Epileptic seizures or seizures emanating from any medical condition, adverse reaction or health disorders are frightening events, whether in a child, an adult or a beloved pet. Petit Mal or Grand Mal seizures are abnormal misfirings or brief electrical disturbances in your brain’s electromagnetic system. Those abhorrent signals instruct your body to create the contractions, teeth chattering shivering, glazed gaze, urinating, tongue swallowing, nausea, and all the other awful symptoms manifested in you or your pet’s physical being.
According to the Epilepsy Advocate: “Epilepsy is a brain disorder in which people experience repeated seizures. Seizures can cause different symptoms based on the location of the seizure and where the abnormal electrical activity spreads. They can range from tingling in a finger to a generalized (grand mal) seizure, during which people lose consciousness, become stiff, and jerk.”
“Epilepsy can be inherited. For half the people with epilepsy, a cause cannot be found. Epilepsy can originate right after birth or can occur at any time. Epilepsy is not contagious. Having a single seizure does not mean you definitely have epilepsy. Not everything that appears to simulate a seizure is an epileptic seizure” Seizures can emanate from a variety of causes: a birth defect, brain tumor, lesion, or infection in the brain, brain damage, allergic reaction, emotional stress, withdrawal from addictive substances, and hypoglycemia. Other causes are cardiac arrhythmias, syncope, panic attacks, cataplexy, encephalitis, memeingitis, high fever. Drug toxicity and “certain medications like tryclclic antidepressants, cause seizures as does withdrawal from drugs like anticonvulsants and sedatives. Even video games and certain television programs can trigger photosensitive epilepsy, such as the infamous episode of Pokemon, Electric Soldier Porygon.”
Since seizures cause involuntary changes in body movement or function, sensation, awareness, or behavior, calming or creating different electromagnetic communications in the brain’s electrical function is necessary to control them. Most seizure activity can be managed. Traditional medicine has been using medication and at times exterior electromagnetic stimulation procedures to redirect brain activity. Energy Healing is a non invasive option to treat seizures.
Energy healing directs energy frequencies that facilitate change in the electromagnetic fields of neural pathways and brain waves, thereby creating an alternative therapy for seizure control. In my practice as an energy healer, an 81-year-old woman was relieved of all seizures by reestablishing normal electromagnetic patterns within her brain waves. Dog seizures can usually be stabilized within a few minutes, and their recurrence rate diminished within a few days. A cat having seizures was immediately stabilized, and eventually required no medication. Energy Healing can effect seizure activity whether it is being focused by the healer either onsite at the client’s location, or sent as distance or remote energy healing. Even status epilepticus seizures can be reduced to manageable events that present less often. An interesting note; when an energy healer is directing healing energy to a client who has a seizure service dog, the dog is aware of the different energy in the room.
Using focused healing energy electromagnetic fields from the healer to the client is becoming an area of interest and research in integrated medicine, which is the combination of allopathic medicine with alternative healing modalities. Energy medicine is becoming an accepted healing modality that allows those having seizures to have more options to control and manage their seizures in addition to serious procedures, long-term treatments, and heavy prescription drugs. Energy Healing is the cutting edge of future medicine to help facilitate health and well being in the client.
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Disclaimer: Brent Atwater is not a medical doctor or associated with any branch of medicine. Brent works in Alternative & Integrative Medicine. She offers her opinions based on her intuition, and her personal energy healing work, which is not a substitute for medical procedures or treatments. Always consult a physician or trained health care professional concerning any medical problem or condition before undertaking any diet, health related or lifestyle change programs. As in traditional medicine, there are no guarantees with medical intuition or energy work.
KI is the Japanese word meaning, generally, the energy of life. Within this ki, a hierarchy of 7 particular energies has been distinguished, as follows:*
1) Kekki — the “Ki of the blood” — provides fundamental strength. It is the most powerful and most basic of the 7 energies, but the least structured and least intelligent. Associated with the Root Chakra.
2) Shioke — the “Ki of the salt” or “Ki of minerals” — provides bodily structure and connectedness, which makes possible and organizes to a degree the action of Kekki. Also associated with the Root Chakra.
3) Mizuke — the “Ki of the water” or “Ki of liquids” — makes possible relationship and communication (by allowing the flow of Kekki among various forms of Shioke). It is the basic energy of all emotions, and allows for nourishment and metabolism. Associated with the Sacral Chakra.
