How Does Reiki Work and Why Does It Work?
Lorelei F.
Here's what I would say about Reiki... It's new-age, it's wacky, it doesn't work. And a lot of silly, gullible people spend their hard earned dollars on it in vain.
I'm sure if you've been around medicine you've heard statements like this. You may even have thought them. And in my younger days, I would have thought them too. Except for one small problem. Reiki does work for both healing as well as spiritual growth, and millions of people across the globe could testify to this.
But here we sit in the Scientific Age of Reason. And we ask how does Reiki Work? In point of fact, we don't think it does. It shouldn't work, we say. It couldn't work. It has no drugs-no surgery. 'Normal' doctors avoid it. You can't see Reiki and you can't hear it. So how could it possibly work? And from this standpoint we rational brains simply assert...Reiki doesn't work
Except that it does.
Now if we look at Reiki we find that it originated in Japan a long time ago. It is used to heal maladies of the physical body as well as those of the spirit. Now that makes us skeptical. First, what did those ancient relics know about medicine. And second how do you mix the body with the spirit. It can't be done, and shouldn't be done. It's just not scientific. In addition, Reiki is a technique where you lay your hands on a person and use your life-energy to help someone else's life-energy to flow more freely. Now that's got to be a lot of bunk. Anyone would agree, right.
Well it now appears that science itself is coming up with a good and scientific theory to answer the question 'How does Reiki work?' Because Reiki actually does work. And the explanation is coming from the new and pioneer field of high-energy physics. (Hmm. Physics, huh?) As these scientists talk about high-energy physics, they bandy about terms like 'subatomic matter', 'unpolarized' and 'vortex' theory. From all of this, one gets the strong impression that there is some kind of energy flowing- energy that is way too small for us to detect by our standard methods of measurement.
As we learn about all of this, we hear that though we can't see this energy, we can certainly feel it. Practitioners feel it as a tingling, warm, pins and needles kind of feeling. The person being practiced on feels it as a spreading warmth, or even cold, in the area that is being worked on.
It is interesting to note that Reiki has been around since the time of Christ. Do you remember, for instance, that old 'laying on of hands' stuff. (Well, you've got a good point there.) So in truth, there is nothing new and different here. And as we look at alternative medicines like Reiki it is important to look back, as well as ahead, on the premise that maybe those simple folks of yore, going on good old-fashioned instinct, may have known a little something. The first thing they may have known has to do with plain old common sense. The first thing they may have known might well have beenIf it works, then use it- better know as "The proof is in the pudding." And that, my friends, sounds a lot like using verified scientific experimentation to me. (Well, I have to admit, you've got me there, sister.)
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