Pseudoscience Debunked: Reiki
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You know it’s bad when the Catholic Church is concerned that you’re not being scientific enough.
Great if thats true. Maybe theyll be a piece of history in time like belief in Apollo Osiris Ishtar Hermes ad infinitum.
I disagree. Reggae can be very therapeutic.
i thought....quantum mechanics states that everything, I mean, everything, is energy. and quantum psyhics is the ruling science of the day, newtonian (physical) science is no more....so if EVERYTHING is energy why not balance that energy.....?????
E Unhinged LOL, guilty of not recognizing sarcasm till I saw your handle.
I can't stand Reggae, but solid joke nonetheless.
Reiki wont need any blind belief... you just need the willingness to experiment.....
bob marley was the master!
I sometimes wish I had no scruples or morals. I could make zillions.
Reiki practitioners are not making zillions -- but you know who is...that's right Pfizer and Moderna. Ain't that a hoot?
Finally, a job for all those out-of-work mimes.
Livid Imp ok that's just funny
Lmao
LooooooL excellent !
Okokok I'm dying
Oops you’ve got a blockage. (Pretends to pull a heavy rope) wow that was a big one. Wait I see another. (Pretends to open a door) What?! Oh no no no. (Slams door) we’ll get that one next time.
I can understand the placebo effect thing, but hospitals really shouldn't be charging for something that doesn't work.
troy lenz Placebos “work”
Charles Barnes. I know placebos can work, but medical patients
shouldn't be getting charged $300 for a placebo.
Are you kidding? How much success do they have with bogus deadly pharmaceuticals? They have made what a trillion in profit? How many psychiatric cures have they had? Exactly 0.
troy lenz the placebo effect requires certain conditions for it to work.
1. being told what the placebo will do
2. some activity or catalyst where the sick person interacts
3. a value of the placebo (in europe they prescribe benign dosages of medicine to patients to get the effect, with social medicine you can do this)
so the value of the reiki session is arbitrary unfortunately when you have private health care any placebo is a rip off. Unless it falls under counseling.
humility1st they have a had a lot of success with pharmaceuticals... we just here about the sensational stories when things go bad and the corporations cover it up and their over arching drive for profit. None the less they still produce many useful medicines.
Human touch very important for human well being. Infants die if they are not held. Reiki may have it's questionable theories but human touch can't be underestimated.
You just made that up...
Laura Streeter 🤣🤣🤣
1. Infants need contact because they are constantly building up the immune system that has to protect them during their whole lives, not because of some spiritual shit. Also, they don't necessarily "die" if they are not held.
2. You are talking about human touch. But reiki is mostly about not touching. They are just maintaining their hands from afar. For that matter just pay for a good massage that will actually help you out.
Too bad Reiki rarely involves any touch at all.
The placebo effect is real.
what do u think the placebo effect actually is
A. Moropoulos
It’s an exposer of the will power of the human mind which will harm its self or heal its self on thought
@@unosheem6210 the mind can't harm or heal anything. It can make you *feel* better or worse. "Feel", not "be"
@@SpeartonMan it depends what you are sick with. Do soem research on placebos.
Bullshit
Loneliness is the issue and reiki is a relaxing, intimate social experience, that does activate your auto immune system. It's no magic power, it's just what humans need: care and respect and time by other humans. Society has become very sickening.
@Obsidikis Necrosine reiki is bs but there is a universal life force that has been proven. Orgone energy discovered by Wilhelm Reich. He was able to attract and disperse rain clouds causing it to rain. He extended the lives and improved the health of cancer mice and later human cancer patients with his orgone accumulator. The FDA felt the need to destroy Reichs research and published works. Reich was imprisoned where he died soon after. Reich was a top student of Freud. After he moved to America his research was gaining popularity and he was teaching students as well as treating patients with orgone energy. He was whipped from history by the US government and to me that says he was on to something.
did you not think very long before you wrote that?
then get friends. Intimate social experiences that cure loneliness for free.
Your auto immune system? Do you mean your immune system? Do you know anything about how that works because, that's not how that works. And I say this with all compassion because I don't like to see people harmed. But in my experience, when people talk about boosting your immune system, they're usually full of s*#t. There's a lot of misinformation out there and I don't blame anyone for falling for it. Very intelligent people fall for it all the time. It can happen to any of us.
There are ways to promote a healthy and robust immune system but that doesn't mean you're going to immune to anything you wouldn't usually be or that you'll cure anything under the sun. Basically just don't smoke, exercise, eat right and maintain a regular sleep cycle. It's no big trick. Here's a great video about how the immune system works. I think you'll enjoy it. czcams.com/video/lXfEK8G8CUI/video.html
that's why my long distance gf left me for a "reiki master"
Anyone who offers services described as any sort of "healing" should have to be licensed and regulated.
