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There are many different ways of connecting to Reiki in the West, many of them quite complicated, sometimes differing at different levels of Reiki, and with much focus and attention given by the person doing the attunement. however, they all seem to work! The Japanese way of attuning a person to Reiki is very different to the Western one. Mikao Usui used a very graceful and flowing ritual called 'Reiju' which is beautiful in its simplicity In Western teaching, a fixed set of hand positions must be followed, for a specified length of time. Usui taught his students to develop their intuition, and allow the hands to be guided by the energy rather than use fixed positions, which were introduced by Hayashi. Treatments would differ from one person to another, and from treatment to treatment, based on individual needs at any one time; a simple approach, free from inhibiting regulation The greatest difference between Usui's original method and the techniques used in the West is in the use of the Reiki symbols and Reiki energies. The symbols were not introduced to the world by Usui after a moment of enlightenment, as told in the history according to Hawayo Takata, but were existing symbols that Usui taught to only three people at the end of his teaching In the West, Second Degree Reiki involves being 'attuned' to symbols for use when giving treatments and for 'sending' of Reiki long-distance. Again, many different ways are taught of using these symbols, and some of these are also very complicated and restrictive The Reiki symbols are more of a focus of Western Reiki than they are in Japan. Mikao Usui's students were not given symbols, but used other ways to connect to the energies that the symbols represent Rather than being used in complicated rituals and order, as is taught in Western Reiki, the energy represented by them was utilized in a simple and uncomplicated way, producing a frequency of solid earth energy, celestial energy, and at Third Degree, a vibration through which soul healing may occur This simple and intuitive way is taught at the second level of Reiki, which really empowers the treatment for the individual |
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