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Post by sonnyt2 on Sept 22, 2017 20:22:35 GMT
I have an Aunt who believes in energies and practices a thing called reiki. It's essentially a Japanese healing technique that is based on the principle that the healer can can transfer energy in to the patient by means of touch. This is to restore both physical and emotional wellbeing and is practiced by reciting a prayer, and embracing the patient in their effected area. Anyways, my Aunt performs reiki on all of our family members and, in line with our discussion on placebos, only those in my family who believe in the concept of energy, and have faith in this prayer notice a difference in their emotional and physical state. I think that reiki is effective to the believer not only because the person has the expectation of improvement, but because of the physical practice as well. To transfer this understanding to that of a Parent (the healer in my example), and their child(the patient), children generally believe that their parents can resolve any problem, and if a child scrapes their knee or hurts themselves in another way, their reaction is to look for their parents for help. I think the child is similar to the believer because the child has faith in their parent's healing abilities, which is coupled with a physical embrace, which would act as reassurance that the child's situation will improve, which would then create the self-fulfilling prophecies that resemble the placebo effect.
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