@Wubba Zugg,
For clarity, licensing has nothing to do with any medical/'healing' modality, that's just a fee for 'permission' to practice in a particular city, county, etc. Regulating has to do with a governing body overseeing your education/training in the field of your choice.
Btw, Reiki practitioners or any other energyworker is not the "healer", [you] are__we are just fascilitators of the Energy being utilized. 💖🙌😺
Wait , are you saying the like of Joe Dispensa and Depak Chopra are a bit dodgy 😂😂...
I wonder if Jesus was licensed and regulated...🤔
The Reiki practitioner does not heal anyone, they allow healing energy to flow through them to the person requesting the service.
It's the human companionship, not the treatment. People who are ill are often isolated and this gives them time in closeness with another person. This makes them feel better. They could be doing anything.
czcams.com/video/ukCfYcoehWw/video.html&ab_channel=Thunderf00t the socks & marmalade treatment is a great alternative
What rubbish
@@michelefarrell6717 ???
“They could be doing anything” so can I get a happy ending? Lol 😂
No. There are studies he did not even comment on....evidence on petri dishes...without a human body.
There was a study done decades ago that involved 40 reiki practitioners in California, they had the reiki practitioners put both of their hands through holes in a large board, and another person put their hand within an inch of one of the practitioners hand, and they had to say which hand was receiving energy.. They got it right 44% of the time, they repeated the same experiment with non-reiki practitioners and they got it right 44% of the time too... by guessing.
Derren brown
Indeed, a similar experiment has been done with people who claim to see auras- and they cannot tell if someone is behind a screen or not.
Will you please cite this study? Wait....let me guess. You can't find it, right?
@@alexmousley7213 'auras' another load of old bollocks 🤣🤣
Yep. It's amazing how self important some humans are!
@@chrisparti
As a scientist myself, it really annoys me when I see how confident humans (especially other scientists) are about what they know, when the truth is we really dont know. The scientific method is a manmade system and based entirely on materialism (i.e. using evidence). There are mysteries within the Universe (just look at physics and neuroscience) that cannot be explained by the evidence alone. And these problems are often shrugged away. This confidence causes the scientific community to ignore novel ideas and hence it is difficult to reach a shift in paradigm. We should be open to ridiculous ideas to some extent.
As a non-scientist, I don't follow your reasoning. I agree that "We should be open to ridiculous ideas to some extent", in so far as "ridiculous" is an arbitrary value judgment. That being said, how can we determine the legitimacy of a "ridiculous" idea by other means than somehow measuring and observing its effects on material reality?
"This confidence causes the scientific community to ignore novel ideas and hence it is difficult to reach a shift in paradigm." Maybe this is true in part, but look at neuroscience and physics: two fields of study that have been repeatedly overturned by new findings. Reaching a new paradigm should in itself not be a goal, as it seems to suggest that a new paradigm is desirable, not by the merits of predictive power or by what can be observed, but by being a new paradigm alone.
Thanks for being open minded considering your vocation.
This is what idiots who believe in this stuff say. You are not a scientist.
People confuse having a white, judeo Christian view of the world with being rational and right. As a biophysicist, its delightful seeing all these people claim so boldly they've the scientific rational to claim things like reiki are all woo when there's so much new knowledge being generated that can potentially explain why it works
"that cannot be explained by the evidence alone" for now. "We should be open to ridiculous ideas to some extent." yes, the extent being movies, songs and fictions.
This lady at my job use to give Reiki treatments in the supply room. I went to go grab a pen and walked in on one of her Reiki appointments. It was so awkward.
🤣🤣🤣
She was probably looking for some privacy.
why the fuck did she do that at work? how come she did not got fired?
I bet you're a blast a parties.
My dad does this he's a total con artist
maybe what we really should be researching more is the placebo effect... I mean, hell, if you think you're taking a pill that will cause xyz and it actually happens, i'd say that's a pretty important thing to understand
I highly recommend Mind Field's episode on suggestion, there's one where they break it down with scientists, that one's even better
I live surrounded by 30 something young parents with strong new-age ideas. They drive me crazy, especially when it comes to "we're all entitled to our opinions". NO, SCIENCE ISN'T AN OPINION.
Freddy Lubin 🤣 yes THANK YOU!
It sounds like you have been subjected to a lot of arrogant people (which most people have struggled with for thousands of years). But all new generations and their contributions will be considered “new age”. We need to heal the relationship between generations. Reiki may not work for everyone but if something is catching the attentions of millions of people then it is better to listen from a place of curiosity and compassion rather than judgement.
