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A Healing Touch: Touch
Therapies of Reiki and Healing
Touch
PERPETUA MARKWELL, BSN, RN, HNB-BC
REIKI MASTER TEACHER, HEALING TOUCH
PRACTITIONER
BOARD CERTIFIED HOLISTIC NURSE
HEALTH AND WELLNESS NURSE COACH
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Slide 2 OBJECTIVES
• DISCUSS BRIEFLY THE SIMILARITIES AND
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN REIKI AND HEALING TOUCH
• EXPLORE THE MEANING AND ANCIENT HISTORY OF
REIKI
• DISCUSS THE BENEFITS OF REIKI
• DISCUSS HEALING TOUCH MEANING, HISTORY AND
BENEFITS
• BRIEFLY DISCUSS EVIDENCE BASED RESEARCH ON
REIKI AND HEALING TOUCH
• DEMONSTRATE SIMPLE REIKI AND HEALING TOUCH
TECHNIQUES FOR SELF CARE AND RELAXATION
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REIKI AND HEALING TOUCH
• Are both energy-based therapies that can
help people feel better.
• Helps promote their own healing-
physically, emotionally and spiritually.
• Restore harmony and balance in the
energy system by promoting self-healing.
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REIKI AND HEALING TOUCH
• Major difference: Healing Touch is a
curriculum which provides training in a
variety of techniques to restore balance in
the human energy system.
• Healing Touch has uniform standards in
training and certification.
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Reiki Defined
• Rei- universal, higher knowledge or
spiritual wisdom
• Ki- life energy. The same as Chi in Chinese
or Ti or Ki in Hawaiian. This is a non-
physical energy that animates all living
things. When this life energy is low you
are more vulnerable to illness. Ki is also
the primary energy of our emotions,
thoughts and spiritual life.
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Spiritually Guided Life Energy
•It is the God-Consciousness
coming from outside of you called
Rei that guides the life energy
called KI in the practice we call
Reiki.
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Do all Healers Use Reiki?
• There are many kinds of healing energy
• Reiki is a special kind of healing energy that
can only be channeled by someone that has
been attuned to it. Otherwise another kind of
healing energy is being used.
• People who already do healing work report a
consistent increase of at least fifty percent in
the strength of their healing after taking Reiki
training.
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The Process
•The ability to channel Reiki
energy cannot be learned
through reading. This ability is
transferred by the Reiki Master
during an attunement process.
•The Attunement
•A Cleansing Process
•Giving Reiki
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ATTUNEMENT
• Establishment of an energetic circuit
between practitioner and client
• Connects the person more closely to their
spiritual source and open the flow of life
current
• Initiation process by Reiki master teacher
to student
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4. Slide 10 Reiki can never cause harm
•Reiki never depletes your
energy
•Anyone can learn Reiki
•Self-Treatment
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The Chakras-transformers of subtle
energy
• Crown
• Brow/Third Eye
• Throat
• Heart
• Solar plexus
• Sacral
• Root
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The Meridians
• The pathways that subtle energy flows
through within the physical body. The
meridians contain energy points usually
referred to as acupuncture or acupressure
points.
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What can be treated?
• Reiki is both powerful and gentle.
• In its long history it has been used to aid
in every known illness and injury including
serious problems like multiple sclerosis,
heart disease, and cancer as well as skin
problems, cuts, bruises, headaches, colds,
flu, sore throat, fatigue, anxiety and
insomnia.
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What does it feel like?
• Like a wonderful glowing radiance and has
many benefits for both client &
practitioner, including positive states of
consciousness and spiritual experiences.
• Reiki works in harmony with all other
kinds of treatment to shorten healing
time, reduces or eliminates pain, reduces
stress and helps create optimism.
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Is Reiki a Religion?
• While Reiki is spiritual in nature, it is not a
religion.
• It has no dogma, and there is nothing you
must believe in order to learn and use Reiki.
• It is not dependent on a belief at all and will
work whether you believe in it or not.
• Reiki comes from God enabling many people
to go beyond intellectual concepts and
directly experience their religion.
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Hand Positions for Self-
Treatment
• 1-hands over face with fingers at the top
of the forehead and the hands touching.
• 2a-Place your hands on the sides of your
head over the ears.
• 2b-Place your hands on top of your head
with the fingers touching but not
overlapping. Palms are close to the top of
the ears.
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• 3-Place your hands on the back of your
head with the base of the palms at the
base of the skull.
• 4-Place one hand over your throat and the
other hand over your heart.
