Most modern presentations of Reiki focus primarily on healing techniques. Students learn hand positions and treatment methods, but the larger structure of Mikao Usui’s training system is rarely explained.

Usui Reiki Ryoho was not designed as a single healing technique. It was a disciplined path of practice in which healing work and personal cultivation developed together.

Three core disciplines form the foundation of this training:

• • • The Reiki Precepts
    • Reiki Meditation
    • Cultivation of kokoro

Together these practices gradually steady the practitioner so Reiki can function naturally and without interference.

Student Resources

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Reiki Self Treatment

Cultivating Kokoro

Guided Reiki Meditation

Learn the Reiki Precepts

Guided Reiki Precepts Practice

Chair Reiki Treatment

Holding a Reiki Circle

The Reiki Precepts form the ethical and psychological training of Usui’s system. Practiced daily, they gradually reduce anger, worry, and other disturbances that interfere with clarity.

Reiki meditation stabilizes the body and mind so the practitioner becomes receptive to Reiki. Through regular practice the hands become naturally responsive and Reiki begins to function without effort.

At the center of Usui’s training was the refinement of kokoro, the integrated condition of the heart-mind. When kokoro becomes steady, Reiki practice becomes steady.

Rather than focusing only on techniques, Usui taught Reiki as a path of self-cultivation in which the practitioner gradually refines the condition of their inner life.

The following books explore the original structure of Usui’s training system and the practices that support long-term development in Reiki.

An exploration of kokoro and the role of personal cultivation in Usui’s system.

A translation of Kokai Denju Setsumei, the only written teaching left by Mikao Usui.

A study of the ethical training of Reiki and the daily discipline of the Five Precepts.

A practical guide to the meditation discipline at the heart of Usui’s Reiki training.

These books form the Right-Minded Reiki Instructional Series, published by the Koshin Reiki Association.

The series examines original teachings of Usui Reiki Ryoho and the practices that support disciplined training in the system.

Reiki becomes deeper and more stable when these disciplines are practiced together.

Meditation steadies the body.
The Precepts clarify conduct.
Cultivation of kokoro refines the practitioner.

Together they form the foundation of Usui’s Reiki system.