Adapted from Reiki.org article - by Mayagal
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| Reiki Scientific Studies - An Essay Adapted from Reiki.org article - by Mayagal |
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| Alternative forms of healing therapy have only recently been taken seriously by a few in the world of allopathic medicine. Not long ago, chiropractic body work was considered "quack" medicine. Today, it is widely accepted as a holistic approach to the healing of the body. Reiki energy body work is a healing therapy based on energy centers (chakras) located mainly along the vertical midline of the human organism and all living systems. Allopathic medicine refers to this vital network as the endocrine system. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Reiki energy therapy is simply a Japanese term pertaining to Universal Life Force energy; it is prana in India, mana in Hawaii, Ch'i in China, and it is described as patterns of organic consciousness in the field of quantum physics. Reiki is based on a fundamental principle: When we suffer mental, emotional , and/or spiritual imbalance, our physical body will eventually present the evidence of this with the production of dis-ease. Reiki therapists are aware of the ancient principles of energy body work. Finally, it is being noticed by those in the pragmatic world of allopathic medicine. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Some important findings have resulted from testing the effectiveness of Reiki energy body work (hands-on healing by trained practitioners). Validated experiments have been carried out at St. Vincent's Medical Center in New York (1998). One of these control studies was undertaken by Ms.Janet Quinn, assistant director of nursing at the University of South Carolina. Thirty heart patients were given a 20-question psychological test to determine their level of anxiety. A control group was then set up. One group was treated by trained Reiki practitioners, while untrained "healers" imitated the same hand positions with the control group. Anxiety levels dropped 17 percent after only five minutes of treatment by trained practitioners, while those imitating a treatment created no appreciable effect. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wendy Wetzel, a registered nurse operating out of the University of Tucson, AZ conducted her own experiment and reported the results in her paper titled Reiki Healing: A Physiologic Perspective. In her study, 48 people made up the experimental group, while ten made up a control group. Both groups had blood samples taken at the beginning and end of the experiment, and each sample was measured for hemoglobin and hematocrit values. The experimental group was attuned and trained in First-Degree Reiki (self-healing). The control group received no training whatsoever. The people in the experimental group who received Reiki training experienced a significantly positive change, with 28% experiencing an increase and 72% experiencing a decrease in their blood values. The people in the control group who did not receive Reiki training experienced no significant change. It was concluded that changes, whether an increase or decrease, were consistent with the purpose of Reiki healing which is to achieve a state of homeostasis (balance) on an individual basis. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dr.John Zimmerman of the University of Colorado, using a Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID) has discovered that magnetic fields several hundred times stronger than background noise are created around the hands of trained healers when they work on patients. No such fields are created by untrained persons feigning treatments, and this indicates something important is happening with the trained healers. The frequencies of the magnetic fields surrounding the hands of the trained healers were of the alpha- and theta-wave range similar to those seen in the brain of meditators. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| These experiments demonstrate that trained Reiki practitioners are able to induce actual biological improvements in the patients they treat rather than simply create a sense of well-being. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Personal Note: I believe that all living things have the potential to heal. We do it whenever we are lending comfort to another in their time of need. But for a very long cycle of "time" we have become what I would call "diluted"; we have closed down the systems that we have been taught by various social, cultural, and institutional forces were "bad". When human beings have control over their lives, they cannont be controlled by others. Reiki and other gentle systems of body work healing teaches us to take back our power. It is not a new concept, but a very ancient one that is being reintroduced into a world badly in need of healing and self-empowerment. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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