Reiki/herb crossover

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Healing methods blend together in interesting ways. A number

of herbalists I know who also do reiki use it on their tinctures to

amp up the healing potential of the herb. The water in the mix is

an awesome carrier for the healing energies (see some of the water

research done by that japanese fellow presented in the movie " What

the Bleep is Going On " for a fascinating take on that). The tea or

tinctures can act stronger with a zap than if left unzapped. " Wow,

that's a lot stronger, what do you do different when you make your

tincture? " " Oh, I grow it biointensively with lots of compost. The

plants are much healthier and have more nutrients available that way

so of course they are going to be stronger. "

Some of the same people report when doing an energy treatment,

intuitive flashes of what herbs the person needs spontaneously

come. So this hits that discussion we had earlier, sometimes one

method works best with a person while another time something else

works better. It also opens up the world of plant spirit medicine,

as is presented by Eliot (was that his name?) in a book by

that title. People who are really good at that don't always need

the physical component of the herb to do the treatment.

For those who aren't comfortable with the more esoteric side

of the wholistic health movement we don't have to look very far to

find nearly the same teachings in our own cultural background. Read

between the lines stories of Dr.. Regularly patients

would come in and he would pray and a formula would come. In his

book, the School of Natural Healing, there is the story of a mother

trying to find help for her daughter. " As Ray listened to this

desperate mother, he offered a silent prayer for help and " a formula

immediately came to my mind " , as he related it. He jotted the herbs

down and gave the mother complete instructions on how to make and

apply the fomentations and tea and sent her to the herb shop to get

them. " That's how the BF & C formula came to be which is now a potent

herbal classic. I've seen a number of other formulations come to be

in a similiar manner.

Balance is vital with this. There's a balance with physical

on one side and spiritual on the other. Folks who go too far

towards one side or another get lopsided and ineffective. A mentor

recommended train one side until your skills plateau out (which

always happens) and then train the other side until that plateus

out. Keep training one side, then the other. Mastery is born of

this.