Usui Taught Reiki as a Practice of Self-Cultivation
A Common Misunderstanding If you spend enough time around Reiki, you begin to notice something. People describe it in different ways. It is called a healing method, a way to develop intuition, or a spiritual practice. Each of these descriptions points to something real, but none of them fully answers a more basic question. What […]
The Usui Reiki Handbook: Returning to the Foundation of Practice
There is a quiet problem in modern Reiki practice. Most people learn techniques. They learn hand positions, symbols, and ways of treating others. But the foundation of the system is often unclear. Practice becomes inconsistent. Understanding remains partial. Over time, many practitioners feel that something is missing, even if they cannot name it. What is […]
Just for Today: The Discipline of the Present Moment
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 […]
The Missing Discipline in Reiki Training
Most Reiki practitioners have never trained the way Usui intended. They place their hands. They learn techniques. They may even teach. But the disciplined structure that shaped perception, conduct, and stability in early Reiki training is largely absent from modern practice. In Usui’s system, training was not built around a single method, but around a […]
The Making of the Koshin Reiki Seal
As Koshin Reiki began to take form and the website came together, it became clear that something essential was missing. It wasn’t a logo or branding. What was needed was a seal, a hanko to represent Koshin no Michi, the path of Koshin Reiki. At the same time, I knew I needed a personal seal […]
Does Reiki Require “No-Self”?
Clarifying a Common Misunderstanding in Reiki Practice In recent years, some Reiki writers have suggested that the essence of Reiki practice is to “forget the self,” discard all thoughts, and realize that there is no practitioner, no patient, and nothing to give or receive during treatment. According to this interpretation, Reiki is not something we […]
The Missing Foundation of Reiki Practice
Most Reiki practitioners have never been taught Reiki meditation. Even students who have practiced Reiki for years often encounter meditation only as relaxation, visualization, or something optional to do before or after hands-on treatment. Historically, this was not the case. In the earliest structure of Reiki training, meditation was one of the primary ways students […]
Read the Only Teaching Written by Mikao Usui
Most Reiki practitioners spend years studying techniques, hand positions, and symbols. What many never encounter is the one document in which Mikao Usui explained Reiki in his own words. That document is called Kokai Denju Setsumei. It is the only written teaching left by Usui. While Reiki training was transmitted directly through practice, initiation, and […]
Reiki Is a Path of Self-Cultivation
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 […]
Reiji-Ho: Letting Reiki Show the Way
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 […]
The Importance of Self-Treatment in Reiki: Walking the Path
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 […]
When Practice Stops Needing Explanation
Over the years, I’ve noticed a quiet shift in how people arrive at Reiki. In the beginning, students want clarity. They want to know what is happening, whether they are doing it correctly, and how to make it work better. Questions are natural, and they have their place. Explanations help orient the mind while the […]
Reiki’s Real History and Global Journey
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 […]
Announcing Koshin Reiki
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 […]