I want to know your thoughts on the ability to feel another persons “energy.” I have been having an argument with a friend for the past month. He claims he can feel the energy of another person and sense if they have positive or negative energy.
The real debate comes in where he believes that energy healing is a good form of alternative medicine. Massage therapists and chiropractors often use energy healing (reiki) and charge an arm and a leg for it.
In its simplest form using Reiki is simply the practitioner placing their hands on the recipient with the intent of bringing healing, and willing for Reiki energy to flow. A description of reiki, "There is a set of hand positions traditionally taught which give good coverage over the recipients entire body.
It is not necessary to follow those positions, they are merely taught as a starting position from which the practitioner can learn. If there is a specific area of concern the practitioner can keep his/her hands right there for as long as necessary."
If you ask me it’s bullshit and just a scam. However, this stuff has been placed in nursing programs…etc. Despite a 11yr old girl doing a study that debunked reiki by placing a divider between the “healers” and patient and simply asking the healer to feel the “energy” of the patients hand on the other side. The healers only picked the correct hand 30% of the time.
The belief in the pseudoscience/paranormal is so hard for me to grasp. I have tried to argue with these people until I am blue in the face but I get no where. Thoughts? (Great topic for the “get a life section,” Lmao)…
I guess not. But it does seem like a very common belief. In fact when I asked others about it they mostly believe in everything from orbs and ghosts to reiki and crystals. what the hell is going on?
Yeah. Or the feeling you get that someone is watching you. I told him if it works so good then he should get rid of his alarm system and stop locking his doors.
People don’t often take the time to relax, stretch, and meditate as they get older. Many forms of “spiritual” medicine take advantage of this fact and use it to convince people that something major is being done because of how much better you feel afterwards.
[quote]Airtruth wrote:
People don’t often take the time to relax, stretch, and meditate as they get older. Many forms of “spiritual” medicine take advantage of this fact and use it to convince people that something major is being done because of how much better you feel afterwards.[/quote]
This sounds like a great explanation to me. It seems like the foundation is correct but the treatments they build off of it are kind of fun to believe in but not effective.
Well, I think that as far as the ‘alignment’ stuff and things like that, there is a definite tie-in to feeling better when your body is working as it should.
But ‘feeling’ someones energy is hocus-pocus kinda stuff, and the reason I say this is that the energy levels that they try to use physics to back up are minute (meaning, electrical and magnetic fields that are supposedly the source of this sorta thing).
That’s why you need to be bombarded with x-rays to get an image of your insides, or put inside a magnetic field (MRI) to get enough reflection to ‘see’ what’s going on.
However, there is an odd ‘defect?’ that some people have where their senses are ‘flipped’ or overlay, and someone can ‘hear’ a color or ‘taste’ a sound. So I guess ‘seeing’ that you smell yellow is possible!
[quote]AlteredState wrote:
Force wrote:
I think the power of the placebo effect does more for the patients than the actual procedures.
Well I agree that placebo can be very strong.
But animals don’t do placebo, so how do you explain my mothers dogs being more active and mobile, despite their arthritic hips, when given a ‘biomagnetic’ collar to wear?
How do you explain me resisting shoulder adduction and being strong, then having a small part of myarm stroked lightly and suddenly being weak as piss. Then a contact point on my wrist is pressed gently and suddenly I’m strong again. Bear in mind I was fighting against this because I wanted it not to work.[/quote]
Well I can just look at the facts.
Claims of energy bracelets:
Better Balance
More Strength
Improved Energy and Stamina
Better Concentration and Mental Focus
Reduced Stress
Strengthens Immunities to Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs) emitted by computers, cell phones, etc.
The Q-Ray Ionized Bracelet is designed to restore the body to its normal electrical balance the natural way, thereby reducing pain and increasing energy!
Q-Ray is an exclusive Ionized Bracelet for balancing your body’s Yin & Yang (negative and positive ions). When your body is balanced, “Chi” (the vital life energy), is generated facilitating natural pain relief. The speed of “Chi” in your body is equal to the speed of electricity. Q-Ray applies the cutting-edge exclusive Ionization Technology for 24-hour non-stop performance!
So i guess one theory is that the very weak magnet on these bracelets has the power to stop ONLY the pain signals going to your CNS. Sound absurd to anyone else?
[quote]LightsOutLuthor wrote:
Well, I think that as far as the ‘alignment’ stuff and things like that, there is a definite tie-in to feeling better when your body is working as it should.
But ‘feeling’ someones energy is hocus-pocus kinda stuff, and the reason I say this is that the energy levels that they try to use physics to back up are minute (meaning, electrical and magnetic fields that are supposedly the source of this sorta thing).
That’s why you need to be bombarded with x-rays to get an image of your insides, or put inside a magnetic field (MRI) to get enough reflection to ‘see’ what’s going on.
However, there is an odd ‘defect?’ that some people have where their senses are ‘flipped’ or overlay, and someone can ‘hear’ a color or ‘taste’ a sound. So I guess ‘seeing’ that you smell yellow is possible!
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That ‘defect’ usually comes from brain damage. But it could explain where some of this kooky stuff originated.
