MM Chapter 18: Energetic Approaches

Reiki practitioners regularly report that recipients experience a feeling of increased well-being, deeper relaxation, and improved sleep after sessions. Like most therapies that employ touch, reiki likely reduces stress and supports improved health for any condition exacerbated by stress. While a study conducted in Sweden did not focus on reiki specifically, researchers found that gentle […]

Reiki practitioners seek presence, or the ability to live in the moment and be highly aware and sensitive to what is happening around them. Mikao Usui passed down five principles or affirmations that help practitioners remain personally balanced and present and promote an evolving relationship to unified reiki source energy. The five principles of reiki

Takata developed three levels of training that reiki practitioners undertake to practice reiki or teach it to others.  Level 1 or first-degree reiki training teaches hand placement for hands-on healing, light touch, or the placement of hands held just above the body. During the first-degree training, students receive four initiations (also called attunements or empowerments)

Everything in nature vibrates. In a human body, every atom, molecule, cell, tissue, and organ vibrates as it conducts its functions. The sum of these individual vibrations creates a unique whole-body vibration signature. Essential oils, herbs, crystals, flower essences, sound, light, homeopathic remedies, and other people vibrate and produce a specific vibration signature. Everything that

Infrared (from the Latin infra, meaning “below” red, referring to the visible light spectrum of colors that are just within the red end of the spectrum) or heat radiation is defined as electromagnetic radiation of a wavelength longer than that of visible light but shorter than that of radio waves. As described in Chapter 16,

A magnetic field is a force field in the region around a magnet or an electric current. It is characterized by a detectable magnetic force and magnetic poles. A magnetic force is exerted between the magnetic poles, producing magnetization. Magnetic poles are the places in the magnetic field where the force is most intense. As

Many energy medicine systems base their practices on a belief in an energetic body system. Michel Gauquelin, the author of Cosmic Clocks, writes, “The scientist knows that in the history of ideas, magic always precedes science, that the intuition of phenomena anticipates objective knowledge.” An intuitive belief in an energetic body system dates back thousands

Energy is defined as the exertion of power or a capacity to do work, taking the forms of kinetic energy, potential energy, chemical energy, electrical energy, and others. In physics, energy is described by the amount of work that can be performed by a force, and the types of energy (thermal, gravitational, sound, light, and