✋ What is Reiki

Reiki is an energy healing technique developed in Japan by Mikao Usui in the late 1880s. 'Rei' = God's wisdom / higher power. 'Ki' = life force energy. Together: spiritually guided life force energy.

• A safe, natural method of spiritual healing that anyone can benefit from.
• Not a religion. It doesn't require belief — it works either way.
• Comes from Source / Spirit / God / Universe — whichever word feels right to you.
• Went mainstream in the 1980s thanks to Grand Master Tanka bringing it West.

• Just for today, do not anger.
• Just for today, do not worry.
• Be filled with gratitude.
• Devote yourself to your work.
• Be kind to people.
• (Every morning and evening, join your hands in prayer and speak these to your heart.)

• The practitioner transmits Universal Life Force to the client — with intention of deep relaxation, pain relief, and speeding up the body's own healing.
• Your body already knows how to heal. Reiki reminds it.
• In-person: hands on or slightly above the body. Long-distance: sent across time and space as prayer + intention.
• To become a practitioner, you receive an attunement. Second-degree practitioners learn a distance symbol.

• Book with a practitioner you feel drawn to and safe with.
• Use discernment. The mind is powerful — if you believe it won't work, that belief becomes the reality.
• Imagine what humanity could do if we ALL learned how to heal each other with energy.

journal these, voice-memo them, or just sit with them. ♡

1. Which of the 5 principles feels hardest for you right now? Why?
2. Where in your life have you been programmed to believe your body can't heal itself?
3. If you knew Reiki would 'work' with or without your belief, what would you use it for first?

3 quick questions — trust your first instinct.

this lesson is adapted from vy's original writing on vythetruth.com. tap through for the full post + comments.