What are the healing practices you adopt and what is the effect on you?

I prefer the term complementary medicine because that's what they are 'complementary'. They are meant tocomplement mainstream medicine and not act as a threat. Unfortunately the term alternative medicine communicates it as an alternative to mainstream medicine. In order for any complementary therapy to be effective, it requires the involvement of the person being healed. I am a reiki practitioner, so maybe im biased to it....however although I have found reiki to work wonders, I would never replace mainstream medicine for it. It works alongside traditional medicine. That's the beauty of it.