The natural medicine term healing crisis refers to a very specific event that may occur in a healing process. It’s important to understand exactly what a healing crisis is.

Conventional medicine uses drugs or procedures to oppose the problem in an attempt at cure. The benefits of Reiki healing come from enhanced systemic balance.

Of course we all like fast results. And with Reiki treatment, sometimes we get them. But that’s not instant mastery.

There is a reasonable expectation that any practice referred to as Reiki traces back to Usui, but we cannot assume this to be true. The lack of agreed-upon Reiki standards creates a buyer-beware market. How can we help the public identify Usui-based Reiki practices?

What is universal life energy? How many Reiki practitioners pause to contemplate such a reality, a reality so foreign to western dualistic culture that we don’t even have a word for it.

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?

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.

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).

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…

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. [...]