My friend, Sally, came for a visit this weekend from Glens Falls, NY. She is learning the healing art of Reiki. I don’t understand all about it. I do appreciate that it gives me quiet thoughtful times with friends which is extremely healing (I have several friends who do Reiki with and for me).
Andrew and I made an attempt to hike our favorite Gap Mountain in hopes of finding a few remaining wild blueberries. We were chased back down the mountain by a roll of thunder. We did enjoyed a picnic lunch by the pond in Fitzwilliam as the storm held off for a bit. We decided to pick blueberries at Monadnock Berries in Troy. Andrew had never been. Once you get started its hard to stop. Soon the rain was falling on us but we still kept saying just a few more berries. We are trying to fill the freezer with blueberries to brighten our cold winter days.
I would say that you already know quite a bit about Reiki, since the best way to understand it is to experience it just as you’ve been doing. But if you’d like to learn some key facts about it as well, a good place to start is the brief, bulleted backgrounder from NCCAM: http://nccam.nih.gov/health/reiki/. From there you might move on to Pamela Miles’ book, “Reiki: A Comprehensive Guide” and her website, reikiinmedicine.org (where the Medical Papers section includes a link to a published interview, “Reiki Vibrational Healing,” which answered a lot of my own initial questions about this practice before I took my first classes with Pamela).
I hope you get to share many more quiet Reiki moments with caring friends (and many more blueberry-picking adventures too!).