Reiki Cairns Teaching Usui Shiki Ryoho, the gentle folk healing art of Reiki

In the first several years after I began the Reiki practice 20 years ago, I knew a lot of stuff about Reiki, what I was doing, what Reiki is, how it worked, and more. The truth was that I didn’t know much at all. The meanings I imposed on the practice were the beliefs  and ideas I had accepted from those whom I thought knew more than I did, who had more experience than I did.

However, as happens in a self healing practice, life events happened, I had my own experiences, and questions began to mount. The number of times I asked myself the question “what am I really doing”, and “what am I really practicing”, I couldn’t even begin to guess, until in the end my mind had no ready answer, and there was just an empty space of not knowing.

And one day in the midst of life and its doings, of doing my daily practice, of not knowing or even seeking an answer, I experienced a new and different mind space, was simply being “there”. All the “stuff” had fallen away and in that space it was as if Life itself was at last able to express its own meaning; the exquisite joy, the delight in the boundless possibilities and richness of all that is life; that the reality had always been this, of being whole, of all things being perfect just as they are in the now moment, of being held in what I can only call Love.

The older meanings and beliefs were not wrong. They are simply a perspective from a different point on the healing continuum. I still don’t know definitive answers to my questions, although it seems that I have been practising stillness and being present. Even so, as I allow myself to be in my not knowing, continue to heal the places of separation in my life, my new meaning seems to be being expressed in my everyday reality, a reality that I believe is there for everyone. As Mikao Usui put it, a capability we are “endowed with since birth.”