An illuminating guide to one of the fastest-growing spiritual healing practices in the world and an essential tool for anyone ready to bring healing into his or her life.
Perhaps the gentlest healing therapy in the world, Reiki originated in early twentieth-century Japan. In this indispensable guide to Reiki, one of the foremost experts traces the origin and development of the practice, detailing how and why it restores and renews the human body in ways we’ve only begun to understand.
A pioneer in bringing Reiki into mainstream medical practice, Miles draws on her unique background to explain how this therapeutic technique, which involves a gentle laying on of the hands, complements conventional medical treatments and can hasten recovery from invasive surgical procedures, as well as ease the symptoms of cancer, insomnia, depression, anxiety, and other conditions. With compassion, wisdom, and the accumulated experience that comes from nearly twenty years as a Reiki practitioner, Pamela Miles empowers readers by showing how simple it is to take.more info
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A truly comprehensive guide to Reiki
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
As as a devoted student, and one who practices Reiki, I was initially impressed with the elegance, scope and reliability of this beautifully written book. It is absolutely authoritative, but reads in a very personal way. I literally have stacks of Reiki books that seemed compelling at first, but “Reiki: A Comprehensive Guide,” has risen to the top and withstood the test of time. It is the only Reiki book that I refer to regularly on an ongoing basis. As my practice grows, I find new things to explore in this book, and I am always rewarded with solid and soulful insight and guidance.
A Non-Comprehensive Guide to Reiki
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
The book “Reiki: A Comprehensive Guide” describes the history and benefits of Reiki but it does not teach how to do it. I did not find any drawing showing the placement of hands or any definite procedure. It mentions that courses are offered in order to learn Reiki. If you want to really learn how Reiki is done, you need to get another book.
REIKI: Clearly Comprehensive
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I have recommended, to all my Reiki students, that they read and study Pamela Miles’ excellent book! (I have included myself
I own more than 80 Reiki books (e.g., Haberly, Petter, Gray, Rand, etc.) –but I regard this Reiki book, highly–amongst the “top 3″. (The others: Bronwen & Frans Stiene: Reiki Sourcebook and Japanese Art of Reiki.)
Pamela Miles is a “purist” and I value her book because of its’ honest, integrous and insightfull approach to Reiki!
With this outstanding reference work, everyone in the Reiki community has benefitted!
Pamela, I have you to thank (I mean this most sincerely) for my re-connection with SELF-Reiki! And, it has extended to my Reiki students, also!
Perfect Guide
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
After I took my first and second degree Reiki. I felt overloaded with information. I was having a bit of self-doubt during my daily practice and wanted some additional support. I went to the bookstore and was disappointed by the amount of books that claim to be able to teach reiki in a book. I was looking for guidance, not learning symbols and attuements from a book.
Then I came across Pamela Miles’s book and I was instantly drawn to it. It is sincere and honest. I read it whenever I feel self-doubt in my daily practice and my hands will instantly become activated and I can feel energy run through my body. It’s an inspiration to all reiki practitioners.
My favorite book on the topic of Reiki
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
In my opinion, a lot of care went into making this book very easy to understand and encompasses all the essentials about Reiki.
my favorite reiki book
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I am a reiki teacher/master and give this book to my level I students as a reference guide. To me, Pamela’s book captures the heart of reiki and reflects her deep understanding and practice of reiki. I also especially like the language she uses that speaks to my scientific nature (I hold two M.S. degrees) without detracting from the mystery that unfolds as you practice reiki on yourself and others. I highly recommend this book and suggest you check out Pamela’s website. I also recommend the book “Practical Reiki” by Richard Ellis to my students because it is full of beautiful images and photographs.
Finally….a down to earth Reiki guide
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Excellent book on Reiki. I just purchased in last week and have already recommended it to several clients of mine…a few of them western medical doctors. It demystifies the subject in a language anyone can follow and more importantly it will not turn off the most closed-minded reader.
One of the very best books on Reiki: what it is, how it works, how to use it
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
One of the very best books on Reiki: what it is, how it works, how to use it
Pamela Miles, the author of “Reiki: A Comprehensive Guide” is founding president of the Institute for the Advancement of Complementary Therapies and has 35 years experience as a clinician, educator and lecturer in natural healing. She has been a student of meditation and yoga for 45 years. The author began practicing Reiki in 1986 and was initiated as a Reiki master in 1990. She has developed Reiki programs for implementation in prominent New York City hospitals, published numerous articles in peer-reviewed professional journals, and presented and taught Reiki at medical schools and conferences.
This is a thoughtful, informative, enlightening book, written in an engaging and conversational style, peppered with anecdotes, that let’s its readers know that here the author is opening up her heart. It is a book that is useful to seasoned Reiki practitioners, the newly-minted Reiki practitioner and the individual for whom Reiki is a new experience as practitioner or as recipient. For anyone who is interested in bringing Reiki into their lives and are without a clue as to where and how to begin, “Reiki: A Comprehensive Guide” offers an excellent starting point.
The book is divided into fourteen very well-organized chapters, moving from a description of what Reiki is and what it does, its history, the components of Reiki training, and formulating a Reiki practice, to the last few sections devoted to the role of Reiki in integrative medicine and the science and research methodology underpinning that role.
The author deals fairly but squarely with the unhappy reality that much of what most of us were taught about the origins of Reiki from Hawayo Takata, who brought the practice to the West, was simply untrue: a useful myth, perhaps, but without historicity or any factual basis. Miles addresses this without hesitation, but always reminds us of what really matters: the unassailable fact that Reiki works. Even in the absence of an explanation as to how it works, in the absence of a clinically demonstrable therapeutic mechanism, it does what it says it does. While honoring and clarifying the history and traditions of her own Reiki lineage, Miles is respectful of and offers recognition to the many different styles of practice which have developed since the time when Hawayo Takata first brought Reiki out of Japan.
As a practitioner and teacher of Reiki and other healing modalities (I integrate Reiki and the Bach flower remedies into my practice of traditional Ayurveda), I am profoundly grateful to Pamela Miles for all she has done for both Reiki as well as for complimentary and integrative medicine. The author, considered to be one of the senior-most Reiki Masters now practicing, has forged a strong and graceful link between Eastern and Western medicine, and I hope that we see more of her writing in the near future.
Here, at long last, we have an insightful, straightforward and intelligent book appropriate for seasoned Reiki practitioners and medical professionals as well as individuals who are simply looking for objective explanations.
a great Reiki reference book for me
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I use this as review book. I have had 2 Reiki classes with someone trained by Mrs. Takata.
Reiki as a Practice
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
What I liked best about Pamela Miles view of Reiki is that self-practice/awareness comes first and then Reiki becomes a lifetime journey not an overnight event.
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