REIKI healing in Vancouver & Burnaby with Reiki Master Teacher, Merrie Bakker, Teaching Reiki Classes - Level One, Level Two, Master Level,
Articles Below:
1. WHAT IS REIKI HEALING?
2. AN ABBREVIATED HISTORY OF REIKI
3. FROM USUI SENSEI’S TOMB STONE in JAPAN
4. THE SCIENCE BEHIND THE ART of REIKI
5. SHARING REIKI - REIKI EXCHANGES Organising a Reiki Share
6. QUESTIONS About DISTANT HEALING You Were Afraid to Ask...
7. MY REIKI FAMILY
8. SOME COMMON Q & A's ABOUT LEARNING REIKI:
9. LINKS YOU MAY ENOY
10. HERE'S A GLOSSARY. Don't Let All Those Japanese Words Put You Off!
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1. WHAT IS REIKI HEALING?
As quantum energy concepts have become more mainstream, it is easier for us to accept that everything in the universe is energy and vibration - and that we are energy and vibration, too (including our thoughts, emotions). Our bodies consist of energy - different frequencies for different organs and tissues. The lower the frequency of energy, the more solid it appears. For example, our bones, which are vibrating at a lower frequency than our red blood cells are perceived to be more solid. Our emotions and thoughts are also energy - love has a much higher frequency than fear, for example.
When we see red blood cells under a strong microscope we can see cells that are healthy and those where their electrical potential, zeta potential, is hampered and are in disarray and leave the cells to be poorly functioning. Disharmony (be it inflammation, ulceration, cancer, fever) in any of our bodily systems indicates low vibrations, too low energy and disturbances. Physical and emotional stress, heavy medications (such as chemotherapy, beta blockers, coumadin, etc) and the results of accidents and damage effect our body's innate ability to heal ~ the ability to return to homeostasis - in organs and tissues and at every cell. Reiki disintegrates energy blockages at all levels.
Reiki is an energy which is drawn into the practitioner's body through certain methods and passed on through the practitioner's hands (mainly) to wherever it is needed. There are several methods for that, too.They are easily learned.
The founder of Reiki, Master Usui, would have his students meet one evening per week for many years before they would advance to the next level. We know how to teach methods, now, that allow us to generate this universal healing energy and the learning period is eclipsed into a weekend.
I call my Reiki practice Total Reiki as it incorporates several methods of accessing or channelling healing energy and then passing it on in a laser fashion, in a healthy way, that doesn't rely on wishful thinking, intention or connections to attunements and unknown masters in one's lineage.
Lineage and attunements have an important place. In Reiki one does not acquire energy directly from one's master as in the teachings of Kundalini Yoga but from the Universal Energy - Energy available by all directly from the universe. The energy is not generated from the actual attunements, as we often hear in the West.
Traditionally, the Usui System of Reiki consists of three levels, or degrees of learning. The first degree enables the practitioner to channel energy for healing one's self, others, plants and animals. In the second level of Reiki the practitioner is introduced to the three symbols used in the Usui System of Reiki. It allows the practitioner access to higher energy vibrational rates, for distance or absentee healing in time and space. The second degree also promotes increased intuitive awareness. The third degree, the Master level, is traditionally undertaken by those intending to teach and practice Reiki as one's vocation and can involve a period of apprenticeship with the initiating Master, as was often the case historically,
Reiki follows the rules of nature and energy entrainment - energy flows from high to low, including in our own bodies, between people and also between practitioner and client. With some simple, elegant, time-tested techniques, this can be applied to hands-on-healing energy in general and Reiki healing in particular. When done correctly, it is significantly energizing and the effects can be physically perceived. When one is sensitive to energy, then it can also be felt on other levels.
Reiki is neither a religion, nor a form of mind projection. Reiki can, however, add a deep, spiritutal dimension to your life, whether you are religious or not.
Learning the gentle art of Reiki healing is a magical and uplifting journey - and a unique and different personal journey for everyone - and for some, a search for transformation, joy and fulfillment of deep desires.
Each of the levels of Reiki teaching is a simple exploration into the beauty and power of the universal energy you have to give. It is a wonderful ability to embrace that lasts a lifetime.
Reiki is also a powerful, yet gentle way to replenish lost vitality and balance your energy to accelerate healing and to help your inner physican along. Reiki is very simple to learn and use. Anyone can learn.
... by a Spanish saint and mystic of the 16th century
You are Christ’s Hands
Christ has no body now on earth but yours,
no hands but yours,
no feet but yours,
Yours are the eyes through which to look out
Christ's compassion to the world
Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good;
Yours are the hands with which he is to bless men now.
~ THERESA OF AVILA, from The Miracles of Jesus Christ
Practicing Reiki healing allows you to set aside troublesome thoughts, worries, preconceptions, judgements and stress for a little while. Please look through the pages here and join me in one or more of the Reiki seminars offered. Allow yourself to believe in the deep, delicious benefits of the power of Reiki… and I look forward to seeing you.
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Reiki energy and Western medicine:
Reiki energy, when properly passed on to someone, can be useful when someone is engaged in standard Western medical protocols and is often integrated with other alternative treatments. If, like some of my clients, you have chosen orthodox medical treatments, then Reiki will obviously do no healing, but Reiki can be extremely useful, nonetheless. One of my clients received several different kinds of chemo at once and a number of radiation treatments, per day - an intensively heavy dose of toxicity. This was a heavy burden for his body to bear!
Reiki reduced his nausea; reduced intense inflammation and the extent of internal scarring; Reiki helped revive his bodily functions which often went south on the most intensive treatment days; Reiki fortified his inner strength and inner resolve to continue; Reiki diminished some of the fear of the treatments and together we renewed his healing visualisations to take to each future orthodox medical session - like armament and fortifcation. Reiki gave him back a good night's sleep, too, inspite of the intense debilitation of the chemo and radiation.
Reiki, properly passed on to someone, makes detoxification and rebuilding after strenuous therapy much easier. Even though we have an inner physician, after a heavy course of chemical treatments, our bodies will welcome and thrive from the benefits of extra energy that has been so mercilessly zapped.
When you have been on a 'cocktail' of meds, for example, for depression, then energetic healing with Reiki can decrease the negative side effects that specific organs are effected. Reiki sessions can lift your vibration as a whole and specific organs and functions in particular. Reiki energy feels nurturing. Hurts, fears and withheld emotions can be released. When the issues, shocks and conflicts are known, then Reiki healing can take place more quickly and be specific.
