Beneficial Effects of Receiving Johrei on General Health or Hypothermia Tendency

Objectives: Johrei is a type of biofield therapy that is said to bring physical and mental well-being to the recip-ient. This study sought to measure changes in body temperature and circulation resulting from Johrei treat-ment, for generally healthy subjects and for individuals with a tendency toward hypothermia.Participants: A total of 199 qualified Johrei practitioners and 144 non-qualified operators provided Johrei and placebo treatments, respectively. Volunteer subjects -186 in general health and 39 with a hypothermia ten-dency - participated in this study to receive either or both of these treatments.Methods: Each subject was given a 10 min treatment daily by either a qualified practitioner or a non-qualified operator. The effects on subjects of receiving each treatment were compared by observing quantitative changes in blood flow and surface body temperature after a course of treatment.Results: A total of 107 healthy subjects were randomly assigned to the qualified-practitioner group or the non-qualified operator group. Treatment by qualified practitioners significantly enhanced blood flow and surface body temperature in the subjects' designated neck area compared to that in treatment by non -quali-fied operators. This finding was further corroborated by a comparative experiment in which each healthy subject was treated by both a qualified practitioner and a non-qualified operator. These results indicate that only the qualified-practitioner treatment increased the subject's-blood flow and surface body temperature. Similarly, in a comparative study of qualified-practitioner treatment against non-qualified-operator treat-ment, subjects tending toward hypothermia showed increased blood flow and elevated body temperature with only the authentic Johrei treatment.(c) 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)