Reiki Articles

Every Day Energy for Daily Decisions

By Colleen Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Winter 2023. While Reiki is renowned for for healing and enhancing spiritual awareness, it can also be used as a unique form of practical spirituality. When viewed as a straightforward, everyday energy, Reiki helps us make informed decisions to resolve day-to-day issues. Our intellectual capabilities may

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Exploring the Twelve Heavens

By Colleen Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Spring 2023. I am endlessly fascinated by spiritual experiences. So, when William Rand introduced the concept of the Twelve Heavens in Holy Fire® III Reiki, I immediately wanted to know more about them. William says, “This is a more nuanced understanding of metaphysical energies and…higher dimensional

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Animal Reiki for End-of-Life Support

By Robyn Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Fall 2022. Artwork by Gaia Orion One of the most difficult parts of animal companionship is the transition at the end of their life. It can feel stressful, sad, and confusing. Caregivers always want to do what is best for their animals, which can present them

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Reiki for Mind Management

By Colleen Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Fall 2022.  One of the most powerful effects of my Reiki practice is the ability to develop the habits of a healthy mind. Simply living daily life can sink my thoughts into anxiety, stress, and negativity. Managing my thoughts and mind is an ongoing practice in

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Spiritual Lessons I Have Learned from Animals

By Colleen Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Summer 2022 Once I learned Reiki, I used the Distant symbol to send Reiki back to my childhood moments, healing childhood challenges. I sent Reiki to my past self to empower my inner and outer guidance. Following the thread of my childhood choices with animals, I

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Earth, The First Heaven: Part One

By Colleen Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Fall 2021 Earth is a beautiful planet with an abundance of diverse life and nature. The physical realm of divine creation, the first heaven. The earth is a physical realm where duality and opposites exist. Lower and higher consciousness live side by side, and we as

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Developing Inner Awareness

By Colleen Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Summer 2021 Everyone has an inner sense of knowing that they can benefit from. Here Colleen explains how use Reiki to awaken and develop this skill.

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Animal Reiki—A Gift for Animals and Humanity

By Robyn Benelli, Sioux Strong, Colleen Benelli, and Pamela Allen-LeBlanc First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Winter 2020 “Animals live in an energy world and have an innate understanding of Reiki and its healing ability. Animal Reiki is a Reiki frequency that connects to a practitioner’s existing Reiki energy regardless of style or lineage. This

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The Evolution of Teaching Reiki Online

by Colleen Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Winter 2020 “Through the pandemic situation, we discovered that distance teaching is as powerful as in-person instruction. Our students have had the same results with their Reiki training and personal development as if they’d taken an in-person class.”

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Reiki, Your Way

by Colleen Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Spring 2020 Colleen explains that Reiki is a versatile healing method that has allowed the development of many schools and lineages. She goes on to say that Reiki works if one strictly follows the rules they were taught or if they follow the inner guidance of

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Escucha Con Reiki

Por Colleen Benelli. Ser un buen oyente es una de las habilidades más importantes para un practicante y/o profesor de Reiki. Me encanta haberme convertido en una persona que escucha. Me ha traído gran alegría y libertad personal. Cuando estoy escuchando, estoy presente, mis sentidos y percepciones están agudizados y despiertos. Me puedo escuchar pensar,

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Reiki Heals “The Shoulds”

by Colleen Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Fall 2019 Recently I noticed that I felt stuck in a cycle of what I call “the shoulds.” No matter what I was doing, I felt like I should  be doing something different. No matter how much I accomplished, I had so much more I should 

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Reiki and Millenials

by Robyn Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Fall 2019 Millenials are the generation born between 1980 – 2000, and you hear increasingly about us because we are coming of age. We are starting to influence society in politics, business, medicine, science, and of course healing. By 2020, according to a Brookings Institution analysis,

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Reiki-on-the-Fly as a Life Management Tool

by Colleen Benelli and Robyn Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Spring 2019 Reiki can be used as a practical life management tool for everyday life, giving spiritual guidance and energy to help in any circumstance. Reiki has shown us that it works whether we invite and engage with the energy for extended lengths of

