REIKI INTRO 靈氣介紹

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REIKI

Reiki is a life-force-erengy (aura/qi/ki) comes within the nature in the universe.It flows through all the living things. In 1922, Mikao Usui sensei found Reiki energy while doing self-cultivation on Mount Kurama. Combining all he’s learned and cultivated within the whole life, he founded Usui Reiki, a natural healing therapy that improves health statement of body and mind.

The principle of Reiki is different from Qi-Gong. The Giver is only the pure, clear channel for energy flow. Reiki is not activated by the intention or energy of the Giver. Reiki itself increases the energy level and functioning level of self-healing and self-purification that helps one heal physical body and cleans mental and emotional blockage. Reiki comes from the universe with endless source, so it can be used for a long-time healing session without losing one’s energy. While Giver applying Reiki on others, he/she is also receiving Reiki energy. Because of the two-way effect, it also protects the Giver from receiving negative energy or physical, mental discomfort. This is the main feature of traditional Reiki system passed on from the great Reiki Master, Mikao Usui sensei. Nowadays, Reiki has been used for medical research, even in some medical system. It helps heal the illness caused by emotional, mental disorder or stress. There is even some research showing that Usui Reiki has been used for releasing mental and physical discomfort from the patients. It is markable that Reiki is most valuable medical application in all energy healing therapy.

JIKIDEN REIKI V.S. WESTERN REIKI

Usui Reiki is founded in Japan. In the early age, Hawayo Takata (an Japanes-American lady) invited Chujiro Hayashi (the student of Mikao Usui) to share Reiki in Hawaii after she’s benefitted from Reiki healing treatment and has completed Reiki trainings with Chujiro sensei. Because of her kindness sharing and effort, more and more people are benefited from Reiki. Since then, they have made some seminars and speeches in Hawaii and she's been giving, teaching and sharing Reiki in Hawaii to people from all over the world.

The local Japanese Reiki disappeared after WWII. In the late 1990s, a few Reiki Practitioners (Masters/Teachers) came to Japan and tried to find the root of Reiki. Then they found one of the students of Chujiro Hayashi. Jikiden Reiki is founded by Chiyoko Yamaguchi and her son in Japan. To make a difference, they call the other Reiki system, which has been shared and taught for years, as “Western Reiki”. Both Jikiden Reiki and Western Reiki are inherited from Mikao Usui and Chujiro Hayashi. These two are the most traditional and the main Reiki systems in the world. While Jikiden Reiki keeps traditional Japanese culture and historical faces, Western Reiki combined Chakra theory and have Reiki used in a wilder level in our daily life. Here, we would like to extend the aim of Reiki made by Mikao Usui and Chujiro Hayashi, and share Reiki benefits to more people. Let the world knows the outstanding effects that Reiki works in medical system and alternative medicine.

靈氣

靈氣是大自然間的一股能量（氣），它自由流竄於所有具靈性的生命之間。

1922年臼井甕男在日本京都鞍馬山修行時發現靈氣，融合自身長年所修、所學的一切知識與實際經驗，發展成為改善身、心的一門完整、自然的治療體系。

靈氣與氣功的原理不同。施以者僅是純淨的能量渠道，靈氣不以自身的意念、能量作為啟動療癒的鑰匙，靈氣本身便能提升接受者的自癒力、自然淨化作用，進而達到療癒身體、淨化心靈的功效。靈氣來自於宇宙萬物、天地之間，其能量源源不絕，因此可以進行較長時間的療癒，不會耗損施者個人的能量或氣血，施者在施以靈氣的同時也是在接收靈氣的能量，因此能保護施者與受者雙方不受彼此病氣、能量所影響。此為臼井大師真實傳承之傳統靈氣系統的最大特色。

目前，在歐美各國皆已能見靈氣被納入醫學研究、甚至在醫療體系、醫院中，有專設的科別門診，幫助修復、治療患者所需，範圍包括情緒、壓力所引起的相關失調症與疾病，近期更是有以臼井靈氣幫助癌症病患緩解身心不適的研究報告，可說是在各式能量療法之中，最具臨床實際運用價值者。

直傳靈氣與西洋靈氣的差異

臼井靈氣起源於日本，在早期，由日裔美籍的高田哈瓦優女士(Hawayo Takata)將靈氣帶領至夏威夷，因為她的經驗和熱情，讓更多人受惠於靈氣，後由其及弟子將靈氣自夏威夷傳播至歐美各地，最終盛行於全球，為靈氣的重要推手。

日本本土的靈氣傳承，在二次大戰之後漸漸隱沒。1990年代後期，透過幾名靈氣修習者先後從歐美至日本深入探尋，終於發現在日本本土仍有臼井大師弟子所傳下的靈氣脈絡，而其中一名弟子隨即成立了“直傳靈氣”體系，並將其他傳至海外的靈氣稱之為“西洋靈氣”。兩者皆為臼井大師的傳承，也是最主要、最傳統的靈氣系統。直傳靈氣系統保有日本傳統的習性和歷史的樣貌，西洋靈氣系統多年傳承、經驗豐富，融合人體脈輪並更廣泛地運用靈氣在生活各個層面。Cathy老師希望能延續靈氣療法的傳承，並實踐臼井大師與林忠次郎大師的推廣宗旨，讓世人能認識靈氣、體驗靈氣帶來的好處、了解靈氣療法在醫療(替代醫療)上的卓越功效與優勢。