• Stress reduction and relaxation
• Healing on a physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual level
• Many report positive life changes, physical healings, release of trauma
• Never depletes the healer’s own life force energy
• Reiki can never cause harm.
• Reiki can help one feel more connected to Source, harmony, and peace.
• Less expensive than many other treatments or therapies
• Has a preventative nature, establishing and nourishing health in the body
• Reiki can stimulate personal growth and intuitive and spiritual development.
• Increases energy
“Try Reiki; it can balance your energy and cure what ails you.”
-Dr. Oz
Reiki has become a sought-after healing art among patients and mainstream medical professionals.
Though this trusted doctor may be at the forefront of Reiki’s influence in everyday health and culture, Oz is not alone. Athletes and celebrities have come to understand the positive effects of Reiki practice, imbuing these famous folks with a sense of calm in a chaotic world. From Christina Aguilera’s use of Reiki for weight loss, to golfer Phil Mickelson’s Reiki-inclusive treatment plan for psoriatic arthritis, Reiki has been used to treat a number of celebrity ailments, and has even been said to prove a holistic therapy for Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Ellen DeGeneres, among other top celebrities. The practice’s stress reduction ability to strengthen determination is key for maintaining focus and powering through stressful situations. In the case of Aguilera, whose Reiki methods have been outlined in Women’s Health and elsewhere, Reiki untangled the complicated spiral of weight gain: people eat when they feel stressed; for Aguilera, regaining discipline through Reiki stopped the thoughtless food intake, and unwanted weight shed naturally.
While weight loss is not a concern for Oz, a former football and water polo player who exercises daily, he believes that Reiki offers a multitude of benefits worth sharing. Occasionally, Oz even invites Reiki masters into his operating room, allowing them to tend to patients undergoing precarious surgeries like heart transplants. Drawing on viable unseen energies, Reiki masters like Pamela Miles and Julie Motz have melded their expertise with Oz’s mastery as a heart surgeon.
Ultimately, even with the advent of awe-inducing improvements in medical technology and the treatment of disease, Oz yearns for a simpler time. “I would take us all back a thousand years,” he says in The New Yorker interview, “when our ancestors lived in small villages and there was always a healer in that village.” Through Reiki, Oz has tapped into that ancient past – and, without doubt, he is a healer.
**This article appeared in The Reiki Times, the official magazine of the International Association of Reiki Professionals.
9 Facts About Reiki
By The DAHLC
We wanted to share with you 9 facts about Reiki and how this form of relaxation is used throughout the world. Reiki is alternative therapy that uses gentle touch to help relax enabling the body systems to move into a state of balance and harmony.
1. At a research study on the effects of Reiki done at Hartford Hospital:
- 86% of patients reported improved sleep
- 78% of patients reported reduced pain
- 80% of patients reported reduced nausea
- 94% of pregnant women reported reduced anxiety during pregnancy
2. Over 800 hospitals incorporate Reiki into their roster of patient services
- They often use their own Reiki-trained physicians, nurses and support staff.
3. Mayo Clinic volunteer services offers Reiki for both hospital and clinic patients.
- Patients are assessed for pain, nausea, anxiety, before and after receiving a Reiki session.
4. Reiki is offered in the Mayo Clinic Cancer Centre as an experiential educational experience.
5. Reiki was used in operating rooms as early as mid-90’s
6. Reiki is listed in the Holistic Nursing “Scope and Standards of Practice” as an acceptable form of care
7. At Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York:
- Reiki and other subtle energy techniques were used in the operating room during open heart surgeries and heart transplants
- Of the 11 heart patients who received Reiki: none experienced the usual postoperative depression:
- The bypass patients had no postoperative pain or leg weakness
- The transplant patients experienced no organ rejection
8. A Reiki Station was set up to treat fire fighters and first responders at Ground Zero during the efforts that followed after the 9/11 tragedy.
9. Professional sports teams employ Reiki practitioners to help athletes recover more quickly from surgery and/or injuries and to enhance performance.