The secret of Reiki

Most of the meditation techniques known to us including Reiki, put emphasize on how important Hara or Tantien point is. Though it is an important teaching, but it is also neglected by us. Yes, because everyone always talk about it, and it is so simple, we often neglected something that simple, don't we? But, it is unfortunately is the key to any successful meditation practice. It is the door, where the vitality force in the air can get inside our energy system and directly nourish our sumshumna channel.  The Hara point, is the key to calm our mind instantly, therefore when we need to taming our mind, we need this hara point and the techniques to exploit it. Any meditation techniques which don't use this Hara point, such as using mantra, objects and koan, may takes time to tame mind chatter and entering meditation state, alpha state. But, using Hara point, the mind almost instantly quiet at the time the vitality enter rightly to sumshumna channel. Qi, as we usuall...

When a lot of people around the globe amazed with Reiki, there are some argue that Reiki is just hoax. At times it is a discouraging comments spreading skepticism around the web. Yes, it is quite discouraging, years before i felt i have been taking a bad pills by believing that Reiki can heal any diseases. Why? because every times i  lay may hand to give Reiki to my body or my patients, no diseases or illnesses can be heal. Most of all, i felt better, then the pain, disease or illnesses would come back any moments, and left nothing to proof that Reiki just touch it. It was a discouraging moment, but i have strong intuition that something is not right, Reiki should be effective as sensei Usui said. It is not a custom for a meditator such as sensei Usui which seek enlightenment to tell a lie for the sake of profit.

Have you ever wonder, where are the chakras lies in our bodies. Is it real or it just metaphor? Well, if you have such questions, i may help you to save your time a little bit. The chakras do have its physical organ, which we called it glands, except for crown chakra and the root chakra. From the ajna chakra till the svadisthana cakra(sex chakra)  they all have its physical glands. That's why when activated, we can feel certain feeling, bliss, good feeling, etc. But, the crown chakra doesn't represented by a gland, it is however the representation of our cortex brain full activation. Not suprisingly that the holy men of  the past. Now, what about the root chakra.  The root chakra, called in sanskrit as mooladhara chakra, the beginning. Some say that it is located in front of our tail bone. The accupuncturist called it is the Hui Yin spot. I do not know exactly what it represented in physical organ, i guess it is a group of nerve which ...

To think about our other bodies, will take us to the root of any religions. A believe that after death, our soul (our eternal body) will go to heaven or hell depending on our deeds while still alive. But, this time we are not discussing about it, we will discussing more practical approach in understanding our other bodies. Let's think a little bit about cells within a body. In a cell, there is already a complete process of metabolism, which is taking in necessary substances and taking out unnecessary one. They live side by side with other cells and creating tissues then organ and finally our human body. How, they organize themselves? Its still a major question within biologist. However, from a reiki practitioners perspective, which able to perform reiji-ho, there is a form of energy which hold every cells together. This field have strong influence toward cells energy pattern, and may force the cells to emit a certain pattern. And in turn creating new cells based on such gu...

Reiki healing is like about conducting a good musical orchestra, where many different musical instruments play together harmoniously. Think our mind as the conductor, the heart as the bass, limfatic system as violins, and the other instruments as other body's organs. If the conductor has drunk all night long, and has to perform in the following day, what kind of music can be produced? Imagine the conductor does not understand enough about a good music all about or those who play the instruments are in bad mood,the orchestra will produce a bad sound. If that orchestra is our organ then the bad sound is our auric field pattern when we get sickness. To overcome this messy sound, we need someone or something to teach the orchestra about how to produce good and harmonious music. The fastest thing to teach is giving a direct example to follow. Then, we got Reiki, a harmonious vibration in the universe as pattern for our conscious, subconscious and unconscious mind to follow its v...

