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When television’s Dr. Mehmet Oz promoted Reiki as the top alternative medicine secret in 2010, the energy-based healing therapy took a giant leap forward in America’s alternative and complementary medicine arsenal.

Reiki (pronounced RAY-kee) is a gentle, hands-on healing practice developed in Japan by Mikao Usui in 1914. It is based on the idea that every person possesses an energy source or life force that supports the body’s ability to heal itself. A Reiki practitioner can help guide that person toward finding that energy and being in balance, enabling the body to heal.

“When you’re not feeling well or are overly stressed, what’s missing? Energy,” said Gigi Jantos, certified Wellness Program coordinator and Reiki master in Harrisburg. “Your life force feels compromised. Reiki is a way to support the inner ability that your body already has to use your life force to create well being.”

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The therapy helps people achieve balance physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually, said Rickie Freedman, a Reiki master who practices at the Alta View Wellness Center in Lower Paxton Twp.

“I am not manipulating their energy in any way,” she said. “I don’t take away their energy. I don’t give away any of my energy. The person will draw through me, not from me, whatever energy their body is in need of to help them to get closer to their place of balance.”

In a Reiki session, a client lies on a table, fully clothed. The practitioner places his hands lightly on or just above the client’s body, palms down, and uses a series of 12 to 15 hand positions. Each position is held for a few minutes or until the practitioner feels that the flow of energy – experienced as sensations of heat or tingling in the hands – has slowed or stopped, according to the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Sessions usually last a little more than an hour.

Most people generally feel deeply relaxed, many fall asleep and may feel a warmth or tingling, Freedman said. The number of sessions depends upon the client’s individual needs.

Billed as a self-healing tool, Reiki has grown in popularity with people suffering from chronic illness, pain and cancer. Others use it as a stress-management device.

Taught in three levels, the first level can be learned quickly, and “the person would be off and running and doing some self care in one day,” Jantos said.

“Self-healing needs to come before you put your hands on anyone else,” said Freedman, also a physical therapist. “It is a practical tool to have in your hands to help yourself.”

Jantos serves cancer patients by offering Reiki sessions through Partners in Wellness , a grant-funded program in partnership with the YWCA in Carlisle. The program, which she co-founded five years ago, offers Reiki, massage and yoga so patients can choose what works best for them. Many of her other clients are “interested in stress management and in a more preventive approach to well-being.”

Citing studies and anecdotal evidence, Jantos said Reiki can ease symptoms, provide a sense of calm and lessen the need for medication.

“It creates a healing environment with a personal touch and may improve the medical outcome because of these things,” she said. “It empowers people to regain a sense of control.”

She surveyed 100 clients from October 2007 to September 2008, and of the 57 percent who completed the survey, she said 61 percent reported less pain, 76

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