How does Reiki fit into other types of health care?
Reiki is part of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), or integrative medicine, as opposed to allopathic (also known as Western medicine. scientific medicine, or biomedicine) medicine. As a complementary, or integrative, healing modality, reiki is practiced in hospitals across the world. Often nurses themselves are reiki attuned and use reiki as part of ongoing care. In other cases, reiki practitioners are welcome into hospital rooms, pre-surgical rooms, and post-surgical recovery rooms. Reiki is also part of holistic health care in that Reiki addresses the whole person who has the disease, rather than the disease the person has. As a holistic health care modality, reiki seeks to bring people to a state of wholeness in body, emotions, mind, and spirit. Another focus of reiki as holistic health care is its emphasis on stress-alleviation as a treatment and as a preventative health measure. Reiki is often categorized as one of many methods of energy healing. However, reiki differs
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