REIKI The nature of healing is universal, which means it is everyone's - Diane Stein HISTORY OF REIKI Reiki is a powerful system of healing that utilizes specific techniques for restoring and balancing the natural life force energy within the body. It is a holistic, natural, hands-on energy healing system that touches individuals on all levels: mind, body, and spirit. Reiki (pronounced ray-key) is a Japanese word representing universal life energy, the energy which is all around us. It is derived from rei, meaning "transcendental spirit" or "universal" and ki, meaning "vital life force energy". Reiki is the universal God/Goddess within energy that fuels life and comprises the four bodies of one's aura. Reiki is a form of laying on of hands healing with origins traced to Tibet, and traveling from there in two migrations to India and China. From China it reached Japan and from there to the United States. Dr. Mikao Usui, a Japanese Christian educator who was part of a Christian seminary in Kyoto, Japan, is acknowledged for rediscovering the root system in the mid- to late 1800's. Usui began an extensive 21 year study of the healing phenomena of history's greatest spiritual leaders to discover how to perform similar miracles. Later he came to the United States to study at the University of Chicago. After receiving his doctoral degree in theology, he returned to his research in Japan. After entering a Zen monastery near Kyoto, Usui spent seven years studying ancient sutras (Buddhist teachings written in Sanskrit). It is there that he discovered ancient sounds and symbols that are linked directly to the human body and nervous system which activate the universal life energy and healing. Usui then underwent a metaphysical experience (a 21 day vision quest to meditate) and became empowered to use these sounds and symbols to heal. He called this form of healing Reiki and taught it throughout Japan until his death in 1893. An advanced student of Usui, Dr. Chujiro Hayashi, operated a Reiki clinic in Tokyo. He was the second grand master after Usui. Hawayo Takata, a Japanese-American woman from Hawaii, came to Chujiro Hayashi's Reiki Clinic in 1935 with cancer. Her illness healed by a series of Reiki treatments, she asked to be taught the methods. To gain acceptance, she sold all she had to go to Japan with her two daughters. Takata learned healing at the Tokyo Reiki Center, returning to Hawaii a year later to practice it. In 1938, knowing that World War II was coming, Hayashi initiated Takata as a Master, recognized her as his succesor, and died. After 40 years of practicing the Reiki Healing methods, she passed the Master's knowledge on to her granddaughter, Phyllis Furumoto, in 1979, before her death in 1980. Currently Phyllis Furumoto is the head of the Reiki Alliance, located in Cataldo Idaho. This organization promotes "the Usui System of Natural Healing". Another form of Reiki, called the Radiance Technique is promoted by the Radiance Technique Association International, based in St. Petersburg, Florida. this organization is headed by Dr. Barbara Kay, former student of Takata's. WHAT IS REIKI? The Usui system of Natural Healing balances and strengthens the body's natural energy, promoting it's ability to heal itself. Besides use in serious illness, Reiki promotes the natural healing process in many other areas. Problems like sports injuries, cuts, burns, internal diseases, emotiona disorders, and stress-related illnesses are helped through the use of Reiki. While Reiki is complete within itself, it also maximizes the effect of other forms of therapy such as massage, Chiropractic, physiotherapy, Acupuncture, Rebirthing, Homeopathy, meditation, psychotherapy, and other forms of physical and energy body therapies. Reiki is not a massage technique. A treatment involves the placing of the practitioner's hands on the recipient's body in a passive way. Treatments are carried out in an environment that is as quiet and comfortable as possible. The recipient remains fully clothed during the hands-on healing touch, most people experience a gentle tingling warmth coming from the practitioner's hands. The position of the hands is changed about every five minutes, and a treatment lasts about an hour. Reiki can not be learned from a book. Through a series of attunement, part of the initiation process for new Reiki practitioners, a Reiki master employs the ancient sounds and symbols that attune an individual's nervous system to a higher level of energy. A level is reached in which the student-initiate, neither highly trained or especially gifted, can then experience more energy flowing throughout her hands, giving her the power to heal herself and others. HOW IS REIKI TAUGHT? The degree sytem in Reiki, with its patriarchal hierarchy and cost, makes the knowledge exclusive and restricted. The established cost for the information and openings of a first degree Reiki healer is $150, of a second degree $500, and of a third degree Reiki Master $10,000. Each degrees information takes an evening or so to teach. The nature of healing is universal, which means it is everyone's. The information should be available to those who have positive intent, not