Welcome
These are snippets as I remember them. My hands are precious and have been used to assist so many, I have no way of recalling many instances.
Pre 1987 – I knew nothing about Reiki first hand, at least, not until Skye was in need of urgent healing. I had been vaguely aware of the more ‘out here’ types playing in the edges of healing and New Age stuff – but I saw myself as a very practical acupuncturist / teacher of acupuncturists, and mother and had no need to explore – until I really did.
1987 – Kathryn (Skye), my massively brain injured daughter, Also see here
A group of new practitioners were in my area. We started going to them every week for seven months. Only two weeks were missed – due to Kathryn’s illness. It was needed – for me to have asleep under their hands, and she was vastly improved. better. The two sessions she missed in the 7 months made obvious its effect. Her mood, sleepig and ability to cope with us trying to help her was better when experiencing weekly Reiki. Reiki was the way to gently cleanse and clear her. It was an invaluable for the first year or so of her life.
In hindsight, I imagine when I started doing the intensive programme we had no extra time, and the Reiki was discontinued. A few years later I signed up to ‘learn’ how to do it and went onto do the Second Degree Reiki – this meant that I was then able, when holding her, to also be channeling the healing energy.
Life continued and when I was asked if I wanted Beth Gray (the teacher) to do an absent healing on her, I agreed. It was really weird being in a room with possibly several hundred people and having the spirit of my daughter so palpable in the room – she REFUSED to have a bar of the healing – and by the way Kathryn was described – it was exactly her!!!!
Of course as she was apparently highly autistic and massively brain injured and definitely not vocal – it could be said that what was I speaking of? I lived and breathed her energy and hence was aware that the Reiki stuff was as they said it was.
Concurrently, I started to see the little girl who features in the leukaemia story … . She was then getting direct Reiki from the leader of the group – Diana – plus she was also having absent healing done. It was amazing watching her change colour – she was so very ill and nearly dying that the patchy orange and red of her skin tone did used to even out to normal baby colour whilst the eating was happening.
This may sound all very ‘way out’ – but it was observable to all, and made a very real and appreciable difference to both little girls.
At the time I was having teams of helpers coming in to volunteer their time as I was doing an intensive family home based neurological rehabilitation programme with Kathryn Skye, so often – as I was seeing her twice daily for two months different people were seeing her changing from nearly dying to eventually getting towards remission .. .
1988 – When I started doing the intensive programme we had no extra time, and the Reiki was discontinued. A few years later I signed up to ‘learn’ how to do it and went onto do the Second Degree Reiki – this meant that I was then able, when holding her, to also be channeling the healing energy . .
1989 – Life continued and when I was asked if I wanted Beth Gray (the teacher) to do an absent healing on her, I agreed. It was really weird being in a room with possibly several hundred people and having the spirit of my daughter so palpable in the room. She REFUSED to have a bar of the healing – and by the way Kathryn was described – it was exactly her!!!!
Of course as she was apparently highly autistic and massively brain injured and definitely not vocal. I could be said that what was I speaking of??? I lived and breathed her energy and hence was aware that the Reiki stuff was as they said it was . . . Reiki was always the way to gently clam an clear Kathryn – and was invaluable for the first year or so of her life.
I was able to change the course of my healing times.I learnt that the instant something happened to suspend all that has been happening and work on myself – the quicker the better. This over the years tended to be my ankles. Always giving way.
1989 – SPRAINED ANKLE – exceptionally badly – I was the only one home, I was the sole caring fo the very damaged daughter. I was able to stay independent as I quickly fixed my ankle – again.. .
1994 – SPRAINED ANKLE – Creating a placental blood clot that would burst if I went into labour. Needed ankle fixed as I needed to run after Kathryn when she took off – independent of cars and danger.
1995 – BABY HEAD INJURY – When Ryan was dropped on his head onto the concrete, when he was 3 ½ months old, I was very grateful that I had something other than the needle that revived him to start him breathing again . . What a life!!!
BACK IN CLINIC -1995 – 2020
Getting back into helping those who were having hopeless’ thrown at them, I found that whenever my hands turned on – it was time for me to let loose.
So I did – as my Qi moving was always body aligning also. Even more so when I began the womb/ structural alignment in 2014. Whenever anything was too hard – time for my hands to pour whatever was needed into the one receiving care.
Twice the Reiki felt freezing cold – in all the times I have used my hands. One was an acute back. Can’t remember the other – but this may indicate when ICE is needed – almost never.
2009 – SAVING BABY – Freaked out my=um to be who had lost her firstborn as a stillbirth – was 24 weeks and felt that she had had ‘her waters’ break. I eventually got to her in hospital and inserted my magic save baby points then as she was being moved to another ward, when settled, I had my hands on her – and as she was panicked, grieving, saying goodbye to her supposedly dead child – I suggested sending light here, as the contractions had stopped. The next morning her cervix was found to be 4 cm long – and it had never been no than 3 all through her pregnancy to date. Reiki was and is always my magic tool.
2000 – RIPPED OPEN SKIN – I walked too close to a rose thorn and had the top of my foot ripped open. This was a very visible and painful experience. I dropped to the ground and just sat there and held my hand over the wound. When I looked about 45 minutes later – there was a faint red line. I trued t pull it apart – not possible. It all closed over!!! Impressive -as it is one thing to feel it better and quite another to SEE it better .
