Demand for alternative and complementary therapies are increasing in the US and the UK in different demographic groups of humans (Davis et al., 2011), and they gain their popularity within animals (Fulton & Prasad, 2006). Energy Healing has been used in clinical settings such as emergency rooms, hospices, surgery areas and psychiatric settings (Gilberti, 2004). Recent studies of Energy Healing include cancer, stroke, human immunodeficiency virus, and anxiety (Rubik et al., 2006).
Energy Healing has no side effect, does not cause any harm to the organism treated, therefore is very safe to use, and adverse effect of the treatment has not been reported (Dogan, 2018) (Rubik et al., 2006). Receivers and practitioners may sense the energy in various form. They may feel cold, warmth, vibration, tingling or floating sensation (Bukowski, 2015). During application, the practitioner tries to balance the flow of energy in the individual, creating a relaxing atmosphere (Dogan, 2018). Energy Healing can be used to treat anxiety, stress and reduction of pain in humans and animals (Fulton & Prasad, 2006).
Bukowski (2015) found that Energy had a calming effect amongst college students when applied for a four weeks study of twenty people. Participants reported decreased stress level compared to their pre-study stress level; this may be achieved using Energy healing; therefore, Energy Healing may be viewed as potential stress and anxiety reducing method. Wardell and Engebretson (2001) found physiological and biochemical changes in the direction to relaxation in
humans when received Energy Healing treatment. Comparing before and after measures of heart rate, blood pressure, skin temperature and electromyography (EMG) there was a significant drop in systolic blood pressure.
A 2014 review of randomized trials suggested that Reiki therapy may help reduce pain and anxiety, though more research is needed.
According to results from a 2011 study, in which participants had six 30-minute sessions over a period of 2 to 8 weeks, people who had Reiki felt greater mood benefits compared with people who didn’t have the treatment.
A 2013 review noted that research into energy therapies, like healing touch, therapeutic touch, “continues to demonstrate efficacy for symptoms commonly associated with cancer,” including:
pain
anxiety
quality of life
health function
A pilot 2015 study found that people being treated for cancer who received 30-minute sessions of distant Reiki for 5 days, in addition to regular medical care, had lower levels of pain, anxiety, and fatigue.
Vibrations are a kind of rhythm. Rhythms happen on a grand scale, like seasonal changes and tidal patterns. They also happen within your body.
Heartbeats, breathing rates, and circadian rhythms are examples of physiological rhythms we can see, feel, and measure.
But there are much smaller vibrations happening in your body, too. Inside each one of your cells, molecules vibrate at characteristic rates.
Using atomic force microscopes, researchers have detected vibrations on the nanoscale — much smaller than 1/1000th the diameter of a single human hair.
These vibrations generate electromagnetic energy waves. Researchers have found that vibrations and the electromagnetic energy associated with them cause changes in your cells, which can then affect how your body functions.
Different molecules vibrate at different rates — and those rat
es can speed up or slow down if conditions around the molecules change.
Temperature, for example, can change the speed of a molecule’s vibration.
Researchers have known for a long time that thoughts and behaviors affect the rhythms in your body.
For example, anxious thoughts trigger the release of stress hormones that stimulate your heart rate to speed up or slow down. The sound vibrations of music, likewise, affect thoughts, emotions, and body systems.
Vibrational energy experts think our behaviors and thoughts can also alter much smaller rhythms.
Proponents believe it’s possible to speed up or slow down the vibrations that occur at the cellular and atomic levels by changing our thoughts, behaviors — and even our surroundings.
Changing those nanovibrations, it’s thought, could ripple outward, affecting our mental state and physical health.
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