Psychotherapeutic Reiki – Reiki for Mind and Body
Can Reiki enhance a Psychotherapy practice? Reiki helps to calm and soothe and may help provide the stillness necessary for positive change. At the heart of the Psychotherapeutic Reiki approach is the position that psychological symptoms and conditions are organized and maintained by ki (subtle energy) in the human energy field and are stored and [...]
Benefits of Reiki for Moms with Postpartum Depression
Can Reiki Help Ease Postpartum Depression? According to a recent study in JAMA Psychiatry, 1 in 7 women may experience postpartum depression within 12 months after giving birth. Across the globe postpartum depression is said to affect tens if not hundreds of millions of women per year. Nearly every new mom feels slightly depressed or [...]
Letting Go of the I
Letting Go of the I The whole system of Reiki is about letting go of the "I". Mikao Usui pointed this out very clearly within the precepts. The precepts are: Do not be angry Do not worry Be grateful Practice this diligently Show compassion to yourself and others If we look to the precepts only [...]
Integrating Reiki Healing into Your Yoga Practice
Guess what's missing from your yoga practice? (Hint: Reiki) You have a dozen yoga mats, several stylish yoga outfits, and even a few props. Your past yoga classes, books, and videos ensure you have your poses and sequences down pat. But as you’ve progressed along your yoga journey, you may have started to feel that [...]
Reiki and Meditation – Similarities and Differences
About Reiki and Meditation Even though Reiki and meditation can both bring peace, serenity, and relief, each goes about doing so in its own special way. Reiki Explained The ancient Japanese healing technique of Reiki involves a Reiki master or practitioner who lays his or her hands on different parts of your body to infuse [...]
The Reiki Path – Exploring the Ancient Healing Art
The Reiki Path - Exploring the Ancient Healing Art of Spiritually Guided Universal Life Force EnergyReiki Perspective SeriesIn the late 70’s I dropped my daughter off at a birthday party and was driving home on Milwaukee Avenue. The roads appeared clear, but there was a patch of black ice in my path. I spun out at [...]
The Magical Essence of Reiki Symbols
Reiki Symbols So much already is being said about the symbols within the system of Reiki that we might wonder, what else is there to say? Whole books have been written about them and yet... The essence of the Reiki symbols is so simple that we could express it in one or two sentences, so [...]
Reiki and the Death Experience
Reiki and the Death Experience: A Comforting Journey Everyone knew she was dying and that it would happen soon. She being Maria, the mother-in-law of a friend of my mother’s. I hadn’t had my Reiki II but for a few short weeks and I asked my mother if the family would allow me to do [...]
Reiki Healing: A Personal Experience
Reiki Perspectives: My Journey to and with Reiki Quite often I am asked, “What is Reiki?” The answer is simple yet quite complex. The word Reiki means Universal Life Force or Energy. It’s the word “energy” that is most interesting, simple, and complex. When we are tired we often say, “I have no energy left, [...]
Chanting Reiki Symbols
Reiki and Chanting One of the many gifts I received from my Karuna Reiki® Training was the use of chanting as part of the Reiki healing system. I was blessed with taking the Karuna Master training twice in 2011. At first, the use of chanting and toning felt odd and uncomfortable, especially in a session. [...]
A New Look at the Five Reiki Principles
The Five Reiki Principles For the past months, I’ve been practicing Hatsurei-Ho, a Japanese Reiki meditation technique that incorporates the reciting of the 5 Reiki Principles. What struck me a few weeks into this practice was the feeling I got from the words that make up the 5 Principles; that a “stern someone” was standing [...]
Reiki…Ten Useful Applications of Reiki Healing to Improve Your Personal and Professional Life
About Reiki and the Concept of Life Force Energy Reiki is the Japanese name for Universal Life Energy, the source of vitality and the very ‘life force’ that keeps us alive and healthy. Therefore, the fundamental importance of Reiki in life, being critical to our existence, cannot be over-emphasized. Yet, to many the concept of this [...]
Telling a Happier Story
Telling a Happier Story: Reach for positive feelings before you speak, whether it’s in your head or out loud. Share words of encouragement, hope, empowerment, and love. This core lesson is based on one you learned as a child: “If you don’t have anything nice to say about somebody, don’t say anything at all.” We [...]
Reiki Begins a Spiritual Journey
The Vision Board When I first watched “The Secret” some time ago, the film’s recommendation to create a vision board to help attract what you desired in life really resonated with me. It was no time before I started gathering family photos and cutting out magazine pictures to make a visual wish list. Along with [...]
Reiki Principles – Just For Today, I Will Do One Thing
As a society, we are doing more, trying to accomplish more, and attempting to fit more and more into each day to juggle the demands of daily life. Recently many of my Reiki I students, who have been mainly women, invariably discuss a common theme; they almost all convey the sentiment, “I have no time.” [...]
Making Reiki Real
What is Reiki? As a Reiki Master-Teacher, I have been working with Reiki energy for many years and am always amazed at the questions people ask about Reiki, their perceptions and misconceptions of what it is, what it does, and how it works. In this article, I would like to share with you what I [...]
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