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REIKI A Complement to Traditional Rehabilitation and Treatment Practices

A Complement to Traditional Rehabilitation and Treatment Practices

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REIKIA Complement to Traditional Rehabilitation and Treatment

Practices

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What is Reiki?

Reiki is a benign form of energy that can be accessed, drawn on and transmitted to self and others for the purpose of developing and healing spirit, mind body.

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Universal Energy

“Rei-ki” means “universal life energy”.

The same energy is used in martial arts (ki, chi) and yoga (prana)

It is accessible and available to all people. We are “hard wired” for Reiki.

Initial access through energetic attunements.

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Reiki is Not:

Mysterious Magic Quackery A panacea A religious cult Available to only a select few A replacement for modern medical

treatment

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Advantages of Using Reiki

Non-invasive and non-manipulative

Can be given at emergency sites

Can be given during and immediately after surgery

Helps healing of set fractures

Helps healing of burns

Assists during pregnancy and delivery

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Advantages of Using Reiki

Can be administered without physical contact

Compatible with ethical rules against touching

Energy can be applied directly to extremely painful areas

Reiki can be sent over distance

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Advantages of Using Reiki

Compatible with all medications, no side effects

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Advantages of Using Reiki

“Dosage” determined by the recipient, not the provider

No possibility of overdose

No waiting room—treat yourself

No known medical contraindications

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Advantages of Using Reiki

Reduced Health Care Costs

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Advantages of Using Reiki

Reduced health care costs

Earlier discharge-AGH study showed earlier removal of ventilator and earlier discharge in cardiac surgery patients who had Reiki treatments.

Reiki can be self-administered p.r.n.

No special medical equipment required

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What Do I Use Reiki For?

Deep relaxation response

General stress reduction

Restores balance in breathing, sleep and digestion

Chronic illness (Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, MS, neuropathy, diabetes, seizure disorders, etc.)

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What Do I Use Reiki For?

Anxiety, Depression

Chronic pain

Cancer

Recovery from physical and mental trauma

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What Do I Use Reiki For?

Reiki can serve as the foundation for a spiritual practice.

Meditation with Reiki is a way of deepening one’s spiritual connection.

The practice of Reiki is not a religion, and is compatible with every religion that has a contemplative component, i.e. all religions.

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Reiki History

Reiki was developed in Japan in 1922 by Usui Mikao as the result of an experience during the course of a religious retreat.

Usui trained others to teach, and they spread Reiki throughout Asia, America, Australia and Europe.

Many different schools and systems of Reiki exist today, all traceable back to Usui.

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How Does Reiki Work?

Quantum physics postulates that all basic particles and elementary forces derive from a single energetic field.

Western science recognizes that the messages that flow through our nervous system are chemoelectric, therefore energetic.

Many forms of Western medical treatment involve the introduction of energy into the body, e.g. defibrillators, ECT, muscle stimulation.

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How Does Reiki Work?

Acupuncture, Acupressure, Shiatsu and Chi Kung are Asian treatment forms that identify and work to restore the flow of energy through a system of “meridians” running throughout the body.

Both Western and Eastern medicine recognize that health exists where spirit, mind and body are in a state of equilibrium, or homeostasis.

Both Western and Eastern medicine use energy to restore that balance.

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How Does Reiki Work?

The various systems of Reiki healing use Reiki energy to restore the balanced flow of energy in spirit, mind and body.

In Reiki healing, this is done by drawing Reiki through a practitioner, or by direct access by the individual.

The effect is to clear physical, mental, emotional or spiritual blockages.

The recipient’s system, not the practitioner, determines how the energy will be used.

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Reiki Practice

Access to and conduction of this energy is enhanced through certain practices

Hatsurei-ho – and other meditations with Reiki

Reiju – micro-attunements

Gokai –Reiki principles

Self-treatment – filling your own energy tank

Treating others – spreading the wealth, and receiving as you give.

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Reiki Research

Research on Reiki is in its infancy.

Randomized control trials are as yet being done with only small cohorts.

See Miles, P. and True, G. “Reiki—Review of a Biofield Therapy: History, Theory, Practice and Research,” Alternative Therapies in Health & Medicine 9, no. 2 (March/April 2003): 62-72.

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