Benefits of Reiki Energy Healing?
I donât know about using it on horses, but Iâve had several sessions that helped and I felt calm and energized afterward. The VA supports training nurses in reiki.
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I have had Reiki for myself, and have had it done for animals. It definitely is beneficial.
Lightening your wallet. 
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Caffeinated, not true. I had Reiki done on our pony when she foundered at a boarding barn due to the Barn Manager turning her out on June grass for 4 hours after sheâd been on dry lot. I was distraught and our dear pony was in great pain. The Reiki Master really helped her, and I was down on the ground in the stall with her and I can tell you that I am by nature a skeptic, but something really powerful happened. I felt it - a sense of peace and warmth that I didnât think possible at that time. I went out of the stall after that and had the lightest, most positive ride on my horse despite my fury at the Barn Manager. I also brought both horses home, thank God. I really think that it was a helpful tool in trying to find every way possible, along with traditional medicine, to ease our ponyâs pain.
I am now certified with Reiki I and I know it helped calm my horse when he was choking last year and I was waiting for the vet. He was starting to panic and I just got my own act together, went in with him and gave him Reiki and it helped him calm down.
Iâd hate to think that someone might miss out on a treatment that might help them or their horse because theyâd read here that Reiki has no benefits.
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Have used it several times on a nervous, high strung, untrusting young horse. I was a total skeptic prior but my horse
convinced me there was a lot more to it than met the eye, initially. Yes, it blankets the horse in immense peace, relaxation like an aura of tranquility surrounds the horse. Interesting stuff.
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I practice Reiki and use it on myself, other people and animals. The animals are open minded and are the best to treat.
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A 12 year.old girl did her middle school science project on this, and proved it was total nonsense. If it works, why havenât any âpractitionersâ tried to claim the JREF $1million dollar prize? Oh wait, donât tell me: âI donât have to prove myself.â (Yes, you do) âI donât need the moneyâ Then why do you charge for your services, and why not win it and donate the money to charity? Why has this country become so gullible and hostile to and or ignorant of the scientific method? Show me peer reviewed studies that show it works, not anecdotes. Anecdotes are neither proof nor data.
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In my personal opinion, some modalities canât be proven via scientific method and yet it doesnât mean they donât work.
Why are some people so gullible and hostile in believing that modalities that can only be proven via scientific method are the only acceptable modalities?
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I think it depends on what you are calling âthe scientific method.â I havenât read the literature, but if you have a study where some people get treated by Reiki practitioners and some get a phony treatment, you should see that more people who got Reiki reported improvement. That doesnât mean we have to understand why it works, but it shows that it does have a beneficial effect.
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https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/reiki/
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Its not that. Itâs the abcense of any certification. licensing or regulation of these practioners. Anybody can proclaim themselves a practioner and charge for their services. Like farriers, horse chiropractors and other body workers. Buyer beware, they donât even attempt to self regulate and most do not work in close contact with vets.
Im sure it might be beneficial but the waters are polluted by too many quacks.
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I think there is a scientific explanation for it. We just donât have it yet. It helped me.
My mom is certified in Reiki, and started a business here in Kentucky. However times were tuff and she had to get a different job, she ended up hurting her back and fighting workers comp. She has recently had back surgery (in the past 2 months) and while her back was hurt she lost her touch. She didnât do exact Reiki but something similar that never failed to help us out. She saved our dog from a brown recluse bite by putting milk on it and now he is one of our last dogs. Hopefully she will get back to it soon. If anyone wants to learn more about her P.M. me. I think Reiki works scientifically proven or not.
But somehow no one wants that moneyâŠAre there peer reviewed studies? No. Studies published in REPUTABLE scientific journals? No. If there have been double-blind tests as someone intimated above, letâs see a link. Again, personal anecdotes are not proof.
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If your personal requirements including certifications and licensing and peer reviewed studies, then great, go with what works for you.
Others of us may choose to try âalternativeâ non-peer reviewed modalities because some modalities canât really be âscientifically provenâ and we are willing to work from âanecdotal evidenceâ.
Just out of curiosity, do you believe acupuncture has not been sufficiently peer reviewed and proven to make a significant difference in pain relief and would not use it or are you willing to give it a try given that itâs been a modality that has been practiced for over 8000 years?
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Just because somethingâs âoldâ doesnât mean itâs real or effective. You did hear about the women who took some âancient Chineseâ medicine and died as a result? Does acupuncture work? To a degree. It does, apparently, stimulate endorphins, so there is short-term, partial relief, but not long term nor any âcure,â and certainly not for the reasons it claims (i.e., sticking needle in some specific âchannelâ that fixes, oh, your liver, say.) It has been tested and peer reviewed and proven to be basically placebo.
Do you know the joke? What do you call âalternative medicineâ that works? MEDICINE. Believe me, if these things really worked, doctors would be using them all the time. And again, if all these âalternativesâ work, why do people not want that JREF prize. The type and method of testing has to be agreed upon by both parties so that the test is fair. And yetâŠno one wants the money. To quote Trumplethinskin, Sad.
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2017/01/03/the-unreality-of-reiki-and-distance-healing/
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2014/09/11/why-reiki-masters-cant-lose/
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2014/11/11/reiki-propaganda-in-u-s-news-world-report/
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Belowthesalt, no one is making you go to any of these âquackâ providers offering non-peer reviewed services
No need to belittle others 
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Iâm sitting here w/ a broken leg propped up on my desk, wearing 2 Back on Track knee braces stacked over the whole leg. Why? Because the pain has been almost intolerable for 3 days. I doubt there are any peer reviewed studies
done on BOT devices but I can guarantee you withing 20 min. of putting on these braces which you might consider
bunk placebos, the pain is gone. Almost immediate relief. Now I only tell you this because thereâs another example of something not studied by scientists but that is effective in the real world.
thank goodness for bunk placebos.
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Not belittling anyone. Just pointing out that there is NO scientific evidence that Reiki works. However, there is an old saying that covers this, I suppose:
âA man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.â Benjamin Franklin.
I will say I find belief in these sort of things disturbing, if only because it is this rejection of the scientific method and peer reviewed studies, and firm belief in âWell, I believe it so it must be true,â that has gotten us the present resident of the White House, people voting against their own interests, and believing outright lies, no matter how many times the actual facts are pointed out to them.
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