| Reiki is usually the shortened version of various | | | | person's reality. Symbols, colors, chakras, and such |
| styles of Usui Reiki Ryoho. Examples of other uses | | | | are sometimes used to help students understand the |
| are 5239 Reiki an asteroid named after the | | | | flow of energy, as opposed to trying to make |
| astrometor Reiki Kushida. (Wikipedia encyclopedia) | | | | universal energy more powerful. Reiki is a path |
| Usui Reiki Ryoho is neither a religion nor a belief | | | | towards peace, tranquility, and joy; no worry is given |
| system. However, it parallels religion in the proven | | | | if symbols are not drawn exactly as shown and |
| unproven debate. The energy flowing in Reiki can be | | | | symbols are transcended at the time that is best for |
| sensed in many ways, but cannot be proved nor | | | | each individual. |
| disproved. When it comes to energy E=mc² is | | | | When I think of the path Usui Reiki Ryoho is traveling |
| accepted, but universal energy remains in the gray | | | | in various communities in this century I think of Dr. |
| area. As with religions, this leaves people in the middle | | | | H.C.F. Meyer. Matthew Wood (1997) tells how in the |
| saying everything comes from human beings and if | | | | 1880s Dr. Meyer learned how to make from the |
| you think differently show me proof. Many canards | | | | Native Americans a preparation using Echinacea |
| have been created in an attempt to explain what | | | | Angustifolia he called a cure-all. Dr. Meyer repeatedly |
| cannot be proven. | | | | allowed himself to be bitten by rattlesnakes to |
| The first law of thermodynamics states that energy | | | | demonstrate its healing power. His cure-all was the |
| can be neither created nor destroyed; it can only be | | | | original "snake oil". Other people made their own |
| changed from one form to another. The spiritual | | | | preparations either not knowing his formula or trying |
| practice Mikao Usui founded uses a gentle form of | | | | to improve it. Consequently, this gave birth to the |
| universal energy that if not altered by human actions | | | | term "snake oil" becoming equated to the term |
| or another energy attaching to it, is powerful. | | | | quackery. |
| Synergism happens when Reiki is added to other | | | | As far as becoming powerful, humankind has been |
| practices; because Reiki is a form of universal energy | | | | blessed to have many "powerful" people throughout |
| how can any addition make it greater. A person can | | | | history. Think for a moment about a woman who |
| try to equate Reiki to manmade forms of energy | | | | might be described as living in a dark silent world. |
| and grade its power on a scientific scale. Or, they can | | | | Through the teachings of another she was able to |
| simply look at a child as he or she gazes at their | | | | touch many lives in a positive way. She became a |
| four-legged companion bouncing back from an injury | | | | Powerful American writer that developed her skills |
| and see unproven energy flowing from that child's | | | | with discipline, determination, and time. She, Helen |
| heart. Reiki is the vibrations of love and harmony | | | | Keller (1880-1968), wrote, "True happiness is not |
| from the universe. | | | | attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity |
| I have studied various forms of Usui Reiki Ryoho and | | | | to a worthy purpose." The historical facts surrounding |
| diligently listened and practiced what three of my | | | | powerful people show their actions are what placed |
| Reiki Shihans (teachers) shared with me. Two of | | | | him or her in a position of power. |
| those teachers have only two teachers between | | | | There were only four years between when Mikao |
| themselves and Mikao Usui, and all have done | | | | Usui founded his system Reiki Ryoho and his death, |
| research in places I have not been. I have also had | | | | but in that short time he passed on a wondrous gift. |
| other teachers of styles of Usui Reiki Ryoho from | | | | He was a quiet man and only raised three of his |
| around the world share things with me. Therefore, I | | | | 2,000 students to the level where they could open |
| am not basing what I say on just my own daily | | | | others to the form of universal energy to which he |
| practice. | | | | had connected. (Rivard, Doi, Inamoto, 1997-2003) |
| The first thing most Shihans (teachers) of all styles | | | | Shouoh Matsui in 1928 wrote, "Mikao Usui did not like |
| of Usui Reiki Ryoho tell students is, "Trust in Reiki". | | | | to announce it". (Rivard, 2003, translation M. Iwasaki) |
| (Doi, Inamoto, 2002) The unique form of energy, | | | | Mikao Usui's power is symbolized by on a scale of |
| which flows with Reiki, balances mind, body, and spirit | | | | one being the best, he rated himself a two to |
| in ways that can be called powerful, but most Reiki | | | | encourage his students to do their best. Throughout |
| teachers and practitioners simply look at it as | | | | history, those that "stand out from the crowd" do so |
| wonderful for the life that is experiencing the healing. | | | | because their actions set him or her apart from |
| Reiki is not a complicated practice, just one that | | | | others. |
