Reiki Energy Medicine: Bringing Healing Touch Into Home, Hospital, and Hospice

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Inner Traditions / Bear & Co, 1996 - Health & Fitness - 144 pages
Reiki is an ancient, hands-on healing art with origins in the Tibetan sutras. It has been used primarily by individuals in a daily practice that helps recharge, realign, and rebalance energy in the body. Today Reiki is joining other complementary therapies in the conventional settings of hospitals, hospices, counseling centers, emergency rooms, intensive care units. Nurses, physical therapists, surgeons, midwives, and anesthetists report that Reiki can help manage pain and promote healing. Counselors and caregivers treating those with terminal illness find that Reiki gives patients an increased physical, emotional, and psychological ability to cope. Reiki Energy Medicine explains the body's energy system, and describes how Reiki can be used in a variety of settings to balance energy and create the conditions needed for healing.
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.
 

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UNIVERSAL LIFE FORCE THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE OF HEALTH
xix
THE UNIQUE POWER OF REIKI
11
SELFKEIKI CARING FOR THE CAREGIVER
33
PROGRESSIVE APPROACH TO WELLNESS
49
VISIONS FOR THE FUTURE REIKI AND THE PARTNERSHIP MODEL OF CARE
83
SELFREIKI TREATMENT SERIES
103
REIKI TREATMENT ON OTHERS
111
THE REIKI HEALING CONNECTION
116
NOTES
117
SUGGESTED READING
119
INDEX
121
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Page xv - Time, sympathy, and understanding must be lavishly dispensed, but the reward is to be found in that personal bond which forms the greatest satisfaction of the practice of medicine. One of the essential qualities of the clinician is interest in humanity, for the secret of the care of the patient is in caring for the patient.
Page xvi - Remen is Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine...

About the author (1996)

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. Maggie Babb, Reiki Master, artist, and mother of four, has worked with physically handicapped and emotionally disturbed children at The Coastal Center in South Carolina. She is the director of Being Reiki in Lineboro, Maryland.

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