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Hello all!

I've always been quite an intellectual type person who doesn't really trust their intuition too much. I've done reiki 1 and 2 and felt something there but have been quick to dismiss it as placebo etc so I've started a small experiment on plant growth and reiki. It was a real relief to be able to combine the left and right brain and see what happens.

I have 24 tomato plants split into three groups. Controls, hands on and distance reiki. I'll be giving reiki to the hands on group (almost) everyday and treating all the plants the same other than that. I'll then use several criteria to measure the plant growth/health.

Can you do distance reiki? If so and you are interested then please get involved! The general methods of sending to the distance group will be putting a distance reiki symbol under each of the distance plants, there are also photos of the plants on a small website I have setup. Also if you would like to send a symbol or some words of your own and pick a plant I will place them under that plant and keep you updated with it's progress. The hope is that reiki will be sent from all round the world and hopefully with some interesting results :-)

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Take it easy all :D
Peas,
Tim

Otoharo!

I have a suggestion. Why not do this. pick two plants from where you buy them. Reiki one of them daily. Do not reiki the other one. However, since you have reiki in your hands, you must not fondle the one you plan not to be reiki with. If possible have a non-reiki person water the second plant.

Many years ago, I put in a garden along with residents of my apartment building. Most of them were experienced gardeners. My small garden was so much greener and showed so much more vitality than all the others it was very striking and I did not specifically reiki it, but my hands have reiki, I watered by holding the hose to direct the flow, so reiki was obviously becoming a part of the water. People would come by and ask me what fertilizeer I used. I didn't use fertilizer.

finality

Hi finality,
The hope for this experiment is to increase the number of plants so we can get a better idea of whether it was random chance that one grew better than the other, or whether reiki consistently, and reproducably, benefits plants in a controlled environment.
Although it can be obvious to a person that reiki has improved the condition of their plants, this could just be due to their perception, so this is a more precise way of measuring it.
Anecdotal things like this are great as I hadn't really seen it too much that people had claimed that it benefits plants. At least experimenting on plants isn't a waste of time!
Take it easy,
Tim

kingtim,

/*\ Namaste :-}}

- from a research methodology perspective in ordrr to have a better design you need to be blind as to which groups of plants get which treatment

- not to mention being certain that the soil, water, and light conditions for all plants are identical (no mean feat, that)

- also, adding in so many potential variables that constitute others doing distance Reiki for the plants will, from an experimental point of view, likely confound analysing any results you might get (so, I recommmend skipping the extra distance input from others

- there is no way to know, for example, if only Reiki is being done from distance

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- and, I doubt you will be able to say you have "proved" anything - only eliminated some other explanations - if you are careful in your design and a bit lucky as well

>:-}}

Reiki All Around,

All Blessings,

Firekeeper

We've gone into a fair bit of detail into this stuff, I'd recommend having a look at the forum on The aim isn't to prove anything really, and I recognise the limitations but I still think it's a valid experiment,

Cheers for your comments,

Tim

kingtim,

/*\ Namaste :-}}

- I was merely offering basic ideas about experimental design

- but sure, one can set up any sort of project like that and call it an experiment - but, it seems to me, the idea is to be able to draw some conclusions at the end

- if that is the case, then the parameters and controls one has on the variables become pretty crucial to any conclusion (not proof) one tries to come up with

- if conclusions are irrelevant (which would be a bit strange for human-kind)...............

>:-}}

- so, I hope the plants all like the Reiki (except, of course, those that get the placebo Reiki)

>:-}}

Reiki All Around,

All Blessings,

Firekeeper