Category: Daily practice

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?

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How to Reiki Self Practice

Mahatma Gandhi encouraged being the change we want to see in the world. Daily Reiki self-practice is the simplest way I’ve found to engage that transformation. Here’s how you can keep it simple.

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Reiki Treatment: A Balancing Act

Having a basic understanding of the mechanics–or even a plausible model–helps people appreciate how practical Reiki treatment is. It helps to demystify the practice, and make it more accessible.

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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.

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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.”

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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.

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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.

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Reiki and Baseball

The competition in major league baseball is fierce, but players stay focused on their own practice and maintain respectful, cordial relationships with opponents on the field. Reiki practitioners are colleagues, not opponents, yet they often sideline themselves in meaningless rivalries.

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Sleep Much?

In this sleep-deprived nation, children and adults alike suffer from too little sleep. Reiki practice can change that.

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Peace Work

May we live with the awareness that each time we practice self Reiki, we place another brick paving the road to world peace.

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Waiting for…Second Degree

Good things come to those who wait. That was one of my mom’s favorite aphorisms, offered frequently to her impatient, let’s-get-going child — me. Like Mark Twain, I was amazed how much smarter my parents became as I got older, and I’ve learned the value of sustained effort over time to improve skills and achieve

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Retreat Reflections

GUESTBLOGGER Deb Hoy, editor of Touch, the magazine of the Reiki Association UK, shares how the Usui Virtual Retreat has been a supportive, gentle catalyst for change.

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