I didnt know what it was. I had no idea what to expect... My chiropractor asked if I minded if he did some reiki on me. I felt a huge amount of heat. So much so that I opened my eyes to see what device he was using, but it was just his hands that were actually quite far away from my body. My heart rate slowed and I felt some relief of my headache. That was yesterday and now I'm looking stuff up on CZcams to figure wtf it is. So... I dunno. I absolutely felt it.
I would encourage you not to get wrapped up in the experience.
The whole philsophy is old odd ends stolen forth from Holy writ, leaps in logic, stories and legends, and strsight up guesses.
What Reiki is is a trick taking advantage of the placebo effect.
While I do agree that energy is real, they claim to control it, while it just pours out of them in the form of heat.
Its the equivalent of pissing on you and telling you its raining.
Not only that but the reiki founder died of a stroke at 60 and the two reiki people I know are always having health problems.
But it makes them money...
it's very real, a lot of naysayers spreading toxicity in these comments
@@pupplementarypupplements5804 If you can prove it using blinded placebo controlled study, do it.
Placebo. If you believe in it enough you will feel something. But it’s not causing any meaningful change. @@pupplementarypupplements5804 it’s
Catholics: Reiki is incompatible with science. Try faith healing.
JM1993951 that’s a good bumper sticker
JM1993951 that actually works moron and we believe in medicine, not snake oil idiot.
@@chrisgrizarioexposed7161 you would really have to provide substantial evidence. Aside from ad hominum attacks
or exorcism
You need to learn Reiki, not listen to other people who don't know dirt from water.
Just my 2 cents - it wouldn't be so bad if they just cut out all the mystical pseudo science BS and rebrand as some sort of meditation. Doubt it would "work" as well if they did that though..
Tad Mikowsky the problem is meditation works. Slow deep breathing, conscious relaxation, and time away from a stressful environment do wonders for anyone...
M'hail . Reiki does involve some of those things though
There is a ton of scientic data, and fmri brain scans that indicate that meditation has a genuine neurological effect on it's practitioners. Those who practice meditation have reported increased focus, memory, reduced anxiety, faster reaction time, etc. Detailed brain scans support their claims as they show increased activity in areas of the brain responsible for these things. They also show a reduction in cortisol (the stress hormone) which, in high levels, damages tissues and organs, and leads to several health problems and illnesses.
The data on reiki suggests that it has no more effect than the placebo effect. This means that for healing purposes, reiki is no better than giving patients an unprinted m&m and convincing them that it contains a medicine that will heal them. They may report feeling better but they aren't being healed by the reiki. If anything, they are being "healed" by the physiological response brought on by believing that reiki is healing them.
@@j.c.wright3476 bit the placebo effect work though right?
Some people, like me, are completely incapable of meditating on their own. I am extremely anxious, i don't get to simply lay down and not worry without help. Another person who knows their shit distracting me would actually make this possible. It is actually something that could be useful
People who do this want a super power so badly. Kinda sad really.
Based on what?
I gotta get in on one of these hustles. Working is so much harder.
JM1993951 I agree...I am busy developing my institute for the development of intuitive powers. Offering free evaluations with the possibility of improvement through advanced recognition technology with formal correspondence lectures leading to diplomas of various grades.
@@naturalroyalflush How do I sign up for scientology?
@@naturalroyalflush I was pissed until I read your profile name and realized you were sarcastic.
i think it’s important to be skeptical of people’s beliefs but i think it’s important to sympathize w why someone would believe in something such as reiki.
a lot of reiki practitioners state that a great example of everyday reiki is when a parent kisses a child’s injury to make it feel better. or when something aches in your body the first thing you do is hold that area. why? because it brings attention and awareness to that area then providing it physical support.
reiki at a basic level is human contact. reiki can be done with or without physical touch but you’re still interacting with another person (which covid has proven is necessary for people’s sanity).
reiki requires participants to focus on a body part, an idea, or an intention for 15-60 minutes and breathe deeply. this is essentially meditation which has scientific backing. a practitioner will bring attention to spaces in the body that generally hold physical stress thus possibly making the participant believe they are releasing stress from said areas.
lastly, reiki emphasizes that to get the most out of a session is for the participant to be willing to release/move blocked energy which may be interpreted as a placebo effect. the more you believe it’ll work, the more you convince yourself it’s working. and that isn’t necessarily dangerous unless the participant is going broke to go to reiki sessions. the mind is a powerful tool in healing.
there have been a few studies that show that anywhere from 70-90% of participants feel better after a reiki session. i think that even the idea of being in a room with someone who wants to help you and is focusing all their time and energy on you is healing in itself.
however, believe whatever you want. it’s your world as much as it is mine. i’m a big believer in the scientific method but i also like to question, in an educated manner, why reiki works, or at least feels like it works.