Reiki relieves pain and accelerates healing of injuries - cuts, bruises, broken bones and burns. And constipation, insomnia, depression and fatigue, and... healing cannot be bought. It is a process that can be entered into with awareness and intention. Sometimes the effect is instant; some times it takes a couple of days.
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2. AN ABBREVIATED HISTORY OF REIKI
THE ORIGINS OF REIKI
Mikao Usui, Sensei, the founder and ultimate Teacher of Reiki, was born in 1865, near Kyoto, Japan. He was a very spiritual businessman man who took his daily religious and meditation exercises very seriously. In 1921 his deep devotion, vast personal searching, life experiences and a particular profound Satori during a sacred retreat on Mount Kurama, culminated into new insights and an even more focussed way of energy transference that we now call Reiki. Master Usui had numerous students of varing levels of proficiency and dedication who learned meditation in groups throughoout the country but mainly in Tokyo.
Reiki is a Japanese word, made up of two Japanese kanji – Rei and Ki - meaning, roughly translated, universal and energy. The word Reiki is often translated as “Universal Life Force Energy” or “Spiritual Ray of Life”.
During the early twentieth century in Japan, during Master Usui's time, the ancient art of hands-on-healing was enjoying a Renaissance. Healing, so much a part of shamanistic practice in all parts of the world for thousands of years, was also known in Japan. There were many different types of healing forms through meditation and energy transference and gradually "touch" was also being practised by various teachers affiliated with spiritual traditions, at that time. As Master Usui's insights, classes and healing work spread, other teachers of other healing modalities shared their knowledge with each other and we now know that Master Usui's Reiki was not a rigid or static method but evolved, gradually over those last five years of his life.
Reiki was not well known and it was deemed best to keep it quiet and amongst those that were trusted. Master Usui went along with this until the massive earthquake of 1923 that devastated a huge part of Tokyo and left the city in ruins. Hundreds of thousands of lives were lost and even more people were injured. At this time Master Usui, who had been the only teacher at his Reiki Gakkai (Society), which he had officially started the year before, made some changes such that eight of his senior students were given teacher "status". He taught them to teach Reiki and they went forth with many other Reiki students into the damaged city to do as much healing as possible and so the general public experienced this wonderful work at a time it needed it most.
In 1925, he opened a clinic in Nakano and then began traveling and lecturing. In four short years, he taught over 2,000 students and trained 16 teachers. He wanted this simple technique to be available to all people worldwide.
Over the following years these teachers also initiated thousands of people and thus Reiki and Master Usui became known in Japan.
Had Master Usui not felt the need to reach out and change "the rules", then Reiki would not have been given away to those needing it most. And we, in the West, would probably never have been introduced to it, as a consequence.
Master Usui died in 1926.
The Reiki teachings were transmitted both orally and in written form, from teacher to student, from generation to generation, passing from Japan to North America and Europe and then throughout the world. Many stories, myths and legends about Master Usui and about the origins of Reiki have appeared - some honourable, some dubious and some quite preposterous.
In the last 50 years, various Western Reiki teachers (as welll as some Japanese teachers) created their own personal variations of the system of Reiki and thus there are now many different Reiki “offshoots” with names of their own. It is estimated that there are more than 50,000 Reiki masters and one million Reiki practitioners in the world today.
The search for the “truth” about Reiki and it’s history is fascinating and leads one down many interesting pathways. In the late 90’s a number of very dedicated Reiki Masters were determined to uncover the origins of Reiki; what happened to Reiki during WWII and details of the life of Master Usui himself and his intentions for the work in the future. We owe these pioneers a huge debt of gratitude.
Western-type Reiki is both practical and spiritual - developed on some of the fundamentals of the Reiki that Master Usui taught, but not all - due to the different nature of our culture and times. His classes were undertaken with long term commitments, which we do not do in the Western world, even though we often read that someone teaches in the same manner as master Usui. What is meant, no doubt, is that the course content may have similarities and the method of passing on the healing energy and concepts may be somewhat similar.
We also know that master Usui met like minded people and information was shared by people honing their skills in similar and overlapping ways and a lot of fine cross-pollination took place. Master Usui had an open mind, hence the idea of sharing information and inviting other healers into his midst and then incorporating some of the concepts, much as we do today.
Similarily, Mrs. Tanaka, who was first to teach Reiki in the Western world, taught 12 distinct hand postitions to her Level One students so that anyone could do Reiki, including anyone as thick as two planks. There was no emphasis placed on advanced development of intuition. Sometimes Mrs. Takata's students were very advanced meditation and yoga practitioners. Sometimes Mrs. Takata just "knew" who would be very capable.
In comparing notes that Mrs. Takata's students' made at the end of each day of her classes you see variations and that speaks to the fact that with energy healing work even the great teachers did not feel that the work was static and cast in stone..
Some of us believe that the contemporary teachings should be as close as possible to the original teachings and ways, even as this may be a challenge... Back in Japan in the '20's, if you were invited to join an Usui healing/meditation group, you would probably spend many years diligently going to class one evening per week for years and eventually be invited to a higher level group and a again after dedication, commitment and time and patience an invitation to be a teacher could possibly evolve. There was no textbook to purchase, but rather each student copied the questions and answers of his/her teacher into their own book and then continued to record their own questions and answers - one question per evening session.
This is not possible in our time - things must be learned in a quick and compact manner. On the other hand, it is not necessary to teach Reiki by Skype or correspondence or tothrow all levels together as one class in a jiffy. That totally demeans the process, in my opinion and is a smart marketing ploy. It certainly does not serve our learning experience and healing abilities, nor does the ridiculously "quickified" version capture ANY of what Master Usui aimed for.
As a devout, practising Tendai Buddhist from early childhood, Usui-Sensei would have had a deep understanding of the wisdom and teachings of the Buddha - teachings that were the result of his own direct investigations, deep meditations and guidance from his religious advisors, not from "supernatural" revelations. In fact, we read in Curtis Lang and Jane Sherry’s history of Reiki that what he taught was not to be taken "on faith" - his students were to examine for themselves, based on their own experience, whether Reiki was able to transform suffering into well-being.
There are no or few exact documents of Master Usui’s original healing system or methods as he taught it. We know he generally used about five different hand positions and was guided by his intuition. He also noticed that not all his students had his great intuitive insights and asked a most trusted student to record a set of hand positions that anyone could use to give a thorough session. (Master Usui’s teachings have been kept in the dozen odd Japanese societies known as the Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkai, where the teachers and practitioners do not discuss the details of the society with non-members and where membership in the society is closed to foreigners). Due to the nature of Japanese society, information and knowledge is often kept within it's own confines and never shared, even for the common good... almost never... But these 12 original hand positions that Master Usui asked Master Hayashi to draw up, have been passed down to us (and have often been added to or changed).
