| The Irish Reiki websites that visited to write this article | | | | Absentee (Distance) Healing |
| have three elements in common: | | | | None of the Irish Reiki websites I visited provided any |
| 1.Each website contains the words "energy" and "life | | | | details of how the distant healing process might work. |
| force". None of the websites define exactly what they | | | | Prices vary for this service, one practitioner charges |
| mean by these words. | | | | €20 per healing session whilst other adepts provide |
| 2.The websites claim to provide "absentee (distant) | | | | it free of charge. One Reiki practitioner, with no |
| healing". | | | | apparent medical qualification, refers to the people |
| 3. They also feature workshops, where Reiki | | | | seeking distant healing as "patients". |
| "techniques" are taught, usually for a substantial fee. | | | | If the healing fails, however, the "healer" may claim that |
| Reiki Energy and The Life Force | | | | it is because the patient is resisting the healing energy. |
| One Reiki website states: | | | | Reiki Workshops |
| "A Sampling of Beneficial Uses of Reiki Distant Healing | | | | Workshops feature prominently on Irish Reiki websites. |
| Energy | | | | The workshops are on three levels, each with an |
| Reduces: Stress, Anxiety, Surgery Discomfort, | | | | associated cost. |
| Depression, Test Anxiety | | | | Reiki Level 1 "teaches self healing and confers the |
| Increases: Personal Growth, Relaxation, Creativity, | | | | ability to heal family and friends on a non-professional |
| Emotional Healing, Peace | | | | basis." The cost for this course is generally around |
| Improves: Clarity, Relationships, Public Speaking | | | | €250. |
| Presentations, Interviews, Auditions". | | | | Reiki Level 2 incorporates additional attunement which |
| In science, the word energy is defined as "the capacity | | | | "multiplies the healing energy that can be channeled." |
| of a physical system to perform work." Energy is a | | | | Cost: around €350. |
| unit of measurement and nothing more than that. | | | | Level 2 qualification allows budding Reiki practitioners |
| Unfortunately, practitioners of Reiki seem unable to tell | | | | the chance to recover their course fees by offering |
| us anything specific about their use of the word | | | | distant healing services. |
| energy. | | | | Reiki Level 3 incorporates Initiation into Reiki Mastership, |
| It is also unclear what part of the body is being | | | | "the final attunement to Reiki energy which multiplies |
| "rebalanced" or how this "rebalancing" is achieved. No | | | | healing energy by an infinite number of times. This |
| clinical evidence was provided on any of the websites | | | | results in more powerful healing and faster |
| I visited to support the "healing" claims. This is not really | | | | healingtimes." |
| surprising given the fact that Reiki practitioners believe | | | | Reiki Level 3 mastership is also a teaching qualification. |
| the "Universal Life Energy" cannot be detected by any | | | | Cost: around €500. |
| scientific instruments. However it can, apparently, be | | | | Reiki masters are then allowed to pass on Reiki |
| felt and manipulated by those special people who pay | | | | techniques by running their own workshops, |
| to learn the proper techniques. | | | | presumably with a similar price structure. |