4) Kuki — the “Ki of the air” or “Ki of gases” — provides the motivation for self-discovery. It gives us the ability to define our own course in life, not to be overly influenced by others. Also, the energy of digestion (of ideas as well as physical food). Associated with the Solar Plexus Chakra.
5) Denki — the “Ki of the thunder” — gives the ability to balance our own ego with consideration for others. The element of Thunder implies the forces of Heaven — and Denki makes possible our trust in a Divine Creator, as well as feelings of love, empathy, fairness, tolerance and understanding toward our fellow beings. Associated with the Heart Chakra.
6) Jiki — “magnetic power” or “gathering force” — provides charisma and aligns us with our true, Divine will. It gives the qualities of truth, beauty and kindness. It attracts the perfect complement to our own being in every situation, as well as coordinating the 5 lower energies. Associated with the Throat Chakra.
7) REIKI — “soul force” or “spiritual power” — organizes and directs all the lower energies in the most holistic, synergistic way, to bring about the good of all. In the material world, this is the energy closest to the Divine Creator, the Source of all energy and life. Reiki is associated with the Brow Chakra, and acts as a bridge between the material energies and the purely spiritual, Divine energy, called Shinki, from which everything is created and to which everything eventually returns.
* This information is condensed from the writing of Walter Lübeck in The Spirit of Reiki (Lotus Press, 2001).
THESE 7 ENERGIES are also listed by Michio Kushi in Macrobiotic Home Remedies (Japan Publications, Inc., 1985). Kushi translates REI KI as ” ‘ki of spirit,’ ‘the invisible force of soul.’ ” He explains further:
All of these stages of ki came out from SHIN KI, God-ki. Out of Shin Ki (the source), Rei Ki (yin and yang) is born. Between yin and yang**, Ji Ki (magnetism) arises, and next vibration, in the form of electricity (Den Ki), is produced. Then atmosphere, water and minerals are formed. We take all these in the form of food and transform them into Kek-ki, ki of blood, which nourishes our body.
** I found it interesting that Kushi had equated Reiki with yin and yang. My own feeling was that yin and yang arose at the level of Jiki (magnetism, polarity), and that Reiki, located just above that level, was indeed, as Walter Lübeck describes, the mysterious connector between the spiritual and physical realms. My feeling when experiencing Reiki has always been one of being suddenly connected to my true Self, to my Source. I believe that’s what Reiki does for us, whether applied as a “treatment” or as an “empowerment/attunement.” It feels to me like an “extension cord” connecting me to the Source.
However, Reiki Teacher Mike Fuchs pointed out to me that yin and yang can never really be separated, that yin and yang together make up the indivisible reality of tai-chi — and that is what Kushi is referring to here, with the words “yin and yang.” “Also,” he says, “it is generally regarded that the energy/force depicted by the tai chi symbol is identical to the force/energy which is called either ‘tao’ or ‘dao.’ So, tai chi and dao are the same, just named differently….” If this is the case, then “reiki” and “dao” are also just 2 different words for the same thing: that indivisible, life force at the first level of manifestation, which brings about the dynamic balance of ever-changing energies in all things.
EVEN SO, is there only one Reiki, or is Reiki a different energy for each individual? There’s considerable evidence to suggest the latter, and I’ve come to believe that.
For one thing, the fact that different people experience Reiki so differently makes me wonder if each is connecting to a different energy. I suspect the different feelings can be explained to some degree by different levels of sensitivity in people; but the tremendous variety of experiences makes me think there is more to it than just that. This belief is strengthened also by evidence from a variety of sources:
From the website of Rick Rivard:
In the mid 1990s my associate Shen Lissa stayed for a month with Tatsumi-san who was a student of Chuujirou Hayashi from 1927 to 1931. One day she pointed to a photo of the Usui concepts in Tatsumi-san’s house. She noted the term “Reiki” and said that this was how the West referred to the hand healing system. Tatsumi-san said that the hand healing was simply referred to as te-àte, and that by using the term “reiki,” O-Sensei (Usui Sensei) had been referring to his ancestors. Usui Reiki Ryoho simply means ‘Usui system for connecting with your ancestral self’- something that is already within each one of us from the moment of conception.
From Taggart King, on the subject of Reiju, Usui’s empowerment procedure:
The empowerment kotodama represented creative energy, regenerative energy, the energy of rebirth. The idea here is that when Reiju is carried out it connects the recipient to the energy, allowing them to be “reborn”: reborn in the sense of creating a place within that is “what we originally were”, the state within the ovum when we were Divine essence in complete connection to the universe. The energy was the essence of earth and heavenly energy, white light, source, ultimate being.
