Energy Healing with Reiki

There is a lot to learn about energy healing. When I first began to explore holistic health and mindfulness about fifteen years ago, I found energy healing practitioners with all sorts of specialist systems. Some had developed their techniques using reiki practices combined with psychic guidance. Others developed more scientific methods, utilizing crystal technology, computer…

A Perfect Storm

A perfect storm is an event in which a rare combination of circumstances drastically aggravates the event. The term is used by analogy to an unusually severe storm that results from a rare combination of meteorological phenomena. (Wikipedia) Have you ever found yourself in a situation where one thing after another seems to be going against you?  It can really zap…

Finding My Way

This week I feel a little bit nostalgic, and rather reflective. I have been talking about my blog to a few writer friends, and that prompted me to look over some of my older blog posts, and spruce them up a little bit. It is interesting to see how my blog has evolved, and how…

A Portal to Wholeness

We’ve all traveled through portals to become whole at some point in our lives. Or so it seems, or seemed, during the summer of 2000, when I lived with Jean and her family on her New Hampshire farm, where I had committed a season to healing my hip. When I refer to portals, I mean…

Introducing Jane Maati Smith

I studied for my Bachelor of Arts degree at Arizona State University, and received an honorary doctorate for my lifetime contributions and achievements in the fields of spiritual counseling and metaphysics from Universal Life. I studied hypnosis with Dr. John Kappas, and am a  certified graduate of the Hypnosis Motivation Institute. I am also a…

Why Reiki Won’t Cure a Cold

I used to think that Reiki was a magical, mysterious energy that healed anything and everything. But I didn’t think about it properly. Yes, reiki does heal you. It is a very powerful, magical and mysterious energy. But you cannot expect it to simply cure all physical ailments, just like that. No, we must do…