Proceedings
The Science of Whole Person Healing
Reiki Energy Healing: Definition and Relationship
to Other Energy Treatment Forms
-- OR --
"Reiki, the Mother Energy, Meeting the Crises of Our Times, Inside and
Out"
"Knowledge of whole things.."
This healing method, Reiki Energy Therapy, represents a most comprehensive,
simple and potent -- form of energy medicine.
This writing will define Reiki Energy Therapy, give a relativity of
where it fits among other Energy Therapies, and how and for what conditions
it is applied. I want this paper to introduce you to Reiki Energy Therapy
and give you a practical understanding of what role it fulfills in whole
person healing. All of this is for the actual healing to be furthered
on our planet.
We need to expand our awareness of what healing is! Hippocrates has
some instruction for the most thorough healing application and result.
He stated, "In order to cure the human body, it is necessary to have
knowledge of whole things[1]."
In our renewed focus toward knowledge of whole things - we as health
professionals progress from our Newtonian deductive science to consider
the entire field of life, cultures, and actual Healing Practices. How
do we get knowledge of 'whole things'? Many cultures in the world have
been doing this in their healing and health care for a very long time,
some hundreds of years, some thousands.
Historic precedent
These wholistic medical systems, some ancient, include: Traditional
Chinese Medicine (including Acupuncture and Chinese Herbs), Homeopathy,
Ayurveda, Naturopathy and Tibetan Medicine, as well as other Traditional
Cultural Healing methods. Reiki Energy Healing is a Traditional Cultural
Healing that originated in Japan.
A blanket of coherence and homeostasis
Around the practice of allopathic medicine are wrapped many methods
of caring for human beings in their wholeness. Like the mortar around
bricks, these methods fill in needed functions to supplant our very
advanced western medical technology and practice. And more important,
they bring coherence and homeostasis.
What is Reiki?
Among these healing methods is Reiki Energy Therapy (pronounced "ray-key").
Reiki Therapy is a healing practice that originated in Japan in the
19th Century. As Pam Miles put it in her peer review of Reiki,
"Reiki is a vibrational, or subtle energy, therapy most commonly facilitated
by light touch, which is believed to balance the biofield and strengthen
the body's ability to heal itself. Although systematic study of efficacy
is scant thus far, Reiki is increasingly used as an adjunct to conventional
medical care, both in and out of hospital settings [2]."
There are two main modes of Reiki treatment, direct physical contact
through the practitioner's hands and distant treatment. A cursory description
of a Reiki treatment experience is one of lying down on a treatment
table, fully clothed; the practitioner touches you and maintains their
hands on a position in stillness; you feel at least deep warmth, and
your overall health and well-being improve. I will expand on the application
and results in "how is it applied" and "what to expect".
What is ki? Ki, the fuel of life
The "ki" in Reiki is the substance that brings the healing and is the
'subtle energy' of Subtle Energy Medicine. This is the overall Life
Force that most cultures have attempted to name: East Indian -- prana;
African -- N/um; Chinese -- Tao or chi; Indigenous -- Great Spirit;
Hebrew -- Ru'ach; Christian -- The Holy Spirit. This ki or the chi carries
the vibration of wholeness, and is the Life Force that forms and feeds
all of life on earth and in our heavens, according to ancient Taoists.
"Something mysteriously formed,
Born before heaven and earth.
In the silence and the void,
Standing alone and unchanging,
Ever present and in motion.
Perhaps it is the mother of ten thousand things.
I do not know its name.
Call it Tao" Twenty-five [3]."
The two Japanese characters that comprise Reiki literally translate
as Rei = Spirit or Soul, and ki = breath or energy. Therefore, Reiki
is "the breath of the spirit" or "the energy of the soul". Reiki treatment
is the focusing of this 'breath of the spirit' - for another's or your
own -- balancing and wellness.
