The Reiki Lifestyle Podcast

Join Robyn and Colleen Benelli as they welcome Reiki Master Mirjam Top from the Netherlands to explore how Reiki truly becomes a way of living. Mirjam shares her beautiful transition from a rational healthcare professional and deep skeptic to a committed Reiki practitioner, detailing how daily Reiki practices completely transformed her relationship with anger. The conversation dives deep into her current work translating Kaiji Tomita's historical 1920s text, The Benevolent Art of Healing, and the profound life changes that occur when we heal our ancestral lineage. Tune in to discover how these gentle, steady spiritual shifts create a grounded, authentic human experience.
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
Discover how subtle, gradual experiences with Reiki can lead to profound, long-term personal transformation and deep self-care.
Master a deeper understanding of the Reiki precepts, transforming emotions like anger from harmful forces into beneficial internal signals.
Explore the history and treatment insights of the 1920s Tomita-Style Usui Reiki through Mirjam's translation work of his book, The Benevolent Art of Healing.
Release intergenerational burdens and heavy ancestral patterns to empower the strength, love, and gifts of your lineage.
Integrate regenerative thinking into your practice, shifting your focus from fixing problems to cultivating living potential.
Mentioned in this Episode
●      The Benevolent Art of Healing (Tomita-Style Hands-On Therapy) by Kaiji Tomita
●      The Reiki Precepts / Ideals
●      Justin Stein's podcast episode
●      Brian Brunius (Reiki Centers of America)
●      The Reiki Alliance
●      Rebecca Bredenhof (Mirjam's initiating master)
●      Marta Getty (Developer of Healing Your Family Tree with Reiki)
●      Phyllis Furumoto (granddaughter to Hawayo Takata and former lineage bearer of Usui Shiki Ryoho Reiki)
●      Ben Haggard and the Regenesis Group (Regenerative Thinking)
●      Reiki Home organization
●      Mount Kurama, Kyoto, Japan
 Support Mirjam Top's Dutch translation project by visiting her GoFundMe page. https://gofund.me/8c037f9db 
 Connect with Mirjam 
 My websites:
www.reikitwente.nl
www.regeneratievedenkkracht.nl
Mirjam Top | LinkedIn
Reiki leren leven met Mirjam Top (YouTube)
 
 Connect with Colleen & Robyn
ReikiLifestyle.com
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Free Online Reiki Share: Tuesdays, 9:30 am – 11:00 am Pacific Time, for a global Reiki healing circle.
Free phone consultation: with Danni
Instagram: @reikilifestyleofficial
Email: info@reikilifestyle.com
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**DISCLAIMER** This episode is not a substitute for seeking professional medical care but is offered for relaxation and stress reduction, which supports the body's natural healing capabilities. Reiki is a complement to and never a replacement for professional medical care. Colleen and Robyn are not licensed professional healthcare providers and urge you to always seek out the appropriate physical and mental help professional healthcare providers may offer. Results vary by individual.

Are you feeling like time is moving incredibly fast and slow all at the same time? As we navigate these unprecedented times, this mid-year check-in helps you slow down, ground your energy, and see what is right in front of you. Join Robyn and Colleen Benelli to discover how to use Reiki to clear out the collective swirl and recognize the aligned new opportunities waiting for your soul.
Key Insights
Redefining Accomplishment: Our culture trains us to view manifestation only through physical or career status. Reiki invites you to go deeper because new opportunities can also be shifts toward self-care, healing, or creating simply for the joy of it.
Eagle and Mouse Vision: True discernment requires using all parts of your awareness. While long-term "Eagle Vision" holds space for big life plans, daily "Mouse Vision" focuses on the single, practical step you can take right now.
Aligning the System: To accurately asses opportunities, listen to your head, heart, gut, earth, and divine brains to make conscious choices.
Microdosing Reiki: When your mind spins on complex to-do lists, the human self struggles to hear inner guidance. By "microdosing" Reiki on the fly, small breaths, or other quick practices, you shift instantly into deep listening.
People Also Ask (FAQ)
*How can I tell if a new opportunity is aligned with my path?
Use Reiki for discernment by checking it against your current capacity and timing. Listen to your body, and what your logical mind, heart, and gut instinct reveal about your soul's truth.
*What does it mean to "microdose" Reiki on the fly?
Microdosing means using quick, accessible Reiki techniques to pause and reset during busy days. The four-finger breathing exercise, tapping your thumb to each finger sequentially while breathing, grounds your nervous system instantly.
*Why do my manifestations and goals feel stuck or delayed?
Sometimes delays mean your human timing does not match divine timing, or your current capacity. Reiki validates that altered timelines do not make your intentions wrong, they are just delayed.
Connect with Robyn and Colleen
Website: https://reikilifestyle.com
Podcast: https://reikilifestyle.com/podcast/
Community: Join our next Distance Reiki Share: https://reikilifestyle.com/reiki-share/
**DISCLAIMER** This episode is not a substitute for seeking professional medical care but is offered for relaxation and stress reduction, which supports the body's natural healing capabilities. Reiki is a complement to and never a replacement for professional medical care. Colleen and Robyn are not licensed professional healthcare providers and urge you to always seek out the appropriate physical and mental help professional healthcare providers may offer. Results vary by individual.

