sore neck after Reiki

Hoochiemama

I had Reiki done and about an hour later the right side of neck became very very sore. Its sore to move it from side to side. Kind of feels like when you pull a muscle. Anyone any ideas what it is?

maguffin

I would doubt very much that it was the Reiki energy that caused the pain...unless the practitioner was too physical with you (which they shouldn't!)...did the practitioner pull or twist your head? Sometimes a cold draught of air can cause stiffness in the neck...did you notice anything like that as you lay on the bench? Are you sure that after the session you didn't turn your head too quickly thus straining the neck? Think back to before, during and after the session and see if there was a physical cause for it.....Reiki energy itself would not cause the pain.

kevin keating

Hi,im a reiki 2 practitioner,and in my experience,reiki opens your chakras,and you may be open to psychic attack,in other words,you may have not been made aware that grounding and protection is hugely important. there are a lot of very good vids on youtube on these subjects.reiki is a spiritual modality and you may be attracting malevolant spirits so you need to ground and protect yourself. i hope this helps.

angelman121

kevin keating wrote: »

Hi,im a reiki 2 practitioner,and in my experience,reiki opens your chakras,and you may be open to psychic attack,in other words,you may have not been made aware that grounding and protection is hugely important. there are a lot of very good vids on youtube on these subjects.reiki is a spiritual modality and you may be attracting malevolant spirits so you need to ground and protect yourself. i hope this helps.

As a reiki 2 practitioner Kevin this is a bit irresponsible and on the heavy side and you are jumping to worst case scenario conclusions, you have no idea how your comment "psychic attack" is going to impact on on the OP as you have no idea to their state of mind you should think before you post your own fears as "psychic attack" can only happen if you believe in it, and this will simply serve to show you your own fear, when you have no fear in you- you have nothing to fear.

angelman121

Any energy work will activate some or all of your chakras and these are somewhat like unused muscles and when you start to use them first they tend to ache and also when you overdo or exert them, also it is around our chakras we hold our 'stuff' like fear and anger or sadness n things like that and when we get healing around these issues and/or chakras the can become tender as these feeling move through us. I know it's been awhile since your OP but I would just ignore silly psychic attack comments.
There's a free meditation on this website that you may find helpfull with your healing journey.www.paulwilliams.ie

Onesimus

Yeah the reason you have a sore neck is because reiki doesn't work. It's a load of crap. God is trying to waken you up to that fact. Go to a real doctor for pain, not these charlatans.

maguffin

Onesimus wrote: »

Yeah the reason you have a sore neck is because reiki doesn't work. It's a load of crap. God is trying to waken you up to that fact. Go to a real doctor for pain, not these charlatans.

Have you ever tried Reiki?
Do you actually know what it is?

gillad

Onesimus wrote: »

Yeah the reason you have a sore neck is because reiki doesn't work. It's a load of crap. God is trying to waken you up to that fact. Go to a real doctor for pain, not these charlatans.

Your post just shows how little you know about "God" and the real truth is that you are the one that needs to wake up but its your choice if you want to stay asleep.
These "charlatans" are closer to "God" than you are....you have also moved further away from your god after your post here because you have insulted so many good people that help others...Be carefull with your preaching,you may end up in hell if you continue with your hateful posts.
Nobody here needs to be saved by you

ShamrockLady

Hi everyone, this is my first post.

I am a Reiki practitioner. Even though Reiki is used for positive energy and cannot hurt you, the practitioner can.
I was taught not to do Reiki on someone if I am carrying negative energy. For instance, if I were to lose a family member or friend to death, I would be sad. Therefore, I wouldn't want to do Reiki on someone as that energy would be taken in by the receiver. That's why it's very important for the practitioner to have positive energy. Hope this helps.

Gumbi

You guys realise that "positive energy" is essentially a meaningless (personally, I would say pseudo-scientific) statement right? You're throwing it around like it actually means something.

ShamrockLady

Gumbi wrote: »

You guys realise that "positive energy" is essentially a meaningless (personally, I would say pseudo-scientific) statement right? You're throwing it around like it actually means something.

Think of when you're with someone that is positive or negative. When you walk away, how do you feel?
I can say that both kinds of people affect me. When hanging out with a positive person, you will become a more positive person and vice versa.

endacl

Onesimus wrote: »

Yeah the reason you have a sore neck is because reiki doesn't work. It's a load of crap. God is trying to waken you up to that fact. Go to a real doctor for pain, not these charlatans.

