| These tools enhance health and happiness. Reiki | | | | but different from what is called an attunement. |
| balances and surrounds with harmony. In all ancient | | | | Where are the sacred tools hidden? They began to |
| scripts, the search for knowledge is spoken of as one | | | | be covered over around the time Reiki crossed the |
| of the most noble. Knowledge is stored in many | | | | oceans in 1938. Reiki began being practiced in many |
| places. Usui Mikao, the founder of Usui Reiki Ryoho, | | | | altered ways in the nineteen eighties and nineties, and |
| commonly shortened to Reiki, searched for knowledge | | | | new names created. One person from the US and |
| beginning in childhood. He never attended any college | | | | another from Australia had books published showing |
| or university. He held various types of employment, | | | | numerous Reiki symbols that countless Reiki teachers |
| traveled, was a parent, and studied among other things | | | | had created to help students learn. Reiki symbols have |
| Zen under Japanese Zen monks. While not searching | | | | no power and are not sacred tools; they are excellent |
| for any specific thing, through disciplined meditation in | | | | training wheels as one learns the feel of the energies |
| 1921 he connected to the vibrations of love and | | | | new to him or her. |
| harmony of universal energy and called the system he | | | | Recently I was asked if the Reiki guides would be |
| developed Reiki Ryoho. | | | | angry if certain symbols were not drawn correctly. |
| Plato once asked, "What whole way of life would | | | | The practice of Reiki is a blissful journey to the higher |
| make living more worthwhile for each of us". Mikao | | | | dimensions where anger and worry do not exist. How |
| Usui in the early 1920s said Reiki Ryoho is the "secret | | | | can any being in the highest dimensions be angry if no |
| to health and happiness". The Gokai (five precepts or | | | | anger exists? As far as worrying about which symbol |
| principles) is the backbone of Reiki. The five simple | | | | is used for which illness, worry does not exist either. |
| lines directly translated are actually three concepts and | | | | Note that the translation is the word "worry", but the |
| although the words are few, the meanings go to the | | | | meaning is the kind surrounding things you can do |
| core of balance and harmony that promote health and | | | | nothing about except loose sleep over. As Mikao Usui |
| happiness. The first line is to be without anger and | | | | taught, he created three symbols to help certain |
| worry, ultimately leaving space for happiness. | | | | students learn to feel the energies. If a person |
| Happiness is a subjective state of mind, and much | | | | continues on his or her Reiki journey, training wheels |
| research has been done on the topic. Focusing on | | | | and any material supports are discarded so that the |
| happiness, "Positive Psychology" is now being taught in | | | | person can continue on the journey without excess |
| such well-regarded US universities as Harvard and the | | | | weight. |
| University of Pennsylvania. | | | | For Reiki to flow at its full strength a person not only |
| Various people since Mikao Usui's passing in 1926 have | | | | must have studied with a qualified Reiki Shihan, but also |
| blended other practices into their practice of Reiki. | | | | be ready to have his or her channel opened to its |
| Some practices such as Chakra healing use other | | | | complete width. A person's channel will only open as |
| forms of energy. In scientific English terms, energy can | | | | much as he or she is ready for at that time. Benching |
| neither be created nor destroyed, but changes form. | | | | the mind to allow Reiki to flow uninterrupted requires |
| Reiki is a unique form of universal energy. A physic | | | | guidance, discipline, and much practice. Reiki replenishes |
| healer tunes the transmitted pulse of energy to the | | | | any life force energy, or Chi, that may attach to Reiki |
| level required to heal a specific illness. Reiki | | | | flowing through a practitioner or teacher. Some people |
| automatically tunes to the level needed to promote | | | | refer to Reiki as Chi, implying that Reiki is life force |
| healing of mind and body, and promote spiritual growth. | | | | energy. A closer look shows that life force energy is |
| In Chakra healing, it is helpful to know the chakric | | | | only one kind of Chi. Having completed the highest |
| connections of the coccygeal and sacral vertebrae. In | | | | level in several styles of Reiki I know that Reiki is |
| Reiki practice, it is only required to have an enough | | | | different then life force energy, and is very different |