A Great Balancer -- The Mother Energy
As such, Reiki treatment serves you comprehensively; including your
emotional-psychological-spiritual state. Whether your difficulty is
in your diseased liver or jammed brain or broken heart -- the Reiki
treatment is going to provide the fuel to shore up the holes or distortions
in you -- smooth you out, bring you back to homeostasis -- BALANCE.
This is the nature of Reiki; this is a large realm that Reiki treatment
serves. That is why I call it the Mother Energy. It covers the entire
field of a human being, foundationing other treatment forms. "Perhaps
it is the mother of ten thousand things" [3] indeed.
What is Energy Medicine? What is Subtle Energy Medicine?
Energy Medicine is the use of treatment forms that support and enhance
the large current of Life Force, or Chi or Ki, for the patient's well-being.
Subtle Energy Medicine refers to the use of the non physical in our
treatment Ð therefore, the subtle ki.
Physical body held within the non-physical --
The Great Mystery of Life ... the numinous ...
Indeed, we are talking about treatment which may be given on the human
body, with physical outcomes. And, we are considering treatment that
derives its power and efficacy from the larger field than the human
body itself.
Indeed, we are approaching the numinous, the Great Mystery of Life.
However, even if you are a staunch scientist that does not look the
way of the Eternal, we all DO have the direct experience of being alive,
of viewing trees and other live things. This living force, this fuel
of life, no matter where it comes from -- is a substance that can and
does support our life and our well-being. It is this fuel, or substance
of life, that Reiki therapy focuses. I appreciate Ken Wilber's stance,
"If, in these two camps, Science and Spirit, the first tenet of Science
is that Spirit doesn't exist, then ... how do we live? And how do we
marry the truth of science and the value and meaning of life [4]?"
What runs this marvelous machine?
Reiki Therapy focuses life force. I know that as a health professional,
I was taught, and thoroughly believed, that if you couldn't count it,
cut it, culture it or medicate it -- it didn't exist. This is the physical,
mechanical model. 'How do we fix this machine of the human body?' Something's
wrong with it. How do we fix it? And we have become very good at fixing
it, primarily mechanically and pharmaceutically. In the process of trying
to isolate and define life scientifically, we also abandoned the larger
reality of life's existence. Ken Wilber says,
"With the rise of modernity in the West, the Great Nest of Being almost
entirely disappeared. The modern West, after the Enlightenment, became
the first major civilization in the history of humanity to deny almost
entirely the existence of the Great Nest of Being. In its place was
a "flatland" conception of the universe as composed basically of matter
and this material universe, including material bodies and material brains,
that could best be studied by science, and science alone. Thus, in the
place of the Great Chain reaching from matter to God, there was now
matter, period. And so it came to pass that the worldview known as scientific
materialism became, in whole or part, the dominant official philosophy
of the modern West [5]."
Reiki, and other Eastern methods of treatment, are not only focusing
on the larger field of life and what produces life; but using that very
Life Force to bring coherence and balance to the human being -- not
just the human body! Reiki treatment focuses on the fuel of the human
body. Following the mechanical model, in which Western Medicine focuses
on the machine of the body, Reiki, and all the other Eastern Methods
of philosophy and treatment, focus on the fuel of the human body. 'What
runs this marvelous machine?' What is the difference between a live
body and a dead one? The fuel or life force or ki.
This is a very big question, "What runs this marvelous machine?" One
that warrants our attention for a whole life long, at least. This ki
involves much more than just the human body.
Healing vs external treatment -- Key to comprehensive healing
Here we also encounter the difference between healing and external treatment.
Healing is something that comes from inside -- I mean WAY inside ---
inside our consciousness, not inside our body. In years past, when I
thought of "healing comes from inside ..." I usually thought of a physical
placement in the middle of my body. That is not the "inside" we are
talking about. We are referring to the Being, the consciousness, the
human spirit, the psyche. Western medical treatment, until quite recently,
has focused on the physical workings of the human body, effecting its
physical state. Now we include our spirit, our consciousness, that is
carried for awhile by this body. This, JOINED by the physical body,
is the key to comprehensive healing.
