25th November 2024
Reiki articles for you to read on Mondays and Wednesdays. Each one will take about 5 minutes or so to read, and hopefully you will find something interesting, informative, helpful or thought-provoking, maybe even challenging.
So without further ado, here's....
Hiya,
In the West we like to make things complicated, and the way that most of us now use symbols is a world away from the simple approach that Usui used.
So how can we work with symbols in a way that echoes more the way that Usui taught his students?
Well firstly, Usui taught symbols to a very small number of people, just in the last few years of his life. The vast majority of his students were taught in a very different way.
Most of his students were given meditations to use so that they could, over a long period of time, become more and more familiar with the three energies taught at second-degree level, for example. Once they were thoroughly familiar with the energies, once they had *become* the energies again and again, then they were given a shortcut – a trigger – to connect them to those energies.
The triggers that they used were mostly ancient Shinto mantras called kotodama or jumon, not symbols.
In the West we do it backwards by comparison: we are given a trigger (a symbol) to connect us to an energy that we are not familiar with, and with which we may never become familiar, depending on how we have been taught to use the symbols. Usui had his students become the three energies again and again and again, and when they were ingrained, when they were innate, only then would you be given a way of connecting to the energies that were already within you and thoroughly familiar to you.
So, that's all from me for today.
Take care,
Taggart ;)
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