The University of Arizona is currently assessing the abilities of Reiki to benefit patients. It is possible that the results may lead to the practice being covered by medical insurance. Reiki has been associated with lowering heart rate, blood pressure and levels of stress hormones. Surgical preoperative and postoperative studies involving Reiki show reduced anticipatory anxiety for patients undergoing invasive procedures that may also experience accelerated surgical recovery. Benefits commonly reported by individuals include subjective improvement in anxiety and pain, improved mood and functioning, improved well-being, increased vitality and enhanced quality of life.

Reiki empowers both the practitioner and the recipient to release energies that no longer are in the highest good to hold and so to return to being’s natural state of well-being. Reiki enables each of us to heal ourselves and others through the power of love, the most transformative energy of all.

Judy Ferrig, MS, is a Reiki master teacher at Open Pathways. Contact her at 520-245-4214 or ReikiTucson.com.