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Well. Hello there my little pretties. I have just been on one adventure after another with my mom in tow, showing her around our fair state...and trying to get her to say it correctly-OR-Y-GUN (actually the GUN part sounds more like GN) On Thursday and Friday we gave each other massages using the Young Living Oils Raindrop Technique which consists of 9 essential oils and a specific order to put them on for maximum benefit. Each one has special properties for detoxing, anti-inflammatories, improving circulation, healing and a whole list of other things too numerous to mention. I highly recommend it! If you can find a practicioner in your area who does it, GO THERE! or order a kit for yourself and have a friend or family member trade you massages (I suggest seperate days, after the first person recieves it they need to rest)
Since I live in Oregon, I cannot legally do massage for cash without first becoming a Licensed Massage Therapist (LMT). This costs a lot of money, and time, and I am not interested in the least in doing so for many reasons. I have however been contacted by a woman who is a Reiki Master, and has been "warned" that the Oregon Massage Board can fine her for practicing REIKI without a massage therapist licence. The law governing massage does not specifically say Reiki in it, but it is written so that if they wanted to make a case of it (and people do), they could say that you are using touch and therefore it falls under Massage and you can get in trouble for it by the Board which is powerful enough to have the authority to fine you. So far the people who have been contacted about being fined have apparently either been scared into quitting, taken it underground or went and actually got their massage licence which they were probably going to get anyway.
I have been a Reiki Master since 1997 before I moved here. I do not give Reiki for pay, I use it for my mandalas, I use it for friends, I use it all the time. Reiki is a powerful energy force, and a wonderful tool. It cannot be taken away once you receive the attunements. It is sad to me that the President of the Massage Board has to make this stretch and threaten the livelihood of a person who simply wants to lay their hands on a person who is fully clothed, and give them calming, loving, Universal energy. There is no manipulation of the muscles or any of the other things that massage does. A massage therapist can be a Reiki Practicioner, but a Reiki Practicioner should not be bullied into being a massage therapist, it is not even close to the same thing.
As a crusader for the underdog (and Reiki master) I am putting it out there that interested parties might help us get a written exception added to the massage law that exempts Reiki, and the Laying on of Hands by ordained ministry, and any other form of energy work that is not massage so that the great and powerful OZ...er, I mean Massage Board can stop threatening to fine people for doing something that has not been recognized by the medical community as a healing practice like massage is. I will keep you posted as this develops and I encourage you to toss ideas and support into the hat. Thanks!
More Power to the PEOPLE!!!