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Reiki: Spiritual Practice or Energy Medicine?

October 30, 2010 30 Comments

Is Reiki a spiritual practice or energy medicine? What difference does it make? Let’s take a look.

Reiki Fees

September 25, 2010 16 Comments

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?

Yale Study Shows Reiki Treatment Helps Heart Attack Patients

September 18, 2010 13 Comments

Yale researchers found that a 20-minute Reiki treatment offered in the acute cardiac care unit improved patients’ mood and heart rate variability (HRV) less than 3 days after suffering a heart attack.

First Do No Harm

September 11, 2010 2 Comments

Can Reiki do harm? Maybe not, but the practitioner can.

How Reiki Treatment Helps Doctors

September 5, 2010 5 Comments

Doctors who know about Reiki practice appreciate the benefits it brings their patients.

A Dog’s (Reiki) Life

July 30, 2010 8 Comments

GUEST BLOGGER Dona Duke: A huge raid brought TV crews to our shelter. Forty-eight Whippets were recovered from a hoarder-breeder-puppy mill.

Medical Reiki Wishlist

July 14, 2010 23 Comments

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

July 9, 2010 8 Comments

Anita Graham, a Reiki master who took my Reiki and Medicine seminar in March 2008, shares her experience treating people with dementia.

Mainstreaming Reiki: Acquiring the Power to Help

May 22, 2010 11 Comments

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?

Hospital Reiki in the News

March 26, 2010 1 Comment

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.

Reiki Is Safe

March 1, 2010 29 Comments

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.

Recipe for Reiki Credibility

February 12, 2010 47 Comments

Here are the questions that will tell you if a Reiki practitioner is qualified and credible.

The Reiki Credibility Challenge

January 13, 2010 33 Comments

Dr. Oz’s Reiki endorsement on the popular The Dr. Oz 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.

Healing Multiple Sclerosis (MS)

December 25, 2009 11 Comments

A year after video producer Kate Milliken was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, her MRI came back clean. Reiki is part of her integrative approach to reversing a disease deemed “incurable” by conventional medicine.

Emergency Reiki

November 13, 2009 11 Comments

You’re at the site of an emergency. What do you do first, call 911 or offer Reiki?

Reiki Is Not a Word

November 5, 2009 56 Comments

Direct translation from Japanese pictograms into English is not possible. What is lost in translation and what does it mean for Reiki practice outside Japan?

Reiki in the Name of Jesus

October 29, 2009 48 Comments

Have you met a Christian you thought was uncomfortable with Reiki practice?

Reiki Integrative Health Care Talk

October 23, 2009 15 Comments

I have twice been asked to present Reiki at the annual Integrative Healthcare Symposium in New York City. Here is a recording of the second presentation.

Reiki Integrative Healthcare Talk

October 23, 2009 15 Comments

The Integrative Healthcare Symposium is held annually in February in New York City. I have been asked to give a Reiki presentation twice. The second time, in the name of integration, I invited James Dillard to join me. James is a physician who is an integrative pain specialist with an unusually diverse background: he was

Fixing Good Intentions

August 24, 2009 8 Comments

Just because something hurts doesn’t mean it is broken. How can we know whether something needs fixing, or not?

Fewer headaches, Less meds

August 5, 2009 2 Comments

A senior resumes her daily Reiki self practice and reduces headache medication by more than two-thirds!

How Long?

July 30, 2009 8 Comments

How long is ideal for a Reiki treatment? How often is that possible?

12 Years of Back Pain Relieved

June 17, 2009 2 Comments

How fast can Reiki treatment help and how much is needed? Most people experience a reduction in pain and anxiety from a single Reiki treatment, a clinical observation that is supported by research. And some people hit the Reiki jackpot. A student practicing daily self-treatment since last month’s First degree class shared the following report: My

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