Adding Helpful Techniques and Understanding to Your Reiki Healing Practice

The Buddhist Meditation Method of Tong-lin

The natural healing method known in the West as Reiki (more popularly in Japan as Reiki Ryoho) is a paradoxically powerful yet gentle method that promotes deep healing, allowing the mental and emotional resistances to lessen, facilitating healing. This happens both in the form of self-healing and with the introduction of this Divine energy (from God, Source, Spirit) that stimulates healing on whichever (or all) level needs healing most immediately: Spiritual, Mental, Emotional, Physical.

Reiki practitioners throughout the West have known of the many add-on techniques that are in common use today. Of course change never arrives without controversy. How true should one stay to Usui-sensai's teachings and practice methods vs. May we find it acceptable to use methods brought into the Reiki sphere since Usui's death. This high road of dismissing any add-ons is with a comfortable dismissal of the fact that the attunements we give and receive here in the west are not at all what Usui would practiced. What we consider an attunement has reportedly been, to some extent, based on Chujiro Hayashi's own attunement, or reiju, method, which is really quite effective. In other words, change has taken place regardless the intent to stay traditional. Personally, I have vacillated back and forth between the two camps, but never to an extreme. Finding the middle way, I practice as closely to Usui's methodology as possible, always led with compassion, intention, and intuition, but I have tried many add-on methods, at times dismissing some as bringing nothing to my healing table, other times creating a permanent spot for tools like using the Hui Yin contraction and violet breath when passing on attunements.

I have also explored, intuitively, how my natural predisposition to Buddhist practices plays a role on my Reiki practice when I am in session with a client. That is how I came upon using the method I will discuss here.