What is Usui Shiki Ryoho Reiki?

What is Usui Shiki Ryoho Reiki?

Healing Energy & Therapeutic Massage.

The secret art of inviting happiness
The miraculous medicine of all diseases
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Do not worry and be filled with gratitude
Devote yourself to your work. Be kind to people.
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and chant these words with your mouth
Usui Reiki Treatment for the improvement of body and mind
The founder , Usui Mikao

Reiki (pronounced Ray-Key) is a method of natural healing based on the application of Universal Life Force Energy (the name literally means Universal Life Force Energy). These pages are a collection of information about Reiki and are presented with the purpose of spreading knowledge of what Reiki is.

Reiki ia a gentle therapy reduces stress and pain.

This unique therapy is one of the best-loved types of energy work. Massage therapists, nurses and other Reiki practitioners have seen it reduce people's stress and pain again and again. The particular beauty of Reiki is that it can be used on anyone no matter their condition, from infants to those healing from surgery or wounds to people in hospice care.

Reiki is a technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing. It is administered by "laying on hands" and is based on the idea that an unseen "life force energy" flows through us and is what causes us to be alive. If one's "life force energy" is low, then we are more likely to get sick or feel stress, and if it is high, we are more capable of being happy and healthy.

Where did Reiki come from?

Reiki was founded in the early 20th century by a Japanese man named Mikao Usui. An accomplished practitioner of the martial and meditative arts, he gave healings with light touch, and taught some of those who received these treatments. These students called what he did "Usui Hand Healing." One of them developed the system further and began calling it Reiki (from Rei, meaning universal, and Ki, meaning life energy).

What is Reiki like?

During a Reiki session, the practitioner will place his or her hands in 12 different positions on the head, the front of the body and the back. Practitioners may also place the hands on a site of injury or pain. The practitioner's hands don't have to actually touch the body, and the receiver does not need to be awake.

Reiki life energy seems to soothe, or balance, the nervous system. It can be adapted for almost any use, and can even support conventional medical procedures. Hospital and other medical staff see that Reiki calms and reassures patients in pain and distress, and they enjoy giving it because it reduces their own stress as well.

Since it can help people relax no matter what their situation, Reiki is often taught to patients and families to practice on themselves and family members. In fact, it is easy and inexpensive for almost anyone to learn Reiki for treating oneself, friends and family.

What is ki?

Simply put, ki is the Japanese word for energy. Also known as qi or chi in Asia, mana in Hawaii and prana in the yoga tradition, healing practitioners sometimes refer to it as "subtle" energy. Subtle energy provides life with its vitality -- in fact, it is what distinguishes life from death. Though it may be subtle, it has a great impact. Consider the atom -- tiny, but when its energy is released, it's extremely powerful.

There are different kinds of ki, and we absorb it from different sources -- food, sun, water and air. We also give it to and receive it from other people, which is where healing techniques that work with the flow of energy come into play.

To maintain health and well-being, there should be a balance of ki circulating through and around our bodies.

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What is energy work?

Using Vibrational Techniques to heal the mind and body.

Practitioners of energy work have daily and remarkable encounters with its therapeutic effects. But what is it? Energy work, or energy "medicine" is a phrase you may hear from family, friends or in the office of your massage therapist or chiropractor. It refers to kinds of therapy that impact energy fields thought to surround and penetrate the human body. Reiki, qigong, tai chi, yoga, acupuncture, Polarity Therapy and Therapeutic Touch are some better known energy work techniques.

Reiki moves energy through and around the body.

The idea of energy moving through and around the body is not as strange as it may sound. For example, researchers discovered years ago that organs in the body produce electrical fields that can be detected on the skin, leading to the development of clinical tools such as the electrocardiogram (EKG) and the electroencephalogram (EEG) which doctors commonly use to diagnose conditions of the heart and brain. In another example, we know that the nervous system works by the transmission of nerve impulses, and this process is observed by measuring the electrical fields associated with it.

Reiki relieves stress, and calms the mind.

Practitioners and recipients of energy work feel that it encourages the body and mind toward relaxation, allowing our marvelous self-healing abilities to come into play. Put simply, reducing stress and calming the mind enhance the healing process.

Energy work techniques rarely, if ever, cause any harm, and the body of evidence for the effectiveness of the work is growing. Because of these things, an increasing number of hospitals and their staff members are integrating energy work into patient care, in addition to offering classes in energy work to patients and community members.

While we're living, we share the energy that makes everything, from a blade of grass to an elephant, grow and live and then inevitably wear out and die. This energy, this life force, creates the whole world.

--Pema Chodron,
author of Start Where You Are

Usui Reiki Principals

Just for today, do not worry.
Just for today, do not anger.
Honor your parents, teachers, and elders.
Earn your living honestly.
Show gratitude to everything.

Dr. Mikao Usui

Reiki Level I

Usui called the first degree in reiki Shoden, or First Teaching. During an attunement process, the student is empowered with the ability to channel Reiki healing energy for in-person healings. No symbols are given and the student learns to give treatments simply by "laying-on-hands". A standard system of hand placement is taught, along with basic guidelines for facilitating Reiki sessions for oneself and for others. Intuitive methods of treatment are also discussed. By the end of class, students are given the opportunity to facilitate their first Reiki session through an exchange with their classmates.

The Level I attunement also launches a powerful clearing and healing process, which tends to target the physical body, although other layers of the auric field also receive healing. Intuition is often significantly enhanced by the process, along with overall levels of conscious awareness. Increased connectivity to spiritual levels of consciousness, openings of the crown, third eye, and heart chakras, and increases in psychic sensitivity are also very common.

* Level I attunement * Reiki guided meditation * What is Reiki & how it heals * History of Reiki * Using Reiki with the system of standard hand placements * Using Reiki intuitively * Self healing with Reiki * Using Reiki to treat others * Reiki session exchange with other students

Upon completion of the Level I class, you will be a fully-empowered Reiki healer, with all the skills, knowledge, and capabilities to facilitate in-person Reiki healing sessions. Use your new abilities to heal yourself and help others, empower your goals, and otherwise improve your life with daily sessions. Once attuned to Reiki, you will have the ability to access and utilize this healing energy for the rest of your life.

Reiki Level II

This second level is called Okuden, or Inner Teaching, in Japanese. The most important thing in Okuden is learning to do absent or distance healings. You are taught how to heal people or animals not present, and how to send energy to a goal or situation. You will receive another attunement which allows you to further open up your energy system, and it is believed that the amount of energy channeled with reiki II is twice as much as the energy of reiki I. Three symbols and their mantras are now given, so you can consciously learn to make use of them.

Reiki Master

Shinpiden, or Mystery Teaching, is the third and highest level in reiki. It is the full empowerment. You will receive a final attunement and learn to work with the fourth symbol, the master symbol. The amount of energy you channel with reiki III becomes much stronger. You'll become able to teach and initiate others in reiki, and that's why third degree reiki is usually called master/teacher level.

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