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Reiki Usui Shiki Ryoho
Usui Shiki Ryoho - the Usui system of natural healing - is a Japanese healing art. This form was founded in Japan just over 100 years ago by Mikao Usui, whose personal quest to understand healing led him to Reiki. He developed his practice in Japan and in 1937 Reiki was introduced to Hawaii by Hawayo Takata Sensei. It is passed from master to student through teachings, a specific form of practice, and initiation.
The Japanese word "Reiki" can be translated as 'universal life energy," and the Usui system is a way of working with Reiki for healing oneself and others. The word healing is used in the sense of restoring harmony and wholeness. Usui Shiki Ryoho addresses the whole person on the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels, as well as on the levels we cannot recognize at the moment.
Usui Shiki Ryoho was defined by former lineage holder Phyllis Lei Furumoto as teaching with four aspects: Healing Practice, Personal Development, Spiritual Discipline, and Mystical Order. The aspects accompany a central core of practice and philosophy called the Nine Elements. The combination of all the elements and aspects and their interrelationships creates a system that is demonstrably and predictably capable of leading people on a profound path of healing, growth, and spiritual deepening. If any part is changed or omitted, the form is no longer recognized and is considered another form of Reiki practice.
The meaning and deeper significance of the elements and aspects and the entire system are usually beyond words and unfold gradually through personal experience. The following is a brief outline.
Four aspects
- Healing Practice - Usui Shiki Ryoho has as its foundation self-treatment and a form of treatment that can be used as a way to treat others. This is achieved through a series of laying on of hands treatment positions.
- Personal Development - Through the practice of this system, the student is presented with choices in daily life. These choices relate to underlying principles and beliefs that the student has acquired throughout life. These principles and beliefs are often challenged as they may not be conducive to the student's path toward authenticity.
- Spiritual Discipline - in the regular practice of the form lies the connection to spirit within each of us as human beings. This connection to spirit can lead students to view this practice as a spiritual path.
- Mystical order - the practice of Usui Shiki Ryoho brings mystical experiences and a sense of connection and common purpose with others who walk this path.
Nine elements
- Oral Tradition - The form and essence of this system is passed on only through a personal relationship with a Reiki Master, which includes verbal and non-verbal communication and energetic transmissions.
- Spiritual Lineage - Mikao Usui, Chujiro Hayashi, Hawayo Takata and Phyllis Lei Furumoto are recognized as the spiritual lineage of this system. The living carrier of the lineage embodies the essence of this system. The teachings are transmitted through this lineage of masters and evolve through the experiences of these masters, the cultural norms of the respective time periods, and the development of global society.
- History - The history that is passed down from master to student is passed down through the oral tradition in the first-degree class. This is the history of Reiki and this particular form of practice. It is not a story about people, but about the way Reiki has been passed down through the individual lineage holders and has become a manifest form.
- Initiation - This secret and sacred ritual is passed down from the lineage to the masters of the system. The Masters, in turn, use this ritual to connect each student to the energy of Reiki and to bring to life the form of practice that accompanies the initiations.
- Symbols - The three symbols taught in the second-degree classes are accompanied by a specific form of practice. These symbols seem to act like energetic keys that provide access to the non-physical world. This part of the practice prepares the student for greater choice in life and a broader understanding of the world at large.
- Treatment - The treatment form consists of hand positions held in a specific order for a few minutes. This is the formal treatment practice. Informal treatment is any hand position practiced with the consent of the person being treated for as long as necessary. First-degree treatment is performed on the physical body with the hands on the body. Second-degree treatment is also practiced on the physical body and also remotely through the use of symbols.
- Teaching form - The form is the container for the teaching of the first and second degrees.
- Monetary Exchange - Each initiatory step on the path is connected with a certain financial obligation of the disciple to the master.
- Commandments - The Five Commandments are intended to awaken questions in the student and therefore involve the mind as well as the body and spirit in the process of becoming whole in body and spirit.
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