Reiki proven to provide symptom relief

Research out last month showed that energy healing, in the form of Reiki therapy, can provide significant symptom relief in cancer patients receiving standard treatments. In this study published in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, they found that patients given Reiki during chemotherapy experienced a clinically significant improvement in nausea, pain, fatigue anxiety.

As someone who took a basic reiki course many years ago I don't doubt this - while my brain can hardly compute how it could work I have seen first hand the evidence of improved wellbeing when reiki has been used. I also used it for myself when I was going through radiotherapy and do return to it when it feels the right approach.

Indeed this is not the only research supporting energy healing - a great book I read a couple of years ago is David Hamilton's 'Why Woo-Woo Works, The Surprising Science Behind Meditation, Reiki, Crystals and Other Alternative Practices'. There is a whole chapter on Reiki including research on using it with cancer patients to lessen the impact of treatments.