"He's A Fighter!"

Today we are going to talk about fear.

Fear as an underlying factor to control.

And about ignorance, both in the ways of Spirit, and the ways of Medicine.




The Head Of The Pancreas:
My Reiki practice has changed dramatically in the last several weeks.
Anyone who has taken Karuna Reiki would understand how it is possible to 'obtain permission' for healing 'on a soul level'.

Well now instead of the symbols, sometimes with my consciousness, I 'pop in' and speak with the soul directly. Nine times out of ten, Ross is there with me too when this takes place.

There is a certain chiropractor and his story that haunts me, and I can't say anything, because I am not 'officially hired' to do his anesthesia for my medical advice, or his Reiki for my spiritual advice.

The story is the same:

• he has pancreatic cancer that is curable
• pancreatic cancer is a terrible way to die--it is slow and painful and you turn yellow
• he doesn't want x,y, and z
• his wife and friend who are healers are giving him Reiki to 'do' a,b, and c
• he will accept a stent in the pancreas to open the flow, but not surgery
• this is a yellow chakra imbalance
• the pancreas represents the sweetness of life, cancer is a deep hurt, long-standing resentment. Deep secret or grief  eating away at the self. Carrying hatreds. 'What's the use?' (Louise Hay and Mona Lisa Shulz, MD, 'All Is Well'-table in the back of the book)
• the patient and his team are going to direct the way they layer his care--The Divine Healing Codes are a big part of them, so that's how I got into it.
• the whole team hasn't a clue about the importance of early intervention with a cancer. The cancer is not going to wait for people to to get used to it and stop growing while a treatment plan is being put together. 
• I doubt that the concept of Life Contracts, exit points, and Life Lessons are factored in to the decision-making process, too.

With the soul...I got fear. The man is totally terrified, curled up in a ball, and crying. It's a big operation. He knows it's the biggest one there is.  He is in shock. And he doesn't want to budge. 

He is stuck.

He is overwhelmed.

He is completely frozen by his limited medical understanding of the situation. As a chiropractor he may have helped to take care of the back pain people get when this disease is advanced.

With my spirit arms, I simply held him as he sobbed, and encouraged him to follow his heart, and to seek out all information that could be useful to him.

What Do I Have To Say About It:

The picture that flashed into my mind as I read the response was that of my favorite pancreas surgeon. He was a transplant, liver transplant, specialist. Now he mostly does Whipples. And he is awesome! He has these skills which are unearthly--unreal!--he makes this difficult operation look easy. He also has his favorite nurse in the OR with him at all times, because she prays for his patients, and 'her prayers stick'. When I am in that room with his team, I know that God is present in the hearts of everyone in it. We do what we are trained to do, plus pray for the Highest Good in our own way, for our patients.

I've been at this medicine thing for twenty-two years now. I've come across fear-based decision making. It is like the polling booth when you vote--this is the least awful thing so I'll take that! Here is one example: I don't want a spinal! I want a GENERAL! I don't want to hear anything that is going on. It's a knee-jerk reaction.

When I get this I smile. I relax. And I gently say, 'to say no to something is okay, as long as I am sure you have a working understanding of both choices first. Sometimes in the future, you might not have a choice (sometimes when people break a hip, it's just spinal. There is always a lot of sedation to go with it, our patients never hear a thing. They snore through the whole operation.) So I keep it quick; I give the pros and cons of both options. Even through we both know what they are going to choose anyway, I educate and support and work at the fear, and make sure they have an understanding of the options enough to make an informed decision for their care. If they ask for a recommendation, I will give it. But only if they ask. Both work fine in most situations. Sometimes it's surgeon preference, too, and I'll share with them that reason too--it's easier for your surgeon if you go with this choice...

What My Reiki Teacher And The Woman Who Inspired Me To Do Cardiac Anesthesia Have In Common?

Never think of the outcome.

Only think of the situation that is at hand, as a healer, and make the best choices and maintain hope for the Highest Good.

We don't direct Reiki. Reiki has intelligence. Reiki knows what to do and automatically flows to the right place. There might be other things we are not aware of, that Reiki will heal first,  and then get to the problem.

As a healer, I know when Reiki is indicated. And I send it. But I let go at the point where I am sending it. 

I might pick some symbols to enhance pain relief, or emotional healing, or other areas.

But I let go of the outcome, and let Reiki take care of the rest.

For my brave doctor from Bangalor, the one who was an obstetrician back home, and here trained for cardiac anesthesia, she trained me to appreciate being present in the moment. In the heart room, things change fast. There is no room for error in the clinical decision-making process. You track the blood pressure, EKG, and invasive monitoring pressures, and it's like a roller coaster, or sailing in a stiff wind. You are changing machine settings and pushing drips and drugs about as fast as your two hands can move at times. People code on the table, and the team works to get them back. It gets scary. And I asked her, how do you do this?! (so well).

She stressed the importance of making each decision to the best of your abilities at each time, and that keeping the focus in the now moment, instead of the end result (live or die) you have the best chances of saving your patient and having a good outcome.

This reminds me too of a wise doula I met in a delivery room, who said, 'we make informed choices each step of the way.' To her, she was not at odds with conventional medicine in childbirth. She understood the importance of taking the best of both worlds, and using it to the advantage of her client and the couple and the new baby...

Dear Chiropractor:

I pray for you.

Your story, although I've never met you except in spirit and only briefly interacted in the 'comments' section of a post to my wall, haunts me.

I've felt your anguish over what is happening, your diagnosis, and your need for medical care.

