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Introduction
The touch of a hand is increasingly recognized as being important, but it’s also absent in much of modern medicine. Reiki as a complementary therapy provides the soothing comfort of human touch. This can make a world of difference to someone in pain. Reiki is the energy of love that never ends. You can experience the bliss of Reiki as a recipient and receive healing that’s transmitted through another person. Or you can learn Reiki yourself to boost your personal growth and enlightenment.
Reiki has grown in popularity as more people seek solutions to personal and global problems. The person to thank for the Reiki healing system is a Japanese man named Mikao Usui (1865–1926). He developed the original Reiki system that has blossomed into a multitude of worldwide branches. What unites the Reiki systems is the essence of the Reiki life-force energy.
Reiki connects you with the ultimate source of healing at all levels. If you desire peace, consciousness, healing, or enlightenment, Reiki is for you.
About This Book
Reiki may not seem like a down-to-earth subject, but this is a down-to-earth book about Reiki. The open-access style of the For Dummies series makes this comprehensive book on Reiki pleasant to navigate and use.
Reading this book doesn’t make you a Reiki practitioner, but you can use this book as a reference and guide when studying and as you use Reiki in your own life and to help others.
In this second edition, information on the essence of Reiki energy and how to practice and teach it are unchanged. Here’s what’s new or updated:
Finding Reiki organizations and resources
Updating Reiki history
Healing mind, body, and spirit with Reiki
Using Reiki in medical settings and viewing Reiki research studies
Practicing Reiki professionally
Studying and practicing Reiki online
A quick note: Sidebars (shaded boxes of text) dig into the details of a given topic, but they aren’t crucial to understanding it. Feel free to read them or skip them. You can pass over the text accompanied by the Technical Stuff icon, too. The text marked with this icon gives some interesting but nonessential information about Reiki.
One last thing: Within this book, you may note that some web addresses break across two lines of text. If you’re reading this book in print and want to visit one of these web pages, simply key in the web address exactly as it’s noted in the text, pretending as though the line break doesn’t exist. If you’re reading this as an e-book, you’ve got it easy — just click the web address to be taken directly to the web page.
Foolish Assumptions
I assume that you, the reader of this book, fall into at least one of the following categories:
You’re curious to find out more about Reiki.
You’re considering trying Reiki for yourself or a family member.
You’re looking into taking Reiki classes.
You want a book to guide you through classes and the beginning of your Reiki practice.
You might be one of the following:
A skeptic who’s open minded: “I’ll reserve final judgment until I’ve read the book or tried it out.”
A newbie to Reiki: “I want to know more about Reiki. Bring it on.”
A complementary health care practitioner: “I’m open to just about anything. I want to add Reiki to the techniques I already use.”
For you to get the most from this book, I’d like to assume that you’re doing the following:
Keeping an open mind to the possibility that Reiki can help you
Seeing