Gaia: Reiki Tree

Re: Spirit in the Sky/Reiki Northwest

http://Meenakshi.gaia.com — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:16:36 GMT

How wonderful to read about your work, mandalafly. The sky in your website is just...light!

Communicating about Reiki

http://Meenakshi.gaia.com — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:36:09 GMT

From Pamela Miles:Hardly a day goes by that I am not communicating about Reiki in one form or another. It helps me to keep these three tips in mind:
Keep it short. How short? String together 7 words that start with "Reiki is." Ok, now you're down to five. In conversation, leave it there until the person asks for more.

Keep it concrete. What, Reiki, concrete? No, of course Reiki is not concrete, but Reiki practice is, and so are some of the results. Illustrate by placing a hand on yourself as you speak, or offer a sample. Mrs. Takata often said, I can't tell you what Reiki is, but I can show you. Mention the research, but gently, like this: Some small studies have shown Reiki treatment can improve heart rate and blood pressure, and reduce pain and anxiety.

Keep it accurate. If you are sharing your personal experience of Reiki practice, state that clearly. Otherwise, be sure to speak factually. Granted, this practice is awash in myths and misinformation, and it can be hard to sort fact from fiction, but it just got a lot simpler. Reiki master Janet Dagley Dagley marshalled her journalistic researching skills to make it easy for you to update your knowledge of Reiki facts, at your convenience. Click here to learn more about her online course.
FREE COMMUNICATION TOOLS FOR YOU
I am committed to raising public awareness of Reiki as a viable healing practice that has a place in health care, and I have created tools to help you help this happen. Whether you need something to take the burden of communicating Reiki off your hands entirely (sorry, couldn't help myself), or you want to improve your own communication skills, you'll find something here that can help you:
COMMUNICATING REIKI MAINSTREAM 1. The first installment of Reiki Chats, my new video series, addresses the question, Can Reiki Help You? 2. "What is Reiki?--What to do?" gives more detail how to successfully respond when asked about Reiki. After reading it, please exercise your communication muscle by leaving a comment.
3. The UPI interview, "Reiki: A Healing Touch" outlines Reiki basics in plain language. You can direct people there, or use it as inspiration while composing your own response.
COMMUNICATING REIKI IN HEALTH CARE
1. Integrative Practitioner has generously agreed to make the recording of my presentation at last February's medical conference available to the public. Click here for the free download, which you can use to open a conversation about Reiki in your local hospital. 2. Many Reiki masters have emailed to ask if they can use my 4 minute Reiki video when presenting Reiki to health care professionals or patient groups. Yes, you can! And then please email me and let me know how it went, and if particular questions came up that you'd like me to address in my blog, Reiki Central.

AND A FEW EXTRAS
Livestrong.com, Lance Armstrong's popular cancer support website, includes new articles about Reiki by Lorraine Shea.
Are you thinking of mounting a website? I hope so. We need more credible representation of Reiki on the internet. An article on page 22 of the November/December issue of Massage&Bodywork magazine will give you a good start.
If you are interested in keeping updated on health information in general, join me on Twitter, where I am known as @Wellth.

Many Reiki blessings, Pamela

Spirit in the Sky/Reiki Northwest

http://mandalafly.gaia.com — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:24:03 GMT

Hello Reiki Community,
     I would like to invite you to check out our new non-profit Reiki Center known as Spirit in the Sky. We are a group of dedicated Reiki Masters in Eugene, OR, who are sending volunteers into our community, teaching Usui Reiki to people with the focus on service in the health care sector, and families. We have been working with Peace Health Medical Group as well as the University of Oregon to develop ways to train and guide practitioners to be able to use Reiki in treatment centers all over!
     Our website is www.spiritinthesky.org with a link on it to Reiki Northwest. We also offer places for practitioners to come and teach workshops and classes, as well as private rooms for them to rent for their practices. Donations to our center are tax-deductible and allow us to continue to bring Reiki to the people!
     If you would like to know more you can message me, and if you are in the area and would like to come by, let me know.
     Thank you all for your dedication to Reiki. It's great to be able to be a part of this group.       Namaste.

Re: Want to accomplish a lot while doing nothing?

http://redwoodjedi.gaia.com — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 06:42:39 GMT

What a beautifully sweet thing to do, Meenakshi! I hope the Light channeling through me to You brings You and others as much joy as it is continually bringing me.