Are you carrying hidden burdens that cloud your vision of the future? In this guided Reiki journey, Colleen Benelli leads you across the Bridge of Light and into the River of Peace to gently dissolve the anxiety, stress, and old stories holding you back. Step into the Field of Possibilities to clarify your next steps and open your awareness to the aligned opportunities presenting themselves in your life right now.
Key Insights
Somatic Release in the Fascia: High levels of collective stress accumulate physically within the human body's nervous system and fascia. Utilizing the purifying energy of Reiki at the River of Peace gently lifts away these energetic blockages, clearing out the underlying tension, anxiety, and doubt that obscure your true vision.
Sovereignty Through Cord Detachment: Throughout our lives, we inadvertently maintain heavy cords, attachments, and expectations originating from ancestral history, cultural conditioning, or lived trauma. Activating the power of love and divine compassion allows you to dissolve these energetic attachments safely, reclaiming your personal sovereignty and opening up mental space for new pathways.
The Butterfly Effect of Opportunities: Within the Field of Possibilities, every butterfly floating through the meadow represents a unique potential direction or creative idea. Some of these options are meant to be light daydreams, while others will directly approach you; learning to pause allows your body's innate intuition to discern which ones are meant for physical manifestation.
Integrating Divine and Human Research: True spiritual manifestation relies on balance; you must successfully bridge the metaphysical insights gained in the higher realms with real-world execution. Bringing your "divine research" back across the Bridge of Light into your lower chakras ensures your highest insights are securely anchored into logical, everyday action.
People Also Ask (FAQ)
What is the 'Tree of Life' meditation in Reiki?
The Tree of Life meditation is a practice used to establish structural stability and alignment. It serves as a powerful conduit, allowing you to stay balanced and securely rooted into the earth's light while simultaneously opening your heart and soul star to receive higher divine compassion from above.
How do I use automatic writing during a guided meditation?
Automatic writing involves relaxing your analytical focus and letting a pen move across paper immediately following or during a meditation. By bypassing the logical human mind, this practice brings forward direct, uncensored guidance regarding the exact timing and practical reality of your future goals.
Why should I combine my logical mind with intuitive guidance?
True discernment blends your internal guidance with your human guidance (instincts and lower chakras) and your divine guidance (upper chakras). When your logical human mind communicates seamlessly with your heart and soul's knowledge, you gain the clarity necessary to choose authentic paths over passing daydreams.
Connect with Robyn and Colleen
Website: https://reikilifestyle.com
Podcast: https://reikilifestyle.com/podcast/
Community: Join our next Distance Reiki Share: https://reikilifestyle.com/reiki-share/
**DISCLAIMER** This episode is not a substitute for seeking professional medical care but is offered for relaxation and stress reduction, which supports the body's natural healing capabilities. Reiki is a complement to and never a replacement for professional medical care. Colleen and Robyn are not licensed professional healthcare providers and urge you to always seek out the appropriate physical and mental help professional healthcare providers may offer. Results vary by individual.

