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Thoughts on War, Peace and Compassion

This weekend we had a family “incident”.

Someone had made a decision based on what they thought were good criteria. They may even have had personal complications that impacted that decision. We are, after all, quite human, and sometimes even our best judgments and perceptions are tainted by our own issues and difficulties. The result was that another member felt quite hurt and left out. Many harms and offenses done are intentional. Just as many are not. In this case I am sure no harm was intended, none the less it was done, and offense was taken.

What happened next was also quite human. The offended party then verbally attacked the offender, causing more harm through another offense. Read More→

Angel Readings, Conceptions, Misconceptions and Possibilities

Imagination is Everything! Albert Einstein

Do you believe in Angels?

This is the most leading question for this type of topic. Some respond eagerly and accumulate everything angelic, while others shake their heads at such nonsense. Read More→

A Question of Lineage

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→

Observations on Reiki and Crystals

I have been doing some reading and research along various lines lately.

Photo by Crystal Energy Images, Sunlight & Reiki

When I do that, things come together in my understanding, possibilities and pictures of how things may be working together in the world of energy we live in.

Recently I was exploring information on quartz crystals. The reason they are conductive – literally used for conducting electricity – is because they have channels in them. Ions flow through them, and this process is aided by impurities in the crystals. When they “swept” the crystals and introduced specific “impurities” for conductivity, electrical output was increased. Read More→

Energy Systems – Reconciling the Chakras and the Ki Energies of Reiki

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→

Restoring the Heaven Ki – Seventh Chakra Healing

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→

Online Reiki?

Learning Reiki is a Personal Choice

As online Reiki courses become more and more available in this age of technology and online learning, the question is asked – is online a viable way for me to learn Reiki? Read More→

Gratitude

As this New Year begins, I am once more brought to a place where gratitude is a recurring theme in my life, heart and mind.

The fourth precept says: I will be grateful for my many blessings

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→

Three Ki’s To Women’s Health

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.