To think that if your FB status is "There are so many myths and lies around- challenge what you hear, step out and be you" then it's probably best if you....

[curlew]

......a Reiki Master and an enthusiastic promoter of Juice +......

Reiki is great for meditation, I've had quite a few sessions over the years, it helped enormously when I was recovering from DD2's birth.
It's definitely better to have a reiki master than a David Ike acolyte on FB, slightly less entertaining though! Like watching a really slow car crash I can't help but wait and see what he will post up next...
(Latest one was than Andy Murray's Wimbledon win was set up years ago and everyone else took backhanders to lose so he could win...).

Hahaha at Pokemon master.

see!
See how fuddled I am! [more gin]

What is Juice + and why is it a scam?

I could do with gin. I was going to get stuck in with gardening but it is already too hot.

I might rouse the pokemon master and ask her if she wants to be the very best that no one ever was - and get her to trim the hedges.

My SIL, in all seriousness, told me yesterday that she's been and had her chakras realigned. I had no idea what to say to that. Does one sympathise? Congratulate? I pretended to be choking on a hot dog instead and ended the call

I have some family members who are quite like that. Very heavily into their alternative therapies, and who say that modern, western medicine is little more than a conspiracy theory. I find it odd that they make such a big thing of questioning the mainstream, orthodox view, yet when you question them about their 'alternative' views, they are completely unable to explain them and it is clear that they have just accepted what they have been told wholesale, in just the same way as they criticise other people for being unquestioning about the mainstream.

Thistledew ....very heavily into their alternative therapies, and who say that modern, western medicine is little more than a conspiracy theory.

I genuinely despise this viewpoint. The active rejection of proven medicine in favour of the unfounded.

The spread of homeopathy, in particular, makes me want to slap its advocates.

I have had reiki a few times and feel it has helped me, but then again if I wasent open to it then it probably would have had very little effect.

I'm a firm believer in most things spritual but I wouldn't push it on anybody else, and wouldn't tell anybody that would they believed in was a pile of nonsense, as who the hell am I to say that?!

For that reason YABU.

This situation is driving me mad at the moment with a fb 'friend' telling people to not vacinate their children and to not let their daughters have the cervical cancer jab as it causes sterilization and cancer .
I am trying so hard to diplomatically say that these posts are very potentially dangerous but she has all these 'friends' that join in and tell me to read some crap on you tube and David Icke's websites.
I haven't 'de-friended' her yet as I am trying to make her understand but it is so frustrating. I didn't take much notice of the 'aliens are dropping pods' and the 'world is going to end of 23rd March', but I see these latest ones as being very worrying.

*vaccinate, sorry

Does one sympathise? Congratulate? I pretended to be choking on a hot dog instead and ended the call

as long as her and her chakras are happy then thats all that matters

*spiritual

Forgot to mention that I still take medication if I need to!!

"reiki no better than placebo"

That actually proves that there is some truth in Reiki, that we have the ability to heal ourselves.

One of my cousins has swallowed the whole Illuminati / David Icke conspiracy theory shit - I have a bit of a giggle at him & his mates on FB.

Just to add, that i believe in "Western medication", but meditation and relaxation etc, also work and has been proven to do so, as has massage.

Many alternative therapies are being funded and used by the NHS, you cannot rubbish all of them. In a way CBT is a self healing therapy.

we used to have a woman who came to where I work (she did it for free) she would use some of her alternative therapies on some unhappy and very stressed out parents, those women came away looking much better and their mood lifted,
now the heat that came from that womans hands was just friction but I cant dispute how well those mums looked some of them felt refreshed It really honestly can't be a terrible thing

Birdsgottafly ... meditation and relaxation etc, also work and has been proven to do so, as has massage.

I wouldn't challenge those - or any other technique that is proven to work. A proper sports massage is an amazing thing.

It's the homeopathy, reiki, crystal-healing, hopi ear candle mumbo jumbo that sets me aflame.

Many alternative therapies are used in my local Cancer hospital, Clatterbridge, they can achieve what taking a pill, cannot, that is how they are supposed to be used.

That report tested 189 people, it fails there you would need to do at least 3000 to make it viable as a test. The irony

Malcolm the next time she says that you need to nod, smile and say something like "how interesting"...

mrsjay we used to have a woman who came to where I work [to] use some of her alternative therapies on some unhappy and very stressed out parents, those women came away looking much better and their mood lifted ...

A massage and a chat would have had the same effect.*

• Obviously, a person's own belief in the efficacy of the treatment helps them too.

the woman I am on about also goes to a hospice and a childrens hospice (for the parents) and I agree with Birdsgottafly these therapies are complimentary not instead of medical treatment,people who are in pain and dying really imo need all the respite they can

A massage and a chat would have had the same effect.*

she aslo did massage and sometimes these parents are not open for a chat and just need 15 minutes time out forthemselves

"crystal-healing"

I didn't believe in this, at all, but had an afternoon to spare when i was recovering from a major illness. Using Crystals helped me to meditate more deeply, i also found "Path journeys" were clearer and better.

These are used for lots of issues, i have clients that have used them to come through abuse, experienced as children.

These therapies can and do help, in situations that taking medication won't do it, the act of controlling our breathing etc helps give clarity of thought.

If you have never needed that, then fine, like counselling etc, but some do find that they recover using these techniques.

Depression is on the increase, don't knock anything that can help, is my attitude.