It fucking works.

Several hospitals in CT offer Reiki to their patients. At the Smilow Cancer Center at Yale New Haven Hospital there is an Integrative medicine health team that uses several unconventional approaches. From their own website,

As others have noted, not if it works :) I know music (that you like) has same pain assistance effect on our brains as taking a couple of panadol - there’s no reason something like Reiki can’t help if you let it.

My friend told me a story about seeing a chiropractic adjustment on a horse. He said the horse went from barely walking to trotting after one treatment. When I used to get CranioSacral Therapy at home, my hyperactive kitten would lay near me and conk out for ages. I’ve always wondered exactly was going on.

Contouring not needed! You’ve got great bone structure. 

My friend is a professional make-up artist and she did such an amazing thing for me this week: She showed me how to start applying make-up, and it made me feel so beautiful! I’m still too daunted by the task to do anything myself aside from the most basic look so she prettied me up properly, we both agreed that we…

This is not really helpful but I recommend reiki and here’s why:

Personally? I think it’s dumb hooey. But I also think dumb hooey can help people. Maybe you need to release something and having someone touching random chakras will help you. If it’s something you think will help, go for it?

I work with data science for a living, and the data suggests that no “woo” treatments (like reiki and acupuncture) work.

Regardless, acupuncture makes me feel better every single time, and that affords me a material life benefit.

Pay for what helps you, not what “should” work. 

My philosophy with that kind of stuff is “Fine as long as it isn’t expensive or keeping you from a qualified physician.” I go to a chiropractor which apparently is universally seen as a total grift? He only treats me for physiological problems (I’m a chef and my back gets WRECKED) and not like lupus or something that…

Go ahead and do it. Life is full of interesting experiences.

I had a late friend who would come up and say “I’m going to adjust your chakras” and he’d run his hands about an inch or two away from my body (not touching at all), and I could definitely feel some tickly thing going on.

Get it! My ex sister in law gave me a reiki session and it was very relaxing. She used essential oils too, very nice. I didn't feel much different, but I slept a lot that night.

I made Apple Cider donuts. The texture is good but I'm a little disappointed in the flavor. It's not cidery enough. I reduced the cider but it still wasn't as intense as I would have liked. The only cider in the stores this early is really cheap stuff. I'll try them again when I've had a chance to get really good…

If so then I'm a sucker too. Have paid and will again!

Eh, I would lean towards “dumb sucker” to be totally honest, but the important thing is if you get something out of it that’s worth the money you spent, you know? If it’s worth $[Reiki healing price] to you to try something new and/or be the focus of someone’s attention for an hour, then you should go for it, because…

Do it! Every few years, I somehow break everything electric/electronic that I have, like car headlight bulbs, fuses, cellphones, remote controls, blow dryers, and then the blow dryers at the gym. It gets so bad that a number of streetlight bulbs have popped when I drove or ran under them. One year recently I had nine…

I don’t believe in Reiki, but I do believe in the power of suggestion/placebo effect. If believing in Reiki makes this work for you, then I’m not going to razz you or anyone else for seeking this kind of help. Pain is as much in the mind as it is in the joints/muscles/whatever, so I can see how even pseudoscientific …

Maybe? It’s probably more passive than a meditation session but I’m sure that being in a meditative state can’t hurt/might help. If nothing else, it would be fun to check out right? If it’s close and not too expensive then why not?

Not if it works.