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.