A Visit to the Connecting Reiki With Medicine Team

Let me introduce myself. I am Liz - the small one on the right hand side in the photo below!

I have been a Reiki Master for 10 years and a Reflexology practitioner for 9 years and have been running my own public Reiki practice for around 14 years now. Up until 2006 I spent over 20 years as an Occupational Therapist, working in Adult Mental Health, Child and Adolescent Mental Health and as a Mental Health specialist in general Paediatrics. This means that, unusually, I have vast experience of working in both Professional and Public practice.

This blog is about the Connecting Reiki With Medicine Research Project, which is being undertaken in collaboration with the Full Circle Fund Therapies Charity at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in London. It will very much be my thoughts and feelings about the project, which I love and which I think will be hugely important in bringing Reiki into mainstream medicine as well as the wider world.

The aim of my blog is to discuss a wide variety of topics as they occur to me. I am also happy to write posts on topics suggested by you, the readers, on any issues about the project that you'd like clarification on or want further details about.

This is the piece I wrote for TOUCH magazine, (a Reiki community magazine) back in February

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On Monday 12th February 2018, Soyin Tang and I had the huge privilege of visiting Full Circle to meet with Suzanne Ruggles (the founder of Full Circle) and Melanie Glanville (Lead Practitioner) to discuss the Connecting Reiki With Medicine (CRWM) research project which is currently underway.

We learned so much about the vitally important in-depth, intense clinical training the practitioners receive before they are allowed anywhere near any patients, as well as the huge amount of 'invisible' work going on in the background to ensure that this is a high quality, thoroughly professional Clinical Trial.

We were also shown round one of the wards used in the trial - effectively a High Dependency Unit, given how very ill most of the patients on there are. The warmth and respect of the ward staff for Suzie and Melanie was obvious from the moment we stepped through the ward door. Their work is clearly highly valued already.

It was a thoroughly inspirational visit and absolutely confirmed for me that CRWM can only do good for the entire Reiki community worldwide as it can put Reiki 'up there' with Reflexology, Hypnotherapy and Massage therapy as a professionally recognised and trusted therapy in medical settings.
However........it is totally reliant on donations to support it, so I ask all of you, yes - YOU, whether you have Reiki, receive Reiki or are just interested in Reiki, to make a donation now to allow this amazing and unique Clinical Trial to continue its work. It'll take two minutes to click on the link and donate, but your donation could fund further Clinical training for new practitioners to the trial, an hour of data collection, the development of Reiki onto new wards, etc. etc.
Every single penny really does count.

Here's a short video about the project for you to have a look at and to be inspired by.

Let's make it happen!
Just £55 allows the project to treat up to four very sick patients and collect valuable data for pilot studies and clinical research, but every single penny or pound will make a big difference.

To donate now, please click on the link below.
https://www.totalgiving.co.uk/donate/full%2Dcircle%2Dfund%2Dtherapies
Thank you.

To read more about the project on the Full Circle page, click on this link to go to their Website