Reiki?!

[poiuytrewq]

I had always thought this was rubbish but a friend kind of talked me into trying it and I booked a season for little TB.
What’s everyone’s thoughts on it?
My normally very logical brain is a little bit confused as to what happened!
My main wonder though is that she said he had a achy tummy, did he have ulcers or a history of.
The answer to that is no. I’ve never had any reason to believe he may be ulcery and I’m not sure I want to go scoping on the word of someone who hovered her hands over him and told me this.... on the other hand though 😳
Is it all crazy nonsense of would you investigate further?

 

[SEL]

I was firmly in the cynical camp until I watched a session on my friend's very stressy Welsh D. This horse hated people in his stable and could smell a vet from 1000 paces.

He went to sleep in front of me. The lady doing it just seemed to cast a spell over him and it was pretty incredible to watch. The tension she picked up was accurate (he'd had a fall) and the benefits seemed to stick with him for a while after. Horses don't do placebo so there was definitely something going on.

In terms of whether you take it further then I'd probably only do it if I'd seen other behaviour that made me think ulcers though.

 

[Leo Walker]

The place Bobbie went to be broken has links with a reiki healer. She trains reiki students there so there was quite often someone about practising. They loved Bobbie as shes such an open book. I dont know whether I believe it or not, but I do know the lady doing the training had something very special about her. I followed her round one day, I dont even know why. I just felt really drawn to her, it was the oddest thing! And watching the horses reactions to her something was definitely happening!

 

[dogatemysalad]

Any concerns about ailments should always be investigated by a vet.That said, I've liveried at yards with Reiki practitioners and have seen some unexplainable things. I had a newly backed youngster that decided to unlearn standing still at the mounting block. The Reiki lady asked for one minute to fix it and said, now, when you get on, the mare will stretch her head round and smell your foot in the stirrup to check that it's you on her back. Couldnt believe it, when the little madam stood rock still and touched my foot with her nose.
She also told me the history of my gelding who's owner had starved him (and was sent to prison). I had never mentioned this and had forgotten his previous name.
On the other hand, a very troubled, but independent mare I had, flatly refused to cooperate with a couple of different Reiki practitioners. She stood still and shut them out. It didn't surprise me, she was a mare that had learnt to trust no one but herself in order to survive.

 

[merlinsquest]

I’m a reiki practitioner, I’ve had some great success stories. The poster above who mentioned “almost casting a spell & the horse falling asleep” is an accurate description. Some animals won’t accept the healing, as also described, & you should never force them. Regarding the ulcers, I’d just keep an open mind & be observant rather than rushing in to scope. From experience it’s very possible the practitioner has picked something up, you could perhaps try a supplement? Just to add before I get jumped on, reiki is a complementary therapy & should never be used as a substitute for traditional veterinary medicine, but it can happily be used alongside.

 

[SpringArising]

Absolute bogus nonsense. I can't believe people pay money for it, let alone believe it! There are regular ads on my local pages for it and I always chuckle at them.

Millions of horses have ulcers or signs so she was probably chancing her luck that you'd say he did. Loads of horses turn and stiff a foot when you mount - hardly a one in a million chance of it happening

 

[eggs]

I did science 'A' levels and am very dubious about things like this but my sister studied Reiki and did a session on my mare. I watched very closely and she didn't actually touch her and I saw with my own eyes my mare visibly relax. She was noticeably calmer for quite a few days afterwards. Certainly there was no 'diagnosing' of anything nor would I expect there to be.

 

[Follysmum]

I have been a reiki practitioner for over 20yrs and have had some amazing experiences in that time. I am lucky in that my vet who says (scientifically I shouldn’t really believe in it ) he has been amazed in which it has helped alongside his assistance.
One recently was my horse suffering with colic he said whatever your doing with your hands keep doing it.

 

[Gusbear]

For what it’s worth ... Many years ago, back in the Dark Ages (around 20 to 30 years ago) when I was a Flight Attendant I had a reiki treatment out of the blue.
Every year we, along with the pilots had to undergo a training refresher (Revalidation) in emergency procedures and aviation first aid to be allowed to continue our flying careers. Pass and you keep your job, fail twice and bye bye career.
We did a mock emergency evacuation.
The Captain says evacuate, evacuate. Cabins lights go out, emergency lights go on, so now in low level ‘mood lighting’ if you like so you can see bugger all to be honest. This is our cue to shout our commands, unfasten seats belts, leave everything behind and get out. At the same time you need to quickly grab your allocated torch from its holder next to/opposite your crew seat. I lunge forward to grab my torch and catch my thumb heavily on the edge of the metal holder it was in. OUCH! We do the evacuation, down the slides, etc. It’s still dark but I clearly remember OMG my thumb is throbbing like crazy.
We all go back into the test aircraft for a post evac briefing and feedback. I then notice back in full lighting that my thumb is red and very swollen, the size of a cherry tomato plus I’m sporting a massive blood blister to boot. The pain is getting worse.
Our instructor says let me get a first aid kit. One of the other Flight Attendants says please humour me for a minute as I can fix it. WTF???
We all gather around and I think yep, another weirdo colleague here.
She doesn’t touch my thumb at all, but rather places her hands loosely around it and concentrates. I’m laughing as is everyone else as we think this is some kind of strange joke.
All of a sudden my thumb feels very hot, but not uncomfortably so. She keeps concentrating. The throbbing pain starts to lessen noticeably. She keeps concentrating and I’m now intrigued as is everyone else. The pain has gone. I tell her no more pain, good she says, let’s take a look. She removes her hands and hey presto the swelling has completely gone as has the giant blood blister. Everyone literally gasped and dropped their jaws in unison. How on earth did she do that? I cannot explain it at all.
We were all very much sceptics until that moment. No idea what she did, nor how it works, apart from her telling us she channelled positive energy I think (sorry but so long ago I don’t remember her exact words except she fixed my thumb). So on that day many years ago something weird happened and I had at least 15 witnesses to back me up.

