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Many healers think their job is to ‘fix’ their clients, in Reiki healing we encourage people to focus on being present and open and stop cluttering up the space with their unnecessary thinking. The real gift is in your ability to fully accept and be OK with everything exactly as it is. #healingothers

Listening is a totally misunderstood skill that – when done properly – creates intimacy, a sense of being understood, and a sense of...

I often get emails asking for help around the issue of ‘opening’. For many of us, as children, we had abilities beyond what our adult...

One of the qualities of Reiki is that it flows automatically once you have completed your Reiki 1 class, there is no need to use intention or have any particular gift or practice to use Reiki effectively.

There is sometimes misconception that Reiki is some kind of ‘higher power’ and knows where to go, in this video we explore an alternative...

The Reiki Attunement is what activates Reiki in your hands so is a crucial part of Reiki training. It is also the hardest part to explain! In this video we do our best to demystify the attunement, or at least put it in a context that may be helpful, or not 😉

There is a common mistaken belief that you will gain ‘more power’ faster by speeding through the levels to gain certification or the promise of some magical wand at the end of the process. But actually, waiting and integrating at each level of Reiki is a far better thing to do, for yourself and for the deeper understanding of Reiki. Even if you have come from a different Reiki school, we will usually ask you to go through the wait period again, as every level, even if you h

Tenacity and dedicated sincerity are critical to uncover your inner truth. Most of us give up without even scratching the surface, or we go looking for another modality, another ‘guru’, another distraction, and then wonder why we are ultimately getting nowhere. Reiki Master training is an intense opportunity to drill deep into your inner truth. The philosophy is based on depth, not breadth. So when I get a homework submission like the one below, I have to highlight it. This s

Q. If you have limited time, would you spend the 30/60mins Reiki-ing yourself OR meditating? Is there a difference? To me there is....

Reiki is not a belief or placebo as this simple experiment shows. We take an apple and cut it in half, Reiki one half and leave the other half as a control. If Reiki is doing something different, it will produce different outcomes. What is important in any experiment is to see if there is a significant difference. If there is, it shows Reiki is not of the ‘imagination’. You can do this for yourself and get the proof for yourself! The Reiki Experiment Methodology In my Childre

Think Meditation is about clearing the mind? Sitting in uncomfortable positions? Believe Meditation should give you inner peace? Think...

Like a broken record, I have been known to drone on and on about the importance of self-treatments in Reiki, ‘You can’t help others unless you help yourself first’, ‘if your energy is low, you can’t heal others’ blah blah as people’s eyes glaze over and doggy nodding begins its automatic response. Luckily I’ve been vindicated with a recent question – answer – result from the lovely Angela…thank you! Angela did my Reiki 1 and 2 workshops many months ago and her young sons hav

“My mood & behaviour has always been normal. However, towards the 3rd of 4th week after daily practice of Reiki, I started to have disturbed sleeping patterns where I will wake up in the middle of the night and am not able to get back to sleep until early morning. Having not been able to sleep well, the mood swings kick in. I have headaches and am frustrated easily. And this week, there was a change in my eating habits. I am very hungry and crave sweet food (My appetite has a

One of the more surprising aspects of the Reiki Survey was the significant improvement in benefits perceived by the higher levels of training. This was something I was not expecting when I ran the report though with reflection it certainly makes sense. Level 2 is a quantum leap in many ways as it takes self-healing to a higher and more deliberate level. At the most basic level with Reiki we are simply acting as funnels, or to use a football analogy, we are simply spectator

Excerpt from Reiki, Pure and Simple If you were educated in the last century it is likely you grew up, as I did, with an entrenched mechanistic viewpoint, believing life can be explained by the laws of physics and chemistry. Given all we currently know about the workings of the human body, it’s hard to appreciate that 300 years ago renowned thinkers and scientists were in the middle of a great debate about what delineated living from non-living matter. The general belief was

Often we overlook the fact that in our personal growth the only thing we need to focus on is the gap between reality, and our...

Excerpt from Reiki, Pure and Simple Reiki works much like meditation and our brain uses it to promote alpha and theta brain waves. The...

Excerpt from Reiki, Pure and Simple Every individual is unique and so is every individual’s journey with Reiki. It’s important to...

As we gain more practice as a Reiki healer, we will come across difficult cases or people who are very ill. Energetically it can take a lot from us if we are not careful, as this case study shows. Always check-in with what your own expectations are, what you want for them is what you will give. Dear Elaine, I would like to seek your advice on a recent issue and hope you will be able to shed some light on this. I was asked to begin Reiki treatments for a person with terminal s

Sometimes relationships hit road bumps and we run into certain issues or friction, whether with loved ones or friends, neighbours or colleagues. The first healing Reiki send to try is “To the perfect resolution of my relationship with XYZ.” In this sending we are sending Reiki to the relationship energy and often this is enough to give us more clarity, insight or patience. Sometimes it takes time, but for me, I feel different about the issue or relationship pretty quickly and