| There has been a lot of buzz around the concept of | | | | been noted to tend to affect people with the 'driven' |
| Reiki therapy in the recent past, as more and more | | | | personality, people who aim to make things happen, |
| people become aware of its potential benefits. Reiki | | | | rather than just letting things happen and going with |
| therapy itself is a traditional form of healing, with its | | | | the flow. |
| roots in Japan but which has - in a span of less than | | | | And while the efficacy of Reiki therapy in the |
| 80 years of its existence - gained popularity in most | | | | treatment of physical disorders is contested by the |
| of the world outside Japan where it has its roots. No | | | | scientific establishment, its subscribers hold that the |
| chemicals or surgical equipment is employed in Reiko | | | | therapy is indeed effective in the treatment of such |
| therapy, as the therapy works through the use of | | | | illnesses, or injuries as they are known in Reiko |
| 'energy attunement' - under the understanding that it | | | | parlance. And it is hard to dismiss these testimonials |
| is loss of balance in this natural energy which is | | | | off hand, especially when you consider that these |
| responsible for the various illnesses that haunt us, and | | | | are people who pay - time and again - considerable |
| if that energy can be properly attuned, then the | | | | sums of money for the Reiko therapy sessions. |
| injury (as illness is called in Reiki parlance) would be | | | | Of course, as mentioned earlier, Reiko does offer |
| healed. | | | | some incontestable physical health benefits - thanks |
| According to its proponents, Reiki therapy offers you | | | | to its stress reduction properties. After all, the |
| a number of potential benefits. The first of these is | | | | stress-reduction mechanism for meditation involves |
| stress reduction, and about this there is no | | | | the release of brain chemicals called endorphins, and |
| contention even in the skeptical scientific community, | | | | these have been seen to be effective natural |
| as Reiki therapy involves some forms of meditation, | | | | painkillers. And thanks to the stress reduction |
| and meditation has been proven beyond any | | | | properties, Reiko therapy also offers a way for |
| reasonable doubt to be an effective stress buster. | | | | delaying and mitigating the effects of the ageing |
| Now stress reduction is a major benefits when put | | | | process, which too, are physical. And again thanks to |
| into perspective, especially when it is said that more | | | | the stress-reduction properties of Reiko therapy, it |
| than three quarters of physical health ailments that | | | | boosts the body's immunity (as raised stress levels |
| people suffer from have their roots in unresolved | | | | have been known to wreck havoc to the body's |
| psychological stress. | | | | immunity), while also aiding the person undertaking it |
| The detachment from the ups and downs of life that | | | | to sleep better, and thereby offering protection from |
| practitioners of Reiki stand to get forms a buffer | | | | the whole range of problems rooted in inadequate |
| against serious lifestyle illnesses like high blood | | | | sleep, including chronic fatigue and inexplicable |
| pressure, strokes and heart problems, which have | | | | headaches which perpetually haunt so many of us. |