 

[Meredith]

I am not convinced about alternative therapies but sometimes things cannot be explained.
My one experience involved the part Arab chestnut mare in the picture to the left who went to sleep in a reiki session and nearly fell over. It didn’t change her at all. The next day she was her usual I-know-it-all-and-I’m-in-charge mood.
It was so expensive I didn’t bother again

 

[chaps89]

When I had a horse go over the top of me and land on my arm, the reiki lady happened to be at the yard seeing someone's horses.
She asked if she could heal it whilst I waited for a lift to a&e - not my decision, I was happy to go home and ice it and go the next day if it was still sore. Anyway, she held her hand over my arm, I felt nothing and still got taken to a&e.
(X-rays satisfied nothing broken, some nice super strong painkillers and I was sent on my way with some impressive bruising.)
So yes, I'm just as sceptical now as I was before I'm afraid.
Ulcers in an ex-racehorse/tb are probably not unlikely so probably not a bad guess but unless he's displaying any other symptons I probably wouldn't rush to the vets!

 

[poiuytrewq]

I am just so cynical, always have been about things like this. She’s just weirded me out a bit 😂
He’s had 3 sessions and I firstly figured yes it’s probably rubbish but anyone else round him being kind was a bonus if nothing else.
All 3 times she’s stopped at and mentioned his tummy, nearside rump area and head (tension not pain)
I took it all with a pinch of salt, this last time the horse got quite violent/angry. The first two he’s been pretty indifferent. I was almost a bit worried she was going to get kicked or something, in fact I stepped in and put a head collar on so I could keep hold!
After a long while where he wouldn’t tolerate her hands on him she said he was almost there and she was telling him to let go and release. (I’m trying to look serious)
He did a huge sigh and went within a second from furious to asleep, head down, eyes shut, lip hanging. Literally
She, I think got a bit teary and said he’d just made a massive break through and he’d done so well. She then spent ages with him like that with her hands hovering round his head (whilst I can touch his head he’d normally jerk it up away from a hand near it)
After some time of this he woke up and started eating.
It was super strange.
Little coblet gives her the most random weird “feelings” stuff that doesn’t make sense and you have to think why the hell would a horse be thinking that. She seems quite confused by him too. He’s the one who had the huge brain issue and hasn’t been 100% himself since!
I may try a gut supplement, just incase 😂😉

 

[poiuytrewq]

I am not convinced about alternative therapies but sometimes things cannot be explained.
My one experience involved the part Arab chestnut mare in the picture to the left who went to sleep in a reiki session and nearly fell over. It didn’t change her at all. The next day she was her usual I-know-it-all-and-I’m-in-charge mood.
It was so expensive I didn’t bother again

I’ve not noticed any difference the following day/s either!

 

[Trouper]

As a Reiki practitioner I need to declare an interest here but Merlinsquest has captured it all in a nutshell. I would never use Reiki in isolation from my own knowledge, observation and the services of a good vet or chiropractor but it is not unusual for something (other than your suspicions of where the problem is) to come out in a treatment and surprise you and these can be useful "pointers" to follow up. If we were to try to explain electricity or radio waves to someone from the Middle Ages we would probably meet the same scepticism so I like to think that "There are more things in Heaven and Earth... than are dreamt of in your philosophy" and one day we might just accept it as fact.

 

[Micky]

My sister was a reiki master, and went on to train in emrt (equine muscle release therapy), she used my horses as her guinea pigs whilst training after she used me as her guinea pig for the human exams (you have to qualify in human before horse)..she used to do reiki on me quite a lot,very relaxing and weird sensations use to course through me whilst having it, can’t explain it but it was weird, I’m a sceptic, but when she did emrt on my permanently trapped nerve agonising shoulder/neck (the one you cry trying to get out bed pain) she warned me she was doing an intensive treatment on said shoulder, well the next day I felt nauseous headachy generally like a bag of rubbish, the following day, my shoulder/neck pain had gone, I mean completely disappeared, that was 6/7 years ago and not a twinge since..so reiki yes good for relaxing horse or human, but I’d go for emrt every time when treating a horse in alternative therapy..everyone I’ve spoken to said she had ‘magic fingers’ and she was that type of person, quiet calm and an unearthly aura about her.

 

[Follysmum]

Can also recommend Equine Touch I did Human and horse course and find this and reiki brilliant