Most reiki practitioners experience situations where their treatments can not have direct result or might re-occur over time. But legends say that Usui sensei heal kobe's earthquake victims almost instantly. Beside, Hayashi sensei, taught reiki to navy officers to be used as alternative treatment on the ship when lacking medicine. So, reiki treatment should be have direct result and almost instant, otherwise, it can not be used. Then, how come we don't perform like them? When I confronted with this question, I can only think that may be we lacked exercise or spiritual training until I learned that reiki practical healing techniques are still in oral tradition back in japan. There is two things that need to develop in reiki. First, the amount of energy, this can be done through meditation and breathing exercise using reiki. Second, a practitioner need to develop reiji, an energy sensitive hand and intuition. To me, reiji is very important for practical uses. It helps...

In the second symbol, sei he ki, sensei Usui tell us about the origin of suffering and how to get out from suffering. I think this symbol represent his Buddhist ideas. To many, it is just a symbol to draw an energy that soothe emotional disorder, to other Reiki practitioners it is a symbol to connect with subconsciousness. To me, it is represent a teaching about balance, harmony and joy. So, if this symbol originally is the teaching of suffering and how to get out from suffering just like sensei Buddhist's ideas, how we can understand it? let's discuss it. First of all, to borrow Buddhist philosophy, the origin of suffering is desire. If we happen to desire anything, there will be a subject which is "I" and the object "thing". This make an unbalanced condition within our consciousness, creating longing feeling within us, which can only be satisfied when the "I" meld down with the object of desire. Now, if we can satisfy our desire by obta...

What is Reiki symbols? Do they have power on itself? or they just mere tools to help us understand something that do have the real power? Now, i want to discuss about the secret behind Reiki symbols, especially the three first symbols of Reiki, Cho ku Rei , Sei He Ki and HZSN. Eleven years ago, when i learning and practice Reiki for the first time, i am a little skeptic about learning Reiki symbols. I am afraid that it is just some kind of black magic teaching, and i do not want to learn something that can harm others with psychic powers, i believe its consequences are beyond my strength to bear. However, as i search about Reiki on the web and learning the history how Reiki is being discover, i am getting understood what is the meaning of those symbols. The first important of Sensei Usui's discovery is the existence of Reiki, the ocean of energy within and without us, around us and within us. Then any knowledge about self and the universe was probably become known to him...

Last week, my best friend lend me a book, which titled The Microbe Factor: Your Innate Immunity and the Coming Health Revolution ,written by a Japanese gastroentrologist, dr. Hiromi Shinya, Md.  The book tell a story behind our decreasing immune system caused by our careless in treating our environment. As gastroentrologist, he written that the key to our health and longevity is in our food, we need to pay attention to what we eat. However, it is a fact that every food in market today is already being manipulated in its production, either with antibiotics, fungicide, chemical fertilizers, etc. Even vegetables and fresh fruits are decreasing in its vitamins and mineral contents. It seems that our effort to boost food production backfire to ourself. We will giving our money more to medical assistance than to our food in the end. As we trapped in this food situation, yes.... i say trapped, because it is very difficult to find and make sure that the food we bought is healthy enough...

Though energy work in Reiki is simple, but to maintain and strengthened Reiki flow within us, we need to dedicate an hour or two to do some Reiki exercise. The question is, Reiki has been developed into so many style with a lot of techniques and symbols, so what Reiki style and techniques to be practiced? Many Reiki masters has its own answers, but to me, we need to go back to what Reiki is in the first place which is a technique to connect our soul to the heart of the universe through meditative state of mind. Therefore, we need to eliminate unnecessary techniques every time and enter into deep meditative practice in the end. To do so, i offer a simple guideline to practice Reiki daily 1. To do self healing          whether you are already pass level 1 or shoden in Reiki, you still need to practice self healing to yourself, because self healing soften the muscle and bring clarity to your physic quickly, this is an important step before any further e...