Placebo effect is very much real
This! The psyche as well as the body have regenerative abilities, breath does regulate the nervoussystem and so does human connection/physical contact. It is as healing as hugging someone u love, meditating, cuddling a pet, or selfcare... there are many further examples and all are beneficial for the human mind, and therefore for the body as well (although probably more preventative and through the absence of stress) I never was into reiki and i don't have any reason to defend something i have no contact with, but I think it can be good for people that lack human connection (it should never ever be a tool to exploit people tho! Advertising with stressrelieve and then contribute to possible money issues is just awful! There should be ethical boundaries) [excuse possible mistakes engl. is my 2nd language]
Being intimately touched in a non-sexual, caring way is actually very rare in our modern, individualistic society. So I see how it can have a positive effect- despite it being quackery in terms of energy etc
Several years ago I underwent a reiki treatment because a relative recommended it to me. The practitioner waved her hands over me and said something like "We call upon the spirits of the great healers including the greatest of all, Jesus Christ..."
I'd been an atheist for almost 20 years by then and I gave my relative an angry side eye because she knew perfectly well that I didn't believe in Jesus and faith healing.
Oh, and it did absolutely nothing for me.
Reiki did zero for me. I don't know how I could have been so gullible.
Omegaia1: I’m sorry it didn’t work. I’ll pray for you.
Zing! LOL Good one Charlie Brown!
Omegaia1 it didn’t work because You are an atheist,see.😎
Cause your attitude sucked.
CZcams ASMR "artists" are really making this quack shit popular again. Btw I've actually tried reiki multiple times with a completely open mind and literally felt no different at all. It's like guided meditation (which works) but worse because there's a random stranger in the same room as you. A massage does 1000X more to heal you than this crap.
The thing that annoys me the most about these quacks is that if it doesn't work on you even after multiple attempts they will always say "you just weren't believing in it strong enough". Imagine If you paid a mechanic to fix your car and he gives it right back with the same problem unfixed and they just said "you weren't open minded enough"
You're telling me Jedi aren't real?
Nick Angelos Noooooo!!!!!!
My ex-boyfriend’s cousin is a massage therapist, and I’ll never forget when we were out with her for her 21st birthday, and she told us she intended to study Reike. We had no idea what it was, and I just remembered my jaw clenching as she explained it, and thinking “be nice”. Instead of being harsh, I just explained research done on the placebo effect, and how incredibly powerful it actually is, and hoped that she would get the gist... 🙃
I am usually very skeptical about alternative healing methods. However, I have personally experienced reiki and it does actually do something. Don't ask me how it works, but it does work. It's not the placebo effect, because at first I didn't believe it would work.
About cancer patients: Someone whom I know very well does reiki. A collegue of her had had radiation treatment because of a tumor. Because of this, she had some pains, not exactly sure what she was having, but it's the normal thing after you've had radiation treatment. Anyway, during work, this person I know did reiki on that patient, and that patient described exactly what she felt, without the practitionner telling what 'should' happen. After the session, she didn't feel the pains anymore.
To me, this screams: something does actually happen, we just don't know what it is. I don't care about it's "origin myths" and such (as far as I'm concerned it could come from Mars or Jupiter, whatever), as long as it works and it's not dangerous.
I mean everything is energy and vibrations, you should check physics behind that and maybe study a little bit more about it by yourself. Maybe donst start with Reiki is real or Reiki is fake videos. But maybe about energy, vibrations etc. Science baby
Anecdotes are not data.
A Japanese proverb once said “Reiki me daddy”
😂😂😂 Oh my god
I know this much, when my oldest son was thrown through the windshield of his car and landed on the side of the road in a coma, the hospital had no hope but as a mother I was willing to try anything and one day I was at the grocery store checking out when the cashier asked me how Jason was doing. I told her he was in the hospital in a coma, and it didn't look very good, that's when the woman behind me in line chimed in and started talking to me about REIKI and offered to do a session with my son for free so of course I agreed. The next day we went to the hospital, she pulled out her magick REIKI hands and started doing her thing an as soon as she did the numbers on all the machines my son was hooked up to started getting better. A few minutes later a nurse walked in with her tray full of needles and told the REIKI Practitioner she had to move. As soon as she took her hands away those numbers shot up again and after the nurse was done and gone, she started doing her REIKI thing again and the numbers started calming down again! So, I Know REIKI Works and Nobody will ever be able to convince me otherwise. That was the woman who trained me and I highly recommend REIKI to everyone even if it's just to settle your soul from the stress and BS of everyday life.
Yes, the book sounds like a bunch of HoogieBoogie BS, If you come into a REIKI Session for pain in your elbow but don't feel any relief that's because the REIKI Energy found another issue that needed attention first 🤣 I would never have believed that CRAP either
and what happened to your soon after ?
A study from 2019 - Harvard - Effectiveness of Reiki concluded that patients benefitted both psychologically and physically from Reiki sessions.
