reiki intention

The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind

Caroline Myss

 
 

intention

Intention has been scientifically shown to affect us on a cellular level. Positive intentions affect our cells positively, and negative intentions have adverse effects. By focusing your intention on 'healing,' you are essentially reprogramming your biology to heal yourself. The practice of Reiki with a practitioner aids you in  reducing  harmful stress and anxiety. The lower your stress, the more your immune system activates to heal you on cellular and psychological levels. 

 
 
 

integrative therapy

Reiki is now being considered an integrative therapy in many major hospitals and institutions, offering patients a method to significantly reduce anxiety, stress and physical pain. Reiki can also be part of a routine preventative exercise, offering continued balance and well-being, better preparing you for all of life's challenges.  We tend to work out and feed our bodies for optimal health and invigorate our minds for mental stimulation, but seldom do we dedicate the time to strengthen our connection to our spirit. To take advantage of all that life has to offer, body, mind, and spirit must be balanced for optimal well-being. The more we 'work-out' and connect to our inner Self, the more fluidly we can flow with the nature of life with clarity and peace. 

 

supporting research

The Cleveland Clinic (America's Best Hospitals 2007), Cleveland, Ohio :

  • Reiki treatments offered to patients (integrative medicine)
  • Reiki treatments offered to heart patients (integrative approach)
  • Reiki treatments offered to complement conventional cancer treatments
  • staff of the center for integrative medicine (one Reiki practitioner)

Brigham and Women’s Hospital (America's Best Hospitals 2007), Boston, Massachusetts :

  • Reiki treatments offered to complement conventional cancer treatments (handbook for patients, families and friends, pp. 7, 10)
  • Reiki initiation offered to nurses (newsletter for nurses, Nov. 2006)
  • Reiki mentioned in a handbook on coping with cancer pain (p. 4)
  • peri-operative nurses inform their colleagues on complementary therapies including Reiki (newsletter for nurses, Dec. 2007)
  • nurse-Reiki practitioner's testimonial (newsletter for nurses, Aug. 2005)
  • study of complementary medicines including Reiki in men with prostate cancer (radiation oncology research)

Johns Hopkins Hospital (America's Best Hospitals 2007), Baltimore, Maryland :

  • part of complementary therapies, including Reiki, in the nurses' practice and education (school of nursing journal, spring 2007, pp. 26, 29, 32-33)

Massachusetts General Hospital (America's Best Hospitals 2007), Boston, Massachusetts :

  • information about Reiki on a continuing education day for nurses
  • Reiki treatments offered during a community event (newsletter June 2005)

Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of New-York Presbyterian (America's Best Hospitals 2007), New York, New York :

  • Reiki treatments offered to children to complement conventional cancer treatments

Yale-New Haven Hospital (America's Best Hospitals 2007), New Haven, Connecticut :

  • Reiki treatments offered to families and intensive care heart patients
  • Reiki treatments offered as a complementary therapy to cardiology patients
  • complementary therapies, including Reiki, recommended to cancer survivors (newsletter July 2007)
  • Reiki practitioners recruitment (newsletter Sept. 2006)

Harvard University, Boston/Cambridge, Massachusetts :

  • Reiki treatments offered at the Harvard Cancer Center (David Rosenthal M.D.)
  • Reiki treatments offered to all by the university health services (well-being)
  • Reiki mentioned as a best practice by an insurance company working with the university (best practices)
  • hypothesis on cortical dynamics as a therapeutic mechanism for touch healing including Reiki (Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York :

  • Reiki treatments via a network of complementary therapies practitioners to whom the surgery department refer patients (Columbia Integrative Medicine Program)
  • Reiki treatments offered to cardiothoracic surgery patients (brochure)
  • Reiki treatments given during an Employee Health and Wellness Day (journal June 23rd 2003)

New York University Medical Center, New York, New York :

  • Reiki treatments offered to children with cancer or blood disorder (wellness and complementary care)
  • Reiki treatments offered to ambulatory pediatrics patients
  • Reiki treatments offered to patients with multiple sclerosis (programs)
  • Reiki treatments offered to women with disabilities

Concord Hospital, Concord, New Hampshire :

  • Reiki treatments offered to patients nearing the end of life

Cooper University Hospital-Cooper Cancer Institute, Voorhees, New Jersey :

  • Reiki treatments offered to complement conventional cancer treatments

Lowell General Hospital, Lowell, Massachusetts :

  • Reiki treatments offered to complement conventional cancer treatments

St. Joseph Hospital, Nashua, New Hampshire :

  • Reiki treatments offered to complement conventional cancer treatments

Washington Hospital Center, Washington DC :

  • Reiki treatments offered to complement conventional cancer treatments

York Hospital, York, Maine :

  • pre-op, post-op and inter-op Reiki treatments offered to surgical patients

St. Mary's Hospital, Amsterdam, New York :

  • Reiki initiations offered (center for complementary therapies)

George Washington University Medical Center, Washington DC :

  • Reiki treament offered to patients

California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California :

  • Reiki treatments offered to patients (clinical massage and bodywork)

Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts :

  • Reiki treatments offered to children (integrative therapies)

Saint Agnes Medical Center, Fresno, California :

  • Reiki treatments offered to patients

Hawaii Pacific Health-Wilcox Memorial Hospital, Lihue, Hawaï :

  • Reiki treatments offered to patients (patient support services)

Hartford Hospital, Hartford, Connecticut :

  • Reiki treatments offered to patients

Stamford Hospital, Stamford, Connecticut :

  • Reiki treatments offered to patients

Windham Hospital, Willimantic, Connecticut :

  • Reiki treatments offered to patients (integrative health services)

Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, Englewood, New Jersey :

  • Reiki treatments offered to patients (massage, healing and relaxation therapies)

Carroll Hospital Center, Westminster, Maryland :

  • Reiki treatments offered (complementary health)

South San Diego Veterinary Hospital, San Diego, California :

  • Reiki treatments offered for animals (approach to pets' care)