Let Your Pets Teach You What Oneness Means
For the second post of this We Are Earthlings series, my original plan was to write an overview of what Oneness is and why it’s important to view the world from that perspective. Unfortunately, though, my pet rabbit, Smores passed away suddenly on January 3rd, and I want to...
May We Spread Love and Gratitude Like a Wellspring
The month of May has flown by, and we’ve already reached the last day. I hope my posts have helped you understand reiki a little better and opened new possibilities. For the final post for this year’s A Month of Mays challenge, let me discuss how reiki encourages a...
May We Stop Clinging to Our Expectations About Others
In my previous post about how reiki affects the way you view your family, I mentioned that most relationship problems occur because of a mismatch in people’s values. Family members get frustrated with one another because they fail to meet each other’s expectations. Not only is this true for...
May We Include Positive Self-talk in Self-Care
Once we get used to using reiki, it begins to inform many different aspects of our daily lives. It changes the way we view and treat others. It changes the way we view and treat inanimate objects. But most importantly, it changes the way we view and treat ourselves. ...
A Month of Mays : May We Cultivate Inner Peace
Currently, reiki is best known as an alternative to Western medicine, with a focus on physical healing. But in my opinion, that only covers half of what it’s capable of. Reiki is a healing method with a focus on overall health, including mental and spiritual health. In fact, I...
Month of Mays: May We Relax to Gain Strength
In the past few days, thanks to the popularity of Star Wars Day, you might have caught glimpses of Jedis using “the Force” on TV reruns or YouTube clips. They most likely looked pretty tense, straining with concentration. That’s one place where reiki is completely different from the Force....
May We Set Our Intentions with Love and Conviction
For today’s post, I was planning to write about the first step you take during a reiki session: Setting your intentions. But yesterday’s post about “the Force” in the Star Wars universe got me thinking about the wording of my own mantras, so I’m finding myself reworking parts of the...
A Month of Mays: May We Recognize Our Capacity for Violence
If we’re discussing the topic of bullying, there’s another very important factor that we need to acknowledge, and that’s our capacity for violence. It’s a trait that we don’t like to admit that we have, especially to ourselves. That’s why I think it’s so important to take a deeper look...
A Month of Mays: May We Forgive Bad Parenting
Tomorrow being Mother’s Day, it’s a perfect opportunity to take a look at the topic of parenting. We all have our own ideas about what is good parenting and bad parenting. As a parent myself, I really struggled to meet my own standards of good parenting, and I made...
A Month of Mays: May Anger Guide Us To Serenity
You might have noticed from my previous posts that there’s one emotion that I rely on as a tool to help me identify areas where there’s still room for personal growth: My anger. Anger is not subtle. When it strikes, I can’t pretend like I didn’t notice. So, when...