Reiki and your relationship with YOU!

Reiki is perhaps best known for its spectacular success in alleviating a wide range of ailments, but it is also the perfect tool for personal development.

Dr. Usui, who rediscovered the original system placed equal emphasis on personal growth and development. To develop healing skills meant you also had to develop a better understanding of yourself! Regular self treatment, such as you learn when you take the first degree attunement is a very important initial step in this direction. Taking time to 'Reiki' yourself regularly, helps maintain your body in a state of health and harmony. Its a way of life! Used regularly it effectively can put us back in charge of our lives!

As our sensitivity to the energy grows, Reiki teaches us that we are much more than just our physical bodies. We are a whole body system, and that our thoughts, feelings and any unaddressed issues can have a vaste impact on our body. Healing and self development work side by side. To understand yourself fully is to live in perfect health and harmony both with yourself and your surroundings.

Reiki puts you back in touch with you!

Most people remark just how much more alive they feel after taking Reiki training, or receiving treatments. Not only are they happier, but more energised as well. The relationhip you have with yourself is extremely important, and becomes increasingly so if you choose to study Reiki at a higher level, i.e from second degree upwards. This is why a lot of emphasis is placed on the what is called the hara in the martial arts, but tanden in Reiki tradition, situated just below the navel, the place of self-empowerment.

Reiki is the gentle way to self-empowerment

Reiki energy is life-enhancing!

It helps us to make peace with ourselves
by connecting with the Source of our Being;
teaches us to live in love not fear!,
and become the person we are intended to become
in order to fulfill our life's purpose!


Below is a copy of Nelson Mandela's beautiful inaugural speech given in l994, which says it all!

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate,
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us,
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, talented and fabulous.
Actually, who are we not to be.


You are a child of God
Your playing small doesn't serve the world
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that
other people won't feel insecure around you
We were born to make manifest the glory
of God that is within us
It is not just in some of us: It's in everyone
And as we let our own light shine
We unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same


And as we are liberate from our fears
Our presence automatically liberates others!


Through the gentle art of Reiki, we come to love and respect ourselves at a far deeper level. Because Reiki works with the whole body system, i.e. the physical, emotional, mental as well as spiritual bodies, it asked us to look at aspects we would far rather forget all about, by putting the saucepan lid on. That's not very healthy, and can create disease. As Mandela says, there's nothing enlightening about shrinking away from the world, yet this is what we frequently all do.

Self empowerment means coming into better relationship with yourself! How can we do that if we are trying to run away from ourselves all the time? Putting the saucepan lid on what we regard as unpleasant thoughts and feelings dampens us down. Think about all the energy we are using just by trying to keep the lid on things No wonder we spend so much time feeling lethargic.

Reiki teaches us that the path is self-empowerment through self-acceptance, learning to love, rather than fear ourselves. Reiki teaches us to move towards life, rather than away from it, to come into better relationship with outselves, by letting our own light shine to its fullest extent!