Capucine
Jan 24, 20223 min
When you joined this class, you might have went through this article & threads on my socials about the class being deconstructed from Japanese Reiki & Western Reiki.
Why?
After months of research about Reiki, its true origin, outside of what I've been taught by my Reiki Teachers (that are Western Reiki teachers), I read from Japanese Reiki Teachers to know more about the origin of the practice.
It was pretty heart shattering to discover I had been taught wrong, and that I had been repeating those wrong things.
I don't want to further that.
Reiki is the most known name for a energy healing modality.
As I've made it clear, this class is about energy healing with a focus on self healing, but it doesn't follow the program of Western Reiki that is erroneous, and Japanese Reiki that is just not mine to share.
This energy you have within belongs to everyone, is within everyone's hands. We all have this ability. This class is a container to train you, and allow you to discover all the alleys a practice could take you to.
Stories of energy healing exist within every part of the world. The word mesmerizing comes from a man practicing energy healing in Europe in the 18th century.
It's been documented everywhere, the name that stuck is Reiki though.
Wherever you come from, you belong to this practice.
That's what this class is about.
In an era of cultural appropriation, I wanted to show you energy healing without the scope that Western Reiki has created.
Yes, it might have been full of good intentions and has participated in allowing this ability to become a part of the mainstream in ways it never had - but does it make it correct?
So far, we spent 30 days practicing this universal life force healing, honing on your connection to your abilities, trying many many different approaches to you connecting to this energy within and outside of you.
Western Reiki is taught in levels. This implies a hierarchy. It leads to comparing ourselves to a scale we can only fathom. It distorts the message of reiki: a daily practice, no matter the "level" and a true connection and embodiment of its values. (More on that later).
It takes it away from what I've found is true : daily practice is what continues to further your connection, cleaning your channel, making your life a collaboration with energy, your intuition, your healing abilities as well as your other psychic abilities.
Western Reiki teaches symbols in Level 2, they are *supposedly* more powerful to channel Reiki, and people grab unto them as if it was *THE* door to channeling reiki.
Reiki teachers enforce the idea that the drawing of those symbols plus repeating its name three times will do what the symbols is deemed to do.
(The symbols are Kanji, meaning Japanese Calligraphy plus those sounds that are spoken out loud are Japanese names)
People will draw those & think Reiki has been channeled & facilitated when they haven't spent the time to truly connect, receive, listen & play with the energy.
Because they've been taught to.
Some of those symbols are also found in the Japanese original Reiki practices, but in very different ways.
Plus I've found that their names & meaning are wrong in most Western books about Reiki.
In the next days, I'm going to teach you how to connect to symbols, I'll show you the Japanese symbols and how to use them with the disclaimer of not falling to foregoing the real practice & how to witness your own set of symbols if you want to create visual shapes that could contain Reiki.