WTF!!! We agree on something?!? Except for the god bit of course. That's even sillier than reiki.

OP, I'd recommend a liberal application of Anguis Oleum. Never fails, apparently.

Gumbi

ShamrockLady wrote: »

Think of when you're with someone that is positive or negative. When you walk away, how do you feel?
I can say that both kinds of people affect me. When hanging out with a positive person, you will become a more positive person and vice versa.

And???

endacl

ShamrockLady wrote: »

Think of when you're with someone that is positive or negative. When you walk away, how do you feel?
I can say that both kinds of people affect me. When hanging out with a positive person, you will become a more positive person and vice versa.

'Become'?

Really?

I hang out with all kinds if people. As do those people. Who hang out with even more people, who hang out.....

How come everybody doesn't gradually cancel out into a world of neutral people? Second law of thermodynamics might suggest this outcome as a distinct possibility if you're right on this one. You should publish. Does reiki predict energetic entropy in all interpersonal interactions? That would be crap. Are we talking general energy here, or specifically 'vibes'?

Hoochiemama

Why cant people let other people believe what they want to believe. Why do you feel the need to belittle everyone else just because its something you think is crap. Just because its crap for you does not mean its the case for everyone. If you dont believe in Reiki, fine, but dont talk down, belittle or act condescendingly to those that do.

For everyone else, the practitioner in no way hurt my neck during the session. The stiffness only lasted about an hour. I have since been in touch with her and she has informed me it was probably a release of energy from the neck chakra.

Thank you so much for all your posts :-)

Gumbi

Hoochiemama wrote: »

Why cant people let other people believe what they want to believe. Why do you feel the need to belittle everyone else just because its something you think is crap. Just because its crap for you does not mean its the case for everyone. If you dont believe in Reiki, fine, but dont talk down, belittle or act condescendingly to those that do.

For everyone else, the practitioner in no way hurt my neck during the session. The stiffness only lasted about an hour. I have since been in touch with her and she has informed me it was probably a release of energy from the neck chakra.

Thank you so much for all your posts :-)

Because I care about truth??? Of course you can believe whatever you want, who am I to inhibit that? That you would even mention it seems childlike.

If something is true it's true, if not, it's not. It bothers me when people might make a lot o money off peddling fake alternative medicine.

It's quite clear to me that posters here don't understand what their are talking about. Throwing around words like positive energy, energy releases from the x chakra, negative energy, psychic attacks. They mean nothing. They have no meaning.

Again, I am not belittling you. In fact, it shows an amount of insecurity when you act so defensively when one questions your beliefs.

You can believe what you like. But I like to have my voice heard when I believe people are being exploited for their gullibility, people are lying to make money, and when people associate alternative medicine to cancer cures instead of the chemo a medical professional applied for months on end.

None of this may specifically apply to you, though my other points still stand.

You think Hitler should have been allowed to believe what he liked and be left as he was?

Hoochiemama

Dont you DARE call me insecure when you know absolutely nothing about me.

endacl

Hoochiemama wrote: »

Dont you DARE call me insecure when you know absolutely nothing about me.

That reads like insecurity, I have to say...

Hoochiemama

Again, think what you want. But you know nothing about me.

Gumbi

Hoochiemama wrote: »

Dont you DARE call me insecure when you know absolutely nothing about me.

I didn't explicitly call you insecure. I said that why you said "shows an amount of insecurity". And I expanded on that. And explained why.

I am trying to educate myself on alternative medicine by asking what I believe to be basic questions on how/why it works; I'm met with dodging and defensiveness at every which way it seems.

Dogsbody_

jesus christ is this thread even allowed around here? This is patently medical advise being peddled as chankra energy balls

Hoochiemama

I did not come on this to have my beliefs questioned. I came on this to ask advise from people who believe simialar things to me. So I have no urge to answer your questions regarding what I believe in.

endacl

Gumbi wrote: »

I am trying to educate myself on alternatives to medicine

Sorry dude. Had to fyp...

endacl

Hoochiemama wrote: »

I did not come on this to have my beliefs questioned.

Where do you usually go?

Gumbi

Hoochiemama wrote: »

I did not come on this to have my beliefs questioned. I came on this to ask advise from people who believe simialar things to me. So I have no urge to answer your questions regarding what I believe in.

Really? The. Why come to it with a closed mind? Maybe your sore neck had nothing to do with energy chakras, psychic attacks whatever. Maybe it had something to do with the massaging/hand placement of the practitioner.