How is Reiki therapy applied?
Direct Treatment: warm
In the direct physical treatment of a subject, the practitioner's hands
are placed on the subject in a particular progressive pattern and held
in each position while this unusually warm energy passes into the subject's
body. A full treatment typically includes 12 to 18 positions on the
head, front and back of the torso. When even light touch is contraindicated,
as in the presence of lesions or extreme pain, the hands can hover inches
off the body. Each position is held for approximately two to five minutes
in a classic treatment, or a shorter or longer time, determined by the
specific situation.
The experience of giving direct Reiki treatment, involves a strong current
of life force being drawn through the practitioner's hands into the
subject. The subject may have the experience of this warm current spreading
out into their body tissue like the spreading of a broken egg, relaxing
them deeply, into coherence.
Distant Treatment: comprehensive
In distant treatment the current of Life Force is 'shared between the
client and practitioner' or 'sent' at distance, much like prayer. In
this practice, the practitioner is offering her or himself as a focus
or container through which this life force is generously offered to
the subject. The distant treatment is earmarked by its comprehensive
nature. The practitioner offers this concentration of the enormous life
force for the individual to use in all the ways they need it. The practitioner
does not have to consciously "know" the seed cause of disease or even
the maladies of the subject, to be quite effective. For example, treating
a young boy for a serious ear infection may reveal that his heart is
drawing greater energy than his ears. Further exploration with him and
his mother reveal that he is heart-broken about the illness and immanent
death of his beloved uncle that he spends a great deal of time with
-- news he really doesn't want to hear. Further treatment supports his
healing, not only of his ear infection, but his broken heart.
How does it work?
The origin of the healing properties of Reiki are sometimes attributed
to a spiritual healing technique and sometimes to an energy healing
technique, therefore bridging the physical and non-physical realm.
"Usui-sensei told us that the method is a spiritual healing technique
and an energy healing technique. Spiritual healing brings fundamental
healing by helping us to become part of the universal consciousness,
while energy healing centers around removing the symptoms of mind and
body, disorders." Advanced practitioners of biofield therapies, including
Reiki, conceptualize the biofield as a continuum from the vibrational,
at the deepest and subtlest level, to the bioenergetic, closer to the
physical realm [6]."
Harmonious state, theta brain waves
The subject receiving Reiki may feel deep warmth in their body from
the treatment, or lapse into a harmonious state, commensurate with Theta
Brain waves. When in a theta state of mind, the subject's awareness
is outside of time or place; when this happens, you feel good. This
allows a profound and complete relaxation. This state of complete relaxation,
characterized by the breath deepening and number of respirations decreasing,
allows homeostasis to occur. This homeostasis supports the coherence
of this human being and provides the quality of "wholeness" in their
body and entire energy field. This produces a physical body that is
working as it is designed and intended. -- ALL that they are -- their
cosmology, their psychological state, their emotional holdings, and
their physical body -- all working in concert with one another. This
is what supports their healing. I'll cite an example from a healing
incident published in the current publication, Stroke CONNECTION,
"Biofield therapies are intended to affect energy fields that supposedly
surround and penetrate the human body. Some forms of energy therapy
are qi gong, which involves manipulating these hypothesized energy fields
through movement, meditation and breath control, and Reiki, a method
of hands-on healing.
AleSandra did Reiki on Gary. "Reiki balances the energy in the parasympathetic
and sympathetic nervous systems." She says. "It stimulates the circulation
and immune systems and puts the body in balance so it can heal itself.
It was during a Reiki treatment that Gary moved his paralyzed arm for
the first time [7]".
Can We Measure Reiki Treatment?
There are several ways of measuring what is happening in Reiki treatment,
both in the practitioner and the client.
