What is Reiki?
What is Reiki?
It is the gift of vitality that is encoded in all of creation, other common names include, Prana, Chi, and Ki.
We all carry this energy around and within our bodies. I'm sure most of you folks have been able to sense when you have a friend that has had an upsetting day, you can sense that something is off even though they're not acting or saying anything about it. That's you sensing that energy shift! pretty cool when we think about it our ability to sense those things innately.
This is a holistic approach, working on the mind, body, and spirit by facilitate ones own healing gifts. It is neither positive nor negative, it is the highest, most deeply felt vibration of life. It is the pure, unconditional love , and joy that unites all in harmony who experience it. Every cell within our bodies have this ancient, intelligent guiding system that is connecting to the universe and all living things. As with all energy, it cannot be destroyed, can be transformed, but never destroyed. As it is existence itself and existence cannot not exist.. that simply is not its quality. good ol' Albert Einstein has proven that one!
One analogy we may think of is viewing the universe as an ocean and how every living thing is a drop of water from the ocean. Together these drops make up and are a part of the ocean. May be separate in a physical form, yet derived from the same source and together complete the bigger whole.
Pretty deep and profound stuff yeah? though if you are a kin to me, you'll most likely feel a sense of resonance, peace, like this fits our world into making sense.. some others may feel unsteady, maybe in denial of this aspect of existence, possibly scared to have such ideas being brought to you at this point in time.. which is totally okay! That is a part of our human ego that can become resistance to things outside of what it has grown to become accustomed to. The fact that you're reading this page does show that you have willingness. That is the a crucial step to healing, is your willingness.
They are also other practices that help with this energy flow such as: Meditation, Acupuncture, yoga, Tai Chi, and Fleng Shu.
Dr. Mikao Usui
History
There are a few legends of the original source of these practices. Some say it was around the time of Buddha , the times of Mu, or even Atlantis that these practices originated. That it was watered down and much of the wisdom was lost due to it primarily being passed down orally generation to generation.
Nonetheless, what we are certain of is that it has been rediscovered by a scholar and monk named Dr.Mikao Usui. It is he who fashioned the name Reiki.
Rei = Universal, omnipresent, everywhere at the same time. Universal consciousness, omniscient wisdom of God/Higher self
Ki = Life force, the non-physical vitality giving life to all things