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Answers: Comments from a ressolved question tends me to put this question. "My personal experience with reiki was not good" is the opinion of one person. Eight others too said same sort of comments. All these statements are only expresions of those who do not know what, why, how, is REIKI. Any complaint related to body mind and spirit shall be cured even it is given up by other systems of treatment.(A REIKI MASTER)

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There is an enormous body of information on "life force energy" available online. In the East it is referred to as chi/ki/prana, etc. depending on the language. Acupuncturists work with the chi, and the chi "channels" to help with healing. Unbalanced internal energy/chi MUST lead to disease.

Humans have many levels of being, the physical being only the most visible. The next level "up", the etheric, is non physical, and is the one the chi moves through to feed the physical and keep all in good working order.

Reiki and other energy practices feed chi into this level to remove blockages in the channels,and to increase available chi. The more chi one has, running smoothly, the happier and healthier you will be. This is oversimplified, but accurate.

Reiki, Jin Shin Jyutsu, Chi Gong, etc. are all real and valuable and have been used successfully by far more aware civilizations than ours for thousands of years.

Some people can feel chi, many cannot. Even those who cannot can still channel/send and/or receive it to good effect.

While usually it does not produce instantaneous/miraculous cures, it always helps, and often significantly :)

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not physical ones, no.
Perhaps as a way to deal with emotional issues that are secondary to physical ailments, but not causal....

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The people who responded earlier *DO* know. It is the crackpot so-called "Reiki Masters" who do not understand how ridiculous Reiki really is.

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I won't believe
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Reiki is a system of imaginary "energy" that "masters" pretend to "manipulate" in order to "unblock energy flow".
It's entirely a load of crap -- there is no energy, no manipulation, no "flow" ... and no "healing".

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On National Public Radio, I heard a report today about an eleven year old girl who is having (or just had) an article published in the Journal of the AMA.

She designed and executed the experiment as a science fair project. She wanted to determine if the claims of nurses who practice so-called touch therapy could really do what they claimed. I say "so-called" touch therapy because in the technique, nurses don't actually touch their patients, but move their hands inches away from the patient, only touching the body's "energy field."

The focus of the experiment was narrow. She wanted to determine whether touch therapists could feel the body's energy field as they claimed.

Her method was well-designed. She and the therapists
she studied sat across from each other. The nurse could not see where the experimenter put her hands, because of a cardboard screen. She would flip a coin and depending on the toss hold her hand over either the right or left hand of the experimenter, who would try to feel her
energy field.

She studied 22 nurses and none of them could consistently
identify the correct hand. On average, 44% of the guesses were correct.

Statistically, she should have averaged 50% if there was a large experiment and the therapists were guessing.


She concluded that the therapists could not feel the body's energy field, which is an essential claim of touch therapists, because they are supposed to feel the disturbances in the energy field and by touching it, somehow fix it and treat pain.

I do not think any thing more needs to be said about non touch therapy, reiki included.

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I think that different people respond differently to all forms of treatment, whether they be conventional medicine or alternative therapies, what works for one person may not work for another person.

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