Sending Remote Reiki

In hands on Reiki training classes, students are usually made to wait a period of time before learning how to send distant treatments.  Today the reasons for this are not clear and vary from teacher to teacher, most of them passing on what they were taught to their own students.  In Dr. Usuis time it seems that his students, who would meet on a regular basis to practice their Self Mastery with Reiki would only embark on sending distant healings when they were familiar enough with the energy to be able to connect with the distant frequency easily.  According to the recent research (and there are many versions of these) Dr Usuis students did not use any symbols to do this.  The meditations that they did, and the practice they did with Dr Usui enabled them to become the energy, which allowed them to access whatever it was that was necessary without having to use external tools to do this.  The story goes that a few students (believed to be colleagues of Dr Hayashi) had difficulty in feeling, or sensing, the energy, and for these few students Dr. Usui devised a method which allowed them to more easily focus on the frequencies needed.  This method was to give them symbols to focus on, which are now seen to be sacred and sometimes even secret, in some quarters in the West today. 

These symbols are known now to have been well known religious symbols in the east, and not, as we were all once told, specific Reiki symbols revealed only to Dr. Usui.  The symbols that came to be known in the west as Usui Reiki symbols can be seen in many places in the eastern world, and are familiar to many Buddhist sects.  

The symbols themselves were apparently never meant to be used in the long-term but were more in the lines of a teaching aid that was supposed to be dropped once the student no longer needed it.  Unfortunately the 4  symbols (and many more since!) are now seen to be powerful in themselves by many schools of Reiki, and the idea that the more symbols you learn, the more powerful you are is now firmly entrenched in many Reikiminds today. 

We will point you to the symbols so that you can see them for yourself (if you havent already)  You can decide for yourself whether you want to use them or not.  Some people find them an encumbrance, and feel that the time taken to draw out the symbols and learn how to say the names is just another time wasting exercise.   Others quite like the security of having a point of focus to use until that time comes  when you realise that you have been sending distant Reiki without using them at all.  Students who learned in traditional Reiki classes tend not to advertise this fact among colleagues! They think they might be seen as lazy or not doing Reiki properly, when in fact this is more properly called evolution!   Whichever way you choose to send distant Reiki, with or without symbols, it will work so feel free to experiment and choose the way that feels best to you.