How Reiki Treatment Helps Doctors
Doctors who know about Reiki practice appreciate the benefits it brings their patients.
Reiki Cats: Hawayo and Takata
Striding up Fourth Avenue on a cold November morning en route to sit-in on my First degree class at Beth Israel Medical Center, Reiki practitioner and artist Muriel Stockdale finds Hawayo, and Takata.
The Most Important Thing
Zen Master Shunryu Suzuki said, “The most important thing is to know what is the most important thing.” What is most important in Reiki practice?
Reiki Precepts and Effort
Sometimes it’s easy to help. Other times I need the Reiki Precepts to help me help others.
A Dog’s (Reiki) Life
GUEST BLOGGER Dona Duke: A huge raid brought TV crews to our shelter. Forty-eight Whippets were recovered from a hoarder-breeder-puppy mill.
What Peas Taught Me about Changing Behavior
A trusted farmer has me reconsidering a long held position on food. How did she do that, and how is that relevant to communicating Reiki more effectively?
Medical Reiki Wishlist
Do you have specific questions about the most effective ways to approach physicians and hospital administrators? Or would you like tips on collaboration, how to be a team player, carrying your authority as the Reiki specialist without being overbearing? Tell me now, and I’ll do my best to incorporate them into the Introduction to Medical Reiki webinar.
Reiki and Dementia
Anita Graham, a Reiki master who took my Reiki and Medicine seminar in March 2008, shares her experience treating people with dementia.
3 Tips for Successful Public Reiki Events
“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.”
Reiki Healing Is for Everyone, So Let’s Speak to Everyone
Do you wonder why some people hop aboard when you speak about Reiki, while others vacate the premises? It’s easy to figure this out, and start speaking in ways that invite more people in.
Manhattan Reiki
I live in New York City. I live there with 8+ million people. That’s not counting the millions who visit.
So it sometimes happens that a few other people are strolling the sidewalk or the subway steps just as I am purposefully heading somewhere, no time to spare.
My path totally impeded, the phrase arises: “Today only.”
A Feel for Reiki Practice
As simple as Reiki practice is, it takes time to develop a feel for the practice, a deep understanding of it (as distinct from a definition).
As with any practice, the only way to develop a feel for Reiki practice is to actually practice it, and to do so consistently over a period of time. There is no shortcut.
Mainstreaming Reiki: Acquiring the Power to Help
As a Reiki practitioner, you know you have the ability to help. You simply place your Reiki hands lightly on someone in distress, and the distress softens. You’ve seen this many times.
But the ability to help isn’t enough, is it? We also need the power to help. How can we get that?
Reiki and Starfish
Last week New York Times columnist and social activist Nicholas Kristof gave a presentation across the hall from our monthly JCC Reiki Clinic. As the clinic wound down, I ducked into the balcony for a few minutes, and heard the starfish story for the first time.