Feeding the Body Feeding the Soul, LLC
Nancy Cohen
The State of Colorado does not require licensing or registration for this type of business.
This business promotes reiki, a method in which a reiki therapist lays their hands on or over various places on the client's body, purportedly to affect some type of healing therapy.
There are several concerns with the notion that reiki can be a healing therapy.
Reiki has no rational scientific plausibility.
The reiki claim of an energy field or life force of the human body has never been proven or measured. So any claims of strengthening, balancing, or healing the energy or life force would also be not proven or measured.
Energy work?
No proof of energy, no proof that it needs to be worked on or that it can be worked on.
Reiki confers no benefits.
The American Cancer Society and the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine have found no clinical or scientific evidence supporting claims that reiki is effective in the treatment of any illness.
No licensing or professional standards.
The practice of reiki does not have a recognized certification organization, which would set accepted standards for the teaching requirements as well as practice methods. The result is practices and techniques that differ wildly among therapists.
Anyone can be a reiki therapist, or even a reiki master. There are no requirements of any kind to receive reiki training. There are three levels of training, however, some teach there are four levels. Each level takes one to two days of training, starting with an "attunement", a ceremony that makes the student "attuned" and a conduit of the "universal life energy". The master level can take anywhere from one day to one year, but some say it takes longer.
Unproven, ineffective, irrational versus proven, effective, rational health care
There is a danger to consumers who receive therapy from a reiki practitioner instead of real health care from a professional provider. Reiki claims of treatment for all illnesses and injuries, including multiple sclerosis, heart disease, cancer, even broken bones, can result in serious consequences for clients who delay medical treatment. Even symptoms like colds, flu, sore throat, headaches, or poor memory can be indicative of a serious condition that a reiki therapist is not able to discern.
Client's health concerns are not the same as reiki therapist's concerns
Client's concerns include the cost of health care and its effectiveness. Which would make reiki therapy a waste of health care dollars. Reiki therapists also have concerns of cost and effectiveness, but in a different way: reiki therapist's concerns center on how much they can get away with charging for the cost of the service before it becomes obvious the service is not effective for the client.
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Innerself Lightworks
Andy Kennedy
The State of Colorado does not require licensing or registration for businesses that sell energy work, which includes any number of scammy techniques that are claimed to affect the human body energy field.
Energy work is based on the unproven notion that the human body has an energy field. Because this notion cannot be proven, measured, or otherwise verified, all attempts at manipulating this field are also not proven, measured, or otherwise verified.
Energy work is performed by various individuals with various props.
In this particular enterprise, the props used are; crystals, reiki, quantum touch, chakra clearings, and upper dimensional spirit work.
For consumers who might consider energy work, recognizing these common props can help to make an informed decision as to whether energy work is a good idea or just a bad way to throw away money.
Crystals are rocks, minerals with no inherent capabilities to do anything to or for the human body.
Reiki is a technique using touch, which has been proven to be an ineffective and bogus method.
Quantum touch, also proven to be ineffective and bogus, used to be called therapeutic touch, which was also proved to be ineffective and bogus.
Chakra clearings are exceptionally phony. Chakras are referred to as points along a meridian inside the human body that somehow have some significance. No one has ever proven the existence of chakras, so it is not clear how anyone would know if they need to be cleared, what it is, specifically, that needs to be cleared, and if clearing is, in fact, possible or effective.
Upper dimensional spirit work appears to be just plain kooky. It is not known if an upper dimensional spirit exists or if someone can detect if they are, in fact, in the upper dimension or some lower one, and what work needs to be done, and why.
The other claims made by this therapist, "get you back into alignment-relieving physical and emotional pain from injury, trauma, or buildup.", are equally illegitimate. It is not mentioned what it is that is not in alignment, or how rocks and hand placements relieve physical or emotional pain, or what is "buildup".
No matter what energy work is called or what props are used, it is make-believe. When therapists charge a fee and take money from clients, it is a scam.
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