Reiki – Religious Connection or Not?

Meditation Helps Us Connect to Our Spiritual Side

People interested in learning Reiki, or even those that have begun Level I, often wonder if Reiki is a religion. Mikao Usui, the founder of Reiki, was Japanese and followed Buddhist teachings, but Reiki has no specific tie to the Buddhist religion.

Reiki is not actually […]

Reiki – Healing For the Highest Good

You’ve heard the expression “for someone’s highest good” but do ever think about the profound meaning behind this?

If you are a healer of any sort, you probably are already familiar with this term. When a Reiki Practitioner gives a healing session, she/he may use an “invocation” at the beginning of the session to begin […]

Road Reiki – The Opposite of Road Rage

I was moved to write this after sitting through an hour-long video segment on road rage at the Defensive Driver class I recently took to help lower my car insurance rates. It saddens me that there even has to be a lengthy lesson about how to handle angry drivers. Unfortunately, road rage has been on […]

Reiki Flowing in the Emergency Room

I was just about to prepare dinner when the phone rang — it was my 20-year-old son calling from his cell phone, sounding panicked: “Mom — I was in a really bad car crash. My car is totaled. I’m in an ambulance on the way to the emergency room! They’re going to see if I […]

Reiki – An Amazing Self Healing Tool

Reiki can help the most important person in the world — you! Those who are the least bit familiar with this modality, but who are not practitioners, probably think of Reiki as something that is used solely to heal others. Well, of course that is true, but what most may not realize, is that it […]

The Five Reiki Precepts

A great Reiki-way to begin your day is with The Five Reiki Precepts (or Principles), which are the basic foundation of Usui Reiki. If you are a Practitioner, you probably learned them in your beginning class. Do you recite them from memory, and do you reflect about their meaning on a daily basis? For those […]

Reiki-Inspired Vibrant and Joyful Lifestyle – 7 Tips To Live By

By Sheryl Schlameuss Berger, Reiki Master Teacher

Learning Reiki changed my life in the most profound and positive way. Reiki is a technique for relaxation and stress reduction and it promotes healing. Some people refer to it as “energy healing” because this holistic system rebalances the energy that flows in and around our bodies. This […]