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?
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.
Are you self-medicating with Reiki? Here are the telltale signs…
Reiki students often ask if some of the hand placements are more important than others, or if it matters what order of hand placements you use.
Trish Guglielmo’s enthusiasm for her Reiki practice shone from the beginning. Here she shares the benefits of her first two months of daily self-treatment.
When speaking about Reiki practice, there is a tendency to make it more complicated and esoteric, and less credible.
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.
What to do when Reiki diversity feels like Reiki adversity?
You’re practicing, but not getting the same results. It’s enough to make you throw up your Reiki hands and ask, “Why? Why isn’t my Reiki working?”–but is that a reasonable conclusion?
GUEST BLOGGER Reiki master and Takata student Susan Mitchell tells us how Mrs. Takata performed the Reiki nerve stroke.
When we mix up our practices indiscriminately, are we celebrating diversity–or obliterating it?
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.
Spiritual practice puts us in the heart of unknowing on a daily basis. Through consistent practice, we develop an awareness of when to take action, and when to be still.
Is Reiki a spiritual practice or energy medicine? What difference does it make? Let’s take a look.
The distinction between spiritual practice and energy medicine is often blurred, as if the two were interchangeable, or even the same. They are both valuable, but they are not the same.
GUEST BLOGGER Ayenda Lambert shares how Reiki practice helped her overcome and heal ADD.
Can Reiki do harm? Maybe not, but the practitioner can.
Engaging the ego to fuel your daily Reiki practice.
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.
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?
Sometimes it’s easy to help. Other times I need the Reiki Precepts to help me help others.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
This week we have a guest blogger sharing how Reiki transformed her relationship with pain.
Just relaxed is a biochemical event, the beginning of healing, and what you’re not getting enough of. So follow Dr. Oz’s orders, and try Reiki.
Reiki is not ancient; it’s either modern, or it’s timeless, depending what you mean when you say, “Reiki.”
In this sleep-deprived nation, children and adults alike suffer from too little sleep. Reiki practice can change that.
May we live with the awareness that each time we practice self Reiki, we place another brick paving the road to world peace.
What do you think will happen this holiday season? Will you:
Eat too much?
Drink too much?
Get caught under the mistletoe?
Not get caught under the mistletoe?
The most common model of how Reiki practice works raises questions and objections. We can do better. Here’s a start.
In practice,
there is much repetition,
and there is no repetition.
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
What is Reiki? is a question many Reiki practitioners dread. Here’s help.
Reiki practice and prayer are two distinct practices that have some similarities.
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.
GUESTBLOGGER Kimberly Fleisher of the Reiki School + Clinic in Philadephia shares her experience of the Usui Virtual Retreat.
If you approach Reiki healing as a technique, you feel anxious to do it perfectly. If you approach Reiki healing as a practice, you simply do it.
The negativity around us — and our own negative thoughts — don’t have to determine how we feel. Daily practice is the antidote.