Robert McGrath

endacl wrote: »

OP, I'd recommend a liberal application of Anguis Oleum. Never fails, apparently.

I actually looked that up to check what you were talking about.

Excellent Latin gag! Well played, sir!

I will be stealing that ...

Hoochiemama

You should really read the charter of this forum:

Rules





• Everyone is free to believe whatever they like

• Everyone is free to post those beliefs as long as they respect the beliefs of others

• If a thread starter requests that people don't question their beliefs, please respect that request

• If you feel the need to question a belief system (as opposed to enquiring about a belief) please start a new thread to do it in instead of hijacking a thread where a belief is already being discussed.

endacl

Gumbi wrote: »

Really? The. Why come to it with a closed mind? Maybe your sore neck had nothing to do with energy chakras, psychic attacks whatever. Maybe it had something to do with the massaging/hand placement of the practitioner.

Or maybe you just have a sore neck. I had a sore neck once. It went away. The pain that is, not the neck. I still have some neck.

Hoochiemama

Gumbi wrote: »

Really? The. Why come to it with a closed mind? Maybe your sore neck had nothing to do with energy chakras, psychic attacks whatever. Maybe it had something to do with the massaging/hand placement of the practitioner.

I have asked you not to question my beliefs so can you stop please?

Hoochiemama

endacl wrote: »

Or maybe you just have a sore neck. I had a sore neck once. It went away. The pain that is, not the neck. I still have some neck.

Do you really feel the need to joke about my post??

allucinator

Hard to believe there are still a lot of people - some of them on here - who believe totally and utterly in modern science. I respect your right to believe what you want, but remember modern science once stated as FACT that the world is flat.
Science changes. Open your mind.

endacl

Hoochiemama wrote: »

I have asked you not to question my beliefs so can you stop please?

With all due respect, Gumbi hasn't questioned your beliefs in this instance. S/he has simply offered alternative explanations for your neck pain for your consideration. Perfectly reasonable ones, I might add. Maybe have a think about them before getting all defensive/reactionary/insecure in your beliefs?

endacl

allucinator wrote: »

Hard to believe there are still a lot of people - some of them on here - who believe totally and utterly in modern science. I respect your right to believe what you want, but remember modern science once stated as FACT that the world is flat.
Science changes. Open your mind.

Don't open it too wide though. Any old rubbish is liable to fall in...

endacl

Hoochiemama wrote: »

Do you really feel the need to joke about my post??

It's not a joke. Maybe you just have a sore neck. Give it a few days. Hope you feel better.

Dogsbody_

endacl wrote: »

It's not a joke. Maybe you just have a sore neck. Give it a few days. Hope you feel better.

stop giving medical advice

Gumbi

Dogsbody_ wrote: »

stop giving medical advice

???

endacl

Dogsbody_ wrote: »

stop giving medical advice

Not guilty. That wasn't medical advice. Stop backseat modding?

Dogsbody_

endacl wrote: »

It's not a joke. Maybe you just have a sore neck. Give it a few days. Hope you feel better.

That is medical advice. ARe you are a doctor?

endacl

Dogsbody_ wrote: »

That is medical advice. ARe you are a doctor?

Take two aspirin and give it a few days would be medical advice. Can you see the difference, or do you need the thick cardboard pages, nice bright pictures version?

Dogsbody_

endacl wrote: »

Take two aspirin and give it a few days would be medical advice. Can you see the difference, or do you need the thick cardboard pages, nice bright pictures version?

You're actually incredibly wrong.

Saying take two aspiring give it a few days is equally medical advice as saying "take a few days rest". You're giving someone advice on how to overcome an injury while having no professional authority to do so. You should butt out of this thread, you're a menace.

endacl

Dogsbody_ wrote: »

You're actually incredibly wrong.

Saying take two aspiring give it a few days is equally medical advice as saying "take a few days rest". You're giving someone advice on how to overcome an injury while having no professional authority to do so. You should butt out of this thread, you're a menace.

There's nothing to indicate the sore neck was or wasn't caused by an injury. I wouldn't of course be qualified to say either way. Which is why I didn't. Either diagnose or offer medical advice.

Two aspiring what, by the way?

Gumbi

allucinator wrote: »

Hard to believe there are still a lot of people - some of them on here - who believe totally and utterly in modern science. I respect your right to believe what you want, but remember modern science once stated as FACT that the world is flat.
Science changes. Open your mind.

