Reiki and Spiritual Healing: Perspective of a Mesothelioma Survivor and Healer

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Reiki and Spiritual Healing: Perspective of a Mesothelioma Survivor and Healer

By NYC Reiki Center with Brian Brunius on Thursday, May 16th, 2013 | Comments Off

Yesterday, mesothelioma nurse Lisa-Hyde Barrett wrote about her use of Reiki on mesothelioma patients. Today, Jan Egerton discusses her experience as both a patient and practioner with holistic treatments used to reduce stress and induce calming. Jan is a certified healer through the Darlington Spiritualist Church in England and received the Anne English Healing Award [...]

Profile of Reiki Massage: how the no-touch therapy has made its mark

By NYC Reiki Center with Brian Brunius on Tuesday, May 14th, 2013 | Comments Off

Could the hands-free reiki massage really leave the deputy speaker Nigel Evans with a scratched forehead? The first problem with a reiki massage is that you don’t actually get a massage. At least, not in the familiar sense of being pummelled like pizza dough, by a man with JCBs for thumbs. It’s probably best for [...]

Winlock Woman Releases Book on Healing Through Reiki

By NYC Reiki Center with Brian Brunius on Monday, April 15th, 2013 | Comments Off

When Debra Naillon, of Winlock, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1991, she began losing her balance, going blind and started losing hope. Unable to cope with the constant pain, Naillon took a recommendation from her younger sister Elaine and tried Reiki, a Japanese massage technique believed to transfer energy to reduce stress and promote [...]

LifeSpark offers hands-on care to local cancer patients

By NYC Reiki Center with Brian Brunius on Wednesday, April 10th, 2013 | Comments Off

Sandy Priester believes in the benefits of energy work, like reiki and Healing Touch. The Arvada-based reiki practitioner has given reiki treatments for 25 years and founded LifeSpark Cancer Resources a decade ago after working on cancer patients going through chemotherapy. There are locations around the state, and one in Colorado Springs at the Rocky [...]

Reiki helping Dubai residents release negative energy

By NYC Reiki Center with Brian Brunius on Sunday, March 31st, 2013 | Comments Off

It was just two short years ago that Dana Al Jama, a 38-year-old Emirati, suffered severe panic attacks and was so claustrophobic that she could no longer stand to travel in a car to her job in Abu Dhabi. In a state of despair, she turned to her doctor for help and was prescribed some [...]

Reiki Is for the Dogs

By NYC Reiki Center with Brian Brunius on Friday, March 22nd, 2013 | Comments Off

Wanja Twan was a Canadian student of Hawayo Takata who in just a few short years became a Reiki Master. I have below extracted several passages from her book, “In the Light of a Distant Star,” that relate to Hawayo Takata, Reiki, and some of Wanja’s experiences that may inform our understanding and practice of [...]

A Chance Meeting with Mrs. Hawayo Takata

By NYC Reiki Center with Brian Brunius on Monday, March 4th, 2013 | Comments Off

Book Overview: We are all Healers by Sally Hammond The following passages, excerpted from Sally Hammond’s classic 1974 book (Ballantine Books, New York) about spiritual healing, We are all Healers, documents a brief encounter she had with Mrs. Hawayo Takata at a conference on spiritual healing in 1971. The excerpt starts on page 283, and [...]

Reiki Master Ann Finnie to offer introduction to the practice – Wicked Local

By NYC Reiki Center with Brian Brunius on Friday, February 22nd, 2013 | Comments Off

Ann Finnie of Scituate is a practical type. While raising two children as a single mother, she spent years working in corporate accounting. Yet, a lunch meeting with a former colleague caused Ann to call into question many of her left-brained assumptions. Ann’s former co-worker at an investment firm had suffered for years with chronic [...]

A New Life: Reiki Healer in Northern Thailand

By NYC Reiki Center with Brian Brunius on Saturday, February 16th, 2013 | Comments Off

During a break from a career in human rights work, Mark Allison made the spontaneous decision to buy a restaurant in Pai, a small town in the mountains in northern Thailand, with his partner. That decision led him to Reiki healing, a greater sense of fulfillment and and a new career as a personal coach. [...]

The power of positive thinking

By NYC Reiki Center with Brian Brunius on Thursday, February 14th, 2013 | Comments Off

I had my first session of Reiki during the week and I slept better than I have done in a long time, and felt a lot happier and more positive in the days that followed the session. Was it the placebo effect or the did the nuggets of truth discussed with my therapist and the [...]

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