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Many approaches to energy healing exist: for example, “biofield energy healing”, [2] [3] “spiritual healing”, [4] “contact healing”, “distant healing”, therapeutic touch, [5] Reiki, [6] and Qigong. [2] Reviews of the scientific literature on energy healing have concluded that no evidence supports its clinical use.
Johrei (浄霊, Jōrei, lit. 'purification of the spirit'), spelled jyorei by Shumei groups, is a type of energy healing. [1] It was introduced in Japan in the 1930s by Mokichi Okada, [2] [3] [4] a.k.a. Meishu-sama. Practitioners channel light towards patients by holding up the palm of the hands towards the recipient's body. [2]
Reiki [a] is a pseudoscientific form of energy healing, a type of alternative medicine originating in Japan. [1] Reiki practitioners use a technique called palm healing or hands-on healing through which, according to practitioners, a " universal energy " is transferred through the palms of the practitioner to the client, to encourage emotional ...
The two words are combined to describe systems to cultivate and balance life energy, especially for health and wellbeing. [ 4 ] The term qigong as currently used was promoted in the late 1940s through the 1950s to refer to a broad range of Chinese self-cultivation exercises, and to emphasize health and scientific approaches, while de ...
ThetaHealing (also Theta Healing) is the registered trademark for a method of meditation created by Vianna Stibal in 1995. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] ThetaHealing claims to change a practitioner's brain wave pattern to the theta pattern , allowing them to explore how " emotional energy " affects their health, and develop "natural intuition".
Western practitioners abandoned acupuncture's traditional beliefs in spiritual energy, pulse diagnosis, and the cycles of the moon, sun or the body's rhythm. Diagrams of the flow of spiritual energy, for example, conflicted with the West's own anatomical diagrams. It adopted a new set of ideas for acupuncture based on tapping needles into nerves.
Shiatsu practitioners believe that an energy called ki flows through a network of meridians in the body. Shiatsu evolved from anma , a Japanese style of massage developed in 1320 by Akashi Kan Ichi. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Anma was popularised in the seventeenth century by acupuncturist Sugiyama Waichi , and around the same time the first books on the ...
The G-P-C movement played a significant role in the development of Attunement. [15] G-P-C stood for God – Patient – Chiropractor. [16] It was a no-fee system of service that George Shears created in the late 1930s after he, himself, had a severely debilitating ruptured disk, and vowed to offer his services on a donation basis.