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Episode 107: Healing Magic
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Welcome back, Witches! In this enchanting episode, we delve into the mystical realms of folk magic, sound healing, and Reiki, exploring their profound connections to the art of healing magic. From ancient rituals to modern practices, join us as we uncover the transformative power of these ancient arts in restoring harmony to mind, body, and spirit. So get in losers, we're journeying through the realms of healing magic, where tradition meets transformation.
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References:
- Patting Wigington (2019). Healing Magic. Learn Religions. https://www.learnreligions.com/healing-magic-2562359
- Beth Ward (2017). The Long Tradition of Folk Healing Among Southern Appalachian Women. Atlas Obscura. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/southern-appalachia-folk-healers-granny-women-neighbor-ladies
- Everything You Need to Know About Reiki. (2021). Medical News Today. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/308772
- White, Calia. The Top 3 Myths About Sound Healing: Debunked.
- Yugay, Irina. Everything You Need to Know About Sound Healing. (2019) Mindvalley. https://blog.mindvalley.com/sound-healing/
Scientific Journal on Sound Healing:
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Transcript
Introduction to Witchcraft Podcast
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Do you feel drawn to learn more about witchcraft and the occult, but feel lost on where to start? Then welcome to Get In, Loser, We're Doing Witchcraft, a podcast all about what it means to be a witch and where to get started on your journey. Join us as we navigate through various witchy topics and share what we have learned about the craft. So get in, witches, as we get our feet wet with the first of most likely many episodes on healing magic.
Personal Story: Birthday Tsunami Chaos
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So,
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I got home and I was like, Oh my God, happy birthday. I wasn't even like focused on my birthday at all that day because that was the day all the tsunami shit happened. So I was just like, which is crazy. We didn't get the all clear until like two o'clock in the afternoon. So like literally from like 9am till 2pm.
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It was just chaos. And so I'm glad that that was not as bad as they said it wasn't anything. But still, yeah, terrible for the people in Taiwan.
Unbelievable Tornadoes in Taiwan
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Um, but I wasn't really bad there because they had a really bad earthquake and that's what triggered. Okay. Um, and then I heard that now they're having like tornadoes and like all sorts of stuff. Um, are tornadoes normal out there? I don't think so. And so I'm just like, what the heck? Yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah, I hate it. I feel like we live in a simulation anymore anyway, so. Right. Nothing is real. Yeah, that is true. But we're not talking about how you survived a tornado. We're not. What are we talking about today? We mean a tsunami. All right, yeah. Tornadoes were in Taiwan.
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Taiwan. We did talk about it.
Exploring Healing Magic
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I mean, technically you survived the tornado too because it didn't hit you. Exactly. It didn't even close. Tornadoes, tsunamis, it's all happening over there. Right. They were lying. You're still lying. Oh, we didn't realize it was actually your birthday. We're just going to skirt back over. Yeah. Wow.
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Wow, Mother Nature. Yeah, thank you for that. But we're going to talk about healing magic.
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I am super excited about this, but I'm sad that I'm not covering. So we both chose two topics to cover in this episode. And my two, I was really excited for both of them. And once I started researching the first one, I was like, there's no way I can cover two. There's so much information here. Yeah. So I will only be covering one.
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I feel like my two that I covered probably could have gone in more in depth, but it is what it is. One of them we've already recently talked about two episodes ago. I didn't feel as bad not going into super detail on that one. The thing with healing magic, researching this and going into the different types of healing magic, there are so many different types of healing magic.
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And so, you know, you said in the intro, like this will be the first of probably many episodes that we're going to have on this topic. So it'll be kind of like one of our series that we do, like our daily episodes, which which episodes we are going to have episodes sprinkled throughout the podcast on. Yeah.
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And I feel like a lot of these, even though we are covering them in this topic, I feel like they at least get mentioned in some of our other episodes, maybe not to the extent that we're going to talk about them today. But I know a lot of the topics that were on that list, I was like, oh, we've kind of talked about these before. We've mentioned this before.