Join Colleen and Robyn Benelli as they welcome Trauma Therapist Kristy Snedden and Occupational Therapist Heather Corbet to discuss the powerful healing combination of Brainspotting®, Reiki, and poetry. They talk about how the three distinct modalities work in tandem to access the deep, subconscious areas of the brain where trauma, intuition, and creativity reside. Whether you are seeking nervous system safety, looking to accelerate emotional or physical healing, or desiring to awaken hidden creativity, their conversation reveals the infinite possibilities that emerge when you trust your body's natural wisdom. 
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
What is Brainspotting® and the discovery by Dr. David Grand
Discover how Brainspotting® bypasses the analytical mind to access trauma, intuition, and creativity stored directly within the brainstem.
Explore the ways Reiki energy is complementary with Brainspotting® and can accelerate whole-body nervous system regulation and safety.
The value of observing your creativity rather than evaluating it and letting go of the fear of getting it right.
How to release deep programming around perfectionism, cultural expectations, and long-standing emotional blocks.
Understand how specialized body spotting techniques can effectively target chronic illness, physical pain, and medical trauma.
Mentioned in this Episode:
Distance Reiki Symbol (HSZSN)
The Mayo Clinic
Dr. David Grand (Founder of Brainspotting®)
Dr. Frank Corrigan (Brainspotting® Neurobiological Hypothesis)
Laurel Gaia (Reiki Teacher)
Martha Lacey (Reiki Master)
Kristy is an award-winning poet whose poetry appears in various national and international on-line and print literary journals. Her collection, "That Broken Tooth, That Blue Tattoo," is forthcoming from Indolent Books. Her micro-chapbook, "Crows and Angels," is available on Amazon.
Connect with Kristy & Heather
Kristy
Website: www.kristysnedden.com.
Facebook: Kristy Snedden-Poetry
Instagram: kristy_snedden_poetry
Email at: ksnedden@me.com
Heather
Websites: heathercorbet.com | heathercorbetspiritualadvisor.com
Email: support@heathercorbet.com
 Connect with Colleen & Robyn
ReikiLifestyle.com
Reiki Lifestyle Podcast - On major podcast channels
Free Online Reiki Share: Tuesdays, 9:30 am – 11:00 am Pacific Time, for a global Reiki healing circle.
Free phone consultation: with Danni
Instagram: @reikilifestyleofficial
Email: info@reikilifestyle.com
 Love the Show?
If this episode helped you on your journey, please Subscribe and leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Your support helps us share the gift of Reiki with more people around the world!

Embrace the energy of the solstice cycle change to realign your spirit and steps. In this session, Robyn Benelli shares a Reiki Journey designed to help you pause, listen, gather, and update your intentions with inner honesty. Discover how whole-body listening and automatic writing activate your divine mind, heart mind, and gut mind to reveal your life-giving path forward.
Key Insights
The Power of the Grounded Pause: Taking a moment to step out of daily pressure creates a sacred space for your true wisdom to rise. Activating Reiki during a pause shifts you out of striving and opens you to receive love and guidance.
Activating Your Multiple Minds: True alignment occurs when you listen on a deeper level across your whole self. Activating your divine mind, head mind, heart mind, gut mind, and earth mind synchronizes your intuition and intellect, allowing you to process life experiences with massive clarity.
Information in Every Experience: Every aspect of your journey carries valuable data for your soul's evolution. Inspiration, resistance, delays, fatigue, and joy are all filled with information that helps you understand exactly what you need and what you are ready for right now.
Updating Intention as Alignment: Your dreams naturally grow stronger when they include your current truth and respect your present capacity. Updating your intention releases old, mismatched pressures and delivers a life-giving, honest path forward that matches your timeline.
People Also Ask, FAQ
What is the Pause, Listen, Gather, and Move Forward Reiki method?
It is a structured Reiki practice that can be done as a deep journey or quickly on the fly. By pausing to activate Reiki, listening with your whole body, gathering wisdom from your experiences, and updating your intentions, you can confidently choose an honest next step aligned with your current capacity.
How do you use automatic writing during a Reiki journey?
Automatic writing is a practice where you activate the Reiki flow and allow questions or guidance to stream through your pen without analytical filtering. It serves as a beautiful tool during the "listening" and "gathering" phases to capture the quiet, authentic truth of your energy and your guides.
Why is updating an intention considered an act of alignment in Reiki?
Because you are a completely different person now than you were at the beginning of a cycle. Updating your intention allows your goals to evolve alongside your personal growth, ensuring that your path remains grounded, honest, and perfectly matched to your current capacity and true timing.
Connect with Robyn and Colleen
Website: https://reikilifestyle.com
Podcast: https://reikilifestyle.com/podcast/
Community: Join our next Distance Reiki Share: https://reikilifestyle.com/reiki-share/
**DISCLAIMER** This episode is not a substitute for seeking professional medical care but is offered for relaxation and stress reduction, which supports the body's natural healing capabilities. Reiki is a complement to and never a replacement for professional medical care. Colleen and Robyn are not licensed professional healthcare providers and urge you to always seek out the appropriate physical and mental help professional healthcare providers may offer. Results vary by individual.