Reiki

The Usui System of Natural Healing

Reiki
...the word meant nothing to me, but something drew me further in. My guardian spirits took me by the hand and tugged me onward. The word appeared to me in my browsing...just another system of beliefs, I thought...I have studied and read of so many the last two years.

How naive I was! How unsuspecting! How blessed! Once the magic of this word became part of my vocabulary, my life became changed forever...

Delving deeper into this phenomenon called Reiki, I discovered it was not new by any stretch of the imagination. It was ancient, ageless... kept hidden and revered for centuries until an humble minister sought its power over a hundred years ago. Now, through him and his lineage bearers, this powerful healing energy has come to me, and has brought with it an overwhelming sense of peace and balance...not religion, but spirit...pure energy from The Creator. With this energy I am closer to my God than ever in my life!

Once Reiki made itself known to me, the doors started falling open...one after another as if an invisible guardian army walked before me, banishing all barriers to my thirst for knowlege. Synchronicity was at its zenith!

I sought companionship, and found Reiki...a potential date turned out to be a Reiki master/teacher in the mountains. He led me to find a master/teacher closer to me.

I was told I should look into a certified regression therapist...when I thought I would have to go many miles from home to find one, she appeared right here in my home town...and yes, she was Reiki!

When I longed for initiation into Reiki...yep...you guessed it...My Reiki master/ teacher came right here to me!!

Now, dear ones, I might be a blonde, but I do not need a head-whopping to tell me at this point, it just might be in my life's plan to have Reiki! *laughing*

On August 29, 1998, I received my final initiation into Reiki I from my Reiki master, Jason Kelly Thompson, and now am a Reiki I practitioner. I have no voodoo dolls...no pentagrams...no ritualistic laws binding me. There is simply the most incredible, universal energy using me to heal! Reiki knows without being directed...it heals without flamboyance...it is a quiet, reverent, powerful healing energy that still stuns me in its success in relieving pain and illness. Since my initiation, I have treated headaches and arthritic bones...stiff necks...and painful backs, mine being one of those...and the healing has amazed and awed me!

For years I have had a gift...one that allowed me to 'lay on hands' and interrupt pain. It was instinctive...I did not understand it, only knew that it worked. Now this gift has transcended my wildest dreams. I am more focused...the heat from the healing is so much more evident...and I am able to use Reiki to heal myself! I was never able to do that before. Reiki has come so naturally to me...like pulling on an old sweater and sighing at the comfort and familiarity. Home...somewhere in the past, I had the ability to heal. Now I must follow it to its fruition in this lifetime.

Once Reiki, always Reiki...my path is set. I must honor this blessing as have the grand masters before me. I must use it to heal others and, in doing that, heal myself as well. Such a journey I have set upon!

~Pure Lineage Links~

Phyllis Furumoto: Grand Master...Lineage Bearer
Usui Shiki Ryoho

Omni ReikiŽ and Spiritual Counseling
Reiki Master Cory Rodgers

What is Reiki?

Reiki is a natural healing system discovered in Japan by Dr. Mikao Usui in the 1800s. It is more formally called the Usui System of Reiki Healing or Usui Shiki Ryoho. The Usui System was brought to the United States by Chujiro Hayashi and Hawayo Takata in 1938.

The best way to understand Reiki is to experience a Reiki treatment or be initiated into the first level--Reiki I. There are also public lectures and demonstrations of Reiki that are available. Reiki is a very gentle, relaxing energy that Reiki practitioners give with their hands. There are certain basic positions that we treat for about an hour and ten minutes. Any other positions that need it are also treated.

Reiki works well with stress and insomnia, and promotes a general calming. It is good for alleviating pain, such as: headaches, bruises, arthritis, and so on. Reiki can bring emotional and spiritual growth and even accelerate healing of other physical conditions. The response to Reiki treatments really depends on what is needed for the person's life at the moment.

ANYONE can learn Reiki by receiving an initiation from a Reiki master. There are three levels...Reiki I, Reiki II, and master/teacher level. Reiki I is complete in itself and can be practiced for a lifetime doing self-treatments and healing for others. It is taught in four three-hour classes over a three or four day period. The first initiation creates a relationship between the student and the Reiki energy which begins to flow through the body and hands. Reiki I is a very simple process. The students begin to practice the hand positions, first on themselves doing self-healing, and then on others. The more they practice, the more they learn and grow. Reiki is not a religion--people from many different religions practice Reiki.

Reiki II provides for distance healing and adds new hand positions. The master/teacher level is self-explanatory.

The Five Precepts
Mikao Usui taught five spiritual precepts which anyone can practice to enhance spiritual growth. These precepts have become a daily morning prayer for me as I face the new day.

Just for today, do not worry.

Just for today, do not anger.

Honor your parents, teachers, and elders.

Earn your living honestly.

Show gratitude for all living things.

Jason Kelly Thompson
Reiki master/teacher