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	What is Reiki? Reiki (ray-key) is a natural healing technique that feels like a flow of a high frequency of energy into and through a practitioner, and out the hands into another person The system of Usui Reiki Ryoho grew out of the original teachings of Mikao Usui, a Japanese man, around 1922. He had called his system "My Method" or Usui-Do. In the West, it was previously thought that it was his purpose to find out how famous healers like Buddha and Christ healed the sick, without depleting their own inner energy. However we now know that he had a very spiritual experience or vision in which the meaning of his life was made clear to him. He then set out on a 3 year quest to discover how he could attain this. Mikao Usui (1865 - 1926) During his life and especially during his mission he studied old religions and ancient teachings including the Japanese forms of Taoism. He was also a student of martial arts and knew the founder of Judo, Jigoro Kano, very well. The organisation that survived him, Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkai, teaches that he experienced a solution and a very powerful personal energy that we now call Reiki, while fasting on the Holy Mountain of Kurama Yama, just outside of the spiritual city of Kyoto, Japan. According to Gakkai history, he received a powerful form of energy while in meditation and was knocked unconscious for hours. He awoke feeling wonderful and refreshed, and had the ability to recall the energy. He soon discovered the energy gave the bonus of an amazing healing ability. Usui Sensei (also called Sensei or O-Sensei) tested this new found energy on his family and friends, then took the resulting process out to the Japanese public. He traveled to Tokyo and began healing and teaching others there. He also found he could easily transfer the ability to access and use this energy, to anyone. The word Reiki was actually an adjective that Mr. Usui used in defining a set of concepts for his original system; he was attributing the source of this energy and inspiration to his ancestors. In Western translation however, the word Reiki is seen as being made up of two Japanese words - Rei and Ki. Literally, taken one word at a time, Rei can mean supernatural force or spiritual intelligence; Ki can mean life energy. Thus Reiki is often described in the West as "spiritually guided life force energy". However in Japanese, words must be taken together and in the context of their use, in order to understand their actual meaning and intention. O-Sensei's system was trimmed in some ways, and expanded and modified in others by his students to become Usui Reiki Ryoho (method). The background for this page contains these 6 characters in O-Sensei's handwriting. The original system of Usui-Do is still being taught, and as of the end of 2002 there are still a handful of O-Sensei's students still alive in Japan, who communicate with some Western students. However, since it is highly personal and spiritually oriented, most seem to begin with the study of Usui Reiki Ryoho. As each colour in the rainbow is actually a different frequency or vibration of white light, the Reiki ray can be considered a range of vibrations of the Universal Energy or The Light, but perhaps a range that is beyond the normal access of each individual. But it is well known for it's ability to bring the human energy field into balance on all levels, thus encouraging the healing process

		How does REIKI work? Reiki is an amazing energy that comes from the highest spiritual source. It has its own intelligence and knows exactly where to go and what to do. It is multi-dimensional and will heal the cause of a problem on whatever level it may exist - body, mind, or spirit. It does not have to be directed by the practitioner. Because it is a channeled healing, the Reiki practitioner's energies are never depleted. In fact, when giving a treatment, the Reiki practitioner is healed as well and always experiences an increase in life-force energy. People that already do healing work report their healing energies increase by at least 50% after receiving Reiki training.

	An Analogy Consider whenever a person goes outside to water the garden. S/he turns on the water tap, picks up the hose and focuses the nozzle of the hose towards the garden. (Let's assume there are no water use restrictions in effect <smile>). The person isn't usually concerned with the water running out, nor with the possibility of anything foreign coming in through the sides of the hose. The person also doesn't worry about anything coming back up through the nozzle as the water pressure is too strong. While this person could just let the water run and it would work its way to all parts of the garden, s/he likes to direct the water to her/his favourite plants, then possibly the balance of the garden. However, if there is a part that is in greater need than the rest of the garden (like a very large vegetable), the water will accumulate more here, so as to balance the entire garden's water content. And it is usually quite obvious where these spots are, as more water gets absorbed here, than elsewhere. Fountain at Amataka Shrine, Taniai Village The water can be thought of as the Reiki energy. It comes from a source outside of you, and seems to have no limit to its availability. The person is the Reiki practitioner. The hose is like the purified Reiki channel that is opened within the initiated Reiki practitioner. It is very pure and strong and nothing can penetrate it; i.e. your energy does not get mixed with the Reiki ray before it leaves you. The energy flows out the palms of your hands, your nozzles (as well as other chakras in the body), and the recipient's energy does not flow back into the practitioner (so you don't take on their mis-qualified energy). The Reiki practitioner can just stay in one place projecting the energy on or towards the person who is receiving it, but typically moves around the body, starting with the recipient's head (just like watering the favourite flowers first). While the Reiki energy fills and surrounds the recipient's body with its gentle vibrations, if there are parts that require more balancing of energy (called energy blocks), the Reiki ray will focus more in those places. The potential end result is a balancing of all the energy in the body, plus in the other levels of the aura. So in this way Reiki spreads into the emotional, mental and spiritual areas as well. The Reiki channel can also be thought of being similar to a sprinkler hose with little holes all around the sides of it. Like the sprinkler hose, the Reiki also "leaks" out into the Reiki practitioner, causing her/him to receive a gentle Reiki session also. The result of this latter fact is that the Reiki practitioner feels energized and vibrant after giving a Reiki session, and is quite capable of performing several sessions in a row. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Am I Already Using Reiki? I often get comments like this one - "What you describe here sounds very much like an ability I have been using for some time. Am I already using Reiki?" This may come from students or from people over the internet. Some of them have been born with healing abilities, while others have learned similar energy techniques. First of all, what I qualify as "Reiki" would be the same energy that Mikao Usui originally experienced sometime before his move to Tokyo in April, 1922, and then taught to his students. This implies that a person has received the energy in a way that Mikao Usui used to pass it on to his students; that is, by way of an energy empowerment, usually given in a Reiki class, by a Reiki "master". Torii in Usui's Home village Perhaps it would be more appropriate to discuss whether a person is using the same energy as Reiki. In my experiences with those who have a healing skill, all who have gone on to receive the Reiki attunement have told me that the energy they had previously thought was Reiki, was either quite different, or not as strong, or not as easily accessed as Reiki. They talk about Reiki as being a higher vibration, or that it has a different colour, or that it flows through them differently, than what they were previously using. I think the only way to determine if your energy is the same as Reiki would be to receive a Reiki attunement, or to ask a very good clairvoyant to compare your energy to that of a Reiki practitioner. Or you may simply want to sample a Reiki session yourself. This is not to say that Reiki is better than what you are already using. There are indeed other energies that seem to work the way Reiki does, but have a different feel or vibration to them. Yet I wouldn't be surprised if some children are coming into the world now with this energy already flowing - a legacy to our most unusual times.