Reiki for Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Generalized anxiety disorder is a potentially debilitating condition that affects millions of people all across the globe. In fact, according to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, generalized anxiety disorder currently affects 3.1 percent of the U.S. population. Treatments for generalized anxiety disorder vary but often include medication and psychotherapy. Some people struggling with [...]
Reiki in Ontario Hospitals
Reiki in Ontario Hospitals In recent years, reiki has become a much more popular treatment option for patients in Canada, as well as a subject of scientific research. As a result, more people are calling for the inclusion of reiki as a treatment option in a variety of settings, including within Ontario hospitals. About Reiki [...]
How Reiki Can Help You Beat the Winter Blues
The days are shorter, nights are longer, and the holiday fanfare has come and gone, sometimes leaving you with loads of bills to pay. It’s no wonder that the winter blues are a regular visitor for many. Whether northern or southern hemisphere, winter happens everywhere at some point during the year. But just because the [...]
Reiki for Nurses
As a direct result of their beautiful and beneficial but stressful chosen career and work environment, nurses face high levels of stress and anxiety on a daily basis. Over time, this continued stress can lead to a number of physical, mental, and emotional issues for nurses that may reduce the quality of life and decrease [...]
Reiki May Help Improve Symptoms of Lyme Disease
Reiki for Lyme Disease Some people who contract Lyme disease may experience significant symptoms even after undergoing the proper medical treatment. In these cases, Reiki may potentially help to improve some of the symptoms associated with this chronic condition. Understanding Lyme Disease Lyme disease is an illness caused by a specific bacterium known as Borrelia [...]
Can Reiki Help With ADHD?
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD, typically begins in childhood and can affect the sufferer throughout his or her life. This condition is incredibly common, with more children being diagnosed each year. In fact, during 2011, the Centers for Disease Control reports that more than one out of every ten children aged 4 to 17 [...]
Reiki and Breast Cancer
Reiki and Breast Cancer A breast cancer diagnosis is one of the most difficult situations someone can face. The pain, stress, and trauma involved are unparalleled, and patients dealing with this condition need all of the comfort and support they can get. Recently, many breast cancer patients have become interested in the idea of using [...]
Reiki for All Life Stages
Reiki for All Life Stages: From Pregnancy to Elder Care Reiki helps to restore and strengthen each person's life force. No matter what the individual's need is, Reiki will support his or her stability and well-being. Reiki does not discriminate. Its availability is constant. Treatment can be received by anyone, anywhere, anytime. The list of [...]
Reiki for Weight Loss
Can Reiki Help with Weight Loss? Obesity is a serious problem for people all across the world and particularly in the United States. In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control, more than one-third of adults in the U.S. currently qualify as obese, and an even greater number are overweight. Obesity can lead to [...]
Is Reiki Effective for Diabetes
About Reiki and Diabetes Diabetes is a common but serious illness that affects millions of people throughout the world. In fact, according to the World Health Organization, approximately 422 million people on the planet were suffering from diabetes in 2014, and the number is increasing every year. A number of treatments exist for diabetes, but [...]
Reiki for Depression
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), depression affects approximately 280 million people around the world. In early 2020 due to the global pandemic, depression rates in US adults rose from 8.5% to a shocking 27.8%. Even worse, Boston University School of Public Health published new research in October, 2021 in The Lancet showing that [...]
How Can Reiki Help Your Nursing Practice ?
How Can Reiki Help Your Nursing Practice? As an integrative practice, Reiki focuses on the client, not a specific illness. Reiki and Nursing go hand in hand because Reiki can help a patient become more receptive to traditional medical treatment. Reiki by itself often helps a patient not ready for a specific therapy to become calmer, [...]
Why Reiki and Healthy Living Are Inseparable
Ask anyone who has heard about Reiki to use one phrase to describe it. Chances are, they’ll mention a process to heal an existing condition a bit out of balance. This natural healing art has worldwide recipients who have experienced first-hand how it directs energy to the recipient to help restore balance and potentially assist [...]
Reiki and Acupuncture: Friendly Cousins
Thanks to Einstein, we know that there are only two kinds of things in the world: energy, and things that can become energy. But what is energy? We might call it an intangible essence, a spark of activity that cannot be created, destroyed, or easily defined. The iconic choreographer Martha Graham expressed it eloquently: "There [...]
How Reiki Helps Cancer Patients
How Reiki Helps Cancer Patients Reiki, a stress reduction and relaxation technique, has become a subject of curiosity for cancer patients everywhere. Studies and anecdotal evidence have shown that, in addition to promoting relaxation among patients, Reiki can also be used to encourage healing and provide other benefits. In fact, some studies have even explored [...]
Reiki Healing: A Personal Experience
Reiki Perspectives: My Journey to and with Reiki Quite often I am asked, “What is Reiki?” The answer is simple yet quite complex. The word Reiki means Universal Life Force or Energy. It’s the word “energy” that is most interesting, simple, and complex. When we are tired we often say, “I have no energy left, [...]
Reiki for Traumatic Stress Relief
Reiki as a Complementary Healing Therapy I first learned about Reiki, a Japanese healing art, while working on the Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Project from 2001- 2007 for the New York State Health Department. Driven by consumer demands, complementary therapies such as Reiki were slowly being integrated into hospital settings, medical school curriculum, and [...]
Reiki and Chronic Pain: Can Reiki Help Provide Comfort for the Chronic Pain Epidemic?
Reiki and the Chronic Pain Epidemic Chronic pain affects more than 100 million Americans, according to a report released by the Institute of Medicine. Another 10 million people suffer from pain on a near-daily basis in Britain, according to The British Pain Society. Those numbers are just for two countries. Imagine what the worldwide numbers [...]
Psychotherapeutic Reiki for Mind and Body
At the heart of this approach is the position that psychological symptoms and conditions are organized and maintained by ki (subtle energy) in the human energy field and are stored and carried in the physical body. Traditional psychotherapeutic approaches do not address subtle energy and they tend to downplay or ignore the role the body [...]
Reiki at the End of Life
Exploring Reiki for End-of-Life Care When I was training to be a Reiki Master Teacher, we talked about how hospitals, elder-care facilities, and hospice programs continue to adopt Reiki in what is a growing and widespread trend. We explored Reiki as part of the death and dying process and how it could be healing for [...]
Reiki in the Clinical Setting
Reiki in the Clinical Setting is On The Rise Reiki is increasingly finding its way into institutional settings, from hospitals to hospices, and the push appears to be coming from patients as well as clinical practitioners. "More and more, patients are requesting care beyond what most consider to be traditional health services, and hospitals are [...]
Reiki and Medicine
Reiki in Hospitals and other Medical SettingsReiki and complementary therapies have been benefiting patients, caregivers, and hospitals at an increasing rate over the past decade.Hospitals across the United States are responding to patient demand and integrating complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) services with the conventional services they normally provide, according to the results of a survey [...]
