Sunday, January 24, 2010

Reiki is Complementary


It is interesting as Reiki becomes much more widely accepted, to reflect on its nature of being complementary.

Most mainstream Reiki teachers have stressed that Reiki does not replace conventional, or scientific and evidenced based medicine, it compliments it! In fact - increasingly - evidence has been mounting that Reiki is supported by scientific evidence.

My friend Lorinda Weatherall has an incredible website about Reiki
www.a-w.etherapies.ca/

Where it says Reiki hit and then select on the right side
An incredible resource.

And much appreciation is owed to William Lee Rand, founder and editor of Reiki news, who has started a web site Center for Reiki Research
http://www.center-forreikiresearch.org/

And Pamela Miles was recently on the Dr Oz show and did a Reiki demonstration!
http://reikiinmedicine.org/reiki-videos/

For those interested in my Guest Editorial in the Elsevier publication, "Caring for the Ages:"
www.caringfortheages.com/article/S1526-4114(09)60284-5/fulltext

Reiki is being used far more widely in mainstream institutions that anyone yet realizes. Reiki causes no harm, it costs very little, and it often is very helpful.

But simply stated, it does not replace traditional medicine, it complements and it augments.

There is nothing holistic about ignoring pharmaceutical and surgical treatments that are effective, and it is no longer reasonably evidence based to ignore the "whole person" we are trying to help.

The wave of increasing scientific knowledge, and the wave of treating people holistically, seem to be coming together with many bridges. We should certainly be grateful!

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