by Kevin Emery

Created on: January 20, 2009

Reiki: Is Something Missing?

How could anyone "lose" steps in Reiki? Isn't Reiki channeling the universal life force energy? What is there to lose?

Quite a bit, we are just finding out.

There has always been some conjecture that the woman who brought Reiki into this country, Mrs. Takata, was not given all the steps. Some people believe that's because she was a woman.

In this case, conjecture is irrelevant. Even the material that Dr. Usui discovered was only part of the information on how to practice what we now call Reiki.

The "lost" information has come back to us through channeling. We were contacted by an elderly gentleman - 5,000 years old, give or take a few years - who calls himself Wei Chi. He began channeling through me some years ago.

One of the first things he told us was "Reiki, as it has come into this culture, has gone the way of McDonalds." In America, Reiki has become the "quick fix" eastern healing art.

Before you cut this article out, put it on a dartboard and begin warm-up throws, please read on.

Did you ever feel as though there was something more to Reiki than what you were taught? You aren't alone.

We've talked with many people, from Reiki I graduates to Reiki Masters, both alliance and non-alliance. Among them, we've found a general sense that something was missing from Reiki.

Reiki has lacked the feeling
of more holistic and cause-oriented types of healing. In some ways, it's been missing something that's experienced in other Eastern healing arts, and some Pagan healing procedures.

Too often, Reiki may seem like a "take two aspirins and call me in the morning" approach.

Before you object, think about this. Let's say you are with a group of people who are Reiki practitioners and someone has a headache. How many jump to give a little "all natural cure" with those hot-to-trot Reiki hands?

Experienced Reiki practitioners may laugh, but you know it's true. Reiki rarely addresses why the person needed to manifest the headache or what its non-physical cause might be.

We are not denigrating the current Reiki system in any way. Traditional Reiki has a powerful energy of its own. It has a profound ability to promote relaxation, stress reduction and passive healing. It promotes a generalized feeling of well being.

Those are key element in healing. In fact, most healing cannot take place without it.

However, according to Wei Chi, Reiki was originally a four-step process of healing through self-empowerment. In addition to the steps of traditional Reiki, Wei Chi talks

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