Introduction
Reiki London UK Reiki Master London UK Reiki Practitioner UK
Usui Reiki UK Gendai Reiki UK Threshold Reiki UK Karuna Reiki
UK Indian Head Massage London UK Reiki Healing London UK Reiki
Symbols London Reiki Massage London UK Reiki Courses UK Reiki
Courses London Reiki Training UK Reiki Training London
Reiki is a Japanese form of healing that is becoming increasingly
popular worldwide. What makes Reiki unique is that it incorporates
elements of just about every other alternative healing practices
such as spiritual healing, auras, crystals, chakra balancing,
meditation, aromatherapy, naturopathy, and homeopathy.
Reiki involves the transfer of energy from practitioner to patient
to enhance the body's natural ability to heal itself through the
balancing of energy. Reiki utilizes specific techniques for restoring
and balancing the natural life force energy within the body. It
is a holistic, natural, hands-on energy healing system that touches
on all levels: body, mind, and spirit.
Reiki (pronounced ray-key) is a Japanese word representing universal
life energy, the energy which is all around us. It is derived
from rei, meaning "free passage" or "transcendental
spirit" and ki, meaning "vital life force energy"
or " universal life energy".
What Is Reiki?
Reiki practitioners channel energy in a particular pattern to
heal and harmonize. Unlike other healing therapies based on the
premise of a human energy field, reiki seeks to restore order
to the body whose vital energy has become unbalanced.
Reiki energy has several basic effects: it brings about deep
relaxation, destroys energy blockages, detoxifies the system,
provides new vitality in the form of healing universal life energy,
and increases the vibrational frequency of the body.
The laying of hands is used in Reiki therapy also as in spiritual
healing. There is a difference though. In spiritual healing, a
person with a strong energy field places his or her hands above
a particular part of the recipient's body in order to release
energy into it. So, here the healer is the one who is sending
out the energy. In Reiki, however, the healer places the hands
above the recipient; however, it is the recipient that draws the
energy as needed. Thus, in this case, the individual being healed
takes an active part in the healing process as opposed to having
a passive part in spiritual healing. The individual takes responsibility
for his or her healing. The recipient identifies the needs and
cater to them by drawing energy as needed.
Although there are a few positions in which the practitioner
is in contact with the patient (such as cradling the head), most
reiki treatments do not involve actual touching. The practitioner
holds his or her hands a few inches or farther away from the patient's
body and manipulates the energy field from there.
History of Reiki
Reiki is believed to have begun in Tibet several thousand years
ago. Seers in the Orient studied energies and developed a system
of sounds and symbols for universal healing energies. Various
healing systems, which crossed many different cultures, emerged
from this single root system. Unfortunately, the original source
itself was forgotten.
Dr. Mikao Usui, a Japanese Christian educator in Kyoto, Japan,
rediscovered the root system in the mid- to late 1800s. He began
an extensive twenty-one-year study of the healing phenomena of
history's greatest spiritual leaders. He also studied ancient
sutras (Buddhist teachings written in Sanskrit). He discovered
ancient sounds and symbols that are linked directly to the human
body and nervous system which activate the universal life energy
for healing.
Usui then underwent a metaphysical experience and became empowered
to use these sounds and symbols to heal. He called this form of
healing Reiki and taught it throughout Japan until his death around
1893.
The tradition was passed through several grandmasters of reiki
such as Dr. Chujiro Hyashi, Hawayo Takata, and Phyllis Lei Furumoto.
There are many forms of reiki being practiced now. The two principal
ones are: "the Usui System of Natural Healing" and "the
Radiance Technique."
The Usui System of Natural Healing balances and strengthens the
body's energy, promoting its ability to heal itself.
Reiki is useful in treating serious serious illnesses as well
as others. Examples are: sports injuries, cuts, burns, internal
diseases, emotional disorders, and stress-related illnesses.
Reiki was introduced to the Western world in the mid-1970s. Since
then its use has spread dramatically worldwide.