2001 – MY ANKLE – I heard a snap. I feel to the ground, Reiki.
Not moving, I asked my assistant to come around – we plastered it (Chinese herbal). I Reikied and hobbled it better.
2007 – RYAN’S ANKLE– at 13 managed to wrench his ankle badly. We were in Samoa, he playing beach volleyball.. I got him to sit down in the sun, and placed my hands upon him and after about half an hour – he got up and it was off playing again – no hassles. . . .
2007 – SLASHED TO THE BONE THUMB Next month, when he got his first pocketknife, he slashed open the top of his thumb. I placed my hand over the top of his thumb and after about half an hour – it was OK – as in not gushing blood – but I had forgotten to take the tissue off – so we had to soak it off and start the process again. I had decided that as I lived about 50 Km from the hospital and it looked like needing stitches – it seemed easier to just fix it myself as at 13 having a needle to deaden where the stitches would be placed right inside the wound would not go down really well . . That meant that anytime it started hurting again he would come up to me and we would sit for a while and I would have my hand over him till it stopped feeling as hot and then we would wander off again . . When it healed a week later there was no scar.
2014 – RIGHT INDEX FINGERNAIL – Christmas Day I shut it in the automatically closing drawer. cupboard. Looked like I would also the fingernail. Looked like it needed puncturing. I Reikied – all day, and all fixed! Impressive.
2018 – HAND INJURY– bent the thumb right back, and was in a home visit post natal m so had to keep doing magic – in between her needles and me using my hands , i was Reikiing my thumb as I had to go back to work. Remarkable healing 0 when done instantly
2019 – SARS II – We caught Wuhan from someone who came in from Asia, off the plane – someone said – ‘go and see Heather’- and after his three days consecutive visits – Duncan was in a mes. I took the AV/AT tablets three every hour, so took longer to get affected. He is allergic, so could not – and he went down. I wondered if he would die – and when I woke up one nit and he was breathing very weirdly, all I could think of to do was to lay my hands on him, and if he was still alive in the morning – that would be handy. I am not a panic merchant.
2020 – LITTLE FINGER TIP JOINT smashed between the metal trailer and the large wooden bookcase. We could see inside the joint – ripped it open. I put my hands on it and over the next week, as well as using negative ion pads and los of magnesium topically, I was even Reikiing in my sleep -teh joint has no ill effects – no scar, all good
2020 – Duncan – BROKEN ARM – roller door. Impressive – after 4 days he still not able to even minutely rotate his arm. I took hm in for an X ray – they said it was ‘fine’. It was not. Thus the excessive use of all my tools – plus Reiki obviously held him together. Soon after, he managed to get some iron in his EYE– it needed rust being drilled off!! His sight? All fixed, with castor oil in the socket, negative ion pads and my hands. Chinese herbs, and my hands to the rescue. . .
2021 – SHINGLES IN EYE. It took a few days to realise that this was not a small problem. Once I realised that I was not a hopeless Reiki channel, but that I had a serious issue. – I got the medications and took ages to recover. The triple strength anti virals needed knocked me about – but I still have my sight. Nothing like being 3 am sleeping next to a hubby, whilst using bith h=arms to try to alleviate whatever was going on in my right temple/eye/head . .
2022 – MASSIVE ACCIDENT – Immediately I recovered enough to be taken into the A and E in Brisbane, as I had ‘fallen’ through the stairs and was damage d- head injury, 4, not 2 lips – my left wrist was phenomenally painful,. About 4x more than the right. I Reikiied this whilst in shock .. and months later, although I had little wrist strength, at least I could use my hands again. The rest of the injuries I got to, as I could. And then whenever sore
2025 – TICKS As I am highly allergic to anything breaking into my skin (bees/wasps/leeches/sand flies/ticks) it was a mission to recover myself when it was not one or six, but SIXTY ticks that got me. At once. Eventually I remembered that I was both an acupuncturist and then I remembered also a Reiki channel – so I could use these skills with my arsenal of helpers to stay OK in that week of horror. Chinese herbals to the rescue!!
Midwiving to beyond
1999 – TRANSITIONING OUT – PAIN RELIEF – As my mother laid dying in the hospital, too far gone an don a subcutaneous drip only, the amount of morphine she was being held supposedly pain free on was insufficient. She was writhing around on the bed. Too far gone for me to use needles, I placed my hands on her. She settled, slept well, did not need her medication the next day. As her nurse said – what a gift!! She lived another week – I came back. woke up, and we had conversation where I told her that she was dying,. It was a great gift.
2012 – TRANSITIONING OUT – Given three days to live, she overstayed her visit here by three weeks, as I did my thing with the undoing of what is simple – given time. We did a great deal around why it happened, letting go, and using the detox drops (ncd) at double dose, with the immune support product, glutathone accelerator at double dose and a lot of topical magnesium, with Vit C and oral magnesium, broths and soups, and lving., And Reiki.
2023 – HELP ON ALL LEVELS – terminal metastatic cancer – most of the two to three hour’s sessions she received two to three day weekly was Reiki during out of me, So much water I sucked up whilst this happened. She was gaining weight, off her morphine, eating and sleeping, until she decided to take charge again, not listen and went out her own way. Choices.
I suspect that you get the message – life is easier when you have tools that work