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Yeah. So to kind of kick things off and talk a little bit about a background in healing magic. So healing magic has been around for a really long time. Some sources even say that it's been around for millennia. There are many different types of healing magic and depending on what culture you're researching, there are many different methods and ways that healing magic has been practiced throughout
Folk Magic and Appalachian Practices
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time. So that's why it's kind of
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It's really hard to narrow down the exact history of healing magic because every culture does things differently. Like with many things though, especially even when you're comparing this to something like religion per se, there are common themes that are seen within healing magic when looking at different cultures. Those are the things that we're going to be discussing today.
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This is something that the reason why I brought up religion is because a lot of stories that say you grew up with, if you do believe in a certain religion, another religion might believe something similar. The details will change, but the story is similar. I feel like this is the same thing with healing magic. All of these different cultures have obviously very different beliefs, but some of the same beliefs surrounding the same things.
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It's interesting to say that. Yeah, for sure. So getting into some of the different types of healing magic that we're going to cover today, I'm going to first talk about folk magic. So folk magic is practice in places like the Appalachian Mountains, the Ozarks, parts of Italy, and in the Scottish Highlands. And it includes magical medicinal herbalism and traditions that are passed down through generations.
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Many of the early cures seen in folk magic have roots in protection from black magic, the devil, witchcraft, and evil spirits. And during this time, we've mentioned this on the podcast before, but it was common to believe that many illnesses were due to the metaphysical, i.e. someone put a curse on you. So in order to heal, it was thought that it was good to remove whatever evil thing
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had caused the illness to begin with. And so to kind of get a little bit deeper into an example of folk magic, I'm going to talk a little bit more about Appalachian folk magic. And this was something that we discussed
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a bit in our Witch Witch episode a few weeks ago, but Appalachian folk magic is hereditary magic that is passed down through generations. Many people who practice this type of folk magic combine the knowledge of the land, prayers, and charms, and everyday local items such as twine, salt, mason jars, and even marshmallows in some of their workings.
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So most of the people who practice this type of magic are Christian and they fuse their faith with their healing practices. And a lot of their understanding of herbalism came out of necessity and having to be self-reliant. So, you know, having to deliver their own babies, having to figure out what can and cannot be medicinal because they were essentially cut off
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from urban doctors' offices and hospitals. And because of where they lived, many of the doctors who, you know, if they were to call a doctor to come out or a midwife or whatever to see them and to heal them, they would charge more for their services in the Appalachian Mountains. And the residents there just, they couldn't afford it. So over time, they
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began to understand different ways to use the earth.
Sound Healing: Origins and Modern Acceptance
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And they used plants like elder, catnip, and vervein very often. They would use, for example, catnip tea or red alder tea to keep infants from getting hives. They would also give babies stewed down calamus root to help soothe infant colic. Sulfur was put in the soles of shoes to help ease flu symptoms. And if someone came to them with a bad burn,
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they would blow smoke and chant specific words to talk the fire out and
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I remember reading this in Grimoire Girl. There was also mention of this in, what the hell is the name of that book that we read? We read it for book club. It was the first book that we did by Corey Hutchinson. Corey Hutchinson, yeah. What is that book called? Think of what this book is called, but I loved that book. I had it on my bookshelf.
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I don't remember but there is mention of that because I mean a lot of the stuff that was covered in that book like related to Appalachian like magic so yeah so interesting that is kind of brought back in but you know I just wanted to you know briefly dive a little bit deeper into an example of folk magic so that people can understand it from a different perspective I did not do a brief
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And it's because I don't think you can. I don't think you can briefly summarize.