One of Master Usui's senior students, Toshihiro Eguchi, knew Usui-Sensei’s methods in its original form and taught this as well as his own system of touch healing that he integrated to a student, Yuji Onuki, who decided to travel the world (including in Italy) in order to pass on and teach what he had learned from Master Eguchi, way back in the 1970's. Several of this teacher’s students later went back to Japan, searched for the details and clues of the Reiki history and ended up teaching Japanese people Reiki ~ Reiki had come full circle, geographically!
In the mid 1990’s, a German Reiki teacher, Frank Arjava Petter, was living in Japan teaching German, English and Reiki with his Japanese wife. He had no idea that Reiki in Japan actually still existed (in the closed societies - the Reiki Associations in Japan had no desire to communicate with foreigners, it seemed). Their searching efforts came to dead-ends. One of Mr. Petter's students, however, spoke up and explained that there were many others in Japan who quietly knew Reiki from before World War II, but of a rather different form. This student went against the norm of vigilance and silent watchfulness!
"Then one day we were given the telephone number of someone who had practiced Reiki since the 1930’s. My wife talked to the person who turned out to be Mrs. Kimiko Koyama, the president of the Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkai. With her help we were able to provide a lot of factual information about Dr. Usui, his life and his life work: Reiki! It was her who led us to Dr. Usui's grave at the Saihoji Temple in Tokyo. The following research and the resulting information is documented in my first four books “Reiki Fire”, “Reiki, the Legacy of Dr. Usui”, “The Original Reiki handbook of Dr. Mikao Usuiî, and “The Spirit of Reikiî.
Arjava Petter was wonderfully determined, deeply sincere. He found that the past Reiki practices were quite different from those taught in the West, but that the Reiki energy was the same. The only difference was in the methods by which the energy was applied.
Later, he began to research the work of Master Chujiro Hayashi and again met with nothing but dead ends and worthless leads. But, in 1999, he heard of an older woman teaching Reiki in Kyoto who had been a student of Chujiro Hayashi! So he and his wife, Chetna spent five days with Ms. Chiyoko Yamaguchi and her Reiki Master son Tadao and learned their traditional Japanese Reiki One and Reiki Two in the same manner that Dr. Hayashi had taught it six decades prior to Mrs. Takata - a foreigner whom I describe below!
"I was disappointed with the way many Western Reiki teachers lived their lives and how they did not live what they taught... The day we left the Yamaguchi’s home in Kyoto I said to Mrs. Yamaguchi that it had been an immense pleasure to finally meet a Reiki adult. In the Western World we are still in the adolescent Reiki age, and what we call tradition is at the most thirty years old. But in the presence of the Yamaguchis I felt that the spirit of Reiki was transmitted continuously. In every smile, in every reassuring word the humble lady uttered, every little hint she gave us in regard to healing, and in the way she walks, talks and lives each moment of her life. Mr. Yamaguchi and his mother have now begun conducting monthly courses for foreigners."
Chris Marsh (a British student of martial arts and the Japanese language, a Tendai Buddhist and frequent traveller to Japan for his devoted studies) was serendipitously introduced to a Buddhist nun, over 100 years old, who had been a student of Master Usui in the 1920’s and possibly a niece of Master Usui's wife! Chris was told by her that she and others were not happy with what had become of Reiki throughout the world. She taught him what she had learned from Master Usui himself ~ again quite different than Western Reiki.
Back in England Chris shared his new Reiki knowledge with another Reiki Master who was searching for solid Reiki history details, namely Andrew Bowling.
In the following years, Andy and Chris wereseperately and judiciously and slowly introduced to more of Master Usui's students (from 96 to 111 years old). Some original notes and notebooks and manuals were allowed to be viewed. From this a lot of sharing in the West followed amongst many who were also seeking the “better history”, culminating in the first Usui Reiki Ryoho International workshop, in Vancouver, organised by Vancouver’s Rick Rivard, and Tom Rigler, Andrew Bowling and other North American devoted Reiki Masters. Hiroshi Doi-Sensei, a member of the Usui Reiki Society in Tokyo came to Vancouver and spoke about the Society's history of Reiki. He also presented a modified version of a Usui Reiki empowerment procedure that was often used at the meetings called Reiju.
So, bit by bit, the existence of Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkai (the closed societies) and details of the Reiki practices and Reiki history have been released to the rest of the world in a very controlled and limited manner.
In 1925, a retired Naval officer and a close friend and senior student of Usui-Sensei, Master Hayashi, created a manual listing maladies and illnesses (and body organs and tissues) with the corresponding 12 basic Reiki hand positions for those who did not wish to work intuitively as Master Usui was known to do.
Usui-Sensei died in 1926 of a stroke and following his death, Master Hayashi continued Reiki on his own, separate from the Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkai (the closed societies) because, he too believed that this universal energy was for everyone and not to be "hoarded".
Master Hayashi created the first Reiki Centre and clinic, where people could pay to receive healing.
By 1940 he had initiated thirteen Reiki teachers. At that point he did not wish to continue to live as he knew Japan was heading to war. Japan had struck up an alliance with Germany and he knew he'd be called up to serve ~ after saving lives for so many years, killing was not an option. A woman from Hawaii who had initially come to the clinic for healings became one of his thirteen Reiki Masters.
Mrs. Hawayo Takata was born on December 24, 1900 on the Island of Kauai, Hawaii, the daughter of Japanese immigrants. While in Japan visiting her parents in 1936, Mrs. Takata needed medical intervention with appendicitis, gallstones and a tumour. Just minutes before the surgery, she heard a voice saying “There is another way - surgery is not necessary.” When she queried the surgeon just as he was to start the operation he answered her that, yes, indeed there was another way. His wife worked at a Tokyo clinic where hands-on-healing was done and he referred her to Master Hayashi’s Reiki clinic. And after several months of daily healing, she was healed and totally sold on this wonderful system! She stayed on in Japan, lived with the Hayashi’s (Mrs. Hayashi and their daughter were both Reiki Masters as women were not limited from learning this work) and obtained instruction from Master Hayashi while working in his clinic for a year - Reiki Level One and Two.
