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What is a Reiki Attunement?
By Roberta Barnes

In answering, the first thing to do is to break the question down into parts.

The word attunement became a popular way to refer to the act of opening another’s pathway to universal energy around the 1980s. The dictionary meaning for attunement is being or bringing into harmony, or a feeling of being at one with another being. Being in harmony with anything requires balance within and being in a state able to receive.

Herbalists, forest rangers, farmers, and many people have an attunement to nature. Nature has its own form of energy, and each life form within nature has its own energy. Anyone drawn to a plant, animal, or bird for no logical reason, and is aware of receiving a gift from that connection knows nature’s form of energy.

Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, and there are trillions of forms of energy. The spiritual practice of Usui Reiki Ryoho uses one unique form of universal energy. The life force energy within each living being is another form, and throughout history different people have used still other forms. Many forms of energy are within and around us 24/7. Regardless of how many forms of energy one has experienced, each new energy feels different, if he or she is open to receiving.

Each initiation or empowerment (attunement) received from a Reiki Shihan (teacher) opens up your pathway a bit wider to allow more universal energy to flow through you. To completely open up to be one with the universe, which is beyond human comprehension, would take years of study, discipline, and practice. For Mikao Usui to reach his first awakening it took years of gathering knowledge of all kinds. He did not connect to universal energy until his second awakening following three years of disciplined Zen practice, days of deep meditation, and hours of unconsciousness.

As popular a phrase as Reiki attunement has become sometimes the knowledge that Usui Reiki Ryoho is a spiritual practices becomes lost. I first experienced Reiki in the 1980s. I explored other energy practices, met a few Reiki Masters, and then in the late 1990s I connected with a gifted Canadian Usui Reiki Ryoho teacher who taught me the spiritual practice of Usui Reiki Ryoho is not complicated, but has a depth that requires time to understand and guidance in how to embrace the energy.

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Usui Reiki
By Eric Hartwell

Reiki is a system of natural healing that was founded by Dr. Usui Mikao hence it is also called Usui Reiki after it’s founder. Dr. Usui or Usui Sensei as he is called was a staunch Buddhist who studied esoteric ancient Tibetan and Sanskrit scrolls and meditated on Mount Kurama on the outskirts of Kyoto, Japan. Dr. Usui was also a member of the Rei Jyutu Ka, a metaphysical group dedicated to developing psychic abilities and performing esoteric practices that were looked down upon by traditional monasteries. He was said to have achieved enlightenment there and he synthesized the teachings of Japanese Esoteric Buddhism with Indian and Chinese medicines to form his own brand of healing in which the Universal Healing Light energy was channeled and directed to perform healing. Thus Reiki does not work on merely the physical body but on the subtle body and at the soul level to bring about change. Western medicine treated the physical manifestation of a problem but Reiki treated the problem by correcting the energies in the body or “Ki” and aligning it with the Universal energy to completely cure a disease that were caused by such energy imbalances in the mind, body or spirit.

Soon Dr. Usui’s healing method became very popular in Japan and he traveled throughout the country to teach his skill and perform Reiki Empowerments. Dr. Usui also set up a Reiki Association called the The Usui Reiki Ryoho Gakkai where the word Gakkai meant Association and this was the first formal Reiki association and even today it maintains the traditional teachings of Dr. Usui Mikao. He was the first president of this organization and after his death the presidency was given to his best friend, Mr. Ushida.

However this was a time when the West was still unaware of this method of healing. Though Usui Reiki or Usui Reiki Ryoho as it was called was the original system of Reiki, over the years it has traveled to the West where practitioners have merged this system with other esoteric healing practices to form many other branches of Reiki which are practiced today. Usui Reiki was bought to the West by a lady called Mrs. Hawayo Takata who lived in Hawaii. She was visiting her realtives in Japan when she came upon this form of healing by a student of Dr. Usui’s namely Dr. Hayashi. She underwent treatment everyday for four months for some serious ailments she was suffering. After four months not only was she completely cures but was very impressed by this form of healing. She learnt this form of treatment from him and soon after an Attunement from him in 1938 she began practicing this when she returned to America. She initiated twenty-two Reiki Masters in America and this list has continued to grow and branch out and continuously evolve like a chain reaction.

Dr. Usui wanted to create a spiritual form of healing that was without the denomination of religion or any other boundary. Reiki can be practiced as a way of life without disturbing any religious practices.

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