Are You a Reiki Martyr?
If you are practicing on others, especially as a hospital or hospice volunteer, and you are not practicing daily self-treatment, you may well be a Reiki martyr. (Audible gasp) “But,” you sputter, “Reiki is safe. I was taught that Reiki is safe.”
Getting Reiki Out There
What do people scouting Reiki need to feel comfortable making a Reiki connection, and why Reiki practitioners need to make it easier for them.
Reiki Rambling
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.
What Is Usui Reiki Ryoho?
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.
The Reiki Police
Campaign for Credible Reiki raises three important questions: Who decides what’s credible? By what standards? How can Reiki practitioners establish credibility?
Half of What You Know about Reiki Is Wrong
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.
Offering Reiki in Hospital
GUEST BLOGGER Gianluca De Gennaro shares his insights from one hundred hours offering Reiki treatment to hospital inpatients.
Half-Empty Healers
Even if you practice daily Reiki self-treatment, glass-half-empty thinking dribbles your wellbeing here and there, frustrating your efforts to fill your glass, and you don’t feel as well as you might. Two simple explorations can help you redirect now.
Ask, Ask, Ask
“Ask, ask, ask.” Reiki master Hawayo Takata knew there was a time to practice and a time to ask.
9 Tips for Smarter, Safer Cell Phone Use
Do you know that cell phones and cordless phones carry the same risks? Here are 9 simple ways to use them more safely and reduce your radiation exposure.
What a Reiki Teacher Says…
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.
Reiki Research & Reiki Practice
I was comfortable with my practice until immediately after the master class, when my teacher said, “Now you are ready to go out and make other Masters.” I felt a twinge of shock, and wanted to say, “What the heck are you talking about? I am brand new at this Master thing! How could I train another master now?”
Usui Reiki, or Not Reiki?
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?
Getting Your (Reiki) House in Order
After two months of daily Reiki self-treatment, a new student is keeping her house neater–a goal that had long eluded her. Reiki benefits come in unexpected forms.
What is Reiki Energy?
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.