Although rapport built over time between the coach and client, the coach can put the right foot forward with a Design the Alliance (DA) conversation. DAs engages the client and coach in a robust conversation of many small agreements.

Inside coach-client conversations are two kinds of queries that behave like two kinds of camera lens. One lens is a portrait lens, where the focus is on the words spoken by the client. The second is a panoramic lens, where the field of listening includes observations the voice and gestures of the client.

A disruptive question catches the client, who is caught in a loop. It puts them off guard, into the hot seat, and calls upon their subconscious, by using imagery to create scenarios where the client has to respond to discomfort, difficulties, and curve-balls.

There could be more than four million Reiki practitioners world wide, trained by hundreds of thousands of teachers from so many lineages. Here are some commonalities that joins us all together.

As practitioners, we are ask to honor the precepts (Gokkai) and continually develop our relationship with Reiki. This happens in many ways.

If reading a book about Reiki is a way you want to further your study, here are four of my favorites.

Reiki originates and emanates from the universe and not the practitioner. Hence, any healing that happens was created by the client’s relationship with Reiki. Reiki practitioners are not healers. I do sense bio-energy and am open to signals from a client or intuition as to where to place my hands next. This is the active part. The passive part is maintaining a heart presence and the presence of mind to best facilitate my client’s connection with Reiki.

Location of the abdominal energy center (Manipura chakra vs Solar Plexus) is glossed over as a preference. I sought firmament applying anatomy and physiology, to understand the purpose and meaning of energy centers. I did this and created my own term, Energy Fount™. There are twelve. Nine are on the body and three are within a body’s intimate field.

When you reference the Ajna chakra and Third-eye, you are referencing 2 different glands in 2 different locations. This blog reorients the pineal gland to its true location. I show you how to locate yours, and what is there is amazing!

By grounding The Middle Way on the body, I have a useful framework to master boundaries, welcome human expression, and find confidence in personal transformation. And none of this requires retreating from humanity. Live with grace.

If I knew how The Middle Way worked I could remain on the path, rather than loosing my way from time to time. I felt close, as a crow flies. I also felt far, as if a ravine separated where I was from where I needed to go. And so I picked up my Kokoro walkingstick and continued on my path.

When I first encountered the concept of The Middle Way I knew it fit in my life somehow, but I needed to understand it better. Often the new understanding is less like a final destination and more like a launching pad.