Reiki Healing Journeys

More FAQ'S

  

Do all healers use Reiki?

All healers use life force or ki but not all use Reiki, it can only be channeled by someone that has been attuned to it. The Reiki practitioner's energy is never depleted because it is channeled energy.

 Is Reiki a religion?

Although Reiki energy is spiritual in nature, Reiki is not a religion. Practitioners are not asked to change any religious or spiritual beliefs that they have.

 

 

Do I have to believe in Reiki in order for it to work?

Reiki works on the unconcious level of patients, babies and animals. They have no concious awareness about Reiki. The acceptance of the Reiki energy during a Reiki treatment operates below concious thought. It is the subconcious desires of the person in receipt of the Reiki energy that will determine whether the energy is taken in or not.

 

 

Can I receive Reiki if I am on medication?

Yes, you can. Reiki is being used in many hospitals and hospices world wide along side conventional therapies

 

Can I treat myself?
YES, once you received the attunement you can treat yourself and others.

 

 

Can Reiki cause harm?

Reiki energy works only for the Highest Good of each person and can't cause harm. It is safe for anyone and for any situations including pregnant women and children.


Can I combine reiki with other Modalities and Therapies?

YES, Reiki can be combined with other complimentary alternative therapies and will enhance their effects.

 

What is a Reiki attunement?

Attunements are individual initiations that a Reiki Master Teacher gives each student. The attunements are energy infusions that ignite and accelerate our natural ablilty to access, focus and channel rei-ki energy.
Attunements were initially called reju in Japan but when the system was moved in the West, it was also called initiations, empowerments, attunements .The attunement process, performed and qualified only by A Reiki Master Teacher, in an amplified state creates a channel through the upper Chakras or energy centers so that the rei-ki energy can flow into and through an individual,ultimately coming out of the palms of the hands. Attunements are given at each level of Reiki System training to open and expand your ability to channel rei-ki energy. 

Reiki in Hospitals

Reiki therapy is safe and non-invasive. It is proving useful in hospices, nursing homes, emergency rooms, operating rooms, organ transplantation care units, pediatric, neonatal and OB/GYN units; facilitating relaxation and recovery and decreasing anxiety and pain; it can be a helpful addition to conventional therapy for HIV/AIDS and cancer patients [Miles: http://www.alternative-therapies.com/at/pdfarticles/0103reiki.pdf].

The medical research on Reiki is still preliminary. Medline search reveals several publications on Reiki in peer-reviewed journals. It was used as an adjuvant to opioid therapy in pain management, resulting in significant reduction of pain following the Reiki treatment [Olson]. Reiki was shown to be beneficial in supporting surgical patients [Alandyly, Sawyer].  When Reiki treatments were given to terminally ill cancer patients, some general trends included periods of stabilization in which there was time to enjoy the last days of one's life; a peaceful and calm passing if death was imminent; and relief from pain, anxiety, dyspnea and edema [Bullock]. Reiki has also been documented to benefit patients with multiple sclerosis, lupus, fibromyalgia and thyroid goiter [Hartwell]. Reiki treatments caused increase in hemoglobin values in patients with various diseases, such as pancreatitis, rheumatoid arthritis, congestive heart failure, emphysema and even in cancer patients, inspite of simultaneous treatment with bone-marrow suppressive agents [Rand: http://www.reiki.org/reikinews/reikin24.html]. Hemoglobin was found to increase among initiates after Reiki initiation [Wetzel]. Standardization procedures to conduct randomized placebo-controlled studies of Reiki are being developed [Mansour].

The nature of psychological effects arising during a Reiki session were studied, and anxiety was shown to reduce after treatments [Engebretson, Wardell]. Certain physiological changes were associated with receiving Reiki treatments, including decrease in systolic blood pressure, increase in salivary IgA levels and decrease in salivary cortisol after treatments, increase in skin temperature and decrease in electromyographic activity during treatments [Wardell].

Reiki is already used in several hospitals for cancer patients: Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (Lebanon, NH), Integrative Medicine Outpatient Center at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (New York, NY), Intergative Therapies Program for Children with Cancer at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center (New York, NY), Metropolitan South Health Center (" Direccion de Servicios Metropolitano Sur", Santiago, Chile) [Miles: http://www.alternative-therapies.com/at/pdfarticles/0103reiki.pdf] Used in conjunction with conventional cancer treatments, Reiki is reported to ease the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation, improve immune function, ease anxiety and enhance positive emotional attitude, decrease pain and promote relaxation [see database below].

