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Year: 1989
Type: Theoretical study
Topic: Blood Pressure / Blood Values, Immunology
Category: Stress and Anxiety
Subcategory: Reiki, Therapeutic Touch
Publication language: EN
Title: Reiki healing: a physiologic perspective
Authors: Wetzel, W. S.
Location:
USA - Independent Research Paper
Reference:
Journal of Holistic Nursing, 7(1), 47-54
Abstract:
Healing therapies which employ touch and are based on the premise of a human energy field are gaiping in popularity and support.

Reiki, a Tibetan healing art, is one such modality. But Reiki has not yet been submitted to close scientific scrutiny.

Using Krieger's protocol for hemoglobin studies within the context of Therapeutic Touch, forty-eight adults participating in First Degree Reiki Training were tested.

Findings revealed a statistically significant change in the hemoglobin and hematocrit levels of the participants at the P =.01 level. A comparable control group, not experiencing the training, demonstrated no change within an identical time frame. Further research is necessary to clarify the physiologic effects of touch healing.

This exploratory study has set the stage for more ambitious and controlled research into touch therapies.

If we accept Krieger’s assumption that all persons have the ability to be healers, then methods such as Reiki and Therapeutic Touch seem to be vehicles for enhancing and developing that innate capacity.

The use of Reiki within nursing care could serve to further nurture our clients and ourselves within a healing framework viewing our world from a truly unitary stance.

The use of these non-invasive, safe, and nurturing modalities seems to return us to our roots, to the days when nurses had little more than their hands to provide comfort and caring.
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Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/089801018900700109