What Reiki Is All About

The principles – (I call them tenets) to distinguish from Usui Sensei’s principles – on which Reiki is based are totally different from that of modern medicine. And as I pen the pages that follow on what Reiki can do to your health and how it goes about doing it, you will have to bear in mind this difference.

In one phrase: shift your point of reference. Change the direction of looking at disease and cure. Open up your mind and don’t jump to conclusions.

If you are a newbie to alternate therapies, this message is especially for you: keep an open mind; for you are about to discover a totally different way of healing. I would even ambitiously say that you are about to discover a totally different way of living, too!

When I approached Reiki for the first time, I did so with my preconceived notions. I viewed Reiki wearing color-tinted glasses that had pre-biases built in it.

As I struggled to understand what I was being taught, and tried to impose the structure and rationale of modern logic on it, I became confused. But once I removed them and allowed the pure light of knowledge to come to me ‘ without any glasses or prisms ‘ everything fell in place.

Dear reader, I would request you to first put down your glasses (metaphorically, I mean) and prisms, close your eyes, relax, take a deep breath, and suggest to yourself to be open and free for the experience that you are going to encounter in the pages that follow. And discover a wholly new way of healing yourself and others.

A word before I proceed. Because of the inherent characteristics of Reiki (there being no rigid standardization of its methods and practices, etc.), over the past two and a half decades, quite a few variants or mutations of Reiki have evolved and are available as healing techniques alternative to the one propagated by Usui Sensei.

These techniques are at their core identical to the original system; and they differ only in some symbols and add-on practices. I touch upon them in Chapter 7. For the time being, I focus on the original Usui System of Natural Healing.

Read on, meditate on what you have read, make notes. And enjoy this experience.

Tenets Of Reiki

In the following pages, I have taken great care to present the tenets of Reiki in a very simple and  no-nonsense fashion, stripping away all the mumbo-jumbo that presently surrounds it.

Understanding these tenets shall help you to understand the entire process as they should really be understood.

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