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