I am presently participating in a blinded research study funded by National
Institute of Health, testing the efficacy of Reiki treatment with fibromyalgia
clients. I'll be glad to share the results with you in the fall of 2004.
James Oschman indicates many indexes to measure energy treatment in
his book, Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basis. Electrical, electromagnetic,
scaler waves ... I refer you to his most practical information which
is providing an important stepping stone in validation of Subtle Energy
Medicine.
I have also been tested by Dr. Juan Acosta, Neuroresearcher, while I
was sending distant Reiki treatment. Dr Acosta's explanation of this
process and the graphs of his findings are given in the following excerpt:
refer to additional sheet for graphs.
Bioelectromagnetic signal detection during a distant Reiki Healing
session.
Using a BFA device (Enermed, Vancouver, B.C., Canada), a signal was
detected only during the state of "sending energy", and not before this
event (Baseline control). A preliminary report of these ongoing studies
was published [8]. The BFA signal is not EEG [9], but appears to reflect
a component of a Bioelectromagnetic Field. The BFA sensor device consists
of a piezoelectric crystal, fitted with an LED light source and a photodiode,
housed in a light-tight padded head frame connected to an amplifier
and a PC. Software carries out FFT analysis, displayed as a power-frequency
spectra (bandwidth, 0.1-25 Hz). Each BFA scan consists of an average
of 10 sweeps, lasting approx. 3 min.
Graph A
A. Baseline control before start of Reiki session by Reiki Master NJY.
Bandwidth 0.1-15 Hz for these recordings.
Graph B
B. First detection of a weak signal at approx. 10 min. into Reiki session.
This Figure is not being shown due to our limited space.
Graph C
C. Stronger signal (shifting to lower frequency end and showing increased
signal to noise ratio), recorded at approx. 30 min. into the session.
The practitioner, NJY, reported reaching a "strong energy emission state",
at the time of this recording.
What can you expect? Going beyond the physical body's needs
When receiving Reiki treatment, -- this "ki" energy -- is poured into
the entire body and being of the subject- the vibration of wholeness,
of coherent wellness. When receiving Reiki treatment as the client,
you are actually drawing the ki or life force into you, all aspects
of you, according to your need! The life force is offered simultaneously
to physical, mental, emotional-psychological, and spiritual applications,
whether applied directly on the body of the client, or provided as a
distant treatment. This means that the predominant experience of receiving
Reiki treatment is one of increased well-being, even if the recipient
is not ill. And when there is disease or injury, all except a very small
percent of treatments given, bring greater ease, comfort and health
to the body.
Not diagnosing, claiming 'cure', or replacing medicine
I want to be absolutely clear that Reiki Treatment does not claim a
cure for any condition. In Reiki treatment, we also are not diagnosing.
I am writing about healing events in this manuscript that I have witnessed,
to give the reader an idea of what has occurred with Reiki treatment.
I am not saying that this would happen in every case; that is up to
the subject and their contract with life. This can include many contributing
factors. The approach of Reiki practice is to offer the treatment and
accept what happens. What happens is usually an improvement.
We know that this treatment is so safe; there are only two guidelines,
relative to contraindications: one, if an injury has occurred that may
involve a fractured bone, do not give Reiki treatment directly over
the "break" until it is thoroughly x-rayed and set properly. Then, give
it all the Reiki treatment you can. Two, to advise a person taking medication
for a chronic condition, such as heart condition, diabetes, or high
blood pressure, to check with their Primary Care Provider, as their
level of medication could change -- usually lessen. Other than that,
there is no 'wrong way' to do Reiki, except to not do it at all.
It is also very important to note that the use of Reiki treatment does
not preclude or replace usual allopathic medical treatment. It is used
as a most effective adjunctive treatment form. This is the whole point.