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sound healing in any way, shape, or form. Everything I tried, I was like, well, but what about this? And what about this? So we're going to go on a little journey through sound healing. I love this. So the etymology of sound healing is said to be derived from the Greek art of the muses. And if we look at history and mythology, like look at Apollo being the god of music and medicine, Aesculapius was
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like a cure of mental disorders with song. Plato and Aristotle claimed that music affected the soul and our emotions, and Hippocrates played music for his patients. And then in ancient Egypt, music therapy was a stable practice in temples. In biblical times, instruments were used to vanquish evil spirits from human souls. Indigenous cultures used song and dance to heal their sick. And if we jump forward to like the 1940s, you'll start to see the US military incorporate
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Music into programs for the recuperation of personnel during World War two and this time is often noted to be the dawn of music therapy Which I thought was really interesting considering it's been a like around for so long For them to be like when the military did it. This is the dawn of music there Yeah, that is really interesting. Yeah, so
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Basically, the idea behind sound healing is that music was never invented or discovered, but something that's innate in all of us because we use music for entertainment, for expression, celebration, ceremony, leisure, and even communication. Almost everything that we experience in the universe is simply our perception of sound waves. So there's a practice that believes that sound can bring healing.
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and i know we've mentioned it in multiple past episodes like different ways to use sound in your practice for cleansing and clearing negative energies and stagnation but i don't think any of those i don't think like we ever mentioned like healing specifically according to patty waggington who you guys know we love
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She's from Learn Religions. Sound healing is essentially the use of frequencies and vibrations to heal both physical and emotional problems or ailments. It's believed that each living organism has their own unique frequency that resonates with them, and that if they're off, like physically or mentally, those frequencies can change with sound healing.
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While sound healing isn't exactly a new practice, there have been undeniable clinical implications shown in more recent years as the medical profession expands into new practices. And while this is like super annoying for any of those that have been using these practices throughout history, I guess at least like we could say it's gaining recognition publicly now and it's helping to remove the negative stigmas of it being like, oh, that's witchcraft or hippie or hokey.
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that typically the general public will throw at anything that's not prescribed by a doctor. So the use of sound healing is widely available and it has been proven to influence physiological health factors, improve negative mental states of anxiety and depression, and some studies have shown it to even aid in the treatment of cancer cells, which I found really interesting.
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I did an entire deep dive last night into this scientific journal that studied sound healing and cancer cells and how certain frequencies, it was showing the death of these cells by using this sound healing on the body.
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That is fucking amazing. I know I was like nerding out last night big time. So according to Kalia White of sound healers.net, there's three myths surrounding sound healing that have caused the stigma to overwhelm the scientific facts in the past. So these are that sound healing therapy is a form of witchcraft or voodoo. And this stems from the witch hunt fears in history where spell casting was then linked to sound healing.
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in like later time. So what most people don't realize is that magic is woven throughout the mundane. Like we talk about this all the time on the podcast. And so even those that don't identify as witches often do things that were considered witchcraft in plain sight. The next one is that the thought of sound cannot actually affect the cells and physiology of the body. The way this has been debunked is by explaining what sound actually is, which is a vibration that travels through the air or another medium.
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And it can be heard when those vibrations reach our ears. So since sound is a vibration, those vibrations are able to physically interact with the physiology of our bodies and affect physical health. And there was a scientific study done in 2016 that confirmed this, signing that cells had the ability to grow or die
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in the presence of frequencies of that sound. And then the last of the myths is that sound healing therapy isn't a proven science. So those of our listeners that have had any interaction with something like say herbal medicine, whether you're an herbalist or you know an herbalist or you have a herbalist, you know that for the general population if a remedy or a therapy isn't prescribed by a doctor or it doesn't come from a pharmacy, that it's going to be met with skepticism.
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and it's going to be considered second rate, called alternative, or even dubbed witchcraft, evil, demonic, like this list goes on, right? This is like the exact thing that we see with sound healing therapies. Scientific studies don't happen overnight, they take time, and there are some that have been done.
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that like, completely prove that this stuff works. But you know, the general public wants something like today, something that happened recently, they want to see it all right now. So because this doesn't happen overnight, and it takes time, the fact that like we're starting to see studies being carried out in these practices, it's
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really just a great start to seeing them more readily available to the general public. And it also means that when they become more widely accepted, that those of us that use them in our own practices will have less to hide from the general public when you don't openly share your practice. And I've linked one of these scientific studies in the show notes for sound therapy.