This confirms my own feeling that Reiki is connecting me to my true, original Self. Taggart’s description seems to go beyond the ancestral connection, but also to include it (by referring to the fertilized ovum in the womb).
Rick Rivard, on another page of his site, says he believes that the energy transmitted by Usui, which people eventually came to call “Reiki,” was merely Usui’s own, personal, “highest ki” — and that each of us has a different “highest ki.” I agree with this, only I believe that Usui’s method connects us not to Usui’s own “highest ki” but to our own “highest ki,” our own ancestral and Source energy. In other words, the genius of what Usui discovered is that it opens the connection in each one of us to our own particular vibration of Reiki (which is indeed our “highest ki”).
THE IDEA of such a connection between the personal self and a greater Self (sometimes perceived as the Soul, or a Guardian Angel, Guardian Spirit, or even a God) certainly appears in many cultures and teachings. Here in Hawai’i, there was an ancient tradition of spiritual understanding, which has come to be called Huna. It’s generally accepted that many of its secrets (the word Huna itself means “secret”) have been lost, though various researchers have attempted to reconstruct and understand the ancient teachings as much as possible.
One of the best known of these researchers was Max Freedom Long — known especially for his books The Secret Science Behind Miracles (1948) and The Secret Science At Work (1953).** He described the Huna understanding of a human being as comprised of 3 individual spirits, which Max called the “low self,” “middle self,” and “High Self.” The “low self,” he said, was the childlike one, in charge of the physical and auric bodies, and of memory; the “middle self” — “the one who speaks” — was the rational (more or less!) being that we most often think of as our self; and the “High Self” was comparable to what many people would call a Guardian Angel. The “High Self” was completely separate from the “middle self,” and connected to the “low self” only by an auric cord. This cord extended, apparently without limit, allowing the “High Self” to be either very near the physical body or at any distance from it, at any given moment.
Max attempted to discover how the ancient Kahunas (”keepers of the secrets”) had accomplished miraculous things through prayer (the last real Kahuna having passed away hundreds of years previously). He came to believe that the process involved the “middle self” communicating its desire, telepathically, to the “low self”; then the “low self” passing on this request to the “High Self,” via the auric cord connecting the two! “As for the High Self,” he said, “which has no limitations [emphasis mine] except as imposed by the low and middle selves through failing to do their part, we will find practical proof of its powers, once we have learned to make and sustain working contact with it.”
To me, this “High Self” sounds very much like what Reiki connects us to; and Max’s description of the auric cord brings to mind immediately my own feeling of Reiki as an “extension cord” to my real Self. His perception of the Huna prayer procedure is strikingly similar to the procedure of doing Reiki: we get the rational, “middle self” out of the picture for a while, and let the childlike, “low self” connect with the unlimited, “High Self” — and miraculous things tend to happen!
There is corroboration of this general theme in the teachings of Johrei also; the idea that we are each watched over by a higher self called the Yukon, who exists in the spirit world and is always connected to us, and to whom we can (very beneficially) send Johrei energy.
** Some writers have claimed that Max misinterpreted the ancient teachings. The word aumakua, for instance, which Max said referred to the “High Self,” others have translated as “ghost of your ancestors.” According to them, the aumakua is an ancestral spirit who agrees to come back to Earth and help us with advice and protection — a concept that sounds remarkably similar to Tatsumi’s belief about Usui’s use of the word Reiki! In any case, “ghost of your ancestors” is clearly the exoteric meaning of aumakua; Max believed “High Self” to be the esoteric meaning, which he had arrived at by deep and careful study of the many-layered Hawai’ian language. Considering that the whole realm of Huna is of things that are secret or hidden, it hardly makes sense that the exoteric, everyday meanings of words would be the ones involved! I feel (confirmed by muscle-testing) that, at least concerning the concept of the 3 human selves, Max’s understanding was indeed correct.
Don Beckett is a practitioner and teacher of Usui Reiki on the island of Hawai’i. His comprehensive e-book, An Exploration of Usui Reiki and Beyond, can be downloaded at
http://new-reiki-books.johreiki.net/.
