USUI SHIKI REIKI RYOHO
LEVEL ONE
MANUAL
CONTENTS
Introduction 3
What is Reiki 3
What is an Attunement 3
What will happen after my Reiki Attunement 4
How does Reiki work? 4
Reiki History 5
Reiki Principles 7
Essence of Reiki 7
Reiki Levels 8
Chakras 9
The Reiki Session (Body Scan/Hand Positions) 10
Where can we use Reiki 15
Conclusion and lineage 16
INTRODUCTION
Hello and Welcome. I am honoured that you have chosen me as the Reiki Master to introduce you to the exciting world of Reiki.
Today is an introduction to Reiki. You will be attuned to Reiki energy using a secret attunement process, which once undertaken can never be reversed. Reiki will be with you forever, whether or not you choose to use it.
Reiki Level I is the first exciting step of this wonderful healing energy.
WHAT IS REIKI?
Reiki (pronounced Ray Key) is a Japanese word consisting of two characters "Rei" and "Ki".
Rei – is Japanese for spiritual or sacred
Ki – is Japanese for energy.
Reiki literally translates as Spiritual Energy
Rei represents the Holy Spirit, Mystery, Gift, Nature Spirit or Invisible Spirit.
Ki represents the Physical Energy of Nature, Talent or Feelings.
Reiki, with a capital "R", is a specific healing support system, divided into three levels, which have been passed along from Reiki Master to student for the past hundred years since its rediscovery by Dr. Mikao Usui.
Reiki is not a substitute of conventional medicine, but it can be a useful complimentary therapy. During Reiki sessions do not try and diagnose a problem.
WHAT IS AN ATTUNEMENT?
To use Reiki you need to be attuned.
An attunement is a traditional spiritual ceremony that helps you to connect to the Reiki Energy Source. It’s a new rebirth. Many things may or may not happen during and after an attunement. An attunement is awareness of our self-empowerment.
The attunement is all you need to use Reiki energy in your own life and for those around you. A Reiki Master Teacher does this attunement.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN AFTER MY REIKI I ATTUNEMENT?
Who knows!? Only you will feel the difference.
· You are now a Reiki Healer (YES YOU!)
· You Chakras are opened and you are connected to the Reiki Source
· You are able to channel Reiki through your hands to yourself or others by your link to the Reiki Source
· You will become increasingly aware of what you need to do in regards to your healing
· You will become more intuitive and psychic
· Further changes will manifest in your life that are needed and are distinctive to you
HOW DOES REIKI WORK?
Do not try to understand how Reiki works. Nobody knows how it works. Reiki works even if we don’t understand it. Just be Reiki and your entire life will be changed. If you don’t believe me just practice Reiki! Practice Reiki! Practice
Reiki! And finally you will find the truth. The truth it’s simple: you are Reiki.
Reiki can only be used for the higher good.
REIKI IS NOT
· A religion
· Religious cult
· Belief system
· Hypnosis
· Psychic surgery
· Imagination
· Psychotherapy
· Medical technique
· Diagnosis method
· Form of mind control
· Medical practice
· Massage technique
· Shamanism
· Magic
REIKI HISTORY
This is traditional story of Usui Reiki System.
DR. MIKAO USUI was a Christian minister and was the head of a Christian Boys School in Kyoto, Japan. One day some of the students asked him if he believed in the healing miracles, which Jesus did. Being a Christian minister he answered, "I believe they were real healings". They asked him why no one was healing like that today. Since he had no answer to the question, he immediately resigned his post and went in search of an answer.
With this he resolved to find the way in which Jesus had healed. This immediately set him on a journey of many years. Studying first at Christian schools in the US, for where else to learn of Jesus, but with no results. In the
Christian schools the method was not known.
It was suggested he study Buddhist writings since the Buddha had also healed.
This took more years studying at a monastery in the Orient. Nowhere could he find the answers. In Japan he toured many temples asking for knowledge of how the Buddha had healed. At each one the monks said they used to heal like that but now were more concerned with spiritual rather than physical well being. In one small monastery he found some ancient Sanskrit writings from India (or perhaps Tibet). In these writings he found the symbols for healing, but lacked the ability to use them. After a few more years of study, he felt he had come to an understanding and that to go further required in depth meditation. He declared to the monks of that monastery his intention to fast and meditate for 21 days at a nearby mountain and that if he shall not come back they should come and get his body.
He went to the mountain and gathered 21 stones with which to count the days.
Each day he would throw away a stone and in this way count the time. On the
20th day nothing had come as yet and he threw away the last stone saying "Well, this is it, either I get the answer tonight or I do not". As morning approached, he could see a ball of light coming toward him on the horizon. The first instinct was to get out of the way, but he realized this might just be what he was waiting for, so allowed it to hit him right in the forehead. "I am what you have waited for." As it struck him he was taken on a journey and shown bubbles of all the colours of the rainbow in which were the symbols of Reiki, the very same symbols in the Tibetan writings he was studying but had been unable to understand. Now as he looked at them again, there was total understanding. When he again became aware of his surroundings, the sun was high in the sky, telling him that the journey had taken a few hours.