Techniques and Tools in Sound Healing
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If you want more, email us because I literally have five of them open on my computer right now because I was reading them all last night being like, oh my god, this is crazy.
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So sound healing can bring about clarity and balance, relaxation, improved memory and concentration, improved sleep, stronger immune system, improved creativity, and a heightened awareness of self in the environment surrounding you. Another study that was done in the 1970s proposed that
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When one tone is played in one ear and a different tone is played in the other ear, the two hemispheres of the brain connect and they create a third internal tone, and that's called the binaural beat. So binaural beats synchronize the brain, creating clarity, alertness, and a greater concentration. And the study concluded with solid evidence that our brains and our bodies respond to sound in both a cognitive and physical way.
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And the binaural beat was able to override pain brainwaves for things like headaches, as well as like lifting moods and spirits for people that were aggravated.
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I want to try that. That is really cool. It's crazy. Like I'm telling you, I was up until like one o'clock last night because I just kept going down these scientific journal rabbit holes. Sound healing instruments include your own voice, the Australian didgeridoo, the West African djembe drums, gongs, a hammered dulcimer, which is basically like a cross between a harp, a drum and a keyboard.
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a hang, which is basically just a steel pan. It's similar to like a sound bowl, but it's a pan. The kalimba from Africa, which is a wooden thumb piano with metal keys, a mono chord, which is a string instrument, the Native American flute, rain sticks, singing bowls, tuning forks, and wind chimes. And so there are a ton of different types of sound healing practices.
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And I'm going to give like tiny brief summaries of a handful of them, but I'm not even covering probably half of the ones that are available out there. So the first one is singing bowls. And so this therapy dates back as far as the 12th century, and it's been used throughout Asia for meditation, ritual, and ceremonial practices.
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The singing bowl produces a similar sound to a gong or a bell and it's used in sound healing therapy because it's believed to calm and repair the mind as well as reduce stress and anxiety, lower blood pressure, improve breathing and circulation, alleviate aches and pains, strengthen the immune system, and improve someone's mood. The next one is tuning fork therapy.
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And the tuning fork sound healing therapy puts our body and soul dynamic back into sync using calibrated tuning forks that are applied to certain points of the body. It's very similar to the effects of acupuncture, but without the needles. And the forks apply specific vibrations to certain areas of the body, which is said to release tension and open plopped energy. This particular type of sound healing is thought to bring emotional balance and pain relief.
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The next is Vibroacoustic Therapy, which is also known as VAT, or V-A-T. This therapy applies sound directly to the body, so you would lie down on a special bed where speakers are strategically placed around the bed so that the sounds and vibrations will penetrate your body on a deep cellular level. VAT is said to assist patients recovering from injuries, cancer, and even strokes.
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And this is the particular therapy that was used when I was talking earlier about the cancer cells using different sound frequencies. And they would see cells either grow or die, depending on the sound being used. So it's super interesting. The next one is the Bonnie method.
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And this is a method of music therapy that involves both sound and guided imagery. So the method is most commonly used to assist patients who struggle with physiological problems. And for the bonding method, music is used alongside pictures. So basically, you would focus on the picture while the sound and vibrations are being used. And then you would discuss the feelings and issues that you might have felt within that moment.
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mantra and guided meditation, which we've talked about guided meditation and just meditation in general on the podcast multiple times in previous episodes. But meditation has many health, neurological and psychological benefits. And chanting as you meditate or saying certain mantras can help improve your sleep, lower blood pressure, improve your mood, breathing and circulation helps to calm your mind and reduce the stress overall.
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This also applies to guided meditation where you listen to the voice versus chanting yourself, but sound therapy has been said to be even more effective when it's used in conjunction with meditation. So for those of our listeners that practice meditation, this could be a great addition to help
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like healing your mind, your body, your spirit, as well as synchronize your brain. And then the last therapy or technique that I'm going to talk about is the Nordoff Robbins technique. So this technique is mostly used with children that have developmental disabilities like autism, learning difficulties, mental and psychological disorders, or even emotional trauma. And it works under the assumption that every single person can find meaning and therefore healing in music.
