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…
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…
Why I Am Naming This Lineage Now Reiki has always evolved through human hands. It was shaped by the people who practiced it, the cultures that received it, and the lineages that carried it across oceans. When I chose to name the Koshin Reiki Style, I did so to honor the transmission that shaped my…
Most Reiki students learn a simple tale: Mikao Usui fasted on Kurama mountain, received a revelation, and a healing system was born in a flash of light. But the real history, the one revealed through the work of Reiki historian Justin B. Stein, PhD, is far more interesting. It’s more human, more complex, and—ironically—much truer…
The Reiki Precepts are not commandments, but tools for training the mind to return to the present moment. Spoken morning and evening, they help us pause, breathe, and respond with awareness instead of habit. Over time, they become part of our nervous system and our way of being. I’ve found that practicing the Precepts daily…