Why and How Does Reiki Work?

Reiki. Hmph. Another one of those new-agey, wacky alternative medicines that gullible people spend all their money on. I very seriously doubt it will work, don’t you?

I’m sure if you’ve been around medicine you’ve heard statements like this. You may even have thought them. And in my younger days, I would have thought them too. Except for one small problem. Reiki does work for both healing as well as spiritual growth, and millions of people across the globe could testify to this.

How does Reiki work? What a question. We are in the Age of Reason here, folks. We are in the Age of Scientific Experimentation. Now let’s be logical. You can’t see Reiki. You can’t hear it. It has no medicine. It has no drugs. There is no cutting or surgery in Reiki. We can’t even do a scientific experiment on it because we can’t even pin down what it is. Simply said, Reiki cannot work… And so it doesn’t.

And this is a good argument except for that little nagging point… Reiki does work.

In fact, Reiki is an age-old Japanese method of healing and spiritual enhancement that has been around for centuries. (Hmph. All the more reason to be skeptical. I mean what did they know about medicine a thousand years ago?) Reiki uses a technology whereby you lay your hands on a person. (Put your hands on someone, you have to be kidding me. I’m a scientist.) It is as if you use your life-force or energy to move the stuck places in another person life-force. (Energy and life-force, what is this nonsense?)

Well the question of ‘How does Reiki work’, and Reiki in general is now being explored from the most unlikely of all directions, the scientists themselves. These scientists from the pioneering filed of high-energy physics are now throwing about terms regarding Reiki. They are scientific-sounding terms like ‘unpolarized’, ‘vortex theory’, and ’subatomic matter.’ And by the sound of the Scientist’s murmurings, one begins to get a feeling that there is indeed a life-energy flowing through the human body, and it may actually be the very basis for all of life. But it is so small that we can’t detect it. All of a sudden it begins to feel like we are the ones who are back in the middle ages, does it not?

Now this energy can’t be seen, but it can certainly be felt. If you are being practiced on, for instance, you will often feel a spreading warmth, or even cold sensation in the area that is being worked on. On the other hand, if you are the practitioner, you will often feel a pins and needles kind of tingling warm sensation.

Now if we take a better look, we may find that Reiki has a lot more credibility than we realize. For instance do you remember the bible and the laying on of hands? It sounds like Reiki to me. How about you? It makes you wonder if maybe the people in the days of yore were not so simple-minded as we thought. Perhaps , when you look at it, they were actually quite smart and enlightened. For instance, they knew enough to figure out- if it works, don’t worry about why or how- just use it. Not a bad thought for the Age of Reason to ponder, is it?

Tags: Alternative Medicine, Reiki