REIKI WITH JUDY
Reiki and World Peace
Because Reiki is spiritual, yet not a religion, it has attracted students from all religious and spiritual backgrounds. Catholic priests and nuns practice Reiki. Jews, Protestants, Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists practice Reiki. Jains, Zoroastrinists, Taoists, and Shintoists practice Reiki. Wiccans, shamans, native peoples, and those on independent spiritual paths practice Reiki. An important reason is that Reiki gives each person a more immediate experience of the divine. Reiki places everyone more directly in contact with the higher power (regardless of the name one may call it) and provides a direct experience of the higher power’s grace and compassion.
Many have experienced the fact that as more people gather together in one group to do Reiki, the strength of each person’s Reiki goes up. The total amount of Reiki energy being channeled increases exponentially. If you double the number of people practicing Reiki in a group, rather than having twice as much Reiki flowing, you actually have four times as much. This group dynamic also applies to the number of people in the world practicing Reiki. As the number of world Reiki practitioners goes up, it causes a tremendous increase in the amount of Reiki flowing in the world. At some point in the near future, a critical pint will be reached where there will be so much Reiki flowing on the planet that world peace will come very quickly. In the near future Reiki, working with all other forms of religious and spiritual practice, will make the difference that brings peace to the world.
Predictions:
The current attitude is so positive for Reiki and other alternative practices in the U.S. that the trend will certainly grow. In a short time, Reiki will be offered at most hospitals; health insurance programs will include Reiki. The need for Reiki practitioners will grow quickly and Reiki will become established as a normal part of health care.
Advances will be made in the effectiveness of Reiki Treatments. As science gets involved in studying what makes Reiki work the increased understanding will be used to improve its effectiveness. As more people practice Reiki and continue to heal the deeper aspects of themselves, improvement will be made and they will become better healers. In the future, when a person gets sick, many hospitals will use Reiki first to heal the patient.
The spiritual nature of Reiki will continue to develop. People are having more meaningful spiritual experiences from their attunements and treatments. The validation of Reiki by science and complete acceptance by the public will move Reiki into a position of great importance.
As we surrender more completely to the power of Reiki, the superconscious mind from which Reiki comes will be able to heal us more and more deeply. As this happens, we will become better able to hold and ground higher consciousness with our physical bodies. Our awareness will expand. We will channel ever-higher qualities of Reiki energy, which will produce even more meaningful healing. So strong will this energy become, that eventually the veils of illusion that prevent us from knowing our true nature will be dissolved and released. At first a few, but then quickly more people will become self-realized. This higher state of mind will become the normal state for everyone. The peace, love and freedom of the higher power will be established as the predominant power on the planet.
From The Spirit of Reiki, William Lee Rand
Reiki For Peace ~ by Amy Z. Rowland
This is an excerpt from the complete article that appears in the winter edition of the Reiki News Magazine.
Outside Sahoji Temple in Tokyo, there is a very tall stone inscribed with Japanese calligraphy that gives an account of Mikao Usui’s life. This stone, called the Usui Memorial, was erected soon after Usui Sensei’s death in March 1926. The author of the inscription, one of Usui’s students, concludes the tribute with this remarkable expression of hope: “If Reiki can be spread throughout the world it will touch the human heart and the morals of society. It will be helpful for many people, and will not only heal disease, but also the Earth as a whole.” 1
Now, just over eighty years after those words were written, we stand at a profound moment of opportunity. Millions of people practice Reiki worldwide. For decades, Reiki has been slowly spreading and gently healing individuals, families, and communities. Many Reiki practitioners have witnessed miracles. Some acknowledge that Reiki has healed their hearts, their minds, their souls. Can we take the next step? Through our commitment to Reiki practice and to daily reflection on the Reiki Ideals , can we affect human morality? Can we bring about healing of “the Earth as a whole”?
The task seems overwhelming. To the individual mind, even just one of the environmental issues we face seems enough to confound our problem-solving ability. What can we do, we wonder, to reverse global warming and the melting of the ice caps and all the havoc with the world’s weather that this ecological imbalance creates? And we recognize, of course, that the Earth needs healing not only on the physical level, but on the mental, emotional, and spiritual levels as well. How can we help to heal the ongoing war in Iraq or ease the suffering of those in Darfur who have survived “ethnic cleansing”? Such thoughts may tempt us to despair.
Yet we have Reiki, and experience with Reiki teaches us that the Reiki energy taps an infinite – and infinitely powerful – source of healing, the same source that Hawayo Takata sometimes called “God-power.” Knowing that we are attuned to Reiki, that it flows through us and radiates outward from us, we may feel encouraged to believe that healing of “the Earth as a whole” is possible. In gratitude for this chance to offer healing, releasing the outcome for the highest good, we figuratively roll up our sleeves, ready to begin. But where do we start?
Paradoxically, the history of Reiki tells us to start at home by healing ourselves and by claiming peace in our own lives. The author of the Usui Memorial writes that at the end of his meditation on Mount Kurama, Mikao Usui “…suddenly felt the great Reiki energy at the top of his head, which led to the Reiki healing system. He first used Reiki on himself…” (This accords with Hawayo Takata’s story of Usui Sensei’s life as well, familiar to the many Reiki practitioners who have been taught in the Usui Shiki Ryoho tradition.) Later, he writes, “To begin spreading the Reiki system, it is important to start from a place close to you (yourself), don’t start from something distant such as philosophy or logic.” Healing begins within, and according to both the Japanese and Western accounts of Usui Sensei’s life, Mikao Usui first used Reiki on himself, then on others.
Reiki teachers worldwide continue to reinforce the importance of self-treatment in Reiki I classes because when the practitioner is well, he or she will be more effective in treating clients. Yet there are other reasons Reiki self-treatment is important: not only does Reiki heal our physical imbalances, but it also gently and gradually heals our emotional, mental, and spiritual wounds, often with such subtlety that we are not even aware of the healing. Only in retrospect do we realize that we are living each day with a more positive attitude, a sense of greater well-being, an exhilarating awareness of freedom.
Reiki self-treatment also teaches us about peace, for as we “listen” to our hands, focusing our attention on the flow of energy, our thoughts slow and our minds become quiet. Of course, if we are “band-aiding,” informally treating ourselves as we sit behind the wheel of a car stuck in rush hour traffic, we will not be giving our complete attention to the flow of energy, nor should we under these circumstances! Yet when we claim the time to treat ourselves each day, we soon learn to appreciate Reiki’s ability to bring us into our own peaceful center. With this awareness of our own inner peace, we are better able to live our lives, and we are able to live better lives. . . . . . .
1 The words of the inscription were first translated and published in English by German Reiki Master Frank Arjava Petter in his book, Reiki Fire: New Information about the Origins of the Reiki Power, a Complete Manual (Twin Lakes, WI: Lotus Light, 1997). Peter relied on Masano Kobayashi and Chetna M. Kobayashi, his then mother-in-law and wife, respectively, for the translation.
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