Pranam
Reiki Pranic healing aura ancient and science
1 The term “reiki” comes from the Japanese words “rei,” meaning
universal, and “ki,” which means vital life force energy that flows through
all living things. Some practitioners describe reiki as acupuncture without
the needles. Reiki is a complementary health approach in which
practitioners place their hands on or just above different areas of the
body. It’s based on an Eastern medicine belief that living beings have
energy fields that support their health and vitality.
2 Reiki (pronounced Ray-Key) is a Japanese energy healing modality,
using touch to bring balance to the body, mind, and soul. It has been used
for stress reduction, relaxation, and for the promotion of healing. The
technique involves the light laying on of hands on the body in a series of
ordered positions, in correlation to the seven major Chakra canters of the
human body (See Para 9 & 10 below). {Route from India} Reiki originated in
the Tibetan Sutras nearly 3,000 years ago and was reintroduced in Japan in
the early 1900s by Dr. Mikao Usui. There are at least 30 slightly different
branches of reiki, but Usui is by far the most popular form. Usui is the
method practiced and taught in Japan as early as the 1900s by Mikao Usui,
who is credited as the founder of modern reiki. Usui reiki came to the West
via Hawaii in the 1930s thanks to a Japanese American woman named Hawayo
Takata. She travelled back to her native Japan to seek healing for her own
physical and mental ailments, including a lung condition, asthma, and a
nervous breakdown after the death of her husband. One of Makao Usui’s
students, Dr. Chujiro Hayashi, taught reiki to Takata. Her healing
experience was so profound that Takata returned to Hawaii and became the
first person to teach reiki in the West. However, due to the abundance of
anti-Japanese and anti-Asian sentiments in the United States around World
War II, Takata shied away from using the name “reiki” and instead referred
to her establishment on the island of Kauai as a “healing studio,”
according to researcher Nat Newton, Ph.D., a Usui reiki master in Orange
County, California. “Takata modified some of the teachings for her
English-speaking students and ended up training 22 students in reiki as we
know it today,” says Newton. Today, thousands of people worldwide are
trained in Usui and similar reiki methods.
3 Dr. Rachel Lampert, M.D., a professor of medicine at Yale School of
Medicine, and her colleagues studied 37 patients after having a heart
attack. The patients were randomized into three groups: patients who simply
rested, those who received a single session of reiki treatment from a nurse
trained in reiki and those who listened to relaxing music. The researchers
measured activity of the autonomic nervous system (ANS), which regulates
heart rate, breathing, blood pressure and digestion. Lampert’s team zoomed
in on heart rate variability (HRV), a measure of the pattern of heartbeats
that’s controlled by the ANS. The higher the HRV after a heart attack, the
better the outlook for the patient, explains Lampert. In the Yale study,
patients who received reiki had a higher HRV and improved emotional state.
“Our study was a very nice demonstration that doing things that are
relaxing has benefits,” says Lampert. “We showed increased activity of the
healthy arm of the nervous system.”
4 Researchers at Harvard Medical School followed 99 patients at multiple
sites to determine the effects of a single reiki session. The study—a
single arm effectiveness study published in 2019 in the Journal of
Alternative and Complementary Medicine—found statistically significant
improvements in anxiety and depression symptoms, as well as pain and
nausea. Additional research suggests reiki helps with depression and
insomnia. A 2012 study in the Indian Journal of Positive Psychology looked
at 40 women who suffered from depression and anxiety. Half of the group
received a reiki treatment twice a week for 10 weeks and the other half
received no treatment. The women who received reiki saw significant
improvements in both their depression symptoms and sleep quality.