In Lovingkindness,

=)Namaste

Erik

Re: Just for today- what is Reiki for you?

http://Meenakshi.gaia.com — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:09:29 GMT

Today, Reiki is the universal connector of all calls for healing through the world wide web:

celebrantemily -participate in a peace vigil 9/20-21: http://www.intuition-in-service.org/peaceVigil.cfm Prayer for Mother Earth on Sept 21-United Nations

9:09 : the Gaia minute- daily

24 hour meditative AUM chanting marathon- Oct 4th in Netherlands

Erik's One Moment Of Stillness Reiki

Calling Forth Divine Feminine for Planetary and Personal Healing- every Thursday at 8 pm EDT

Global Prayer Project-Prayer, Meditation & Discussion - with James & Salle Redfield Tuesday, September 22-8-9 pm Eastern/US

Re: Want to accomplish a lot while doing nothing?

http://Meenakshi.gaia.com — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 12:20:09 GMT

Erik, so delighted to see your site! I"m listening to your music right now...it's like a delightful journey down some layers within! I've just given the link as a 'gift' to a friend on her birthday.

Re: Want to accomplish a lot while doing nothing?

http://redwoodjedi.gaia.com — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 06:37:11 GMT

Wow! Haven't been back to this pod for a bit. Been busy with site and all. You wanna hear some music? Go here!

In Lovingkindness,

Namaste,

Erik

P.S. This site of mine is starting to take off well too! ;)

Re: Just for today- what is Reiki for you?

http://druidcircle.gaia.com — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:32:07 GMT

Hi Barbara
Next door's cats are regular visitors in our house - as yet the new kittens from across the road haven't been seen apart from one visit by Mittens into the back garden!

Your experience with the reiki sounds wonderful - it is so much more comfortable with a couch/table - much more relaxing...

Distance of time and space

http://Meenakshi.gaia.com — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:46:09 GMT

When I woke this morning, I realized in that moment before full awaking, that a certain ceremony was going on in which I was participating. It was for ancestors, or those whose DNA are within me. Since these can be from the dawn of time, it could be a very deep level; but I was aware that it was for some who were closer in generation.

What startled me at first, was that I began to give a Reiki hands-on treatment to an ancestor who, I have been told, faltered and died as a result of an accident. That energy is not appeased and has caused much trouble. At one level, I accepted it, at another I did not, but here I was, in a ceremony and then a healing session, in dreamtime, when our literal brain is asleep!!

Once I came to terms with it, a revelation came through and I understood the Reiki attunement even better, of how it bridges time and space. That is not just for this lifetime; but for lifetimes past as well. We can send and give Reiki to our ancestors, and thus it trickles down to us and those around us, and those to come.

Thank you for being here in this time and space for this sharing.

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Re: Just for today- what is Reiki for you?

http://Meenakshi.gaia.com — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:41:48 GMT

Barbara, this is really amazing- the experience with your sister! And with your father too --not really bewilderment, I'm sure!

Re: Just for today- what is Reiki for you?

http://ingebrita.gaia.com — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 17:20:32 GMT

Tai, I can just about picture a group of your neighborhood cats lining up at your door for a little Reiki tune-up!

Meenakshi, I like the idea of being a healing presence until a targeted treatment is required. Goodness knows my family could use a lot of general healing up there.

When I gave my sister Reiki the first time it was a powerful experience. Beverly tends to be skeptical of what she calls "hocus pocus," but was curious to see what it is that I've been going on about lately. (I asked her permission to share this story...) She has a lot of health problems stemming from a birth defect, her pelvis is twisted out of position a little and causes a lot of strain on her muscles. She wore a brace for a year when she was a toddler. And she's been seeing a physical therapist for years now. When I started to give her the Reiki she told me later that she saw a bright white egg which blinded her with pain for a few seconds, and then a snake hatched out of it and then the pain disappeared. We looked up snakes and found they often represent healing. (A snake also slipped into the house recently when we were taking Dad outside in his wheelchair at Midsummer.) She also told me that my hands felt just like my mother's hands which comforted her, but also made her miss her.

