Wanda moves on...

It wasn’t my usual day at the clinic; I had been called in by the nurses because she was in so much pain and very agitated. It is wonderful to see Reiki being increasingly accepted in clinical settings like this.

As I sat with her, my hand on her head giving her Reiki, I found that I wasn’t sure what to say to her. Before we had always chatted about life together, but she could no longer speak coherently. After feeling a little nervous at first, I decided to sit in silence until something came to me that I really wanted to say. After 10 minutes or so I found myself naturally telling her the beautiful things I could see in her, in her eyes.

After about 15 minutes or so, Wanda began to calm down considerably, her pain seemed to ease and she stopped writhing. She looked up at me in the way a child does when asking for reassurance, and I found myself telling her that she was going on a wonderful journey and that all she had to do was to let go. She began to drift in and out of sleep and I continued to talk to her, encouraging her to relax and let go.

Seeing how much Reiki helped Wanda in her pain and eased her transition as she left her body was an incredible experience for me. Thinking of how much pain and discomfort my father was in when he died 8 years ago, I wish I had known Reiki then to be able to have had a similar experience with him.