As Indonesia still in rainy season during February, i find that a lot of people get cough and running nose. They say that this year rain are heavier than before, not mention the strong wind which usually accompany the rain, makes your body chill. The sad thing is, between rainy day, there are also clear and a very hot day. So, there is no weather consistency anymore in Indonesia, and this is bad for your immune system. No wonder, everyone get cough and running nose. I thought Reiki can protect your body to stay healthy,but if you drive it too much, you will end up sick just like anybody else. However, Reiki does help you recover quicker and make your body resistant with the same problem in the future. I believe Reiki can strengthened our immune system to a certain point. Well, last week, i found myself busy taking care businesses and often came home late at night. Though i felt cold inside, i can't relax yet after everything done. Just after everything was done, my body can...

When i read Sensei Usui's admonitions, i thought it was the same as many good advices available everywhere and i didn't give it a second thought. Everybody knows, that anger and worry are the best stress related illness producers. On the other hand, gratitude, work hard and kindness are the best positive thinking we can generate to make our life meaningful. I never thought before, that those admonitions are the key to understand Reiki practices, and how Reiki works. You may call that it is the utmost secret of Reiki, though it is not a secret(available to everyone). Among those 5 admonitions, the hardest one to follow might be "don't worry", worry stem from our fear of something bad will be happened to anything we dear. Our life, our family and our belonging are all possible sources of fear and worry. However, it is not meant that by discarding everything we own, we will not worry anymore, because many ascetics, who already free from worldly things, often sti...

When the first time i receive DKM "Dai Ko Myo" Symbol, i was curious that it might have some connection with figure Amitabha Buddha in Mahayana Buddhism. DKM symbol is made of 3 Japanese Kanji characters Dai means Great , Ko means Light, Myo means Very bright. If you connect all those 3 characters, you may find " The great light which shine very bright ". Now, how about Amitabha Buddha, they say, Amitabha Buddha was once a human being, then he made 18 vows to liberate all sentient beings from samsara. In his vows, he will take everyone who chants his name to his Sukhavati heaven where everyone can practice dharma easily toward liberation. So what is the connection between Reiki and Amitabha Buddha? Amitabha Buddha, also known as "The Buddha of infinite light" and also as Amitayus " The buddha of infinite life". Buddhist practitioner especially from Mahayana lineage and Tibetan honored and pray to Amitabha Buddha, so they can be born in h...

In Sensei Usui'time, learning Reiki was intended to deepened spiritual insights within. Therefore what Sensei gave to his students probably rich with spiritual practices such as meditations, chantings, and prayings. His religion was not Christian, and whoever said that he was a Christian were probably trying to hide Sensei identity to make Reiki practices better accepted in the west at that time. When Sensei Usui, learned that in the universe exist Reiki, he was in the middle of practicing Zen meditation with fasting on Kurama mountain. Undoubtedly, what he taught to his pupils was based on what he learned in Buddhism.Even, his motivation to teach Reiki was helping people to reach enlightened state, a state of perfect harmony with the universe-a Buddhism term. So, what i learned from Buddhism and its connection to Reiki? First of all, when we get attunement for the first time, we are told that we are connecting to the universal energy. In fact, we are just being reminded that...

As we familiar with Reiki practices, we discover that there are people claimed to channel new types of Reiki energy, with more attributes than the traditional ones. Some peopele claim their new found Reiki is stronger, quicker in healing process, or more spiritual in nature. But, are there more than one Reiki energies in the universe? Off course not, there is only one Universal consciousness in the universe but with many different manifestations. As for Reiki energies, Sensei Usui, once taught his students to progress in meditation practices and develop strong spiritual habits. He even pointed out that, when you make progress in your spiritual life, your healing energy is getting stronger therefore you can heal faster. Reiki can appear to us with any form that we like, warm, cold, or tingling or any sensations that can be sensed. The true is, Reiki has no form at all, our mind and inner nature act as filter and giving it form. Only one thing common within any form of Reiki energies whi...

