As a Reiki healer and a person formally trained in science based healthcare, I feel a need to bridge any perceived gap between the two. Indeed, such a gap is a very recent invention.
Medicine is a wide concept, and has been for a long time. Since there have been humans, there have been humans trying to help other humans feel better. Indeed, the first sign of civilisation is said to be the evidence of care shown to a leg break on very ancient bones. However, animals will also care for their sick and injured, but let’s not get into a debate on the concept of humanity!
How is modern medicine evolving to revisit old ideas?
In ancient times, people would sometimes heal with simply putting on hands, maybe praying, focussing energy into the one that was ill. Unfortunately, as time grew on that sort of thing began to be seen as evil witchcraft. It was began to be seen as not okay to practice this. Now, however, modern Western medicine is beginning to see that it’s not just about packets of pills and surgery. The more current understanding is that we are NOT just a collection of organs. We are complex creations with deep connectedness to the world around us. This is called the biopsychosocial model. Some will also say biopsychosocial-spiritual, but that remains somewhat on the fringes as of now!
Quantam physics, Reiki, the Upanishads, navel-gazing ancient philosophers…
I’m also not a physicist, but I do know enough to say that everything we come into contact with is comprised of particles more or less interlocking, vibrating at lesser and greater speeds. Solid form is an illusion; it’s just how our eyes make sense of things. However, on a deeper and more scientific level- things are far more fluid. Even you or I are physically much less solid than we may like to think that we are; each and every cell in our body replaces itself within ten years. For convenience though, we will prefer to think of this as “my” body- even though those cells were once made of the food we have eaten, the air we have breathed etc etc- and soon will return into the wider universe to be reabsorbed into many other different forms.
Ancient civilisations knew all this, funnily enough. They didn’t work it out on computers, but they had lots of long evenings to sit, chat and think. They had no technology to distract them, but plenty of brains! Vedic philosophy, in particular, goes into this concept of intrinsic fluidity and impermance in quite some detail.
So how does this all connect with Reiki?
Simply (or not so simply put) you and I have an intelligence that inhabits all this energy. When there’s an awareness of this energy- and proper training in transmitting it- a Reiki practitioner can function as a conscious transmitter of life force energy. They accelerate the body’s healing mechanisms and aid in the processes of regeneration.
Does it still make no sense? It’s definitely been proven to work, in any case. Maybe modern science is still catching up to the ancients!
Here’s some links to some peer-reviewed studies on the subject : )
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5871310/
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/acm.2019.0022
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ecam/2011/381862/
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