Reiki is also used in Mercy Hospital (Portland, ME), Willcox Memorial Hospital (Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii), Center for Integrative Medicine at George Washington University Hospital (Washington, D.C.), Samuels Center for Comprehensive Care at St. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital Center  (New York, NY), Siloam (Philadelphia, PA), Tucson Medical Center (AZ), California Pacific Medical Center (CA), Portsmouth Regional Hospital (NH), Marin General Hospital (CA), University of Michigan Hospital (MI), Foote Hospital (MI), The Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital (NY) and others [ Miles: http://www.alternative-therapies.com/at/pdfarticles/0103reiki.pdf].

 

It is by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble,
there lies your treasure.

 

   ~Joseph Campbell~


 

There are ongoing clinical trials of Reiki healing techniques for diabetic peripheral vascular disease and autonomic neuropathy, carried out at the Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research in CVD, Adult Cardiac Surgery/Thoracic Transplantation [The University of Michigan Taubman Health Care Center 2120, Box 0344, AnnArbor, MI 48109; Tel: (734)936-4984, Fax: (734)764-2255, http://www.med.umich.edu/camrc/research/reiki.html and rehabilitation from stroke, spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury, carried out at the Center for Research in Complementary and Alternative Medicine for Stroke and Neurological Disorders at the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation (West Orange, NJ) [1199 Pleasant Valley Way, West Orange, NJ 07052, Tel: (201)243-6972, Fax: (201)243-6984].

NIH-supported clinical trials, which are currently recruiting patients, will test the efficacy of Reiki (including distant Reiki) in the treatment of Fibromyalgia at the University of WA - CFS/FM Research Center, Seattle, Washington, and Reiki in the treatment of patients with advanced AIDS will be performed at Temple University and Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Planned study, which will be performed by Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio will test Reiki for prostate cancer
[http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct/search?term=Reiki&submit=Search] 

To the best of our knowledge, there is no research focusing specifically on distant Reiki healing. However, there is a strong body of research on distant healing, including different kinds of prayer, Therapeutic Touch and others, reviewed by Astin et al., with 57% of studies showing positive effect [Astin].

 

REFERENCES:

Alandyly, P., et al., "Using Reiki to support surgical patients", J. Nurs. Care Qual., 13(4): 89-91 (1999)

Astin, J.A., Harkness, E., Ernst, E., "The Efficacy of "Distant Healing": A Systematic Review of Randomized Trials", Ann. Intern. Med., vol. 132, No.11, pp. 903-910 (2000)

Bullock, M.,  "Reiki: a complementary therapy for life", Am. J. Hosp. Palliat. Care 14(1): 31-3 (1997)

Engebretson, J., Wardell, D.W., "Experience of a Reiki session", Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, 8(2): 48-53 (2002)

Hartwell, B., Brewitt, B., "The Efficacy of Reiki Hands On Healing: Improvements in Adrenal, Spleen and Nervous Function as Quantified by Electro-Dermal Screening", Alternative Therapies magazine, 3(4): 89 (1997)

Mansour, A.A., Beuche, M., Laing, G., Leis, A., Nurse,J., "A study to test the effectiveness of placebo Reiki standardization procedures developed for a planned Reiki efficacy study", J. Altern. Complement. Med., 5(2):153-64 (1999)

Miles, P., True, G., "Reiki - Review of a Biofield Therapy. History, Theory, Practice, and Research", Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, 9(2): 62-71 (2003) http://www.alternative-therapies.com/at/pdfarticles/0103reiki.pdf

Olson, K., Hanson, J., "Using Reiki to manage pain: a preliminary study", Cancer Prev. Control,1(2):108-13 (1997)

Sawyer, J., "The first Reiki practitioner in our operating room", AORN J., 67(3): 674-7 (1998)

Wardell, D.W., Engebretson, J., "Biological correlates of Reiki touch healing", J. Advanced Nursing, 33(4): 439-445 (2001)

Wetzel, W., "Reiki healing: a physiological perspective", J. Holistic Nursing, 7(1): 47-54 (1989)

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