My New (Senior) Reiki Body

Your body is capable of more healing than you know. Read this story of how daily self Reiki helped a senior who is a professional dogwalker grow younger and healthier!

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Reiki Changes

Some Reiki changes occurred organically over its history; others were arbitrary. Some haven’t been acknowledged, creating confusion. I asked my colleague, Reiki historian Justin Stein to help sort it out.

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Reiki Is Boring

Reiki is boring, and that’s a good thing. You likely have enough drama in your life. Reiki helps you stop thinking and find gold in that boredom.

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What Does Reiki Really Mean?

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;

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How Many Ones?

Did you enjoy our recent dive into Mystery, the very real spiritual experience science can’t help us with? There’s more. So much more. Infinitely more, in fact. Given that Mystery is infinite, it’s not surprising it’s known by other names, lots of them. Some have religious connotations, and many are belief-neutral. Two of my favorite

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Do You Feel Safe?

I had an epiphany just a couple of years into my Reiki practice. Lying in the dark, self-practicing before sleep, I deeply understood that what we humans really need is simply to feel safe. Once you deeply get that you’re safe, everything else falls into place, and you naturally become the best version of yourself,

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Reiki Shalala

I attended the annual Duncan W. Clark lecture at the venerable New York Academy of Medicine here in New York City to hear Donna Shalala speak on the future of nursing. Shalala is a formidable American, then president of the University of Miami, past president of Hunter College of the City University of New York,

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Protect NJ Reiki

2 Ways to Protect NJ Reiki Now

The New Jersey legislature has called a public hearing on Assembly Bill 2461 for Monday, March 20. Here’s how you can oppose this first step towards licensing Reiki practice by attending in person or through email. It’s important that we make a strong showing.

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Protect New Jersey Reiki Now

The New Jersey legislature is calling for a task force that is the first step to regulating Reiki. That would be costly for NJ Reiki practitioners, and mean you can’t practice as you choose. We’ve made it easy for you to voice your opposition, and the time to do it is NOW.

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Take Care of Your State

Take care of your state, and your state takes care of everything else. I’ve said that thousands of times to many thousands of people. Even still, I appreciate it more with each repetition and contemplation. If you can take only one action, take the action that has the most leverage in your life, that brings improvements

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New Massachusetts Reiki Licensing Update

The Massachusetts Reiki licensing attempt seems to have ended, at least for the moment. MA legislators have decided to focus on other matters, and moved the bills to a further investigation and study order. Of course, it’s possible the bills could be moved back to the floor, but that almost never happens. It seems the

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Reiki Boundaries

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.

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Protecting Reiki from Regulation: What You Can Do Now

Protecting Reiki practice from regulation starts now. Are you ready to be an effective Reiki advocate? Let’s begin with strategy (I’ll suggest actions you can take from home in another article). The strategy I’ll share comes from my decades of experience presenting Reiki practice to doctors and nurses. Why is that helpful? Like healthcare professionals,

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Reiki Practice: Sticking with Love

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously said he was “sticking with love.” Reiki practice makes it easier to follow his example and live from your deepest heart, so we can create a better world.

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Beating Back the Second Covid Wave

The idea of a second Covid wave put many in a state of deep fear. Now we’re long past the second wave to a third or forth. What if we thought of Covid in terms of a wildfire rather than a wave? I can’t take credit for that brilliant idea. It’s been put forth in the

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Reiki and Psoriasis

Psoriasis is hard to heal, but Reiki practice can help because the deep balancing response to Reiki practice addresses underlying causes unrecognized in conventional medicine.

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Reiki Healing

Reiki Healing Crisis

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.

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Ali Walters self practice

Ever Deepening Reiki Self Practice

When we give our daily Reiki self practice our attention, the experience is never boring, but ever fresh and deeply restorative. Here’s Ali Walters’ story of Coming Home to her self practice.

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Racism and Healing: Vera’s Story

When Vera Saville left a moving comment about racism and healing on Black Lives Matter, I thanked her and asked for more details. She gave me permission to share our ensuing emails with you.

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Black Lives Matter

Black lives matter. It’s that simple. Reiki self practice helps you appreciate that if you don’t already, and if you do, it helps you take meaningful steps.

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Practicing Reiki Precepts helps me now that Mom has dementia

Practicing the Reiki Precepts Brings Support

We all want to be there for our parents, yet it’s hard to manage the details and emotions as we watch them decline. A daughter shares how practicing the Reiki Precepts enables her to savor this bittersweet time caring for her aging mother with dementia.

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