JennyO thanks for your understanding! I certainly would be most interested in learning more about your friend's 'Quantum Dynamics' techniques of clearing blocked energy when you have time for a PM.

I did not intend to bad-mouth Reiki as a healing modality! I know that I was simply not taught properly to begin with, and that at the time I was also overloaded with stress from taking on too many new physical responsibilities and dealing with unresolved 'family stuff'. One thing I learned is that I'm definitely not Wonder Woman - and for the first time in my life that's just fine with me! :-)

Regarding exercising the immune system - I agree that the best way to boost it is to use it! The herbs can be useful as a supplement, but imo the best defence is a healthy lifestyle - proper diet, fresh air, exercise, rest and healthy ways of dealing with the inevitable stress of everyday life. When I get slack with any of those things, no amount of herbs or supplements will stop my health from suffering!

Also, here's a little story about warts seeing as there was speculation about them above. I have a 9yr old cousin who's a figure skater, and she'd been plagued with plantars warts for a couple years. Her Mom, a RN, had been taking her to have them 'burned off' every week for about a year, and when I saw her foot last Christmas I was horrified. It was one big mess of red, inflamed sores and the child was in constant pain.

They asked me to give her a Reiki treatment - I guess at that point they were willing to try anything before she had to quit skating altogether. Due to my experiences with Reiki I was very reluctant, but at their urging I consented. I gave her about six treatments in the space of about three days, and was most pleased that I didn't develop the sore foot myself! Must have been doing it right for a change!

But the biggest surprise was when they phoned me couple weeks later. Her Mom - the registered nurse with a large amount of scepticism about any 'new-age' healing technique - told me the sores on the child's foot were TOTALLY HEALED - there was no more need for any more chemical treatments, and they were most grateful.

I was so shocked I drove the hundred miles back to their place to see for myself - and the child's foot was pink and healthy! There was only the faintest hint of where those sores had been. I figured that the constant 'assault' of burning chemicals on her skin over such a long period of time had simply depleted the child's natural ability to heal herself, and that the Reiki treatments - (Reiki is simply universal life-force energy) - had recharged her 'batteries' so to speak, enabling her body to finally heal those wounds. Amazing!

But the sad part was, when I had the chance to talk to her in private the child herself had mixed feelings about her warts being gone. Seems she missed the attention she got from her busy parents, the time off school for the doctor's appointments, the deferential treatment from her figure-skating coach. Our 'sicknesses' sometimes really 'pay off' in ways we are not always conscious of. Maybe that's why we 'hang onto them' longer than necessary sometimes, and create new ones when the old illnesses are 'healed'.

daylia