In a priceless YouTube video created by Sun Crow you'll see a wonderful collection of photos of the early Reiki Japanese Practitioners. This video is dedicated to James Deacon - a fine American Reiki master with a great website: http://www.aetw.org
In 1938, Mrs. Takata brought the system of Reiki back home to Hawaii, where she started a clinic on Oahu. The following year, Master Hayashi and his daughter came over to help her for a few months and gave their blessing to the first Reiki clinic outside of Japan! Mrs. Takata was initiated as a Reiki Master by Master Hayashi during this visit and was even given an English language certificate.
Mrs. Takata needed to appease the local authorities and that's why we see the "Dr." on her certificate and the fact that the certificate is in English (and that is why we still call Master Hayashi, Dr. Hayashi, so as to lessen the claims of quackery, which was a criminal offense at the time in the USA). And the term "Master" was used to imply that Mrs. takata had excellent knowledge - as in Master carpenter or master plumber. Two government goofs sat stoically in her office, day in and day out, to pounce if ever any money were to change hands. Clients paid in eggs, kimonos, chickens and breads and gifts.
Mrs. Takata stopped her work after the Pearl Harbour bombing and resumed her practice of Reiki on the Hawaiian Islands in the late '40's, after WW II. She studied nutrition and massage during her hiatus. She thought that Reiki in Japan had not survived WW II as all her contact with the Hayashi’s had ceased.
Much later she began to teach the level One and Two classes. By 1975 she began to teach practitioners to become Reiki teachers (by invitation). She travelled to the American mainland and Canada and eventually initiated 22 Reiki Masters, in all, by the time of her death in 1980. Of these masters, five were from the Slocan Valley in BC.
She also travelled to Japan in the mid 70's and taught the first level there and anticipated opening Reiki Centres in Japan with many Reiki students who would carry on. Takata-sensei also had a heart attack around that time and did not return to Japan. After that she often travelled with her granddaughter Phyllis Furumoto to the many Reiki classes convened in North America.
In the mid 80's a Mieko Mitsui travelled to Japan to teach Reiki. She was a student of Barbara Ray's who had been taught by Takata-sensei. She may have connected with Mrs. Takata's original students, in Japan, too.
We know that many Reiki students in Japan today see Reiki differently than we do. Infact
what they had been taught had not even been called Reiki
;
did not include the use of the Reiki Symbols; nor had they even been shown the Reiki Symbols
Within a very short few years after Takata-sensei's passing in 1980, Reiki in the West, had in many cases evolved far from the specific understandings and practices as taught by Takata-sensei herself. But so also had the original Reiki of Master Usui - except, ofcourse, in a different environment, differing constraints and differing teachers and thought leaders.
So 'original' Reiki (i.e. Usui Reiki Ryoho, Usui Te-ate, Usui Do, Usui Reiho, Jikiden, etc) as it has apparently survived and evolved in the quietness of Japan and now in the whole world.
And so 'traditional' Western-style Reiki, as taught by Mrs. Takata with labels such as 'Usui Shiki Ryoho'.
Intense debate over how to continue began immediately following Mrs. Takata's passing. A group of mainly Mrs. Takata’s original 22 Reiki teachers formed the Reiki Alliance led by granddaughter, Phyllis Lee Furumoto. She assumed the title of “Grandmaster” and continued on as close as possible to the previous ways of her grandmother.
Some other Reiki Masters who were initiated by Mrs.Takata, spread the Reiki teachings during the 1980's and made lasting changes. Some even renamed their Reiki as it had changed so drastically. They also reduced the tuition fees for Mastership training and consequently the rigid price structure Mrs. Takata had for classes crumbled and thus many more Reiki Masters were created. This led to the development of yet more off-shoot practices, as new Reiki Masters added their own concepts, tools and idiosyncrasies to the traditional "western" Reiki ways.
Mrs. Takata's teachings were close to that of her teacher Dr. Hayashi and changes that she made were for practical purposes to adapt the work to Western and modern ways. A typical Level One during Usui's time would take a number of years to complete ~ you simply were AT a level for a portion of your life and generally met your group one evening per week. With Dr. Hayashi, students worked in the clinic daily for many months to attain Level One. With Mrs.Takata four half days were set aside for teaching with the commitment that practice would follow on ones own.
The study of the chakra system became a widespread inclusion and with the rise of New Age spiritual practices, Reiki practitioners began to work consciously with and include Spirit Guides, Ascended Master Teachings, Arch Angels and Nature Divas. Some practitioners also incorporated crystals, channelling, past life healing, shamanism, crystal bowls and various other modalities into their Reiki classes ~ a veritable circus and now one can understand why the Japanese were less than happy with Western Reiki. On-line classes were conceived, symbols started to circulate on the internet and long-distance classes were taught with distance attunements! Students felt free to study with more than one teacher – and more than one lineage. Competition for the cheapest and shortest classes led to another level of loss of quality and depth.
As students and practitioners of Reiki it is up to us to practice what is perhaps the most important spiritual discipline -- discernment. We must use our reason, our intuition and our inner spiritual guidance to understand the true nature of Reiki and to verify this truth for ourselves through our own direct experience.
As Reiki practitioners we naturally exercise tolerance for those who practice a different form of Reiki and who belong to a different lineage. As a Hindu yogi master once said, “When you have found a path up the mountain, and you can see the summit from far below, it is tempting to call out to those struggling to ascend on either side of you, and to tell them – ‘Look, I have found the way.’ It is only when one reaches the summit itself that one has the all-encompassing view of the mountain itself, and then one realises that there are many paths to the summit, each with its own charms and its own pitfalls.”
We wait patiently while those intent on diminishing Reiki learn to play nice with the rest of God's children... and those folks measuring with old parameters and paradyms hopefully, quickly, catch up. The latest controversial, offending piece of "research" is at: "Effects of reiki in clinical practice" by The International Journal of Clinical Practice, Volume 62, Issue 6 (pages 947–954) - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1742-1241.2008.01729.x/abstract
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3. FROM USUI-SENSEI’S TOMB STONE in JAPAN:
The Secret Method Of Inviting Blessings
The Spiritual Medicine of Many Illnesses
Kyo dake wa
Ikaruna
Shin pai suna
Kan sha shite
Gyo o hageme
Hito ni shinsetsu ni
Translation: For today only, Do not anger, Do not worry
With appreciation, endeavour to work hard on yourself.
Be kind to everyone.
In the morning and in the evening Think this, Chant this, with hands in prayer (gassho position).
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4. THE SCIENCE BEHIND THE ART OF REIKI & HEALING
Reiki is often seen as a healing "art". But what actually happens scientifically?
