REIKI. Is it a load of bollocks

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It sounds it. But I’m a sucker for all that.

Yes. The worst kind of woo bollocks.

In a word, yes.

Of course it's nonsense. Spend your money on a nice massage instead.

Yep, total bollocks!

Yes.

Yes

Yes. Of course. But the placebo effect is surprisingly effective even when you know it's bollocks, so go if you enjoy it, no harm done.

Oh, this is hard! I'm a very cynical nurse of a certain age and don't do alternative crap but .....

A few years ago in a friend's house in France I'd had a bit too much to eat and drink the night before and felt so bloody awful. Another guest, well into her 80s offered to do Rieki so I agreed. She didn't touch me but did this hands business an inch from my skin, and I swear I could feel things being drawn from me!

I didn't believe but the placebo effect worked.

YES.

As above. I don't believe it but had it done to me by a great aunt. My lower tummy and her hands went red hot, 2 years later I had cancer found in the same spot!

I think it's bollocks but also think something worked when I had it done. That makes sense right?!

It is absolute nonsense of course, but if you're suggestible and someone would like to put their hands near you at no cost then there's no harm in it.

I had it several years ago. Laid there whilst the Reiki ‘master’ hovered her hands over me and told me to close my eyes. Next thing I hear a bong sound and she was going round me with a sound bowl. Very strange experience and £45 lighter for the experience.
I’ve also had iridology, Bowen technique and hair food intolerance testing, all a load of bollocks and waste of money.

Yes it is. Complete and utter bollocks of the most ridiculous kind. I once had a Reiki session in Germany mistakingly thinking it was a kind of massage.

I just lay there while the "practitioner" waved her hands around a few inches from my body with her eyes closed. Clearly she got a lot more out of it than I did.

My friend paid for reiki, she was quite poor at the time but desperate to try something to help her.

The lady who was supposed to do the treatment for her husband to do it instead, he played some sensual music, put his groin very close to my friend and was generally very shit.

She didn't return

*got her husband to do it

It’s several thousands of years old and if you believe it, it can work.

I have no idea but I had it once - my friend was training to be a practitioner so asked me to be her guinea pig for her portfolio thing - and it was the weirdest thing. Even though she didn’t put her hands on me I could tell exactly where they were by the heat (I peeked to check) . I was also incredibly relaxed afterwards, like I’d just had the relaxation thing we get at our workplace mindfulness session. No gongs though sadly - I feel I was short changed there.

Yes

Far from being thousands of years old, the modern practice dates from the 1920s

@LadyCampanulaTottington

It’s several thousands of years old and if you believe it, it can work.

Old bollocks is still bollocks

@DismantledKing that’s your opinion.

Personally and professionally I’ve seen many placebo treatments work with great success.

@LadyCampanulaTottington

It’s several thousands of years old and if you believe it, it can work.

It is not several thousands of years old, it dates from the 1920s.

It is absolute bollocks… but it works

[quote LadyCampanulaTottington]@DismantledKing that’s your opinion.

Personally and professionally I’ve seen many placebo treatments work with great success.[/quote]
You realise that the placebo effect doesn’t prove that it isn’t bollocks? If it was real it wouldn’t need the placebo effect!

I had one session on my knee which had a long (30 year) history of dislocating periodically. Afterwards I was mad at myself for being gullible BUT since it was done my knee hasn't dislocated.

Of course it’s bollocks

Yes.