Karuna Reiki® is a form of Reiki that focuses on compassion. It helps with deep emotional healing, especially for people who have gone through trauma, loss, or spiritual pain. The word Karuna means “compassionate action.” That means caring in a way that brings real healing—not just feelings, but change.

Over the years, I’ve used both White Light Reiki and Karuna Reiki® in my sessions. White Light Reiki is a traditional method most people learn first. It’s gentle, calming, and helps balance the whole body. Karuna Reiki® goes a bit deeper. It helps release patterns that feel stuck—things like grief, fear, old emotional wounds, or spiritual fatigue. It feels steady and kind, like someone walking beside you through a hard time.

Reiki is also gaining wider acceptance in the medical establishment. Hospitals are incorporating it into their roster of patient services, often with their own Reiki-trained physicians, nurses and support staff. Reiki was in use in hospital operating rooms as early as the mid-90's.(4) Since then its acceptance in medicine has grown. It is now listed in a nursing "scope and standards of practice" publication as an accepted form of care,(5) and a 2008 USA Today article reported that in 2007 15% of U.S. hospitals (over 800) offered Reiki as a regular part of patient services.(6) For a detailed description of 64 Reiki hospital programs, please go to www.centerforreikiresearch.org