Reiki or Coincidence?

I am fairly new to Reiki. It has already had a fundamental impact on how I view life, the World, and the Universe. A positive impact I should stress.

I have a very scientific mind, which is one reason I struggled for many years with the concepts of organised religion, yet kept going at it in order to satisfy a need to belong/conform. One of the “games” I’ve been playing recently is “Reiki or Coincidence?”. I don’t feel that I need convincing about the power of Reiki, in the same way as I challenged the power of religious beliefs. But my curious mind can’t help thinking about this question.

Today was the strongest, and most personally significant, example.

My husband and I are currently in Canada (we are from the UK) awaiting the birth of our second child thanks to our amazing surrogate. Today is the due date. Our agreed plan has always been to induce today if the baby was not coming naturally. This is for a number of reasons, not least the our surrogate has been experiencing a lot of pelvic pain this pregnancy. But also, we and our daughter want to meet her little brother, and having been here for 2 months we really want to go home! The plan had also been agreed with the doctor.

As she went for her appointment early this morning, I spent 20 mins in bed meditating and sending Reiki to her and our unborn son. At her appointment however, the doctor informed her that he would not be inducing. Due to Covid one of the other hospitals had closed for maternity cases, so our hospital was no longer inducing prior to 41 weeks. He did though send her for an ultrasound to check on the baby.

We were obviously saddened by this news, and I spent some further time in meditation, with positive intentions set for the outcome of the ultrasound.

When our surrogate got home, she had been staying with us, she told us that the doctor had changed his mind and decided to include this afternoon as he was concerned the baby would not have enough fluid surrounding him to wait another week.

So we could have been waiting an extra week, it could just be following procedure, it could all just be coincidence that I was sending Reiki at the same time, or it could be that Reiki has accentuated the path of the Universe. Either way, by tomorrow we will meet our new son. So does it really matter?