What is Hatsurei-ho? Well, it's a Japanese word, and it means to generate greater amounts of KI, greater amounts of energy. Now, in truth, there are different ways that we could do Hatsurei-ho and I personally have broken it up into two different versions. So we have Hatsurei-ho version one, Hatsurei-ho version two, Hatsurei-ho version one, uses a dry bathing Kenyoku ho technique.

Then Joshin Kokyu Ho is where you work with the hara. So breathing deeply into the body and expanding that energy out into the world. And you're purifying the mind with the breath at the hara. And then there's the practice of Seishin Toitsu. So Seishin Toitsu is where we sit in Gassho with our hands like this, and we start to move energy with the breath through the body, down into the hara.

Now they're all about expanding or mm, concentrating our energy making it stronger. And they all work from the Hara, these practices.

The second version of Hatsurei-ho is in a book by a student of the founder of the system of Reiki Mikao Usui the book is actually, I've got the

translation of it here. This is by Tomita Kaiji. The version in his book teaches you how to sit, with Joshin ho. So sitting once again, breathing down into the hara and expanding it out just like the first one. And then you contemplate a poem, Waka. So, a certain type of poem from Japan, a short poem written by the Emperor Meiji they call that Gyosei.

And you contemplate that poem and it helps you to become more self-aware. It's a really interesting practice. And then it moves into Byosen. So scanning the body with the right hand, sensing energy with the body, and then when you feel a shift or a change, placing your hand to the body and sitting with that energy.

So version two, I really love because it takes us through meditation, contemplation, energy awareness, and then hands-on healing.

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What would Mikao Usui think of modern Western Reiki? 

Question, what would Mikao Usui think of modern Western Reiki? I don't know. I don't know. Would he actually know that it had anything to do with what he was teaching? I have no idea. I'm sure some of the things that are taught within the system of Reiki in the West, he would be flummoxed by and even by possibly what's even taught in Japan. It's a hundred years ago, if I look at the association that exists in Japan that's been a hundred years of how many presidents have they had?

Eight presidents, nine presidents. Each time things change as well with that. And within the West, things obviously change. So things keep changing. And I can only hope that we can hold onto some of that original experience of what it might've been like to have been with Mikao Usui back in the early 1900s.

That would've been so amazing. Imagine having learned with him. I would've loved that, but it's not the case. So all we can do is try to trace that back as well as we can, and really try to bring that sense of what he might have taught to our teachings. But whether he would recognize what we do today.

I'm sure he'd recognize some things and other things, obviously not. Yeah. But if you'd like to know more about the Japanese aspects of the system of Reiki, then come and join me at Shinpiden+ online.

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Can Reiki help with grief?

We are talking here about the system of Reiki, let's say. You could have a Reiki treatment or you could actually learn how to practice yourself. So there's two different things that you could do here, and both of them would be very supportive of you with grief. Grief is something that when we experience grief, it's something that we move through so we don't stay forever in grief.

We can probably access that grief, if we want to at any time, but we don't stay in grief. And that's because we are always shifting and changing Yeah. In our world. We never stay the same. What's that beautiful saying? You can never step into a river in the same place twice.

Something like the system of Reiki can definitely help you move through that. It's not to remove that. We don't want to remove grief. It's a part of us. It's our makeup, it's a part of our history and our world, uh, our experience. But like, we don't want to stay stuck in grief.

We want to be able to shift and move through that. And I do feel that a Reiki treatment is there to help you shift and move things, as is a Reiki course where you could actually get more self-awareness about what it means to feel that grief and what that might mean for you, especially in alignment with the Reiki precepts.

So for today only do not anger, do not worry. Be grateful, be true to who you are, and, uh, be compassionate to yourself and to others.

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Although some are slow
Still we will never fail
To reach our goal
If we hold within our hearts
Those thoughts of sincerity.
- Emperor Meiji

時遅きたがひはあれどつらぬかぬ
ことなきものは誠なりけり

Did you know that poetry is a part of the system of Reiki? It's true! Waka (Japanese poetry) has been practiced by Japanese Reiki practitioners since the early 1900s. These poems were a source of deep inspiration for Mikao Usui, the founder of the system of Reiki, and were used as tools for contemplation and spiritual growth.

This waka (Japanese poem) by Emperor Meiji offers a profound teaching about sincerity in the face of difference and delay: people move at different speeds, hold different views, and walk different roads. Yet this poem does not ask us to resolve those differences, it points to the one thing that remains constant beneath them all. Listen to this song and contemplate the words.

The poem reminds us:
— Sincerity is not dependent on perfect conditions
— People will differ, and that is to be expected
— What endures is not agreement, but integrity
— True makoto cannot be forced or rushed — it simply is
— The deepest constancy lives beneath all our differences

In the context of the system of Reiki and spiritual growth, this waka teaches us about 誠 (makoto): sincere, wholehearted truth. Spiritual practice asks us to return again and again to what is genuine within ourselves, regardless of how others move or what circumstances arise.

Emperor Meiji's words do not ask us to be faster, or to agree, or to have it all figured out. They simply remind us that sincerity, real, unwavering makoto, is always available to us. The question is not whether conditions are perfect. It is whether we are willing to be true.

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Can you give yourself Reiki while you sleep? 

Well, we are Reiki, aren't we? So we are spiritual energy and we are in spiritual energy. So that's all happening while we sleep.

Can you work with the practices, I guess is what you're saying?

I guess you could place your hands on your body with the intention of working with healing.I'll go to sleep with my hands on my body because it feels great.

So I'm, doing hands on healing but of course once I've fallen asleep, my hands will fall away. So yeah. I'm not really doing that any longer.If my intention is to always be Reiki, well I am always Reiki, but it's bringing my awareness to that and that's actually what we are learning when we practice the system of Reiki. Yeah.

To always be consciously aware of being Reiki. I could bring that intention to my sleep for sure. So it could be something that I could do before I go to sleep.I could think about this and set my intention to always be Reiki. That would be a great thing to do. Yeah.

A good part of your practice. It's just like being the Reiki precepts. Okay. Good Question.

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