"hospital's can't justify ineffective treatments like Reiki" They can when hospitals are driven by the profit motive. If they can manage to claim in addition to other treatments and you are already taking up a hospital bed then they are quids in. Unfortunately here in the UK, groups of these charletans and their deluded followers are trying to get the NHS to fund this. So far it seems mainly to be offered by volunteers who are paid via charity, but they are trying non the less to milk the NHS. This would be outrageous to people as some actual treatments are denied/rationed based on their cost/benefit position.
Do you really know and sure that NHS fund for Reiki healers. As I know most are doing it on voluntary basis and some sponsored by charities who realised the potential of such complimentary treatments.
This patient needs reiki, STAT!
i thought....quantum mechanics states that everything, I mean, everything, is energy. and quantum psyhics is the ruling science of the day, newtonian (physical) science is no more....so if EVERYTHING is energy why not balance that energy.....?????
Ya I'd do some more reading bud. Everything is energy, quantum physics didn't establish that, and it was special and general relativity that replaced Newtonian physics. And because how do you suggest "balacing" and what are you balancing? Nonsense.
Reiki is a specific form of energy channelling , energy channelling itself has been around thousands of years. I am more than willing to prove to you that these energy fields are real, brother.
Please do
Pls do ..under scientific conditions
@@sonaldivekar1829 Absolutely willing to do this, what may I ask are acceptable scientific conditions for such a task?
@@pupplementarypupplements5804 you would need to perform a clinical trial which means a research study in which many human subjects are prospectively assigned to one or more interventions (like a placebo or other control) to evaluate the effects of the interventions on biomedical or behavioural health-related outcomes. In other words you have to measure the effect of reiki against non-treated patients in a controlled manner and eliminate other possibilities like the placebo effect in order to rule out that anything other than reiki is doing the “healing”. But as the video says, that was already done and reiki had better results than the non-treated patients but not better than the fake placebo treated patients.
@@sonaldivekar1829 Under scientific conditions ,CIA has proven energy work and it`s effects :D
When are you gonna debunk Capitalism?
Soul Thompson you gotta problem with my always fair and perfect economic system punk? You're anti-American and not only that but if you don't agree with my opinion you're a communist.
Javier Logan 'you're anti-American' that's where you're right kiddo
czcams.com/video/-fOjJZ4ryq0/video.html
Soul Thompson lmao. Pseudo science like Reiki is not the same as Capitalism. Capitalism is a very real, very flawed economic system. Reiki is just a completely fraudulent, factually baseless, load of nonsense, make believe, oogitty boogitty nonsense.
dab
Capitalism isn't flawed. It's doing a wonderful job doing exactly what it was designed to do. The problem is that it was never going to do anything other than empower and enrich a very few people lucky enough to be in positions where they could exploit the labor of masses of wage-slaves.
Aside from the fact it's a lie, it shouldn't matter much if Reiki were ancient. Chinese traditional "medicine" goes far back, but it's still bunk that is contributing to the extinction of endangered species.
Topher S lol, you don't know what the F you're talking about but keep pushing that sh-t wagon
Much 'Traditional Chinese Medicine' isn't actually very traditional or very old either.
Grimbeard uh, yes it is. Dates back over 3000 years. Try the Google. It'll help you sound less like a troll.
Topher S
Japanese duck head
Try a simple google search. Chinese Medicine Endangered Species. I will simplify for you. A rhino horn can reach up to 46,000 euros per kilogram on the Asian black market, Please tell me if that number needs to be updated.
my friend went to a holistic hospital for her cancer and it obviously did work her mom finally agreed to do chemo now shes healed boy do I love science
It's just a placebo...but the placebo effect DOES do something.
Oh quantum mechanics. Or to be more accurate, the fact that most people or maybe all people don't really understand it. The great reason behind all things that otherwise have no reason behind them. "So how does this work?" "Well, energy,... vibrations,... frequencies..." "Energy? What kind of energy? And do you mean like sound vibrations? Radio frequencies? What exactly do those words mean." "It's quantum okay? It's just quantum. Do you want to ask me about that? Yeah, didn't think so." "🤨"
The ancient art of Qi-Ching.
youngThrashbarg see what you did there, I do.
lol it looks like only 2 of us get it
O Alem many people got it. Only a few found it funny.
Anandh Rajan ah, OK.. Please show me the #s from the poll you conducted.
My father believes in this stuff. He’s very obnoxious about it....
I got a grift for you. Find a friend he's never met and tell him you heard of this person in town that is this master Reiki, then just have your friend hover their hands over him in a mime-ish way for $50 an hour (or whatever it is), then split the take with your friend. If your dad insists on getting ripped off, you might as well get the money.
Livid Imp lmao! I should honestly.
