Powerful energy shifts

It can be very frightening for a client when they experience a powerful energy shift during a healing. As the  facilitator of healing it is important to stay calm when this happens to a client of yours. These powerful shifts may happen in different ways and you may only see them happen a handful of times. I have had 2 clients and a student experience really powerful energy shifts recently and as an experienced Reiki Master have been surprised at the intensity of the shifts in energy and symptoms being experienced. The first was with a lady who had been having treatments with me for a while.There was a lot of deep healing going on and hse was fine during the trratment but as soon as she got off the couch she started to shiver uncontrolably. This lasted for about 15 minutes after the treatment despite giving her a warm drink and wrapping her up in blankets. She told me that she felt a lot better the next day thn she had done for a long while.
At reiki share recently a student was receiving a treatment and suddenly became very claustrophobic and felt as if there was a lot of pressure on her. We stopped the treamtnet as it was too uncomfortable for her and left her until later in the evening. This time working in her aura. The pressure was not as bad but I decided to only give her a very short treatment. When I saw her the next day she was alot brighter than I had seen her for a while.
Today I was doing a treatment on a gentleman and found myself pulling out yards of black sticky negative energy from his crown chakra. As I moved further down his body he became quite restless which is unlike him. I felt I needed to spend some time on his feet and then turned him over. I was only working on his back for a few minutes before he told me that he felt peculiar....light headed, then dizzy and now nauseated. I went to his feet to help to ground the energies and also gave him some hematite to hold in each hand to assist with this. I then asked him to visualise roots growing from his feet and these negative energies travelling down them but he was feeling too frightened by what he was feeling to do this.
I decided to stop the treatment and added green aventurine to the crystals in his hands to help to calm him down. I reassured him that this was just a big energy shift taking place. Of course we are conditioned to think that if we feel dizzy and then nauseated that we are going to be violently sick and then ill for a day or so. When you are receiving Reiki , large amounts of positive energy being taken in can make you feel like this or shivery or claustrophobic as the other clients were. The energies will intergrate with their energies during the next few hours and it is wise to get them to rest, and drink plenty of water. I like to contact clients that experience dramatic energy shifts the next day to see how they are feeling. It is reassuring for them as well as for me. It is important to remember that Reiki is a positive energy which can do no harm so whilst a big shift like the ones described here can be frightening for your client, it is usually a sign that things are really on the move and they are about to turn a corner.