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Reiki: A 20th Century Healing Practice For The 21st Century Patient

Reiki focuses on channeling energy through practitioner and client

By Vicky Eckenrode
Vicky.Eckenrode@StarNewsOnline.com

Published: Thursday, May 28, 2009 at 8:56 a.m.

Gloria Spackman places her hands on a client's temples and sits quietly without moving for several minutes.

It doesn't look like much is going on, but as Spackman moves her hands around, a hum of energy is working, she said.

After years of experience as a reiki practitioner, Spackman said she can feel when she finds a blocked area of negative energy, the kind of patches she said can cause stress, pain and sickness.

"I start at the head. There are hand placements that you use," said Spackman, who began learning the techniques five or six years ago. "All I do is place my hands on them, and let the reiki energy flow out of my hands and into their body."

The practice, rooted in Japan, is based on the philosophy that a universal life energy flows through people and has a powerful affect on how they feel.

SEE FULL ARTICLE: http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20090528/ARTICLES/905284001/1004?Title=Reiki-focuses-on-channeling-energy-through-practitioner-and-client

Quantum Physics & Reiki

The field of quantum physics suggests that Reiki may be much more scientific than anyone knows right now. There are quantum physicists who are on the same page as Reiki when it comes to new theories about energy and matter. We need to continue exploring quantum physics regarding how the divine can be viewed as an essential part of the mind-body-spirit connection. It is possible that Reiki therapy may be one of many avenues to travel in this regard.

French physicist Bernard d'Espagnat was awarded the 2009 Templeton Prize, a coveted religion award honoring someone who has made exceptional contributions to affirming life's spiritual dimension through insight, discovery or practical works. D'Espagnat has theorized that quantum physics could provide insights into alternate spiritual realities and has been quoted as saying that recent discoveries may be "signs providing us with some perhaps not entirely misleading glimpses of a higher reality and, therefore, that higher forms of spirituality are fully compatible with what seems to emerge from contemporary physics."

For many thousands of years healing through “laying on of hands” have been practiced by different cultures around the world. Even today, when we hurt or feel pain in some part of our bodies, the conditioned response is to touch or hold the location in an attempt to alleviate the pain. For many years we have researched the science behind it, and we found answers not in religion or spirituality, but in Quantum Physics. The so-called “healing energy” actually exists and has been measured in laboratories.

Serious laboratory studies around the world have concluded that each and every living creature posses a measurable electro-magnetic energy field around their bodies. It was also discovered that changes in the electric charges of the cells contributed to ALL processes happening in the physical body.

Each cell is dependent on light (biophotons) to function properly, and an imbalance in the electrical cellular activity (incoherent exchange) can cause havoc and consequently imbalances on the individual’s mental, emotional and physical fields.

Researchers have concluded that a “hands-on” healing practitioner is able to transfer some amount of subatomic electro-magnetic energy (photon transmission) to the person being treated, and this energy is absorbed by the receptor and restores cellular frequencies, bringing coherence in the exchange of light between the cells.

DID YOU KNOW..............Reiki Helped Win Olympic Silver Medal. Hayden Roulston, a New Zealand cyclist won a silver medal in the Olympic men’s Track Cycling 4000m individual pursuit event. Hayden had a serious heart condition in 2006 which he completely recovered from and in a pre-win interview he states that it was Reiki that helped.

As a result of the ruling by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, at least two Catholic medical centers in South Jersey -- Lourdes Wellness Center in Collingswood and the Lourdes Cancer Center in Westampton -- will stop offering Reiki to patients,
The centers are part of the Lourdes Health System, sponsored by the Franciscan Sisters of Alleghany, N.Y.

Read more here:

http://www.courierpostonline.com/article/20090406/NEWS01/304070012/1006/news01

The US National Institute of Health has recently acknowledged and categorized Reiki as a "Biofield Medicine", although Reiki could be more accurately described as a path to spiritual enlightenment as well as a system of energy field healing.

MORE News about Reiki and Cancer Patients:

Reiki: Rising Star in Complementary Cancer Care by Kate Jackson. Read the full article from For The Record on Reiki and Cancer by clicking the link below: http://www.fortherecordmag.com/archives/ftr_040504p32.shtml

Can you believe it??? Another hospital using Reiki.

Saint Agnes Medical Center in Fresno, CA

When is reiki used in the hospital?
Reiki can be used in a multitude of situations in the hospital. It can be used to ease discomfort following surgery, prior to a procedure, or to reduce general anxiety and/or fears the patient may have. Reiki therapy may be ordered by physicians, or it may be requested by the patient, the patient's family, the nurse or social services.

At Saint Agnes, the Women and Infant Services department currently employs two reiki therapists on an inpatient basis to help support the healing process. Although reiki is not a substitute for medical therapy or treatment, it can supplement and expedite the recovery process. Following their reiki sessions, our patients report greater relaxation, less stress and anxiety, and reduced pain and discomfort.

Comments about reiki from Saint Agnes patients:

· "Made me feel good ... a very positive aspect of this treatment."

· "My pain was improved and my swelling got better."

· "Made me feel like a million dollars."

· "That light touch ... I was so impressed with that."

· "Increased my energy level."

FOX CHANNEL 5 REPORTS ~

Health Information: Reiki for Cancer Patients

Created: Tuesday, 25 Nov 2008, 9:54 PM EST

MYFOXNY.COM -- A hospital in New Jersey is using an unusual treatment to help fight pain. It doesn't involve painkiller medication or needles. Instead the Japanese technique involves using hands -- and it's not massage.