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Reiki Journey Techniques

by Colleen Benelli and Robyn Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Winter 2018   IN THE FALL 2018 ISSUE of Reiki News Magazine, my article, “Reiki for Spiritual Guidance,” mentions, “A second way that Reiki energy can be used for spiritual guidance is to enter a journey state.” I defined a journey state as when

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Reiki for Spiritual Guidance

by Colleen Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Fall 2018. Artwork by Gaia Orion. Artwork by Gaia Orion REIKI AND SPIRITUAL GUIDANCE GO TOGETHER. Reiki naturally guides and empowers our higher consciousnessand unifies it with our everyday consciousness, so that we can act with purpose in our lives. Reiki can guide you to answers for

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Imbue Your Sacred Objects with Reiki

by Colleen Benelli & Robyn Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Summer 2018. Artwork by Gaia Orion “IMBUE WITH REIKI” means to fill a physical object, space, or event with Reiki energy. Other terms for imbuing an object with Reiki might be, empower with Reiki, fill with Reiki, place intentions with Reiki or bless with Reiki. For example,

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Reiki Crafts for Kids

by Colleen Benelli & Robyn Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Winter 2017 “GRANDMA, I WANT TO LEARN REIKI,” said my six-year-old grandson Calvin. His 10-year-old sister Eva already had Reiki attunements, and his parents, aunt, Pop-Pop and grandmother all do Reiki, so it was natural that he wanted to learn it too. I was

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Officiate Ceremonies with Reiki

by Colleen Benelli & Robyn Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Fall 2017 REIKI AND CEREMONY go together well. Over the years, I have officiated many ceremonies—weddings, funerals, baptisms, gratitude and burning bowl ceremonies, rites of passage, fertility ceremonies, adoption ceremonies, relationship calling ceremonies and even more. It is a beautiful part of my Reiki practice and my life. I

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The Blessings of Being an ICRT Licensed Reiki Master Teacher

by Colleen Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Spring 2017 REIKI IS A PERSONAL EXPERIENCE for each person who receives it. Some are called to Reiki to heal themselves of physical, emotional and spiritual pain, some are called to spiritual growth and development and others are called to practice Reiki as a professional business. I

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Build and Maintain your Reiki Client Relationships

Part 1 – Email Marketing and ReikiChat™ by Colleen Benelli and Karen Harrison First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Fall 2016 CREATING AND NURTURING a meaningful relationship with the people who come to us for Reiki sessions and classes is key to the ongoing success of a professional Reiki practice. Emails, newsletters, and social media are 21st

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Reiki Restores Our Authentic Self

by Colleen Benelli  First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Summer 2016 DO YOU EVER FEEL as if there were two different people living inside of you—one who looks to the outside for direction and approval and another who beckons you to follow a path that is more self-directed? Who or what can you rely on to help

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Reiki and Our Aging Parents and Loved Ones

by Colleen Benelli  First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Spring 2016. Artwork by Gaia Orion I FEEL SO FORTUNATE to have Reiki as my mother ages. She is now almost 84. This is a new life cycle filled with blessings and challenges for both of us. I use Reiki for her and also for myself. Reiki

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Live a Reiki Lifestyle

by Colleen Benelli  First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Winter 2015. Artwork by Gaia Orion REIKI IS MY LIFESTYLE and my life management tool. I use Reiki all day long for everything. I am in a deep personal relationship with Reiki that guides me throughout my day. But in the beginning, I had no idea that

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The Future of Reiki with William Rand

William will base his idea about the trend Reiki will take in the future by first describing an evidenced based history of Reiki. This will include a synopsis of how Usui Sensei, Hayashi Sensei, and Takata Sensei practiced and taught Reiki. He will also be talking about the essence of Reiki and how Reiki can

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Reiki Business Practices

Reiki Business Practices

by Colleen Benelli and Karen Harrison First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Fall 2015 Building a successful Reiki Practice will require the effective use of success consciousness, marketing, technology, business organization and comprehension and self-healing. Equally important will be the harmonious integration of your spiritual resources into all your business activities. Reiki will help you listen to divine guidance in the application

