We all have the innate ability to improve the quality of our lives. When I first began to explore the areas of alternative, complementary, and energy field medicine in the 1990s, I didn't fully comprehend how dependent our culture had become on pharmaceutical science to "fix" the problems we faced in our lives. Recently, America's current medical establishment has acknowledged the mind-body-spirit connection and, as a result, has begun to conduct formal studies on many (often ancient) alternative and complementary health therapies already utilized across the globe. I believe most if not all of us want the simplest answers to whatever problems we face in life. And we can indeed find those answers with awareness, common sense, and an active connection to our inner selves and the Creative Source of all life. When we choose to connect with our true inner selves, when we approach each other as parts of one great whole, and when we choose to fulfill our potential without succumbing to self-defeating or limiting beliefs or influences, our innate ability to improve and heal our lives and the lives of others is able to shine through like a great beaming light.

Reiki is a system of energy healing introduced to the Western world by a Japanese Tendai Buddhist named Mikao Usui in the early 1900s. The US National Institute of Health has recently acknowledged and categorized Reiki as a "Biofield Medicine", although Reiki could be more accurately described as a path to spiritual enlightenment as well as a system of energy field healing. The beneficial effects of Reiki treatments as documented through numerous individual case studies worldwide has created and established a growing demand for Reiki in hospitals, wellness centers, etc., throughout the United States. Reiki demonstrates our ability to channel universal life force energy to all levels of human existence: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.