Working with Reiki Symbols

In this episode I discuss how to unlock the power of reiki symbols. In the West most Usui Reiki schools Typically teach 3 reiki symbols in levels 1 & 2, and an additional one or two symbols in mastery training.  We are also taught that they each have names, though what most people think of as names are actually mantras that go along with each symbol.   So we are taught symbol 1, cho ku rei, is the power symbol, used to increase or decrease power, depending on how it is drawn.   Symbol 2 sei hei ki emotional and mental - often activated and or sealed by the first   symbol 3 hon sha ze show nen - distance healing symbol.   We take these as locks and keys - taught to use each symbol as the key to unlock certain doors.  Want to increase your healing power just trace symbol 1 in your hand, heal addiction… a cool 1-2-1 symbol over the power chakra ought to do it.   This has definitely not been my experience.  I actually had an aversion to using symbols initially, as they seemed like hocus focus.   But as i work with this healing system, I am learning to use the symbols as symbols.  By it’s very nature a symbol does not align with a single definition or use.  It is open for interpretation.   It is said that historically the symbols were not just given ton students in a broad blanket teaching approach as they are now.  A symbol would be gifted to a student to assist them in deepening their understanding of the energy they are working with.   It is more fruitful to sit with the sacred geometry of the symbols and to chant their mantras and allow the meaning to be revealed.     For example with symbol one what does the sacred spiral mean to you?  What does it teach us about life and about our own true nature?  What you are using this symbol in what exactly are you invoking?    encoded in these symbols and mantras are profound teachings around life and our place in it.  These symbols are sign posts that are guiding us to Truth.     #reiki #reikihealing #onlinereiki #reikisymbols #chokurei #seiheiki #honshazeshonen #usureiki