You hear it a lot now — that hand placement doesn’t really matter in Reiki, that the energy goes where it’s needed, so you can put your hands wherever feels right. I understand why people say it. But it doesn’t line up with how the practice was actually taught. Not long ago I heard a…
In Usui Sensei’s, Shinshin Kaizen Usui Reiki Ryoho — “Usui Reiki Healing Method for the Improvement of Mind and Body”( I心身改善臼井靈氣療法) — there are practices that feel like they cut straight to the heart of what this work is really about. Reiji-ho is one of them. The name itself (霊示法) translates roughly to “the method…
In Reiki, self-treatment is not optional. It is foundational. Within Koshin Reiki as transmitted by Brian Brunius, Reiki is consistently taught not merely as a hands-on healing method, but as a Way—a lived spiritual practice. Reiki is something we do, something we walk, something that gradually shapes our consciousness. And at the heart of that…
Wisdom Shared: The Interview In our recent conversation with Patricia—interviewed by Brian Brunius, her fellow student of John Harvey Gray—she shares deeply moving reflections, including: Her personal experience studying with John Harvey Gray The changes she’s seen in Reiki over the decades How she approaches healing at this stage of life The value of patience…