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The Effects of Applying Reiki Energy to Plant Life, Master's Thesis by Stefanie Hart |
offer us their many gifts and provide not only our basic needs of food and
breathable air, but also healing and pleasure.
What would happen if we chose to enter into a
Healing Relationship with plants? What lessons
and Universal Truths might we learn from
each other? This thesis project sought to begin
answering these very questions...by asking how
applying Reiki's Healing Life-Force Energy to
Plant life would effect both plant and human-being.
Experimental Design
The project began with a basic experimental set-up. A grow room was equipped
with grow lights and thirty group specific planters. The planters were organized
in sets of ten each, with one group not receiving any Reiki treatment
(the Control Group), one group receiving Hands-on Reiki treatment daily, and
one group receiving Distant Reiki treatment daily. The application of Reiki
energy began on day one, when the seeds were treated with healing energy
before being planted. Throughout the fifty-day experiment soils and water were
treated along with the developing plants. Because of their relatively short
developmental life-cycle, the experiment compared the growth of Green Beans
(bush beans). As the plants began to grow they were treated with hands-on
Reiki at the root level by placing the hands around the planter, and all along the
developing leaves, stems, and flowers by holding the hands an inch or so around
the plant. Distant treatment followed the process learned in Second Degree
Reiki training, including asking permission of the Higher Self of the plant !
The Grow Room A Healthy Sprout
Treatment Reports were written daily and measurements were recorded for
germination rates, height, number of leaves, number of flowers and beans, leaf
color, and vitality (based on a four point score). This documented the effect of
applying Reiki for the plant participants. Numerical measurements were
organized into graphs to easily compare the growth and development of the
three groups. For the human participant, a guided journal process was used
based on Phenomenological Research Methods. Similarities in themes and
observations from the journal interviews were used to develop an overall
description of the human experience of applying Reiki to plants in this context.
Results
The beauty of research and the scientific method is that in order to make a real
discovery, be it a theory or a correlation between a certain behavior and a given
outcome, many many experiments must be done over a long period of time.
This gives our discoveries and ideas about the world strength and validity. In
light of this, I share with you the results of my experiment. It is important to
remember that these results do not prove anything. However, they do show us
some exciting possibilities for seeing how Reiki energy effects living things.
They also open a doorway to further questions like: Does Reiki energy effect the
nutritional value of food bearing plants, or the taste? How do plants respond
differently to hands-on Reiki and distant Reiki healing? Are certain species
more impacted by the Reiki, which ones? There are many exciting possibilities...
What this experiment found was that the numeric data gathered was consistent
with the idea that the effect of applying Reiki energy to the bean plants
resulted in increased growth, development, survival, and vitality. Numerical
analysis indicated increased growth rates in Reiki groups (as compared to the
Control group) for flower and pod production, germination, height, leaves, and
vitality.
The Hands-on treatment group showed the highest rates for flower/pod
production and germination. The Distant treatment group showed the highest
rates of height and leaf growth. Vitality between the Reiki groups was very
similar; however, it was improved over the Control group.
If the data does in fact suggest a healing response in plants as seen through
increased growth and development, than this healing effect may be reciprocal
for both plant and human being. The Phenomenological data suggests that
applying Reiki Healing Energy to plant life creates a healing environment for the
human experimenter through sensations of relaxation, sensations of a loving
relationship with plants and nature, and positive self-regard.
One way of interpreting the quantitative and qualitative data is to suggest that
applying Reiki Healing energy to plant life fosters a co-created environment
with measurable qualities of healing response between human-being and plants.
breathable air, but also healing and pleasure.
What would happen if we chose to enter into a
Healing Relationship with plants? What lessons
and Universal Truths might we learn from
each other? This thesis project sought to begin
answering these very questions...by asking how
applying Reiki's Healing Life-Force Energy to
Plant life would effect both plant and human-being.
Experimental Design
The project began with a basic experimental set-up. A grow room was equipped
with grow lights and thirty group specific planters. The planters were organized
in sets of ten each, with one group not receiving any Reiki treatment
(the Control Group), one group receiving Hands-on Reiki treatment daily, and
one group receiving Distant Reiki treatment daily. The application of Reiki
energy began on day one, when the seeds were treated with healing energy
before being planted. Throughout the fifty-day experiment soils and water were
treated along with the developing plants. Because of their relatively short
developmental life-cycle, the experiment compared the growth of Green Beans
(bush beans). As the plants began to grow they were treated with hands-on
Reiki at the root level by placing the hands around the planter, and all along the
developing leaves, stems, and flowers by holding the hands an inch or so around
the plant. Distant treatment followed the process learned in Second Degree
Reiki training, including asking permission of the Higher Self of the plant !
The Grow Room A Healthy Sprout
Treatment Reports were written daily and measurements were recorded for
germination rates, height, number of leaves, number of flowers and beans, leaf
color, and vitality (based on a four point score). This documented the effect of
applying Reiki for the plant participants. Numerical measurements were
organized into graphs to easily compare the growth and development of the
three groups. For the human participant, a guided journal process was used
based on Phenomenological Research Methods. Similarities in themes and
observations from the journal interviews were used to develop an overall
description of the human experience of applying Reiki to plants in this context.
Results
The beauty of research and the scientific method is that in order to make a real
discovery, be it a theory or a correlation between a certain behavior and a given
outcome, many many experiments must be done over a long period of time.
This gives our discoveries and ideas about the world strength and validity. In
light of this, I share with you the results of my experiment. It is important to
remember that these results do not prove anything. However, they do show us
some exciting possibilities for seeing how Reiki energy effects living things.
They also open a doorway to further questions like: Does Reiki energy effect the
nutritional value of food bearing plants, or the taste? How do plants respond
differently to hands-on Reiki and distant Reiki healing? Are certain species
more impacted by the Reiki, which ones? There are many exciting possibilities...
What this experiment found was that the numeric data gathered was consistent
with the idea that the effect of applying Reiki energy to the bean plants
resulted in increased growth, development, survival, and vitality. Numerical
analysis indicated increased growth rates in Reiki groups (as compared to the
Control group) for flower and pod production, germination, height, leaves, and
vitality.
The Hands-on treatment group showed the highest rates for flower/pod
production and germination. The Distant treatment group showed the highest
rates of height and leaf growth. Vitality between the Reiki groups was very
similar; however, it was improved over the Control group.
If the data does in fact suggest a healing response in plants as seen through
increased growth and development, than this healing effect may be reciprocal
for both plant and human being. The Phenomenological data suggests that
applying Reiki Healing Energy to plant life creates a healing environment for the
human experimenter through sensations of relaxation, sensations of a loving
relationship with plants and nature, and positive self-regard.
One way of interpreting the quantitative and qualitative data is to suggest that
applying Reiki Healing energy to plant life fosters a co-created environment
with measurable qualities of healing response between human-being and plants.