After returning from this experience he began back down the mountain and was, from this moment on, able to heal. On his way down the mountain, he stubbed his toe so hard that blood was coming from under the nail. He instinctively grabbed his toe and held it until the pain was gone. When he took his hand away, his toe was completely healed. On his journey back to the monastery, he came across a home that had a red table cloth over the outside table. This meant that the home served food and that they were open. Dr. Usui stopped for a meal to break his 21 day fast. The owner saw that he was in monk’s robes and in a condition indicating a long fast. "I will fix you some rice gruel." This was the best food for breaking a long fast, as regular food would make a person very sick. "No, please bring me a full meal, all the regular food." After some arguing about it, the owner had his daughter bring out a full meal for Mikao, which he ate with no ill effects. While he was eating, he noticed that the owner’s daughter had an ailing tooth, which was very swollen and painful. Dr. Usui laid his hands on the check of the girl for sometime and when he removed his hands, the tooth was healed, the swelling gone and no pain was felt. Dr. Usui was excited to return to the monastery. When he arrived, he asked to see his mentor. After cleaning himself up and putting on fresh clothing, he related the entire story to the monk.
The abbot, having been bed ridden from chronic arthritis then asked Dr. Usui to heal him of this disease, which Dr. Usui promptly did. These are known as the first four miracles.
Dr. Usui wanted to use these abilities to help others. He spent the next seven years in the beggars section of Tokyo healing the poor and sick people there, sending them to a monk to learn meditation and to help them find employment, and thereby, elevating them out of poverty. After the seven years he noticed familiar faces, those of people whom he'd healed long ago who were back again.
Asking them, they complained that life outside beggar town was hard and that it was much simpler to beg for a living. They had thrown away the gift of health, as if it had no value, to return to the supposed comfort of the life they knew.
This threw Dr. Usui into a quandary and he returned to the monastery. From this he realized he hadn't taught gratitude along with the healing. That he'd focused on the physical ailments without dealing with the spiritual matters. The people did not understand the value of the gift he gave them.
After some time in the monastery he developed precepts and the belief that one needs to pay for treatments and attunements. In this new plan he travelled around the countryside from village to village. In each one he stood in a public place during the day holding aloft a lit torch. When people told him he didn't need a torch in daylight, he answered that he was looking for the few who are interested in improving their vision. In this way he travelled around teaching and healing, working both with the spiritual healing as well as physical healing.
THE REIKI PRINCIPLES
Here are the Reiki principles as I teach:-
Just for today: I will give thanks for my many blessings.
Just for today: I will not worry.
Just for today: I will not be angry.
Just for today: I will do my work honestly.
Just for today: I will be kind to my neighbour and every living thing.
THE ESSENCE OF REIKI USE EXPLAINED IN SIMPLE TERMS
(1) Just for today - the importance of "today”, applicable for all five principles.
How you live today determines whether or not you will complete the necessary learning. -Today- is a collection of moments. This teaches us to fully live each and every moment and this whole day.
(2) Do not get angry - recover the balance of mind and emotion with Reiki.
Live a quiet and peaceful life. Anger hurts others and yourself.
(3) Do not worry - Reiki Mastership is the step for learning to fully trust the universe. Do not have any unnecessary worries and fear. Do your best today and let the universe take care of the rest, keeping the peace of your mind. It is the key to being free from fear to believe in the universe and be with the universe.
(4) Be thankful - you naturally become thankful if you receive the benefit of
Reiki and familiarise yourself with Reiki everyday.
(5) Work hard - Usui Reiki shows how to utilise Reiki in everyday life and work. A lazy mind is bad for you. People will grow through work and learn through everyday life.
(6) Be kind to others - A sense of oneness can be developed naturally through Reiki healing (practice of love) A healthy society can only be established through the cooperation of a large number of people. In the universal dimension there is no distinction between self and others, only the existence of the same soul. "Be kind to others' is synonymous to "Be kind to yourself".
REIKI LEVELS
In Usui Reiki there are three levels that are taught traditionally.
Level I - Reiki Level I (called Shoden in Japan) is taught to those that wish to learn to use the Reiki Energy. The class is taught by a Reiki Master trained to pass the attunements and teach Reiki. Traditional Usui Healing Systems use a set of four attunements. A Reiki I class material generally includes the hand positions used when doing Reiki on self and others, the Reiki principles, and the history of Reiki. You then receive the attunements. Once you have received the attunements you are a Reiki Practitioner. Whether you practice Reiki or not is your choice.
Level II - Reiki Level II (called Okuden in Japan)
Level II generally includes the three Reiki Symbols (Focus, Harmony, and
Connection), Mental/Emotional Healing, Distant Healing, symbols use and meanings are taught and the student received one attunement.
Level III (Master Level) - Third Level Reiki (called Shinpiden in Japan) is the Master Level of Reiki. The Usui Master Symbol it’s meaning and application is taught. This symbol completes the other three symbols taught at Level II.
Masters are taught how to initiate others into Reiki using the attunement process.
After receiving attunements to any level it is important that you perform self treatments once a day for 21 days to help start to heal yourself.
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