| Usui Reiki attunement is the process of cleansing the | | | | only taught at the Master level and is meant to heal |
| body and mind and inviting the intelligent power or life | | | | the spiritual condition of the user. Roughly translated |
| force to be a conduit for healing of oneself and | | | | it would be called "Great Being of the Universe Shine |
| others. Traditionally, this attunement was supposed | | | | on Me." |
| to be carried out by a person who had attained the | | | | Once you have memorized the four symbols above |
| status of Reiki Master, carried back in history to the | | | | or drawn them out for easy access during the |
| original sensei. | | | | attunement process. You should begin the |
| Some practitioners have begun teaching a | | | | self-attunement by cleansing the room by drawing all |
| self-attunement process that they claim is just as | | | | four symbols in the air. Drawing the Cho Ku Rei and |
| effective as the traditional methods. | | | | Dai Ko Myo on the palms of your hands is followed |
| In order to carry out a reiki self-attunement, you | | | | by drawing the Cho Ku Rei on each of the Chakras |
| must know and understand four of the reiki symbols. | | | | of your body then in front of your chest. |
| The first symbol is known as Cho Ku Rei. It's | | | | Next, sit in an attitude of prayer or meditation and |
| commonly called the Power Symbol and roughly | | | | visualize light coming down from heaven and gradually |
| translated means "Put all the power of the universe | | | | filling your entire body through the chakras beginning |
| here". During a traditional attunement, this symbol is | | | | with the crown chakra. Once you have completed |
| drawn on the dominant hand of the practitioner and | | | | this phase, and then individually imagine each of the |
| on the head of the recipient. | | | | symbols coming down through the crown chakra all |
| The second symbol used in reiki is the Sei-hei-ki or | | | | the way to the root chakra. You can visualize each |
| The Emotional Symbol. The English translation is "God | | | | individual symbol as being inside a ball of red fire as it |
| and Humanity Become One." The traditional Reiki | | | | passes through the white light. |
| teaches this symbol during Level II, and uses it when | | | | After all four symbols are part of you, open your |
| there is emotional build-up or stress. It is invoked by | | | | hands and visualize each upon your hands, imagining |
| the practitioner in the same way as Cho Ku Rei. | | | | each sinking into your hands and becoming part of |
| The third symbol needed for attunements is Hon Sha | | | | you. |
| Ze Sho Nen, The Distant Healing Symbol. The English | | | | Finally on the back of your neck, visualize a small |
| translation for this symbol is "May the Buddha in me | | | | golden door which can be permanently sealed in a |
| connect to the Buddha in you." This is perhaps the | | | | symbolism which your mind will accept. It may be a |
| heart of the entire Reiki healing philosophy. Again, the | | | | permanent seal or removing a lock or anything else |
| invocation of Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen is the same as | | | | that makes you symbolize permanent closure, so |
| the first two. | | | | that the self-attunement is complete and forever. |
| Finally, the most powerful of the four symbols | | | | This completes the Reiki self-attunement process and |
| needed for attunement is Dai Ko Myo. This symbol is | | | | allows you to be a practitioner of Reiki healing arts. |