What do you mean when you say "I believe totally in modern science"?? I don't believe IN it. I believe it's the best tool we have for discerning fact from fiction.

endacl

Out of interest Dogsbody, why were you not up in arms when people claiming to be reiki practitioners gave advice based on reikiology? That reads a lot closer to medical advice than your selective misreading of my post. If somebody claimed to he a medical doctor, and did similar on a more rational forum, folks would quite rightly have something to say about it.

endacl

Gumbi wrote: »

What do you mean when you say "I believe totally in modern science"?? I don't believe IN it. I believe it's the best tool we have for discerning fact from fiction.

The only tool.

Dogsbody_

endacl wrote: »

Out of interest Dogsbody, why were you not up in arms when people claiming to be reiki practitioners gave advice based on reikiology? That reads a lot closer to medical advice than your selective misreading of my post. If somebody claimed to he a medical doctor, and did similar on a more rational forum, folks would quite rightly have something to say about it.

No selective reading on my behalf, your recommended a course of treatment, you're just too deluded to acknowledge that.

With regard to reiki, the fact the forum we're in is spiritualism, the thread starter is specifically looking for reiki advice, and the context of the answers are all within the realm of reiki, I don't see much to complain about. They are looking for reiki advice, not medical.

endacl

Dogsbody_ wrote: »

No selective reading on my behalf, your recommended a course of treatment, you're just too deluded to acknowledge that.

With regard to reiki, the fact the forum we're in is spiritualism, the thread starter is specifically looking for reiki advice, and the context of the answers are all within the realm of reiki, I don't see much to complain about. They are looking for reiki advice, not medical.

Wait to see if the pain goes away is not 'a course of treatment'. If it was, I wouldn't have suggested it. The forum is irrelevant. There's a site wide ban on medical advice. Depending on your level of gulliblity, reiki qualifies as (pseudo) medical intervention. A responsible practitioner would insist the OP seek a physical consultation, and the thread would have been closed. Different rules apply, I imagine, as those who promote alternative-to-medicine know on some level that just as the treatment does no good, the advice will do no harm. They indulge each other. And react comically to those who don't. I recommend you have your consistency chakra realigned.*






* not medical advice.

dahamsta

kevin keating wrote: »

Hi,im a reiki 2 practitioner,and in my experience,reiki opens your chakras,and you may be open to psychic attack,in other words,you may have not been made aware that grounding and protection is hugely important. there are a lot of very good vids on youtube on these subjects.reiki is a spiritual modality and you may be attracting malevolant spirits so you need to ground and protect yourself. i hope this helps.

Funniest thing I've read on Boards all month.

Dogsbody_

endacl wrote: »

Wait to see if the pain goes away is not 'a course of treatment'. If it was, I wouldn't have suggested it. The forum is irrelevant. There's a site wide ban on medical advice. Depending on your level of gulliblity, reiki qualifies as (pseudo) medical intervention. A responsible practitioner would insist the OP seek a physical consultation, and the thread would have been closed. Different rules apply, I imagine, as those who promote alternative-to-medicine know on some level that just as the treatment does no good, the advice will do no harm. They indulge each other. And react comically to those who don't. I recommend you have your consistency chakra realigned.

What are you asking me? Why isn't the discussion of reiki banned? Why isn't the discussion of reiki as it applies to an individual case banned? I don't make the rules, I'm just offering an interpretation because you asked. You seem to have some kind of agenda where you want to ridicule reiki, I'm not sure why you're in the forum if you're goal is purely to troll.

I think you should be banned for trolling and for offering medical advice but I don't want to sound like i'm back seat moderating as you put it.

endacl

Dogsbody_ wrote: »

What are you asking me? Why isn't the discussion of reiki banned? Why isn't the discussion of reiki as it applies to an individual case banned? I don't make the rules, I'm just offering an interpretation because you asked. You seem to have some kind of agenda where you want to ridicule reiki, I'm not sure why you're in the forum if you're goal is purely to troll.

I think you should be banned for trolling and for offering medical advice but I don't want to sound like i'm back seat moderating as you put it.

Disagreeing isn't trolling. Take a deep breath.* Good man.





*also not medical advice.**





** may be medical advice in yoga.

Dogsbody_

enda I've work to do talk to you later

endacl

Dogsbody_ wrote: »

enda I've work to do talk to you later

Likewise. Free after 9. Holla.