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Reiki Articles
By Taggart King
This document contains a series of articles that I have written for the ‘ReikiEvolution’ quarterly newsletter between August 2000 and February 2006.Please share this document freely with your Reiki friends, teachers andstudents.
Symbols and Beyond 1
Symbols and Attunements 2
Intelligent Energy? 3
Distant Attunements 5
Working with Intuition 8
Restrictions on Reiki 10
Simplicity and Sandwiches 13
The Importance of Intent 15
A Simple Way with Symbols 16
The Kaizen of Reiki 18
Remote Treatments 20
Feng Shui your Reiki 22
Mindfulness and Compassion 25
The Breath of Earth and Heaven 27
The Precepts 28
The Home Study approach to Reiki training 30
Back to Basics: Reiki First Degree 34
Back to Basics: Reiki Second Degree 39
Get out of the way! 44
Reiki Sensations 45
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Symbols and Beyond
August 2000In the Western style of Reiki, the Reiki symbols are seen to be very important. Theyare seen as an integral part of the system; indeed for many people the symbols areReiki, the symbols are the energy. However new information coming from Japan, andthe experiences of some Reiki people, suggest that they might not be as necessary aswas once thought.Firstly, it is interesting to note that the 'attunement' methods used by Mikao Usui'sReiki Association in Japan (the Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkai) do not involve the use of symbols: the Gakkai's students are connected to Reiki, but the Reiki symbols are notused in this process.Secondly, Hiroshi Doi - a member of the 'Gakkai who has brought their basic teachingsto the Western world - says that Mikao Usui introduced the symbols into his Reikitechnique for the benefit of his students. The story was that some students could justnot accept that they could 'do this thing', and by giving them something concrete touse, they learned to focus and control the energy more easily.Hiroshi Doi also says that the current 'Gakkai students do not use the Reiki symbols,though they are shown them out of historical interest. Mikao Usui no doubt chose thesymbols very carefully, to represent different aspects of the energy, but the energyand the connection to the energy came first it seems.So perhaps the message we should be getting from the above is that we may choose touse the symbols if we want to or need to use them, but they are not necessarily anessential part of the system, and if we feel that we can move beyond them, that is ok,and that is still Reiki.I have been in contact with a Moldovan Doctor (and Reiki Master) whose Reiki friendsuse Christian symbols to control and focus the Reiki energy; I also know a Moslem ReikiMaster who uses Moslem prayers to do the same thing. From personal experience I cansay that it is possible to produce the desired effect with the energy through intentonly, whether that be distant healing or gearing the energy in the direction of mental/emotional balancing or physical healing.For me there is a distinction to be made between the energy of Reiki, and any symbolsthat might be used to control and focus the energy in a particular way. Reiki is theenergy, you are attuned to the energy, but there are many ways of directing theenergy, by using symbols from Japan, from other cultures and through simple intent.
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Symbols and Attunements
November 2000In my article ‘Symbols and Beyond’ I spoke of the possibility of moving beyond theReiki symbols to access the energy they represent directly, and the use of symbolsfrom other cultures to direct the energy: Moslem prayers and Christian symbols forexample. Here I want to talk about an exciting discovery for Reiki: you don’t have tobe attuned to the symbols for them to work for you!It has always been a basic tenet of Western Reiki that the Reiki symbols don’t workuntil you have been specifically ‘attuned’ to them, and all Western style attunementsystems – as far as I can see – involve being attuned to symbols at First Degree, SecondDegree and Master levels. However, no one really knew if you needed to be attuned tothe symbols for them to work, because no one knew of a way to attune people withoutusing symbols!All that has changed with the introduction of ‘Reiju’ empowerments from Japan. Reijuis the way that the Reiki ability is conveyed to the students of the Usui Reiki RyohoGakkai (Mikao Usui’s Reiki Association), and within other traditional Reiki streams inJapan. Reiju is an empowerment that seems to derive from Tendai Buddhism, andwithin Japanese Reiki does not involve the use of symbols at First Degree, Second-Degree or Master levels. Now that we know how to connect people to Reiki withoutusing symbols, and without ‘attuning’ people to symbols, we can at last find outwhether one needs to be attuned to a symbol for it to work for us.I have experimented in three ways. Firstly, I have found that students attuned at FirstDegree level, using Western-style attunements, can produce noticeable effects in theirhands when using the Reiki symbols. Western-style Reiki First Degree attunements usethe Reiki symbols, of course, but you are not 'attuned' to them in the way that you areat Second Degree level.Secondly, I have found that the symbols work just as well for First Degree studentswho are connected to Reiki using Reiju empowerments, and no symbols enter into thisprocess at all. In fact, I have noticed that students attuned using Reiju seem to bemore sensitive to the flow of Reiki than students attuned in the Western style.Finally, I have been using the original Usui method to attune people to Reiki at SecondDegree level, and this again does not use symbols: it uses a way of connecting studentsdirectly to the energies that the symbols represent. Students attuned in this way canuse the Reiki symbols in just the same way, and just as effectively, as studentsattuned using the Western system… although they have not been 'attuned' to them.So all this leads me to believe that once you have been connected to Reiki – andsymbols do not need to enter into this process – then the Reiki symbols will work foryou, and you do not need to be attuned to them specifically. Not only that, but Ibelieve that any symbol will direct the energy in a particular way once you have been
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