| A Japanese Tendai Buddhist named Mikao Usui | | | | The Usui Reiki method to change your mind and |
| claimed to have discovered Reiki after long | | | | body for the better. |
| meditation, fasting, and prayer. Usui wrote | | | | |
| that by mystical revelation he had gained the | | | | Founder |
| knowledge and spiritual power to apply and | | | | |
| attune others to what he called Reiki. Mikao | | | | Mikao Usui" |
| Usui said that he had the ability to enable | | | | |
| people to enhance their access to the energy | | | | Mikao Usui trained several disciples. One of |
| through certain initiations. Usui taught that | | | | his disciples, the naval doctor Chujiro |
| his attunements to Reiki enhanced and refined | | | | Hayashi, stressed physical healing and taught |
| a person's pre-existing ability to connect | | | | a more codified and simpler set of Reiki |
| with Reiki. Through such initiations, | | | | techniques. Among Hayashi's contributions was |
| students are said to become clearer channels | | | | a set of fixed hand positions to be used in |
| for Reiki, and thereby improve the quality of | | | | the course of a treatment; Usui himself |
| treatments that student (or practitioner) | | | | preferred a method called scanning, through |
| provides. | | | | which he detected imbalances, and said that |
| | | | the hand positions were for beginners. |
| Some schools of Reiki are said to believe | | | | |
| that Mikao Usui was pursuing knowledge of | | | | Hayashi initiated and trained Mrs. Hawayo |
| healing before he developed his Reiki method | | | | Takata, who brought Reiki to the USA. Mrs. |
| and that he also studied traditional Chinese | | | | Takata claimed that she had been appointed |
| medicine, Ayurveda, Qigong, and Yoga. Usui, | | | | Grandmaster of Reiki through the lineage of |
| however, claimed that the awakening of Reiki | | | | Mr. Chujiro Hayashi, and that there were no |
| and the development of his techniques was | | | | surviving teachers of Reiki to be found in |
| something entirely different. Nonetheless, | | | | Japan after World War II. Researchers have |
| Reiki appears to be based loosely around | | | | falsified her claim of Grandmastership and |
| ideas of qi. | | | | her allegation that no Reiki teachers |
| | | | remained in Japan, after they discovered |
| Usui was also an admirer of the literary | | | | lineages through practitioners other than |
| works of Emperor Meiji, and, in the process | | | | Hayashi. They also stated that the title of |
| of developing his Reiki system, summarised | | | | "Grandmaster" does not exist, and is not |
| some of the Meiji Emperor's works into a set | | | | recognized in Japan. |
| of ethical principles, one translation of | | | | |
| which is: | | | | Hawayo Takata claimed that, after developing |
| | | | the Reiki methodology, as well as receiving |
| "Inviting blessings of the secret method | | | | the spiritual ability to practice it, Usui |
| | | | went to the slums of Tokyo to attempt the |
| Many illnesses of the spiritual (heavenly) | | | | healing of beggars. However, after several |
| medicine | | | | years of very little success, he claimed that |
| | | | it was their mindset that kept them ill, even |
| Today only anger not worry not | | | | after he had "treated" them again and again. |
| | | | Usui then decided that there should be an |
| With appreciation do work | | | | "energy exchange" in return for a Reiki |
| | | | treatment. This "energy exchange" may take |
| To people be kind | | | | the form of cash payment, or a trade of some |
| | | | sort. The idea is that the patient is |
| In morning at night hands held in prayer | | | | expected to regard the treatment as having a |
| | | | value up front and is prepared to invest |
| think in your mind chant with mouth | | | | himself/herself in the healing process. |
| | | | |
| Mind body change it for better | | | | There are essentially two broad groups, or |
| | | | schools: the traditional school and the |
| Usui Reiki method | | | | independent school. The traditionalists claim |
| | | | to teach and practice Reiki strictly as it |
| Founder | | | | was taught from Usui's time until Takata's |
| | | | time, although modern research suggests that |
| Usui Mikao" | | | | training under Usui differed greatly from the |
| | | | way Takata taught. Another, separate branch |
| A less literal translation is: | | | | of traditionalists advocate adherence to the |
| | | | (now rediscovered) Japanese school's methods. |
| "The secret method of inviting blessings | | | | The independent schools vary greatly in their |
| | | | practices and methods, ranging from those |
| The spiritual medicine of many illnesses | | | | descended through Iris Ishikuro, which |
| | | | fundamentally adhere to traditional Reiki |
| Just for today, do not anger. | | | | practice but eschew Takata's practice of |
| | | | charging $10,000 for attunement to Reiki |
| Just for today, do not worry. | | | | "Master level," to so-called "newer" schools, |
| | | | which either add elements to traditional |
| Do your work with appreciation. | | | | Reiki or claim to have been independently |
| | | | developed. |
| Be kind to all. | | | | |
| | | | Reiki has been gaining some popularity |
| In the morning and at night hold your hands | | | | worldwide within hospitals. The UK NHS |
| in prayer, | | | | (National Health Service) as part of its CAM |
| | | | (Complementary and alternative medicine) |
| meditate on and say these words. | | | | program uses Reiki and other CAM therapies as |
| | | | part of day care patient programs |