| "Watch your thoughts: they become words. Watch | | | | waves. Resulting, many believe in the healing process |
| your words: they become actions. Watch your actions: | | | | throughout the body. |
| they become habits. Watch your habits: they become | | | | Faith and prayer should be uppermost in all our minds, |
| character. Watch your character: it becomes your | | | | do not live in a cocoon, thinking only of yourself and |
| destiny." - Unknown | | | | what is best for me. Think about your neighbor and |
| Why is it that something that is self-evident must first | | | | how you can help him instead. By helping him you will |
| be scientifically proven before it is accepted by the | | | | be helping yourself and creating a better you and |
| Westerner? My perception is that it is, or rather to be | | | | future. |
| more tolerant, would appear to be, the Western way | | | | Numerous and exhaustive studies have been done |
| of stumbling through life. Forever making mistakes and | | | | concerning the effectiveness of prayer. There should |
| not being able to find inner peace. That we are far | | | | be little doubt in most peoples minds that prayer has a |
| behind The Easterner as far as what creates a better | | | | positive effect on those being prayed for, even without |
| body and soul, has long been obvious to me a | | | | their knowledge. One study revealed that the sick |
| "Westerner". Persisting with this dogmatic approach, | | | | being prayed for had significantly less reliance on, or |
| historically finding reliable medical evidence to prove | | | | need for antibiotics, than those who were not being |
| that spiritual healing methods do actually work! Not all | | | | prayed for. |
| Doctors think alike and perhaps the "old School" find it | | | | Concluding this short review, prayer is a relatively |
| difficult to lend any credibility to Reiki , for example. | | | | non-controversial form of healing. So what about one |
| Also Yoga, meditation, migration of souls and the list | | | | of the more questioned methods, such as Reiki? |
| goes on and on. | | | | "Positive outcomes of Reiki have been recorded in |
| Early in the 20th century a Japanese by the name of | | | | some alternative medical journals, claiming that its |
| Mikao Usui started using a healing technique which he | | | | proven benefits included reduced heart rate, pain, |
| created that involved the practitioner using their hands | | | | depression and anxiety; increased relaxation and |
| to direct chi, life force, through the body of the patient. | | | | immunity and improved blood pressure. Critics argue |
| He called his creation Reiki. | | | | that any of these could be a result of a placebo |
| The word Reiki is made of two Japanese words - Rei | | | | effect. " |
| which means "God's Wisdom or the Higher Power" | | | | A 2002 study of Reiki on the effects of depression |
| and Ki which is "life force energy". So Reiki is actually | | | | yielded that the Reiki-treated patients were less |
| "spiritually guided life force energy." | | | | depressed than the placebo group. When re-checked |
| In separate studies conducted in the United States and | | | | a year later, the result stayed the same. |
| Japan the energy waves that emanated or passed | | | | Do a search on Google and enter the word "Reiki". |
| through the practitioners' hands were tested. It was | | | | There is so much information available and it is not all |
| discovered that the hands emitted a bio-magnetic field | | | | that difficult to learn. |
| which pulsated with the same frequencies as brain | | | | |