AN INTRODUCTION TO REIKI Ms Rosanne Bostonian, PhD

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in Florham Park, New Jersey, Rosanne Bostonian, PhD, serves as an adjunct professor in psychology at Berkeley College in Woodland Park, New Jersey. Rosanne Bostonian, PhD, also operates her own Reiki practice, where she uses light-touch energy work to administer healing to patients.

A Japanese stress reduction technique, Reiki has also been used to promote healing in the body. Based on the idea that the body plays host to a “life force energy” that flows through every being, Reiki involves the use of “laying on hands” to guide the life force energy in a spiritual manner.

REIKI Like many other types of holistic treatments,

Reiki requires practitioners to treat each person as a combination of physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual attributes. The Reiki practice itself involves a series of hand positions, which the Reiki master uses to help the student access his or her life force energy. If a student does not feel comfortable with light touch, the master may also place the hands an inch or two away from the body, which achieves the same effects as actual physical contact.