Reiki and Children with Learning Disabilities
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Douglas Haddad 
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What is Reiki?
Reiki is a Japanese healing technique used as a therapy to achieve a variety of health-related benefits. This form of therapy involves placing a practitioner’s hands on or near a person’s body for the purposes of healing. The termReiki is derived from the Japanese word Rei, which means universal or spiritual, and Ki, which means life energy. All Reiki practitioners believe that this life energy is a spiritual force that is found in all living things. When the flow of Ki has been disrupted or is blocked in a certain area of the body, an imbalance takes place. These disturbances to the body’s energy fields are said to be the cause of a variety of different health ailments.
Although little research has been conducted in this area to support Reiki’s therapeutic value beyond relaxation, it is intended to reduce stress, enhance a state of calmness and well-being, improve mental clarity, and promote healing.
How Reiki is Performed
The Reiki practitioner uses his/her hands by placing them directly on or slightly above the person receiving the therapy. The practitioner engages in a meditative process and aligns with the patient’s energy level. Proponents of Reiki claim that they can detect energy and allow for an “energy transfer” to take place from the practitioner to the patient. Despite scientific evidence demonstrating the existence of a detectable human energy field, Reiki is widely used as a therapeutic touch technique with many anecdotal reports of success.
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It’s considered quackery and akin to choosing “faith healing” as opposed to true scientifically sound practices. Touting these types of “treatments” to families of children with disabilities does them a disservice. Money could be better spent on OT, PT, Speech therapy. There is no scientific proof that this does anything at all. Shame on you. Will we be seeing articles about reading auras for therapy next? http://skepdic.com/reiki.html http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/when-healing-turns…/ http://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/the_weekend_i_became_a_reiki_healer/ http://thesoapboxrantings.blogspot.com/2013/07/5-things-ive-noticed-about-reiki-healing.html http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/reiki.html
There is evidence it works, and speech, ot, etc are paid for through insurance and the Board of Ed.
There IS proof that Reiki works. Look up the multiple Peer Reviewed Research Papers available. That’s SCIENTIFIC PROOF.