| discipline to keep the mind from causing interference, | | | | then the electrical energy that by accident one day |
| as in trying to direct. Some healing practices require | | | | gave me an unexpected zap. |
| material tools, Reiki requires only a trained body to flow | | | | Sometimes it is hard to accept what usually cannot be |
| through. Reiki practitioners listen to the ills of others, but | | | | identified by any of the functioning five common |
| they trust in the wisdom of the universe leaving any | | | | senses, but at the same time most people put faith in |
| diagnosing up to licensed medical care professionals. | | | | his or her "gut feelings". Reiki learned from a qualified |
| Reiki knows where to go and what to do when it gets | | | | Reiki Shihan makes putting faith in unconditional Reiki |
| there, neither the practitioner nor the receiver needs to | | | | automatic. At Usui Reiki Ryoho International 2002 while |
| know. | | | | listening to a presentation given by Hiroshi Doi I saw |
| One simple law of the universe is that you will attract | | | | what I never had before. Besides being thankful for the |
| to yourself what you put out. Isaac Newton said, | | | | other Reiki master/teachers I met at URRI, I will always |
| "Every action has an equal and opposite reaction"; | | | | be grateful for the clearer understanding I received of |
| energy pushes back on its source. Living by | | | | Reiki's sacred tools. |
| Usui-Sensei's concepts neither anger nor worry will be | | | | No manual came with the connection Mikao Usui made |
| attracted to you, but kindness will be. | | | | in 1921, so the system he developed required a great |
| I am very fortunate to have studied under three Reiki | | | | deal from his prior knowledge and practice. Many of |
| Shihans (teachers also called masters) that each in his | | | | the things Mikao Usui shared are kept sacred within |
| own way pointed the way to the sacred tools of Usui | | | | the walls of URR Gakkai. Beginning in 1999 Hiroshi Doi, |
| Reiki Ryoho. I will never stop learning, but my Gendai | | | | a member of the URR Gakkai began sharing some |
| Reiki-ho (Reiki method for healing) and Komyo (light | | | | with a few Reiki Shihans outside of the URR Gakkai. |
| bright) Reiki practices are rooted in my studies with | | | | More is being revealed and many canards and |
| those three Reiki Shihans. One is member of the Usui | | | | symbols have been put to rest, but the sacred tools |
| Reiki Ryoho Gakkai, the original Usui Reiki Ryoho | | | | remain as they always have been. |
| society in Japan. Another is also a Buddhist monk in | | | | There is nothing wrong with adding anything to the |
| Japan. Another living in Canada has done an | | | | spiritual practice of Reiki, unless it is something the |
| unbelievable amount of research in factual, not | | | | person adding does not fully understand and harm is |
| created, history. There are only two Reiki teachers | | | | caused by the addition. No style of Usui Reiki Ryoho is |
| between two of my Reiki Shihans and Mikao Usui, and | | | | better then another, and every level is honorable. |
| another of my Shihans has only three Reiki teachers | | | | There are many wise qualified Reiki Shihans, each with |
| between himself and Mikao Usui. | | | | his or her own guidelines to share; through guidelines, |
| The sacred tools of the spiritual practice of Reiki can | | | | discipline, trust in the universe, letting go the ego, and |
| humble any man or women. Mikao Usui shared some | | | | practice the sacred tools of Reiki can be seen. |
| with 2,000 students. Three of those students he | | | | I point the way for my students just as my Reiki |
| shared enough with so that each could connect others | | | | Shihans did for me. Each attunement opens a person's |
| with universal energy. The transfer of energy that | | | | channel wider, but it is the sacred tools of Reiki rather |
| allows another to connect to universal energy was | | | | then symbols or any added supports that allow the |
| called Reiju. From the nineteen twenties and thirties | | | | end of the journey, enlightment, to be reached. The |
| Reiju has a factual history that is too lengthy to go into | | | | sacred tools of Reiki cannot be purchased nor can |
| at this time. Because of world events at the time Reiki | | | | they be written in words that everyone understands. |
| first crossed the oceans, created history was best told | | | | With Reiki's sacred tools, a person is in a state where |
| and techniques were altered. The Gendai Reiju I | | | | the mind is perpetually filled with the peace, tranquility, |
| practice, which was shared with me by a member of | | | | and joy that is health of the whole person. |
| the URR Gakkai, is a very powerful focused energy, | | | | |