In the May 2002 issue of "EXPLORE! For The Professional", an article by Timothy Ley on Peak Performance describes entrainment. Two people, in close quarters, had their brain waves measured and described. One person showed a new heightened ability to achieve at golf. It was passed on (passively) by being in the close and personal presence of the other person ~ a golf pro with a heightened awareness and focus for golf (...and high scores).
In another situation a happy and energetic child¹s brain waves were measured before and after spending several days of heartfelt and close communication with a depressed adult. The child's brain wave had become chaotic and similar to that of the unhappy adult ~ energy and information transfer without even touching! Much like the energy that flows with healing except for the absense of intention, focus and knowing. We can conclude that one's energy level, brain pattern and state of being are oh so powerful and contagious ~ neuron transfer ~ entrainment!
We have our skin, the epidermis, protecting us and the next layer below, the dermis, which in turn covers a variety of tissues, including the cell matrix and extra cellular fluid. In this interior barrier there are minute areas varying from 3 micromillimetres to 7 millimeters which contain collagen fibres and where there is reduced resistence and lower galvanic pressure. These little sensitive patches we know as acupressure and acupuncture points. We have hundreds of these brilliant, controlled apertures within our body that can "grab or accept" and transfer chi or energy and pass this along deeper into our body as if with micro-cables.
Dr. Patricia Kane, a brilliant biochemist (known for working with the Odone family - Lorenzo's oil), has shown how inside each cell we can see the transfer of energy or charge in the cellular micro-tubules. With extremely high powered microscopes that don't require freezing, staining and altering of the samples to look inside the cell, we can observe the cytochrome (the inner workings of the cell) clearly. Dr. Kane shows that these tiniest of organelles are minute C-shaped wiggelly structures that build up and breakdown on the moment. Energy manifests here as both a vibration nad as a transference of energy or donation and acceptance. The higher frequency donates to the lower one ALWAYS. This is what gives direction and communication inside the cell and between cells. This is movement / flow at the subatomic level. Life itself!
Energy, like water, flows from higher to lower. A higher frequency person donates with touching to the lower vibrating person ~ literally. Healer to client. Is it any wonder that we are so careful as to who we allow to touch us? When you add in specialised intention and expertise, then passing energy into another's body's is a natural flow - a wonderful exchange. Wonderful healing! Energy in motion!
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5. SHARING REIKI - Organising a Reiki Share / Reiki Exchange
If, as a Reiki practitioner or teacher, you feel a strong commitment to your students to share in the wonderfulness of the practice of Reiki, then hosting a Share or EXCHANGE might be just the project for you! This can be a new and rewarding way to practice Reiki, keep friends and practitioners enthused and create an opportunity to socialise with like-minded people ~ not always possible in our hurried world. Reiki shares would surely have been talked about in your Reiki classes and here are a few more thoughts.
Some students of Reiki feel that they may have become "rusty" and this gets them back into the swing of things. Questions about what may be happening during a session and chatting about the finer points that have been forgotten, by some, will automatically flow from this afterwards.
If you are a recent arrival to energy work, then organising a Reiki Share is a good way to stay enthusiastic after your recent initiation. You may wish to team up with a veteran. Ask a more experienced person to be there, too, as there may be some sticky wickets ~ people bringing advertising, people talking incessently, willy-nilly attunements being handed out, etc. Focussed, quiet and powerful Reiki Healing should be the focus. The requirement for you is merely to provide space, time, clear intention and persistence. And this is where the experienced guide helps the host, the captain as it were, who keeps the group on-track, positive and focused.
Planning ahead is good ~ you need to know the anticipated number of massage tables you will need and the physical space that is required. You don't want more than 5 people to a massage table (one lying down and receiving Reiki and four people standing or sitting around the massage table doing the Reiki). Each participant enjoys about 20 minutes and then there is still time for some socialising, Q & A, a meditation - a break and a discussion (sharing of experiences and Reiki stories) and those in a hurry can leave before this and after the sharing so that every receives equally.
I once went to a Reiki Share where ten people shared one table (very awkward physically and uncomfortable energetically) and I suggest you stay away from that kind of arrangement.
People without any Reiki teaching may want to come to an Exchange as a way to satisfy their curiosity. The best way to accommodate this is to give them a group treatment first and then that person can leave, feeling very well treated. Joining in would be strange and leave that person with many questions and needing guidance and you may feel the responsibility to teach an instant mini-class in order to be able to include someone into the Reiki Share. At a Reiki Exchange I once attended, a kind and curious person without any Reiki was invited for the duration and one of the participants decided that this person needed "a quickie attunement", in fron tof us all, no less and the grand-standing that ensued was uncomfortable for all. Another visitor at a Reiki exchange was left with the true feeling that there really was nothing to it if after all, if one can just join right in without instruction.
Evenings and weekends are the easiest times to gather people. When I was hosting large Quantum Touch healing circles, I took a vote and Saturday was the favourite day and the time of day of 3:00pm won out over 10:00am! Coming on time is important and starting on time gets people to arrive on time. After a Reiki Share / Exchange is over, some people like to sit and chat and connect and socialize and ask questions. It's always nice to share juice/tea/healthy snacks and good conversation (no gossip). Those remaining may wish to send long-distance healing to loved ones, fellow participants, pets, or situations. I always have a guided meditation on hand - and that tends to signal that we are wrapping up.
The snacks and drinks are not a great expense and just providing them (as little as several $'s per participant) is easiest. When people are all asked to bring snacks then there is a resulting bottle neck and fussing in the kitchen with this pot-luck snack business. So I suggest it just gets "handled" by you. I believe that the snacks should be high quality - it reflects how you feel about the people who have gathered and Reiki - respectfulness all round. And so if money is tight, you can ask for a donation of, say, $5 or $10, or whatever the expense is, per person, then all is covered. If room rental is also to be covered then a double digit dollar donation is surely appropriate.
I believe that the effort that is involved in keeping these exchanges going is priceless and is part of being in service and as a way to help us grow and experience. Some shares start on a gentle note with a guided meditation, a prayer of intent or an energy exercise for the chakras. You can also call upon your guides, angels, Ascended Masters (not Reiki but might make some people more comfortable). Not all studenrts of Reiki are trained in the same manner - so we leave things open.
Leaving the daily frustrations and negative thoughts outside and having positive healing thoughts in the Reiki circle is important and we need to do whatever feels best to bring this about, usually by setting an example. (I have the Tibetan gongs of Richard Hite playing in the background for the first while.) One person can be designated as being on "latecomers watch" and can make sure that the openin meditation is not disrupted. And experimenting with different ways to end the gathering is fun! And some of us just can't do without candles and special music!