I've done pain blocks for pancreatic cancer pain, the kind where nerves are destroyed so that the pain signal can't be felt to that region any more. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3619093

I've gone in for a Whipple, and over the drapes seen that the cancer had spread, and it was too late to cure. We just close the skin and let the patient know we couldn't do the surgery.

I've seen vibrant, healthy people with a scar that looks like the logo for Mercedes Benz just under their ribs. I ask them, 'Oh? You've had a Whipple?' and they are like, 'Yes.' and I say, 'That's the biggest operation there is in general surgery--you can be very proud of that scar because we all know and respect the healing you have done to get through it.'

On your behalf, and all of your teams of healers, I am asking for All Divine Assistance. I ask for it pretty much constantly, with my heart. I ask this for you. 

I gave you Reiki. I let it go where it needs to go.

But I didn't let go of you.

Just like I told you in spirit, when we were soul to soul, it's going to be okay. 

I hope you believe it.

Aloha and Mahalos,

Namaste,

Peace,

Reiki Doc

Guidelines On Care Of The New Age Patient

The Light Warrior has special Health Care needs

Recently I had the chance to take care of a delightful New Age patient. 

This patient was sick, and unfortunately this was not their first time in the hospital. It had been a year of one horrible surprise and experience after another. I knew from the surgeon that this condition we were examining further today was not anticipated. I was not warned beforehand by this caregiver of any of the special beliefs that were held by this One.

I came to the bedside with the Intent to support and encourage and align this individual to 'continue' the course as focused and positive as humanly possible when facing this serious condition.

I actually did Reiki on myself before I met the patient in order to achieve this aim.

What I met surprised me: this patient was an Indigo in distress, metaphysically.

This Indigo hated the system that was keeping them alive.

This Indigo had special needs that the hated Conventional Medical Care system was not meeting in any way, shape or form for them.

This Indigo had conflict with their feelings that was hindering care and making their own situation more difficult without realizing it.

The medical 'street smarts' and 'comprehension' was altered by belief in support of alternative treatments. Sometimes I meet patients who understand both systems and 'take the best'. This one had no concept of what was happening to their own body because fear was clouding their ability to understand on my end, physiologically, what was going on.

There was a need of this patient for comfort and support that was very time-consuming on my part. It took the work of five patients, energetically-speaking, to support them in their fear-filled time in my care.

This was not the first time I have seen a patient like this--anxious, facing medical challenge, and highly New Age. Key words are organic, sensitive, strong medicines, clearing, Life Purpose, Dis-Ease, Imbalance.

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This is how I see my Indigo patients. I have taken care of several. You can too.

They are 'stuck between two worlds and don't like it', basically. And they fight. Boy, do they ever, ever fight you. For that is what Indigos DO.

Here are some guidelines to help heal these precious people who are in need of healing most when they come to your hospital:

• Always open your Heart Center and engage it in your interpersonal interactions with an Indigo. They will KNOW intuitively when you are just 'putting it on'. They demand your presence.
• They do not understand and will not accept that when they are asleep under anesthesia, their human body reacts the same as everybody else. Do not tell them.
• The illness is seen as 'having some reason' for their Spiritual Growth. It may range from a slight 'feeling' to a deep-rooted issue that forces you to recall everything you learned in your Psych clerkship and use it to help get this troubled soul through their own experience.
• You will have an energy drain on you that you have not had in ages! Even when shielding and protecting and doing self-work, this person will suck every last drop of your energy with the fear that encompasses them.
• Self-care is important when dealing with Indigos. Afterwards, I took a bath with sea salt in it to clear my aura.
• When the anxiety is severe, know there is a past life issue that is going on. Do your best to stabilize it  (for example, one such indigo had died in childbirth in a past life, and needed a c-section in this one to save both her and her babies' life. They refused it at first, putting themselves at risk until they changed their mind.)
• Once trust is established, these Indigos are incredibly thankful. They 'get it' that you are 'there for them'.
• There is a lot of honesty behind the fear, a wish to help others with the knowledge they have gained through illness, a sincere desire to become a Healer themselves.
• Teamwork is needed by the OR staff and recovery room staff to assist this person and set reasonable limits on how much time they require from the system (they want 'more' face-to-face and touching/hand-holding than management allows us to do; they also are absorbed in their process and innocently do not realize the bed they are taking up with their reaction to their illness is kind of 'slowing things down' in our resource's ability to take care of everyone else. It is sort of like an emotional complex reaction to surgery, just as if in the abdominal cavity there were dense adhesions that needed more time to manage than anticipated, and the following cases have to wait for the first case's delay to finish to start theirs.)

I have only touched upon this fascinating subject. All of my Indigo patients responded well to my care for them. Most of my approach was made by 'being in the moment' and 'doing what feels right'--the ability of my Heart Center to guide me through was priceless.

Resist the tendency to 'just get it over with' and not be Present. Indigos are going to need to come back into the system later with their ongoing health care needs. It is important that as a Conventional Medical Community we welcome the beautiful, high-frequency energy Indigo children with Love and Light to which they respond best. 

Always support, always ask for Guidance for the Highest Good, and gently introduce them to Medical Care's 'basics'.  Make effort to empower them, to engage them in their own health care choices, repeating gently over and over if needed what they are to expect and how you  are taking care of them in every way. I used words like, 'this time is different', and 'I don't know what exactly is happening right now with you but if you are patient we will work together to figure it out so you will know what 'works' for you the next time.' Some of the things that worked included Chinese acupressure!

Once one came back to me by crossing paths. I didn't recognize her. I ended up becoming her Reiki teacher.

Counteract and limit fear. Both in them and in you.

Love wins. Use it.

Remember, you are going to see more and more of them as their generation ages. Remember to put the Aloha in everything you do.

Namaste,

Reiki Doc