Reiki Practitioners strive to improve health and quality of life by offering Reiki energy and restoring balance. The form of Reiki that many people practice today, Usui Reiki, has been in use for over one hundred years. The history of Usui Reiki begins with its founder, Dr. Mikao Usui. Sometimes called the Usui Sensei, Dr.
Mikao Usui was born to a wealthy Buddhist family in As a child, Dr. Usui studied in a Buddhist monastery where he was taught martial arts, swordsmanship, and the Japanese form of Chi Kung, known as Kiko. Throughout his education, Dr. Usui had an interest in medicine, psychology and theology. It was this interest that prompted him to seek a way to heal himself and others using the laying on of hands. It was his desire to find a method of healing that was unattached to any specific religion and religious belief, so that his system would be accessible to everyone.
Usui traveled a great deal during his lifetime. He studied healing systems of all types and held different professions including reporter, secretary, missionary, public servant and guard. Sometime during his years of training in the monastery, Dr. Usui attended his own training rediscovery course in a cave on Mount Kurama. For 21 days, Dr. Usui fasted, meditated and prayed. On the morning of the twenty-first day, Dr. Usui experienced an event that would change his life forever.
He saw ancient Sanskrit symbols that helped him develop the system of healing he had been struggling to invent. Usui Reiki was born. After his spiritual awakening on Mount Kurama, Dr. Usui established a clinic for healing and teaching in Kyoto. As the practice of Usui Reiki was spreading, Dr.
Usui became known for his healing practice. The excitement Usui Sensei was filled with led him to run down the mountain where he met with his Zen master to share his good fortune. On the way down the mountain, he tripped on a rock and placed his hands over his toe as anyone would in response to the pain.
But, when he did this, he realize healing energy flowed through his hands all on its own. He was amazed that the pain instantly disappeared from his toe and it was healed. He later opened a Reiki clinic where he gave treatments and taught classes.
Over time, Usui Sensei developed a system of healing, mostly after when the Great Kanto earthquake and tsunami left many people in Tokyo injured. Due to the number of people in need of help, Usui Sensei chose to share his healing methods with other teachers. This was when Usui Sensei developed Gassho, Byosen scanning, Gyoshi ho, Reiji-ho, Seishin-to-itsu, and many of his other practitioner techniques.
This was also when he developed his formal attunement method, which he called Reiju kai. This made it easier for other people to learn the Reiki system and become teachers themselves. Usui Sensei only had three symbols there was no Master symbol.
The third degree was known as Shinpiden Mystery Teaching , which is what those in the Western world call the Master level. This level includes Shihan-Kaku assistant teacher and Shihan venerable teacher. The Japanese government soon issued him the Kun San To award for his honorable work.
However, in while traveling to Fukuyama, he died from a stroke. Ushida who had been trained by Usui Sensei took over as the president of the society and was responsible for erecting the Usui Memorial. Ushida was later followed by: Mr. Ilichi Taketomi, Mr. Yoshiharu Watanabe, Mr. Toyoichi Wanami and Ms. Kimiko Koyama. The current successor to Usui Sensei is Mr. Mahayoshi Kondo, who became president in The society simply has the succession of presidents listed above.
Chujiro Hayashi Prior to his passing, Usui Sensei asked Chujiro Hayashi Sensei to open a clinic and expand and develop the Reiki system further using his own experience as a medical doctor in the Navy.
Hayashi Sensei was very motivated by his request and soon opened Hayashi Reiki Kenkyukai Institute , a school and clinic. Located in Tokyo, Hayashi Sensei kept careful records at his clinic that detailed the illnesses and conditions of each of his patients. He also recorded what hand positions worked best to treat the different conditions and illnesses. This became a class manual that he gave to his students, but the handbook was only used if Byosen scanning was not able to find the best hand positions to use.
Hayashi Sensei made some changes to the way Usui Sensei had done Reiki treatments. While Usui Sensei had one person sit in a chair and receive treatment from one practitioner, Hayashi Sensei had them lie down so they could receive treatment from multiple practitioners at once. He also made a new and more effective attunement system and increased the value his students received while traveling by using a new method of teaching.
Hayashi Sensei encouraged students to continue receiving Reiju regularly from their local teacher or Shihan to refine the quality of the Reiki energy they were channeling. At that time, the Japanese military asked him to give them information about the location of military targets and warehouses in Honolulu. He refused and the Japanese government declared him a traitor. This meant that he and his family would be ostracized from Japanese society and be disgraced by others. In his mind, the only solution was seppuku ritual suicide.
He died honorably in May No one was in succession to take over the position so the clinic met its end. After being widowed in , Mrs. Takata was alone to raise two children. On the morning of the 21st day, Dr. Usui was beginning to become frustrated with his situation. As he was about to give up and leave, that a great spiritual energy came down into the top of his head and he became enlightened. The energy also bought with it Reiki Ryoho, which is the ability to heal.
Usui returned to his monastery but decided after a few days to go to a beggar city, in the slums of Kyoto, to treat beggars and help them lead a better life. He spent 7 years in the slums, treating many illnesses. However, he noticed that the same individuals were returning. When he asked one of them why they had not started a new life he was told that it was much easier to go on begging than carry the responsibility of starting over. For Usui, reiki was a spiritual practice — an opportunity for each person to awaken their true nature.
He adjusted the teachings to each students. Some students would have received symbols to study and chant, others may have be given the task of contemplating a reiki principles etc.
He became a student of Usui in May and is one of the twenty one teacher students of Usui. He was a retired Naval Officer and surgeon and he studied with Usui for 10 months before Usui died in March
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