The five Reiki principles taught by Usui

Just for today, do not be angry
Just for today, do not worry
Just for today, be grateful
Just for today, work hard
Just for today, be kind to others

Mikao Usui believed that in order for anyone to practice Reiki and transfer healing energy to others, they must have first taken responsibility for their own health and wellbeing. He developed five principles which he taught to his students as strategies to apply to life. Here thety are as he defined them:

Just for today, do not be angry.

Anger can be a vast destructive force; it hurts others as well as ourselves. Anger closes us off from love and compassion.

Try to detach yourself from situations you feel are engendering any feelings of anger; do not just suppress the feeling for it to return another time. Anger will create a massive leak of the vital energy force from our systems.

Constantly remind yourself that anger is not your real nature and as such it will pass, try to acknowledge it, witness it and then let it go forever.

Remember the opposite of anger is calmness.

Just for today, do not worry.

Worry, like anger, will also create another great vital energy leak. While anger deals with past and present events, worry deals with perceived future events and happenings.

Although worry is not always a negative phenomenon, we should all disregard thoughts of future events and circumstances over which we have no ultimate control.

The source of worry is fear of change.

Just for today, be grateful.

We should all try to be grateful and show appreciation for the many blessings that can fill our lives, especially when times are difficult.

If we live in a state of gratitude, appreciating and giving thanks for the many blessings we have in our life, we can help transform negative attitudes and thoughts into positive ones.

When we are grateful for all that we have received, and when we believe that we will continue to receive these things, then we will attract abundance.

Just for today, work hard.

We should all work to the best of our ability each day. There is no job that is too humble that it does not require our full effort.

Through work we learn and grow. Our whole day should be filled with an effort to work hard and honestly at all we do.

Devotion will grow through working hard.

Just for today, be kind to others.

We should all try to show kindness to our fellow men. We must honor all living things and be tolerant of the way others choose to live their lives.

It is important that we realize and accept that being kind and friendly to everyone must include ourselves.

ReikiLife academy weekly Reiki practice

Last Monday, January 25, the students of the ReikiLife Academy once again gathered for the weekly meeting, which on this occasion was based on the way Reiki degrees are structured. Graziano Scarascia, Reiki Master and Founder of the ReikiLife Academy, provided a simple, yet clear, explanation of the reasons and motives behind the student’s decision to the step from one Reiki degree to the next. He went on to say that, for instance, when making the decision to be initiated into the second degree, the student should not only have acquired and mastered the techniques of the first degree, but he should also have gathered a clear understanding of the symbolic meaning that each degree has. He also made it clear that the different degrees in Reiki are not about acquiring any special powers but instead they are about working on developing the skills required to use all the techniques and tools in a correct way. It is only through a consistent and frequent practice that the student may experience a balanced progress through the various degrees.

Sho Ten Reiki

Master Graziano Scarascia esegue, durante il tirocinio Reiki che si svolge il lunedi sera dalle ore 20.30, la tecnica base di 1° livello Sho Ten Reiki.
Sho Ten Reiki è un sistema non tradizionale di Reiki ideato dal M° Graziano Scarascia frutto della sua 20ennale esperienza con il Reiki. Lo ringraziamo per la sua condivisione.
Staff ReikiLife

1 ° and 2° level Raku Kai Reiki attunement

ReikiLife 1 ° and 2° level Raku Kai Reiki attunement at the Arcadia Beauty Farm in Naples.

ReikiLife Cifor Monday evening Master Graziano Scarascia held a at the ReikiLife HQ a technical demonstration of how to practice the BYOSEN tecnique. He also explained how and why this tecnique had a transformation and how Byosen was adabted in the occidental way to practice Reiki. It was very interesting to observe how he was able trough Byosen to find exactly where the KI-Chi was bloked in the person he treated. As well during the evening he demonstrated various exercise to perceive Ki-Chi trough hands.

Sho Ten Reiki 2°level practice

Monday evening 20.30 at the ReikiLife HQ of Caserta was held the weekly Reiki Training where the second level students practiced the Sho Ten 2° level tecnics

Happy 2010!

We look to the new year and here's our wish for you:

Peace within your heart
Love from family and friends
Faith to guide your way
Hope to to make it through each day
Sunshine to light the day
Heavenly Stars to wish upon
Rainbows to to let you know there is a tomorrow
A tear to show compassion
A heart to hold the love
But most of all I wish for you
to feel my hand in yours,
To know I am here if you stumble or fall.
To bring you cheer, to bring you love,
to return the love you always share with me.

May God bless you all.....a wonderful 2010!

Love
ReikiLife Academy

(below the opening page of “The Alchemist”, which always makes me think about my attitude towards the world)

The alchemist picked up a book that someone in the caravan had brought. Leafing through the pages, he found a story about Narcissus.

The alchemist knew the legend of Narcissus, a younth who knelt daily beside a lake to contemplate his own beauty. He was so fascinated by himself that, one morning, he fell into the lake and drowned. At the spot where he fell, a flower was born, which was called the narcissus.

But this was not how the author of the book ended the story.

he said that when Narcissus died, the goddesses of the forest appeared and found the lake, which had been fresh water, transformed into a lake of salty tears.

“Why do you weep?” the goddesses asked.

“I weep for Narcissus,” the lake replied.

“Ah, it is no surprise that you weep for Narcissus,” they said, “for though we always pursued him in the forest, you alone could contemplate his beauty close at hand.”

“But…was Narcissus beautiful?” the lake asked.

“Who better than you to know that?” the goddesses said in wonder. “After all, it was by your banks that he knelt each day to contemplate himself!”

The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said:

“I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because, each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see, in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty reflected.”

“What a lovely story,” the alchemist thought.