I have a client who has been coming to see me for a while. She has been through some quite traumatic emotional experiences over the last 2 or 3 years. This week we were catching up on how she had been prior to me giving her a reiki treatment. As an aside she mentioned that she had had a pain in her left side and thought she had pulled a muscle and was planning to go to the doctors.

As the pain was around the lung area, I asked her how she was sleeping and if she woke at night. She told me that she often woke around 4 am and would have trouble going back to sleep. I have recently been doing some work on the meridians which are the energy channels of the body linking to various organs. I knew that between 3 and 5 am is the time when the energies of the lungs replenish ready for the next day. I also knew that the lungs, on an emotional level, are linked with grief and sadness when there is dis-ease there.

I said to her that I felt that the reason that she was waking was due to grief and sadness that she was still holding onto after everything that had happened to her which she found very interesting.

I then did her reiki treatment and worked over her left side and her lungs. I found that there was a deep energy blockage which I removed with some crystals and then as soon as my hands went on the area she had told me that she had been getting the pain, she started to cry, then sob. It felt as if there was years worth of sadness and grief that she was releasing. Once she stopped crying I felt able to move to other parts of her body and continued the treatment.

At the end of the treatment she told me that I had put my hands on the exact spots that the pain had been and that she was amazed at how much she had cried. She told me that she knew that the pain had now gone and was very grateful for that.

It will be interesting to see if she starts sleeping through the night now that that grief has been released.

When you understand the body psychology and how energy flows around the body, it makes it easier to identify the root cause of the issue, allowing it to be released so that you can bring body, mind and soul back into balance.