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Reiki
(Wei Wu Wei)
“Doing by Not Doing”
Reiki is an enlightenment system and a healing art. Some focus more on one aspect than the other. That is, some teach Reiki only as a healing system while others may teach it only as a spiritual system. Either is Reiki. Reiki is primarily used in the West (i.e., the United States, Europe, Australia) as a healing system. The system of Reiki was invented and developed by a man named Mikao Usui (pronounced Me-ka-oh OOh-su-ee) in the early 1900's. Reiki is often translated to mean "Universal Life Energy", but can also mean enlightenment or the coming of together of the Universal Spirit of Creation with our own.
There are three levels in Reiki.
1. In level one, you learn the reiki principles, the hand positions and then receive an attunement.
2. In level two, you learn the three-reiki symbols, distance healing and receive another attunement.
3. In level three, you learn the reiki master symbol, the attunement process, how to teach, and receive the master attunement.
Reiki works by simple “laying on” of hands and intent. It helps brings us back into harmony with the Universal life energy. This is often healing.
In reiki you do not use your own energy but let this loving Universal life energy flow through you to others. People who do reiki are often called "reiki channels" or that one "channels" reiki. The word "channel" here in relation to reiki simply means that we are in tune with this Universal life energy and let it flow. It is often said that reiki is driven by "intent". In being reiki, our intent is pure. That is, it is untainted by goals, levels of reiki, attachment to outcome, the need to prove that it works, need for the other to heal. In this our practice is pure, in this we are in the moment, in the now, without judging, comparing, attaching to outcome or measuring our "achievement" in healing. Our intent is pure, free of non-attachment to the process, to the outcome, to technique, or to symbols. Just *be* Reiki, in that moment. Wei Wu Wei, doing by not doing. If you attach to reiki as a concept, it is just as separate and as limiting as any belief system. In the end, you see that there is no healer, no healee and nothing to heal. The reiki principles are instructions to be mindful, to "be". They heal, as does the energy. There is a lack of control, of ego, in them. There is a lack of attachment and desire in them. "For today only, anger not, worry not. Be Grateful and Humble. Do your work with appreciation. Be kind to all beings."
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