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Reiki - Energy As Medicine
With such an extensive categories as "energy" and "medicine" it's not surprising that this Wikipedia definition has two different meanings: energy medicine that is seen to humankind - "veritable" (by this they mean energy that science has verified) as well as medicine that has not been confirmed by science - "putative". Energy such as electromagnetism would fall inside the former category while Reiki energy and people of other complementary alternative medicines (CAM as defined from the National Institutes of Health) fall inside latter. There's no doubt that science defines us for us so it helps us to generate feeling of the seemingly inexplicable in our lives. We need science and its particular smarts to stay discovering the as-yet-undiscoverable even as we continue to evolve being a species on this planet. At one time, certainly one of the most popular quotes by one of the world's most well-known scientists leads me to believe that humankind needs to please take a leap of faith where as-yet-unverifiable energy is involved:
"It is better to imagine than disbelieve; in doing so you bring everything towards the an entire world of possibility." - Albert Einstein
Before science laid bare the intricate workings with the body system we treated ourselves in manners including leeches (still used today) and blood-letting (thankfully one thing with the past). We used plants along with 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 such remain used today their use was subjugated with the emerging pharmaceutical industry and traditional medicine - read more about that later. The level of knowledge we now have today about how exactly the physical body works is staggering and yet we might be moving our very own selves towards extinction like a species due to things like obesity. The World Health Organization offers these facts:
*Key facts


Worldwide obesity has 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% in the world's population lives in countries where overweight and obesity kills more and more people than underweight.

Nearly 43 million children under the age of five were overweight this season.

Obesity is preventable.


How is it that we're so much smarter than our ancestors yet so dumb concurrently?! It seems as if the plethora of choices we have has succeeded in removing and insulating/isolating us from the very essence of ourselves. This essence coupled with the wisdom from the physical body may be taken out of us when these two things need most to become kept near and readily available.
At the same time i was exploring and exploding certain myths concerning the human body - so how exactly does reproduction occur, what purpose does the mind serve if it is the guts that keeps blood circulating and one's body physically functioning, exactly why do we have a couple of something (kidneys, lungs, ovaries, testes) in support of among other things (stomach, heart, liver) I use a hunch we were moving further away through the essence in the physical body. That as-yet-unverified kind of energy upon which the body depends to heal itself after an injury or illness remained elusive from the most probing scientists and tests although which may be changing. Depending upon what culture you prefer this essence or life force energy has different names: ki, chi, or prana for starters.
I think it's fascinating the more something is invisible to humankind the greater we resist its existence. We are so established by our personal five senses and science to spell out to us via those five senses what we can't see, hear, smell, feel, or taste in your world. Heaven help something which isn't perceived through those senses - for example ki - because we doubt its existence. Moreover, when remote energy medicine coaching and not at all hard is discovered you will find there's rush to "technologize" something to make it complex. When science was able to unlock the mysteries of why certain plants worked to aid 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 from the plant and artificially replicate that part. The result being that we began treating our symptoms of disease via non-organic means with drugs that is mass produced which has a large profit for drug companies along with unintended unwanted effects. This is the not-so-nice portion of science - when it works with this small way let's help it become bigger in order that it can work in a more impressive way - better isn't necessarily section of this equation.
Fortunately, we are coming full circle although not quite back to blood-letting with regards to science and medicine. **A 2007 study with the National Institutes of Health Complementary and Alternative Medicine states that more than 38% of adults inside US had tried some type of CAM. That translates to 1.2 million individuals who have awakened on the idea that the physical body is capable of assisting traditional medicine with all the self-healing process and in reality, the self-healing process begins and ends with all the physical body. We would be foolish to overlook 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 once more train it's microscope for the most elusive of all physical traits - life force energy - to verify for humankind what we've already sensed and experienced: this self-healing energy is as real and valid as any medicine given using a syringe and most times, much less painful. Certainly, energy medicine techniques including acupuncture have been established for thousands of years but still haven't made it into Western medicine like a viable treatment modality. Again, because from the allegedly invisible energy pathways - meridians - which can be the building blocks of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) nearly all scientists choose - yes, choose - to dismiss both the substance and effect of acupuncture for the physical body. Those times are planning to alternation in a big way, gentle reader.
There's so much research occurring on this area that it is impossible to read it all here. Suffice it to say where Reiki particularly can be involved the US Army has got part of its Warriors Resilience Program at Fort Bliss. Yale studied the results of Reiki on cardiac arrest patients and found that Reiki improved heartbeat variability -time between heart beats. Reiki is employed in over 800 US hospitals today and the International Society for that Study of Subtle Energy and Energy Medicine has developed entire academic programs around study regarding life force energy.
These advances in the use of and research of "energy medicine"will bring us full circle and returning to our own essence and wisdom of the body. It's merely a matter of time before "ki"is verified by science and one more as-yet-undiscoverable item has become believed and moved in the realm of possibility. I fear that after science gets your hands on this effervescent spring of one's it might try to clone it, develop alternatives and/or drugs that replicate its effects. Is it truly impossible for science to merely find a lynchpin of humankind leave it's?
I can't help but wonder, though, if we'll use a harder time relocating the trust that people once had in our own bodies and its particular inherent wisdom. We are so taught to finding the answer outside ourselves and through less than authentic means most of us stopped searching inward for the answers we as individuals seek in addition to healing paths for your cultures and world. I do have hope that through individual Reiki sessions this trust will surface again. As many lots more people find the life tool that's Reiki I have hope that this rising tide of energetic body-centered medicine will swell and gently sweep away all of that won't serve our highest purpose. In its place is going to be peace, love and compassion for ourselves and for the rest with the world.
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