Possible Outcomes
Now that you've been given my disclaimers, these are some outcomes I
have personally witnessed in clients receiving Reiki treatment. My clients
have: felt less pain, experienced swelling decrease, felt rested and
restored, experienced the disappearance of sore throat or headache,
experienced decrease or disappearance of cancerous tumors, experienced
white blood cell count increasing in conjunction with chemotherapy,
had a post-operative embolism dissolve in a short period of time, and
experienced a fractured arm healing twice as fast as expected.
Physical Therapy: the pain and stiffness in joints lessened, allowing
Range of Motion to increase, often 30 - 50%.
Maternity: pain of labor lessened; calming of hysteria; delivery time
decreased.
Neurology: possible reconnection of neural pathways and circulation
that has been impaired. Another case in point: the previously offered
Stroke CONNECTION article.
Fibromyalgia -- case in point
I am now currently engaged in a NIH grant testing the efficacy of Reiki
treatment with fibromyalgia patients. As this study is not complete,
I'm sure you will understand the following comments being quite general.
These patients have historically tried every pain relieving medication
and every external treatment for years, to no avail. And their doctors
are highly qualified and effective. They are still not sleeping, nor
able to quell their chronic pain. Because the Reiki treatment is focused
on more than their physical state, they are able to shift and heal.
Individuals who could barely get down and up from the treatment table,
are now doing yoga and taking hikes and getting new jobs.
Where does Reiki fit with other Energy Therapies?
I offer a chart of the Subtle Energy Treatment Systems that I am personally
familiar with, indicating the complexity of what is involved personally
in giving the treatment. I apologize for not including the many other
forms I have not yet experienced. I also clearly am offering my own
relative experience. I refer you to the instructors of these modalities
to learn more about them. My intent is to demonstrate Reiki treatment's
relative position, relative to other Integrative Energy Medical modes,
in regard to complexity.
Complexity of Subtle Energy
Treatment Systems
| Prayer |
Therapeutic
Touch |
Acupressure |
Shiatsu |
Feldenkreis |
Acupuncture |
|
Reiki
|
Healing
Touch
|
Jin
Shin Jitsu
|
Hakomi
|
|
|
| |
Polarity
|
|
Cranial-Sacral |
Rolfing |
|
| |
|
Qi
Gong (Relative to commitment and application)
|
|
|
|
| Least
Complex |
|
|
|
|
Most
Complex |
You will notice that Reiki is on the far left indicating the least complexity
of what is involved in giving treatment, except prayer. On the right
is acupuncture, indicating that it is the most complex as to what is
involved in giving treatment. You could also interpret this chart as
the left side indicating the least practitioner physical intervention
-- and the right side indicating the most practitioner physical intervention.
As such, Reiki involves the most focus on the quality of the healing
energy itself, and the least emphasis on the form. When I am teaching
my Reiki students, I want them to know the form, but more as a familiar
path, so they can follow it and concentrate more on the movement and
presence of the healing energy.
I would say that prayer and Reiki treatment involve the greatest emphasis
on presence - the pure energy -- than the other modalities. And Reiki
involves the least personal interjection. It is not subjective. I do
not mean that it is 'cold'; far from it. Even in a first treatment with
someone you don't know, they may bond with you. The bonding and caring
experienced by both the practitioner and subject is quite objective
-- not attached -- and therefore very clear and consistent.
Reiki is very graceful. It is non-demanding, either of the practitioner
or the subject. In fact, it is restorative and healing for the practitioner
as they give treatment. This is another reason why I particularly enjoy
training medical professionals who are already quite overworked and
sometimes approaching burnout. The balance and saneness of their own
lives is supported as well as the health and well-being of their patients.
The 14 hour Introductory Reiki training is also very relaxing and enjoyable,
including a great deal of experiential practice -- giving and receiving
treatment. There are no prerequisites required, only the willingness
to learn.
A good place to begin ...
As health professionals, the large volume of integrative therapy modes
can be overwhelming.