I have found in the internet, that Reiki being researched by NCAA to seek its scientific proved of its effectiveness against many illnesses. It is good, i just thinking that maybe when the proved enough already, Reiki treatment can side by side with medical treatment to improved the quality of medication. However, Reiki effectiveness may different from one to another, depending on how diligent you trained,which attunement level you already acquired, your sensing ability, and which kind of Reiki energy you channels. Those are variables that determined whether or not a Reiki treatment effective. Therefore, a Reiki test, should be taking account those variables. Meanwhile, for those who just taking first level of Reiki attunements from any Reiki schools, i would like to discuss a method to greatly increase your Reiki energy and sensitivity. Reiki as we know today, is a by product of spiritual quest of Sensei Mikao Usui. In fact, as explain in his epitaph, he sees Reiki a his method to he...

When we first received Reiki attunement, we think we are attuned to a healing energy sources, seldom we think that we also attuned to the heart of the universe itself. Sensei Mikao Usui, in his interview, telling about how Reiki can help people stay healthy physically, mentally and spiritually, therefore after receive Reiki's blessing, we can not do anything but gratitude toward the universe. It is also said, that the first Reiki communities, face great difficulty to maintain their status as Reiki practitioners or masters among societies in general because they believe differently with other people. But, as Sensei Usui wishes, Reiki spread through Hawayo Takata and back to Japan. Finally, Reiki can be accepted in modern times, and the descendants of the first Reiki communities may open themselves and share some of their teachings. Reiki can be seen as a bridge to connect our consciousness with the Universe Consciousness which set everything in harmony and order. This Consciousne...

The year 1998, was believed as the year when Reiki Boom begin in Indonesia, people amazed with what Reiki capable of, and thinking that they finally can have something valuable that can change their life. Many years have passed since then, but most people who learned Reiki, disappointed as there is no significance changes in their life as they imagined when taking Reiki courses. They use visualization techniques, materialization techniques, imbued with Kundalini energi, etc. But nothing has changed. Those who poor still poor and those who has miserable relationship still miserable. Finally they begin to search other answer for their life. However,  if they just put a little bit faith in their heart toward Reiki practices they may found something valuable. One of them lies within the symbol  "   Cho Ku Rei ", this is the secret which can  make your heart's desires happen or not. It is also the secret to unlock other secrets of Reiki. Let's discuss it, You need ...

Among other healing arts, Reiki healing arts, are well known for its ability to diagnose any illnesses quickly and accurately. Even the illnesses have not been appeared, advanced Reiki practitioners may know the presence of this potential illnesses just by looking at it. Why Reiki practitioners are able to do it?, is it magic? or is it something that can be developed by training? Well, in Tradional Japanese Reiki, there is a hand sensitivity training method which called Byosen Reikan Ho . This technique train a practioner to detect 'hibiki', a disorder energy which eminated by illnesses or bad condition inside an organ. Though publicly open, this technique contain a litlle secret, which i want to share with you now!!!, want to know about it? If you interested in this topic, then i must assume you that you know about 'Byosen Reikan Ho' technique. You may have exercise this technique many times, and regardless how many hours have you been used up, you may feel the progr...

Last weekend, Indonesian celebrated Idul Fitri 1430 H, yes-i mean all Indonesian were celebrating Idul-Fitri regardless whether he/she is a Moslem. Though this is a Moslem's holiday, but it already tranform into Indonesian culture. Its not a religion's day anymore but more likely a festive day for all Indonesian, its a day when every Indonesian try its best to forgive other misdeeds and creating a commitment to build a good relationship in the future. so, as Indonesian, i did enjoy last weekend holiday, rather than traveling around, i chose to stay home and did some work out early in the morning. Kinda lazy that day, "who want to work out in the holiday, only fool can do it "( that's what i felt), but i had to do it otherwise I'll break my personal commitment to have a healthy lifestyle. So, i did some stretching, jogging around a little bit, doing some breathing exercise and then exercise Gendai Reiki techniques. During practiced, my mind hardly stand still ...