So....... Beverly decided I should have a Reiki table so I would be more comfortable while giving her sessions. She and Tim got me one and it's really nice. We took it up to my dad's and I gave him some Reiki, too. He fell right asleep and did say he liked it. Poor Dad, he was probably exhausted from bewilderment. Earlier in the day I had collected DNA samples, cells scraped from his cheek, because he is the last male in his genetic line and I'm curious to see what his Y-chromosome DNA reveals about his deep ancestry. He'd understand for a little while and then forget and wanted to know all over again what the heck I was doing!

Re: Just for today- what is Reiki for you?

http://druidcircle.gaia.com — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 13:07:59 GMT

I am of this belief too, we can just be reiki and radiate it inside of us and in our immediate surroundings - it's like being in a loving and compassionate state, full of acceptance and acknowledgement for ourselves, humanity, nature and the universe. Just knowing that our prayers/reiki/light always reach where they are needed and when they are needed is a wonderful thought to hold and to share with others...

Re: Just for today- what is Reiki for you?

http://Meenakshi.gaia.com — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 22:22:20 GMT

I've found that hands-on Reiki may not always be accepted --just as you've shown, Barbara, and Tai. They know what they need!

I'm thinking that Reiki is something to 'be in' and that helps us to be a healing presence; till targeted treatment is required.

Re: Just for today- what is Reiki for you?

http://druidcircle.gaia.com — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 18:48:04 GMT

That's great, my cats always loved the reiki and so do the cats next door! I even used to give the indoor fish reiki through the tank. Sometimes it's good with animals just to think the reiki to them if they don't seem settled, you will be able to see them visibly relax if you are in the same room...

Think the sun can clear and energize the crystals, they like to rest too...

I'll look out for another episode!

Re: Just for today- what is Reiki for you?

http://ingebrita.gaia.com — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 11:00:43 GMT

I'm so pleased that you saw the dog whisperer! It amazes me how flexible and effective he is dealing with so many different kinds of people and all kinds of dogs.

I'll have to take the fluorite out to the see the sun today. I've been using it with the Reiki early in the morning, before dawn.

Yesterday I was up at my dad's and offered Bernie (the blind cat) some Reiki. He seemed pretty reluctant and distracted at first because the windows were open and he could hear interesting things going on outside. Beverly moved him to the window sill and informed me that he wanted his Reiki there. So that actually worked. His body is so small though. I wound up scratching his chin with one hand and giving Reiki with the other hand. He seemed quite pleased and relaxed.

Re: Just for today- what is Reiki for you?

http://druidcircle.gaia.com — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:39:10 GMT

I saw the dog whisperer - he was amazing! Thanks for the picture, your sphere reminds speaks of "attuning to nature" - does it have a small rainbow if you hold it to the sun..
My friend lives up north so I haven't seen her working, she has a pony and loves riding and teaching. If you tune into the animal and telepathically ask simple questions your high sense perception fills in the answers!
Suni cultivates the Love of Animals Group

Re: Healing a tree

http://ingebrita.gaia.com — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:13:42 GMT

Last I knew it was doing well in my brother-in-law's greenhouse. :) Will have to inquire...

Re: Healing a tree

http://Meenakshi.gaia.com — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:17:38 GMT

Yes, the pot size would have limited its growth; because otherwise it grows extremely tall. As there's no proper space for it to grow right now, Ifelt it's better to allow it to grow slowly than have to trim and cut it later.

Is the tree you gave yr sister still growing, Barbara? I wonder how long they can stay in a pot.

Re: Healing a tree

http://ingebrita.gaia.com — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:56:20 GMT

Beautiful baby Sacred Fig! I thought the leaves reminded me of a ficus tree I kept here for a few years for my sister when she lived in New Mexico. It was pretty tall, about 6 feet, and didn't seem to grow much, I thought because the pot size limited its growth.

Re: Just for today- what is Reiki for you?

http://ingebrita.gaia.com — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:58:30 GMT

Sorry to take so long getting back here, Taikunping - things are just too crazy around here. Tim finally got an acceptable picture of the fluorite sphere - I'm not sure what my problem is when photographing crystals!

I haven't seen the Love of Animals Group so I'll have to look for it. Can't seem to keep up with the groups I'm in already, though!

That's very cool that your friend is a horse/animal whisperer! Do you get to see him or her work with horses? The dog whisperer had a horse whisperer on the show once to help him with a dog and a horse that were having a difficult relationship. They said they both learned something from each other. I find this connecting with the energy of domestic animals fascinating.