queen of clean wrote:
politics. politics. politics.
Reiki is love L.O.V.E.

not romantic love ofcourse but... compassion/empathy/respect/dignity/honesty/faith/strength for self, humanity, and all conscious, living, breathing, life forms!!!!!. There is no religion to catch every thing up, religion is for those who need something out side themselves to believe in (no offence intended here)...to make my point I think How many wars have been started through religious beliefs?, terrorism?, lets not let reki start a war because we as a whole cannot accept that reiki just is, it cannot (in my opinion as I have not experienced it personally), make miracles,and no one can fully understand suffering, it is cruel and something most of us can not fully comprehend is this reiki"s fault? religion? God? or other Higher beings? I don't know, I'm not that fully evolved I guess, though I do know about depression and death and that to me is suffering...I take reiki in then and flow with it, no, reiki hasn't cured me of it but it certainly has made me stronger, I go into remission so to speak and I am grateful for that because I have a new understanding of myself each time. All religion has it's core belief that it's followers have in common, but even within all religion you will have individuals who question...How many people do you hear of that change religion to marry into another faith, what do they take with them? do they suddenly drop every ounce of their former religion? or do they adapt and merge the two faiths?
In my opinion Usui took a little of everything learnt during his life and merged it all into reiki, symbols are a focus for those to better understand the energy of reiki, some people are visual, some are, verbal some tactile...I don't always use symbols, sometimes they get in the way, I prefer to just let reiki flow. There is no attatchment as far as I'm concerned, reiki just is

I went through a doubting stage as some might remember my brother in law was dying with cancer I thought that reiki didn't work because he died even after countless distance reiki sent to him but I did'nt stop believing in my self or Steve or the love of his family, reiki held me together to share in this love this strenght to pull every one through, and I believe strogly that even though Steve died his passing was held within the love of his family and he didn't die alone. If Reiki comes with attatchments then let it be that...a strong belief in the power of love and inner strenth...There that's it.

Remember people...love L.O.V.E