Reiki Psychology
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Our biggest problems occur when people are out of touch with life energy. Dr. Randolph Shipon, a Reiki master and licensed psychologist in private practice, teaches the Reiki energy healing technique in a revolutionary new way. Learn to use Reiki for yourself and others at home and work. Reiki Levels 1 & 2 are covered in detail. Reiki Psychology offers a path to those who are called to healing.
Randolph Shipon
Dr. R. Wolf Shipon is a clinical hypnotherapist and brief therapy and healing technique researcher and developer. He is a licensed psychologist in New Jersey (Lic# 4738). He received his Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Temple University and runs a group psychotherapy practice in Mountain Lakes, NJ.
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Reiki Psychology - Randolph Shipon
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Reiki Psychology
Randolph Shipon, Ph.D.
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Copyright 2010 Randolph Shipon
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Dedicated to the future animal kingdom, free of fear.
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Reiki [pron. RAY’ • key] (noun)
The spiritual practice of tuning the human central nervous system into a constant, ever present universal life energy in order to use it to connect oneself and others to relaxation, healing, and peace.
Reiki Psychology (noun)
1. A way of incorporating a spiritual perspective on channeling universal life energy (Reiki) into the understanding of the human mind and experience.
2. The psychotherapeutic treatment of life problems informed by the practices of the Reiki tradition.
3. A way for individuals to achieve a non-denominational sense of personal meaning and spiritual connectedness through the practice of Reiki techniques.
Author's note on Reiki history:
There is so much disagreement about the history of Reiki that it does not seem prudent to cover it in this book. The disagreements, among people who seem to value Reiki, appear pointless to me because the gift of Reiki is the energy itself. The modern origins are about a century old, but many people believe its true origins to be traced to a practice that was used for thousands of years. Use your own discernment in exploring Reiki history. In the final analysis, the most important thing is to use Reiki, instead of questioning from whence we learned it. It is a part of our heritage, as a planetary family, and I believe it is the key to our continued evolution.
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Chapter 1: Reiki Psychology, an unheralded tale
You may think you are a Reiki person who is going to become a psychologist, Wolf,
she said. I would like you to consider the possibility that you are a Reiki person who is going to add psychology to his Reiki practice.
The speaker was a great Reiki master and one of my life mentors, a woman from Yardley, Pennsylvania, named Nancy Russell. It was many years ago. I was a newly trained Reiki master trying to find my way in my healing life. I was new to the practice of channeling the universal life force energy to help myself and others connect with what is good and healthy for us in this world, and I was already teaching others how to do so.
Yet I was so fearful of what others thought, and what might become a problem for me legally and ethically, that I did not feel qualified.
I did not feel comfortable with my Reiki clients telling me about their emotional problems without me being a licensed mental health professional. I feared many such phantoms in those times. That is why I pursued a formal, well-accredited education in counseling psychology to become a licensed counselor and then a licensed psychologist. I wanted to reach people on the deepest emotional level, while being qualified to do so.
Twelve years, two graduate degrees, and four professional licenses later, here is this book about what I always wanted to teach in the first place.
The first book on Reiki psychology
To date, at the time of this writing, there is no other book available on Reiki psychology
— but there are books on energy psychology, which is a popular presentation topic and one that is frequently discussed in holistic conferences.
To clarify, energy psychology is defined as a broad range of treatments that include tapping various parts of the body's energy points
to reset the body's emotional and physical well-being, and actively incorporating the body's meridian, aura or chakra systems into psychological treatment.
That is not what Reiki psychology is about, as defined here. In fact, Reiki psychology is not about a holistic treatment system
for professionals or paraprofessionals to use on others at all. Reiki psychology is about a more comprehensive way of connecting with ourselves and with those we serve.
There is plenty of available research illustrating what works, from a scientific point of view, in psychotherapy. For instance, at the time of this writing we know that cognitive behavioral therapy is one of the best treatments for mild to moderate depression, and that for severe depression it should usually be combined with antidepressant pharmacotherapy. We know that exposure to feared situations while learning to tolerate them is best treatment for panic disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder. And we also know that most forms of psychotherapy (gestalt, cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic, humanistic) are approximately equally effective in terms of treatment outcomes. Our research indicates that most therapists tend to be equally effective (no matter how extensively they were trained) as long as there is a really good therapeutic relationship between client and therapist.
This book is not meant to question the science behind psychotherapy, which clearly has a valuable place in our healing culture. But it does have something important to offer both the mental health practitioner and the client/patient, as well as the person who is simply interested in a more comprehensive view of human nature as informed by Eastern holistic thought in combination with Western psychology.
The missing piece: life force energy (spirit)
Religion and/or spirituality appears from all indications, formal and informal, to be an essential part of the human experience no matter how it is defined by the people claiming to value it.
The American Psychological Association (APA) dedicated its January 2003 issue of its research journal, American Psychologist, to the topic. One article noted that as of 1995, 96% of Americans believed in God and 67% counted religion to be very important in their lives. That same article illuminated linkages between spirituality and physical health, such as that the mortality rate among those who regularly attend religious services is about 25% lower than the rest of the population as sampled in the studies reviewed. An early article summarizing some early ideas
for the western discipline of psychotherapy was published in the APA Monitor in 2003, and was titled Religion and spirituality in the treatment room.
More recent data from the Gallup organization indicates that in 2007, approximately 9 out of 10 Americans believe in God or a universal spirit.
This begs the question: What appears to be missing from the work of psychologists, counselors, and social workers who are mostly secularly trained in the scientific tradition, when spiritual concerns appear to be a big part of the lives of so many people?
How can we address what is most important to people without covering, at the very least, some major spiritual concerns in our sessions? How can we teach and proselytize psychological understanding when we are so out of touch with what most people find essential?
And finally, is there not a way to tie together what mostly everyone understands about what is good and true on the spiritual level of humanity? Can we utilize what appears to have universal spiritual meaning, no matter what tradition is followed? And can that be used to alleviate pain (symptom relief) and enhance people's lives (self-actualization)?
My contention is that we are all in touch with something we cannot name.
Common factors in human spiritual understanding
Since the dawn of recorded history, new religions have emerged to explain answers to more difficult questions, such as the purpose of suffering, the reasons we exist, and what happens after we die. This author does not intend to repeat those efforts in this book. Reiki Psychology is not written to offer a new religion
or to call into question the viability of other, time-honored belief systems.
Instead, it represents an effort to gather together the common elements of the world’s religious and spiritual views in a way that is broadly appealing to the way people usually speak about the