E-Newsletter:
Who Uses Reiki? (7/11)

Everyone should be using Reiki, but who actually is? The statistics show energy healing is gaining mainstream acceptance from healthcare professionals and people of all ages and nationalities.

Among 342 North American nurses using mind-body stress reduction techniques, 39% use Healing Touch (HT) or Therapeutic Touch (TT), both energy healing systems developed by nurses, and 21% use “Reiki, Polarity therapy, or other mindful energy healing,” according to a spring 2010 email survey.
Published in April 2011 BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

British cancer patients at 38 conventional cancer care settings have access to 67 energy healers using Reiki, HT or TT, meaning many healthcare centers have two or more healers available.
Published in November 2010 Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice

Wealthier, more-educated African-Americans are more likely to use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), and “energy/Reiki” was among the types “used most often” by adult African-Americans, according to a University of Texas review of 2002 National Health Interview Survey data.
Published in September 2010 Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy

Menopausal-aged Canadian women using “therapeutic touch/Reiki” ranked it in the top four “most beneficial CAM therapies” for treating symptoms of menopause.
Published in July 2010 Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health

According to 202 mothers, 1.5% of Brazilian children seen at a university hospital had been treated with “reiki/floral,” and these treatments were reported to their doctors 75% of the time.
Published in June 2010 Ciência & Saúde Coletiva

Don't fit these demographics? That's OK. Anyone can benefit from a Reiki session. Email erik@chicagohealingstudio.com or call Erik at 312-504-7693 to schedule your session today.

Anna Schibrowsky
Chicago Healing Studio