Reiki, The True Story: An Exploration of Usui Reiki

Reiki, The True Story: An Exploration of Usui Reiki -- By Don Beckett

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Table of Contents:

Foreword by Zeyneb Umit Belbez, MD

Author's Note to the 2009 Edition

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One: The Entrance (Shoden)

  Chapter 1: Beginnings and History

What Is Reiki?
We Are All Healers
Usui Reiki Ryoho

Japan in the 1920s
"A Method to Achieve Personal Perfection"
Mariko's Memories
Three Reiki Students in the Year 2001
The Usui Gakkai

Dr. Chujiro Hayashi
Reiki Goes West: Hawayo Takata

  Chapter 2: Precepts, Concepts, Empowerment

The Reiki Precepts or Concepts
Reiki Empowerment
What Is True Healing?
The Importance of Intent and the Danger of Ego
Different Approaches to Reiki
Degrees or Levels

  Chapter 3: Doing-Without-Doing

Giving Reiki
You Are The Universe!
Treating Others

General Procedure
The Tanden and the One Point
Finding the One Point

Sitting Treatment
Reclining Treatment

Seven Positions
Twelve Positions
Seventeen Positions

Treating Chakras via the Hands

  Chapter 4: Techniques and Training

"Traditional" Usui Techniques

Hand Positions
Byosen Reikan-ho
Reiji-ho
Nentatsu-ho
Jakikiri Joka-ho
Shuchu Reiki
Renzoku Reiki
Reiki Mawashi

Usui Shoden

Kenyoku
Joshin Kokkyu-ho

Hatsurei-ho
An Energy Exercise of My Own
Selecting a Teacher

  Chapter 5: Usui's Benevolence, and the Nature of Reiki

The Usui Memorial
Ki, the Energy of Life

Part Two: The Deep Inside (Okuden)

  Chapter 6: Usui Sensei, Usui Society

Usui's Okuden
The Gakkai's Okuden

Zenki

Hatsurei-ho (generating-spirit method)
Uchite Chiryo-ho (patting-with-hands method)
Oshite Chiryo-ho (pushing-with-fingertips method)
Nadete Chiryo-ho (stroking-with-hands method)
Koki-ho (breathing method) and Gyoshi-ho (gazing method)
Heso Chiryo-ho (navel treatment method)
Tanden Chiryo-ho (de-poisoning technique)

Kuki

Receiving Three Symbols
Seiheki Chiryo-ho (mental technique)
Hanshin Koketsu-ho (half-body blood cleansing)
Zenshin Koketsu-ho (full-body blood cleansing)
Enkaku Chiryo-ho (distant healing)

Emails from Dave King

  Chapter 7: Symbols and Kotodama

The Inner Aspects
Reiki Symbols

Tatsumi's Version
Hiroshi Doi's Version

Drawing the Symbols

Cho Ku Rei
Sei He Ki
Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen

Reiki Kotodama

Kotodama Pronunciation
How to Make the Sounds

Using Kotodama and/or Symbols

Other Effects
The Legacy of the Symbols

  Chapter 8: More Techniques, and Usui Contemporaries

Distant Treatment
Asking Permission
Usui Stone Method
Usui Contemporaries

Jigoro Kano
Omoto Kyo, the Deguchis, Mokichi Okada and Johrei

Part Three: The Mystery (Shinpiden)

  Chapter 9: Great Bright Light

Dai Ko Myo
Usui's Master Level

Empowerment Symbol and Kotodama
Drawing the Symbol

What Really Happens in a Reiki Empowerment?
Empowerment Procedures

Usui Reiju
Using Reiju at Each Level
My Own Variation
"Distant" Reiju

"Healing" Attunements

  Chapter 10: Alternative Energies

Energy Concepts

The Chinese System
What about the Greeks?
My Own System

"You Are The Universe!' - An Empowerment
Reiki and Theta Waves

How to Achieve Theta

Heal Yourself, Heal the World!

All Hands Report for Duty!

Part Four: Beyond Reiki

  Chapter 11: Johrei

Purifying Spirit
Johrei Energy

  Chapter 12: Other Voices, Other Rooms

Glossary

Notes

Index

About the Author

Events

Reiki, The True Story: An Exploration of Usui Reiki
by Don Beckett
published by Frog Books (a division of North Atlantic Books)
Paperback / 229 pages / April 2009