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Comment by Anita Bakke on November 20, 2009 at 8:57pm

Acknowledged can mean declared, confessed, avowed, recognized, or accepted

Expert can mean skillful, accomplished, master, or practiced

When you consider your quesiton,

Who are the acknowledged experts in this field of practice? It causes me to pause, and an old phrase comes to mind…. Practice makes perfect.

Something acknowledged can mean it is declared, recognized, avowed. The word expert can mean skillful, master, accomplished or practiced. There is that word practice again. Hmm, what doctors do is also called a practice and massage is a practice and law is a practice.

What practice was offered by those called Physicians, years ago was not accepted as much of anything either and it was through trial and error (mostly error) that brought it to what we know today as acknowledged expert opinion in medical health. So is it so unreasonable to consider that this universe has more to offer than what is currently considered standard medical treatment? In fact hasn’t that standard changed on an almost daily basis over the years?

Not only is Reiki healing an energy technique, there is Healing Touch, which is recognized by the HTI Healing Touch Certificate Program, which is endorsed by the American Holistic Nurses Association. It is much like Reiki in many ways. It is has become a very recognized tool for those in the Nursing field and other CAM therapies such as massage. The proliferation of this technique for energy healing is across the US and taught in many major medical facilities such as Banner Healthcare.

So Christopher if you truly NEED to know who are the acknowledged experts in this field; I suggest you do some research of your own on energy therapies and broaden your horizons. You may just become the acknowledged expert on energy therapies.

Comment by Dawn Marie Jordan on November 20, 2009 at 6:56pm

Yes, Christopher, there are many skeptics on the cutting edge of bodywork and consciousness studies. I was one of the biggest ones until I started testing claims on my own body.

But I have surrendered to ample personal experience and the simple notion that energy healing is age old - it's what there was before drugs and surgery and modern medicine. I may not understand how it works but I know how to use it - just like electricity.

Comment by Christopher A. Moyer on November 20, 2009 at 5:20pm

Hi Dawn.

Physicists who specialize in quantum mechanics are unlikely to be interested, for reasons one of them explains.

http://www.csicop.org/si/show/quantum_quackery/

Comment by Mike Hinkle on November 20, 2009 at 5:16pm

Thank you, Christopher!

Comment by Christopher A. Moyer on November 20, 2009 at 5:14pm

I bet you could start a terrific foundation with one million dollars in seed money, which should be easily obtained. All that would be necessary is for energy workers to do what they claim to do.

http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/1m-challenge.html

Comment by Mike Hinkle on November 20, 2009 at 4:32pm

There will be a lot of smaller steps first. But for these things to happen, someone has to have the fire and a lot of knowledge needs to be shared.!

My statement/question is, with so little proven about manual massage, should we not be talking and taking steps, about proving energy modalities before major research funds are filtered to existing venues? I feel without this, others will challenge these modalities even exist, using their minimal proof.

What Energy Research Foundations exist and what are their mission statements? I guess, I'll start with that question, first.

Comment by Dawn Marie Jordan on November 20, 2009 at 3:59pm

Research will always take time to catch up with the cutting edge of professional practice. It's a great idea to build an energy workers foundation. And build bridges to quantum physicists and cell biologists and the whole gamut of stakeholders who live and work at the edge of consciousness and intellectual knowledge.

How about taking a smaller step and start talking right here? Someone pose a question.....

Comment by Mike Hinkle on November 19, 2009 at 7:51pm

Henry,

A friend wrote me with the following information. The truth is very little research has been done in the massage field. And research money is short. He feels, western massage is trying to shut energy modalities out of studies. He wondered why energy therapists don't start their own foundation for researching energy work. Read the following and share your thoughts:

Previous reviews of massage therapy for chronic, non-malignant pain have focused on discrete pain conditions. This article aims to provide a broad overview of the literature on the effectiveness of massage for a variety of chronic, non-malignant pain complaints to identify gaps in the research and to inform future clinical trials. Computerized databases were searched for relevant studies including prior reviews and primary trials of massage therapy for chronic, non-malignant pain. Existing research provides fairly robust support for the analgesic effects of massage for non-specific low back pain, but only moderate support for such effects on shoulder pain and headache pain. There is only modest, preliminary support for massage in the treatment of fibromyalgia, mixed chronic pain conditions, neck pain and carpal tunnel syndrome. Thus, research to date provides varying levels of evidence for the benefits of massage therapy for different chronic pain conditions. Future studies should employ rigorous study designs and include follow-up assessments for additional quantification of the longer-term effects of massage on chronic pain.

He found little research at all is being done and his findings were that none of these studies involved energy work and could find little research on energy work.

Comment by Mike Hinkle on November 12, 2009 at 6:05pm

Everything is not scientifically proven. Someday you will realize that. Keith accuses me of being single minded it is the same with science. And as I told Keith just because you don't have evidence/data doesn't make it non-existent. Wars were fought, towns were sacked, so we don't know that there wasn't data through the years. So where is your data/evidence that it doesn't exist? I've got organizations, associations, testing, certifying, instructors, students. What do you have?

So maybe NCB will give an advanced certification in it, will that make you believe?

Comment by Christopher A. Moyer on November 12, 2009 at 5:43pm

I predict they will disagree :)

I also predict that little evidence will be provided.

-CM

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