MERCEDES ALVAREZ

Energy healing is a natural process that applies to everyone, all the time, no exceptions. It is a law (like gravity) that operates whether you believe in it or not. It is impersonal and treats everyone the same. Its goal is to teach you lessons about life.

Light therapies which promote energetic harmony in the body, mind, and emotions have been proven to slow down and deepen breathing, balancebrain wave activity, enhance immune system function, reduce stress and muscle tension, increase endorphin levels, and evoke feelings of peace. You know your energy is good when you feel good.

Science Measures the Human Energy Field

Energy is a theme that permeates many areas of complementary health care, including Reiki. For historic and emotional reasons, two key words have not been mentionable in polite academic research society: "energy" and "touch." Hence it is not surprising that Reiki therapy has been neglected by mainstream biomedical science.

This picture is changing rapidly because of exciting research from around the world. The tale of how concepts of "healing energy" have swung from suspicion and ridicule to respectability is one of the most fascinating and clinically significant stories that can be told.

As in many other areas of investigation, what we were absolutely certain about 20 years ago has changed dramatically. For example, in a few decades scientists have gone from a conviction that there is no such thing as an energy field around the human body, to an absolute certainty that it exists. Moreover, we have begun to understand the roles of energy fields in health and disease. Most people are simply not aware of this research, and persist in the attitude that there is no logical basis for energy healing.