Any place to host a gathering is good - the cosier and quieter, the better - best when there are no pets and children passing through, unless they are part of the healing circle. Decent parking and near-ness of public transportation are also a bonus. When it is a residence, you will need a room to work with that allows people to move around easily and then a room to sit and chat (living room, maybe). When a public place is your choice, then make sure that the next generation of U2 is not practising in the room next-door! No kidding - it happened!
The biggest unseen element in the creation of an energy work Exchange is persistence. The host has to make a commitment to invite, invite, invite! And to stick with it such that Teflon gets new meaning! People sometimes tell others; people sometimes remind friends; people sometimes remind themselves; people sometimes are too tired or feeling too miserable to get up and go; people have a lot on their minds. The host will have to stick to the emails / phoning / flyers routine very diligently. Flyers and advertising can be placed in appropriate places, bulletin boards, in your everyday email signature, on-line calendars (feel free at http://www.thehealingjournal.com) over and over. Much like advertising, only once isn't quite enough. Always ask where a new person saw or heard about your gathering. And the best part is that usually the host doesn't have to drive to get there!
If you ever wonder if it is worthwhile to expend the energy on organizing Reiki Shares - then just step up to the plate! It is an amazing gift - a gift that all share in: healing, knowledge, guidance and love.
MANY BLESSINGS
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6. Questions About Distant Healing You Were Afraid to Ask...
Have you ever wondered how people can claim to send distant healing en
ergy? And really wondered how this can be done when all the healer has is a first name and initial and maybe a city somewhere close by or far away? Can these claims be real? Why not just send healing with just initials or no name at all?
How much information does one need to be effective, if at all, to send distance healing? Is it personal and different for every healer or is there really a science to it with a few serious consistent basics to be adhered to, so as to not create doubt or an appearance of “hit or miss”?
When I look at how different energy work teachers I have had the privilege of studying with, were sending healing energy, then I saw a pattern that distinguished what worked from what didn’t work and what was wishful thinking. Then I put this to the test myself with experiments (including with the help of an energetic calibrator with Dr. Wally Heath) and to see how qualitatively productive it was for me and for the “receiving” persons in my experiments.
Way back in the late 1970’s, it appears Mrs. Takata, who was responsible for bringing Reiki to the West (with a few exceptions), experienced her first sending of distant healing to someone she didn’t know on one of her teaching trips to the Slocan Valley in BC. During a Reiki II class there (which would have included learning to send healing Reiki energy to someone not present but known), the class decided to send, also, distant healing to someone who was quite ill, yet whom only a few people in the class knew. He was quite a ways away – Spokane. After everyone had the name and location and details of the “receiver”, and all wrote this down on pieces of paper that thye hung onto, the group sent their energy. The resultant surge was deemed phenomenal back in Spokane! Mrs. Takata was impressed and asked Wanya Twan, one of Mrs. takata's advanced students to speak about this later in public.
In other modalities such as BodyTalk, the minimum information required for a proper distant healing is a full name and a geographic location... nothing less. In short, it works like using cosmic GPS co-ordinates, coupled with very specific techniques. Included in the technique is that either the “receiving” person is focused on receiving themselves or someone who knows this person is holding this focus. Sure enough – my luck! The person in my experiment, whom I didn’t know and was to have a session with and who was held strongly in the mind of her friend sitting nearby me, “showed up” and promptly told me to “f--- o--”! So I stopped cold and reported this to the person/friend holding her in her mind and I felt I had royally failed....
Well, apparently, I was right on track as this would have been a typical response to something this “weird and crazy” as this person would have perceived it to be and there was more in this vein and in the end we had quite an interesting, revealing if not testy, healing session.
These experiments and others, narrowed the minimum parameters down for me. This amount of needed information - a full name and place - as a minimum - worked for most of the class, too. I’d say that this turned out to be the basic information I needed to do a good job at all given times.
A brilliant teacher of mine, Alain Herriot, who had the rare ability to truly see energy, on demand, would only heal people by long distance that he had had a connection with – and this would normally be minimally a telephone conversation first – and normally this would include the details of what the health issues were. But the actual connection of speaking to each other was invaluable for him to make that proper energetic connection he needed to work with the person.
Another highly regarded teacher of mine would not work without a picture to make a good connection.
How do I know that this energy actually travels to the other person and doesn’t drop into the Pacific Ocean on it’s way from Vancouver to Melbourne?
Many articles have been written on the theory and proof of non-local healing and an amazing number of experiments have been recorded. Dr. James Oschman has written many books on this and also you may wish to go to these sources and look around: http://www.shareguide.com/Dossey.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrNLB3DOlz8
http://brainfuels.com/2011/01/non-local-mind-bibliography/
http://www.thelivingmatrixmovie.com/james-oschman
Have you ever seen a street lamp that was just barely emanating light (not dead, but barely alight)? Then you send it loving qi and after 30 seconds or less it turns back on! Voila! That energy didn’t go to the car parked below or to the street light beside it, already doing fine! The energy goes where it is sent with intention. After many street lights, this is now enough proof for me, or as one friend put it: “the city should give you a job (taxes well spent...”)
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7. REIKI FAMILY
Reiki learning is passed on from teacher to teacher. Lineage shows which Reiki Masters learned from whom in a direct line – leading back to the original founder Master Usui. Here is my lineage (Vancouver Reiki Teacher Merrie Bakker of Pacific Holistic Reiki Healing Centre).
My Reiki Level One - June 1999; Level Two - February 2001; Level III /Master Level - November 2001
- Master Mikao Usui
- Dr. Chujiro Hayashi
- Mrs. Hawayo Takata
- Iris Ishikura
- Arthur Robertson
- Diane McCumber
- William Rand
- Glenna Quinn and Sister Eileen Curteis
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8. Some common Q & A's about learning Reiki:
Q I’m often asked how much time a Reiki class should take - why are some classes 4 hours and others 16 hours.
A The simplest explanation I have is that there is a lot to cover. The history is important. There are many important events and people that have shaped the Reiki we practice in the West today. There is some misinformation, too, which needs to be addressed. More knowledge means more clarity and respect for the work.
