The everything guide to reiki: channel your positive energy to promote healing, reduce stress, and enhance your quality of life

"The Everything Guide to Reiki is a comprehensive resource for readers interested in this ancient Japanese hands-on therapy, which has been proven to reduce stress, promote healing, and enhance quality of life. Beyond learning the basics of Reiki's history, readers learn about the placing of hands, how to harness negative energy, promote a healthy immune system, and alleviate specific ailments such as chronic pain, digestive issues, infertility, and depression. Featuring a section on how to get certified and open up your own Reiki practice, The Everything Guide to Reiki is the ideal guide for readers interested in this ancient therapy"--Amazon.com, viewed January 13, 2012.;What is reiki -- Reiki sensations -- Reiki attunement process -- Pretreatment preparations -- Self-treatments -- Treating others -- Absentia treatments -- Reiki shares -- Treating aches and pains -- Reiki and intuition -- Reiki is for you! -- Reiki and families -- Levels of training -- Reiki symbols -- Past, present, and future -- Reiki hall of fame -- Reiki systems -- Caregiving and reiki -- Controversy within the reiki community -- What reiki is not -- Other touch or energy-based therapies.