Is Reiki bogus or legit?

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I wouldn’t say it is bogus totally, rather that it based on occult practices and is not aligned with Catholic believes.

All reiki practitioners/masters receive an attunement - which is the drawing of a specific symbols on the hands and over the third eye charkras using the finger of the qualified master reiki teacher - this can be done at a distance spiritually too. It is considered once attunement has been completed that the reiki practitioner/master’s charkra’s are all opened to receive as well as having a direct spiritual connection to the reiki source.

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Reiki is a Japanese word Rei means spiritual or sacred and Ki means energy. (Spiritual Energy)

There is a lot of spiritual changes that can occur in a reiki practitioners life, such as the ability to channel reiki through oneself or to others. A spiritual awareness what areas require healing. Increased intuition and psychic abilities. Further changes that manifest in the reiki life. Non of which is ideal and most likely will in the Catholic knowledge and understanding may impact negatively on a persons spiritual state.

Here are some Catholic perspectives:

Guidelines for evaluating reiki as an alternative therapy: Committee on Doctrine United States Conference of Catholic Bishops …
http://www.usccb.org/_cs_upload/about/doctrine/publications/133978_1.pdf
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http://www.usccb.org/_cs_upload/about/divine-worship/newsletter/170885_1.pdf - quote below:

The rites of exorcism are to be celebrated consistently following the directives (praenotanda) prescribed in the ritual. The rites are not to be altered at the discretion of the exorcist beyond the options clearly stated in the official text. However, before proceeding with the use of the rite, it is helpful for the exorcist to be aware of any cultural differences and regional influences that may have impacted the current state of the afflicted person. An evaluative instrument can assist in shedding light on such categories as:
  1. the places where the person may have visited (healers, mediums, psychics);
  2. the practices in which the person may have been involved (cleansings, New Age religion, Reiki);
  3. the ways that the person may have opened himself/herself directly to the dominion of the devil (magic, witchcraft, Satanic worship)
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It’s odd to me (though in another way, not at all surprising) that any healing practice that comes out of the East, and/or that does not conform to the “standards” of Western medicine is automatically deemed “nonsense” or “bogus”. Yes, a given practice (such as Reiki or acupuncture) may encompass a completely different philosophy and way of looking at “illness” – a completely different ‘world view’, if you will, but that does not automatically equate or demote it to the realm of ‘demonic’ or ‘occult’.
 
I agree. The real test is in the outcome. No need to get superstitious about something we don’t really understand. But then I also remember the 70’s when one could buy pyramids of different metals to where on the head to improve brain function. No kidding. I say show me the science, research, provable outcomes.
 
$60 is disturbing and sounds like taking advantage of the desperate.
 
In the words of Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers: ‘Bo Oh OHHHHHHH GUS!’

It can be soothing, sure. Same with healing touch. But there is no clinical evidence that it does anything.

**** I"m going to modify this after I updated some of my own research.

Basically Reiki can relax and soothe people, and seems to be better than a placebo in the treatment of stress and anxiety.

The method by which it claims to do it though (balancing of natural energies) doesn’t have any way of being proven.

So, if you want to do it to relax, I’d say give it a shot. But don’t get sucked into the ‘spiritual’ side of it. Basically, treat it like Yoga.
 
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Qi or Ki or prana, I think, are more subjective experience concepts than objective forces. A good stretch and deep breath feel good and help us feel more energized. The Qi is flowing. It is not an object. It is a feeling. In other words, we think of it wrongly. It is a holistic gestalt.
 
Just another way for people to take advantage of others by giving them false hope while achieving an ego-boost for themselves-especially if, for example, those others have some kind of incurable illness. That’s the bottom line even if the practitioner isn’t conscious of the deceit involved.
 
JohnStrachan said:
she can promote healing via the body’s energy fields
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Yeah, it’s bogus. I’m afraid whoever administered the two-week course pulled the wool over your sister’s eyes. Make sure if she gets sick she goes to a real doctor, because the best “energy channeling” will do is provide a placebo effect.
 
BornInMarch said:
Yeah, it’s bogus. I’m afraid whoever administered the two-week course pulled the wool over your sister’s eyes. Make sure if she gets sick she goes to a real doctor, because the best “energy channeling” will do is provide a placebo effect.
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Reiki is spiritual and it does work, but is not divine, not of Jesus, and not of God
 
TheHolyTrinity said:
Reiki is spiritual and it does work, but is not divine, not of Jesus, and not of God
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It’s classified as a pseudoscience, so at best it doesn’t work. If someone gets better after using Reiki than it’s either a coincidence or placebo effect.
 
BornInMarch said:
It’s classified as a pseudoscience, so at best it doesn’t work. If someone gets better after using Reiki than it’s either a coincidence or placebo effect.
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It depends on a persons belief system and how they view the world. As for me, I do not believe in coincidences.
 
And yet in the NANDA Nursing Diagnostic Manuel there is “Energy Field Disturbance” listed in Domain 4 Activity/Rest.

Definition: Disruption of the flow of energy surrounding a person’s being that results in a disharmony of the body, mind and/or spirit."

Therapeutic Touch (TT) is one of the mentioned interventions.


It was challenged but in the 11th edition of NANDA International Nursing Diagnoses: Definitions & Classification, 2018-2020 , the diagnosis returned under the name of “Imbalanced energy field”, it is inside Domain 4, Class 3.
 
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