Reiki, being simple in its physical format and quite non-invasive in
nature, is an easy and appropriate subtle energy treatment form to begin
with, as suggested in the current Alternative Therapies publication
by Dr. Robert Schiller,
"When physicians face uncertain therapeutic choices with little basis
for a preference, they rely on the safest treatments that offer the
most control for the patient. Reiki is a therapy which meets these criteria,
and is perhaps the best introduction to patients of the therapeutic
effects of Integrative Medicine. With the first treatment patients typically
feel better. More importantly, as a self administered treatment, they
grasp a fundamental principle of Integrative Medicine: patients realize
that they have the ability to help themselves feel better and have a
crucial role in their own healing [10]."
When I taught Reiki to health professionals at Harvard Vanguard HMO,
Dr. Leslie Fischelman, who brought me there, said of Reiki, "This is
the way for medicine to go. It is so simple to learn and so predictable
in practice. This is the way for medicine to go!"
How on earth did I get here?
I have been practicing Reiki solidly for 20 years and teaching for 17.
I am now the Elder Master Teacher in the State of Washington. I started
as a very skeptical and arrogant health professional. I knew what disease
came from, and what was needed to treat it. I knew what was possible
and impossible, and simply touching a person -- certainly had no credence
in my intellectual understanding or my paradigm of reality -- and certainly
not in my medical training as a nurse at Oregon Medical Science Center.
I am trained as a Waldorf Teacher, and completed the first Pilot Project
for the Oregon Arts Commission as a Music Therapist with children and
adults with physical and learning disabilities. When I encountered Reiki
treatment the first time, on my own painful back, I could not deny the
strength of the heat I felt, as if a bonfire warmed deeply in my bone
marrow. The body does not lie.
The journey with Reiki has been a continual learning, taking me to instruct
in 13 countries, many medical institutions and to learn from several
Original Peoples. The learning has been about how to be a human being,
unfettered. It has tenderized me well, one grain of sandy ego at a time.
I'd like to share with you a part of my experience from an article entitled,
The Healing of Origins: A Traveling Healer Shares
her Story of a Leper Hospital in Lewoleba, Indonesia.
"At a stop en route, the school children were excitedly watching near
the runway to see who would come in the weekly plane. Three boys in
loincloths and with long sticks or staffs in their hands were focused
on us from across a field. They didn't come close in distance; they
didn't have to. Their eyes and openness were reaching easily across
the 75 feet between us.
"I have never felt so "taken in" -- so received -- without any
defense or filter between myself and another. I would wish that every
human being would someday have such an experience. I never recognized
the many filters of judgment, conditioning and distancing I used until
I experienced someone without them. We have so much to learn from Original
Peoples [11]."
Practitioner's Skill
I consider the practitioner's skill as a composite of the depth of quality
of their training, depth of their clinical experience and their personal
commitment. How much does their personal skill matter? And what criteria
can you use to help determine their skill and experience and commitment?
Because Reiki is comprised mostly of something you can't see, and the
training is only a few days long, does that make it inconsequential
as to the quality of training or treatment you receive? In fact, I believe
the opposite is true. Exactly because Reiki is the application of a
very esoteric Presence, the overall depth of your teacher or practitioner
will determine the level of depth of your experience. You cannot pass
to someone else, what you have not received yourself. Superficial does
not count with Reiki; shortcuts do not work.
As in psychology and many other disciplines, there is an Old Traditional
School of Reiki and a Popular School of Reiki. The undeniable quality
of a well-trained practitioner is obvious -- the deeply integrative
and healing experience that comes with accumulative practice. You can
determine this by asking a Reiki practitioner or instructor about these
three areas of their Reiki experience: the depth of their training,
the extent of their clinical practice, and their commitment or investment.
Consecration -- the key to healing power
When Dr. Gary Schwartz, the consummate researcher, asked me, "To what
do you attribute the power of Reiki?" I answered without hesitation,
"Consecration!" What does consecration mean? It means to be held sacred,
in reverence, without violation. This quality of respect for life is
part of the nature of Reiki energy, a part of the smooth congruence
and harmony that is holding our universe together -- or coherent. I
think about this as being in right relationship with life itself. Constant.
