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The Washington Post reported in 2014 that in response to customer demand, at least 60 hospitals in the United States offered reiki, at a cost of between $40 and $300 per session. [32] Cancer Research UK reported in 2019 that some cancer centers and hospices in the UK offer free or low-cost reiki for people with cancer. [ 7 ]
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Multiple healers giving Reiki to a recipient at a Reiki share. Reiki share, also known as Reiki circle or exchange, is a gathering of Reiki believers who participate in group Reiki treatments on each other. The main purpose of the Reiki share is to give and receive Reiki in a casual atmosphere of friendship, honor, positive energy and devotion.
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.
The Hayashi Reiki Manual: Japanese Healing Techniques from the Founder of the Western Reiki System. Dorset, England: Lotus Press. ISBN 0-914955-75-6. Yamaguchi, Tadao (2007). Light on the Origins of Reiki. A handbook for Practicing the Original Reiki of Usui and Hayashi. Twin Lakes: Lotus Press. ISBN 978-0-9149-5565-8. Petter, Frank Arjava (2012).
Alternative medicine is defined loosely as a set of products, practices, and theories that are believed or perceived by their users to have the healing effects of medicine, [n 3] [n 4] but whose effectiveness has not been established using scientific methods, [n 3] [n 5] [13] [14] [15] [9] or whose theory and practice is not part of biomedicine ...
Hawayo Takata, a Reiki Master under the tutelage of Chujiro Hayashi (林 忠次郎, 1880–1940), lied about Reiki's history of development to make Reiki more appealing to the West. [16] To this end she made a relation of Reiki with Jesus Christ and not with Buddhism. She also falsely presented Usui as the dean of a Christian school.
Hayashi had learned from Mikao Usui, the first teacher of Reiki, in the early 1900s. [2] Identification of training lineage is common among Reiki practitioners. Within the tradition, Takata is sometimes known as Reiki Grand Master Teacher Hawayo Takata. Takata lied about Reiki's history of development to make Reiki more appealing to the West. [3]