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Introduction to Reiki

In a sense, reiki is similar to therapeutic touch, healing touch, polarity therapy, and other esoteric techniques. Each uses the hands to help to diagnose or identify the symptoms of illness. The therapist or healer then works to alleviate pain and suffering by balancing energy fields.

No one is sure exactly how reiki works; many theories and speculations revolve around chakras, biochemically structural changes, the nervous system, the flow of energy, positive suggestion, and the relationship between the recipient or client and the practitioner or therapist.

Each of these ideas has validity, but more research will be needed to clarify the essential processes that are active in reiki.

Reiki, direct energy transference, is the alternative therapy founded in Japan by Mikao Usui in the early 20th century. The word reiki comes from the Japanese, reiki, meaning soul or spirit, and ki, meaning vital energy (pronounced the same as chi in Chinese and prana in Sanskrit).

The technique is generally practiced with the recipient lying fully clothed and relaxed, while the therapist places the palms of the hands in various positions about the body, allowing the natural energy flow of the universe to pour into the recipient.

The therapy is based on a philosophy that teaches that life energy, ki, infuses all living things. With the proper infusion, life energy circulates normally within and around individuals who are healthful; however, in persons who are ill, this healthy balance is disrupted. The energy that should flow evenly is either blocked or is not flowing with the required intensity.

The practitioner acts as a channel for the essence of universal, or life, energy to flow to the client and to flow where it is needed to heal, or harmonize, the recipient.

Definition and Origin

Its source can be traced back over 2500 years of life force energy by Tibetan Lamas, but it has been known to many ancient cultures in one form or another.

With Reiki, the energy takes on a somewhat different form, being of a much higher vibrational level. According to sources, the healing system known as Reiki is believed to have been around for a considerable amount of time, but has been lost to humans, just as contact with the Earth and other living beings has been sadly forgotten.

The Reiki we are familiar with today in the Western World entered onto the stage of human history during the late 1800s. Dr. Mikao Usui, the founder and early Christian missionaries in Japan, discovered a very old sacred sutra hidden away in the archives of the ancient Buddhist Sutras, the Sanskrit texts used by Buddha. Dr. Usui was able to read the very old Sanskrit text, and wherever he found the name of a symbol or word he was using, it impressed into his intellect and Aura, allowing Usui Reiki to be born.

The term Reiki is a combination of two words: rei and ki. Rei (pronounced ray) means spiritual or sacred. Where the practitioner lays his or her hands on the fully clothed recipient, the energy flows. Ki (pronounced key) is the vital force that flows through all living things. Ki is also known by many other names, among them Chi in China, Prana in India, the Odic Force, Orgone, Bioplasma, and the body’s own natural healing processes.

The words Reiki refer to the Universal life energy of which all are a part. Rei and Ki together are commonly defined as the energy transmitted through the hands of someone practicing Usui Reiki. It is a powerful, yet easy to learn ancient healing system.

Techniques

Takata teaches that the first thing to do is to create a complete relaxation, especially in the part of the body subjected to the Reiki treatment. Then, the operator pronounces the symbols of power and with the eyes is suggested to trace on the body the shapes evoked by the symbols themselves.

Following this, a period of substantial mental inactivity is recommended, which is to accompany the contact made by the hands by letting Reiki operate by itself, while ensuring that the placement of the hands adapts to the sensations that the “connection” of the hands themselves with the place from which witnesses the responses of silent healing proceeds incessantly with the practices.

Each subsequent position will be determined and transmitted by subjective sensations. With an increasing awareness of the work underway, such sensations will intensify due to the operator being increasingly in tune with the awakening of feelings and heat in the person undergoing treatment.

A body of general principles of Reiki is supplied by the Reiki Notebook. The directions are threefold. Reiki always grants the attention that is received for oneself before giving or passing on to another person. Also, it is to be performed with clean hands and a clean body that is essential both because of the purity an individual should radiate and also for hygienic reasons.

Reiki should not be projected by people who smoke or are alcoholics. They are exhorted to undertake a practice of “cleansing” which means substituting such empathy by pure and solicitous thoughts and pure and simple food.

Calming or treating with Reiki ill individuals who abuse their bodies with no intention of repairing damage derived from their unhealthy lifestyle frequently triggers discomfort and sometimes genuine medical crises.

In such cases, the detumescence procedure has to be gradually reached, which is the guerdon acquired through Reiki sessions practiced over a certain period of time. Those who cannot shed these habits are to be advised that positive results cannot be awaited.

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