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Should I Take Reiki?

by Karissa Brenneman Photo by Colleen Benelli Should I take Reiki? That was the burning question in the back of my mind. Back and forth I went, over and over, should I or shouldn’t I. Ultimately, I really didn’t even know what it was. My husband, Brad had taken a Reiki class a couple weeks

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Create Your Business Identity

Create your Business Identity

by Colleen Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Summer 2015 When you start a professional Reiki practice, you are becoming a self-employed small business owner as well as a spiritual healing practitioner. To have your practice succeed, you will need to follow many of the mainstream business concepts, practices and actions that all small

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KGON interview with Colleen Benelli

Listen to Colleen Benelli on KGON-Portland

During my ReikChat™ call last month, Radio Host Dave Scott of the Classic Rock station, KGON invited me to come in for an interview and talk about REIKI. Susan Pease Bannit joined me and we discussed Reiki and how we work with it. In case you missed the interview live with Dave Scott on KGON

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Waterfalls, Rainbows and Reiki in Hana, Hawaii

by Colleen Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Summer 2013. Hana, Hawaii is the place of palms, oceans and whales, and beautiful sunrises. The week we were there was stormy and wild. I loved the wind and the sun shining through the warm rain, casting rainbows all around us. Reiki is awake there. The

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Reiki and The Kingdom of God Within

by Colleen Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Spring 2015. Artwork by Gaia Orion. Meditation: IN A REIKI SESSION LAST YEAR, I received the revelation to contemplate this concept: The Kingdom of God is within you. During the session, I was shown that the belief that the kingdom of God is within is a

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I’m on Fire for Holy Fire Reiki

by Colleen Benelli Holy Fire Reiki has consumed my thoughts, my work, and my life focus and I’m on fire for Holy Fire Reiki. It is an astonishing healing energy full of love and beauty. I love giving my self-Reiki and feeling my own love and beauty wake up. It changes how I feel during

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The Color of Reiki

by Colleen Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Summer 2011. Artwork by Gaia Orion.   “A colour a day keeps the doctor away, So colour yourself healthy, wealthy and wise.” — LILIAN VERNERBONDS. Introduction: Reiki returns the presence of beautiful colors back to our bodies and our lives. My Reiki guides tell me that

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The Burning Bowl Ceremony

by Colleen Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Winter 2006. Artwork by Gaia Orion. Introduction: The New Year is upon us and offers the promise that we can leave behind that which no longer serves us and embrace the opportunity to begin fresh and new. Winter will always bring the North, the cycle on

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The Amazing Grace of Reiki

by Colleen Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Winter 2010. Artwork by Gaia Orion.   AMAZING GRACE FLOWS through the universe and all of creation. It is present here on Earth and expresses itself with stunning beauty. The sun shining through the clouds sending golden rays of light from the heavens to the earth

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Reiki Talking Stick

by Colleen Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Spring 2012. Artwork by Gaia Orion. A REIKI TALKING STICK is an amazing communication tool that can help focus your attention on your words, intentions and prayers. It can help you find your voice by centering you in your heart, so you can find the words

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Reiki Helps us Remember our Spirit

by Colleen Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Winter 2012. Artwork by Gaia Orion.   WHEN OUR SPIRIT INCARNATES on earth, most of us begin a process of forgetting our spirit consciousness as we turn our attention to our physical senses and what we need to learn in order to function in the material

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Reiki Gifts for the Holidays

by Colleen Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Fall 2011. Artwork by Gaia Orion.   Handmade Gifts are fun to make and wonderful to receive. Add Reiki as you create, and begin sending blessings to the person your gift is intended for as you work. The gift will begin giving right away. In addition,

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Reiki and Gratitude

by Colleen Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Fall 2007. Artwork by Gaia Orion.   “Just for today, be grateful,” is one of the Five Reiki Ideals. It is important for Reiki practitioners to notice and to spread thoughts of gratitude each day, because as each of us lives in his or her grateful

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Meet Your Power Animal with Reiki

by Colleen Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Fall 2010. Artwork by Gaia Orion.   A POWER ANIMAL IS A SPIRIT GUIDE similar to a guardian angel in animal form. Power animals are great spiritual companions, and they work well with Reiki. They are not exactly the same as guardian angels, but close. They

