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The question was, in the begining of this thread, whether anyone had tried reiki and what if any were the interpretations of that experience.
The answer to this is not necessarily one of validity/research/fidelity and what have you. It is one of what one can do in ADDITION TO the therapy that one chooses to engage in.
So while, the final coda, you are making good points about psychotherapy and the efficacy of certain therapeutic techniques used in a session you are not actually addressing the actual essence of the question. In fact, what you are doing is invalidating the experience of others. These others are people who actively participate already in a psychotherapy experience. These people are also people who, for whatever reason, are seeking to have additional support in a way they choose, aside from and in addition to, the therapy that they engage in.
One of these people is myself. And what I choose to do with my free time (and with my own spending money, not my 401k) and to support myself outside of my therapy experience is my business. It does not make me frivolous nor irresponsible. It does not make me stupid to do something that does not have probability backing it. Yet, it seems as if this is what you are implying by adding such judgmental statements to this thread. An implication that I take great offense to, as you know nothing about me, my story, my experience in therapy, what I have been through and what I will continue to go through. And even, very simply, what would prompt me to choose reiki over any other alternative or the thought I put into that decision.
So while, the final coda, you do make good points regarding validity, the therapist’s ability to be able to carry out a therapy effectively, what can and cannot be measured in addition to questioning evidence regarding energy therapies and their efficacy, it is hard to hear what you are actually getting at under all of the condescension by which you are delivering it. However, what is clear, is that you fully ascribe to the “fact” that if one cannot see, feel, touch , hear and empirically validate something then it must be BS.
The final coda- I challenge you to add what your personal experience of engaging in energy work and/or alternative healing therapies has been. Or, if you have them, anecdotal evidence of the experience of those you have done treatment with. Because that, even if the experience was poor, is what the thread starter was interested in knowing.
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