Scientific Explanation of reiki

The following information is paraphrased from: The Spirit of Reiki by William Rand, Walter Lubeck and Fran Petter

In attempting to understand this healing modality from a scientific viewpoint, the foremost theory is that Reiki involves the electromagnetic fields generated by all living things. Electric currents flow through the nervous system of the body, just one of the way the body regulates itself. The nervous system, connected to the spinal column and to the brain, is connected to every organ and tissue in the body. The brain signal flow through it to regulate all bodily activities.

Electric currents flow in and in between all the cells of the body. The body’s cells actually contain liquid crystals. The living crystals are in the cell membrane, in the myelin sheathes of the nerves, and in many other locations. Liquid crystals in the body are continuously generating electrical currents. Also, out being does not stop at the skin, but extends out into the surrounding space.

Our hands also have a biomagnetic fields surrounding them. The biomagneic field of healers’ hands has been measured during a healing session and was found to be much stronger than those of non-healers. When a person is sick, one or more of the organs of the sick person will have a biomagnetic frequency which is not in the healthy range for those particular organs. When a healer places their hands near a sick organ and begins to heal, the biomagnetic field emitted from the healer’s hands becomes much stronger than that emitted by the sick organ. The frequency of the biomagnetic field of the healers hands also begins pulsing at the healing frequencies into the field of the sick organ, causing it to adjust its frequencies back into the healthy range. The adjustment affects the electrical currents flowing into the cells and into the nervous system within and around the organ, as well as its biological process and healing takes place