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Reiki is
a Japanese word that means universal vital energy. It is usually used to
identify a peculiar system of healing. The Usui System of healing after
the name of his discoverer Mikao Usui. Rei means Universal, it refers to
the cosmic spiritual energy, which penetrates everything and is present
every where, from the galaxies to the atom. From the least living entity
to the human being. Ki is the name for the vital force that keeps us alive.
Reiki is the meeting of these forces, which purifies and heals the body,
mind and spirit. It is transferred from a practitioner to a client, who
does not need to believe in it to receive its benefits. It is natural and
does not any |
harm. This
energy cannot be used for evil purposes because it is based on universal
love. It is supposed that Reiki originated
in Tibet and Dr. Mikao Usui, a professor from Kyoto who traveled to India
and Tibet in search for a forgotten healing force, rediscovered it. In
1908 Mikao Usui went to the Mt. Kurama and there he had a cosmic attunement
and then he understood how to use some symbols he had found in Tibet and
he started healing people. Only in 1970 it came to the West thanks to Howayo
Takata a Japanese-American woman who lived in Hawaii. She trained 22 Reiki
Masters in the USA before her death. Today there are hundreds of thousands
of Reiki Masters and practitioners around the world. The Reiki practitioner
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