What do people scouting Reiki need to feel comfortable making a Reiki connection, and why Reiki practitioners need to make it easier for them.

Does your introduction to Reiki make people want to try Reiki, or want to run? If you think your friends don’t hop on board because Reiki is so whatever, think again. It may not be Reiki at all. It may be you.

Hiroshi Doi spoke from his practice, based in Usui’s practice; Hyakuten Inamoto spoke from his practice, based in Hayashi’s practice; and I spoke from my Takata practice.

Campaign for Credible Reiki raises three important questions: Who decides what’s credible? By what standards? How can Reiki practitioners establish credibility?

As doctors graduate medical school, they are famously told, “Half of what you learned in medical school is wrong, and we don’t know which half.” If only the Reiki community were so forthright.

GUEST BLOG: My decision to learn to practice Reiki was more or less a last resort. I had reached a pinnacle of dissatisfaction and anxiety, and my usual coping methods were not working.

Reaching for science to make an impressive case for Reiki treatment can backfire if you are not a scientist. Here are a few suggestions to keep you off the hotseat, and help you avoid discrediting both yourself, and Reiki practice.

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.