| Anyone feeling or seeing an injury to his or her body | | | | that various teachers felt were needed to show the |
| will have the instant reaction of putting one or both | | | | overwhelming number of ways the vibrations of love |
| hands on that area. How many times have you seen | | | | and harmony can bring balance. Some teachers even |
| someone put their hand over their mouth after | | | | incorporated materials and rituals used in other healing |
| saying the wrong thing? When watching a movie | | | | modalities. The mysterious form of universal energy |
| containing a scene that you do not like seeing, is not | | | | that needs nothing but a body that has been opened |
| putting your hands over your eyes your first | | | | to it and a mind that is disciplined is not always easy |
| thought? Hands can protect, and hands can heal.In | | | | for some people to accept. Perhaps we have |
| the biology textbooks that I have read it is stated | | | | become much to accepting of things being new and |
| that humans do not have instincts. It may not be | | | | improved.Another of the things that separates the |
| instinctive, but beginning in childhood we put our | | | | spiritual practice of Reiki Ryoho from other |
| hands where it hurts on ourselves and on others. Do | | | | hands-on-healing practices is that it can be used in |
| you remember your mom or dad gently holding your | | | | creating a better life. Not better as in learning a skill |
| finger that you had dropped something on it? When | | | | for an income, but better is learning how to allow |
| your heart is hurting does it not ease some of the | | | | balance and harmony to flow into all areas of life. |
| pain to receive a hug from someone? When pain is | | | | Reiki Ryoho is an effective way to raise spirituality |
| involved, the natural reaction is to put hands on the | | | | and create a positive life. The mind is the master so |
| location of the pain, which is hands-on-healing.All | | | | daily practice is best to keep the mind in balance so |
| throughout history, some people have seemed to | | | | that Reiki can flow smoothing out those bumps that |
| have more of a natural healing ability through their | | | | are around you. Reiki flowing quietly into all of every |
| hands then others. It was only natural that the | | | | day life is what I so embrace about the styles |
| system Mikao Usui developed would involve the | | | | Gendai Reiki-ho and Komyo Reiki, which I practice. I |
| placing of hands on another who is ill. I once met a | | | | have found wherever I am and whatever I am doing |
| registered nurse that friends and patients would | | | | if I connect to the light (Reiki) and allow it to flow |
| gravitate to because there was something healing | | | | into what is happening at that time, everything simply |
| about her presence and touch. Some people are | | | | works more smoothly. Summer in the USA means |
| natural healers and those people when connected to | | | | insects, and when connecting I have fewer negative |
| the vibrations of love and harmony of universal | | | | interactions. Reiki cannot be directed, but a person |
| energy by a qualified Reiki teacher increase the | | | | studying Reiki learns how to connect to person, place |
| healing that happens by their touch.The difference | | | | or event even over time and distance and allow Reiki |
| between what flows from a various individual's hands | | | | to flow. When my hands touch anyone or anything |
| once connect to Reiki is his or her ability to receive, | | | | the connection is immediately made and Reiki flows if |
| which is based on their level of consciousness. A | | | | needed.One of the unique things about Reiki is that it |
| person cannot receive more than the level they can | | | | flows only as much as needed. If you rub an area of |
| reach, which is determined by the level at which they | | | | your skin that will soon show dark purple or swell it |
| resonate. Higher resonating comes through | | | | will feel better, but if you continue to rub for an |
| techniques and self-realization, not tools or Reiki | | | | unreasonable length of time, you will cause irritation. |
| symbols.The hands of any person feel more healing | | | | Reiki will not irritate, when the cells have received all |
| once that person has been connected to Reiki. I am | | | | they can hold at that time it stop flowing. If no cells |
| referring to a connection made possible by a Reiki | | | | are in need of energy, it does not flow. I believe |
| Shihan (teacher) and not knowledge that has been | | | | everyone can always use extra energy because of all |
| obtained through books or videos. Knowledge can | | | | the trillions of activities going on in the mind and |
| cure, but healing is a natural process that requires | | | | body.Reiki Ryoho is also practiced by flowing through |
| energy in some form.Hands-on-healing, not the | | | | the eyes, breath, soles of feet and emanating from |
| system called Reiki Ryoho, over the centuries has | | | | the whole self. Because of this if a person's hands |
| been called many things, such as the "royal | | | | are not available to be used Reiki can still flow |
| touch" in ancient Europe. Unfortunately, at one | | | | bringing balance, surrounding with harmony and |
