Is Reiki effective or quackery?

[Anonymous]

Did it work for you? Was it effective? Who did you go too?

[Anonymous]

Following. I had a treatment when I was younger I thought was amazing but moved away soon after. Would like to try again!

[Anonymous]

I had treatment as a teen. Had the only migraine of my life immediately after and then my whole body shifted back to the way it was.

That's just one anecdote, but it sure seemed like something happened. I just hated it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had treatment as a teen. Had the only migraine of my life immediately after and then my whole body shifted back to the way it was.

That's just one anecdote, but it sure seemed like something happened. I just hated it.

Curious--did you hate it because of the migraine? When you say it shifted back to the way it was, was that better or worse?

[Anonymous]

I think you have to do several (many) sessions for it to not just go back to the original alignment. I had it done years ago, about 3 sessions, before I quit. The practitioner creeped me out.

[Anonymous]

Yes for stress relief.

[Anonymous]

My impression is it is not a valuable treatment. However, a placebo works 25% of the time. So may get true relief with fewer side effects.

[Anonymous]

complete quackery.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:complete quackery.

Especially if offered over the phone which I’ve heard of.

[Anonymous]

For what? Like acupuncture we don’t know why it works but it certainly works for some things. It isn’t a magic panacea, though.

[Anonymous]

utter total quackery

[Anonymous]

Wouldn’t the attention and close proximity of a caring person be enough to produce a placebo effect? That’s my take on it. -an RN

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wouldn’t the attention and close proximity of a caring person be enough to produce a placebo effect? That’s my take on it. -an RN

Yes, I've only done it with a friend and my sister who are practitioners. They are lovely and any time I have focus on me it's restorative. Same with my acupuncturist. Her calming presence is everything.

[Anonymous]

My mother in law has a reiki healer for her dogs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For what? Like acupuncture we don’t know why it works but it certainly works for some things. It isn’t a magic panacea, though.

Acupuncture makes more sense though because they are actually doing something to your body and there is some scientific understanding of why people may benefit.

Reiki seems a lot iffier BUT the one thing about it is if you can afford it, it’s just a question of your time and money, it doesn’t seem like it can harm you. I’m sometimes willing to try things like that for the heck of it.