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Hatsurei Ho means to generate greater amounts of ki. It is a sequence of practices from the system of Reiki, all working from the hara, that gather and strengthen your energy. I teach two versions: one built from Kenyoku Ho, Joshin Kokyu Ho and Seishin Toitsu, and one from the 1933 book by Usui’s student Tomita Kaiji.
Hatsurei Ho is a Japanese word, and it means to generate greater amounts of ki, greater amounts of energy. In truth there are different ways we could do Hatsurei Ho, and I have broken it into two versions.
Version one uses Kenyoku Ho, the dry bathing technique. Then Joshin Kokyu Ho, where you work with the hara, breathing deeply into the body and expanding that energy out into the world, purifying the mind with the breath. And then Seishin Toitsu, where we sit in gassho and move energy with the breath through the body and down into the hara. All of them are about concentrating our energy and making it stronger, and all of them work from the hara.
Version two comes from a book by a student of the founder, Mikao Usui. The book is by Tomita Kaiji, and I have the translation. His version teaches you to sit with Joshin Ho, breathing down into the hara and expanding out, just like the first. Then you contemplate a waka, a short poem written by the Emperor Meiji, which they call gyosei. Contemplating the poem helps you become more self-aware.
Then it moves into Byosen, scanning the body with the right hand and sensing energy, and when you feel a shift or a change, placing your hand on the body and sitting with that energy. I really love version two, because it takes us through meditation, contemplation, energy awareness and then hands-on healing.
The name. Hatsurei Hō, 発霊法. Hatsu means to generate or bring forth, rei is spirit, the same rei as in Reiki, and hō means method: the method for generating spiritual energy.
Where it sits in the system. It is most often taught at Shoden, the first level, as the daily sitting practice. It is not a separate technique so much as the container that holds the others in order, which is why it is the practice I ask students to keep for life.
A common misunderstanding. That the second version is the original and the first is modern, or the other way round. Both are traceable to the founder’s students; they are two doors into the same room.
Try this. Do version one tonight, in order, without rushing the joins between the three parts. The joins are where the practice usually goes missing.
You might also ask: What is Kenyoku Ho and when should you use it? · What is Joshin Kokyu Ho? · What is Byosen?
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