Reiki people are often shocked, Pamela, to realize Hawayo Takata didn’t give us a very good translation of the Japanese kanji for Reiki. Takata brought Reiki to the U.S. (with full support of her Japanese Reiki master), and was devoted to Reiki practice, so how did that happen? Easily. But it’s not that Takata failed us;
In Reiki practice as in life, boundaries help you know what’s real and when you’re being manipulated. Here’s how you can sort it out.
Conventional medicine uses drugs or procedures to oppose the problem in an attempt at cure. The benefits of Reiki healing come from enhanced systemic balance.
The natural medicine term healing crisis refers to a very specific event that may occur in a healing process. It’s important to understand exactly what a healing crisis is.
Initiation alone does not make a Reiki master. It starts us on the road to becoming a Reiki master, with no guarantee of reaching mastery. How does mastery develop?
What is the one fact to share about Reiki practice first?
A common misconception is that Hawayo Takata emphasized the physical healing aspects of Reiki practice over the spiritual, but Reiki researcher Robert Fueston reveals what Takata really taught.
Does linking Reiki lineage to how you practice rather than your training change anything for you?
Why do the U.S. Catholic Bishops and some Vipassana meditation teachers oppose Reiki practice? How does the Reiki community contribute to such opposition?
Stories about Reiki founder Mikao Usui abound, but what do we really know about his life? Reiki master Colin Powell sorts through the evidence.
The actual process of Reiki attunement or initiation may be mysterious and unknowable, but the result is practical and often palpable.
Of course we all like fast results. And with Reiki treatment, sometimes we get them. But that’s not instant mastery.
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?
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.
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?
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.
Reiki is not ancient; it’s either modern, or it’s timeless, depending what you mean when you say, “Reiki.”
There really isn’t any science of biofields (yet?), but we can still speak credibly about Reiki practice to scientists. I’ve been doing it for 20 years, and here’s how.
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?
