A Hope for the Future

In the world wide Reiki community, we are experiencing vast differences in the teaching of form and philosophy. Due in part to the personal interpretation of the oral history of the Usui System, Masters have added or subtracted details at whim or will or with genuine intention. Added to the situation are new books and newly uncovered facts or the sharing of personal guidance and interpretations of hand positions, treatment procedures, and history.

How can we hope to find a true path together with so many different 'kinds' of Reiki?

At a gathering in Wichita, Kansas, USA in the summer of 1998, I proposed we seek HARMONY among all practitioners and Masters. By using this word as an acronym, I offered these thoughts:

HONORING our own path and process with Reiki also invites us to honor the same for others. We each have sought a method by which to bring healing to ourselves and others. No matter how the technique has been taught, our Usui System of Natural Healing came onto the earth plane with the "heightened awareness" of one man, Makao Usui. He gave root to this method and honoring him can be our starting point.

Allowing time for each of us to share what AGREEMENTS we can make about living in the light of Reiki gives us an opportunity to share our stories. There are many different points we can find that are in tune - ideals perhaps, or hope, techniques or hand positions. We can begin to list those elements we can agree on rather than those points on which we each think we have the only truth.

It's time we each became responsible for our own understanding of Reiki in our lives and our relationship to it. It is time for us to take RESPONSIBILITY for any changes we have made; to own them as ours when we teach.

When we stand in the light of Reiki, we are given the gift of experiencing MIND-FULNESS, that unselfconscious attention to our moment to moment existence. In this space, we are just doing what we asked to be taught to do. This mindfulness allows that, as we are doing just this, we are in harmony with all things, and especially each other.

When we can stand in this mindfulness, not just in our practice of Reiki, but also in our lives, we can experience ONENESS, which dissolved differences.

NOURISHING ourselves daily with Reiki can help us choose those actions which will bring nourishment to our system as a whole so that others will feel open to joining us.

Why? Why not ! If and when we can stand in harmony with each other, we can more easily stand in quietness in our places on the web of life so as to promote harmony in our lives, our families, and not just in our Reiki World, but in our Earth bound world as well.

Earlene Gleisner, Reiki Master

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