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Fatigue
Published in Carolyn Torkelson, Catherine Marienau, Beyond Menopause, 2023
Carolyn Torkelson, Catherine Marienau
Reiki is an energy healing practice that originated in Japan. The term comes from the Japanese words rei, meaning universal, and ki, which means vital life force energy that flows through all living things. Practitioners place their hands lightly on or just above the person’s body, with the goal of directing energy to reduce stress and promote relaxation. This approach is based on the belief in an energy that supports the body’s innate or natural healing abilities.
Cesarean Delivery
Published in Vincenzo Berghella, Obstetric Evidence Based Guidelines, 2022
A. Dhanya Mackeen, Meike Schuster
CD can be associated with significant anxiety, especially for those patients who underwent emergency surgery. Various interventions have been studied to reduce stress and anxiety postoperatively. One small RCT compared hand and foot massage to standard postoperative management and observed reduced pain intensity, lower blood pressure and respiratory rate, and increased rates of breastfeeding [321]. Another RCT evaluated the utilization of 30 minutes of Reiki, a Japanese form of healing with energy (3 minutes for each area, 10 areas total) within the first 24–48 hours postoperatively and found significantly lower use of analgesics and less anxiety in the treatment group [322]. Auricular acupressure (applied twice a day) has also been tested and shown to reduce cortisol levels, heart rate, anxiety, and fatigue when used postoperatively [323]. Although there is insufficient evidence based on small sample size, these nonpharmacologic interventions have no expected harmful side effects and can be recommended to those patients who would like to utilize them.
Integration with the Interdisciplinary Care Team
Published in Amy J. Litterini, Christopher M. Wilson, Physical Activity and Rehabilitation in Life-threatening Illness, 2021
Christopher M. Wilson, Amy J. Litterini
Reiki: A Japanese healing technique based on the principle of channeling energy via touch to activate natural healing processes, which is known to bring about feelings of deep relaxation, decreased stress, and an increased sense of calm, peace, and well-being.53 The International Center for Reiki Training indicates that Reiki therapy should be provided only by practitioners who have received a certificate of training in Reiki.54
To Use or Not Use Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) in Psychiatric Care: Interviews with Clinical Decision-Makers in Sweden
Published in Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 2022
Anna Olsson, Siiri Hedlund, Kajsa Landgren
The concept “CAM” includes “alternative medicine” (AM) and “complementary medicine” (CM). AM, having no scientifically acceptable explanation for the mechanism of the therapy (e.g. homeopathy or Reiki healing) cannot be implemented into Swedish publicly funded health care that requires evidence for its methods. CM, on the other hand, leans on scientifically acceptable explanations, thereby being closer to usual care. However, the term CAM is used by the governmental investigation (SOU, 2019 2019:15) and therefore also in our study. Our informants might have associated CAM with methods with no evidence grade whatsoever, or methods with a fairly high evidence grade. Thus, CM methods with a good chance of gaining a better evidence base through more research funding might not benefit from being paired with AM. We recommend that CM and AM be discussed separately.
Bioenergy for Stress Relief in University Students: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Published in Journal of Community Health Nursing, 2022
Alice Running, Laura Hildreth, Neha John-Henderson
In an effort to determine if energy medicine (healing touch) could have a significant impact on stress levels for university students, Bukowski (2015) measured the effects of a self-Reiki program on stress reduction and relaxation in college students. Bukowski (2015) found that participants believed Reiki was a credible technique for reducing stress levels. Likewise, Running and Hildreth (2017) proposed that students report a decreased level of stress after a 20-minute bio-energy intervention. In a quasi-experimental, single-group study, using a pre-test/posttest design, participants reported a significant reduction in stress (t (35) = 7.74, p <.0001). Multiple regression further indicated that decreased stress levels were greater for higher initial stress levels (t (31) = 1.946, p < .0001). In a follow-up study (Running & Hildreth, 2017) with university students, a quasi-experimental, single-group pretest-posttest design was used a second time. Once again, the participants reported a significant change in self-reported stress after the bio-energy intervention (t(35) = 7.74, p <.0001).
Sacred kink: finding psychological meaning at the intersection of BDSM and spiritual experience
Published in Sexual and Relationship Therapy, 2018
As with all key constituents, the ontological index is here suspended. Regardless of the veracity of these descriptions, this energetic force is an embodied piece of the lived experience for Ps. This force is not the same as having the physical vitality required for action or the psychic energy invested in mental operations. It could be similar to what is theorized as the “human biofield” by researchers investigating energy work such as Therapeutic Touch and Reiki. Although the human biofield is held to exist within close proximately to the living body and while it is claimed that some highly sensitive people can feel the biofield of another, it is not a common experience (Nelson & Schwartz, 2005). The descriptions given by the participants also refer to what they suggest are ambient and cosmic energies separate from themselves until the point of embodied experience. Perhaps in using the term “energy,” Ps are actually using thermodynamic phrasing as a metaphor for an embodied experience that is beyond quantifiable measure.