What is 靈氣 REIKI
WHAT’S THERE NOT TO LOVE ABOUT REIKI?
Reiki is a powerful form of spiritual and energetic hands-on healing that originated in Japan and promotes deep relaxation and transformation. Since leaving its ancestral homelands, this practice — offered through light touch, hands hovering just above the body, or across any distance at all — has grown to more than a million practitioners worldwide.
For me, whether I'm serving as a conduit on behalf of my client or receiving it myself, I'm always amazed and grateful for how relaxed and yummy I feel after a Reiki session! Offering a session most often feels like getting one myself, so whichever direction the Reiki is flowing, I come out feeling mighty fine!
So, what is 靈氣 Reiki?
In essence, Reiki is divine Source energy channeled through the practitioner to the client, where it lands like a spark that ignites the client's own natural healing abilities. In this way, the practitioner doesn't do the healing — they assist you in healing yourself.
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Reiki 靈氣 is a Japanese hands-on healing art that supports the body, mind, and spirit in returning to balance.
In 1922, Usui Mikao — known fondly as Usui Sensei — rediscovered this method during a period of fasting, meditation, and austerity practice on Kurama Yama (Mount Kurama) in Japan. There he experienced a profound spiritual revelation that awakened in him the ability to heal. From that awakening came his method: Shin Shin Kaizen Usui Reiki Ryōhō — the Usui Reiki Healing Method for the Improvement of Body and Mind.
The word itself is rich with meaning. Rei 靈 may be understood as sacred, mysterious, or miraculous. Ki 氣 refers to life force, or invisible energy. Together, Reiki can be understood as sacred life force energy, or spiritually guided energy. The word predates Usui Sensei in Japan, where it has long carried associations with sacred presence, numinous atmosphere, and unseen spiritual power.
Japanese author and Reiki Dai-Shihan Masaki Nishina notes that the common Japanese dictionary defines Reiki 靈氣 as "the sacred energy, filling the deep forest."
That definition deeply resonates with STAR NATION REIKI as we began offering our Reiki trainings in the cedar forests and sacred waterways of Mt. Shasta long before reading these very words. Indeed, Mt Shasta serves as an ideal training ground for those who want to learn the ways of Reiki 靈氣.
At its essence, Reiki is both a healing practice and a spiritual path. It invites the body into deep relaxation — stress softens, the nervous system settles, and the body's own healing intelligence awakens. Most people leave a session feeling lighter, calmer, and more connected to themselves.
In a world that so often overwhelms the spirit, Reiki 靈氣 offers something simple and profound: a return to stillness, to balance, to self.
And finally, from the Kālāma Sutta, in which Shakyamuni Buddha counsels a village of people bewildered by competing teachers:
“Kālāmas, do not accept a thing merely because you have heard it, or because it has been handed down, or because everyone says so, or because it is written in a revered text, or because it follows logically, or because you have inferred it, or because it seems plausible on its face, or because it agrees with a view you already hold, or because the speaker seems capable, or because the teacher is your own. But when you know for yourselves — these things are wholesome, these things are blameless, these things are praised by the wise, and when taken up and practiced they lead to welfare and to happiness — then take them up, and live by them.”
— Aṅguttara Nikāya 3.65
That said… I suspect Shakyamuni Buddha would insist you give Reiki a twirl and find out for yourself.
