If you are practicing on others, especially as a hospital or hospice volunteer, and you are not practicing daily self-treatment, you may well be a Reiki martyr. (Audible gasp) “But,” you sputter, “Reiki is safe. I was taught that Reiki is safe.”
What do people scouting Reiki need to feel comfortable making a Reiki connection, and why Reiki practitioners need to make it easier for them.
Does your introduction to Reiki make people want to try Reiki, or want to run? If you think your friends don’t hop on board because Reiki is so whatever, think again. It may not be Reiki at all. It may be you.
Hiroshi Doi spoke from his practice, based in Usui’s practice; Hyakuten Inamoto spoke from his practice, based in Hayashi’s practice; and I spoke from my Takata practice.
Campaign for Credible Reiki raises three important questions: Who decides what’s credible? By what standards? How can Reiki practitioners establish credibility?
As doctors graduate medical school, they are famously told, “Half of what you learned in medical school is wrong, and we don’t know which half.” If only the Reiki community were so forthright.
GUEST BLOGGER Gianluca De Gennaro shares his insights from one hundred hours offering Reiki treatment to hospital inpatients.
Even if you practice daily Reiki self-treatment, glass-half-empty thinking dribbles your wellbeing here and there, frustrating your efforts to fill your glass, and you don’t feel as well as you might. Two simple explorations can help you redirect now.
“Ask, ask, ask.” Reiki master Hawayo Takata knew there was a time to practice and a time to ask.
Do you know that cell phones and cordless phones carry the same risks? Here are 9 simple ways to use them more safely and reduce your radiation exposure.
GUEST BLOG: My decision to learn to practice Reiki was more or less a last resort. I had reached a pinnacle of dissatisfaction and anxiety, and my usual coping methods were not working.
I was comfortable with my practice until immediately after the master class, when my teacher said, “Now you are ready to go out and make other Masters.” I felt a twinge of shock, and wanted to say, “What the heck are you talking about? I am brand new at this Master thing! How could I train another master now?”
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.
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.
Reaching for science to make an impressive case for Reiki treatment can backfire if you are not a scientist. Here are a few suggestions to keep you off the hotseat, and help you avoid discrediting both yourself, and Reiki practice.
Carole Wilbourn began caring for cats and their guardians in 1970. Here she shares the difference learning to practice Reiki has made for her clients.
Are you self-medicating with Reiki? Here are the telltale signs…
Do you find Reiki hard to talk about? Practitioners often struggle to communicate Reiki practice to the (literally) uninitiated, especially the media. Caught up in Reiki enthusiasm, a practitioner can easily wind up looking ungrounded, and the practice a bit out there and, well, unscientific. It may be surprising to learn that scientists also struggle to share their work accurately, often for similar reasons.
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.
GUEST BLOGGER Alice Risemberg discusses her participation in a 100-hour hospital Reiki internship program.
The Reiki Precepts guide us through the gray areas, as well as those where we have too much passion.
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.
This is a call to serve. To serve Reiki, and to serve yourself. The two go hand-in-hand (pun totally intended).
Reiki needs help putting on a new public face, the face that invites everyone–not just the New Age community–to follow Dr. Oz’s orders and “Try Reiki!”
GUEST BLOGGER Ayenda Lambert shares how Reiki practice helped her overcome and heal ADD.
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 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.
Can Reiki do harm? Maybe not, but the practitioner can.
Doctors who know about Reiki practice appreciate the benefits it brings their patients.
Engaging the ego to fuel your daily Reiki practice.
