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"In the late 1800's, a Japanese scholar named Mikao Usui undertook an extensive study of healing phenomena as brought forth through history's greatest spiritual leaders. " And through his studies he developed (or some say rediscovered) the healing modality he came to call Reiki. The popularized form of Reiki is a lineage taught to Mrs. Hawayo Takata by Dr. Chujiro Hayashi. However Hayashi had other students. "Reiki Jin Kei Do, another lineage of Reiki, progressed from Dr. Hayashi to Sensei Takeuchi, a Zen monk, and then to one of his students, Seiji Takamori. All these Reiki Masters received the empowerments and meditations originally transmitted by Mikao Usui. Takamori, born in 1907, became a monk and a Reiki Master under Takeuchi. He felt a deep desire to search for the origins of Reiki, so he embarked on a 20 year journey to India, Nepal, and Tibet. After a long search, he found a few monks belonging to a special sect who practiced the Buddho System of Healing, a method similar but more complete than Reiki.... "

Reiki is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing. It is administered by "laying on hands" and is based on the idea that an unseen "life force energy" flows through us and is what causes us to be alive. If one's "life force energy" is low, then we are more likely to get sick or feel stress, and if it is high, we are more capable of being happy and healthy.

The word Reiki is made of two Japanese words - Rei which means "God's Wisdom or the Higher Power" and Ki which is "life force energy". So Reiki is actually "spiritually guided life force energy."