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'Distance reiki' - quack or what?

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mackthepony · 25/05/2022 20:27

Mate has started doing reiki.

She's now offering 'distance reiki' - same as normal reiki but feels your energy online. And yes, there's a charge for it.

🙄

Is it just me? Wtf?

OP posts:
orwellwasright · 26/05/2022 09:51

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Thesefeetaremadeforwalking · 26/05/2022 09:57

IMO it's just quackery.

It's similar to courses that claim to be able to provide a practical skill after only distance learning.
I've seen on-line courses for Indian Head Massage, Pet Psychology, Working with Dragon Power, Acupressure, Nursing ( ! ) offered without any required practical training.

There must be a lot of gullible people about !

CorpseReviver · 26/05/2022 09:58

Distance reiki is just as effective and real as in-person reiki.

CapMarvel · 26/05/2022 10:00

It's bollocks, distance or not.

MrsSkylerWhite · 26/05/2022 10:01

Some twits will pay for it.

SlashBeef · 26/05/2022 10:04

Absolute bullshit but sadly there's a certain type of person that will be taken in by it. Leave them to it.

newnamethanks · 26/05/2022 10:18

See orwellwasright

Thelnebriati · 26/05/2022 10:34

Does she offer any kind of guarantee or refund if it doesn't work?

OldTinHat · 26/05/2022 10:35

I'm a reiki master and believe me, it wasn't a Groupon course for a tenner that I did online to qualify! It took a loooong time.

I don't charge or do distance healing. Only my family know I practise and I keep it for them or myself. (Reiki is not just about healing btw.)

Yes, there are scammers out there and I wouldn't pay for distance healing from someone I hadn't met. Interestingly, my local women's centre (who offer free yoga classes, knitting, talks, childcare, etc) have started offering Reiki for free.

We all have different beliefs. No need to be nasty and say we practitioners are all quacks and scammers. Do you say the same thing to people who are actively religious?

AgentProvocateur · 26/05/2022 10:39

My friend (who has more money than sense) paid to get reiki on her dog…

JesusSufferingFuck22 · 26/05/2022 10:40

I had a couple on in person reiki sessions. Made me feel really ill. Seriously. Like wtf. I didn't think it was going to do much more than be relaxing. Supposedly it's a thing. The reiki opening blockages or something.

One of my old friends does shamanic stuff. Again, I'm very open minded. It was a lovely way to relax when he did healing sessions(for free.) During lockdown he offered to do distanced sessions. I tried once but it just felt a bit silly.

ElenaSt · 26/05/2022 10:54

I'm not going to slate the in person reiki as I've never had it done but it's the long distance reiki that appears to me as being absolute beau-locks!

It's on the same principle as a long distance hair dresser or dog walker, both of which no one in their right mind would pay for!

ThreeLittleDots · 26/05/2022 10:56

Do you say the same thing to people who are actively religious

I would say the same thing about praying, yes, it's the placebo effect.

MasterBeth · 26/05/2022 11:21

OldTinHat · 26/05/2022 10:35

I'm a reiki master and believe me, it wasn't a Groupon course for a tenner that I did online to qualify! It took a loooong time.

I don't charge or do distance healing. Only my family know I practise and I keep it for them or myself. (Reiki is not just about healing btw.)

Yes, there are scammers out there and I wouldn't pay for distance healing from someone I hadn't met. Interestingly, my local women's centre (who offer free yoga classes, knitting, talks, childcare, etc) have started offering Reiki for free.

We all have different beliefs. No need to be nasty and say we practitioners are all quacks and scammers. Do you say the same thing to people who are actively religious?

Yoooooou've been scammed.

OldTinHat · 26/05/2022 11:39

@MasterBeth 😆🤣😂 how have I been scammed?! I've not paid for anything! 🤔😂

Bless ya cottons!

bloodyunicorns · 26/05/2022 11:43

Sounds like a ripoff. But then I don't believe in reiki either.

saraclara · 26/05/2022 11:44

We all have different beliefs. No need to be nasty and say we practitioners are all quacks and scammers. Do you say the same thing to people who are actively religious?

@OldTinHat If anyone asked me to pay £200 for them to pray for me, I'd absolutely say they were scammers, yes.

Panpot · 26/05/2022 11:45

Scammy as fuck and they should be ashamed of themselves.

MasterBeth · 26/05/2022 11:52

OldTinHat · 26/05/2022 11:39

@MasterBeth 😆🤣😂 how have I been scammed?! I've not paid for anything! 🤔😂

Bless ya cottons!

Apologies. If you weren't charged for your course, it was just a massive waste of time rather than a massive waste of money too.

GregBrawlsInDogJail · 26/05/2022 11:52

OldTinHat · 26/05/2022 11:39

@MasterBeth 😆🤣😂 how have I been scammed?! I've not paid for anything! 🤔😂

Bless ya cottons!

You've wasted a lot of time and evidently softened your critical thinking faculties quite a bit. So, yup. Scammed.

Apply some logic. If reiki, much less distance reiki, worked, and you could learn it for free(!), the world's militaries would have reiki masters stationed with every single unit healing their soldiers. Would save them a fucking fortune and could turn the course of a war.

GregBrawlsInDogJail · 26/05/2022 12:00

Xkcd nails it as usual

'Distance reiki' - quack or what?
donquixotedelamancha · 26/05/2022 12:03

If reiki, much less distance reiki, worked, and you could learn it for free(!), the world's militaries would have reiki masters stationed with every single unit healing their soldiers. Would save them a fucking fortune and could turn the course of a war.

You are so naive, the Lizard People would never allow that.

donquixotedelamancha · 26/05/2022 12:04

She's now offering 'distance reiki' - same as normal reiki but feels your energy online. And yes, there's a charge for it.
🙄
Is it just me? Wtf?

I guarantee that distance reiki is just as effective as reiki in person.

Notadramallama · 26/05/2022 12:04

reiki is sometimes available on the NH for cancer patients.

Notadramallama · 26/05/2022 12:05

*NHS

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