These tools enhance health and happiness. Reiki balances and surrounds with harmony. In all ancient scripts, the search for knowledge is spoken of as one of the most noble. Knowledge is stored in many places. Usui Mikao, the founder of Usui Reiki Ryoho, commonly shortened to Reiki, searched for knowledge beginning in childhood. He never attended any college or university. He held various types of employment, traveled, was a parent, and studied among other things Zen under Japanese Zen monks. While not searching for any specific thing, through disciplined meditation in 1921 he connected to the vibrations of love and harmony of universal energy and called the system he developed Reiki Ryoho.Reiki Columbus Ohio
Plato once asked, "What whole way of life would make living more worthwhile for each of us". Mikao Usui in the early 1920s said Reiki Ryoho is the "secret to health and happiness". The Gokai (five precepts or principles) is the backbone of Reiki. The five simple lines directly translated are actually three concepts and although the words are few, the meanings go to the core of balance and harmony that promote health and happiness. The first line is to be without anger and worry, ultimately leaving space for happiness. Happiness is a subjective state of mind, and much research has been done on the topic. Focusing on happiness, "Positive Psychology" is now being taught in such well-regarded US universities as Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania.
Various people since Mikao Usui's passing in 1926 have blended other practices into their practice of Reiki. Some practices such as Chakra healing use other forms of energy. In scientific English terms, energy can neither be created nor destroyed, but changes form. Reiki is a unique form of universal energy. A physic healer tunes the transmitted pulse of energy to the level required to heal a specific illness. Reiki automatically tunes to the level needed to promote healing of mind and body, and promote spiritual growth. In Chakra healing, it is helpful to know the chakric connections of the coccygeal and sacral vertebrae. In Reiki practice, it is only required to have an enough discipline to keep the mind from causing interference, as in trying to direct. Some healing practices require material tools, Reiki requires only a trained body to flow through. Reiki practitioners listen to the ills of others, but they trust in the wisdom of the universe leaving any diagnosing up to licensed medical care professionals. Reiki knows where to go and what to do when it gets there, neither the practitioner nor the receiver needs to know.
One simple law of the universe is that you will attract to yourself what you put out. Isaac Newton said, "Every action has an equal and opposite reaction"; energy pushes back on its source. Living by Usui-Sensei's concepts neither anger nor worry will be attracted to you, but kindness will be.
I am very fortunate to have studied under three Reiki Shihans (teachers also called masters) that each in his own way pointed the way to the sacred tools of Usui Reiki Ryoho. I will never stop learning, but my Gendai Reiki-ho (Reiki method for healing) and Komyo (light bright) Reiki practices are rooted in my studies with those three Reiki Shihans. One is member of the Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkai, the original Usui Reiki Ryoho society in Japan. Another is also a Buddhist monk in Japan. Another living in Canada has done an unbelievable amount of research in factual, not created, history. There are only two Reiki teachers between two of my Reiki Shihans and Mikao Usui, and another of my Shihans has only three Reiki teachers between himself and Mikao Usui.
