WHAT IS REIKI

Reiki is a Japanese form of energy healing, a type of alternative medicine. Reiki practitioners use a technique called palm healing or hands-on healing through which a "universal energy" is said to be transferred through the palms of the practitioner to the patient in order to encourage emotional or physical healing. Its  is a hands-on healing developed in Japan in 1922 by Dr. Mikao Usui. Reiki is a Japanese word composed of two words - Rei and Ki. Rei means divine, spirit or spiritual or higher self of human being and ki means essential energy. Reiki can also be called as higher power energy guided by higher powers or “divine life force energy”. Pseudo translation of word Reiki is "universal life force energy". This life force is also called Prana in India. ​ During the early 1920s, Dr Mikao Usui did a 21-day practice (Isyu Guo, a twenty-one day Buddhist meditation ) on Mount Kurama called discipline of prayer and fasting, according to translator Hyakuten Inamoto. Common belief dictates that it was during these 21 days that he developed Reiki. Dr Mikao Usui in April 1922 founded the Usui Reiki Ryōhō Gakkai” (meaning Usui's Spiritual Energy Therapy Method Society) in order to help treat people on a large scale. He opened a Reiki clinic in Harajuku, Aoyama, Tokyo, where he treated people and conducted workshops to spread the benefits and knowledge of Reiki. According to Toshitaka Mochizuki, Usui created three degrees for Reiki training. During his visit to Fukuyama Dr Mikao Usui fell ill and passed away there on 9th March, 1962 at the age of 62. ​ Mrs. Hawayo Takata is credited with bringing Usui Reiki from Japan to western world. She returned to Hawaii in 1937 established Reiki in Hawaii. In the winter of 1938, Dr. Hayashi had initiated Hawayo Takata as a Reiki Master. She was the thirteenth and last Reiki Master Dr. Hayashi initiated. Mrs. Takata initiated twenty-two Reiki Masters.