Here in san diego, spirituality is a competative sport. Snobbwry like you wouldnt believe. Know somebody who does this makes 175 per hour and is booked 8 to 10 hours a day, 5 days a week.
@Joshua Haha, thanks for the laugh kid. Try to take yourself less seriously before you give yourself an embolism.
@Joshua Well let's see, where is my life right now? I'm effectively retired (which is why I have plenty of time to torment thin-lipped self-righteous kids on the internet). Yea, retired and I'm not even 50 yet. Got the best wife in the world who I've been with for nearly 30 years, and two great sons.... so yea, I'm doing alright, thanks for your concern Josh.
It's funny how you try so hard to put me down for responding to a two year old comment, when it was _you_ that responded to a two year old comment. I responded to a reply that was less than a day old. So go right ahead and give me hell. It definitely, in no way is making me giggle as I type this.
You might want to stay off the internet Josh. It is far too silly a place for a guy as *very very serious* as yourself.
My opinion about the Pseudoscience series - "There has been a great disturbance in the Farce...…."
I do not believe in Reiki but in order to share the information and educate the people that do believe in it, it would be better to not insult them with sarcasm and labels like “quackademics” and even “pseudoscience” because I want to share this video with people that believe in Reiki but I also don’t want to insult them. Great video though, thank you for the information.
no need to be so respectful
I don't know man, but i had reiki done 2 times to me by 2 different persons. The first time i felt energized like i never felt before and just a feeling of well-being that i couldn't explain. The second time i only felt heat, but what stroke me was the scanning part. I had an on and off pain in the spleen zone. I didn't tell no one about it. And the lady just asked, after reaching that area, if i had any problems with my left elbow, which was less than an inch away from the area that was hurting me. I don't know what to believe, but i can't explain that shit
"A Catholic who puts his or her trust in reiki would be operating in the realm of superstition" (the body of christ, amen) LOLOLOLOLOLOL
same thing
We really are living a new dark age. Dumb. Dumb. Dumb.
Is it possible that reiki has a placebo affect?
Can you debunk the study that shows that “therapeutic touch” increases hemoglobin levels?
"I hope the color of my energy is blue"
“Don’t knock it until you try it”! I’ve been a doubter all my life. Then I got sick - after surgery and 3 weeks in the hospital I was finally able to go home. But I wasn’t healing. Then I had a very short 5min treatment. I felt better. I was healed enough at 6 weeks to have my staples out. The doctor was amazed at the healing. I kept going and I could see the difference in my entire body. I’m still a skeptic about other alternatives but Reiki works! Oh and an update is Reiki is being proven to work with magnetic fields (ions, cellular structures, brain waves) so Mr Packman how about an update? (International House of Reiki with Frans Stein)
I worked in healthcare - providing legitimate healthcare services - but the owner hired in a nurse to work in a leadership capacity - who firmly believes she is a reiki master - so good, in fact, that she can heal people over zoom or a phone call.. This woman was bad at her job in a lot of other ways too - but this absolute nonsense being brought into a legitimate healthcare setting, especially in an authoritative capacity - was enough to see me leave. She still woks there & in fact has an even higher role in the company now - I genuinely can't imagine - or just don't want to imagine - how that place is ran now. There is a lunatic at the helm..
Yes, it's relaxing when someone lightly touches your body or is showing you one-on-one care and attention. No, I'm sorry, but you don't have superpowers.
Reiki practitioners do not claim to have superpowers. Anyone can do reiki, that is why there are courses now. It's not that hard to learn and it's not special. Your grandmother could do it.
I never knew that many hospitals offered reiki until now. It's incredibly disappointing to hear that an institution which in principle should operate solely through evidence-based medical science is now providing pseudoscientific woo-woo treatments as if they are just as valid as real treatments supported by evidence and developed through countless hours of careful research over centuries. A hospital should be a trusted, respectable place of medical expertise where you can expect that the latest scientifically-supported medical knowledge and techniques will be applied in order to save and improve lives, not a place that caves to ignorant superstitious people and uses its status to lend legitimacy to their beliefs by pretending that their beliefs are valid. Talk about selling your soul for money, smh
As a professional chiro-massage therapist, full focused of the physical treatments of the body (muscle action, joint liberation, fascia attachments, blood circulation, etc) I always found the practice of this bullshit very unnerving.
I mean... I'm not displeased just by its existence. But since it is somewhat "related" to my line of work, reiki is most of the times included in the service menu of the places I work, so there have been tons of situations of people coming and asking me for details. This is when I have to choose whether to lie, which I never do, or to be sincere.
It is quite problematic.
However, what I hate the most is seeing the price tag next to the service, like they try people to think that lying down on a bed and not touching you for an hour and a half is as much or even more valuable than a full therapeutic massage.