With all the stress in our lives, most Americans are grappling with health issues or issues of well-being. Some reports indicate that up to 90% of all doctor’s visits are stress related. Of course, many visits are minor and inconvenient but in many ways they are indicators of an underlying problem that has its roots in a worn out, stressed out body that seems incapable of reinvigorating itself. Have you ever felt that you can’t quite seem to recover enough to regain that sense of vitality that you once knew in your youth? In this state our weakened bodies are then incapable of adequately defending against other illnesses and this can lead to more serious health conditions. We get sick more often or we find it hard to sleep at night, have low energy or are quick to anger.
With over $50 billion being spent on alternative and complimentary health care, more and more people are questioning traditional medical treatments as a way of dealing with stress related illnesses. While we all like a quick fix, there is a growing awareness that taking just a pill is not the long term answer. A pill often only treats the symptom and not the cause. One of the rapidly growing areas in alternative medicine that does address the cause of illness is “energy healing”. There are many forms of energy healing with three of the more well known being “Acupuncture,” “Healing Touch” and “Reiki.” In general, “energy medicine” is a type of alternative healing in which universal life force energy is used to heal the body, mind and spirit. One of these energy healing modalities that is not so well known but extremely effective is Pranic Healing.
Pranic Healing has been featured on TV’s Hard Copy and is recommended by Marianne Williamson, Carolyn Myss, Melanie Griffith, Dr. Norman Shealy and many others. Health World says that “Pranic Healing is beneficial to all interested in the field of alternative and holistic healing.” It is used by physicians and Dr. Eric Robins, a Los Angeles, California Board Certified Urologist, has successfully used it to treat migraine headaches, chronic bladder pain, menstrual cramps, anxiety, insomnia, irritable bowel syndrome, and musculoskeletal problems. It has worked well on postoperative patients to help them get return of bowel function, and a return to feeling “normal again”. He says that “it has proven to be an excellent complement to my standard practice of allopathic medicine.”
Pranic healing has helped countless patients onto the road of recovery from serious injuries and major illness, to aches and pains, lack of energy and drive, and depression. It can help heal stress, headaches, PMS and backaches or provide a quick mid-afternoon energy boost. It can quickly relax the body and provide relief from stomach aches or help improve sexual energy and drive. It is also excellent at clearing negative energy from your life and, hence, improves your outlook on life.
Pranic Healing is based on the principle that the body has an innate ability to heal itself. To enhance this ability, the practitioner assists the patient by increasing the life force available to the affected part of the body. It uses “Prana” to balance, harmonize and transform the body’s energy processes.” “Prana” is a Sanskrit word that means “life-force.” In acupuncture, the Chinese refer to this energy as “Chi.” Pranic Healing utilizes the Prana or Life Force that is readily available from the sun, air and ground to heal physical and emotional imbalances. It requires no drugs or special instruments. Pranic Healing works on the bio-electromagnetic field known as the aura. Even though most of us cannot see the aura, science has proved the existence of this energy field. And since Pranic Healing works on the aura and not the physical body, it is a “no touch” healing modality. And this is where Pranic Healing excels. Since illnesses appear first in the energetic body, Pranic Healing can help a person heal illness before it manifests in the body as a symptom. The key is to identify blockages in the flow of Prana before it manifests as dis-ease in the physical body. The therapist first removes negative energy by cleansing the aura and affected organs and the related energy centers or chakras. He/she then energizes them with sufficient Life Force or Prana so that healing can commence. The innate wisdom of the body then takes over.
Pranic Healing’s effectiveness is due to the intimate connection between the energetic and physical body. As we heal the energetic body it creates a new and perfect pattern for the physical counterpart to follow, resulting in healing. Pranic Healing is a powerful catalyst to ignite the body’s inborn ability to heal itself. It is a perfect adjunct to other healing modalities and is not meant to replace allopathic medicine. If you seem to be stuck on your journey, are in a healing crisis or just want to enhance your well-being, then Pranic Healing may be worth considering.
About the Author
Mr. Krajovic earned his BS from Bucknell University and MBA from The Pennsylvania State University. As a CPA, he offers financial consulting services and has worked extensively in the corporate world including most recently as the Chief Financial Officer of an automotive supplier. A nationally certified massage therapist with advanced training in many alternative healing techniques, he is available for speaking engagements on a variety of health and wellness subjects, including energy healing therapy especially as they relate to the corporate world. Currently he works with clients, conducts seminars and teaches classes at his clinic, BodyWorks Healing Center in Plymouth, Michigan with his wife Pat.
