Reiki Energy Medicine: Bringing Healing Touch into Home, Hospital, and Hospice
By Libby Barnett, Maggie Babb and Susan Davidson
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Reiki Energy Medicine is the first book to show how this ancient art of touch therapy can work within our mainstream health care system.
As our health-care system challenges institutions to offer high-quality but cost-effective service, Reiki can be an important tool that can help maximize patient care and minimize recovery time.
Reiki does not require complicated techniques or extensive training: practitioners of many disciplines are able to easily incorporate it into their specialties.
Libby Barnett
Reiki Master Teacher Libby Barnett, M.S.W., is the longest practicing Reiki Master teacher on the East Coast. She integrates her healing skills with past experience as a medical social worker at Massachusetts General Hospital. She has taught over 14,000 people nationwide, including health care professionals at many hospital and hospice organizations including Massachusetts General, Beth Israel, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Dartmouth-Hitchcock, Englewood, New York Foundling, Harvard Community Health, The Medical Center of Central Mass, New London Hospital, Union Hospital, and Southern New Hampshire Medical Center. Offering Reiki classes virtually, she is the director of the Reiki Healing Connection in Asheville, North Carolina.
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Reiki Energy Medicine - Libby Barnett
Chapter 1
UNIVERSAL LIFE FORCE: THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE OF HEALTH
An invisible but palpable life-force energy infuses and permeates all living forms. This energy is infinite, limitless, and pure. Intangible, it constantly bathes us. Inaudible and invisible, it fills us with peace. Odorless and tasteless, it sustains us. Although we swim in it, ingesting it with every breath, we are often unaware of its existence. Every living thing lives inside of and is inspirited by this force field.
This life-force energy is the essence that gives vitality to form. It is the primary activating energy of life and the underlying creative intelligence of the universe that organizes our world and everything in it. Ancient civilizations understood that this life-force energy flowed through the body, supporting optimal development and fulfillment. The Chinese identified this energy as chi (pronounced chee), the Indians called it prana, and the Japanese knew it as ki.
Because our culture has separated science from philosophy, based on the Cartesian separation of mind, body, and spirit, the concept of such a subtle yet powerful life-force energy has so far existed outside the theoretical framework of modern Western medicine. It is, therefore, challenging to discuss either the nature or the source of chi, prana, or ki in specific terms, since we do not even have an equivalent word for this energy in our culture. In a few studies, attempts have been made to measure this energy in the knowledge that quantifying it will validate this energetic phenomenon to the vast majority in the Western world who value objective test results over subjective experience. While this life-force energy resists quantifying, it is nevertheless pervasive; it exists within and all around us, deeply affecting our bodies, minds, and emotions. The ancients understood life-force energy to be in perfect balance in the body when a person experienced physiological orderliness, psychological equilibrium, and emotional stability.
Reiki (pronounced ray-key) is a precise method for connecting this universal energy with the body’s innate powers of healing. Rediscovered in the mid-1800s by Dr. Mikao Usui, a Japanese monk educator, Reiki’s origins are found in the Tibetan sutras, ancient records of cosmology and philosophy. This hands-on healing art, a powerful adjunct to conventional therapeutic modalities, fuels the body’s homeostatic mechanisms and thereby assists in the restoration of balance on the physical, mental, and emotional levels. Because this life-force energy supports optimal development and fulfillment, Reiki promotes the highest healing good for all living