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Reiki

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WHAT YOU think matters. Really. If you think positive thoughts you will attract good things. Think negative thoughts and you will attract bad things. It's that simple.

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Scientists have even conducted studies to show that praying - thinking positive thoughts for someone's speedy recovery - helps patients recover. Their research showed that the people who were prayed for recovered considerably faster than those who weren't.

Sounds incredible? It's all about energy - or qi. In Hong Kong most of us are familiar with qi gong, the traditional way of healing by balancing energies. Another widely used form of energy healing is reiki.

Reiki is believed to be thousands of years old and is thought to have been first used by Tibetan Buddhist monks. It was rediscovered in the 1800s by Mikao Usui, a disillusioned Japanese businessman turned Buddhist monk.

Chantal Phillips has been practicing and teaching reiki in Hong Kong for nine years. She says reiki isn't a religious thing. You needn't even believe for it to work. All you need is the desire to be healed. 'What is so wonderful about reiki is that it is so simple, everyone who does reiki has the chance to be a master,' she says.

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To start practicing reiki, you have to be 'attuned'. Phillips explains that this is simply a matter of the reiki master connecting you to the reiki energy. Once you have been attuned, you are connected to the reiki energy for life. To use the reiki energy, she says, all you have to do is place both hands on the recipient and the reiki automatically flows. If you remove the hands the reiki stops flowing.

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