Public interest in Reiki treatment and practice is rising rapidly, leading many to wonder, What’s the best way to learn to practice Reiki? Here are some points to consider.

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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.

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The discussion of the US Catholic Bishops’ anti-Reiki advisory continues as PBS’s Religion and Ethics correspondent Kim Lawton interviews a Catholic nun/Reiki master, a lay Reiki master, and a representative of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops.

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What ingredients make a Reiki practitioner credible? How can you know if a practitioner is trustworthy and well trained?

Since there are no agreed-upon standards for Reiki education, Reiki certificates are essentially meaningless. A First degree (beginning level) student might have more training than someone who advertises herself as a Reiki master. This creates a credibility challenge both for people who are new to Reiki, and for practitioners who want to showcase their credibility.

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Reiki is not ancient.
It’s either modern (a practice started by Mikao Usui in the 1920s in Japan), or it’s timeless (if by Reiki, you mean the unified field, source, primordial consciousness, pure awareness, great mystery, whatever you call that all-pervasive, unending reality to which we connect when we practice Reiki).

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Dr. Oz’s recent endorsement of Reiki on his popular tv show kindled interest among an entirely new segment of the population. Now what?

Think of the people in your (extended) family who are most different from you (and put aside how many times you tried to talk to them about Reiki in the past). Thanks to Dr. Oz, Cousin Vinny is now encouraged that maybe this Reiki thing will relieve the pain in his arthritic joints. Aunt Sally is hoping Reiki treatment will help her sleep after years of insomnia.

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How does Reiki work? This question comes up often. The answer is simple: We don’t know.

We don’t know.

I find those words liberating. They free me from the common explanation, “the Reiki energy comes through and goes where it’s needed,” and enable me to explore and contemplate my practice. Perhaps you’d like to do the same. Let’s chew on this together.

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This could be a very short post, because when it comes to the science of biofields, there isn’t any. Until such time as doctors are ordering kirilian photographs instead of CT scans and MRIs, don’t risk running your argument aground by confusing frontier science and conventional science. But here’s what science is telling us thus far…

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How often have you seen information about Reiki that starts with this: Reiki is a Japanese word meaning universal life energy.
What is wrong with that sentence?
First of all, there are no Japanese words. The Japanese language is written in pictograms, not words.
I hear someone saying, “Picky, picky, picky.” And I completely own it. I am picky, [...]

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The Integrative Healthcare Symposium is held annually in February in New York City. I have been asked to present Reiki there twice. This year, in the name of integration, I invited James Dillard to join me. James is a physician who is an integrative pain specialist with an unusually diverse background: he was first a [...]

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