Exactly how has "healing energy" been qualitatively and quantitatively measured?

4. Where does it come from? 5. How do special people manipulate it? 6. How do they know it is only healing energy - how is it known it is not doing harm?

Excellent question! I'd like to see an answer too.

"Healing energy" is measured in dollars and cents.

This is what Tony I said in one of his recent airings wasn't it. Good question. Good luck trying to get a plausible answer from them. It will be interesting to hear what the alties have to say because this type of energy has never been proven. It's mystical nonsense.

Most times Tink makes good posts but other times they're completely loony..... If "Reiki" didn't happen to be the first name of a top Japanese cancer researcher then most of those Google results wouldn't be returned. Reiki is placebo. You can measure the placebo effect and even quantify it. But not only can you not measure 'reiki energy', you cannot detect, sense or in any other way feel its presence because it doesn't actually exist. This is vastly different from electricity that is easily observed, generated and stored at will. To pretend that someone can do this with an otherwise undetectable 'energy' and that it has any kind of effect on human tissue is ridiculous.

Here is one from Google Scholar "reiki" search that I found interesting http://www.philipcoppens.com/delphi.html Here is a google scholar search of "reiki perceived effects" http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=2001&q=reiki+perceived+effects Here is a google scholar search for "reiki cancer" http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=reiki+cancer&hl=en&as_sdt=2001 Here is an ERIC search of "energy healing" http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/Home.portal?_nfpb=true&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=energy+healing&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=kw&_pageLabel=ERICSearchResult&newSearch=true&rnd=1261888906004&searchtype=keyword There is actually quite a bit of research done on the topic - especially once you throw in that word "perceived effects". See, stuff like reiki doesn't treat the cancer at all - but they treat the patient, and as anyone in behavioral medicine will tell you; everytime you treat the patient as a whole person, not just a diagnosis, you both win. Until last month I had full privilege to a university medical library - and a guarantee you, you could find quite a bit of it - part of the university program that I was part of was intergrated with a hospital with a CAM department, so I had to go looking for that stuff pretty regularly. Edit: are you looking for a standardized unit of measurement, such as an inch, or a milliliter? then no, there is no unit of measurement for a "ki" or anything of the kind....quite frankly, there wasn't one for electricity for a long time either...but those studies contain plenty of quantitative and qualitative measures. If you are more specific, I might be able to direct you to something

You can't measure magic

http://www.transitiontoparenthood.com/janelle/energy/support.htm I dunno but this is what I found.. Edit here´s part of it: Cancer Patients’ Responses to Healing Touch. The Cancer Wellness Center sent surveys to 92 participants and received 43 responses. Summaries of participants' responses to HT treatments: Improved relaxation, 98%; Improved sense of control, 75%; Positive change in energy, 87%; Improved interpersonal relationships, 63%; Improved sense of well-being, 92%; Decreased pain, 85%; Decreased side effects of cancer treatments, 77%. (Judy Brannon, “A Patient Satisfaction Survey for Cancer Patients Experiencing Healing Touch at the Cancer Wellness Center. “) At least read the article.. I no a testimony does not count but I went to a tachyon healer and she got rid off my pain, which was extreme.. Enough 'proof' for me to use it.. The books also have some studies with plants etc, but if you are set on saying it cannot be done, then whatever,, I am helped by it, feel she saved my life with whatever weird things she used.. They use quantum physics, but I am more interested in the fact is does work, then the how,,, This is also because I had symptoms of a condition science does not have a sufficient explanation for, nor is there a cure.. Alternative healing has helped me get rid of these, even though science says that is impossible.. Love

You are asking for qualitative measurements as well, aren't you? As for quantitative measurements, we knew the sun provided warmth via the qualitative how many thousands of years before we could measure it. Who measured it? - I did What equipment? - My body Units of measure? - By what units do we measure sensations in our bodies? Process? - Observations of changes from one moment to the next, correlated to whether the healer was doing something or not. I have tried a few of these, and to give you three specific examples, where I had no idea of exactly what the treatment would be like - neither the process, nor the sensations. For each, I have given you what I felt, and what results I had - because for it to be healing energy it must have healed something, and there must be a reasonable correlation between the timing of the healing and the attributed effect. Qi Gong - the man I saw did not tell me what to expect. He rested his hands on me (base of my neck and base of my spine) for about 10 or 15 minutes, and by the end, my feet and hands were pulsing. and very warm If you've ever laid on a massage table, you know that neither the massage table nor the position has that effect. Two sessions in a week, and a very itchy growing skin rash that I had for 18 months was gone, and it never came back. (That is just the most obvious and measurable effect I had.) Cortisone creams, and detox diet changes made no difference whatsoever. Qi Gong - the woman I saw approached me completely differently to the man above, but again I was not told anything before the treatment. After some preliminary where I held myself in a specific position for about 10 minutes, this woman "flicked" her hands on certain parts of my leg. I felt very strong jolts within my leg. I had three sessions, each the same. She told me she had removed the trauma from my leg. Background - I had a massive, high-energy injury to my leg about 3 months beforehand (nearly died, nearly lost the leg). The break was not healing, and I could not get my knee to start bending again without massive pain after 6 weeks kept straight with a fixator, and out of the fixator for 8 weeks. Within a week, the pain in bending my knee was bearable and I was getting much bigger movements. My next x-rays still showed no bone knitting. However, when I was operated on about 2 weeks later, the bone had started to join. The operation was for a bone graft because the doctors assured me that after 14 weeks and with the extent of the injuries and trauma my bone would not knit without the bone graft. I have also experienced Shun Shen Tao energy healing, feeling the sensations in my body without being told what to expect. Again I had some amazing results (my surgeon is a world expert in his field), and he estimated my bone would be healed (and I could get the frame taken off my leg) by Xmas this year. I had solid bone growth showing in the xrays months before he expected it, and the frame came off 4 months early in August. Unlike the skeptics here, I am quite happy to utilise modern medicine and alternative medicine. The alternative medicine practitioners I have known support both, and encourage people to get ALL help needed. Honestly, the arrogance of people who practice medicine that is only 100 years old using so many drugs that are not properly tested and proven, bagging medicine and practices that are 5000 years old and which they have never tried themselves.