Back in the 1920’s when Reiki got it’s start in Japan, the students were completely conversant with meridians and chakras and here we are not. So this little parcel of knowledge needs to be incorporated into a class. Over time we have learned that there are some quick and unique methods of learning how to “run energy” that are completely aligned with the ability to pass on energy, as Master Usui encouraged his students to do. This needs a certain amount of time, in a thorough and modern Reiki class to be taught correctly. Other aspects, such as centring, focussing, learning how to scan, entrainment and protecting oneself from taking on the client’s issues and / or challenges can be learned through trial and error by students but are much better when taught and practised so that there is no “by the seat of the pants” type experiences of poor learning.
Q Some people have asked me whether I suggest taking Level One and Two at the same time and if not then how much time show be in between each level.
A Historically, Master Usui and his teachers did not have weekend courses but one came one evening per week, if one was free, to the group sessions of meditation and Reiki. It would not be unusual to be in a certain level for many years. So, when I’m asked if I teach the classic Usui system, I have to wonder if that potential student has eight years to spare!
In present Western Reiki we know that some classes of Level One are all a student really needs. A good foundation in hands on healing - a thorough Level One - for working with friends and pets and plants and kids is a fine set of tools. If working with clients is your goal, then Level Two is important to add in time. Mrs. Takata, who is the main teacher who brought Reiki to the West, is know to have students return for Level Two after a year but also to offer it to students who were keen, from out of town and for whom she had a really good intuitive feeing that they could do their Level Two after a week in-between and with lots of practice during that time. There is no rule. Each student and teacher uses their inner guidance for the right answer. Some Reiki organisations have rules. This facilitates keeping things on an even keel.
One heads up - I learned the hard way. I was so concerned with getting it right and helping others that I neglected to work on myself initially - and that’s a bit of avoidance I recommend to look at. Working on oneself often is a very valuable component of learning and improving and gaining confident hands.
Q What’s this Master Level III and IV or IIIa and IIIb all about? Are there different kinds of Masters?
A In keeping with the past there is a need to charge a bit more for the Master Level. And also in keeping with past practices, the process included that only the very dedicated would be teaching Reiki in the first place. Over time some Reiki teachers were smart and sought to capture a possibly interested market and created a marketing approach to the Master Level - divvying it up into two parts - to whet the appetite. Master Usui, Mrs Takata and her next level of teachers would never have done that. There is no benefit. You are either ready to teach or you aren’t!
Sometimes the desire to teach can just BE there - an inspired calling! Sometimes it’s because a Reiki practitioner has worked with so many people, has had such a valuable time practising Reiki, that it is the next most natural step. The right time is usually very obvious to both the teacher and the student.
Q Does one need inherited talent or is anyone capable - right away or after decades of practice?
A Reiki, once learned, cannot be forgotten or lost. However, it is a practice that requires discipline to attain true mastery (all subtle energy work does in my opinion). Master Usui's work in the rediscovery of energetic manipulation has been sliced and diced and demeaned via courses claiming Reiki mastership in a weekend (or less). The Americanization of Reiki has resulted in a band wagon approach to learning and accompanying exploitation. Reiki mastership involves dedication, focus, a keen desire and personal nature to want to reach out to people.
Energetic transference has been measured, in a clinical sense and setting, by organizations such as Holos University and Heartmeath.
The initial levels of Reiki mastership precede a path that will gradually result in the death of ego, deepening of life lessons and increased inner awareness. In short, Reiki is a discipline leading to esoteric, subjective and highly personal results.
have a lovely time reading,
Merrie Bakker
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9. Reiki Sites I Enjoy Browsing In:
1) http://www.reiki-research.co.uk
A UK site created by Reiki Master Joe Potter which shares information about Reiki sessions. It has interesting web pages on Reiki, Reiki Research references and reports and a list of good links to other Reiki sites.
2) http://www.angelfire.com/az/SpiritMatters/intro1.html#prin
Reiki Ryoho Pages by Light and Adonea is a brilliant website covering all aspects of Reiki in detail. They also provide links not only to other Reiki sites but also to resources, research papers and projects. They offer various Reiki manuals written by themselves and have compiled details of histories of Reiki which shows us the assorted claims of different Reiki and Seichim Masters.
3) http://www.reiki.org
William Rand's International Center for Reiki Training is one of the earliest websites on Reiki and is another site with a wealth of Reiki (and Karuna Reiki) resources and references including information on research, his own Reiki books and magazine, “Reiki News”. Numerous articles on Reiki, energy and Reiki related topics are available. Free newsletter.
4) http://www.reikidharma.com - many good insights, history updates and articles by the international teacher Arjava Petter. Free newsletter.
5) http://www.reiki.net.au - a fabulous Australian/international site
6) http://www.thehealingjournal.com/node/1954 - a collection of NDE articles and info
7) http://web.archive.org/web/20060905192832/http://www.usuireiki.fsnet.co.uk/Links.html - Traditional Japanese Reiki History by Andy Bowling, including teachings of a Japanese Master of the Hayashi lineage - from his old website.
8) A delightful surprise - just go here http://www.animalreikisource.com/
9) Animal Communicator - http://www.HealingForAnimals.com
10) lots of good reading - the heading list runs down the left side of this page: http://www.ihreiki.com/reiki_info/
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There is a $20 fee/donation for these Reiki sessions.
Do you have a health challenge you’re trying to manage or resolve? It could be anything from staying strong and healthy to wondering how you will make it through your next round of chemo or radiation. Do give Reiki a try.
If you are a Reiki practitioner and you would like to introduce your friends to Reiki, but you are not comfortable giving them a treatment on your own, then come together and we will work together. Know that this is a safe environment where you and your friends will be well cared for.
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When disease, heaps of stress, pain or a health crisis strikes, you may feel attacked on many levels and your energy, when you need it most, seems to desert you... Reiki Energy healing can help replenish!
*Reduce the side effects from heavy hitting therapies and medications.
*Make your healing a new beginning ~ diminish fear, worry, guilt and information overload.
*Make your healing journey as easy as possible ~ give your inner physician a hand. Revitalize!
*Discuss, if you wish, how the knowledge of German New Medicine can help you gain perspective on what conflicts and shocks may underlying your health challenges and conflicts.
Please experience this wonderful natural, hands-on healing method one day. Pacific Holistic Reiki Centre is in Kerrisdale, Vancouver, BC.
I sincerely look forward to hearing from you.
Pacific Holistic offers classes on various Reiki topics in the fall of 2011, as well as other holistic practices / lectures / workshops.
Some examples are:
Planetary Healing with Reiki - distant Reiki from and to around the world. Helping and healing and how to start your own group
The Reiki Principles - their origins and how to work with them
The “Business” of Reiki; Reiki and your website, who’s going to know?
