Comments on: Has anyone gotten results from Energy healing, Reiki, or Cranial Sacral Therapy?

By: dave

dave — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:42:59 +0000

No, I’m afraid you didn’t get any results from them because they have no effect on anyone.

You will have experienced either a) the Placebo Effect or b) you feeling better coincided with your ‘treatment’.

I’m going with placebo on this one.
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It is hard for some people to admit there was ‘no difference’ when they’ve just given their hard earned cash to a nice person in a white coat.

By: SkepDoc 3.0

SkepDoc 3.0 — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:12:59 +0000

Oh really? So what were these "results"? Did you feel more relaxed, were you less anxious, did you feel special because someone waved their hands in a mystical way around you? Personal anecdotes of subjective experience are proof of nothing. Energy healing in general, and Reiki and CST in particular are bogus.
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By: Gary Y

Gary Y — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:57:59 +0000

Do you mean a result other than placebo response? I doubt it.

There is no such thing as ‘energy healing’ – its new age baloney with no plausibility.

Reiki, also is a form of energy healing. The problem is, energy just doesn’t exist in that way – energy is a measurement, of something’s capability to do work. It is mostly expressed in joules, and it’s different forms include kinetic, potential, thermal, gravitational, sound, light, elastic, and electromagnetic energy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy

No energy healing method has ever been able to beat placebo when subjected to rigorous clinical trials.

Cranial Sacral Therapy – please read:

"Why Craniosacral Therapy Is Silly"
http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/cranial.html

I hope this is of help.
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By: Sue

Sue — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:34:59 +0000

CrainioSacral, definitely.
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