| requires time, study, practice, and understanding. | | | | Reiki Master represents different levels in different |
| "Each of us is born with the right to be healthy and | | | | styles of Usui Reiki Ryoho. Many men and women |
| live with happiness, and the path of Reiki helps us to | | | | that I know, although having one or more certificates |
| fulfill that right."-- Roberta R. Barnes © 2000 I | | | | stating Reiki Master prefer to call themselves Reiki |
| wrote these words following the first styles of Usui | | | | Shihan, Reiki Teacher, or simply say I have reached |
| Reiki Ryoho I studied. I since have been blessed to | | | | the fourth or higher level in one of more styles of |
| have been lucky enough to have shared with me | | | | Usui Reiki Ryoho. |
| many techniques and much factual history, but my | | | | One of the synonyms for Master is teacher, but |
| view has not changed. | | | | others such as ruling and commanding are misleading |
| Even though Hippocrates was not referring to Reiki | | | | when it comes to universal energy. Even if a person |
| he described its power as he said, "The physician | | | | believes that all the forms of universal energy are |
| cures, but nature heals." Surgeons and other medical | | | | within each person it is still misleading. If each of us |
| professionals remove the immediate danger, and then | | | | could switch on power and be in total command of |
| the healing begins. It is natural power that provides | | | | our own body, we could control the degeneration |
| what is needed for the inner healer to awaken and | | | | and regeneration of all our cells. |
| heal. Reiki is natural power that often aids in healing | | | | Mikao Usui's first awakening was intellectual and |
| the mind and body far beyond and much faster then | | | | following his second awakening, his connection to |
| anyone, medical or other wise, ever expected. If | | | | universal energy, he said the system he founded was |
| searching for factual documentation of healings | | | | the key to health and happiness. What could be more |
| directly from Reiki, you may not find any. Reiki | | | | powerful then having your pathway opened to a |
| teachers and practitioners focus on a life form healing | | | | form of universal energy that when used in a spiritual |
| in the way that is best for that life form at that | | | | practice can lead to health and happiness? The |
| junction in time, and have no need for receiving | | | | determination and discipline some people use in what |
| praise. The motto of Komyo Reiki Kai is, "Go placidly | | | | is accessible to him or her does seem to take them |
| in the midst of praise or blame." The fee Reiki | | | | out of the position of skipper and make him or her |
| practitioners and teachers accept is for his or her | | | | the "Master" of their own fate. |
| time spent with a client or student, and overhead. | | | | Not all energies are positive even though they may |
| Life force energy usually does not require proof | | | | feel powerful; there are supposititious creations in |
| because it is something each of us experiences. For | | | | many practices. When deciding to have your |
| centuries different people have used his or her life | | | | pathway opened to the form of universal energy |
| force energy to help another heal, leaving themselves | | | | called Reiki it is good to review the teacher's |
| sometimes exhausted. The supply of universal | | | | certificate(s). Any Reiki teacher will have a lineage |
| energy is endless and any Reiki practitioner's life | | | | going back to Mikao Usui and will be happy to explain |
| force energy that flows with Reiki is replenished as | | | | if what he or she practices has been altered in any |
| powerful universal energy flows through that | | | | way. |
| practitioner. | | | | Would it not be a beautiful world if instead of each |
| Becoming powerful presents different images to | | | | person trying to be the most powerful of anything, |
| different people. All human languages are complex, | | | | each person tried to be in balance and allow harmony |
| and use varying symbols such as characters, kanji, | | | | to emanate from him or her? Can you imagine a |
| dots, hand movements, etc. In Reiki we see many | | | | world filled with balance and harmony, where the |
| symbols being introduced to point a student to | | | | sound of bombs or planes crashing into towers was |
| various energies within the unique form of universal | | | | unknown? As unrealistic as it might sound today, |
| energy. The creation of Reiki symbols was a very | | | | would it not be a wonderful gift to pass onto our |
| natural evolution to represent parts of an unproven | | | | children and grandchildren? If each person's goal is to |
| energy. Colors are sometimes used as symbols; the | | | | live in balance and be surrounded by harmony instead |
| meaning of color as a symbol is determined by each | | | | of seeking power, then why cannot that happen? If |
| person's own reality. Universal energy is received by | | | | each segment is in harmony then the whole is at |
| a person's receptors open to receiving, and | | | | peace. |
| interrupted by those elements that formed that | | | | |