Reiki and German New Medicine - specific topics and solution
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10. Japanese Reiki words
Byosen - scanning method - to find/treat energetically imbalanced body parts / systems from the source of an illness or injury (Byosen Reikan Ho scanning)
Byosen Reikan - the energy of a disease - can be detected with hands, but will vary depending on the severity and condition from person-to-person - literally means energy sensation of sickness (imbalance/disease). Byo means ‘disease, sickness’ and Sen means ‘before, ahead, previous, future, precedence’, Rei means ‘energy, soul, spirit’ and kan means ‘emotion, feeling, sensation’; detecting sensations such as tingling, tickling, pulsating, piercing, biting, pain, numbness, heat, cold and so forth;
Chakra Kassei Kokyu-ho - a breathing technique to activate the chakras which sends Reiki to the whole body and activates the chakras; literal translation of Chakra Kassei Kokyu ho is ‘breathing method to activate the chakras’
Chiryo ho= Reiki treatment / medical treatment / healing treatment; Example: Seiheki Chiryo-ho = method of treatment of natural habits or tendencies; technique for getting a message across to the subconscious mind with Reiki; helpful technique to reprogram the mind (i.e. such as the removal of a bad habit, strengthening a positive or new habit, etc.); technique has many uses like: stopping bad habits, over-coming illness, achieving goals, or anything of importance, etc.
Enkaku Chiryo - distant healing
Gakkai - academic / learning society
gassho - Muhdra / Gesture of Respect and Humility / Prayer position
putting your hands in prayer position and holding them in front of your chest by your heart
Gedoku Ho - technique to detoxify and purify
Gokai - the concepts; the Reiki precepts; the principles; (Gokai Sansho (Reiki affirmations) a technique that is used as part of Hatsu Rei Ho. Gokai Sansho - Gokai means 'five commandments'; Sansho means 'singing three times
Gyoushi-ho - The method for healing with the eyes - technique for sending healing energy. Gyoshi means ‘gaze, stare or fixation’ and ho means ‘technique, method or way’. In the Usui Hikkei it states that Reiki emanates from all body parts, but strongest from the hands, eyes and the breath.
Hado Kokyu-ho - A method of vibrational breathing - technique which will improve the function of internal organs and used to induce relaxation
Hatsu rei ho - Japanese Reiki technique combining meditation, minor empowerment, precepts and self healing intended to enhance the flow of personal Reiki energy.
Hesso - relaxation
Hibiki - sensation felt in the hands when scanning/healing
Hikkei - manual
Hiroshi Doi, member of the Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkai founded by Mikao Usui who teaches Gendai Reiki Ho, combining aspects of Western and Japanese Reiki and who has studied various energy healing systems
Ho = method / technique for connecting to the energy / to become one with the energy / way
Jacki-kiri Joka-ho - method of transforming negative energy into positive - technique used to cleanse and purify, often used to treat a scanning that will not easily heal
Joshin Kokyuu Ho - a breathing technique to strengthen energy, collect energy in your tanden (lower abdomen) and learn to let the energy flow out through your hands - part of Hatsu Rei Ho
Jumon - sound to invoke a specific universal vibration; the Reiki symbols each have a Jumon, which is it's name or mantra
Kaku - Assistant
kan - emotion, feeling, sensation
Kassei - active / activate
Kenyoku ho (Dry bathing) - technique to cleanse the etheric and physical body; method to strengthens your own energy disconnect from others - part of Hatsu Rei Ho.
Kihon Shisei - Standard Posture - technique that is used as part of Hatsu Rei Ho
Ki Ko = Qi- Gong, a healing discipline that teaches the practitioner to build up their own life force energy
Koki ho - healing through breath; Kokyu - breath / respiration; Gassho Kokyu-ho (Seishin Toitsu) – breathing / concentrated breath thru the hands
Kota dama - affirmation/mantra to connect to the source of Reiki energy
Mokunen = Focusing
Netatsu Ho - technique used to alter negative thought patterns or behaviour.
Okuden = second level on the Reiki path; Level Two
Rainbow Reiki - technique to match the frequency of specific physical or emotional conditions using symbols and colour
Rei - energy, soul, spirit, light
Reiji = indication of the Reiki energy or a technique - powerful prayer to be used prior to starting a treatment
Reiju = Empowerment, used by the Reiki Master to put higher frequency Reiki energy into the student to raise their vibrational frequency
Reiki Mawashi - Method of passing on Reiki (energy) to help Reiki students become more sensitive to the energy; a current - letting Reiki energy flow through the whole group
Reiki Undo - Movement of spiritual energy. This is a Qi Gong technique introduced to Japanese Reiki for movement of energy through the body - introduced by Mrs. Koyama, the sixth president of the Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkai - that helps us learn to listen to our own body’s needs and activates the body’s inherent self healing abilities
Seiheki = disposition; inclination; characteristic; idiosyncrasy
Seishin Toitsu (Contemplation) - A technique that is used as part of Hatsu Rei Ho
Sensei - wise/revereed person - a formal way to address someone who is
Shihan - teacher
Shihan-Kaku - beginner teacher
Shihan Sensei - expert Reiki teacher
Shinpiden - third level on the Reiki path = Healing Mastership/ Psychic Mastership or Spiritual Mastership
Shirushi = the Reiki symbols
Shoden - first level = beginner level = Level One = initial stage
Shu Chu Reiki - a technique practiced in a group or at a Reiki meeting - members send energy to one group member wishing/praying for happiness and health
Shuyo Ho - Practicing Hatsu Rei Ho as a group activity.
Mikao Usui - founder of 'The Usui System of Natural Healing' = 'Usui-do' = now known as Reiki in the West.
Usui-do - The Way of Usui = Usui's teachings.
Usui Gainen - the concepts; the Reiki precepts; the principles;
Usui Reiki Ryoho - Usui Spiritual Energy Healing Method. Used by teachers who focus on teaching a traditional Japanese style of Reiki. Hawayo Takata used this on her certificates
Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkai - the old Reiki society; the orginal society that Usui Sensei founded
Usui teate - Hands on healing given by Mikao Usui.
Waka - Waka is a form of traditional Japanese poetry containing 31 syllables. 'Wa' means Japanese and 'ka' means poem. Waka were first created prior to the advent of writing in Japan for celebratory or religious purposes. Poems of the Meiji Emperor were incorporated Mikao Usui into his meetings/teachings (Meiji Renno Gyosei)
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promote deep relaxation, alleviate fatigue,
release stress/tension/anxiety, reduce pain,
increase body awareness, improve circulation
and detoxify the body.
