KOICHI TOHEI
KIATSU
develop your innate energy in order to heal yourself and others by realizing
the principles of the mind and the body.
KI NO KENKYUKAI H.0.When our Ki is interchanging with Ki of the
universe, this creates the most natural and the
strongest state with the most vigorous life power.
This state is called mind and body unification
and by living with mind and body unified, one
can stay healthy all through one’s life. That is
why | am teaching the four basic principles to
unity mind and body.
However there are many people who are actu-
ally suffering from illness and problems. Once
a person has fallen ill or if the body or mind is
damaged, one’s life power is so low that it is
very difficult to recover it by oneself. Sometimes
‘one suffers over 10 or 20 years. In that case we
must supply Ki to this person, just as when the
power of the battery of a car is drained, it must
be charged from outside. By sending Ki into the
body from outside, the life power can be en-
couraged. Once the life power starts working, it
can easily heal all illness and problems. This
method of sending Ki into the body is named
“Kiatsu Ryoho.” In order to practise it, one
must first know how to extend Ki using the four
basic principles to unify mind and body. It is dif-
ferent from Shiatsu, Acupression, Accupuncture,
etc., theoretically and practically. If you send
your own Ki to others, naturally you consume a
lot of Ki, it is no use to fall ill by curing others.
One must first learn how to supply Ki from the
universe. This is Ki breathing. The Ki of the uni
verse is infinite. If one knows how to supply Ki
from the universe, one never lacks Ki however
much one sends to others. One must, therefore,
know how to unify Ki and how to breathe Ki
before learning Kiatsu_ Ryoho.PREFACE
Why we need Kiatsu Ryoho.
Kiatsu Ryoho is a method to promote human health, encouraging the ori-
ginal life power by sending the Ki of the universe to the damaged part of the
body of the patient through the unified body of the healer. Kiatsu means
“press with Ki” and Ryoho means therapy.
In ancient Japan it was said that life’s span was SO years and to live seven-
ty years was rare. However nowadays the average life expectancy is 73 for
men and 76 for women, thanks to the development of medicine and other
advances of civilization,
Most people are dependent on doctors and medication. Many elderly
people are spending their lives in bed or in hospitals, To enjoy a long life
should mean more than just to stay alive long; one should be able to be
healthy all one’s life. One of the problems that society now faces is how to
make life worth living for retired people, but it would be useless simply to
promote leisure activities, when the elderly people are suffering from bodily
aches and breathing difficulties. To make life worth living one should be
healthy, vigorous, gentle to other people; in sum, one must be needed by
others. The key to a life worth living is to be needed by others, Retired
people need, above all, to maintain their health. The problem of a society
with an ever-growing number of elderly members can also be solved by
making young people vigorous and healthy so that one youth can easily
earn 5 or 10 retired people's living.
However the reality is that all the nation is half ill and half healthy. It is
very rare to find anyone with complete health, while many are dependent on
medicine.