Four Aspects
Healing Practice, Personal Development, Spiritual
Discipline, and Mystic Order.
Healing Practice
The basic practice of Usui Shiki Ryoho is self-treatment,
the placement of the student’s hands on their own
body daily for a few minutes or up to a full treatment
which may take an hour or more. In addition, when
the student is called to do so, the treatment of family
and friends and receiving treatments from someone
else stimulates the student’s practice through the
reception of impulses and events that happen during
the treatments. The more practice the student
engages in, the more obvious is the healing that takes
place overall.
Personal Development
The practice of Reiki touches and nourishes
the core of our being and encourages the
student in their human development. It can
begin with something as simple as becoming
more sensitive to what the body needs
nutritionally, changing the diet and the way of
eating. Changes also happen through
uncovering and healing repressed emotional
trauma, awakening to personal innate gifts,
deepening the capacity for nourishing
relationship, or finding and developing work
that is the truest expression of the student’s
authentic self. All this is not without pain and
discomfort but with Reiki, the student also
has the ability to be deeply comforted and
create a deep trust for the process of life.
Spiritual Discipline
This expression refers to the common
experience of a student when initiated into
the practice. “I feel like I have come home.”
These students are not referring to a building
but to a place within themselves called spirit,
the non physical aspect of being human. We
are often taught to dismiss nourishing this
“home” and therefore come to Reiki practice
disconnected or unconscious about the
importance of our spirit self.
The practice asks each student to choose
several times a day between the “way I have
been” and the “way that serves my whole self,
spirit and physical body.” These decisions
require inner discipline.
The question of our meaning and purpose as
human beings is addressed during our
practice. What is it that ultimately brings
happiness and fulfillment? This question is
addressed by all the world’s religions,
philosophies, and spiritual traditions. The
practice of Usui Shiki Ryoho awakens in the
student greater awareness and experience of
their spiritual essence, guiding the unfolding
of the authentic self. This question and
others that arise in the student are addressed
through daily life experiences and the
stronger connection with one’s spirituality.
Mystic Order
For us at this time the definition of Mystic
Order is a group of people who share a
common practice that brings them through
experience to a reality beyond the realm of
the five senses. Though the practice of Reiki
employs the sense of touch, the quality of
that touch can take us into the realm of union
and communion with self, others, and the
essence of life. Students experience directly
through practice the interconnectedness of
being and awaken to the experience of a
much greater reality beyond what is known.
At the time of this writing, the OGM does not
actually know what this can include because
we feel we are not ready to delve into the
study of this aspect.