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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 that is certainly seen to humankind - "veritable" (from this they mean energy that science has verified) and medicine which has not been confirmed by science - "putative". Energy such as electromagnetism would fall within the former category while Reiki energy and the ones of other complementary alternative medicines (CAM as defined through the National Institutes of Health) fall inside latter. There's no doubt that science defines our everyday life for individuals helping us to make a feeling of the seemingly inexplicable in our way of life. We need science and its particular smarts to keep us discovering the as-yet-undiscoverable as we always evolve being a species in the world. At the same time frame, one of my personal favorite quotes by among the world's most famous scientists leads me to believe that humankind has to require a leap of faith where as-yet-unverifiable energy is involved:
"It is better to trust than disbelieve; in doing so you bring everything towards the an entire world of possibility." - Albert Einstein
Before science laid bare the intricate workings of the body of a human we treated ourselves in manners like leeches (still used today) and blood-letting (thankfully one thing from the past). We used plants in addition to their properties to help remedy our illnesses and injuries: honey for burns, birch bark for salicylic acid, compresses of arnica for healing list really is limitless. Although some of these remain used today their use was subjugated with the emerging pharmaceutical industry and traditional medicine - more on that later. The level of knowledge we now have today about how exactly the physical body works is staggering and yet natural meats be moving our personal selves towards extinction being a species on account of things like obesity. The World Health Organization offers these facts:
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Worldwide obesity has greater 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% of the world's population lives in countries where overweight and obesity kills lots more people than underweight.

Nearly 43 million children under the age of five were overweight in 2010.

Obesity is preventable.


How one thing we have been so much smarter than our ancestors yet so dumb simultaneously?! It seems as though the plethora of choices we've has succeeded in removing and insulating/isolating us through the very essence of ourselves. This essence as well as the wisdom with the physical body may be taken off us when those two things need most being kept near and close at hand.
At one time we were exploring and exploding certain myths regarding the body of a human - what makes reproduction occur, what purpose does the mind serve if it's the center that keeps blood circulating and one's body physically functioning, how come we have two of something (kidneys, lungs, ovaries, testes) and only one of other items (stomach, heart, liver) I have a very hunch i was moving further away from the essence in the physical body. That as-yet-unverified type of energy on which your body depends to heal itself after a personal injury or illness remained elusive from the most probing scientists and tests although which might be changing. Depending upon what culture you like this essence or life force energy has different names: ki, chi, or prana for starters.
I think it's fascinating how the more something is invisible to humankind the more we resist its existence. We are so established by our own five senses and science to spell out to us via those five senses that which we can't see, hear, smell, feel, or taste in your world. Heaven help a thing that isn't perceived through those senses - including ki - because we doubt its existence. Moreover, when something profound and easy is discovered there's a rush to "technologize" anything to make it complex. When science was able to unlock the mysteries of why certain plants worked to help the physical body in recovery from illness or injury there was a rush to isolate an incredibly small piece - sometimes 1 or 2 cells - in the active part of the plant and artificially replicate that part. The result being that individuals began treating our signs of disease via non-organic means and with drugs that may be produced in higher quantities which has a large profit for drug companies in addition to unintended side effects. This is the not-so-nice part of science - whether it works on this small way let's help it become bigger in order that it can work in a more impressive way - better isn't necessarily a part of this equation.
Fortunately, were coming full circle however, not quite to blood-letting in terms of science and medicine. **A 2007 study from the National Institutes of Health Complementary and Alternative Medicine states that over 38% of adults inside US had tried some way of CAM. That translates to 1.2 million folks who suffer from awakened for the idea that this physical body is able to assisting traditional medicine using the self-healing process and actually, the self-healing process begins and ends while using physical body. We would be foolish to disregard the amount of knowledge gathered within the centuries about science and medicine and what works/what doesn't. That being said, it is time for science to yet again train it's microscope on the most elusive coming from all physical traits - life force energy - to confirm for humankind what we've already sensed and experienced: this self-healing energy is just as real and valid because medicine given using a syringe and most times, much less painful. Certainly, energy medicine techniques like acupuncture have been about for thousands of years but still haven't managed to get into Western medicine being a viable treatment modality. Again, because in the allegedly invisible energy pathways - meridians - which can be the foundation of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) nearly all scientists choose - yes, choose - to dismiss both the substance and effect of acupuncture about the physical body. Those times are about to change in a major way, gentle reader.
There's a lot research taking place in this area that it is impossible chatting everything here. Suffice it to say where Reiki in particular can be involved the US Army has made it part of its Warriors Resilience Program at Fort Bliss. Yale studied the results of Reiki on cardiac event patients and located that Reiki improved pulse rate variability -time between heart beats. look at this website is used in over 800 US hospitals today as well as the International Society for your Study of Subtle Energy and Energy Medicine has developed entire academic programs around the research into life force energy.
These advances in the use of and research of "energy medicine"will bring us full circle and returning to your own essence and wisdom of the body. It's simply a couple of time before "ki"is verified by science and one more as-yet-undiscoverable item has become believed and moved to the arena of possibility. I fear that once science gets their hands on this effervescent spring of one's it may make an effort to clone it, develop alternatives and/or drugs that replicate its effects. Is it truly impossible for science to easily look for a lynchpin of humankind by leaving you choose?
I can't help but wonder, though, if we'll possess a harder time relocating the trust that individuals once suffered from within our own bodies as well as inherent wisdom. We are so conditioned to locating the answer away from ourselves and through lower than authentic means a lot of us stopped searching inward to the answers we as individuals seek along with healing paths for cultures and world. I do have hope that through individual Reiki sessions this trust will surface once more. As many lots more people uncover the life tool that's Reiki I have hope that rising tide of energetic body-centered medicine will swell and gently sweep away everything that will not serve our highest purpose. In its place will probably be peace, love and compassion for ourselves and for the rest of the world.
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