There is a Reiki program as well as other alternative medicine programs currently at Morristown Memorial Hospital

For more information on the Reiki program and other alternative medicine programs at Morristown Memorial Hospital go to

http://www.atlantichealth.org/Morristown

or Call ( 973 ) 971-5000

Energy Medicine

Reiki - means “universal life force energy.” Reiki is a popular Japanese energy healing technique that utilizes laying-on of hands to direct energy through the practitioner to the client to heal physical, mental, emotional and spiritual conditions. Reiki is used to reduce stress and create a sense of deep relaxation. Practitioners use it to clear energy blockages in the body and facilitate the body's natural healing processes. Reiki is used to support healing in a wide variety of acute and chronic physical conditions including asthma, allergies, arthritis, chronic pain, headaches, digestive disorders and insomnia. It is sometimes used to facilitate the healing of wounds, broken bones, and burns. Reiki also eases mental distress and promotes emotional healing.

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Military and VA Using Reiki to Heal Returning Veterans
By Ilona Meagher
24 Aug 2008
The Department of Veterans Affairs uses reiki in their Hepatitis C treatment program. Fort Bliss' Warrior Resilience program -- the same one Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey believes should be replicated throughout the military -- uses it as one tool to help soldiers strengthen and recover following combat.
Military OneSource's Health Library says it can increase wellness and "treat diseases of all types."
And it's the reason given by New Zealand's champ cyclist Hayden Roulston for bouncing back from a serious heart condition to claim both Olympic silver and bronze medals this past week in Beijing.
What is Reiki [pronounced "Ray-Key"] ? Energy healing...
While I've heard of it in the past (in fact, I have a sister who is a Reiki Master and had used the touch therapy in her past massage therapy practice), it seems to be bubbling up to the mainstream surface more and more these days. That the military and VA are incorporating it, is another positive sign that mountains can be moved even in mammoth bureaucracies -- as long as you believe it can be so (and add a little action into the mix to help it along).
In light of the military and VA's embrace of Reiki and other energy treatments like Qigong and distance healing, I asked an email correspondent if she would educate me a bit on this sometimes hard-to-understand (or even believe) form of complementary therapy making its way into the military ranks.
READ MORE HERE: http://thejournal.epluribusmedia.net:80/index.php/op-ed/44-general%20op-ed/154-military-and-va-using-reiki-to-heal-returning-veterans

THIS JUST IN.........

If you didn't see Greys Anatomy last week (Jan 10) you may want to watch it online. It included light and energy healers in the story line.

STRESS ADDICTION?? An alternative view of STRESS
by David Valentine

Researchers are now suggesting that 25 to 35 percent of the people are addicted to stress. Addicted? YES, addicted!

There are two primary ways (outside of recreational chemicals) that people become addicted to stress. Do YOU fall into one of these two categories? There are now a few research studies suggesting that this percentage is as high as 50 percent.

FIRST: A couple of propositions so we are on the same page.

(1) That which causes stress is not the same for everybody. What causes stress for some is like an ice cream sundae for others.

(2) Increased stress can be an assist in output or efficiency … up to a point.

(3) No single idea or program of stress management can be effective.

(4) Stress is impossible to define. In that, it is similar to happiness.

(5) Here's a stab at a definition. Stress is what you experience when you feel you cannot control or cope with a situation.

(6) Being that the essential causes of stress are worry and anxiety, it is worthwhile to note worry and anxiety are concerns about the past and the future. While calm, harmony and peace are now.

STRESS ADDICTION #1 -- Reread item 6 above. Our life is full of "shoulda's", "around-to-it's", "later's and tomorrow's" which in turn create energy wasted on future and on past. Being stress-less is always in the now.

How much of your waking hours do you spend thinking (worrying) about finances, job security, not enough time, clothes that don't fit, pressures at work, illness, family and relationships? Dear reader, that is a lot of your life.

Working feverishly with little breaks can become addictive The busier we are the more important we become to ourselves. Workaholism has become an obsessive-compulsive disorder. Workaholism is an inability to control or regulate both work habits and overindulgence in work. More is NEVER enough.

Worry and anxiety about all one's desires is both a past and a future mind wasting time. That worry about the future also sucks the energy you could be contributing to – now accomplishments. This is stress with a capital "S".

There is a dramatic difference between workaholism and being fully engaged. The workaholic is pressing and pressured for more … not better. One who is Fully Engaged draws on four separate but related sources of energy: physical, emotional, mental and spiritual.

Subtract any one of these four and your capacity to fully ignite your passion, dedication, desire and attention is greatly diminished.

STRESS ADDICTION #2 -- Is a bit more complex. Our brain is a product of evolution. Part of our evolutionary, original brains are still called Reptilian and Mammalian brains. For simplicity sake we can refer to the rest as the Thinking Brain. (that is a gross misnomer) Actually our modern brain should be called the thought producing brain. You know all those random thoughts that swirl around in your head? They are hardly thinking. Those are haphazard thoughts that may or may not be related to anything at hand. AND often lead one astray.

As a culture we have confused "thoughts" in a mad scramble running around in our head with thinking. "What if's", "maybe's" along with excuses and denials are erroneously considered as thinking. If the brain is stirring we have this strange and misguided notion that we are accomplishing something. Add to that TV, Cell Phones, Blackberry's, Blueberries and Text Messaging and we have virtually lost the ability to think.

Those "monkey's rampaging inside your head" are actually being sought as a substitute for thinking. We have become a culture of keeping busy. We are now so busy we no longer have time to just sit, watch birds or quietly listen to music. We have become addicted to noise in our heads.

WE ARE ADDICTED TO THE TWO PRIMARY CAUSES OF STRESS

Our desires for what we do not have are taking up much of the energy we would otherwise have to direct into enjoying what we do have. Put more energy into taming your mind and you will THINK MORE CLEARLY as well as LET GO OF STRESS.

David

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