Reiki
Helen is qualified to Reiki Level 3 "Reiki Master"
Reiki is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing. It is administered by "hands on healing" and is based on the idea that qi or "life force energy" flows through us and that this universal energy is channeled to the client to encourage emotional and physical healing, by activating the natural healing processes of the patient's body. Helen works intuitively with each individual in channeling qi to help re-energise and relax each client, according to their needs.
Reiki, the Scientific Evidence
by Ann Linda Baldwin, PhD
People who have given and/or received Reiki know, first hand, how energizing it feels and how one’s worries seem to melt away after a session. However, people who have not experienced, or even heard of Reiki may naturally be more skeptical, and may not want to venture into the unknown.
What is really needed is scientific evidence showing exactly what Reiki can do to promote health and wellness. Fortunately, the Center for Reiki Research (CRR) has set up an easily accessible website (www.centerforreikiresearch.org) in order to promote people’s scientific awareness of Reiki.
This site provides a list of evidence-based research published in peer-reviewed journals along with a critical summary of each study. The list is kept up to date and currently includes 33 studies.
The summaries of the studies were produced by carefully analyzing the quality of each study in terms of experimental design, methodology, results, statistics, and conclusions, using a procedure developed by CRR named The Touchstone Process.
The following is a distillation of findings from the more robust of the studies that demonstrate positive physical effects of Reiki.
Probably the most commonly reported benefit of Reiki is that it reduces stress. One of the first places in the body that stress manifests itself is in the heart and circulation. Heart rate and blood pressure both increase during stress and these responses are caused by increased activity of sympathetic nerves in the heart. On the other hand, increased activity of the parasympathetic or vagal nerves causes the heart to relax.
Studies have shown that Reiki can reduce the stress response of the heart in both humans and animals. Friedman et al (2010) found that when nurses gave Reiki to 12 patients recovering from acute coronary syndrome, a disease involving blockage of the coronary arteries, the vagal nerves became more active, indicating a relaxation effect, as reflected by changes in the heart rate variability. This was a good sign because medications that enhance vagal nerve activity, such as beta-adrenergic blockers, improve the outcomes of patients with this type of heart disease... click here to continue reading.
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Albert Einstein
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