We live in a culture that constantly pulls our attention outward. Notifications, noise, urgency, overstimulation — many people move through daily life without ever fully settling into themselves. Over time, this can create a feeling of internal distance. It’s not necessarily a dramatic disconnection, but a subtle one. A feeling of being constantly “on,” mentally…
One of the strange things about Mount Kurama is that almost nothing on the mountain mentions Reiki. People arrive expecting otherwise. After all, this is the mountain associated with Mikao Usui’s retreat in 1922. Reiki practitioners come from all over the world imagining there will be giant monuments, museums, sacred markers, or at least signs…
There is a quiet problem in modern Reiki practice. Most people learn techniques. They learn hand positions, symbols, and ways of treating others. But the foundation of the system is often unclear. Practice becomes inconsistent. Understanding remains partial. Over time, many practitioners feel that something is missing, even if they cannot name it. What is…
Most Reiki practitioners have never trained the way Usui intended. They place their hands. They learn techniques. They may even teach. But the disciplined structure that shaped perception, conduct, and stability in early Reiki training is largely absent from modern practice. In Usui’s system, training was not built around a single method, but around a…
As Koshin Reiki began to take form and the website came together, it became clear that something essential was missing. It wasn’t a logo or branding. What was needed was a seal, a hanko to represent Koshin no Michi, the path of Koshin Reiki. At the same time, I knew I needed a personal seal as…
A New Book A new book has been published today: Koshin Reiki: A Complete System of Reiki Practice & Training. This text presents the system of Reiki as it was taught to me by my teacher, John Harvey Gray, and as it has been practiced and carried forward within this lineage. Koshin Reiki is a form…
Clarifying a Common Misunderstanding in Reiki Practice In recent years, some Reiki writers have suggested that the essence of Reiki practice is to “forget the self,” discard all thoughts, and realize that there is no practitioner, no patient, and nothing to give or receive during treatment. According to this interpretation, Reiki is not something we…
Most Reiki practitioners have never been taught Reiki meditation. Even students who have practiced Reiki for years often encounter meditation only as relaxation, visualization, or something optional to do before or after hands-on treatment. Historically, this was not the case. In the earliest structure of Reiki training, meditation was one of the primary ways students…
Most Reiki practitioners spend years studying techniques, hand positions, and symbols. What many never encounter is the one document in which Mikao Usui explained Reiki in his own words. That document is called Kokai Denju Setsumei. It is the only written teaching left by Usui. While Reiki training was transmitted directly through practice, initiation, and…
Most of us assume time moves like a river, the past flowing behind us and the future approaching. But if we examine our own experience carefully, we see something different. When you regret the past, you are not entering the past. You are activating memory. When you worry about the future, you are not entering…