Benefits:
- provides deep relaxation
- increases energy flow
- relieves stress and tension
- cleanses the body of toxins
- first aid response to injury or trauma and reduces recovery time
- boots the immune system
- releases energy blockages
- induces sleep and relieves insomnia
- offers unconditional love
- promotes peace and calmness
- can spark our innate creativity
- can treat emotional wounds
- helps us release negative aspects of ourselves
- brings our goals and intentions into fruition
- connects you to the earth
Reiki can heal on a spiritual, emotional and physical level. It is for everyone
and every living being including children, pets and plants.
History:
Dr. Mikao Usui (1865 – 1926) lived in Kyoto Japan in the mid 19th century. He was converted to Christianity by missionaries and became a minister as well as a teacher of the faith. While he was a dean of a small Christian University, one of his student s asked him if he believed in the healing miracles of Christ, he replied “Yes”, they then asked if he knew how Jesus had healed people and why there weren’t more healers in the world, and if Mr.Ususi could teach them the healing ways. He said he could not and did not have an answer for them. His Japanese honor compelled him to resign and this led him on a life pursuit for answers.
The missionaries were from the USA and so he traveled there and enrolled in the University of Chicago and studied there for seven years. He earned a doctorate in Theology and then returned to Japan and studied in a Buddhist monastery. The Buddhist said that the focus of the Buddhist healing was not on the physical but on healing the spirit. Dr. Mikao was still determined to continue his search and ended up in a Zen monastery. The Abbot agreed with him that there must be a way to heal the spirit as well as the body but the process must have been lost or forgotten over the years. He learnt Chinese, Indian and Tibetan languages so he could study the ancient sutras but still did not find answers as to how to make the techniques work. The Abbot then suggested he go on a 21 day fast and meditation retreat for enlightenment.
It was the sacred mountain of Mount Kuri Yama outside of Kyoto that he walked up and on his way he gathered 21 stones to throw away, one a day to keep track of his time. Each day passed and nothing happened and he became very discouraged until on the 21st day near dawn that he saw a huge ball of light coming towards him from the horizon. He was terrified and wanted to run but his instincts told him to wait and that this may be the answer he had been waiting for. The light had struck him right in the center of his forehead and a burst of rainbow colored bubbles appeared, and in each bubble contained a Sanskrit character (a Reiki symbol ) the meanings of each and how to use them. This is considered the first miracle. On his way back to tell the Abbott of his experience 3 other healing miracles took place.
He had stubbed his toe badly on some rocks while coming down the mountain and intuitively he reached down and held his toe with his hand and was astonished a few moments later that the toe had stopped bleeding and had healed. He stopped at an Inn to eat and noticed that the owner’s granddaughter had an acute toothache and had not been able to go see a dentist so he held her swollen jaw with his hands and soon the pain and swelling had disappeared. Once he arrived at the Zen monastery he found the Abbott in pain from Arthritis and once again he placed his hands on the affected areas and soon realized that the Abbott’s discomfort had eased.
Dr. Usui choose to work in the beggars’ quarter of Kyoto for several years to help relieve suffering and pain. However, after a few years he noticed that some of the beggars who he had helped and had started afresh were returning to the quarter to beg again and said it was much easier this way as apposed to helping themselves. Dr. Mikao was very discouraged and realized although he had helped them physically he had not helped them spiritually as the monks had said. He began to understand that they were not taking any responsibility for their situation and were not showing gratitude for what they were receiving. He then went back to the monastery to discover a series of daily principles for one to live their lives by. This is how the five principles were created. They are a way for us to appreciate life and to grow and change.
The five principles are:
Just for today: do not get angry
Just for today: do not worry
Just for today: give thanks and be grateful to others
Just for today: earn your living honestly
Just for today: be kind to all living things
The Lineage:
Dr.Mikao Usui met Dr. Churjiro Hayasha, a retired Navel officer, and the two worked together for many years. In the early 20’s Dr.Usui chose Hayashi as his successor, to carry on the tradition of Reiki. Dr.Hayashi opened a clinic in Tokyo where he treated many people and went to their homes if they could not visit the clinic. It was there that he met a Japanese-American women named Hawayto Takata. She was born in Hawaii and after being widowed and trying to cope with two young children she developed depression as well as physical disorders. She traveled back to Japan to visit her parents who had arranged surgery for her. Just before the surgery she had serious doubts and asked her surgeon if he knew of any other options. The surgeon told her of Dr. Hayashi’s clinic and so she went there for treatment. Skeptical at first, she began regular sessions of Reiki from all the healing practitioners in the clinic and was amazed of the heat that she felt from their hands. She would look for electrical equipment nearby but they convinced her it was from the healing force of energy. After several months she was cured and was so impressed she herself asked to be initiated so she could take the teachings back to Hawaii to practice. In the last ten years of her life Mrs. Takata trained at least 22 practitioners into level 1 and 2 Reiki. It was after Mrs. Takata’s death that her granddaughter Phyllis Lei Furomoto and another Master Dr.Barbara Weber Ray joined together to promote the Usui system of Reiki. Phyllis Lei Furomoto was asked to be the Grand Master but soon changed the system so that people caring their third degree could initiate others into level 1 and 2 and not just the Grand Master. This has allowed the knowledge of the taditional Usui System to be spread even further throughout the world.
Levels of Reiki Training:
There are three levels of training for Reiki. In level 1 the student learns the history of Reiki and the basic hand placements for giving self treatments and for treating others. The Reiki Master will perform anywhere from 1 – 4 “attunements” on the student to initiate them into being a level 1 Reiki Practitioner. It is the attunement process that separates the Reiki teachings from other healing-touch systems. The student will then practice their full body treatments on themselves and others for either several weeks, months or even years before initiating into the next level.
Level 2 offers the students increased power and the ability to give distant Reiki to someone across the globe, in another city or in another room. During the level 2 teachings the Master will reveal the ancient symbols and their meanings to the student. The student learns to draw them, how to pronounce the names and spell them out, their meanings and the power and mantras that are used with each. It is a very personal choice for an individual to become a level 3 Reiki Master or Teacher. You are now taught to teach the Reiki teachings to others and attune students into their level 1and 2. It is a lifetime commitment to become a Reiki practitioner whether you are at level 1 or 3. In the end, the mission is to develop a true mastering of Reiki through routinely practicing it on a daily basis and applying the 5 daily principles into every aspect of your life.
How Reiki is performed:
The practitioner places his or her hands on or above ones fully clothed body and allows healing energy to flow into the recipient’s body. The practitioner as well receives Reiki, as it is forever flowing and returning to its source. A profound sense of relaxation is felt among other sensations such as heat, coolness, tingling or vibrations. Reiki treats the whole body and is safe and gentle, it can do no harm. It accelerates the healing process and can be treated to help common or minor ailments such as: headaches, toothaches and earaches, back pain, menstrual pain and breathing problems.
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