BRIEF HISTORY OF REIKI

Reiki is the word Mikao Usui used to designate the gift of healing energy and the method to pass it on to others that he received in April, 1921. At the end of his retreat he had a vision and felt a huge force of energy filling his head. When he placed his hands upon himself, he could feel this Reiki energy coursing through his hands into his body. It made him feel better. He used it on his family and found that it cured many ailments. Then he offered it to the public.

Reiki is the Japanese word meaning Life Force Energy or Energy ofLife. It is the energy of the Creator Itself, i.e. Unconditional Love. This is the force or chi that courses through all living things on this planet. The Usui System is a manner of allowing this Energy to flow through the practitioner's body, out the hands and into the client, energizing the major glands and organs. With everything working well, the body heals itself. The healing energy passes through and energizes the practitioner as it goes to the client. The practitioner takes nothing from the client, nor is his/her energy depleted.

	It is still the practice of people who wish to make a change in their lives to climb Mt. Kurama and sit under the trees near a shrine to fast and pray for three weeks.
Photo by Rev. Fran Brown (Copyright 2001)

I was invited to come to Japan in 1997 to teach and to visit the places where Usui meditated and where he was buried.