What is Reiki?
Reiki (pronounced
ray-key) is a Japanese word meaning universal life energy. This energy
is the natural, vital healing force found in all life. The Western Usui System
of Reiki Healing or Usui Shiki Ryoho is a hands on and distant healing
practice that uses life's natural healing energy to balance body, mind,
heart and spirit in a structured way through light, gentle,
non-intrusive touch and compassionate intention and regard. Universal
life energy is a only a very minimal description of Reiki's
extraordinary benefit. In an early diary written by Hawayo Takata, the
woman who first introduced the Usui System of Reiki to the her
students in the West, stated: "This power (Reiki) is unfathomable,
immeasurable, and being a universal life force, it is incomprehensible
to man. Yet, every single living being is receiving its blessings daily,
awake and asleep."
What does Reiki do?
The Usui System of
Reiki can be a used as a personal tool for healing and growth, as a way
to give supportive energy (to bless) family and friends, and as a
complementary therapy to holistic, naturopathic, alternative and
conventional medicines among an almost unlimited number of beneficial
purposes. A Reiki treatment simply supports the whole person physically,
emotionally, mentally and spiritually. Reiki is easy to learn and can be
used in a home or clinical setting to enhance the health and emotional
wellness of both self and others.
When a Reiki practitioner places hands
on an area of their own or a client's clothed body, Reiki flows from the
practitioner to the client and then back to the practitioner in a circle
of compassionate energy that starts when the treatment begins and ends
when the treatment stops usually an hour to an hour and a half later. Although
the experience of reiki treatment is completely individual --
experienced by both the client and the practitioner as a variety of
sensations, including, heat, cold, vibration, tingling, unusual
heaviness or lightness, or no sensation at all -- it is often reported
as accompanied by a deep feeling of warmth, well-being, comfort, deep
relaxation, and revitalization. Reiki relaxes muscles, stills the mind,
and eases pain. Reiki treatment has been scientifically shown to
accelerate healing. Many health professionals are effectively
incorporating the use of Reiki into their individual practice. Those who
learn Reiki find that it can be successfully administered very simply in
all kinds of settings: home, clinic, hospital, or any place where people
experience stressed muscles, accidents, exhaustion, or personal trauma.
Many Reiki projects have been created for AIDS patients, victims of war,
and hospice care settings, to name a few.
On the physical level,
Reiki can bring relaxation to stressed muscles, decrease pain,
accelerate the healing time of bones and wounds, diminish the tissue
involvement of burns and bruises, and much more.
On a mental and emotional level, anxiety is reduced, a sense of
well-being is increased and another level of relaxation can be felt. At
this degree of deep relaxation, a rebalancing of energies can occur and
the natural healing ability of the body is enhanced.
On a spiritual level, people have stated they feel revitalized and
newly awakened after a full-body session.
Where does the
Usui System of Reiki Healing come from?
The Usui
System of Reiki is named after its founder, Mikao Usui. Usui
developed reiki in the 1920's in Japan. He began an
investigation into the healing phenomena of history's greatest
spiritual teachers. Through travel, study, research, and
meditation, he developed the form of Reiki and spent the rest of
his life applying and teaching this method.
Usui died in
1926, but Usui's work continued in a pre World War II, Tokyo at
a clinic run by Chujiro Hayashi. A patient, Mrs. Hawayo Takata
of Hawaii, recovered from her serious ailments at Hayashi's
Reiki clinic, and became his first known western student. She
practiced and taught throughout the US, Canada and Puerto Rico
from 1937 to her death in 1980. Her granddaughter, Phyllis
Furumoto now carries on her work. Today millions of people
practice Reiki throughout the world.
The Usui
System of Reiki Healing has spread through an oral tradition of
teaching, sharing information, and exchanging treatments. Reiki
is not something that can be learned by reading a book—it is
something to experience by receiving a treatment, taking a
class, and talking with Reiki practitioners, students, and
masters.
How Can I Learn
More?
Reiki treatments
are given to the person fully clothed and generally lying on a
massage table. The Reiki practitioner gently places his/her hands on
the head, the abdomen, the back, and any particular areas of pain or
discomfort. Treatments last between an hour to an hour
and a half.
The Usui System of
Reiki is taught by Reiki Masters who are trained in the traditions
of Reiki as passed through the spiritual lineage, and are committed
to this healing art.
A
Reiki I
class is usually taught
in one to four sessions adding up to seven to twelve hours total.
Each student is attuned to his/her own Reiki energy while also
learning the history of Reiki, the basic hand positions for
self-treatment and the treatment of others, and ways to use Reiki in
their own lives.
Reiki
II
is offered to students who have taken Reiki I, have
had several months to one or more years of committed practice, and
feel drawn to take this next step with Reiki.
We invite you to share reiki with us. Join us for
reiki treatments,
reiki training, and
reiki circle.
Emerald City Reiki Center
offers
traditional reiki
treatment, reiki training and reiki community. Cal us at 206) 725-8591
for information.
Who can the Usui System of Reiki Healing really help?
It happens
to everyone—the unexpected, the "worst possible"
scenario. You don’t know how to work through it (though
you think you should), and the approaches you’ve used in
the past aren’t working this time. You just want to feel
better.
Although your specific situation may be a little
different, there’s a common quality to our struggle and
longing. Reiki has helped people in all of these
situations.
Do you see yourself here?
Stress dominates your
life.
The demands of your life seem greater than
your ability to cope with them. Everybody needs
something from you, and you feel like you'll never catch
up. You've tried deep breathing and exercise, but that
just adds more to your schedule. You're becoming
increasingly irritable, your sleep is lousy, and you may
feel anxious or depressed.
Challenged by
illness.
You're in treatment right now for something
pretty big. You're in good hands medically, but the side
affects are troubling.
Maybe you're in pain. And good
as your medical team might be, they can't treat the
worry about what this could do to you in the long run.
Furthermore, you worry that your worry is impeding the
healing process.
Grieving the loss of
someone you love.
Maybe it's a relationship gone sour or someone
important to you has died. Either way, you feel lost and
alone. You've tried support groups or talking to
friends, but they can’t seem to soothe what feels like a
big empty hole.
Career collapse
Through your choice or the boss's, the career is gone.
Or maybe you've lost your focus in life. Work used to be
the one place where you really felt in charge. You knew
who you were and had a clear life purpose. But now, the
industry has changed, or you've lost your job, or your
youthful enthusiasm. No matter how many self-help
articles you read, you're feeling more and more listless
and useless.
Deepening your
healing wisdom and spiritual connection.
Things are going okay, but you feel a nagging
restlessness, a sense that there's more to life than
meets the eye. You know there's a larger truth than the
one we live day-to-day, but you don’t quite know where
to look for it.
I highly recommend an
introduction to Reiki on YouTube that author and fellow
Reiki master Pamela Miles has produced recently. Here is
the
link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ammo6-Vje6s.
(If you can't
access it directly by clicking the link here you can copy
and paste the link into your browser.)
Do check it out!
No matter which of
these circumstances you find yourself in, Reiki can help you!
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also Reiki workshops are typically offered on weekends at Stillpoint, 4110 Stone Way
N, Seattle,
Washington. Feel free to call us at (206) 725-8591 for more information
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