Reiki as a Complementary Cancer Treatment
conditions, ranging from the minor to the serious. Many cancer patients have
received Reiki in addition to medical treatments and have reported greater
relaxation, less pain, and the easing of medical treatment side effects such as
nausea, vomiting, and anxiety.
For the many patients who have been helped by reiki treatments, their own
experience is proof enough that it works. Yet, scientific studies have had mixed
results. Many have shown significant improvement in the well being of cancer
patients who received Reiki treatments. Yet they typically did not involve control
groups and could not prove Reiki any better than a placebo. [http://
cancer.about.com/od/alternativetreatments/a/reiki.htm]
These results are not surprising because how Reiki works is in line with how the
placebo effect happens. Cancer and other such serious and difficult to treat diseases
are caused and affected by many factors. While the patient’s physical environment,
genes and lifestyle may play a part, their overall emotional, mental, social and
spiritual conditions also have roles in the development and the healing of these
diseases.
Successful treatment requires not only working on the physical aspects of the
disease-- i.e. using chemotherapy to shrink tumors--but also addressing the causes
on an energetic level. Furthermore, for energy therapies such as Reiki to work, the
patient must be open to having them work. This activates the mental and emotional
side of healing, which is also the cause of the placebo effect.
Reiki activates electromagnetic energy, which can shrink tumors. Yet unlike
chemotherapy, it is not a blast of energy that destroys good cells as well as bad.
Reiki restores and maintains healthful balances in the body, mind and energy fields.
It also balances the emotions, which people dealing with the stress and uncertainty
of a serious disease greatly need. [http://www.naturalbloom.com/articles/reiki-50/]
Patients who receive Reiki and learn how to use its principles for self healing benefit
not only from the treatment itself, but also from the sense of empowerment that
comes from doing something to help combat the disease. Mainstream medicine
offers no certainty of a cure for cancer, and even less for mesothelioma, which is
one of the cancers least responsive to conventional treatments. Medical treatments
for cancer are usually further disempowering in that they place the treatment
entirely in the hands of the doctor and often have debilitating side effects for the
patient.
Even with this in mind, Reiki should not be used as a substitute for medical
treatment, but as a complement to it. A mesothelioma prognosis is best when the
patient receives the best of what both alternative and conventional medicine have to
offer.
THIS ARTICLE WAS WRITTEN FOR ME BY A WONDERFUL WOMAN, EMILY WALSH. PLEASE FEEL FREE TO ALSO VISIT HER SITE AT http://www.em-musings.blogspot.com/. MANY BLESSINGS!