5 A range of studies address reiki’s role in pain alleviation after knee
surgery, the restoration of range of motion in injured shoulders,
post-caesarean section recovery, hypertension management and the
improvement of quality of life for patients with rheumatoid arthritis or
patients undergoing various cancer treatments. Portuguese researcher Zilda
Alarcao and her colleagues looked at the impact of *reiki treatment versus
sham or fake reiki* in two groups of patients with blood cancer. Each group
contained 58 patients who received an hour-long treatment once a week for
four weeks—either someone trained to administer reiki worked on them or
someone pretending to do reiki (sham reiki) spent an hour with them. The
researchers found the patients who received real reiki showed significantly
more improvements than the other group in general, physical, environmental,
and social dimensions of quality of life using the Portuguese version of
the World Health Organization’s Quality of Life survey (Wilbert), a
well-regarded research tool that measures pain and other quality of life
issues after undergoing an intervention. They published their results in
2016 in the European Journal of Integrative Medicine. Multiple studies
report no adverse effects of reiki, likely because it’s a non-invasive
treatment. (hence it isa not a placebo effect).
6 The code of ethics of the Reiki Alliance, a professional reiki
association, clearly states that reiki practitioners work as a
complement—not a replacement—to the medical care a patient receives. Reiki
is also not a practice intended to instil doubt in other medical treatments
and interventions. Clients are strongly discouraged from viewing reiki as a
substitute for medical doctors, surgery, therapy, or prescribed
medications. Like any intervention, reiki practitioners warn it isn’t a
cure-all and shouldn’t be viewed as such. But it’s deemed safe and
potentially effective enough that a considerable number—15% and growing—of
U.S. hospitals offer reiki healing specifically. Leading institutes like
Yale, Harvard, the University of Minnesota, the University of Arizona, UCLA
and others offer reiki as a complement to medical interventions.
7 Now in India we have a yoga technique of cure, which is termed as
“PRANIC HEALING”; and this is equated to Reiki; but it is not true.
Traditionally in India, Pranic Healing *didn't involve the laying of hands,*
crystals and other such that the modern post-Christian world still with
Christian subliminal samskaras embraces not in the traditional scientific
and rational manner, but in the "magical" and "unexplained" manner such is
adopted and epitomised by the naivety of the European mind and it's zeal to
take such "half truths" and zealously proselytise them! *Pranic Healing in
India in Yoga groups went no further than Pranayama*, the various breathing
techniques in Yoga by which toxic air is thrown from the body and the
biological humours or "faults" (doshas) were reduced or increased
accordingly, as per the physical application of such breathing practices
and their biological effects, as also by oxygenating the blood. Such of
course is quite different to the modern methods of "laying hands" that
appears to represent a more Pentecostal approach that has superimposed
itself upon eastern healing modalities. While ancient Yogis in India, as in
China could manipulate the Prana or Qi within a patient's body, such wasn't
done by laying or hands, but by the influence of their minds or the effect
of their own pure prana or life-force developed through severe austerities,
disciplines and training; such traditional Vaidyas or Ayurvedic Physicians
could heal a person by drishti (sight) or their presence alone - some did
impart it by sparsha (touch), but such was not merely superficial and
usually involved a mere short touch of a person.
8 Prana itself is described as the combination of the three biological
humours of Agni (fire, pitta), soma (water, Kapha), Vayu (wind, vata) as
well as the three mental traits of sattva (purity), rajas (agitation) and
tamas (ignorance), the five senses and the soul - Sushruta Samhita,
Sharirasthana, IV.3. Thus, true 'pranic healing' involves (physical)
methods of which pacify and heal these. Charaka Samhita (Sutras Thana,
XI.46, 54) states many ritualistic or "spiritual" therapies and rituals in
the Vedic era. Patanjali in his Yoga Sutras notes of the strength of the
mind by the maxim "as one thinks - one becomes" on this note: "By
performing samyama (yogic concentration) on the power of elephants, one
derives that strength." (3.25). "As one thinks - that one becomes"
according to the inherit nature of his actions (Bhagavad Gita, 17.3-6). The
entire 17th Chapter of the Gita is also with respect to the gunas through
karmas (actions) and their impact upon shaping our samskaras (karmic
impressions) and vasanas (mental impressions). Shankaracharya in his
Vivekachoodamani (113) states that avriti or the veiling power of the mind
linked to the vitiation of the mind or tamas (darkness and ignorance of the
mental channels) causes a failure to recognise the truth. These would show
A TRUE HEART AND CONTROLLED MINDS CAN MITIGATE THE SUFFERINGS OR EVEN
SELF-CURE, THE DISTRESS AND DISEASES. But science may not accept it all as
only a religious aspect and not concerned with the medicines.
