These explorations were often entertaining, sometimes enlightening, and occasionally transforming. They also taught me skepticism. After a while I stopped listening when someone told me about the greatest, the absolutely most fantastic workshop they took, the one which had transformed them beyond recognition. I waited for the effects to wear off. I gave this subject no more thought until several months later I developed a mysterious stomach ailment which a few Reiki treatments cleared up.
Simplicity is suspect in our complex culture.
Doctors have to go to school for many years to learn how to heal, so it must be difficult. Disconnection and Disease Part of the difficulty lies in the definition of healing. If not corrected an imbalance can affect the physical body. When that happens medical, surgical, or pharmaceutical solutions may relieve the physical symptoms, but they or a new set of symptoms will occur if the basic imbalance remains. When energy is blocked mental and emotional imbalances are created.