My Reiki Journey - Part 11: Importance of Permission
The reiki practice attracts and develops healers, and sometimes healers just want to help everyone who appears to be in need. However, it's very important for us to recognize that there are people out there who DON'T want to be healed and DON'T want help in their suffering. When you have personally benefitted from healing, you think, why would anyone NOT want healing!? For some people, the side benefits of experiencing suffering are actually greater or more comforting than being healthy. Consider someone who receives intensive care when they are ill, but feels lonely and forgotten when they aren't receiving care. Consider the person who can have a flexible schedule or more control over what they do and don't want to do if they are disabled. Sometimes the support people receive in suffering is much more comforting than the demands or independence of not suffering. Obviously this is not the case for people who WANT to be healed and who WANT to...