It's like "wooaaahh... so oriental and spiritualistic. The room smells nice, towel is clean, and the hands of the girl who does it look soft. And there's all that taoist ying-yang Qi-chakra shit she was talking about which sounds dope. Here, take my money".
You're basically paying for a 90 minute nap, 1€/minute.
If you believe in it, you'll feel some nice placebo effect.
I saw one who charges $400/hr (90 mins, $600) - she's fully booked until the end of eternity too!
Bound to trigger New Age folk more than a Yanni concert selling out before they could buy tickets
hahaha
If reiki worked we would all do it and feel great. But it doesn't work. Relaxing works and taking real action in ur life. Nothing else. Good luck.
its sad this even needs debunking
Indeed. It is part of the NWO luciferian agenda
@@danquilty6580 youre sad.
@@twintalk2943 wanna fight about it?
@@twintalk2943 i am researchjng Reiki as two of my family members are involved.
Now i had heard of the coming one world religion, or has the pope himself called for recently a "new humanism".
Alice Bailey was involved in setting in up in a big way.
Lo and behold, whos name do I see when I open up a reiki handbook? A quote from Alice Bailey!
I am "sad"?
Whats sad is people dont research anything or they would already know what I say is true
@@danquilty6580 its sad that you believe that reiki works. even sadder after you said you did the research. have fun with those loopy beliefs.
Whether a practitioner makes physical contact or not has to do with the state's regulations, not the style of Reiki or proficiency level. In many states, no LMT certificate means no contact. The solution is to stay out of commerce (not to charge).
As someone who has been researching a lot about traditional chinese medicine as of late, Reiki makes no sense even from a TCM point of view. In fact, the monk who "rediscovered" reiki probably commited cultural appropriation if anything (which is SUPER common in New Age woo)
Also, Acupuncture has WAAAAY more evidence backing than Reiki does (even tho we are still unsure how acupuncture does its magic as it has shown to be more than placebo unlike Reiki)
The ad that started in the beggining of the video is an ad for "energy medecine"! LMAO
I got an awesome song for Courtney 1986's doll.
9:58 reiki proves playing with my cat works 😭😭 he's a good boy
I will say what I’ve said to many people… I can’t judge you because you think it’s pseudoscience or psychosomatic. It’s merely something you need to experience to truly believe in. No one can take away my experiences and sensations I have felt. I can sense and experience things that no mainstream societal minded person or doctor can explain.
If I don’t judge you, then please don’t judge me or others. I have witnessed and experienced healing of the body in many unexplained ways. Just because you haven’t, doesn’t mean it’s not real. Maybe open your mind a little and don’t put limiting beliefs on yourself. Once you start looking into an optimistic and open minded way and delving into learning more about alternative healing, life takes a turn for the better 😉
Reiki Masters have convinced their 'clients' they can massage them over the phone!
The human capacity for silliness is pretty much unlimited
Reiki can teach you the hadoken!
Yes!!!
Saw an ad on the back windshield of a car advertising reiki for dogs. Only in SoCal.
My cousin does it here in new York
My effin sister is quiting an amazing job in healthcare to open a reiki gym or whatever u call it. She is a single mom. Im worried. She has gone coo coo
Well, if it's reiki or the healthcare system, I'll take the reiki.
so reiki is just like the Japanese version of the four humors balancing?
Reiki could probably help with stress and to relax the person. Other than that it’s all just placebo affect. So I suppose you could say it works but not in the traditional sense. It’ll make you feel like it works but it’s just a placebo.
The guy I'm seeing is very into this. The other night when I was leaving, he was starting a zoom call reiki class. I knew I couldn't keep a straight face for that so I went home. I will support him and his interest within reason but I absolutely can't get into it with him. If he gets some placebo effect outta it, I won't yuck his yum. If he starts to refuse seeing actual doctors then we'll have a conversation.
Why doesn't David Pakman have a Reiki treatment himself and then tell us all how and if it affected him?
This sounds a lot like Scientology.
This is exactly the vibe I get from it
@DavidPakman Ok, so, for being an intellectual you don't seem to understand the power of one's mind over one's body.
My grandparents are Christian homeopaths.
Was there a homeopathy video, and where did it go?
The benefits of this exist only in the believer's mind, and nowhere else...
Rubbish
My experiences show me that some sincere people are deluded into working as practitioners, as well as seeking help from them. They pay a lot to get attuned under the idea that, unless they pay well for it, they will not appreciate it. This is actually stated quite clearly. Getting attuned more than ten years ago locally ran between 400 and 500 dollars, usually done by an honest person engaging in delusional practices with other mistaken people with integrity.
