When a place carries the memory of war
Over years of holding the Blue Marble and offering Marta Getty’s mantra, the practice has also found its way to places marked by violence. This personal account describes offering Reiki to the land, listening with humility and widening the circle of remembrance.
Holding the Earth as a whole
Blue Earth begins with a simple practice: holding the Blue Marble and offering the intention:
“I direct this energy of Reiki to heal and reconcile Planet Earth and all its inhabitants.”
— Marta Getty
In the account shared here, years of returning to this mantra opened a more local expression of the same intention. The practitioner lives in a part of Italy deeply affected by wartime occupation and began visiting sites where people had suffered and died.
Offering Reiki where suffering took place
The visits included forgotten graves, execution sites, forests and places where partisans had been killed. Before offering Reiki, the practitioner asked permission from the Earth. At the sites, she placed her hands and feet on the ground and offered Reiki to the land and to the memory held there. Reiki friends and students also supported the practice from a distance.
The first visits felt intense; the surroundings were experienced as heavy and overgrown. On a later visit, the practitioner noticed that graves had been cleaned and visited, and that a cross marking a place of killings had been rediscovered.
These changes were deeply meaningful within the practice. They are reported as observations, not as evidence that Reiki caused them. The intention was not to erase history or to force a result, but to bring attention, respect and care to places connected with grief.
A reflection from the Blue Earth practice
A personal video reflection recorded outdoors as part of the experiences shared through this practice.
Remembering everyone affected
During a later pilgrimage, the reflection widened to include the shame and grief carried by German soldiers returning from war. This did not excuse violence or diminish the suffering of those harmed. It was a recognition that war touches many lives and that reconciliation asks us to see the full human field of pain, responsibility and consequence.
The practice holds victims, those who caused harm, descendants, local communities and the living land within one intention. Inclusion does not mean approval, forgetting or abandoning discernment. It means allowing care to reach beyond the divisions that conflict leaves behind.
Presence without a promise
Reiki is offered here as spiritual practice and intention. The account describes how the practitioner experienced the places and what she observed over time; it cannot establish a measurable Reiki effect on land or prove that Reiki changed the course of history.
The practice begins with permission and respect: listen to local custodians and communities, honour memorials and graves, and do not disturb a site. Reiki can be offered quietly, on location or from a distance, according to the practitioner’s existing training. There is no need to touch the ground or to share personal stories.
From the whole Earth to the place before us
The global mantra and local acts of remembrance belong to the same invitation: to meet ourselves, one another and the living Earth with presence and responsibility.
Return to the Blue Earth practice