Reiki Technique as a Rehabilitation Psycho-Emotional Adaptive-Regulating Mind-Body Therapy: a Comprehensive Review Within the Author’s Innovative Psychological Paradigm

Reiki technique alleviates varied negative symptoms and enriches the person’s wellbeing, but no targeted studies were conducted regarding its psychological nature and mechanism. Our aims are to assess Reiki efficiency, its feasibility of integration into multiple activities and for interprofessional training, and offer scientific psychologically-based Reiki definition, disclose its mechanism and provide an analysis of Reiki psycho-emotional-somatic-physiological functioning. This review used systematic search-strategy and identified 120 publications in Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, etc. databases. Reiki proved to improve the body functioning in vide spheres, but it is still being studied at a clinical-medical level without any psychological rationale. We are the first to present Reiki doctrine-technique as emotionally-induced therapeutic means within the author’s explanatory-functional paradigm, focusing on the psychological essence/roots of Reiki which integrate into adequate innovative definition. Psycho-emotional functional mechanisms of Reiki influence on normalization of physiological-somatic indicators, strengthening protective-compensatory resources and circulation of psycho-bioenergetic flow are highlighted.