Reiki & Spiritual Growth

Another aspect inherent in the practice of Reiki is the awakening of a spiritual practice, an ever-deepening of one's spirituality. We develop a growing sense of ourselves in relationship to All That Is. We experience spiritual purification, a burning away of all that prevents our knowing All That Is. We become aware of the sacred in all aspects of our lives. Students recognize the Usui Reiki System as a valid and whole spiritual discipline when they reach a certain level of maturity with their own practice. Experience with the System has revealed that the practice itself leads to spiritual development.

"Spiritual" is discussed here in the sense that, as human beings, we have a soul, a spirit. In living a spiritual life, we acknowledge our relationship with spirit and its presence in all things. As we become more acquainted with the nuances and qualities of spirit, spirit takes on substance. The consciousness of living this spiritual life emerges as a result of the practice of the Usui System. The contact to spirit is increased by the ritual of initiation and the acts of self treatment and treatment of others.

Through the practice of the Usui Reiki System, humans no longer need to accept spirit as intangible and non-physical. This practice brings the experience of spirit into the physical world and into our essential human-ness.

[Source: Phyllis Lei Furumoto and Paul David Mitchell 1995 revised: June, 1997]