About Reiki
"Reiki practice helps us to relax. A relaxed body and mind give us a foundation for healing."
Reiki is a gentle touch therapy that originated in Japan.
Reiki practitioners place their hands lightly on or just above the person receiving treatment.
Reiki sessions have a relaxing and balancing effect on our whole system, and facilitate our healing response.
Reiki is very easy to learn. Reiki classes teach us how to use touch for comfort, relaxation and stress reduction on ourselves and others.
Stress is a physical and emotional reaction that people experience as they encounter changes in life. Stress is a normal feeling. However, long-term stress may contribute to or worsen a range of health problems including digestive disorders, headaches, sleep disorders, and other symptoms. Stress may worsen asthma and has been linked to depression, anxiety, and other mental illnesses.
Stress affects our natural ability to self-heal.
Science does not yet know how a simple touch can have such a profound effect. Commonly reported benefits include improved sleep, better pain management, less anxiety, better digestion and improved overall well-being.
Reiki treatment has been used by people with anxiety, PTSD, chronic pain, HIV/AIDS, and other health conditions, as well as by people recovering from surgery or experiencing side effects from cancer treatments. Reiki sessions have also been given to people who are dying (and to their families and caregivers) to help impart a sense of peace.
Reiki sessions are offered at Portsmouth Regional Hospital in New Hampshire for pre-op and post-op patients
to reduce anxiety and pain.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York uses Reiki sessions to reduce fatigue and nausea, improving pain control and quality of life for cancer patients.
Reiki is one of the complementary therapies used at the Pain and Palliative Care Service at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, MD, to help reduce anxiety and pain.
Reiki sessions are also being offered to patients at Yale-New Haven Hospital in Connecticut, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Institute in Boston, and M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
Inova Health Systems offers Reiki sessions at Inova Loudoun Hospital in Northern Virginia as part of their Life with Cancer Program.
The Center for Integrative Medicine at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, DC, offers Reiki sessions to enhance healing outcome and prepare patients for procedures such as surgery, cardiac catheterization, IVF and chemotherapy.
