I found a post on The Reiki Digest that Gloria A. Gronowicz performed a vigorously designed three-year study on applying Reiki treatments to test-tube cells. The study was designed so the application of Reiki did not involve touching the tubes, heating them, or manipulating them phisicaly in any way.
The results showed (against her expectations) that Reiki had no effect on cancer cells, "but that the process improved bone cell growth by a statistically significant percent. Skin and tendon cells also grew under the Reiki regimen.".
The study was performed by the University of Connecticut Health Center and financed by the US National Institutes of Health Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, and apparently* published in the Journal of Orthopedic Research.
*) "apparently" means that I could't find or access the study dirrectly (but then again, I didn't want to pay for access on the CCAM website).
Later Edit: Following a discussion on reddit, It seems there are some points of this study that were contested as part of peer review (as I said in the discussion, the statistics part is a bit above my statistics-fu and I'm not willing to put in the effort to understand the issue, so I'll take the affirmations in the critique at face-value). Please take the conclusions of the study with a grain of salt though.
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Monday, July 6
Monday, November 24
The Free Reiki sessions at the Body, Mind and Spirit Exhibition
We did it.
Through the weekend there was the Body, Mind and Spirit Exhibition in Nicosia.
On Saturday, we had a room for three hours, giving people free Reiki. We had chairs and people would come in and sit on them and wait.
When we finished with one person, we would move on to the next, asking a few questions, explaining what we are doing, then having a short Reiki session with them. In the end, we would talk about the experience, answer some questions, and give them some written material on what Reiki is.
At the end, I felt very tired (I think the others were too) but the sense of accomplishment was there.
I don't know how to describe it really.
My pleasure, my sense of fulfillment is usually a simple thing (do something, get satisfaction).
In comparison, this was amazing.
Five minutes before we started, somebody came and asked if they were in the right place to find out about Reiki ... and I thought 'Hey, somebody might be interested in this ... '; but the room was always full, so full that after three hours with six Reiki masters, we didn't have the time to finish with everybody.
Then, there was the fact that we had something to offer, something people wanted to receive, sometimes so much that they came back for more.
There was answering the questions, the dialogues that came out of it, the sense of accomplishment.
There was the smiles of the people receiving this, and the people not wanting it to end.
Maybe it was all of those, or something else.
Maybe it was simply Reiki.
Whatever it was though, I think it will bring a smile on my face for quite some time now.
Whatever it was, in the end, we did it.
Through the weekend there was the Body, Mind and Spirit Exhibition in Nicosia.
On Saturday, we had a room for three hours, giving people free Reiki. We had chairs and people would come in and sit on them and wait.
When we finished with one person, we would move on to the next, asking a few questions, explaining what we are doing, then having a short Reiki session with them. In the end, we would talk about the experience, answer some questions, and give them some written material on what Reiki is.
At the end, I felt very tired (I think the others were too) but the sense of accomplishment was there.
I don't know how to describe it really.
My pleasure, my sense of fulfillment is usually a simple thing (do something, get satisfaction).
In comparison, this was amazing.
Five minutes before we started, somebody came and asked if they were in the right place to find out about Reiki ... and I thought 'Hey, somebody might be interested in this ... '; but the room was always full, so full that after three hours with six Reiki masters, we didn't have the time to finish with everybody.
Then, there was the fact that we had something to offer, something people wanted to receive, sometimes so much that they came back for more.
There was answering the questions, the dialogues that came out of it, the sense of accomplishment.
There was the smiles of the people receiving this, and the people not wanting it to end.
Maybe it was all of those, or something else.
Maybe it was simply Reiki.
Whatever it was though, I think it will bring a smile on my face for quite some time now.
Whatever it was, in the end, we did it.
Thursday, January 31
on reiki
Until now I waned to become a reiki healer and I did, except for an insignificant detail: reiki practitioners are not healers.
I am not a healer. I will have to remember that.
I am not a healer. I will have to remember that.
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