| The term "intuitive Reiki" refers to the ability of some | | | | Following her recovery, she learned the Reiki technique |
| Reiki healers to locate the origin of a person's pain or | | | | herself and opened her own clinic in Hawaii, where she |
| illness without being told. Without using X-rays or body | | | | lived and worked, healing and teaching others until her |
| scans of any type, one who is truly attuned to Reiki | | | | death in 1980. Emphysema is a life threatening disease, |
| energy can find the source of the patient's suffering. | | | | the fourth leading cause of death in the United States. |
| This is how we are able to use Reiki to treat animals | | | | There is no known cure. It is very rare for someone to |
| or plants. | | | | live 50 years after diagnosis. |
| Many people are skeptical of intuitive Reiki, distance | | | | Before receiving Reiki, she was about to have surgery |
| healing and even conventional Reiki therapies. If you | | | | to remove the gallstones, the stomach tumor and the |
| are one of these skeptics, you should know that the | | | | infected appendix. The surgery was never necessary. |
| National Center for Complementary and Alternative | | | | Takata is only one of the people we know of who |
| Medicine (NCCAM) is currently sponsoring research to | | | | have been saved by Reiki. |
| evaluate the benefits of Reiki. NCCAM does not | | | | Shou Matsui, a Japanese journalist and playwright, was |
| sponsor research for therapies with little or no | | | | a student of intuitive Reiki in the late 1920s. He wrote |
| evidence supporting their effectiveness. | | | | that he had successfully treated hundreds of patients |
| Over the years, thousands of people have been | | | | and that he felt "pain" in his hands when he placed |
| healed by intuitive Reiki. Hawayo Takata, who | | | | them over the "source of disease". Other Reiki |
| introduced Reiki to the Western world was herself | | | | masters have described it as a tingling sensation. |
| healed by Reiki. After her husband's death in 1930, she | | | | Reiki is unique in that a person can heal themselves, as |
| suffered from severe depression and had a nervous | | | | well as others. After learning about Reiki energies, we |
| breakdown. She was diagnosed with emphysema, | | | | become more "attuned" to the world around us and |
| stomach problems including tumors, gallstones and | | | | the suffering of others. It makes sense that the term |
| appendicitis. | | | | "attunement" is used to describe the Reiki initiation |
| After receiving intuitive Reiki treatments for four | | | | process. |
| months she was completely healed. | | | | |