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It seems to me that Reiki is just another one of those crazy new-age concepts that a lot of foolish people spend their hard-earned money on. And I don’t know about you, but I can’t see how it could every work.

That’s a popular type of thinking about Reiki and alternative medicine in general. And it’s pretty appealing to the logical, scientific brains of our time. Except for one dilemma…Reiki does work and millions of people could say from personal experience that this is true.

So then the question becomes- as we sit atop our high horse in this, the age of reason- how does Reiki work? Or more to the point, why does it work. By all accounts it shouldn’t work. It doesn’t use any drugs. You don’t have to cut into anything or anyone. ‘Normal’ doctors don’t use it. I can’t see it with my eyes or hear it with my ears. So, sorry lady. I don’t believe it. It just doesn’t work.

And this is a good argument except for that little nagging point… Reiki does work.

Now if we look at Reiki we find that it originated in Japan a long time ago. It is used to heal maladies of the physical body as well as those of the spirit. Now that makes us skeptical. First, what did those ancient relics know about medicine. And second how do you mix the body with the spirit. It can’t be done, and shouldn’t be done. It’s just not scientific. In addition, Reiki is a technique where you lay your hands on a person and use your life-energy to help someone else’s life-energy to flow more freely. Now that’s got to be a lot of bunk. Anyone would agree, right.

Well it now appears that science itself is coming up with a good and scientific theory to answer the question ‘How does Reiki work?’ Because Reiki actually does work. And the explanation is coming from the new and pioneer field of high-energy physics. (Hmm. Physics, huh?) As these scientists talk about high-energy physics, they bandy about terms like ’subatomic matter’, ‘unpolarized’ and ‘vortex’ theory. From all of this, one gets the strong impression that there is some kind of energy flowing- energy that is way too small for us to detect by our standard methods of measurement.

Now this energy can’t be seen, but it can certainly be felt. If you are being practiced on, for instance, you will often feel a spreading warmth, or even cold sensation in the area that is being worked on. On the other hand, if you are the practitioner, you will often feel a pins and needles kind of tingling warm sensation.

It is interesting to note that Reiki has been around since the time of Christ. Do you remember, for instance, that old ‘laying on of hands’ stuff. (Well, you’ve got a good point there.) So in truth, there is nothing new and different here. And as we look at alternative medicines like Reiki it is important to look back, as well as ahead, on the premise that maybe those simple folks of yore, going on good old-fashioned instinct, may have known a little something. The first thing they may have known has to do with plain old common sense. The first thing they may have known might well have beenIf it works, then use it- better know as “The proof is in the pudding.” And that, my friends, sounds a lot like using verified scientific experimentation to me. (Well, I have to admit, you’ve got me there, sister.)