Does anyone have a personal experiance with Reiki?!
Question:
Does anyone have a personal experiance with Reiki?
Does Reiki work?
Answers: I teach Reiki in San Antonio Texas and have been teaching for over 10 years. I see amazing results in the students that take the classes as well as the clients we all work on.
I tell people that I don't say that we do miracles and we don't know what the end result will be.. However I've had panic/anxiety disorder clients that have told me, Reiki changed their lives.
Recently we had a lady in the Reiki Classes who is extremely clastrophobia. She wasn't thinking and got in the elevator with us. She rode down the elevator in total amazement that she wasn't afraid. This was only a beginning for her and I expect she will progress even more.
I have worked with many Psychologist and Research Scientist that are very happy with Reiki and totally believe it works. There is a website for the National Instuitute of Health (Government Office) NCCAM that explores alternative healing and they have definations and research projects that are being done all over. Source(s):
This is the US Gov. website for reiki info.
http://nccam.nih.gov/health/reiki/... check it out.. you'll enjoy the balance of thinking. Yes and no. Strangely enough the answer can be indirectly derived from it's history.
Some guy in Japan wanted to find the healing power/energy of Christ (this happened fairly recently), and "had a vision where he discovered it," and then codified a system from it called reiki which has since then spread via the new age movement.
A lot of cultures have healing traditions based around using the bodies energy (I'm familar with practioners using methods from india, vietnam, china, and new zealand, primarilly china, although there are other ones I don't know that much about). The primary generalization you can make about the various energy work practices is "the longer they have been around, the better and more advanced they are."
So, given that model, I believe reiki is a very basic energy practice. Energy practices all "do something," but from my experience most of what reiki practioners do is more image oriented than actual effect (ie. smiling, asking to call forth love to heal the other person etc etc). Most people have the ability to send energy out from their hands, and if that goes into someone else, a healing effect often occurs. That's about all reiki really does. In the other more long standing methods existing being able to do that is a prerequisite for all the other things the art does.
So, I'm not exactly sure how to answer your question. If you have some problem in your body that is a result of something in your energy matrix being messed up, or a more advanced condition, seeing a reiki practioner is a waste of time. However, if you want to get a basic introduction to energy being able to heal people, there is nothing wrong with giving a glance to reiki. Also given the format of reikis presentation, it makes a very good utilization of the placeobo effect, and that alone can help a lot of people.
I'm personally negatively biased towards it since most practicioneers I have met greatly overestimate what they are capable of, and tend to hurt themselves (simply put, "bad" energy from other people can come back into you if you don't know how to guard against it, and that practice is beyond the scope of reiki). However, the entire field of energy work is pretty vast, you have to start somewhere, and reiki has been that for many individuals.
I'm not really sure what else to tell you, since the scope of your question was somewhat vague, but hopefully this will be a good starting point for you.
Always happy to help!
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I don't want to have a long discussion on the pros and cons of reiki with invested practioners, but to adress one thing, there are tons of studies showing the placebo effect existing in animals. They were actually part of the basis for it being scientifically recognized (since modern medicine is weird about things like that). Look it up if you don't believe me, or I can refer you to some of texts we are being given for the holistic health classes at my college. I am a reiki master, so yes, I've had many reiki experiences. Go to www.reiki.org They have several reiki articles for you to read and a Q&A that may also help. You may also email me with specific questions.
As to reiki being a placebo effect, it is also effective with plants and animals and I do not think they are prone to placebo. Also, reiki cannot harm. As to "bad energy" entering a practitioner, any good master will train students in methods of shielding and preventing this from happening. Also, the removing of ego from the process helps. YOU do not heal, the energy helps the person to heal. You are only a conduit for the universal life force energy. It can. The trick is finding a practitioner that knows what they're doing. Healing arts are obscure things, and they've been around so long that no one can say how exactly one should go about it, and what exactly to expect. Yes - personal experience as a master-level Reiki practitioner. Yes - it works.
Example: my son had a broken arm but his doctor refused to authorize visit to the emergency room nor would he work my boy into his Friday afternoon. Seriously annoyed at the pathetic level of service by this HMO, I called a couple of other Reiki masters and between us we applied Reiki throughout the weekend. By Monday afternoon when we were finally sent for Xrays there was no indication of a fracture. For those who are thinking 'there never was a fracture' note that I was a career health-care professional, including a paramedic, and I know a broken bone when I see one.
Another example: a child we knew was in a vehicle accident where airbags deployed, creating chemical burns on his face and upper body in addition to other injuries. After being admitted to the hospital and many tests it was determined that he would be permanently blind. A group of Reiki and other CAM practitioners began working on the child. He recuperated rapidly, was released from the hospital earlier than expected, and regained full use of his eyes. Yes, as in the three people into reiki I know are completely stupid self-delusional asshats who parasitize even stupider people.
And no, aside from a placebo effect, it doesn't work. Stay far away from it, unless you crave attention from loonies.