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(related modalities: hypnotherapy, meditation, mind-body therapies, mindfulness, progressive muscle relaxation, transcendental meditation).

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Notes

  1. 1.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Heinrich_Schultz.

  2. 2.

    Ernst and Kanji (2000).

  3. 3.

    Klemparskaya et al. (1986).

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    Asefi and Augustin (1999).

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    Pittler et al. (2003).

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    Ernst (2004).

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    Kleine-Tebbe and Herold (2010).

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    Schöni et al. (1997).

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    Teekachunhatean et al. (2012).

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    Kim et al. (2012).

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    Keum et al. (2010).

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    Lee et al. (2008).

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    Eisele and Reay (1980).

  14. 14.

    Ernst (1997).

  15. 15.

    Ernst (2010).

  16. 16.

    http://www.colourtherapyhealing.com/colour-therapy/what-colour-therapy.

  17. 17.

    https://www.holisticshop.co.uk/articles/introduction-guide-crystals.

  18. 18.

    https://www.britishacademyofcrystalhealing.co.uk/how-to-use-crystals.

  19. 19.

    Ernst (2003).

  20. 20.

    Radin et al. (2015).

  21. 21.

    François et al. (2014).

  22. 22.

    Wasti et al. (2015).

  23. 23.

    Provençal et al. (2018).

  24. 24.

    Fisch et al. (2017).

  25. 25.

    Madden et al. (2016).

  26. 26.

    Abbot et al. (1998).

  27. 27.

    Giacobbi et al. (2015).

  28. 28.

    Bowering et al. (2013).

  29. 29.

    Posadzki et al. (2012).

  30. 30.

    Felix et al. (2019).

  31. 31.

    Hadjibalassi et al. (2018).

  32. 32.

    Baldwin and Trent (2017).

  33. 33.

    http://johreicentreuk.blogspot.com/.

  34. 34.

    Baldwin and Trent (2017).

  35. 35.

    Gasiorowska et al. (2009).

  36. 36.

    Canter et al. (2006).

  37. 37.

    Yim (2016).

  38. 38.

    Sridharan and Sivaramakrishnan (2016).

  39. 39.

    Zhang et al. (2017).

  40. 40.

    Mora-Ripoll (2010).

  41. 41.

    Lauche et al. (2014).

  42. 42.

    Çakmak et al. (2018).

  43. 43.

    Bykowski et al. (2018).

  44. 44.

    Paudyal et al. (2018).

  45. 45.

    Salhofer et al. (2016).

  46. 46.

    Goyal et al. (2014).

  47. 47.

    Krisanaprakornkit et al. (2010).

  48. 48.

    Gard et al. (2014).

  49. 49.

    Anheyer et al. (2018).

  50. 50.

    Sancho et al. (2018).

  51. 51.

    Long et al. (2017).

  52. 52.

    https://www.bamt.org/.

  53. 53.

    Moreira et al. (2018).

  54. 54.

    Magee et al. (2017).

  55. 55.

    van der Steen et al. (2017).

  56. 56.

    Bradt et al. (2016).

  57. 57.

    http://www.neuraltherapybook.com/NTdefined.php.

  58. 58.

    http://www.neuraltherapybook.com/NTdefined.php.

  59. 59.

    Rajagopal et al. (2018).

  60. 60.

    Ernst and Fialka (1994).

  61. 61.

    https://bodyspirithealth.com/2015/08/02/what-happens-during-a-pranic-healing-session/.

  62. 62.

    Rajagopal et al. (2018).

  63. 63.

    Roberts et al. (2009).

  64. 64.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Relaxation_Response.

  65. 65.

    Pelekasis et al. (2017).

  66. 66.

    Vancampfort et al. (2013).

  67. 67.

    Lee et al. (2011).

  68. 68.

    Lee et al. (2008).

  69. 69.

    Joyce and Herbison (2015).

  70. 70.

    https://www.aetherius.org/healing-yourself-and-others/.

  71. 71.

    Candy et al. (2012).

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    http://therapeutictouch.org/what-is-tt/.

  73. 73.

    Monroe (2009).

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    Tabatabaee et al. (2016).

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    Rosa et al. (1998).

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    Canter and Ernst (2004).

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    Canter and Ernst (2004).

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    Ralston (1998).

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