Let’s talk about Reiki. I have had a lot of clients request it lately and I am happy to share my experience with it. Reiki is such a beautiful non- invasive no touch therapy and was a gateway to so many incredible experiences for me. It helped me heal from my former health issues. It helped me become more attuned to my body and my surroundings and I can honestly say it was the one catalyst that changed my life. It opened up a whole new world of healing energy, engaging my heart and mind. I had never heard of it before but when a friend mentioned that I should consider taking Level One, something inside of me said YES! I loved it so much that over the course of 5 years I became a Usui Reiki Master. I wanted everyone to know about reiki and I wanted to teach others how to “tap” into this beautiful energy.
BRIEF HISTORY OF REIKI
In 1922, Buddhist monk and doctor Mikao Usui submerged himself in a 21 spiritual meditation and fast. During this time he received a spiritual awakening. He received a deep understanding of “life force energy”. He named this energy REIKI. It comes from the Japanese words “rei,” meaning universal, and “ki,” meaning life energy. It refers to the vital life force energy that flows through all living things. When he tried it on himself and his family he had immediate results.
Reiki utilizes the body’s energy field to help assist the body in deep homeostasis. Homeostasis allows natural healing to begin. Reiki supports the body’s natural ability to heal itself and can be a powerful catalyst for deep relaxation that helps people tap into their own natural healing resources.
Usui founded the Usui Reiki Healing Society where he developed the degrees of Reiki, the mantras, meditations, symbols and the Three Attunements which must be received to practice Reiki. The attunements happen during a ritual conducted by a Reiki Master. The degree of attunement changes as students moves through the First, Second and Third Degrees of Reiki. Students sit with their eyes closed and focus on their breathing. During the First Attunement, a Reiki Master clears the student’s energy channels to enable them to channel more universal energy for healing. It is a profound experience. There are a lot of teachers that are attuning reiki online. Many traditional Usui Reiki Masters (including my own Reiki Master) that is not authentic Reiki attunement, and goes against traditional attunement ceremony. They feel it is spurious and that a real authentic validated reiki attunement must be done traditionally and in person, where a physical transference of the teachings and attunement is “passed down” from teacher to student.