September 16, 2026
What if a simple Reiki practice could help you meet contradictions, understand your emotions, and build a steady daily practice? In this episode of the Reiki […]
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September 16, 2026
The second symbol and its mantra. In the West it was labelled mental and emotional healing. In Japan the mantra means our natural inclination, and our natural inclination is to be our true self. Its characteristic is harmony: the balance between earth and heaven in which we start to feel what we really are.
September 15, 2026
There are two answers. A person who practises a healing method is a reiyōshi. But the memorial stone of Mikao Usui describes him as someone who undertook shugyō, committed training, and a person on that path is a shugyōsha. From a Japanese perspective that is the better word for a Reiki practitioner: someone committed to daily self-practice, not someone with a certificate.
What Has Reiki Cost Us? Was It Worth It? After everything we’ve explored about the challenges, sacrifices, doubts, and unexpected costs of a Reiki journey, we […]
Chakras came into Western Reiki from the New Age movement and have nothing to do with the Japanese system. Teaching from a Japanese perspective, I work instead with Sanmitsu, which I call the Three Diamonds: body, mind, and the breath that links them. Those three sit at the base of every practice in the system.
Strictly, the precepts are the foundation of the system of Reiki from a Japanese perspective. Meditation is how we become the precepts: contemplating the waka poetry, practising Joshin Kokyu Ho, breathing into the hara and letting awareness expand until we feel our interconnection with everything.