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Public Reiki Events

June 16th, 2010

“The Reiki room was pure magic….as usual.

“I know you know this, but I just have to remind you that every year, the Reiki practitioners touch so many lives.

“You are truly doing a HUGE service to these women by introducing them to this amazing healing. I can’t believe that even after all this time and exposure, Reiki is still relatively unknown to these women challenged by cancer.”

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Reiki Blog Birthday

April 28th, 2010

May Day marks the first year of Reiki Central, and what a ride it’s been! Please celebrate with me on Saturday May 1–free webinar to discuss your questions.

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As Common as Aspirin

April 6th, 2010

“I want Reiki to be as common as aspirin.”–Hawayo Takata

Reiki-as-common-as-aspirin means Reiki available mainstream, maybe not at your local pharmacy, but available where the mainstream public hangs out. You could help make that desire a reality. Are you with me?

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Hospital Reiki in the News

March 26th, 2010

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.

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Reiki and the Catholic Bishops, Again

February 18th, 2010

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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Just Relaxed. Really, Just?

February 6th, 2010

Just relaxed is a very big deal. Just relaxed is a biochemical event, the beginning of healing, and what you’re not getting enough of. So follow Dr. Oz’s orders, and try Reiki.

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The Reiki Credibility Challenge

January 13th, 2010

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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The Science of Biofields

December 3rd, 2009

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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Reiki & the Bishops in the Boston Globe

September 25th, 2009

Bishops Syndrome has made it to the Boston Globe.
A colleague from the North Shore sent me an alarmed email, referring to it as a “horrid article.” I respectfully disagree.
There are only minor inaccuracies: depicting Usui as a doctor who developed the practice at the turn of the century (he was not a physician and it [...]

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Star-powered Healing

July 22nd, 2009

NFL running back Ricky Williams has turned to holistic healing, not only for his own wellness and freedom from his pothead past, but also as a career when he retires from football. This is reported by Greg Bishop on page B13 of today’s New York Times Sports section.
The article, which describes Williams as “230 pounds of new-age philosophy searching for [...]

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