Welcome to the 2008 Reiki Alphabet Challenge!!! Its great to have you here!!! This challenge is designed to give you something new to Reiki every day by giving you a new letter to focus on each day. Hopefully, by the end of the challenge you will have Reikied things you hadn’t considered before and thereby [...]
November 19th, 2008 | Posted in Reiki Challenge | 2 Comments
Reiki Energy is indeed one of the more formidable powers in the universe, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound and all that, but there is one force in the universe that is even more powerful, and before you start trying to guess what it is… no, it is not the stuff Master [...]
October 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Reiki Practice | 1 Comment
I had an interesting Skype conversation yesterday with a Reiki practitioner friend of mine who works part time at hospice in Texas and she was quite chagrined about Reiki’s seeming ineffectiveness on the job. When she first started working there she was quite convinced that she would be able to miraculously help countless people… as [...]
August 11th, 2008 | Posted in Reiki Practice | No Comments
There are two conflicting explanations as to where Reiki energy actually comes from and I’d like to take a moment to examine these here.
External Reiki
The first theory is that Reiki energy exists outside of us and, after receiving a Reiki attunement, we then have the ability to draw this energy in through our crown chakras [...]
August 6th, 2008 | Posted in Reiki Theory | No Comments
In this post I’d like to compare and contrast the masculine and feminine or yin and yang energies as applied to Reiki.
At many Reiki Shares I’ve attended we form a Reiki Circle where Reiki Practitioners (and other assorted participants) form a circle and stand with their left hands facing palms up and their right hands [...]
June 26th, 2008 | Posted in Different Styles, Reiki Practice, Reiki Techniques, Reiki Theory, Reiki Training | 3 Comments
Last night I met up with a few Reiki friends at a pub in Osaka, and so naturally I introduced them to the Reiki Beer Game as discussed in my post on Cooking with Reiki. Not only did the cold beer take some of the sting out of the hot summer night, but it led [...]
June 25th, 2008 | Posted in Reiki Practice, Reiki Techniques, Reiki Theory, Reiki Training | 1 Comment
One theory as to how Reiki actually does what it does is that it dissolves blocks in the body’s various energy systems and this has piqued my curiosity of late… especially in regard to difficult healings and stubborn blocks. So I’d like to take a look at this in more detail here.
The body consists of [...]
June 18th, 2008 | Posted in Reiki Practice, Reiki Techniques, Reiki Theory, Reiki Training | 1 Comment
Most Reiki Practitioners that I know basically fall into one of three categories as to which facet of Reiki they find most appealing. I personally feel that limiting yourself to only one of these facets does not offer the diversity for which the Reiki path was designed, and find that a balanced approach to all [...]
June 12th, 2008 | Posted in Different Styles, Reiki Practice, Reiki Theory, Reiki Training | 1 Comment
Just because your Reiki teacher, a book on Reiki or even my own Website says something doesn’t make it true. Reiki is all about seeking enlightenment… are you willing to risk your spiritual destiny on taking something someone else says for granted? Here are some pointers to make sure you don’t…
Be Careful of Ambiguous Language [...]
June 11th, 2008 | Posted in Reiki Practice, Reiki Techniques, Reiki Theory, Reiki Training | 2 Comments
In the spirit of Superman, Batman, Spiderman, and even Ironman, I present to you… Reikiman… a superhero for the enlightened age, harking from the Mountain of Kurama in the Land of Japan.
Every Superhero had/has an alter-ego… Superman had Clark Kent, Batman had Bruce Wayne, Spiderman had Peter Parker, Ironman had Anthony Stark. [...]
June 4th, 2008 | Posted in General | 1 Comment