Reiki-The New Holistic Therapy

Farida Abou Khizam says Reiki sweeping the world

On November 3, the AUB Women’s League provided the AUB community with the opportunity to hear a lecture on Reiki, the Japanese holistic therapy, which was given by Farida Abou Khizam, an Australian Lebanese Reiki master and a former pharmacist.

Abou Khizam  said that the practice of Reiki is sweeping throughout the world with its ability to provide deep relaxation and alleviate illnesses by stimulating the body’s own immune responses. In fact, the American National Institute of Health lists Reiki as a “biofield medicine,” she noted.

Much research has been done on the therapeutic effect of Reiki in a variety of illnesses, so much so that many hospitals incorporate it into their treatment programs. Abou Khizam  said that incorporating holistic therapies such as Reiki, acupuncture and others with mainstream conventional medical treatments is referred to as Integrative Medicine, as it serves to treat the whole person (mind, body, and soul).

She also explained how Reiki works by utilizing the body’s main energy centers and energy meridians. More profoundly, Reiki causes change in the pattern of disease or the effects of stress at a cellular level,  where the memory of such patterns exist and reproduce themselves.

Abou Khizam conducts workshops in Reiki and gives individual sessions at the AUB Charles Hostler Student Center.