"Watch your thoughts: they become words.
Watch your words: they become actions.
Watch your actions: they become habits.
Watch your habits: they become character.
Watch your character: it becomes your destiny.
" - Unknown Why is it that something that is self-evident must first be scientifically proven before it is accepted by the Westerner? My perception is that it is, or rather to be more tolerant, would appear to be, the Western way of stumbling through life.
Forever making mistakes and not being able to find inner peace.
That we are far behind The Easterner as far as what creates a better body and soul, has long been obvious to me a "Westerner".
Persisting with this dogmatic approach, historically finding reliable medical evidence to prove that spiritual healing methods do actually work! Not all Doctors think alike and perhaps the "old School" find it difficult to lend any credibility to Reiki , for example.
Also Yoga, meditation, migration of souls and the list goes on and on.
Early in the 20th century a Japanese by the name of Mikao Usui started using a healing technique which he created that involved the practitioner using their hands to direct chi, life force, through the body of the patient.
He called his creation Reiki.
The word Reiki is made of two Japanese words - Rei which means "God's Wisdom or the Higher Power" and Ki which is "life force energy".
So Reiki is actually "spiritually guided life force energy.
" In separate studies conducted in the United States and Japan the energy waves that emanated or passed through the practitioners' hands were tested.
It was discovered that the hands emitted a bio-magnetic field which pulsated with the same frequencies as brain waves.
Resulting, many believe in the healing process throughout the body.
Faith and prayer should be uppermost in all our minds, do not live in a cocoon, thinking only of yourself and what is best for me.
Think about your neighbor and how you can help him instead.
By helping him you will be helping yourself and creating a better you and future.
Numerous and exhaustive studies have been done concerning the effectiveness of prayer.
There should be little doubt in most peoples minds that prayer has a positive effect on those being prayed for, even without their knowledge.
One study revealed that the sick being prayed for had significantly less reliance on, or need for antibiotics, than those who were not being prayed for.
Concluding this short review, prayer is a relatively non-controversial form of healing.
So what about one of the more questioned methods, such as Reiki? "Positive outcomes of Reiki have been recorded in some alternative medical journals, claiming that its proven benefits included reduced heart rate, pain, depression and anxiety; increased relaxation and immunity and improved blood pressure.
Critics argue that any of these could be a result of a placebo effect.
" A 2002 study of Reiki on the effects of depression yielded that the Reiki-treated patients were less depressed than the placebo group.
When re-checked a year later, the result stayed the same.
Do a search on Google and enter the word "Reiki".
There is so much information available and it is not all that difficult to learn.
Watch your words: they become actions.
Watch your actions: they become habits.
Watch your habits: they become character.
Watch your character: it becomes your destiny.
" - Unknown Why is it that something that is self-evident must first be scientifically proven before it is accepted by the Westerner? My perception is that it is, or rather to be more tolerant, would appear to be, the Western way of stumbling through life.
Forever making mistakes and not being able to find inner peace.
That we are far behind The Easterner as far as what creates a better body and soul, has long been obvious to me a "Westerner".
Persisting with this dogmatic approach, historically finding reliable medical evidence to prove that spiritual healing methods do actually work! Not all Doctors think alike and perhaps the "old School" find it difficult to lend any credibility to Reiki , for example.
Also Yoga, meditation, migration of souls and the list goes on and on.
Early in the 20th century a Japanese by the name of Mikao Usui started using a healing technique which he created that involved the practitioner using their hands to direct chi, life force, through the body of the patient.
He called his creation Reiki.
The word Reiki is made of two Japanese words - Rei which means "God's Wisdom or the Higher Power" and Ki which is "life force energy".
So Reiki is actually "spiritually guided life force energy.
" In separate studies conducted in the United States and Japan the energy waves that emanated or passed through the practitioners' hands were tested.
It was discovered that the hands emitted a bio-magnetic field which pulsated with the same frequencies as brain waves.
Resulting, many believe in the healing process throughout the body.
Faith and prayer should be uppermost in all our minds, do not live in a cocoon, thinking only of yourself and what is best for me.
Think about your neighbor and how you can help him instead.
By helping him you will be helping yourself and creating a better you and future.
Numerous and exhaustive studies have been done concerning the effectiveness of prayer.
There should be little doubt in most peoples minds that prayer has a positive effect on those being prayed for, even without their knowledge.
One study revealed that the sick being prayed for had significantly less reliance on, or need for antibiotics, than those who were not being prayed for.
Concluding this short review, prayer is a relatively non-controversial form of healing.
So what about one of the more questioned methods, such as Reiki? "Positive outcomes of Reiki have been recorded in some alternative medical journals, claiming that its proven benefits included reduced heart rate, pain, depression and anxiety; increased relaxation and immunity and improved blood pressure.
Critics argue that any of these could be a result of a placebo effect.
" A 2002 study of Reiki on the effects of depression yielded that the Reiki-treated patients were less depressed than the placebo group.
When re-checked a year later, the result stayed the same.
Do a search on Google and enter the word "Reiki".
There is so much information available and it is not all that difficult to learn.
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