Bringing Reiki Into Hospitals: Pamela Miles on Self-Care, Science, and Spiritual Practice
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What if the most radical shift in your health starts with five quiet minutes and the courage to feel your own body again? We sit down with Pamela Miles—internationally recognized Reiki master and pioneer of medical Reiki—to explore how a simple, daily self-practice can calm the nervous system, improve sleep, and restore presence in the middle of real life.
Pamela has graciously share her valuable resource:
5 Tips to Unlock the Power of Reiki Practice
You can also join Pamela's Free Online Global Practice Sessions here:
Free Guided Online Self-Practice Sessions
From a brief guided sequence you can try today to a candid look at bringing Reiki into hospitals during the AIDS crisis, this conversation blends lived experience with clear, careful language clinicians can trust.
Pamela traces her path from years of meditation and yoga in India to discovering Reiki in 1986, reframing it not as an external “energy” but as a spiritual practice that invites the system to reorganize toward balance. She shares how infectious disease specialists began noticing patients doing better than expected, and why she always opened medical talks with a hands-on experience rather than a pitch. We also unpack the translation traps that shaped Reiki’s Americanization and offer practical criteria for choosing qualified teachers amid today’s crowded marketplace.
If you’re a physician, nurse, therapist, caregiver, or simply someone who needs steadier ground, you’ll find a realistic path to daily self-care that fits a busy life. Learn why first-degree training is often enough, how to build a morning or evening habit you can keep, and what language helps bridge spirituality and science without hype. Stay to the end for resources, links to global self-practice sessions, and a preview of part two.
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Chapters
1. Welcome & Guest Introduction (00:00:00)
2. Guided Light-Touch Practice (00:06:27)
3. Relaxation as Medical Necessity (00:14:39)
4. Pamela’s Origin Story with Reiki (00:17:02)
5. Demystifying Reiki’s Roots and Language (00:25:47)
6. Entering Hospitals and Early AIDS Work (00:29:37)
7. Presenting to Clinicians Through Experience (00:37:02)
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