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Introducing Reiki to Medical Personnel

by Colleen Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Spring 2014. REIKI IS ACHIEVING MAINSTREAM RECOGNITION for the powerful benefits it provides as a complimentary therapy to conventional medicine. A study done in 2007 by the National Health Interview Survey indicates that 1.2 million adults and 161,000 children received one or more sessions of energy

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Communicating with our Reiki Guides

by Colleen Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Summer 2007. Artwork by Gaia Orion. When we take a Reiki class, receive an attunement and begin using Reiki, we also become connected to one or more Reiki guides. Our Reiki guides are spiritual beings who are specific to Reiki and only work with Reiki energies.

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Answers to Your Prayers

by Colleen Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Winter 2013. Artwork by Gaia Orion.   MANY PEOPLE PRAY, but not all people know how to receive the answers to their prayers. Reiki is a tool that can help. When you receive your Reiki attunements, your inner guidance wakes up and connects to your divine

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Creating a Reiki Ceremony

by Colleen Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Summer 2008. Artwork by Gaia Orion. Reiki Ceremonies are a powerful declaration of intention sent directly to God. They invite Divine support into the lives of the people gathered. Reiki empowers the light of ceremony so our prayers are heard in a big way. Ceremony creates an opportunity

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Reiki and the Art of Receiving

by Colleen Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Fall 2012. Artwork by Gaia Orion. One of the foundational qualities of Reiki is that it teaches us how to receive. I remember that I actually had resistance to learning Reiki because I didn’t believe that it could just be given to me through a ritual

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Reiki and a Prosperous Earth

by Colleen Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Summer 2009. Artwork by Gaia Orion. THE UNIVERSE IS AN ABUNDANT CREATION. We can look to our own Earth and her amazing and diverse life forms as a perfect expression of the prosperous Universe. The Earth is rich with life. She receives the light from the

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Reiki Heals the Imagination

by Colleen Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Summer 2012. Artwork by Gaia Orion. The Power of the Imagination The imagination is much more than “what we use to make things up with.” It is our creative power that we can awaken in both the conscious and unconscious mind. Many people seem unaware of

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Reiki Heals Spiritual Resistance

by Colleen Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Spring 2007. Artwork by Gaia Orion. In my years of experience, both professionally and personally, I have found that resistance to Reiki and other spiritual practices is an inherent part of the personal growth process. Resistance shows up throughout life. Sometimes it is short-lived; at other

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Reiki Reveals the Joy Within

by Colleen Benelli First Published in Reiki News Magazine, Winter 2011. Artwork by Gaia Orion. There are many types of joy. Some contain feelings and expressions, others are states of being. A person can have feelings and expressions of joy and not be in the state of being in joy, and a person can have

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Reiki, Life Cycles, and the Four Directions

by Colleen Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Summer 2010. Artwork by Gaia Orion. EVERYTHING IN THE NATURAL WORLD is subject to life cycles. The tides flow by the phases of the moon, plants go dormant in winter to reemerge in spring, some animals hibernate or migrate, and we humans also change with the seasons

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Activating Reiki

by Colleen Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Spring 2011. Artwork by Gaia Orion. “Do I have to draw all the Reiki symbols before I start giving Reiki?” is a common question my Reiki II students often ask. Students and practitioners sometimes talk of feeling impatient about drawing the Reiki symbols in order to

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Handmade with Reiki

by Colleen Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Fall 2009. Artwork by Gaia Orion. Winter is coming and it is a perfect time of year for How to Imbue any Craft Project with Reiki crafts. Consider making your holiday gifts this year and using Reiki to empower your love and intentions as you create.