9 A chakra can be defined as an organization center for the reception,
assimilation, and transmission of energy in the human body, and is critical
in Ayurvedic tradition. It literally means "wheel" or "disk" in Sanskrit
and represents a point of intersection between the mind and body. The seven
major chakras are located along a central axis from the base of the spine
to the top of the head, and each is associated with a basic level of
consciousness, and an element. Chakra one is located at the base of the
spine, is characterized by the colour red, is associated with survival, and
its element is earth. Chakra two is located in the lower abdomen, is
characterized by the colour orange, is associated with emotions and
sexuality, and its element is water. Chakra three is located in the solar
plexus, is characterized by the colour yellow, is associated with personal
power, will, and self-esteem and its element is fire. Chakra four is
located over the sternum, is characterized by the colour green, is
associated with love, and its element is air. Chakra five is located in the
throat, is characterized by the color blue, is associated with
communication, and its element is sound. Chakra six is located in the
center of the forehead, is characterized by the colour indigo, is
associated with clairvoyance, intuition, and imagination, and its element
is light. Chakra seven is located at the top of the head, is characterized
by the colour violet, is associated with knowledge, understanding, and
transcendent consciousness, and its element is thought. In addition to
their relation to levels of consciousness and elements, it has been
suggested that, on a physiological level, these seven major chakras
correspond to major central nervous system clusters that emanate from the
spinal column, as well as to glands in the endocrine system. However, it is
important to note that chakras are not meant to be interpreted as
synonymous with any portion of the physical body but are still considered
to be part of the subtle body.
10 The Aura: The concept of the aura, also called the human energy
field, is interconnected with the chakra system. The aura is the meeting
point between the core patterns generated by the chakras and the influence
of the outer world. It has been described as a luminous body that surrounds
and penetrates the physical body and emits its own characteristic
radiation. Based on observations, the aura has been divided into several
layers, and can be seen by the human eye and special photography as
colours. One method, called *Kirlian photography*, can capture the
emanations of the subtle body in photographs. The Chinese have recognized
the existence of universal energy, Chi, dating back to the third millennium
B.C. Chi is the universal energy that composes and pervades all matter,
animate and inanimate. The Chinese belief system posits that *Chi (Tai chi
from this alone) *contains two polar forces, the *yin and the yang*. If
these polar forces are balanced, then the living system exhibits physical
health. If they are unbalanced, a diseased state result. The Jewish
mystical theological philosophy, dating back to 538 B.C., refers to the
concept of astral light, and Christian religious paintings often show
spiritual figures, such as Jesus, surrounded by fields of light. In
addition, ancient Hindu Vedic texts, Native American Medicine People,
*Tibetan* (RINPOCHE) and Indian Buddhists, and *Japanese Zen Buddhists*,
among others, describe some similar concept of a human energy field.
11 Interactions in the energy field include acupuncture,
electroacupuncture, laser acupuncture, acupressure, reflexology,
bioelectromagnetic medicine, electrodermal, testing, electrostimulation,
electrotherapy, biofield therapies (Reiki, Therapeutic Touch, healing
touch, etc.), homeopathy, Bach flower remedies, magnet therapy, microwave
resonance therapy, low-level laser therapy, phototherapy, colour therapy,
and orgonomy (Orgonomy is the science of orgone energy that includes
medical orgonomy, orgone biology, orgone physics, sociology, meteorology,
etc.).
