Harmony in Reiki

I am a certified Usui Reiki Master/Teacher and Karuna Reiki Master/Teacher from the International Center of Reiki Training and also from International House of Reiki.  I also studied with Frank Arjava Petter, Jikiden Reiki Master teacher.  I have the experience of learning and practicing Reiki from several different Reiki teachers for over 35 plus years.  I continue to work as a Reiki therapist and as a Reiki training teacher at the TriHealth Integrative Health and Medicine Center located in Cincinnati, Ohio.  Practicing and teaching all levels for Reiki training.  I conduct lectures on Reiki at different organizations, universities, for medical students and corporate offices.  For the past several years I have been a student, teacher, facilitator, and a practitioner of different healing energy modalities.   A Healing Touch practitioner under the guidance of  late Janet Meutgen (founder of HTI).  I have done my Feng Shui training under Mr. Ravi Chadha, a renowned Feng Shui teacher and an independent consultant. I have successfully organized and have run the Reiki Practitioner support group at the Hospice of Cincinnati for the past several years.  

Reiki energy is of Divine Origin. The history of Reiki goes back over 2500 years and is well documented in the Vedas, and writings of Tibetan monks. It was rediscovered, and rediscovered again during the late 1800s by Dr. Mikao Usui, a Christian theologian and a dean of a university in Kyoto,  Japan. 

According to the story given by Mrs. Hawayo Takata, in the 1870s, some students of his class asked him if he believed that Jesus used to heal people by miraculous touch. Being a Christian monk, he answered, “Yes.” However, he was unable to answer how he did it. He realized that he must find out how Jesus healed with touch. Dr. Usui gave up his job and began to research the phenomena of healing with the hand. This search continued over a period of twenty years. He traveled to India, Tibet China, even Chicago, reading everything he could find on healing and gaining great theoretical knowledge but not the key to actually being able to heal by touch. In Japan, he traveled all the monasteries asking about how Jesus or Buddha had healed. In one small monastery, he found some ancient Sanskrit writings. Finally, he came to the understanding that to go further, required serious meditation. He went to the Mount Kuramadeclaring his intention to fast and meditate for twenty-one days and that if he did not come back, they should come and get his body. He went to the mountain, carrying twenty-one stones with which he would count the days. Twenty days passed and nothing happened. On the twenty-first day, Dr. Usui went through a metaphysical experience that finally gave him the fruits of his long search. On that day, in the horizon he saw a ball of light coming towards him. His first instinct was to get out of the way, but then, he realized that this might just be what he was waiting for. So, he allowed it to hit him right in the face. As it struck him in the third eye, he was taken on a journey and shown bubbles of all the colors of the rainbow in which were the symbols of Reiki, the very same symbols he was studying in the writings, but had been unable to understand. Now as he looked at them again, there was total understanding.

After returning from his experiences, he realized that he has the healing power in his hands. On his first day alone, he healed his own injured toe, his own starvation, the toothache of a child, and the Abbot’s great pain of arthritis of the knee. These are known as the first four miracles.

He spent the next seven years in beggar colonies of Kyoto, healing the poor and sick people. He assisted them with finding the jobs and elevating them out of poverty. A few years later he found old faces returning and when he questioned them as to why they returned to that place, they replied that begging was easier then working for a living. Dr. Usui realized that he had not taught them gratitude along with the healing. They focused only in physical ailments without dealing with the spiritual matters. The people did not understand the value of the gift he gave them. At this point, he developed the five Principles of Reiki that are now taught to Reiki students. Dr. Usui trained sixteen to eighteen Reiki Masters.

Before his death, he taught this system to Dr. Chiyiro Hayashi, a physician and ex-marine commander, and so, Hayashi succeeded Dr. Usui as Reiki Grand Master. For about ten years, he ran a Reiki clinic. During this time, he developed formal hand positions and divided Reiki training into three levels or degrees. He trained fifteen or sixteen masters including his wife, and Mrs. Hawayo Takata, an American lady of Japanese descent.

Reiki can be explained in many ways. It can be considered as energy science, which makes sense from the perspective of some theories within the field of quantum physics. By quantum physics, we learn that energy exists and moves first, and then matter follows it. Everything is energy at different levels of vibration. Our body is also entirely quantum energy at different levels of vibration. The slowest vibration makes up the bones in our body. The higher vibrations make up muscles, organs, and blood. Even higher vibrations make up our energy system (Chi, Ki, Prana etc…).

When there is a disturbance (disharmony) in our energy system of the body, it starts to bring about the physical changes that eventually become the disease or dis-ease.

Reiki is a “non-polarized” subatomic energy that is released as a Harmonic into energy blueprints (i.e. the body) that are in the state of disharmony. Once it leaves the subatomic world and enters the physical manifest world. It is acted upon by time, it gets polarized and makes “minor image” of any disharmonious frequency present in that energy blueprint. Thus bringing and restoring the normal harmony and well being. This accelerates the natural healing process of the body.

• · One is able to treat one's self for self healing.
• · Reiki is neither limited by one’s own physical/spiritual development, nor by one’s ailments present in one’s body.
• · One is not in danger of depleting one’s own energy in the process of healing themselves or others.
• · Reiki cannot be learned from a book or by instruction alone. To become a Reiki channel, one has to go through the attunement process which is done by a Reiki Master/teacher.
• · Reiki treatment requires no manipulation of tissue or muscles.
• · Reiki can be practiced anywhere and everywhere, anytime and all the time
• · There are no harmful side effects from Reiki. It brings abundance and harmony in life by creating qualitative stuff in life.
• · There is no need of diagnosis in Reiki as it heals the whole person.

Reiki is taught in three levels, Reiki I, Reiki II, and Reiki III. There is also advanced Reiki Training and Reiki Master/Teacher.

2. Reiki II

a. Mediation

b. Reiki II symbols, How to use them with practice on self and others

c. Distant healing with different methods

d. Japanese Reiki techniques as taught by Dr. Usui

e. Hayashi healing guide

f. Using Reiki for specific conditions

g. Using Reiki to heal unwanted habits

h. Attunement

i. How to advance to the next level

This class is a combination of lecture, discussion and experience. Practice time includes providing and recovery, a complete Reiki treatment with the use of symbols and distant healing, and discussion with homework. 

   Just for today, do not anger

Do not worry and be filled with gratitude

Devote yourself to your work and be kind to people

Every morning and evening join your hands in prayer,
pray these words to your heart and chant these words with your mouth

Usui Reiki Treatment for the improvement of body and mind

~ The Founder