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Reiki Clarifies Opinions

by Colleen Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Spring 2010. Artwork by Gaia Orion. Reiki promotes healthy life skills. It empowers our life force and our higher mind, which gives us a greater ability to think and act more clearly. Reiki practices help highlight the best choices for our lives. It strengthens our internal

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I Am Not Gone

My Dearest Loves, I have left the world. It seems as if I have left you, my children, my friends, and my loves. But in truth, I am not gone. I have only returned to the light; I am still a whisper away. I felt the gentleness of angels as I left the world And

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Reiki Creates Optimism in Stressful Times

by Colleen Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Spring 2009. Artwork by Gaia Orion. The past year was very stressful for many people, individually and collectively. It seemed as if everyone I knew was challenged. Family, friends, colleagues, and clients suffered job and financial losses, illness, unexpected changes, death, and relationship issues. We found

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Strengthen your Light with Reiki

By Colleen Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Fall 2008. Artwork by Gaia Orion. One of the techniques available to Reiki practitioners is “Strengthening your Light with Reiki.” When you strengthen your light with Reiki, your personal energy and your light are stronger. Reiki can help you strengthen your light internally, and it can

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Reiki and the Light of Prayer

by Colleen Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Spring 2008. Artwork by Gaia Orion. Prayer is a message to God sent from our hearts. Prayer holds the belief that there is a Higher Power who listens, cares and intervenes on our behalf. It invites enlightened beings into our lives to guide and assist us

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Listen with Reiki

by Colleen Benelli Originally published in Reiki Magazine, Winter 2007. Artwork by Gaia Orion. Being a good listener is one of the most important skills for a Reiki practitioner and Reiki Teacher to have. I love that I have become a person who listens. It has brought me great joy and personal freedom. When I

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Reiki & Nature Spirits

by Colleen Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Spring 2006.   As we step from the long nights of winter and walk towards the vitality of spring, we have beautiful opportunities to feel the rhythm of nature in our lives. The world is coming to life around us, and if we listen, we can

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Reiki and Knitting

by Colleen Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Winter 2005. Some may wonder how Reiki and knitting go together, but actually they have a lot in common. We know that Reiki is enhanced by meditation and that a meditative state is often accomplished through a repetitive act, such as focusing on your breath, walking

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Reiki and Automatic Writing

By Colleen Benelli First Published – William Rand’s Newsletter, Winter 2006. Reiki can help us travel deep inside, connect with our true self, and teach us to listen from our hearts. Reiki assists us in reflecting on our lives in a sincere way that can bring us fresh ideas to manifest our dreams and create

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Who is the Northwest Reiki Association?

By Kathryn Misetich NWRA Board President Who is the Northwest Reiki Association? Would you like to give Reiki to cancer patients while they are receiving their chemotherapy treatments? The Northwest Reiki Association (NWRA), a non-profit organization composed of approximately 150 members, has formed a partnership with Northwest Cancer Specialists where our volunteers are honored to

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Reiki Tools Heal Mind Chatter

by Colleen Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Winter 2009. Artwork by Gaia Orion. Sometimes it can seem as if our minds never stop talking. The mind can chatter on about some of the most inane subjects, controlling our ability to focus and distracting us from creating what is important to us. I call

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Defining Your Reiki Practice, Part One

by Colleen Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Fall 2013. Artwork by Gaia Orion. The simplest definition of Reiki is a “Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing.” Accurate and easy to understand, I find that it is usually a sufficient answer for most people. However, Reiki is a big

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The Spirit of Your Reiki Business

by Colleen Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Spring 2013. Artwork by Gaia Orion. Building a Reiki Practice is a creative, spiritual experience. We dream it into existence. Our ideas form in our imagination, and then we take action in the physicalnworld to manifest our dream. As we create our Reiki practice, it becomes

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Reiki Heals Criticism

by Colleen Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, Fall 2006. I have the greatest respect for the one God, and spiritual teachers, prophets, and enlightened masters of all traditions, including Buddha, Yogananda, Krishna, Mohammad, and the various Goddesses and Bodhisattvas. I honor their teachings and have received spiritual guidance and healing assistance from many

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Healing Religious Trauma with Holy Fire

by Colleen Benelli First Published – Reiki News Magazine, February 2014. IN FEBRUARY 2014, I participated in the Holy Fire Reiki ignition process. Over the months since then, I have had some time to reflect on what this energy is and how it has entered into and changed my life. The first part of this

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