How Does Reiki Work and Why Does It Work?

Posted by Lorelei F.

May 25, 2008

by Lorelei F.

It seems to me that Reiki is just another one of those crazy new-age concepts that a lot of foolish people spend their hard-earned money on. And I don’t know about you, but I can’t see how it could every work.

I myself would be inclined to agree with this statement, except for one small detail. It does work. And millions of people have found healing and growth through the process and can attest to the truth of this.

So then the question becomes- as we sit atop our high horse in this, the age of reason- how does Reiki work? Or more to the point, why does it work. By all accounts it shouldn’t work. It doesn’t use any drugs. You don’t have to cut into anything or anyone. ‘Normal’ doctors don’t use it. I can’t see it with my eyes or hear it with my ears. So, sorry lady. I don’t believe it. It just doesn’t work.

But there’s still that little problem… Reiki does work.

In fact, Reiki is an age-old Japanese method of healing and spiritual enhancement that has been around for centuries. (Hmph. All the more reason to be skeptical. I mean what did they know about medicine a thousand years ago?) Reiki uses a technology whereby you lay your hands on a person. (Put your hands on someone, you have to be kidding me. I’m a scientist.) It is as if you use your life-force or energy to move the stuck places in another person life-force. (Energy and life-force, what is this nonsense?)

Well the question of ‘How does Reiki work’, and Reiki in general is now being explored from the most unlikely of all directions, the scientists themselves. These scientists from the pioneering filed of high-energy physics are now throwing about terms regarding Reiki. They are scientific-sounding terms like ‘unpolarized’, ‘vortex theory’, and ’subatomic matter.’ And by the sound of the Scientist’s murmurings, one begins to get a feeling that there is indeed a life-energy flowing through the human body, and it may actually be the very basis for all of life. But it is so small that we can’t detect it. All of a sudden it begins to feel like we are the ones who are back in the middle ages, does it not?

As we learn about all of this, we hear that though we can’t see this energy, we can certainly feel it. Practitioners feel it as a tingling, warm, pins and needles kind of feeling. The person being practiced on feels it as a spreading warmth, or even cold, in the area that is being worked on.

Now if we take a better look, we may find that Reiki has a lot more credibility than we realize. For instance do you remember the bible and the laying on of hands? It sounds like Reiki to me. How about you? It makes you wonder if maybe the people in the days of yore were not so simple-minded as we thought. Perhaps , when you look at it, they were actually quite smart and enlightened. For instance, they knew enough to figure out- if it works, don’t worry about why or how- just use it. Not a bad thought for the Age of Reason to ponder, is it?

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