The PDF link below is a thesis on Reiki. Concerning the practitioners & clients. I havn't read it, but here it is. It's quite long.

http://library2.usask.ca/theses/available/etd-04242006-105532/unrestricted/k_mitchell.pdf

thanks to Peter for the link!

hi Wayne

today i was bit researching the reiki's place among other alternative healing modalities like teate, shaitsu (if i remember the term right), vis a vis the place reiki enjoys in National Center for Complimentary and Alternative medicine...


what i feel that as soon as we try going little more in reiki, we find that varioius concepts have been so deeply mingled with something we could say 'original' reiki... albeit, i m not that 'originality junkie' yet i feel that we got to have the facts straighten out (at least for our own self-knowledge) as what is and what is not reiki... this would further deepen our knowledge of how masterfully we can mix or otherwise identify the mixture of reiki with other healing modalities....

i have had just a glimpse of the thesis... and feeling lucky that it has popped up at just the right time in my little fact-finding


take care

(bundle thanks for bringing things like this onboard )




salman

Reiki is a method of stress reduction that also promotes healing. It is administered by laying-on hands. Lay practitioners have used it for more than 90 years, and its popularity is growing. A study done in 2007 by the National Health Interview Survey indicates that 1.2 million adults and 161,000 children received one or more sessions of energy healing therapy such as Reiki in the previous year. According to the American Hospital Association, in 2007, 15% or over 800 American hospitals offered Reiki as part of hospital services.

welcome to the forum! can i ask you to become familiar with the various sections in the welcome section which deal with reciprocal links. looking at your links and your post, i'm inclined to take them off(i've a low threshold for spam accounts). I'll wait till you respond here.

Milarepa wrote:The PDF link below is a thesis on Reiki. Concerning the practitioners & clients. I havn't read it, but here it is. It's quite long.

http://library2.usask.ca/theses/available/etd-04242006-105532/unrestricted/k_mitchell.pdf

Well, section 1.4 (History of Reiki) of the Thesis seems to get off to a rather poor start:

Katriona Claire Mitchell wrote:Reiki, when broken down and translated from Japanese is, rei-universal, ki- life force energy

then:

Katriona Claire Mitchell wrote:The roots of Reiki can be found in the ancient Tibetan sutras ...

and while the author states reiki was:

Katriona Claire Mitchell wrote: brought to the modern world in the 1800s...

in the very next sentence she says:

Katriona Claire Mitchell wrote: Reiki was not rediscovered until 1922...