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And it teaches the children and patients to create music as a form of therapy, which I thought was really precious. So if sound healing is something that you're interested in, for the majority of the techniques that were discussed, these require some research. They might require a professionally trained person in that type of therapy or technique.
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And even some of them are going to require you to obtain some tools for the methods. So we like to include options that are accessible to everyone. So here's a couple that you can do. YouTube, when I went yesterday trying to find information on this topic, there wasn't videos about it. There were a ton of guided meditations for sound therapy. I literally just did a quick search and an entire page of them came up.
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There's also a ton of sound bath videos and music playlist where the music is set to 432 Hertz, which has been noted to be the alpha waves that can help in healing the body. Many of the tools that I discussed, like the tuning forks and stuff, those can be purchased online through Amazon and I'm sure through smaller businesses as well. I just did a quick search to see like what the availability of some of these items were. I found sound bowls on Amazon anywhere from $18 to $200.
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And I found tuning forks anywhere from $6 to $60. And there's pretty much an app for anything today. And the one that I know is available because my husband actually uses it to sleep is called Sleep Sounds. And this app in particular was created to help calm the mind and prepare you for a better sleep.
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And his go-to sound on the app, which after doing this research made me laugh, was the Native American flute. He uses it all the time to sleep and he says that it's super soothing and it helps him, as someone with ADD, it helps him shut his brain off at night and actually be able to fall asleep and not sit and play on his phone for hours trying to get tired. So I thought it was really funny that that's the sound without knowing anything. That's the sound that he's always used and played for sleep.
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And then it's part of sound healing therapy. I love that. Yeah. I have to get that on Avery's iPad, because she likes to listen to music whenever she goes to sleep. And I'm one of those, I'm a storm person. If I'm going to listen to anything, I want to listen to a storm. She wants classical music and stuff like that. So I wear earplugs.
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because I can't anymore. But because I can still like even in her room and in our room with more clothes, I can still hear. You're a very sensitive like sleeper though. I am. Yeah. But I want to do maybe sleep sounds for her.
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Yes, if that helps. Yeah, they have, I like storm sounds too when I sleep and they have like every variation you can think of. It's like rain on a 10 roof, a thunderstorm, like a heavy storm, a light storm, a windy storm. There's just all these options and sounds. They have like waves and whales. Oh, I love that. Yeah, it's a pretty good app.
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I don't know how he found it, but he uses it on the Amazon Alexa, so he'll always be like, Alexa, play sleep sounds. She's like, what sound do you want to hear? And he's like, Native American flute, duh. That's really funny. That is so funny. I like also insight timer is one that I
Reiki Healing and Its Benefits
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use. There's a lot of MBSR like guided meditations and stuff on there too. Yeah. But they do have like,
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like different sorts of like sound meditations to go to sleep and things like that, which is kind of cool. But yeah, I'm so interested in sleep sounds. I'm absolutely going to try it. Yeah. Well, and I know like I'm sure you've seen them. There's been times where like
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I'll scroll through TikTok before I go to bed at night and someone will have like a live going on TikTok of like the sound baths and the sound bowls and stuff. And they are very, very relaxing. I was like, why am I watching this still? And it was like 10 minutes in and I was like, scroll.
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So to round off this episode, I'm going to end with some information on Reiki healing. So Reiki healing is a Japanese healing energy magic, essentially. So it originates in Japan and Reiki means mysterious atmosphere, miraculous sign.
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the Re meaning universal and the Chi meaning life energy. This healing magic focuses on the universal life force and energy living within all of us.
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And so Yusui Mikau developed the Yusui Reiki Ryoho, which is the most current form of Reiki that is used and has been used since 1922. But people have been practicing Reiki for over 2,500 years. Reiki relies on someone who is trained in Reiki methods to channel the life force and allow someone to receive healing energy.