Loyal. Connected. In relationship. Humble and content.
There is a ceremony or Initiation that is an integral part of the Reiki
Training. This ceremony opens our energetic gates and gives us a consistent
access to this objective healing energy. It also gives us the assurance
that we will not 'take on' the distorted maladies of the clients we
treat, and that we cannot transfer our own distortions to them. I think
of this Initiation process as being like shaking hands with the Creator,
and saying, "Use me more." And Creator certainly does, objectively,
reliably.
Larger field -- Mother Energy
I hope you are getting a sense of the comprehensive nature of Reiki
Treatment, and therefore, why I call it the Mother Energy. I often say,
"Reiki slows you down long enough to be whole". Reiki represents the
larger scope of human experience.
It infuses whatever you do with your hands with healing. It you are
trained in Reiki, every time you touch a patient, whether to examine
them, or deliver a procedure, you have an opportunity to give them Reiki
treatment, even for a few seconds, and thereby offer some balancing
and homeostasis. This is remarkably demonstrated in Dr.Nancy Eos's book,
Reiki and Medicine [12]. As an Emergency Room Doctor, she offers her
repeated use of Reiki treatment, given as soon as she could get her
hands on the patient, just arriving in the ambulance. Often, her touching
them immediately and during her three minute exam -- especially patients
experiencing Myocardial Infarctions -- results in admitting them to
a General Service area rather than Intensive Care. These kinds of results
are leading us to more research and more common usage.
Common Usage
In Pamela Miles article, "Reiki -- Review of a Biofield Therapy: History,
Theory, Practice, and Research", she lists 22 hospital and community
based programs using Reiki Treatment.
"Americans increasingly reach beyond conventional medicine to meet their
healthcare needs, and research indicates that therapies based in energy
medicine are a favorite choice. An increasing number of nurses, physicians,
and other healthcare providers have begun integrating biofield therapies
into patient care, and a growing number of hospital-based programs offer
these modalities to patients and staff. Despite these challenges, efforts
to describe these modalities, their practice and their use by patients,
as well as development of well-designed studies of safety and efficacy,
are important and underway [13]."
Conclusion
Dr. David Eisenberg, of Harvard Medical School, speaking to a group
of physicians and health professionals at Virginia Mason HMO in Seattle
in 1998 said about complementary medical treatments -- "Study them,
join them - or get out of the way!" The point being, the use of complementary
treatment methods is on a steady rise. There is such a demand for them.
And why? Because they work. I am grateful to see the rounding out and
humanizing of Medicine as a result. I recently spent a week presenting
at the American Medical Students Association's Conference at Milton
Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania. The title was 'Humanizing Medicine';
I am indeed heartened and instructed in how to move forward together
as health professionals, after working with these doctors and students.
My sense of Reiki Energy Therapy and its role in Integrative Medicine,
grows daily, in breadth and specificity. There is actually no area of
Clinical Medicine that Reiki could not impact due to its comprehensive
nature. There is a great healing evolution in our midst. It requires
all of us to open to larger fields of relevance and inclusion in our
healing modalities. There is so much to learn and experience -- and
so much to be healed. Indeed, Reiki, the Mother Energy, meeting the
crises of our times, inside and out.
Thank you for your kind attention. It has been a pleasure informing
you about my experience with this potent treatment mode, and its relative
use and place in Integrative Medicine.
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Other Stories by Norma Jean Young
Spirit of Change
The Healing of Origins: A Traveling Healer Shares
her Story of a Leper Hospital in Lewoleba, Indonesia
More Hot Chocolate for the Mystical Soul:
101 True Stories of Angels, Miracles, and Healings
an Anthology collected by Arielle Ford
The Healing of Origins (page 200)
Destiny (page 236)
Reiki Treatment Journal
Reiki Position Book -- Instruciton Manual
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