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Reiki Stories
My Experiences with Reiki Personally and as a Professional
Within a very short time of my First Degree class, I had a healing crisis of my own. Perhaps it was even the Reiki energy itself, clearing my own energy field during those first 21 days after my initiation, that helped me to recognize the seriousness of symptoms I had actually experienced for many years. I have a benign, hereditary problem with my bones, and my earlier attempts to address my symptoms had been dismissed by doctors as just another part of my lifelong illness. I was told I would have to learn to live with the pain, and I had done so. But at the time I learned Reiki, I noticed the waists on my clothes were getting inexplicably tighter, even though I had lost a great deal of weight.
Reiki: Energy Medicine or Spiritual Healing?
Many people think of Reiki as a type of energy work, while others consider it to be strictly spiritual in nature. Can we reconcile these two views?
Thoughts on the Schism in Reiki
Tina M. Zion generously included some of my Reiki stories in her book Reiki and Your Intuition: A Union of Healing and Wisdom (WriteLife Publishing, 2019). I did not know until Tina graciously sent me a signed gift copy of the published book that she would be revealing the Reiki symbols, as she understands them. This surprise prompted me to share some thoughts, to put my inclusion in her book in a broader context.
Notes from Quarantine
What Do Covid-19, the Amazon, and Yoga Have in Common?
What if the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak that is crippling the globe is related to the recent wildfires in the Amazon rainforest? Not in a direct cause-and-effect way, mind you, but in a more subtle, karmic kind of way?
The Right to Breathe
Quarantine Update on the Breath
It seems we can’t escape the symbolism of breathing this year, as circumstances force us face to face with our collective shadow. It began with the burning of “the world’s lungs,” the Amazonian jungle, in August, 2019, and continued with the outbreak of Covid-19, a respiratory virus and possibly a human-altered pathogen escaped from a research lab. Ventilators and the fear of suffocation fueled our nightmares. Face masks, likely to be with us for a long time to come, now make it difficult to breathe even when we’re healthy. And today the air reverberates with chants of “I can’t breathe,” echoing the last tragic words spoken by a dying George Floyd as he was murdered by police.
The Angel on the Bridge
Was the tailor who sewed my father's strong coat an angel in disguise? This story, which I wrote with my father's memory to guide me, was published in a now-defunct magazine called "Whispers from Heaven" in 1999. That same year, a very short first-person version also appeared in "Angels on Earth." I include it here as a loving tribute to my father, who passed to the next world in 2012.
