Why This Book?

This book is intended to show what Reiki is, what we can expect from Reiki therapy and some fundamental practices. It is aimed at the person who is curious about the system, for those who are thinking of doing their first level of Reiki therapy or for anyone interested in another point of view about the system.

The contents of the manual are divided into three different areas:

1. Bioenergetic Theory. - What is Reiki, how does it work and what can we expect from it.
2. The context of Ryoho Reiki. - The history of the system, its evolution until today and an overview of its current state.
3. The practice of the first degree of Reiki Ryoho. - An introduction to the basic contents and techniques of the system.

The Bioenergetic Theory chapter is taught with multiple objectives:

1. To offer tools that allow us to understand the disease from a global and integrative point of view, which is addressed in the second module, thus showing the need to give a multiple approach to health care, since health, like illness, is the result of a set of concurrent factors and it is not possible to keep it attending to only one of these factors.
2. Provide attendees with a knowledge base on which to understand the philosophy behind the creation of the system, so that the new practitioner understands all the importance and transcendence of the path to be initiated.
3. Give statements on which to rationalize the operation of Reiki, thus being able to understand and use it properly.

In the context chapter of the Ryoho Reiki, I contribute my particular vision of the current state of practice and the teaching of Ryoho Reiki. Regarding Reiki, I can understand the heterogeneity of the data found today on the subject. The first-degree chapter of Reiki Ryoho is the one that contains the techniques and fundamentals of the healing system through Reiki.

This includes both purely theoretical content, as well as other practical and attitudinal necessary for the use of Reiki with rigor and efficiency. We will pay special attention to recovering as far as possible the Reiki techniques that were originally a fundamental part of the system (meditations and special treatments) and that were lost during the entry of Reiki in the West, possibly retaining its teaching only in the country of origin. From there, we begin to recover them. It will also be a priority to return to these techniques their spiritual background, the engine of their development and the base of their effectiveness, going as far as possible to the original sources that are beginning to arrive today from Japan.

We hope that the data and opinions that I gather in this book will help anyone who reads it to get closer to this therapy and capture all the good that is in it.

Enjoy reading!