Reiki Healing
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If you are wondering “Is reiki healing for real?” the answer is an emphatic “Yes!”- if the practitioner has been properly trained. Just as is the case with any other kind of therapy, the training undergone by the therapist can make a lot of difference. To know for sure, here is a little general information on reiki healing and those who specialize in it. Reiki is a form of complementary medicine, not to replace a doctor’s care. Those who are seriously ill and need other treatment should not look at reiki as a first line of defense, but rather as something to accompany their other treatments. Reiki’s detractors say that those who practice it and other forms of alternative medicine are preying on those who are truly ill. However, no honest therapist would tell a patient to forgo other forms of treatment, to quit seeing their physician, or to not tell the doctor about the other therapies they are undergoing. Whether it’s reiki, herbs or any other therapy, people need to be unafraid to have the discussion with their doctor. A lot of people wonder about reiki’s legitimacy, and that is no surprise. At one point, the method behind the medicine was a closely guarded secret, and high fees were charged for healing sessions and for training. That alone was enough for many to sharply criticize reiki. Practitioners are sometimes compared to “faith healers”, and we’ve all heard stories about them. However, the comparison is totally false, because reiki is a legitimate form of touch therapy. It is not practiced by preachers or clergy, but by nurses, massage therapists and others. To be precise, reiki is more closely related to Chinese medicine and Ayurvedic medicine than it is to faith healing. Ayurvedic medicine is practiced in all parts of India, and it has long been recognized as a legitimate treatment. Traditional Chinese medicine, while still on the fringe in the West, is an enormous part of the health care dialogue in Taiwan and China. In the US, there is research going on to prove whether or not reiki is legitimate, to learn how it works, and to identify the conditions under which the treatment works best. | |