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.
GUEST BLOGGER Dona Duke: A huge raid brought TV crews to our shelter. Forty-eight Whippets were recovered from a hoarder-breeder-puppy mill.
A trusted farmer has me reconsidering a long held position on food. How did she do that, and how is that relevant to communicating Reiki more effectively?
Do you have specific questions about the most effective ways to approach physicians and hospital administrators? Or would you like tips on collaboration, how to be a team player, carrying your authority as the Reiki specialist without being overbearing? Tell me now, and I’ll do my best to incorporate them into the Introduction to Medical Reiki webinar.
Anita Graham, a Reiki master who took my Reiki and Medicine seminar in March 2008, shares her experience treating people with dementia.
“The Reiki room was pure magic….as usual.
“I know you know this, but I just have to remind you that every year, the Reiki practitioners touch so many lives.
“You are truly doing a HUGE service to these women by introducing them to this amazing healing. I can’t believe that even after all this time and exposure, Reiki is still relatively unknown to these women challenged by cancer.”
Do you wonder why some people hop aboard when you speak about Reiki, while others vacate the premises? It’s easy to figure this out, and start speaking in ways that invite more people in.
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.
As a Reiki practitioner, you know you have the ability to help. You simply place your Reiki hands lightly on someone in distress, and the distress softens. You’ve seen this many times.
But the ability to help isn’t enough, is it? We also need the power to help. How can we get that?
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.
GUEST BLOGGER Susan Mitchell: Hawayo Takata always said, “Reiki brings us health, success, happiness, and long life.” When she talked about these qualities, her voice held a wonderful lightness and wisdom. Part of the “success” she talked about certainly had to do with money.
May Day marks the first year of Reiki Central, and what a ride it’s been! Please celebrate with me on Saturday May 1–free webinar to discuss your questions.
Reiki practitioners often ask me, “How can I get people to open up to Reiki?” This is a curious question to me. I find people to be very open and interested in Reiki. And honestly, I don’t see it as my job to open people up to Reiki. My job is to reach the people who are already open to Reiki (even if they don’t know it)…
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.
“I want Reiki to be as common as aspirin.”–Hawayo Takata
Reiki-as-common-as-aspirin means Reiki available mainstream, maybe not at your local pharmacy, but available where the mainstream public hangs out. You could help make that desire a reality. Are you with me?
This week we have a guest blogger sharing how Reiki transformed her relationship with pain.
Balanced journalism covering Reiki is hard to come by, for many reasons. This week, the Syracuse Post-Standard published a piece we can work with. Let me be clear: I don’t agree with everything in this article. Regardless, I encourage the Reiki community to rally behind it.
Reiki practitioners wanting to champion Reiki in health care understandably look for studies that prove Reiki. I can save you time.
Public interest in Reiki treatment and practice is rising rapidly, leading many to wonder, What’s the best way to learn to practice Reiki? Here are some points to consider.
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.
The discussion of the US Catholic Bishops’ anti-Reiki advisory continues as PBS’s Religion and Ethics correspondent Kim Lawton interviews a Catholic nun/Reiki master, a lay Reiki master, and a representative of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Here are the questions that will tell you if a Reiki practitioner is qualified and credible.
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.
Dr. Oz’s Reiki endorsement on the popular The Dr. Oz Show kindled interest among an entirely new segment of the population. Now what?
Think of the people in your (extended) family who are most different from you (and put aside how many times you tried to talk to them about Reiki in the past). Thanks to Dr. Oz, Cousin Vinny is now encouraged that maybe this Reiki thing will relieve the pain in his arthritic joints. Aunt Sally is hoping Reiki treatment will help her sleep after years of insomnia.
Reiki master Marta Getty remembers Hawayo Takata as a “remarkable woman, clear and very strong,” and shares several delightful stories from their time together.
May we live with the awareness that each time we practice self Reiki, we place another brick paving the road to world peace.
A year after video producer Kate Milliken was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, her MRI came back clean. Reiki is part of her integrative approach to reversing a disease deemed “incurable” by conventional medicine.
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.
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.
In practice,
there is much repetition,
and there is no repetition.
The season of indulgence is upon us. For many Americans, the frenzy starts with Halloween candy, and gets worse before it gets better. For some, it gets a lot worse. But it doesn’t have to.
What can you do to maintain sanity, health, and self-respect during the holiday onslaught? Here are a few simple actions to consider. Implementing even one will help, especially if it’s the one that keeps you from sliding down your favorite rabbit hole of excess.
You’re at the site of an emergency. What do you do first, call 911 or offer Reiki?
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?
Have you met a Christian you thought was uncomfortable with Reiki practice?