just those who are affluent. Reiki is taught in three levels or degrees. In level one or First Degree, the participant recieves attunement or initiation to the Reiki energy by the Reiki master. This permanently guides her to greater healing power. She learns how to do full body treatments on herself and others. In level two or Second Degree, the participant recieves attunements which increase the strength of the practitioner's healing energy. This primarily involves learning the sounds and symbols (formulas) which are used in advanced bodywork and absentee healing. In level three or third Degree the participant receives the third-level empowerment and the final symbol. It is taught mainly for personal growth. They are also able to give the Level one Reiki attunement. HOW CAN REIKI BE PERFORMED? The attunement ritual opens the student's healing channels quickly in a beautiful stylized way. The process is a remembering, as every one has a universal life force energy within her. Power and control grow with practice and use. When this channel for healing is opened the healer learns to draw healing power from the universe. She receives the vitality by way of her transpersonal point chakra, in through her crown and flowing through her body. The energy flow leaves her hands, which direct the healng by their placement on the recipient's own pain area or chakras. The healer does not get tired or deplete herself. "Here is how I first experienced this energy and still teach it. First rub your hands together to cause a friction, then pull the palms apart and facing eachother at a distance of about six inches. After a few moments, a tingling, heat, magnetic, cold or rippling sensation happens. This is woman's aura, the Reiki/laying on of hands life energy. Play with the sensation, tossing the energy like a spongy ball or pulling it like taffy between your facing palms. Keep the hands apart but not touching eachother or anything else. The feeling grows and finally fades. Try it again." ~ Diane Stein The fingers and thumb are always held close together. Each finger is the ending of a zone each with a plus or minus electrical energy charge. By holding the fingers and thumb together, the energy field is linked. After playing with the energy this way, run your hands under some cold tap water or place them on the earth to ground the collection of energies. Try channeling this energy, drawing it from the universe. Imagine a flow of light starting from above your head and moving through the chakras from crown to heart to palms. The flow runs through the upper chakras, crown, brow, throat, heart, hands. Establish the image of that flow and visualize it holding you hands together Feel the energy making a triangle with points at the crown and at both elbows, with a bisecting light column running through it, circuit closed with palms touching. Feel the energy moving in a circle, , leaving the body again and returning upward through the crown center. Establish this as a continuous flow. Now move the hands apart so they are no longer touching. Do not be afraid to use the energy, directing it at another person. Keep fingers and thumb held together and lay on the recipient's pain area and/or chakra area related to the part of the body/system needing to be healed. Continue to channel the flow of healing energy for as long as you feel sensations in your hands. This can be for a few seconds or as long as half an hour. There are also several Reiki Positions that are used in healing. Three positions are on the head, nine on the body and four optional placements on the back. A full Reiki healing treats every organ of the body. The energy channeled in Reiki is positive, never harmful, always helpful. Kastner, Mark, L.A.c., Dipl.Ac., and Burroughs, Hugh Alternative Healing The - Complete A to Z Guide to More Than 150 Alternative Therapies Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1996, P.218-220. Stein, Diane All Women Are Healers - A Comprehensive Guide to Natural Healing The Crossing Press, California, 1990, P.37-57. Recommended Reading-------Reiki for a New Millenium - William RandReiki - Healing Touch, First and Second Degree Manual - William RandAll Women are Healers - Diane SteinEssential Reiki - Diane Stein International Center for Reiki Training 21421 Hilltop St #28 Southfield, MI 48034 (248)948-8112 Reiki Alliance P.O. Box 41 Cataldo, ID 83810 (208)682-3535 Reiki Healing Institute 465 First Street Encinitas, CA 92024 (619)944-7013 Radiance Technique Association International, Inc. P.O. Box 40570 St. Petersburg, FL 33743-0570 Locate a Reiki Practitioner in your Area List of Reiki Organizations Request a Distant Reiki Healing Enhancing Nursing with Reiki Practice Reiki for Doctors and Nurses, and in Hospitals More on . . 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The nature of healing is universal, which means it is everyone's - Diane Stein
HISTORY OF REIKI Reiki is a powerful system of healing that utilizes specific techniques for restoring and balancing the natural life force energy within the body. It is a holistic, natural, hands-on energy healing system that touches individuals on all levels: mind, body, and spirit.
