There was a technique I remember seeing in The Original Reiki Handbook of Dr Mikao Usui By Frank Arjava Petter a long time ago. I don't have the book with me anymore and don't believe a specific name was given to the technique within the book itself (might have overlooked it though).

There is a picture of Mr. Petter with the non-dominant hand palm up, all fingertips coming together. The other hand brings together the tips of the thumb, middle, and ring fingers only. I believe the former is to draw in energy and the later to apply it. It was described in the book, I believe, as directing it with laser-like focus.

Does anyone know the name of this specific technique?

Thanks in advance.

arggh, for pete's sake! I used the technique a few years ago breifly. I can't recall the name either. It's said to pinpoint Reiki more precisely as you said.

check page 103 'japanese art of Reiki' by the steines's. pic in there.

I'll check the manual if i sitl have it of th ecourse i done where i learnt it. I beleive the tutor was infleunced by hiroshi doi, steines, etc.

take care
Wayne

Hi Wabi sabi..it is mentioned on p25-26 of that book..though not given an actual name there ..It says: "one Japanese reiki school teaches that Dr.Usui received the reiki energy with his left hand and passed it on with his right hand.He is said to have brought the fingertips of his left hand together with his the thumb, as if he were holding a raw egg. The fingertips of the middle finger and ring finger of the right hand are said to have touched the tip of the right thumb. The little finger and the index finger were said to have stood away from the middle and the ring finger at a ninety-degree angle. My old friend and Reiki teacher Agehanand Popad told me that he was treated in exactly this same way by an Indian faith healer. In our experience, the Reiki energy given off in such a manner becomes a laser beam that has a very intensive effect on a small area of the body, such as a tooth or an acupuncture point.

Hi Wabi

Here is the version of this technique, which I was taught at a Petter-influenced Japanese Reiki Techniques course (it was just called Usui's Mudra Technique), with extra notes from my own research. The mudra itself has many similarities to Tar Jani mudra, which is used for protection against negative or unwanted influences/energies.

Usui is said to have used this mudra in the client's energy field to bring in more energy to areas that he felt needed it. This was done after scanning the whole body of the client so it would be used in any imbalanced areas discovered during the scan.

When using the mudra in this way, the left hand is used to "collect" the energy by holding the palm towards you and bending the fingertips to meet the thumb, pointing upwards.

4.1) Breathe in through nose and feel the energy flow down the centre of your body and then to the fingertips of your left hand.
4.2) Picture a ball of light on the fingertips of the left hand.
4.3) As you continue to inhale, the ball of energy gets brighter.
4.4) Transfer the energy from the ball to the client's energy field on the outbreath, through the mudra held in the right hand.
4.5) Picture the ball in the left hand growing dimmer as the energy is transferred.
4.6) Continue this procedure over a particular area until you feel ready to move on.

The above mudra is described by Frank Petter in the Usui handbook but more recent information from Hiroshi Doi says that the old form used by the Gakkai had the middle two fingers bent at right angles to the palm to give the Reiki and the thumb, index and little fingers to radiate away negative energy. Some now also add the index finger to give Reiki, with just the thumb and little finger as radiators. Use of the mudra is good for small areas such as a tooth or acupuncture point. Its effect is to concentrate the energy in a small area and is sometimes called the laser finger technique.

Here is a photo of Kwan Yin/Kannon holding the Tar Jani Mudra:


Ai to Hikari
Colin

Thank you everyone.

Hopefully I'll be able to get my hands on the book again... unfortunately I had to leave most of belongings behind.

I'm glad to know I wasn't just being forgetful though.

My old friend and Reiki teacher Agehanand Popad told me that he was treated in exactly this same way by an Indian faith healer.

It's interesting because it reminded me more of pranic healing than of Reiki.

Here is a photo of Kwan Yin/Kannon holding the Tar Jani Mudra:

And thank you for mentioning all of this, Colin; Now I'm even more interested..

I got the manual, in which it was taught. The author does say it came from arjava. The author calls it the 'lazer beam technique'.

It's claimed to be from a Japanese Reiki stream sperate from the Gakkai. i'm pointing something out here, Arjava is a jikiden guy now, could this be what he means. Colin, are you permitted to say? It's be a shoden/okuden technique.

Also, Arjava is meant to have said a holy man in India has been seen using it for toothache. Perhaps this is Osho he speaks of? Arjava was with Osho.

I can give you the manual if you wish Wabi, but must ask it not to be freely gave. I'm teacher level in this style, and have permission to share the authors material, by him. It's his livelehood though, and i prefer the manual not to be made public record, by my actions, .

take care
Wayne

Milarepa wrote:

It's claimed to be from a Japanese Reiki stream sperate from the Gakkai. i'm pointing something out here, Arjava is a jikiden guy now, could this be what he means. Colin, are you permitted to say? It's be a shoden/okuden technique.

All I can say is I didn't learn this technique in Jikiden Shoden or Okuden



Ai to Hikari
Colin

. thnakyou.

namaste,

i have been using this technique for a long time. the left hand is held in a pyramid form. the finger tips of the thumb,the middle finger and the ringed finger are held together. the first finger and the little finger are held straight. you can focus the energy receiving at a point. and while giving it the same method can be applied but with the right hand.

the left arm, with the hand in such a position can be pointed towards the sky or the air or the ground depending upon energy required from these elements which your intuition tells you.

i call it a pyramid position of the hands to focus receiving of energy and focusing giving of energy to a particular point. did not know it had a name. thanks for the information.
renu

I was taught as laser coning technique also, hihiii

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fshortt wrote:I was taught as laser coning technique also, hihiii

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What is that

it´s just a different use of the hand while healing - instead of the palm, you put your fingers together and create a narrow beam, hence the attached nickname "laser coning"

It looks like chakra finger positions

it is known by many names hiihi

lovely and insightful !

I didn't know reiki guys need to focus energy through a specific hand gesture.... It speaks to me more like a qi-gong instead of a reiki technique.... In quantum touch, we use a variant of this technique to help energy boost by concentrating on specific focal point....


An interesting thing which i instantly gathered though! The left hand is to collect energy n this technique..... During treatments, i undoubtfully felt that my left hand 'emits' stronger energy than right hand, but i didn't find a logic for that to myself....

I am in the process of learning it deep, but my intuition suggests to me that, within reiki, our hands do not 'emit' any energy rather they seem to be a focussing device to direct a command within the receipient's body... Lets say, for example, i m treating a person for toothache, when i reiki his jaws, i m actually commanding that area to emit reiki... My hands didn't transfer any energy, but only a command, some signals! And that too metaphysically... Touching patients' body is not for the benefit of the patient, but for the practitioner, since he can sense when to move hands to next position....


Maybe, by nature, human mind accepts the possibility of a physical link more comfortably than invisible link.... Lets put this to a test.... When you treat some friend next time, make a little experiment.... Dont place hands direct on the area in problem, place it elsewhere... And then command the problem area (in mind) to generate reiki, and in time, the person says, yo! My pain is gone


Floated these thoughts just to revive the 'out of box' climate of this forum

Take care

Salman