The Physical Healing Process Through Reiki

The Oxford English Dictionary defines healing as "restoring one's health; repairing oneself through natural processes, such as scar formation; curing." But the word itself means "to make whole." To be whole, a person's life must be healed. Reiki can cleanse a person's energy field. It improves health and well-being by healing, harmonizing, and balancing everyone. Here I'd like to introduce the concept of "healing" in its broadest sense, which encompasses both traditional and metaphysical approaches to healing as well as the idea that illness is a body's message.

The Physical Healing Process

Our bodies have an incredible array of healing processes that allow them to restore and maintain themselves. Our bodies constantly lose and replace cells through wear and tear and cell division. It was previously believed that adults couldn't repair or replace specific organs like the brain or nervous system. Yet, a new study shows that these cells can regenerate under certain conditions.

Each year, 98 percent of the cells in the body are replaced, effectively giving you a new body on your birthday. Your bone cells regenerate your skeleton in about three months, though the calcium in the bone takes about a year; your liver progressively replaces itself every six weeks; your skin regenerates monthly, and your stomach lining regenerates every four days.

Without this constant replication and repair, we would all die from our first childhood cut! Factors like diet, hydration, fatigue, stress, age, and general health can impact your body's natural healing ability. For example, poor nutrition slows healing and increases infection risk, further delaying recovery, and psychological stress has a similar effect.

Healing As A Holistic Issue

As you can see from the preceding information, healing is not something that occurs "out there," something that someone else "does" to you. There is only one "healer" for your body, and that is you. Because your body is equipped to heal itself, all anyone else can do — whether that person is a nurse, a doctor, a complementary therapist, or a Reiki "healer" — is to jump-start that natural process in some way, whether conventional or alternative.

Naturally, your body deals with numerous potential hazards daily. When your body is invaded by a virus, such as the common cold, your immune system is activated, and all those rather unpleasant symptoms, such as a fever and a runny nose, are the result of your body fighting the infection, not the virus itself. Indeed, taking medication to bring your temperature down when you have a simple cold may undo much of your body's good work, as the increase in temperature kills off the virus.

Therefore, if your body is so adept at self-healing, how come there are times when it is not entirely healthy? Why are people still afflicted with chronic or incurable diseases? This is because healing—and health—are holistic, not merely physical endeavors.

For instance, your body produces precancerous (altered) cells daily, but your immune system almost always detects and destroys them. However, if your immune system is not functioning normally, not all of them will be destroyed.

There are several possible explanations for that your body may be already struggling to fight off another major infection, or your immune system may have been seriously compromised by a stressful event such as a close bereavement (or even a happy but stressful event such as a wedding), or your body may lack the nutritional balance necessary to function at peak strength. Any of these factors and numerous others may contribute to the growth of cancerous cells in an otherwise healthy body.

Even if this occurs, if the immune system can quickly revert to normal functioning, it will typically attack and destroy any early cancerous growth, leaving you in the dark. Naturally, if cancer develops, various conventional medical interventions such as surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy may benefit. However, you are likely to have heard of individuals who developed mature cancerous growths but were able to mobilize their bodies to destroy cancer, sometimes with astonishing speed and without medical intervention.

These individuals always maintain a positive attitude and an overwhelming desire to "get better," as well as the support of others who can assist them in releasing emotional blockages and gaining insight into the causes of their illness. Additionally, they typically have a variety of techniques, such as Reiki or spiritual healing, or other complementary therapies, to assist them in activating their healing ability, as the causes of any serious illness are almost always complex and multileveled.