Usui Shiki Ryoho can be translated as “Usui’s Natural Healing System”. It was founded in the early 1900s by Dr Mikao Usui. This system includes connecting, relating and related applications with high frequency natural energies.
First Years
Usui-Sensei was born on August 15, 1865. In the mid-19th century, he presided over Christian seminaries in Kyoto, Japan. As with any great leader’s story, legends tell many different stories. According to the stories, during a seminar, one of his students asked how Jesus was able to heal and perform miracles. While they were taught how to pray for healing, they were not taught how to heal like Jesus. This question aroused the curiosity of Dr. Usui, and he quit his job and started looking for an answer. This 10-year adventure took him to America, the Far East, India and eventually Tibet. Here he read in the ancient Sutras the formulas and all the explanations of the healings of the Buddha in his time and how they can be passed from person to person. Dr. Usui was thrilled with what he found, but academic knowledge alone was not enough. He still didn’t have the strength to dispense healing.
First Initiation and Effects
After speaking with the monk at the Buddhist monastery where he found these ancient documents, he went to the nearby Holy Mountain, fasting, praying and meditating for 21 days. On the 21st day, a bright light came from heaven and struck his forehead, filling him with strength and vitality. The weakness and stiffness in his body from long periods of fasting and meditation disappeared. In quick succession, he saw symbols he’d come across in ancient texts as they glowed in bubbles of energy. These symbols were engraved in his mind and activated, thus providing access to the Universal Life Force.
While descending the mountain, he fell on the road and seriously injured his hand. He tried his new powers, and found that they worked instantly. After 21 days, he stopped at an inn to have his first meal. Here he cured the innkeeper’s daughter’s severe toothache. When he returned to the Buddhist monastery, he found his friend, the monk, bedridden with arthritis. Once again, Dr. Usui relieved his friend’s pain with this newfound information. They discussed the best uses of this knowledge together.
Implementation
Dr. Usui decided to help the beggars in the slums of Kyoto. He has helped many people in their long hours of work and has witnessed wonderful results. So he understood how REIKI flows from his body to another body and how the body heals. He also saw how people who had recovered in his years of work returned to begging, saying “begging is easier”. He saw that sharing REIKI heals people, but they can only receive healing as much as they can accept it. He expected no response and no responsibility from the healer. No Energy Exchanges were requested. People did not value the gift given to them, health and wellness. It was a new vision and took the general principles of REIKI.
He began to wander the streets of Kyoto city with a torch in his hand. When someone asked why, he would say that he was looking for people whose hearts were completely filled with love, but instead filled with sadness and grief because the true light that had to be healed with longing was unknown. He invited everyone to know and learn REIKI. Dr.Usui has taught REIKI in Japan for many years. Before he died in the late 1920s, he handed over the position of Grand Master to Dr. Chujiro Hayashi, a former navy officer and his most devoted student. Dr. Hayashi established the first REIKI clinic in Tokyo. He also systematized REIKI trainings. He searched for suitable forms for their optimal treatment and reported their REIKI experience.
Reiki after Dr.Mikao Usui
Madam Hawayo Takata got rid of her illnesses thanks to REIKI and she decided to study, but at that time women were not accepted as students. Dr. He tried hard to persuade Hayashi and eventually received training and Initiation up to Level 2. Higher levels were out of the question. After her successful training, she returned to Hawaii and began to practice her own. In 1938, when the war was at the door, Dr. Hayashi realized what was happening. The REIKI teaching was dying and had to be passed on to other countries. He came to Hawaii to meet Madam Takata, training at the latest level, making her a Grand Master. She returned to Japan, refusing to take part in the war, and she retreated into seclusion. After that, all contact with what happened to REIKI in Japan was lost. Madame Takata became the 20th century’s GrandMaster and America’s first. Until the end of the 1970s, REIKI taught and trained many people. When he died in 1980, he succeeded 22 masters and his granddaughter, Phylliss Furumoto, as GrandMaster. Since those days, the number of masters has increased and REIKI has become a well-known and accepted healing method all over the world.
Although there are several types of Reiki practice today, Usui/Holy Fire®/Reiki is one of the most powerful.