Do you find Reiki hard to talk about? Practitioners often struggle to communicate Reiki practice to the (literally) uninitiated, especially the media. Caught up in Reiki enthusiasm, a practitioner can easily wind up looking ungrounded, and the practice a bit out there and, well, unscientific. It may be surprising to learn that scientists also struggle to share their work accurately, often for similar reasons.

When speaking about Reiki practice, there is a tendency to make it more complicated and esoteric, and less credible.

Although practitioners like the idea of Reiki practice becoming more known (which leads to more diversity), they often settle into their own view of Reiki with all the comfort of an overstuffed armchair, loathe to consider options or even admit other approaches have validity, and sometimes feeling enmity toward colleagues with different practice styles.

Having a basic understanding of the mechanics–or even a plausible model–helps people appreciate how practical Reiki treatment is. It helps to demystify the practice, and make it more accessible.

Is Reiki a spiritual practice or energy medicine? What difference does it make? Let’s take a look.

The distinction between spiritual practice and energy medicine is often blurred, as if the two were interchangeable, or even the same. They are both valuable, but they are not the same.

This is a call to serve. To serve Reiki, and to serve yourself. The two go hand-in-hand (pun totally intended).

Reiki needs help putting on a new public face, the face that invites everyone–not just the New Age community–to follow Dr. Oz’s orders and “Try Reiki!”

Do you have a question you’d like discussed? The Reiki community is a gold mine of experience. Let’s pool our riches by sharing our comments to a question posed by readers every Friday on my Facebook Reiki, Medicine and Self-Care page. No worries if you are not a member of Facebook. The page is public [...]

Reiki practitioners love their work. Many love it so much they are uncomfortable being paid for it.

But if we truly love our work, and especially if we want to do more of it, why wouldn’t we be grateful to be compensated for it?

A trusted farmer has me reconsidering a long held position on food. How did this happen, and how is this relevant to communicating Reiki more effectively?