Reiki (pronounced ray-key) is a Japanese word representing universal life energy, the energy which is all around us. It is derived from rei, meaning "transcendental spirit" or "universal" and ki, meaning "vital life force energy". Reiki is the universal God/Goddess within energy that fuels life and comprises the four bodies of one's aura.
Reiki is a form of laying on of hands healing with origins traced to Tibet, and traveling from there in two migrations to India and China. From China it reached Japan and from there to the United States.
Dr. Mikao Usui, a Japanese Christian educator who was part of a Christian seminary in Kyoto, Japan, is acknowledged for rediscovering the root system in the mid- to late 1800's.
Usui began an extensive 21 year study of the healing phenomena of history's greatest spiritual leaders to discover how to perform similar miracles. Later he came to the United States to study at the University of Chicago. After receiving his doctoral degree in theology, he returned to his research in Japan.
After entering a Zen monastery near Kyoto, Usui spent seven years studying ancient sutras (Buddhist teachings written in Sanskrit). It is there that he discovered ancient sounds and symbols that are linked directly to the human body and nervous system which activate the universal life energy and healing.
Usui then underwent a metaphysical experience (a 21 day vision quest to meditate) and became empowered to use these sounds and symbols to heal. He called this form of healing Reiki and taught it throughout Japan until his death in 1893.
An advanced student of Usui, Dr. Chujiro Hayashi, operated a Reiki clinic in Tokyo. He was the second grand master after Usui.
Hawayo Takata, a Japanese-American woman from Hawaii, came to Chujiro Hayashi's Reiki Clinic in 1935 with cancer. Her illness healed by a series of Reiki treatments, she asked to be taught the methods. To gain acceptance, she sold all she had to go to Japan with her two daughters. Takata learned healing at the Tokyo Reiki Center, returning to Hawaii a year later to practice it. In 1938, knowing that World War II was coming, Hayashi initiated Takata as a Master, recognized her as his succesor, and died. After 40 years of practicing the Reiki Healing methods, she passed the Master's knowledge on to her granddaughter, Phyllis Furumoto, in 1979, before her death in 1980.
Currently Phyllis Furumoto is the head of the Reiki Alliance, located in Cataldo Idaho. This organization promotes "the Usui System of Natural Healing". Another form of Reiki, called the Radiance Technique is promoted by the Radiance Technique Association International, based in St. Petersburg, Florida. this organization is headed by Dr. Barbara Kay, former student of Takata's.
WHAT IS REIKI? The Usui system of Natural Healing balances and strengthens the body's natural energy, promoting it's ability to heal itself. Besides use in serious illness, Reiki promotes the natural healing process in many other areas. Problems like sports injuries, cuts, burns, internal diseases, emotiona disorders, and stress-related illnesses are helped through the use of Reiki.
While Reiki is complete within itself, it also maximizes the effect of other forms of therapy such as massage, Chiropractic, physiotherapy, Acupuncture, Rebirthing, Homeopathy, meditation, psychotherapy, and other forms of physical and energy body therapies.
Reiki is not a massage technique. A treatment involves the placing of the practitioner's hands on the recipient's body in a passive way. Treatments are carried out in an environment that is as quiet and comfortable as possible. The recipient remains fully clothed during the hands-on healing touch, most people experience a gentle tingling warmth coming from the practitioner's hands. The position of the hands is changed about every five minutes, and a treatment lasts about an hour.
