What is Reiki?

The simplest definition of the word Reiki is Universal or Spiritual (Rei)- Life Force or Energy (Ki). The Reiki system is a simple and powerful system of energy work that anyone can learn to use for developing physical, emotional, mental and spiritual harmony and wholeness in themselves and for assisting others.

Reiki functions on the energy body first, usually following the same channels used in acupuncture
and acupressure, chi gong and other traditional Asian Medical and healing modes but not limited to them.

The practitioner uses the Reiki energy to help people move & balance energy, remove blocks and
repair tears in the aura and help restore well being. Advanced practitioners are able to give
treatments without touching the recipient and even send treatments great distances, even to people on other continents .

Reiki is a system of energy healing from Japan using methods transmitted to and received by Mikao Usui, legendarily at the end of a 21 day fast and meditation in Japan. Reiki is a simple and powerful system of laying on of hands and remote healing that can transform lives. The Usui System of Natural Healing was introduced to the West by Mrs. Hawayo Takata, from Hawaii, who received Reiki Attunements From Dr. Hayashi.

Dr Hayashi had a Reiki clinic in Tokyo. Mrs. Takata was visiting relatives in Japan and had
successful treatments for a chronic illness at Dr. Hayashis' Clinic. Dr. Hayashi is credited with
formalizing the system of hand positions and levels for use in a more clinical health oriented
practice. Usui Sensei intended his system to assist people to become enlightened. Physical healing was a side effect rather than the end goal.

The ability to heal physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual imbalances with energy
channeled through the hands has been viewed as a rare and mystical gift requiring great
spiritual achievement. However this simply is not true. Reiki is almost as easily learned as learning to tie your shoes.

Healing energy can be channeled by any one. This ability can be acquired by energetic transmission from one person to another. These transmissions are called attunements or empowerment or sometimes initiations. They remove blocks in the aura and allow the healing energies that surround us to come in through our crown chakra and flow through our bodies and out our hands to where they are needed. This is not the only path for the Reiki healing energies but only the most common or most easily sensed.

The ability to channel the specific healing energy Functions we call Reiki is received from a process called Attunement, a direct transmission of the ability to channel Reiki and the clearing of energetic blocks to that ability guided by a Reiki Teacher ( Reiki Master) into the personal energy field of the recipient. The attunements open the palm chakras and energy channels if this is needed and connect you to the specific Reiki Shakti healing frequencies. The attunements also allow us to direct these energies for specific purposes.

Anyone can get these attunements and channel Reiki, it requires no special abilities and is a reliable way of doing healing treatments for yourself and others. Reiki has traditionally been used for treatment of physical issues and to compliment allopathic health treatments and practices. Reiki is not a substitute for Medical treatment nor is it a diagnostic system. Reiki is an intelligent energy of love and wholeness. When you use Reiki you find many more ways to work with and gain value from it. The possible ways and systems for working with universal life force energy are infinite.