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And this takes place on an emotional, spiritual, and psychological level. There's this belief that energy can stagnate in the body where a physical injury or even an emotional injury has occurred. And over time, these energy blocks can cause an illness. So practitioners work to remove the blocks to allow for a flow of energy around the body to enable relaxation, to relieve pain, to speed healing, and reduce symptoms of an illness.
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So during a Reiki session, the practitioner will place their hands over a specific area of the client, whether that be their head, their limbs, or their torso. And the practitioner will keep the hands in these positions for around three to 10 minutes. And during this time, an energy transfer takes place between the practitioner and the recipient.
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So the practitioner will start to feel heat or energy in their hands or like tingling or whatnot. And when the practitioner feels that the heat or energy in their hands has gone, they will remove their hands and work on another part of the body. So some Reiki practitioners use crystals or chakra healing in their work, but Reiki practitioners as a general rule
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don't need anything else besides themselves to complete this sort of healing work. So sessions usually last between 45 to 90 minutes and they can vary in the number of sessions that a person elects to have or however many sessions a practitioner believes that the person should have. This kind of reminds me of like, what's it called? Chiropractor, like a chiropractor where like
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It just depends on how many sessions you need, like everybody's going to change, you can't, you know, everybody is different. Yeah, everybody is different. Yeah. So I will say, you know, if this is something you're interested in, please do your research because clinically, the effects haven't been proven through research.
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However, many people who have received Reiki healing have claimed positive experiences. And according to those who believe in Reiki, it adds in relaxation, it assesses in the body's natural healing processes, and develops emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being. And there's also evidence to suggest that it can help induce deep relaxation, help relieve stress, and help people cope with difficulties. And so even if there is no like scientifically clinically proven research
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that shows that Reiki healing can do these things. I think the mind is so powerful that maybe having this done puts your mind in such a headspace where it promotes that healing.
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And so who knows it could be that as well. But there's a lot of people who practice Reiki firmly believe in it. And you know, like I said, it's been something that has been practiced for over 2500 years. And so obviously, there's got to be something to it, right? I've never had any sort of Reiki healing done myself. So I can't attest to it at all. But yeah, I know someone that she is like,
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she practices Reiki, I guess she's trained in it. And she has used it on like for herself for like, she had a lot of like trauma in her past, and she's used it for like healing herself. And it's as far as being someone on the outside, like seeing kind of the changes in her, it seems to help. Yeah. But you know, I feel like like you said, it could just be like the mindset of being in that working towards a healing process. Yeah, whether it's like the Reiki itself or the process that's helping. I don't know, but
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Whatever it is, it's working for her. If it's working, it's working. I've never had it, so I can't speak to it. But I have seen changes in someone that does practice it, has gotten trained in it after having sessions with another person.
00:29:43
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I mean, something's working there. Exactly. And people could say the same thing about a lot of things too when it comes to magic and whatnot. So definitely not saying like this is not the case and like it can't, this isn't true. And it, Reiki healing is a sham or whatever, but I am just saying.
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currently there's been no clinical stuff done to prove it with healing somebody who say maybe have cancer or something. There's nothing clinically, as far as with sound healing, while there is that and they've shown that and they've proven it, they haven't really proven that with
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certain illnesses like cancer, but who knows? Maybe in the future they will. I mean, again, scientific studies don't happen overnight. They take time. They take interest. Somebody has to take that interest in it to do the study. Exactly. Just because there's no scientific proof doesn't mean that it doesn't work. It just means that somebody hasn't studied it yet.
00:30:38
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Yeah. And of course, as we know, like scientific studies just in general, they can be biased. You have to really pay attention to where you're getting the research anyway. So who knows? Like with pharmaceutical companies, I always take
00:30:53
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research that they do with a grain of salt because of course they would want to disprove anything that doesn't promote their bottom line. You know what I mean? Yeah. Big pharma is a big no-no for me. Yes. No. But anyway, that is our episode on healing magic. Our first of many probably. Our first of many because I only got to cover one topic. There's a lot. There's so much. There's so much. So much.
Conclusion and Future Topics
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Hopefully you guys loved it. Yes. Because we did too.
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