Touch Therapies Reduce Pain Intensity
Reiki, Therapeutic Touch, and Healing Touch receive well-deserved acknowledgment from the science community that touch therapies do indeed promote healing. Hallelujah!!
The acknowledgment came from Dr. Shamini Jain, UCLA Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research, Dr. Paul Mills, Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, and the Moores Comprehensive Cancer Center in San Diego.
This welcome nod was based on the review of 66 clinical studies measuring the effects of "biofield therapies." This review group concluded that there was strong evidence that these complementary therapies reduce pain intensity. Evidence of anxiety reduction and relief for fatigue in cancer patients was also cited. They do leave the door open for more studies to be undertaken, but this is a wonderful outcome for supporters of energy medicine.
Jain S & Mills PJ. Biofield Therapies: Helpful or Full of Hype? A Best Evidence Synthesis. International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 2009; DOI: 10.1007/s12529-009-9062-4 - Springer Boston
Reported in Science Daily.
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People like being touched. If someone treats you nicely and touches you, you’ll feel better.
Adding some unsubstantiated “energy medicine” jargon into the mix is simply superfluous.
Feeling better from being treated kindly and being touched does not validate “energy medicine” claims.
At th end of the day, it is reiki energy and chkra balancing,who and will be ur saviour.