Some days I just want to mainline chocolate and practice Reiki self-treatment.
And then there are the tough days…
Seriously, I realized long ago that life doesn’t get easier on its own. It needs my help.
Retreat. The word says it all. Treat, and Treat again. Yes, treat as in treatment. But also treat, as in delight. [...]

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Cyclist Hayden Roulston is an Olympic silver medalist from New Zealand (I’ve heard such people refer to themselves as Kiwis, but wonder if Yanks are allowed that pleasure), so it was not all that surprising when he placed third at Stage 14 of the Tour de France.
What was surprising—or some say, miraculous—was that in 2006, [...]

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I’m thinking about communication these days. A lot.
Maybe it’s because I’m giving a Reiki Communication workshop at Tai Sophia Institute near Baltimore next weekend. Maybe it’s the aftermath of the Catholic bishop’s statement, or the recent Associated Press article in the Washington Post (and it seems, everywhere else). They say no press is bad press, [...]

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Bishops’ Syndrome is sweeping the Reiki community. Perhaps you or someone you know has been infected by it.

This unfortunate malaise is marked by the following symptoms, each of which develops quickly into the next:

• incomplete information
• inadequate investigation
• illogical conclusions
• finger-pointing
• arbitrary lines drawn in sand.

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Some days are just classic New York.
I worked a few hours before running to the subway for a midday dress rehearsal of Rossini’s La Cenerentola at the Met. Walked home up Columbus Avenue on an archetypally Spring afternoon. I swear everyone was smiling.
After writing the swine flu ReikiUpdate and meeting a few other deadlines, it was [...]

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