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Reiki - Energy As Medicine
With such a large categories as "energy" and "medicine" it's not surprising that this Wikipedia definition has two different meanings: energy medicine which is seen to humankind - "veritable" (with that they mean energy science has verified) as well as medicine containing not been confirmed by science - "putative". Energy including electromagnetism would fall within the former category while Reiki energy and people of other complementary alternative medicines (CAM as defined with the National Institutes of Health) fall inside the latter. There's no doubt that science defines our lives for individuals so helping us to generate a feeling of the seemingly inexplicable in our way of life. We need science as well as smarts to keep us discovering the as-yet-undiscoverable even as we still evolve like a species in the world. At once, among the best quotes by certainly one of the world's most famous scientists leads me to imagine that humankind has to have a leap of faith where as-yet-unverifiable energy is concerned:
"It is better to think than disbelieve; in doing so you bring everything on the an entire world of possibility." - Albert Einstein
Before science laid bare the intricate workings with the body of a human we treated ourselves in such a way such as leeches (still used today) and blood-letting (thankfully a thing in the past). We used plants and their properties to deal with our illnesses and injuries: honey for burns, birch bark for salicylic acid, compresses of arnica for healing list really is endless. Although some of those are nevertheless used today their use was subjugated from the emerging pharmaceutical industry and traditional medicine - more on that later. The quantity of knowledge we've got today about how precisely the physical body works is staggering and yet we may be moving our very own selves towards extinction being a species due to things like obesity. The World Health Organization offers these facts:
*Key facts

Worldwide obesity has a lot more than doubled since 1980.
In 2008, 1.5 billion adults, 20 and older, were overweight. Of these over 200 million men and nearly 300 million women were obese.
65% with the world's population lives in countries where overweight and obesity kills lots more people than underweight.
Nearly you could try these out under the age of five were overweight this season.
Obesity is preventable.

How is it that we are so much smarter than our ancestors yet so dumb at the same time?! It seems as though the plethora of choices we now have has succeeded in removing and insulating/isolating us from your very essence of ourselves. This essence in conjunction with the wisdom with the physical body may be taken out of us when both of these things need most to become kept near and nearby.
At the same time frame we had been exploring and exploding certain myths concerning the body of a human - what makes reproduction occur, what purpose does your brain serve whether it's the guts that keeps blood circulating and the body physically functioning, exactly why do we've a couple of something (kidneys, lungs, ovaries, testes) in support of considered one of other activities (stomach, heart, liver) I use a hunch we had been moving further away through the essence from the physical body. That as-yet-unverified kind of energy where your body depends to heal itself after an accident or illness remained elusive from the most probing scientists and tests although that may be changing. Depending upon what culture you want this essence or life force energy has different names: ki, chi, or prana among others.
I think it's fascinating how the more something is invisible to humankind the more we resist its existence. We are so influenced by your own five senses and science to describe to us via those five senses what we simply cannot see, hear, smell, feel, or taste inside our world. Heaven help something which isn't perceived through those senses - like ki - because we doubt its existence. Moreover, when something profound and not at all hard is discovered you will find there's rush to "technologize" anything and make it complex. When science surely could unlock the mysteries of why certain plants worked to help you the physical body in recovery from illness or injury there was a rush to isolate an incredibly small piece - sometimes a few cells - from the active part with the plant and artificially replicate that part. The result being that individuals began treating our signs of disease via non-organic means along with drugs that might be made in huge amounts which has a large profit for drug companies together with unintended unwanted side effects. This is the not-so-nice section of science - if it works on this small way let's allow it to be bigger in order that it can work in a larger way - better isn't just section of this equation.
Fortunately, we're coming full circle while not quite time for blood-letting in relation to science and medicine. **A 2007 study with the National Institutes of Health Complementary and Alternative Medicine states that more than 38% of adults within the US had tried some way of CAM. That translates to 1.2 million people who have awakened towards the idea that the physical body is capable of assisting traditional medicine with the self-healing process and actually, the self-healing process begins and ends with all the physical body. We would be foolish to neglect the level of knowledge gathered on the centuries about science and medicine and what works/what doesn't. That being said, it's the perfect time for science to once again train it's microscope for the most elusive of physical traits - life force energy - to ensure for humankind what we've already sensed and experienced: this self-healing energy is equally as real and valid every medicine given with a syringe and most times, a lot less painful. Certainly, energy medicine techniques like acupuncture have been established for hundreds of years but still haven't made it into Western medicine like a viable treatment modality. Again, because of the allegedly invisible energy pathways - meridians - which can be the inspiration of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) nearly all scientists choose - yes, choose - to dismiss both the substance and effect of acupuncture around the physical body. Those times are going to alteration of a large way, gentle reader.
There's a great deal research happening in this area that it is impossible to list everything here. Suffice it to say where Reiki in particular is concerned the US Army has caused it to be section of its Warriors Resilience Program at Fort Bliss. Yale studied the results of Reiki on cardiac arrest patients and found that Reiki improved heart rate variability -time between heart beats. Reiki is employed in over 800 US hospitals today and also the International Society for your Study of Subtle Energy and Energy Medicine is rolling out entire academic programs around the research into life force energy.
These advances in the two use of and research of "energy medicine"will bring us full circle and back to our personal essence and wisdom of the body. It's just a couple of time before "ki"is verified by science and one more as-yet-undiscoverable item may be believed and moved to the realm of possibility. I fear that after science gets your hands on this effervescent spring of their time it may attempt to clone it, develop alternatives and/or drugs that replicate its effects. Is it truly impossible for science to only look for a lynchpin of humankind as well as leaving it's?
I can't help but wonder, though, if we'll use a harder time relocating the trust that we once had in your own bodies and its particular inherent wisdom. We are so conditioned to seeking the answer outside of ourselves and through below authentic means most of us stopped searching inward to the answers we as individuals seek along with healing paths for our cultures and world. I do have hope that through individual Reiki sessions this trust will surface once again. As many more people get the life tool that is certainly Reiki I have hope this rising tide of energetic body-centered medicine will swell and gently sweep away all that will not serve our highest purpose. In its place will be peace, love and compassion for ourselves and for your rest of the world.
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