| New Reiki Master home study courses have made it | | | | Until recently, students and helpers at the original |
| easier for anyone to bring the power of the universal | | | | dojo were still alive and able to explain how Master |
| life force energy into their lives. Whether you are | | | | Usui taught. The old stories about Usui traveling the |
| interested in being a Reiki Master, teacher, trainer or | | | | world to learn how Christ healed with his hands may |
| healer, these home study courses are a good place | | | | be appealing to some people, but others prefer the |
| to start. In fact, anyone who is interested in | | | | facts. Knowledge is power, so they say, and having |
| improving their own health and happiness could | | | | more knowledge may improve your ability to use the |
| benefit from a Reiki Master home study course. | | | | "power". |
| Even if you have already had some experience with | | | | There are critics of the Reiki Master home study |
| Reiki, some of these courses can help you advance | | | | courses, and that is a shame, because there are |
| more quickly and learn the truth about Reiki history. | | | | enough critics of Reiki as a healing art. For people |
| Even though new information concerning Usui (the | | | | who understand the power of Reiki to be critical of |
| original Reiki Master, teacher, trainer and healer) has | | | | others who teach the technique just seems wrong. |
| come to light, some of the old myths concerning the | | | | It is understandable that those who offer seminars |
| development of the healing energy are still prevalent. | | | | would like to keep fees high, but some people are |
| For example, a leading website that supplies | | | | simply unable to attend the seminars, either because |
| information on numerous topics makes many errors | | | | of the cost of the courses or because of the cost |
| concerning Mikao Usui. First of all, they say he was | | | | and time to travel to the courses. Not all people have |
| known as Usui Sensei in Japan. Sensei is a Japanese | | | | classes available in their town. A Reiki Master home |
| title used to address a teacher or other professional. | | | | study course is a way to truly make Reiki available to |
| It was not his name, though his students may have | | | | everyone. |
| addressed him as such. | | | | There is not a single Reiki Master, teacher, trainer or |
| Second, the website claims that there is no direct | | | | healer who would not tell you that anyone can learn |
| knowledge of Master Usui's life, when in fact there is | | | | Reiki. But, in order for anyone and everyone to learn, |
| a monument outside of Tokyo, erected by Usui's | | | | then the courses must be available and easily |
| students, that tells the story of his life. The | | | | accessible. Reiki Master home study courses fill a |
| inscriptions have been translated into English and | | | | need; that is the need to make Reiki available to |
| other languages, a long and difficult process. | | | | everyone. |