Reiki - Some scientific notes on research
Some work has been carries out in the past and still continues to examine how Reiki works.
Dr Robert Becker and Dr John Zimmerman carried out research during the 1980's into what happens when people practice energy healing therapies like Reiki. Their findings indicated that the brain patterns of both practitioner and the person receiving the energy become synchronized in a brain wave pattern know as the Alpha state, one we associate with meditation, deep relaxation, and some states of hypnosis.
They also found that the patterns pulsed with the earth's magnetic energy field more commonly called the Schumann resonance. Their findings suggested that the person giving the Reiki treatment had on average a bio magnetic field around one thousand times greater than normal. This measurement was carried out using an apparatus called SQUID (Super Conducting Quantum Interference Device) designed to measure the electromagnetic field around the human body.
Other research by Toni Bunnell supports the Zimmermann work by suggesting that the practitioner giving the Reiki treatment was able to link to the Earth's energy field and allow it to flow via their body through the hands to the client or person receiving the energy.
Zimmerman continued the investigative work around 1990 in the USA discovering that the pulses are in the same frequencies as brain waves, and sweep up and down from 0.3 - 30 Hz, focusing mostly in 7 - 8 Hz, alpha state. Medical research has since been conducted into the healing properties of such low frequencies on the human body and some equipment has been produce for healing or regenerating tissue using the same frequencies..
Dr Becker carried out his study on a wide cross section of subjects from various races, and no matter what their belief systems or customs, or how opposed to each other their customs were, all tested the same. Part of Reiki's growing popularity is that it does not impose a set of beliefs, and can therefore be used by people of any background and faith, or none at all.