12 For nearly the past 80 years, attempts have been made to explore
the concepts
of energy within the modem Western scientific paradigm from both a physical
and biological perspective. Field Theory, Relativity, Superluminal
Connectedness, Morphogenic Fields, Multi-Dimensional Reality, and String
Theory are some of the theories and concepts discovered by physicists that
could serve as a springboard for connecting these ancient concepts of
energy with a Western scientific paradigm. For example, Field Theory is
based on the idea that electrical charges between two particles create a
"disturbance" or "condition" around it that can be felt by the other
particle, giving rise to the concept of a universe of fields that interact
with each other. In the 1800s, Mesmer and Helmond, reported that a "fluid"
surrounded animate and inanimate objects, and that this "fluid" could cause
material bodies to exert an influence on each other at a distance. {This is
the same concept in the Indian Astrology}. Court Wilhelm Von Reichenbach
experimented with a field which he called the "odic force" in the
mid-1800s. He found that this force could be conducted through a wire but
did not have the exact properties of an electrical field. In addition,
Tiller proposed the existence of a new force in addition to the other four
known forces of physics. Finally, most recently, physicists have been
exploring String Theory, which suggests that all matter universally can be
reduced at the most minute level to small loops of vibrating energy,
"strings", linking the previously incompatible theories of quantum
mechanics and general relativity. This becomes important when the
"universal life energy" of energy medicine modalities is explored. Biological
theories have also been used to begin exploration into the energy field.
Many of these theoretical explorations have been applied to medicine. As
far back as 500 B.C., the Pythagoreans recorded their observation of a
luminous body that surrounded the human body, and could have an effect on
the human organism, including the cure of illness. A Yale biologist, Harold
Saxon Burr, with F.S.C. Northrup, explored over a twenty-year period the
concept of the electrical correlates of living systems as related to
medicine, and *proposed an electrodynamic field underlying life. Dr.
William Kilmer used coloured screens and filters to observe a human energy
field and coined the term "aura"* to describe what he found. He described a
glowing mist around the body in three zones: 1) a quarter-inch dark layer
closest to the skin; 2) a vaporous second layer surrounding the first layer
and streaming perpendicularly from the body; and 3) an exterior luminous
layer with indefinite contours about 6 inches across. He developed a system
of diagnosis based on the colour, texture, volume, and general appearance
of this "aura”.
13 SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENTS: Electrodes were placed on the skin of the
subject to detect electronic signals. Simultaneously, an individual
sensitive to seeing auras verbally recorded her running observations. The
wave pattern results were mathematically analysed. Results showed that the
wave forms and frequencies correlated specifically with the colours that
the individual had reported. The same experiment was repeated with seven
other aura readers, with similar results. In addition, Savva has proposed a
biofield that goes beyond electromagnetism and involves non-physical and
mental components. Zhang has considered an "electromagnetic body"
comprised of a complex, ultra-weak field of chaotic, standing waves which
form energetic anatomic structures, including the chakras and acupuncture
meridians. The unifying principle of the above researchers is that the
biofield is a holistic or global organizing field of the organism. It
requires a look at the human body and health from a system’s perspective
and combines ideas from physics and biology to explain the existence of a
human energy field. The biofield approach requires a moving away from a
linear system perspective, in which behaviours are strictly proportional,
which is much of the basis for current Western medical thinking.
14 Hence, as I said ELSEWHERE, ASTROLOGERS MAY DUPE, BUT NEVER THE
ASTROLOGY IS A SCIENCE. So too, Reiki , Pranic healing etc. As Yoga has
become a market for sales in the west too , these concentrated efforts have
become in majority a FAKE, though, it cannot be assailed as proven even by
science.
References:
1 Lad V. Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Private Limited; New Delhi,
India: 2002. Ayurveda: The Science of Self-healing: A Practical Guide.
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