Reiki can not be learned from a book. Through a series of attunement, part of the initiation process for new Reiki practitioners, a Reiki master employs the ancient sounds and symbols that attune an individual's nervous system to a higher level of energy. A level is reached in which the student-initiate, neither highly trained or especially gifted, can then experience more energy flowing throughout her hands, giving her the power to heal herself and others.
HOW IS REIKI TAUGHT? The degree sytem in Reiki, with its patriarchal hierarchy and cost, makes the knowledge exclusive and restricted. The established cost for the information and openings of a first degree Reiki healer is $150, of a second degree $500, and of a third degree Reiki Master $10,000. Each degrees information takes an evening or so to teach. The nature of healing is universal, which means it is everyone's. The information should be available to those who have positive intent, not just those who are affluent.
Reiki is taught in three levels or degrees. In level one or First Degree, the participant recieves attunement or initiation to the Reiki energy by the Reiki master. This permanently guides her to greater healing power. She learns how to do full body treatments on herself and others.
In level two or Second Degree, the participant recieves attunements which increase the strength of the practitioner's healing energy. This primarily involves learning the sounds and symbols (formulas) which are used in advanced bodywork and absentee healing.
In level three or third Degree the participant receives the third-level empowerment and the final symbol. It is taught mainly for personal growth. They are also able to give the Level one Reiki attunement.
HOW CAN REIKI BE PERFORMED? The attunement ritual opens the student's healing channels quickly in a beautiful stylized way. The process is a remembering, as every one has a universal life force energy within her. Power and control grow with practice and use. When this channel for healing is opened the healer learns to draw healing power from the universe. She receives the vitality by way of her transpersonal point chakra, in through her crown and flowing through her body. The energy flow leaves her hands, which direct the healng by their placement on the recipient's own pain area or chakras. The healer does not get tired or deplete herself.
Try channeling this energy, drawing it from the universe. Imagine a flow of light starting from above your head and moving through the chakras from crown to heart to palms. The flow runs through the upper chakras, crown, brow, throat, heart, hands. Establish the image of that flow and visualize it holding you hands together Feel the energy making a triangle with points at the crown and at both elbows, with a bisecting light column running through it, circuit closed with palms touching. Feel the energy moving in a circle, , leaving the body again and returning upward through the crown center. Establish this as a continuous flow.
Now move the hands apart so they are no longer touching. Do not be afraid to use the energy, directing it at another person. Keep fingers and thumb held together and lay on the recipient's pain area and/or chakra area related to the part of the body/system needing to be healed. Continue to channel the flow of healing energy for as long as you feel sensations in your hands. This can be for a few seconds or as long as half an hour.
There are also several Reiki Positions that are used in healing. Three positions are on the head, nine on the body and four optional placements on the back. A full Reiki healing treats every organ of the body.
The energy channeled in Reiki is positive, never harmful, always helpful.
Kastner, Mark, L.A.c., Dipl.Ac., and Burroughs, Hugh Alternative Healing The - Complete A to Z Guide to More Than 150 Alternative Therapies Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1996, P.218-220.
Stein, Diane All Women Are Healers - A Comprehensive Guide to Natural Healing The Crossing Press, California, 1990, P.37-57.
International Center for Reiki Training 21421 Hilltop St #28 Southfield, MI 48034 (248)948-8112
Reiki Alliance P.O. Box 41 Cataldo, ID 83810 (208)682-3535
Reiki Healing Institute 465 First Street Encinitas, CA 92024 (619)944-7013
Radiance Technique Association International, Inc. P.O. Box 40570 St. Petersburg, FL 33743-0570
Locate a Reiki Practitioner in your Area List of Reiki Organizations
Request a Distant Reiki Healing
Enhancing Nursing with Reiki Practice Reiki for Doctors and Nurses, and in Hospitals More on . . Reiki and Nursing The Reiki Nursing Connection A National Organization of Nurses who Practice Reiki
Phyllis Furomoto True History of Reiki Higher Energy Systems and Metaphysical Healing Reiki Pages by Light and Adonea The Science of Reiki
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