I have had some clients concerned about recurrent frontal headaches and/or a feeling of pressure in the forehead, which is sometimes more prevalent during a Reiki session and then calms afterward, sometimes is just a recurring concern they bring to the table. Read More→
Archive for Reiki Healing – Page 2
A simple and clear vision of the role of the Precepts in giving Reiki to both myself and others became clear to me the other day.
A simple and clear vision of the role of the Precepts in giving Reiki to both myself and others became clear to me the other day.I often find that I realize what it is I have been doing is whatever I just realized it is after I have been doing it for a while. Enlightenment comes, and I see the perfection of practice revealed in deeper insights and understandings from simply having done the thing for a while without realizing what it is I have been doing! Read More→
I have always been a bit uncomfortable with the concept of lineage,
Usui Sensi, Founder of Reiki
which appears to be something important in our Reiki training, and which for me, with my very English background, draws up images of kings and queens and dukes and ladies – those with prized lineages that allow them entitled benefits….
Even in many Reiki practitioners today we find people very attached to something special their Reiki lineage seems to endow them with that makes their Reiki, and perhaps them? what – superior – to others? Better than others? A contentiousness that has no spiritual home in right practice but finds a home in our human hearts.
How then do we approach lineage with understanding and humility? Read More→
Seven Chakra System
To begin with, I must clear up a mis-conception about Reiki – and there are a lot of them! This one in particular caused me some confusion and took some time to unravel. It was as I learned, and then learned more, about Reiki, and then taught Reiki, that the whole concept I am about to share became clearer to me. Read More→
Disconnection with our own Higher Self
This morning my thoughts traveled to a loved one suffering from a higher disconnect. I have written about this sense of disconnect – disbelief – distrust – despair – depression before as I explored the loss of connection with our higher selves, our inner knowing, our spiritual growing Read More→
I was just clearing out old clients from my Reiki client notebook – time to make room for the new.
Stopping to read through my documentation notes and remembering each of them in a special way as I perused their paperwork, I was struck by several areas of interest. The first was the joy of remembering working with them. Each client and each session is unique. I was reminded of the individual nature of the experience of Reiki and how it meets individual needs. The common thread in all is that beautiful moment when the session ends and I see in them the gentle changes of their encounter with Reiki. Read More→
As I happily bought my signature purple Alzheimer’s Lokai bracelet the other day
I was reflecting that the earlier pink ones I had seen (the original color is white or clear) must have been for Breast Cancer Awareness (they are). A lovely acquaintance of mine, Patty Franchi Flaherty, founded a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating research for eradicating Ovarian Cancer called Ovations for the Cure and I was reflecting on her chosen color of teal thinking that the next Lokai color should be teal. Lokai, by the way, is Hawaiian and means unity. The bracelets contain elemental substance from one of the highest and lowest points on earth to help us create balance.
As I was pondering the luminously colored lokai strands and the diseases we are supporting with their sale I had one of those aha moments.
There is a lot of talk today around “Consciousness”
We embrace it in new practices such as “mindfulness” and “awareness”; in yoga and in books such as Eckhart Tolle’s Practicing the Power of Now and Ram Dass’ Be Here Now. It is a movement borne of the need to become conscious of the unconscious; to understand and work with the circuits and paths of the brain used in the automatic processing of parts of its environment and responses. We are efficiently coded so that we need to expend less and less time on those functions that have become mapped in our brains. As a result, we are not paying attention, we are on automatic pilot, so that we can use our conscious, controlled response mechanisms for those items we choose. This is all well and good as long as our automatic responses are healthy. When we have put things on automatic response that are not healthy to our well-being, we are suddenly and consciously confronted with dis-ease. Read More→
Mount Shasta on a clear day
Have you taken time to clear your inner and outer space, set your intentions and spend a little time with yourself in this new year?
If you have been absorbed with holidays, celebrations, people and travel, perhaps right now is a good time to set aside some time to center and focus, to clear yourself, your thoughts and your emotions, for this new year or new place in your life.
What is a personal space clearing and how can you do one?
I recently read an article
by Pamela Kirstan in a newsletter I enjoy. It was titled “Whatever Floats your Boat” and in it she talked about the various and different spiritual, mental and physical trends and practices she has used and experienced at different times in her life, all of them adding to her journey, and then about what is floating her boat right now. The message was reassuring in that it embraces the fact that change is constant, and that we are constantly in a state of becoming, trying on that which fits us for a season or several and changing out what works for us as we evolve and grow. Read More→