• 5-Place both hands over your shoulders
close to the neck.
• 6-Place your hands with the fingers
touching over the upper stomach just
below the rib cage.
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• 7-Place your hands over the middle
stomach with the fingers touching at
the navel.
• 8-Place your hands on the lower
stomach with the base of the hands
near or on the hip bones and the
fingertips over the pubic bone.
• 9-Place your hands on the middle back
with the fingers touching.
• 10-Place your hands on the lower back
with the finger tips over the sacrum.
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• 11-Hold your left foot with both hands in a
way that is comfortable.
• 12-Hold the right foot with both hands in a
way that is comfortable.
• 13a-Hold your right foot with your right
hand and your left foot with your left hand
in a way that is comfortable.
• 13b-Hold your left foot with your right
hand and your right foot with your left
hand in a way that is comfortable. This
cross over position balances the right and
left sides of the nervous system.
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Reiki Research
Birocco M, Stortos S, et al. The Effects of
Reiki Therapy on pain and anxiety in
patients attending a day oncology and
infusion services unit. Am J Hosp Palliat
Care. 2012; 29(4):290-294.
Reiki results in a broad range of
symptomatic benefits including common
cancer-related symptomatic improvement.
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What is healing touch?
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HEALING TOUCH
• “Heart-Centered-Laying of the hands and
use of non-invasive techniques, the
practitioners hands are used to clear,
energize and balance human and
environmental energies to bring about
physical, emotional, mental and spiritual
healing.”
• Healing Touch is practiced in health care
settings.
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Brief History
• Healing Touch was developed by Janet
Mentgen,RN who used energy-based care
in her practice since 1980 in Colorado.
• Developed training program incorporating
techniques of many well-known healers-
such as Dr Brugh Joy,Alice Bailey and
Barbara Brennan
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Time to be Grounded and
Centered
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GROUNDING
• the state of feeling connected to the
earth, one’s own physical body and of
being alert and oriented to the present
moment
• imagine yourself as a tree with deep roots
emanating from the feet
• can use images, thoughts, affirmations or
prayers which facilitate being fully present
and in the body
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CENTERING
• is being fully present, connected within,
focused and open to guidance.
• setting the intention for healing for the
other person’s highest good.
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The Centering Process
Breathe deeply and consciously
Close your eyes and go inside
Notice your breathing- it should be even,
slow, deep and relaxed
With each exhale, release tension, worry
and thoughts
Continue the pattern until fully present
and focused
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Grounding and Centering
• Helps facilitate the healing process
• Often done simultaneously
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Benefits of Healing Touch
• Non-invasive
• Effective
• Non toxic
• economical
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HEALING TOUCH
TECHNIQUES
• Feel your energy field
• Hands in Motion-promote
relaxation, relieve pain,
decrease anxiety, tension
and stress
• Pain Drain-help remove
physical or emotional
pain
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Healing Touch-Mind Clearing
• Alters mental and
emotional state
• More relaxed and
centered
• Alters energy flow
in the head
• Follows meridian
flow
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SELF CHAKRA CONNECTION
• Full body balancing technique that facilitates
movement of energy from chakra to chakra by
connecting and opening them to flow freely.
• Developed by W. Brugh Joy, MD (wrote book
“Joys Way”, 1974)
• Connection is maintained through light touch or
conscious intention.
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Healing Touch Research
• Still in its early stages.
• As of August 2008 115 completed researches on
Healing Touch
• Funding from National Institutes of Health and
National Center for Complementary and
Alternative Medicine in the USA
• Healing Touch International and Healing Touch
Program have on-going research programs
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Healing Touch Research
MacIntyre, B, et al, The Efficacy of
Healing Touch in Coronary Artery Bypass
Surgery. Alternative Therapies in Health
and Medicine, July-August 2008.
 This study showed significant differences
in shortened length of hospital stay, and a
decrease in anxiety upon receiving
Healing Touch.
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Ending Thoughts for Today
Don’t get angry today.
Don’t be grievous.
Express your thanks.
Be diligent in your business.
Be kind to others.
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REFERENCES
Healing Touch vs. Reiki, About.comHolisticHealing
Reiki- The Healing Touch, William Lee Rand, Vision
Publications, 21421 Hilltop Street, #28,
Southfield , MI
Healing Touch Level I Notebook, Janet Mentgen
(2009), Healing Touch Program
www.healingtouchprogram.com
www.takingcharge,csh.umn.edu
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HAVE A GREAT DAY!
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NAMASTE!
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