Reiki

The Reiki System

First you need to know about the levels. There are 3 levels in Usui Shiki Reiki Ryoho: Practitioner, Therapist and Master.  Out of 200 people Usui trained only 17 people reached the Master level.

One of them was a naval officer called Chujiro Hayashi (1925, 47 years old).  He brought order to Reiki creating a backup system of hand positioning as ailments for different diseases in case the students didn’t have enough intuition. Then Reiki was passed on to Hawayo Takata (1938) a lady who was very ill and was cured by Reiki. She attuned 22 masters until 1980 and all Masters can trace their line back to her, Hayashi and Usui.

The Reiki principles play an important role in Reiki. They were discovered while Mikao Usui healed homeless people. He had healing sessions with them, tried to teach them the way but for them it was much easier to be on the streets and beg instead of having a workplace with bills to pay. So that’s why he decided healing shouldn’t be free anymore and the attunements should have a much higher price (Takata charged 125$ for first level) and give assistance only to people that were willing to obey the rules:

The secret of inviting happiness through many blessings
The spiritual medicine for all illness
For today only: Do not anger; Do not worry
Be humble
Be honest in your work
Be compassionate to yourself and others
Do Gassho every morning and evening
Keep in your mind and recite.

This information is gathered from different internet sources. William Lee Rand has some books on the subject.