Cancer can be a very difficult journey, especially if you have been receiving Chemo or Radiotherapy. A Reiki treatment can help support you emotionally and mentally while conventional medicine deals with the physical aspects. A positive mind and a knowledge that there are people out there who care about you is essential to your recovery.

We are very pleased to have a Healing Team working in the Hampshire area, At the moment we have three Reiki Cancer Teams working out of Rainbows in Bishops Waltham, The Holistic Care Clinic in Eastleigh and the at Sharon's home  treatment room in Hedge End. All healers work on a voluntary basis and we only ask for a voluntary donation for the healing which we donate to a local charity (which is currently The Childrens Society in support of Linda climbing Kilimanjaro). Many of our volunteers have been touched by cancer, either having gone through the journey themselves or with someone close to them.

A healing session involves our team of 5 healers working on you at the same time. The aim is to provide a huge dose of Reiki to help our clients to facilitate or begin their own healing process. So far our teams have helped mainly cancer patients and their families, although anyone in need of healing are welcome to contact us.

So if you or someone close to you are in need of some healing or nurturing, then please give me a ring for an informal chat. All enquiries are treated in the utmost confidence.

In the meantime, you may find the following links helpful:-

www.wessexcancertrust.org Complementary therapies available plus a free counselling service for patients and their families

www.bristolcancerhelp.org A complementary approach to cancer care for people who are exploring an alternative way to deal with cancer.

www.macmillan.org.uk A mine of information and support for patients and their families at any stage of cancer care.

www.lavender.org.uk Breast cancer care for younger women

TEAM CONTACTS

To begin with and especially if you haven't had Reiki before, we would recommend that you come for a few one to one sessions beforehand as the group sessions can be quite overwhelming if you are not used to it.

The Cancer Support teams running from Solent Reiki are specialists in this area. The teams detailed below have taken extensive study and research in this subject and we strongly suggest that you only contact the team leaders recommended on this site. All have had a period of a minimum of 12 months working on a team before developing into a team leader.

Leader: Linda Read (covering Chandlers Ford) 023 80 261138

Leader: Sharon Carrington (Hedge End)01489 780774

Email: info@solent-reiki.com and we will arrange for someone to give you a call.

HELPING YOURSELF

The Reiki approach to cancer is quite unique in the way that we ask the question "why have you got cancer?" We are not asking whether you smoke or it's hereditary, we are asking "why would your body create this?, what is it trying to tell you? what is it you need to change?"

It's a different approach and one that may take you on a very different journey to the one you expected, for many of you it will be the first time you have travelled inwards and we believe this is the path to recovery. With Reiki what we offer is love and support, none of us are trained counsellors and have no plans to become so, what you will get from us is total support, a hug, a tear shared and encouragement. You will be able to draw strength from the knowledge that your team are 100% positive all the time and totally believe in you and your ability to get better.

If you need us to come to your Chemo sessions, we will. We have had success limiting the effects of Chemo when we Reiki the Chemo and our clients beforehand and during the session.

Our role is always to support whatever orthodox treatment you choose to have or not to have, we will never try to persuade you one way or the other because the truth is, we don't know enough about it and everyone is unique. We will just totally accept you where you are and how you are.

Here are a list of techniques that have helped our current and past cancer patients. Should you wish to chat anything through that we have written, just give a ring. (01489 780774)

Self Help for Reiki Practitioners.

If you don't already do Reiki, maybe a member of your family would be willing to learn in order to keep the sessions up in between appointments

If you practice Reiki already then you have a head start! Do your own self-healing and Hatsu Rei Ho religiously. When giving yourself healing, set your intention for cure and direct the Reiki to exactly where it needs to go and what it needs to do. For instance if you need a tumour to shrink to 2cm then set the Reiki up to do exactly that.

Meditation and Visualisation

Spend 20 minutes in the Gassho Meditation (meditate in silence, concentrating on your touching middle fingers and bringing your tongue into the roof of your mouth as you breathe in and let it fall as you breathe out) This is a good discipline to nurture as it connects you with the present moment, it’s like having a time out session.

Find a good meditation teacher who has experience with guided cancer healing meditations. If you are comfortable with doing your own meditations, then visualising the cancer shrinking or “Hoovering” it out are often extremely effective.

Positive thinking and feeling like pants

Positive thinking will, with no doubt be crucial to your recovery and it is those who are willing to help themselves who will come out of this smiling. Affirmations of “I am well and I am healthy” said 3 times a day, combined with the emotional symbol have amazing results.

However, it is perfectly normal for you to have hours, days or weeks feeling dreadful, questions about why me? feelings of blame, guilt, anxiety, anger, denial and fear are totally normal in these circumstances. These emotions can be used to aide your recovery and the trick is to let them out and then let them go.

Send a letter to the cancer telling it exactly how you feel about it and how it has effected you and your family, this will help you release the anger instead of keeping it inside (where is can do more damage). Burn the letter afterwards.

Some of us make a pact with our illnesses. I heard once of a girl who had been HIV positive for 18 years. She had caught it off a haemophiliac boyfriend and he and other girls he had infected had died years before. At the onset of her illness she made a pact with the disease and told it “ We will co-exist, I will not try to get rid of you and you will not try to get rid of me”. She has never taken any drugs to control her HIV and has since gone on to have an HIV free child.

Remember that the power of the mind is much more powerful that the power of the body. Also remember that this isn’t the truth about you, it’s not who you are. You are a pure being of love and light and this is just an experience that you are going through. You are surrounded by love and light.