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