, so
something must work. Then I began praying and sat down, holding her, I
put my hand on her head. I knew where the seizure activity was suppose
to be. We had seen many many CRT scans. etc. I put my fingers on her
head and turned them in a circle as if I were grasping the spot of
nerve endings gone wild. Then I pulled my hand toward me and said. Let
me take this from her... I want her free of it... and I told myself
and her... "its better, just a bit.", then I did the same thing a
couple of times more knowing that each time the pain was lessening.
Her screaming did stop. Then I realized I had asked for this
problem... and I said, "NO" I don't want it, and threw it away. I had
been doing something similar to get rid of my own migraine headaches
for a few years and it was my last resort with her.
Her next MRI was clean of that nerve tangle. She still has some brain
damage suspected in the frontal lobe that prevents her from thinking
like others, but I am not so sure that's a failing. Her receptive
thought process is above average, but her judgements and communication
skills are at retarded. I had no words to describe what happened. I
didn't know what to call what happened but I knew that the situation
of not being able to do anything was the key. So it was just called a
mother's love for ages and I never told anyone the entire story.
That was a few years ago. Today Jan 2000 Cecilia has been off all
medications for 10 years and still has not had seizures. She is in
Karate and working on her black belt. She also works as the
instructor's assistant. Her judgement is getting better constantly and
she now makes very good jokes, some with the abstract puns. She is
also Level III - Advanced Reiki Practioner
I have looked at many healing methods after that incident and took
Reiki. I think now.. What I did (if it needs a label) was a
combination of Empathic and my own Reiki. I have done things like that
for probably 30 years. I've felt or intuitively knew much but hidden
it from everyone . Only in the last few years have I found others that
I could talk to. Ones that would not think I was crazy. Ones that
shared a healing and being an healer,
I lived in Hawaii for a number of years and felt a kinship with the
people there because of the things I had experienced. Everything was
so open due to the many cultures, attitudes and belief systems. Their
attitude to healing was "So what, my Auntie does that too." When we
moved from there ... back to the Bible belt and old Texas family ties,
I was in hiding again until I found computers. and people to talk
with. I find groups like the one here.. and I can't say THANK YOU
enough for being here and there.
Many Bright Hugs, and much love Flute
Flute was my nickname for many years and there are still ones that
call me by that name. I did a healing circle for years on Prodigy.
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