| time it was called by names that ended in selected | | | | healing.Hiroshi Doi another of my Reiki Shihans |
| people being burned at the stake. The mystery of | | | | (teachers) and a member of the Usui Reiki Ryoho |
| healing being promoted and assisted by human touch | | | | Gakkai, the original society created in Japan, said |
| is something that has no clear rules or explanations. | | | | "Usui-Sensei said of Reiki, "It is love, |
| The mysteries surrounding hands-on-healing are | | | | harmony and healing energy. Universal energy which |
| closely related to the mysteries of the heart.We | | | | is the essence of all existence is Reiki."I have |
| know a person who has been connected to Reiki | | | | always enjoyed the motto of Komyo Reiki Kai, |
| easily does hands-on-healing because the vibrations of | | | | "Go placidly in the midst of praise or |
| love and harmony of universal energy balance and | | | | blame." Reiki Shihans such as myself must ask |
| surround with harmony. We have also learned energy | | | | money in exchange for our time because most |
| can neither be created nor destroyed, but changes | | | | creditors do not accept hands on healing for |
| form. That well from which all forms of energy come | | | | payment, we began our journey with the |
| creates more mystery. Mystery is one of the things | | | | understanding the spiritual practice of Reiki Ryoho is |
| that surrounds the form of energy called Reiki, but it | | | | not a skill leading to fame or fortune. The mystery |
| is the embracing of mystery that many wise men | | | | that surrounds Reiki Ryoho I like to equate to that |
| and women throughout the centuries have said | | | | which surrounds our central nervous system. My |
| enriches our lives.Information was passed to me by | | | | spinal cord and brain were damaged in an accident. |
| the research of one of my Reiki Shihans (teachers), | | | | Oh the stories I could tell about how awesome I |
| Richard Rivard, that Mikao Usui being a bit shy of | | | | have found the unique energy called Reiki to be.I |
| cash would rent his dojo (school) to at least two of | | | | have learned no one can give specific explanations |
| his students to use one evening a week. One of | | | | for the lack of movement or sudden unexplained |
| those students was practicing a hands- on-healing | | | | movements associate with central nervous system |
| technique prior to Mikao Usui connected him to Reiki, | | | | damage. Medical doctors, who I highly respect, know |
| and another held a medical doctorate. That shows | | | | certain symptoms indicate damage in certain areas, |
| that from the time Mikao Usui practiced and taught | | | | but the answers to all those specific whys remain |
| Reiki Ryoho many people recognizing the strength of | | | | mysteries. Anyone that has not experienced central |
| the unique form of energy blended it into areas in | | | | nervous system damage or studied it can at times |
| which they were already skilled. The blending of Reiki | | | | become very annoyed because person X's limitations |
| into other practices with the intent to enhance the | | | | or actions do not fit in the file they hold that explains |
| other practice is a common event. Reiki being a form | | | | the workings of nerves. Those people having only |
| of universal energy automatically shows that nothing | | | | read or heard about Reiki can react in the same way |
| can enhance it, but it can easily enhance anything else | | | | to the mysterious form of universal energy. There |
| in life, in a positive way.Reiki Ryoho differs in varying | | | | are many things in this life that as humans we cannot |
| degrees from other hands-on-healing techniques. Hard | | | | know everything about or master. That is not a |
| training including the study of many textbooks and | | | | problem when you reflect on the origins of Usui Reiki |
| written tests are things few Reiki teachers find | | | | Ryoho; "today/now there is no anger or fretful |
| necessary. Reading books written by those that | | | | worry, we give thanks and do our work with |
| have researched or experienced some area of Reiki | | | | diligence, and we are kind to all".The love and |
| helps to expand our view, but a person cannot be | | | | harmony that comes from Usui Reiki Ryoho goes |
| connected without the assistance of a qualified Reiki | | | | beyond hand-on-healing.Roberta R. Barnes, Gendai |
| Shihan (teacher). Another of my Reiki Shihans, Rev. | | | | Reiki-ho and Komyo Reiki Shihan (master teacher) |
| Hyakuten Inamoto, also a Japanese Buddhist monk, | | | | and Herbalist teaches and gives Reiki sessions in her |
| explained how teaching Reiki is like pointing a finger | | | | Natural Healing & Learning Center nestled in a |
| to the moon. Once the student sees the moon and | | | | certified wildlife habitat in Maine USA. Roberta Barnes |
| knows where it is he or she no longer has need of | | | | also teaches meditation and raising awareness |
| the finger. In the way Reiki developed once it left | | | | through connectin with nature, and offer herbal |
| Japan and linked to the new age movement the | | | | consulting and guided journeys into the past for |
| finger transformed into the numerous Reiki symbols | | | | healing and discovery. |