In my last newsletter, I brought to your attention the mind blowing information about the DKM - the Reiki Master Symbol.   Having now in my possession Doi Sensei's book "A Modern Reiki Method For Healing" (revised edition), I have learned that all roads lead to Mrs. Takata being the one who introduced it into the Western Reiki Tradition.  Why is still not apparent.  What I also found is that she didn't attune/teach her 22 masters until the last five years of her life.  Another question, why did it take her so long to get to  the point of making people Reiki Master ..read more

I just finished reading Frank Arjava Petter's book (The Legacy of Dr. Usui). It is an older book of his but somehow I hadn't gotten to it yet. He talks a lot in the later part of the book, about all the fighting and back biting in the Reiki world he and Chetna experienced (his wife) during the time he and she were teaching Reiki in Japan (in Sapphora). Many times he wanted to walk away from Reiki because of all this insanity but something always came up to keep him going. Students they had taught turned on them, spread awful rumors about then, psychically attacked them, and more. When he pub ..read more

So much is going on, I don't know where to begin!  You might notice the I have a new logo for starters! And if you haven't been to my website lately, well let's just say you're in for BIG surprise! I'm going to be writing today about some new information that has come in lately that I feel is worth sharing. First, I've always thought that just plopping a crystal around your neck, wearing a crystal/stone bracelet or earrings, or even carrying one in your pocket, was just not all there was to it. I recently got crystal book fever and purchased several new ones - The Complete Idiots Guide t ..read more

I've recently come across several people whose feet chakras (in the sole of the each foot) were closed, one majorly overly actively closed. Totally shocked me - my pendulum was going gangbusters, level with the floor!!!!!!!   I had had a client a day or two before with closed feet chakras, even after giving her a Reiki session, and doing some chakra balancing on her too.  I was "told" by my guides to put the CKR (the First Symbol or some call it the Power Symbol) in the air in front of each of foot chakra and that would open them. Sure enough, after a few seconds when I checked the ..read more

Lots of discussion has taken place on this  topic over the years.  Many say it's unethical to send Distant Reiki Healing to someone who didn't ask for it.  But would you not pray for someone because they didn't ask you to?  Would you not pray that a Hurricane be lessened in strength, or that it go inland in a less populated area, or pray that rain comes to an area to put out the forest fires burning there because nobody gave you permission? Do you consider Reiki to be like praying?  Let's look at that.  When we pray for someone we ask for healing or help for some ..read more

There are a lot of Reiki teachers out there apparently teaching their students to not do Reiki on people for all kinds of crazy reasons.  Here's a few: when someone has broken a bone when someone has a pacemaker (and they even go so far as to stipulate that only analog pacemakers, the new digital ones are OK (?) to not to Reiki on pregnant women when someone is a diabetic not to send Reiki to someone when they are driving or operating heavy machinery to not send Reiki to people without their permission to not do Reiki on someone with cancer (Reiki feeds the cancer - oh come on!) when so ..read more

I've been in several Reiki social media groups off and on over the years, and after the last two I am just astounded by all the differences that exist in all these Reiki lineages.  Is there cleanse, how long does it last, what happens during it?  Are there 3 Levels of training or 4?  Is the energy that is Reiki Universal Life Force Energy or Divine Energy?  Should those who are attuned to Reiki Level II be doing Reiki on the public and charging for it, or as in some lineages only Reiki Level IIIa's (Master Practitioners)? Is the Power Symbol supposed to be drawn CW or CCW ..read more

I'm reading a new book on Reiki and the author mentions "merging" with your client during a Reiki session.  This seemed to trigger fear in some peoples mind on social media.  So what exactly does it mean to "merge with your client"? Well, when two people are in close contact with each other, their energy fields are going to merge, there is just no way of getting around that, and we do it all the time and it's no big deal.  So nothing to be afraid of there, unless you are in close physical proximity to someone really scary (murderer, rapist, terrorist) but what's the likelihood ..read more

Things keep coming up but I don't have the time to write great big articles on them.  So I've decided to just write about stuff as it comes up. I recently joined a Facebook group about Reiki.  Someone in the group posted a statement about Reiki practitioners "blasting people in the head" when they put their hands on a receivers/clients crow/ top of the head.  I was appalled by this statement.  WE DO NOT BLAST PEOPLE IN THE HEAD!  Then it came out this person doesn't even do Reiki and I was pretty darn sure said they weren't even Reiki. Ah ha!  When I started out ..read more

I did some research on peoples reactions to the “cleanse” or detox they go through after a Reiki attunement.  What I found most intriguing is that so many people reported having bowel issues.  I don’t know if they were  too embarrassed to tell me this before or just figured it was just part and parcel of the cleanse (hence the name), but many of my students had not shared this information with me previously.  I didn’t make a big deal about this particular side effect in class either, which rules out auto-suggestion. So if you wanted  proof that an attunement elicits a ..read more