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Reiki: Energy or vibration?
I tire easily of the word “energy.” It’s overused, a giant umbrella under which gather a hodgepodge of concepts! It’s in use with the populace in general, and especially in spiritual circles as well...
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Healing Up and Healing Down
© Pamir Kiciman 2010 Many aren’t even aware of the option to be healed. The long history of healing is unknown to them, since it doesn’t get much airplay. And if healing is sought, it’s often for...
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The Life of Meditation
The average person, adult or child, isn’t exposed to meditation in our culture. Although the word is commonplace, there are now many scientific studies, and there’s a familiarity with it from media,...
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Wisdom and Compassion as the Path in Reiki
August 2nd marked the 4th year of this blog’s life. This post celebrates everything I am and why I started blogging. If you’re reading this via email or in a reader, do visit the post on the blog...
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How Spirituality and Health are Linked
There are four important areas to discuss in understanding the link between spirituality and better health or wellness: Medicine’s interest in spirituality What is spirituality and spiritual health...
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Health Nested Within Larger Systems
The premise: Spirituality has consistently promoted a gradated worldview; from the subtle to the dense, from the invisible to the visible. Take the subtle soul. It’s immaterial, intangible, and...
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Reiki Boosts Physical, Psychological and Spiritual Capacities
Reiki is a way of living that establishes a sense of peace with oneself and harmony with one’s surroundings. It provides wisdom in here-and-now difficulties and is a resource of empowerment in...
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Reiki Time Management
Ki in Japanese kanji If you’re intent on walking a spiritual path, making time for practice is a common hurdle. Practice is the only way transformative spiritual teachings help improve human...
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Stress: Distress or Eustress? Plus a video
All we hear about is stress. Perhaps rightly so since it’s pervasive. Precisely because it is may be the best reason to learn about its opposite. Yes, it exists. It’s ‘stress’ with the Greek eu as a...
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Spirituality: The Unifying Bond of Life
The etymology of the word ‘spirit’ is from Latin spiritus, literally, breath, from spirare to blow, breathe. No matter our life orientation we all breathe, have to breathe. This is so for animals and...
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To Show Up Authentically
There’s just no way around it. If we want something to happen, we have to show up for it. We delude ourselves into believing that somehow we can remain hidden and what needs to happen will happen. What...
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The Bliss of Ignorance or the Bliss of Awake Spirituality?
The spiritual/religious experience has been basically the same in all epochs and cultures. It has always been an experience of oneness and belonging. William James described it as the sense of entering...
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The Trifold Inner Support of Reiki
Let’s keep this simple. Reiki is: An inner healer (physician) An inner therapist An inner teacher (guru) Once the proper training is received by attending a Reiki class by a qualified teacher, these...
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Reiki as Friend, Healer and Self-realization
In a recent Reiki class while I was teaching the practice of giving yourself Reiki, I described it as “self-friending.” It certainly is. I usually emphasize the embracing and nurturing effects of this...
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The Contemplative Path of Reiki
Is it a Reiki Class or Reiki Training? What’s the difference? You have to attend a class to become a Reiki practitioner. You can’t learn it from a book or video. At the same time, ‘class’ makes it seem...
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Reiki Stories Project 12/15/2013
I’m very happy to be able to present two stories for the ongoing Reiki Stories Project (RSP) before the end of the year! Recently, the global Reiki community has been invited to add to this collection,...
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Reiki Stories Project 2/26/2014
Today’s Reiki story took place in December 2013. It’s about the use of Reiki within one’s family, and especially with one’s kids. Children are naturally open to Reiki, as they are to all of life. As a...
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The Truth in Healing
Healing makes truth visible , and truth facilitates healing. Healing is, after all, the natural order of things. And the natural order of things is what truth explains. Healing has its own truth(s)...
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How the Dual Practices of Reiki Lead to Oneness
Reiki is the only teaching I’m aware of that combines meditation and healing in a direct, practical, and immediately applicable way. It does so in a self-reliant manner, in the context of...
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Reiki Stories Project 11/8/14
This Reiki Stories Project (RSP) contribution comes from my now Facebook friend Elise Brenner, a Reiki Teacher in the Greater Boston Area. After we connected some time ago on Facebook, it came to light...
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