Yale researchers found that a 20-minute Reiki treatment offered in the acute cardiac care unit improved patients’ mood and heart rate variability (HRV) less than 3 days after suffering a heart attack.

Can Reiki do harm? Maybe not, but the practitioner can.

The space between the science and the patient can be formidable in today’s medicine. It’s the physician’s job to bridge that gap, but knowing how to fix a problem and engaging the person as an ally in her own health and well-being involve very different skills. Medical fixing requires a take-charge approach, especially in surgery [...]

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Do you have specific questions about the most effective ways to approach physicians and hospital administrators? Or would you like tips on collaboration, how to be a team player, carrying your authority as the Reiki specialist without being overbearing? Tell me now, and I’ll do my best to incorporate them into the Introduction to Medical Reiki webinar.

Anita Graham, a Reiki master who took the 2-day Medical Reiki seminar in March 2008, shares her experience treating people with dementia.

Have you ever wondered what aspects of practice are most widely shared by our diverse Reiki community? Let’s find out! Please fill out this brief poll and share it with your friends.

As a Reiki practitioner, you know you have the ability to help. You simply place your Reiki hands lightly on someone in distress, and the distress softens. You’ve seen this many times.

But the ability to help isn’t enough, is it? We also need the power to help. How can we get that?

Balanced journalism covering Reiki is hard to come by, for many reasons. This week, the Syracuse Post-Standard published a piece we can work with. Let me be clear: I don’t agree with everything in this article. Regardless, I encourage the Reiki community to rally behind it.

There are so many myths about when Reiki treatment can be safely used. Let’s dispel the myth that Reiki treatment is ever contraindicated once and for all. We can start by looking at what is really happening when we offer Reiki treatment.