Bruce wrote:
...But the idea that reiki and TCM (at least, qi-healing w/ which I'm familiar) are placebos ignores studies that take placebo effect into account and find a significant difference. I like the chart at the following link because it notes both "positive" and "negative" study outcomes, as well as where there are concerns with study designs: http://www.transitiontoparenthood.com/janelle/energy/researchchart.htm
Bruce

I agree with you, and have reason to believe Western Medicine's attitude towards Reiki will be changing to a more favorable perspective within the next few decades. Reiki, specifically, is now being mentioned in college textbooks such as "Your Health Today" (published by McGraw Hill) as a complimentary medicine (that book has an entire chapter dedicated to alternative and complimentary medicine therapies which suggests Western Medicine is becoming more aware of their results--or need).

That's an excellent resource you have provided (I Zotero'd it to my archive of references). I would like to ask for your patience and continue a discussion about this topic during the last week of May in a new thread specific to statistical research. Creating a new thread allows us to keep the discussion on topic (should be obvious), and waiting until the end of May allows me time to complete my current college semester with less reasons to avoid looking at the class material (my mid-terms are next Monday, and after that pretty much all I will be doing is preparing for finals).

very interesting topic and great insights Wayne, Resko, Bruce and Buck!

A reiki process assumes three players : the reiki person, the reiki and the reciepient/patient... Reiki person contributes intent, receipient contributes permission, once these two items are put in, a process starts which we call reiki... Reiki process is not the effect or result, it is the key player itself... When i start session i m only contributing intent... This intent is my command to myself to let myself open to the reiki experience.... This puts the symbols into action, they interact within receipient to elicit a response... This interaction is backed by permission of receipient...

The response is reiki.... Lets put all this into absent reiki's perspective....

I had promised my friend for absent reiki 8:00 pm next evening.... He had given me permission by anticipating it.... On the appointed time, i forgot, and lets say he also forgot.... Now what ? My view is that reiki process actually 'happened' as soon as we promised an appointed time with each other... This process happened in the moment when promises were exchanged, i mean, in NOW.... Thus, reiki happened right now, and not 8:00 pm next day... However, the effects became available to receipient only when he chose them to be.i..e at 8:00 pm and not before....

Like Resko said, he wakes up on appointed time, lets say, 7:00 am next morning... But his intent has occurred right now, i.e., on 11:00 pm the night before..... Otherwise, if his intent was executed right on 7:00 am to wake him up, who made that intent at that moment ? resko ? Nah, he was asleep then....

Intent is not something that may be 'stored' somewhere so as to be programmed to 'happen' at some later time... When we intend it in NOW, this is intent, when we intent it now but to happen some time later, it is our ego working


I know my words appear strange to even myself atm, but why not enjoy the feel of flowing with thoughts for a fun ?


Take care

Salman

PS : what if we did actually an absent reiki session on appointed time? Would it have had same results... No, that is not the case... A reiki session is an interactive session. When we change hand positions, we are automatically shifting our intent from this moment to next moment, from this hand position to next hand position..... This produces effectiveness to the process....


Ever wonder why we need to 'start' a reiki session with a person whom we had given a session earlier ? I see, since we had 'stopped' reiki happening at the end of last session ? no? Then why a 'start' in this session when there had not been an 'end' in the last session ?
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I feel when we start a new session, we are making a new thread of healing, without necessarily cutting down, and reuniting a new thread from the break off point... This brings empirical evidence, that even when a patient has stopped going for reiki sessions, he keeps contiued in using healing benefits of the sessions that had apparently stopped