Man, I have a friend who spent a lot of money taking Reiki classes and getting “certified” and set up a shop to “practice”. And she recently got a deal with a local rock climbing place to practice in their building and charging $85 a session. I really want to try to convey to her that she is scamming people but she has been scammed herself. I’m probably just going to be hands off because I don’t want to deal with the confrontation. Just not worth it. Shit pisses me off that this pseudoscience is still going on
I just started dating a fellow atheist, yet she believes in this as well as crystals energy. 🙄 but she’s an amazing person, so I won’t bother trying to take away her toys. 😜🤗
@lil whisperr,
As your friend, have you given her the opportunity to 'show you' that Reiki has a positive affect on the various levels of 'body, mind, Spirit'? 💖🙌😺
Same. I know someone who literally spent thousands of dollars on reiki and similar "energy healing" classes, and now offers the same courses to others. It's sad.
Thank you sir! Thank you for producing these videos dealing with specific pseudoscience practices.
Have you considered debunking Craniosacral Therapy?
In order to declare something _"pseudoscience"_ there first has to be a claim of _"science."_ Nobody made that claim.
What happened to the homeopathy video?
It got so diluted that it is no longer there...but don't worry, you still have a memory of it being there.
Livid Imp - best comment I've seen all day by far! XD
Worked for me. Like an acid trip. Heat from hands. Like a waking dream. Unreal. Definitely like actrip.
At first I mocked Reiki. Then I googled "average income of Reiki practitioner in the United States": it's over 100k per year. $58/hr. The accreditation / education process is approx 3 years. No previous college education.
I think I found my new career! Why be a masseuse and risk injury to my hands when I can hover them over my patients for the same pay! Less insurance! Less schooling! I will be sure to change my name to a Eastern-sounding appropriation, so that my future patients don't find all my debunking statements on social media! I'm all in!
The Laying Of Scams
Its so weird that Snake Oil never really goes ot of Fashion.
I have experienced Reiki. The energy is real!!
Interest in reiki is quite large? The numbers you gave are less than half of 1% of the population.
That's still a lot of people.
When will a video debunking acupuncture be made?
SuperMiner1280
never, it actually works
John Pliskin not so much. There are some (but certainly far from all) studies they have shown some effect. The catch is that whatever effects may occur aren't contingent in where the needles are placed. Ergo, the underlying claims and specific procedures that firm runt basis of acupuncture are worthless. That goes for pressure points and the flow of "chi".
Topher S actually the placebo effect works for western medicine also. Acupuncture does work and if you do some real research you'll see that during the Mao revolution, he was intent on getting rid of traditional Chinese medicine for western medicine but his advisors recommended he do studies comparing the two for various health conditions. The results showed that acupuncture was effective for many conditions and sometimes better than western medicine. Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean it's not effective. Consider that it's been used far longer than (3000+ years and counting)what passes for western medicine. If it was bunk it's doubtful it would have lasted.
honuman39 You are wrong. Acupuncture is not thousands of years old, it's actually fairly modern. It also conclusively does not work - but, suspiciously, 'research' from China keeps reporting that it does, even though research from elsewhere doesn't replicate their results. Properly blinded and controlled studies show that acupuncture does not work. Period. Importantly, it also *could* not work, because it relies on unblocking the flow of 'chi' (or 'qi') energy, which doesn't exist, by placing needles in meridians, which don't exist.
Ricky Soulless true, it's just an indicator of it holding interest or value. Still, I don't see any argument made on this thread including Grimsbeard that proves acupuncture is baseless. You'd be surprised to see how many western doctors are interested in it and have even appropriated it, surrounded it with science and call it dry needling. The main problem with acupuncture is the challenge of explaining it to the western world. There medicine has a completely different perspective on health and the body and uses terminology that isn't relateable. Works nonetheless and despite doubters.
It's very simple.
People are desperate for intimacy, and people are desperate to feel special.
The second one, most Reiki practitioners are middle aged woman that have been moms their whole lives and start feeling empty so they set out to find anything that could make them feel like they're special.
Reiki is like “the thought” of good mental health with someone else. Which I suppose is healthy between people.
It must be a pretty unbelievable placebo effect taking place.
It's like ASMR, with extra steps and personal approach. Zzzzz...
After thinking about it for a few moments, I have decided that I actually a Reiki Master.
Send me your money and your souls. In return, I'll heal you and absolve you of your sins. Come to me, children of Reiki.
Ain't this what creepy uncles do to their victims?
Electricity is the a real energy, tell to them to use it,
So this is the placebo effect without pills. Huh... Welp, back to drugs then.
this but unironically
I am reiki master i know pseudoscience n why do try to debunk this? What story
Reiki has helped me, I respect your views but in my case it has helped me in solving a lot of health issues which modern medicine could not.
So maybe I am an exception .
I believe in reiki, also "chi" Is very real try martial arts you will know.
The Catholic Church also said that it can be a form or it is a form of idolatry