4,272 signatures
Reiki
- 4,729 supporters taking action on this topic.
- 3 petitions started in this community.
Start a petition
Explore 3 petitions in Reiki
Topics related to Reiki
Stories and updates from petition starters
11 supporters are talking about petitions related to Reiki!
This is a terrible bill on so many levels. As a massage therapist who has held a license in MA for more than 20 years, I don’t understand the thinking behind creating a new governing body that includes all the various massage therapy modalities and then tries in 20 or more other alternative healing therapies including Naturopaths who are more like drs!
Kristine supported: Protect the Right to Practice, Teach and Access Alternative Healing Therapies in MAI learned Reiki because I had Lyme Disease and Co-Infections. Dr.'s really didn't believe in Lyme and longtime issues from it. My Primary Lyme Literate Dr. wouldn't work with me unless it was antibiotics/prescriptions which were killing my gut. So I started looking around for help. It was the best thing I did, it was a life saving practice which helped me heal completely which the Dr.'s just really gave up on me and wanted me to live on pain killers which is not a life. Please do not take this energy medicine away from the people. This will not improve anything for people who really need this. Massachusetts needs to stop being so draconian and controlling. Reiki is about doing no harm which most Dr.'s of today do not practice this anymore, they are primary followers.
Christine supported: Protect the Right to Practice, Teach and Access Alternative Healing Therapies in MAthis is a big help to many people doing away with people that are experts in the field of Reiki even if not licensed is wrong. I know it helped me greatly after the loss of my mother, She was my best friend as well as my mother. Libby helped me a great deal in handling her loss.
NANCY supported: Protect the Right to Practice, Teach and Access Alternative Healing Therapies in MAI couldn't agree more with Evelyn, who wrote a month ago: "Licensing these modalities under the administration of non-practitioners does not protect consumers! It only protects practitioners of other modalities from competition. This approach does nothing to improve health." Also with Audrey, who wrote, "I understand Senator Montigny is concerned regarding human sex trafficking what I don’t understand is how sex trafficking is related to Holistic Healing or Holistic Practices?" Yes! As a Reiki Master Practitioner and Certified Biofeedback Specialist using several different techniques, I am frustrated that this bill has been resurrected yet again in a new form. We have been signing petitions and writing letters for years. As a former co-director of a holistic education center, I know how different the real educational requirements for various techniques are. Reiki is so easy to learn and safe to use it that children can--and DO--practice it! It is a profoundly comforting tool for self-care and for supporting others. If expensive, time-consuming, and UNNECESSARY education and licensing requirements are created, everyone will lose in a big way--practitioners, volunteers, recipients, hospitals, hospices, and more. Please let common sense prevail.
Cara supported: Protect the Right to Practice, Teach and Access Alternative Healing Therapies in MAThough I’m not a Massachusetts resident, I work in Massachusetts and also seek holistic therapies there. My daughter’s holistic therapist is also in Massachusetts. These therapies work so that we are less reliant on western medications for pain that could be detrimental. I’m signing this petition in support of the continued access to holistic therapies without having to Juan through the hurdles of traditional medicine.
Melissa supported: Protect the Right to Practice, Teach and Access Alternative Healing Therapies in MAHolistic Therapies saved my life after years of neglect at the hands of doctors- who the state theoretically regulates, and who left me to die multiple times all the same. When the hospital refused me inpatient psych care in 2021 after 8 years of medical abuse caused a breakdown, it was Holistic practitioners who explained trauma to me and how it was effecting my body. It was Holistic modalities that empowered me to heal from conditions that western medicine called untreatable. And it is Holistic modalities that have since given me a career. My disability level makes traditional degrees and traditional jobs unreachable, but Holistic classes and jobs provide me with the flexibility and compassion that I need to succeed. Without this work, I would be dependent on disability payments to survive. I am not alone; many Holistic workers are dealing with high levels of disability that make other jobs impossible. If the state stops is from practicing, patients will suffer abs baby practitioners will be dependent on government aid. I genuinely don't see who benefits by doing this.
The state of MA does not have the understanding necessary to regulate 200+ modalities. I am also not convinced it would be legal to do so, as many of these are spiritual practices and are therefore protected for the same reason churches are protected.
Prevent patient suffering. Prevent Holistic practitioners from ending up on disability or unemployment. Allow a system that has been working to continue working. Please allow us to continue practiticing and receiving the Holistic treatments that work for us.
Julia supported: Protect the Right to Practice, Teach and Access Alternative Healing Therapies in MALicensing Reiki would inhibit the scope of healing that this vital energy can offer. One of the most fundamental aspects of Reiki is doing self-Reiki. Many people start with Reiki in order to do self-Reiki to help recovery from injury, surgery or illness. It is also a profound way to support oneself for quality of life with chronic or terminal disease. There should be no limitation on learning or practicing Reiki. Reiki has its own intelligence, and the practitioner is simply a conduit.
Rachel supported: Protect the Right to Practice, Teach and Access Alternative Healing Therapies in MAThere is a national association for Qigong, there is a national organization for Asian Bodywork Therapy, there are standards of practice and education already established for most of the modalities this bill is trying to lump under the auspices of Massage Therapy.
Massage Therapists may have a larger and more organized (read better funded) umbrella, they are by no means qualified to administer many of these modalities. What education they get in Asian therapies is laughably short and wouldn't even be considered an introduction to the art.
I have been practicing Qigong, Tai Chi, Tuina and Shiatsu for over 30 years. After having been trained at a school of Traditional Chinese Medicine in this country and then received further education through NanJing University. When seeking licensure in Massachusetts I went through the AOBTA (American Organization for the Bodywork Therapies of Asia) for a reason. That reason is that they are associated with the NCCAOM (National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine), and have many ties to the National Qigong Association. That is because they understand that these modalities are interdependent and complementary. Massage Therapy schools teach very little, if any of the complex theory required to practice these arts. I know because I also attended Massage Therapy school. My opinion isn't voiced here because it will affect me or my practice. it won't I can easily be licensed as a Massage Therapist. Others would have to go back to attend school for a lesser education in what they already know. Plain and simple, this is a power and cash grab action. I oppose it, and I hope you will too.
Jeff supported: Protect the Right to Practice, Teach and Access Alternative Healing Therapies in MAIt makes no sense to create this legislation around Reiki and other alternative healing methods. You can learn the levels of Reiki in 3 days, one day for each level. Practice is what informs this and other modes of alternative healing such as Tai Chi, Qi Gong, and other methods, all of which I’ve practiced for 20+ years. They have helped me tremendously with severe back issues when surgeries and other Western medicine failed and Reiki’s simplicity is part of what makes it easy to use these arts continuously and successfully. If we touch another person in Reiki, they are fully clothed and we never touch inappropriate areas. If the patient prefers, we can just hold our hands slightly above them—not touching them at all. This bill seems to appear every year or so and it looks to me like a very inappropriate way to set up a new money making industry by forcing someone who could learn reiki in a matter days to spend far more money and time taking unnecessary courses on what?? The Reiki attunements and instructions are short and simple. I can’t imagine how you would find enough USEFUL material to create a licensing course. I see this bill as a profit maker that does nothing for Reiki practitioners or clients. I urge you to vote against this bill and insure it does not rise again! Respectfully, Mary Gordon
Mary supported: Protect the Right to Practice, Teach and Access Alternative Healing Therapies in MAYou’re not alone — a community of supporters is ready to back you.
Start a petition