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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. During his life and especially during his mission he studied old religions and ancient teachings including the Japanese forms of Taosim. 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". Hoeever in Japanese, words must be taken together and in the context of their use, in order to understand their actual meaing 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. ~Gleefully borrowed from the pages of www.threshold.com/reiki
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