Effect of Reiki Healing Technique. On Psychological Variables Among Sedentary Females

      Аннотация: REIKIIS GODS LOVE IN ITS PUREST FORM, IT IS COMPLETELY UNCONDITIONAL, IT DEMANDS NOTHING OF THE GIVER NOR OF THE RECEIVER. IT PROPOUNDS NO CREED OR DOGMA,IT REQUIRES NO SPECIFIC BELIEF IN THE SUPREME BEING OR IN REIKI ITSELF. Reiki (pronounced Ray-Key) is a Japanese energy healing modality, using touch to bring balance to the body, mind, and soul. It has been used for stress reduction, relaxation, and for the promotion of healing. The technique involves the light laying on of hands on the body in a series of ordered positions, in correlation to the seven major Chakra centers of the human body (See Appendix 1) (Rand, 1991). Reiki originated in the Tibetan Sutras nearly 3,000 years ago and was reintroduced in Japan in the early 1900s by Dr. Mikao Usui. One Reiki master, Takata, who was practicing Reiki in Hawaii in the 1930s, was responsible for its spread to the United States in the 1970s (Wardell, 2001). In Japanese, "Rei" means universal; however, this interpretation is general because Japanese ideograms have many levels of meaning. "Ki" means life energy or universal life force.

Ключевые слова: Reiki, Distance Reiki (Healing), Psychological Variables, Sedentary Females, Self-Esteem, Anxiety, depression