Idag startar jag en ny bloggkategori som jag har kallat ”En värld av visdom” (klassad under dess engelska namn ”A World of Wisdom”). Jag har haft lyckan att kunna följa med min mamma Mayni på nästan alla kurser hon hållit, sedan mycket tidig barndom. Antagligen den första faktiska kursen jag varit med om var att lära mig Första Graden av Reiki när jag var sju år gammal (november 1987). Sedan dess har jag varit intresserad av att vidga min syn på världen och lära mig nya saker, både traditionella och icke-traditionella.
I denna bloggavdelning tänker jag gå igenom nämnvärda kurser, konferenser eller tekniker jag medverkat i som har lämnat mig något som var värdefullt för mig. Och även kommentera jag är engagerad i eller kommer i kontakt med, fascinerande och exotiska människor jag träffar, och så vidare.
Hoppas du finner det värdefullt!
Anm: av praktiska själ kommer jag inte översätta alla inlägg till svenska, detta vill jag beklaga i förväg och hoppas på läsarnas förståelse. Men på engelska kommer de flesta finnas tillgängliga.
Mayni is a master who belongs to The Reiki Alliance and thus teaches Usui Shiki Ryoho. What does that imply for students/prospective students?
Let us do a little history review of Reiki.
Reiki came to the world through the research and personal process of Dr. Usui in the 1800s. Until roughly 1980 there was only one “type” of Reiki in the Western world, and to become a master you had to be initiated by the Grand Master. The first Grand Master was Dr. Usui himself, the second one was Dr. Hayashi and the third was Mrs. Takata.
Mrs. Takata emigrated to the United States during the Second World War, while students of Dr. Usui and Dr. Hayashi kept the Reiki lineage alive in Japan.
During her lifetime, Mrs. Takata initiated 22 Reiki masters, and upon her death the “torch” of being Grand Master for the Western world was to pass on to her granddaughter, Phyllis Lei Furumoto. However, at that point one of the masters –Barbara Weber Ray- decided to do something different, so she left the group and started AIRA – (originally the American International Radiance Association, thus, not calling it Reiki). She did modify the System (see “The 9 Elements of the Form” that define the Usui Shiki Ryoho System) and was thus aware that when changing the Form she was also changing the System, so she also changed the name. Her followers, though, went back to using the name of Reiki for something that was technically not the same thing anymore. That was the first schism in the Western countries.
The remaining 21 masters created The Reiki Alliance, an organization that sought to keep the system in its initial purity, and that all masters would be equals in the energy of Reiki. This organization has now roughly 1000 masters in the whole world. You can check the online directory of The Reiki Alliance (although some members have chosen not to be present in the online one for privacy issues) or write to them to ask if somebody is a The Reiki Alliance master. You will also see that they all use the same certificates, all around the world.
In order to be a member of The Reiki Alliance, you need to be able to trace your lineage back to Mrs. Takata, that is, show proof that the master who initiated you was in turn initiated by a master who was teaching this same system. You also need to commit to teach the system as described in the 9 Elements, which define what Reiki is.
Nowadays, unfortunately, there is a myriad of “types” of Reiki that are simply not the same thing. Later in the 1980s, 1990s and later, there were many people who decided not to respect the 9 Elements, choosing for instance to teach it quicker or altered (Why train several years to become a master if you can get a certificate in a weekend? Or why waiting a minimum of 3 months to learn 2nd degree if you can do it the following day? Or why having only 2 degrees if you can get more money out of people by teaching half a dozen levels? Or why not spicing it up with added rituals and paraphernalia?), adding or removing parts from the System. But the System works so well precisely because it is done in a very concrete way. Reiki is extremely simple, but needs to be done right.
What happens when you are dealing with energies you cannot see? Most Second Degree practitioners (trained within The Reiki Alliance), after some time of practice start seeing/feeling/perceiving the energies and thus can tell what is going on, energy-wise. And getting to these levels of perception and use of the energy does take time – time of practice, time of processing, time of your own personal development.
What is lineage then? When it comes to creating the channel of Reiki, that is, the channel that will pass on additional Ki (aside from your own life energy), to be able to do that, you need to have gone through the process by someone who has also gone through this process him/herself. It is like passing a torch, or like an electricity cable – if somewhere along the chain, a link is missing or broken, there is no energy on the other side.
What happens then when you learn Reiki from someone who does not belong to The Reiki Alliance, nor has been trained by Usui Shiki Ryoho masters in previous generations? Simply put, in most cases they are doing something else than actual Reiki. It would have been preferrable that they had given it another name, in order not to confuse people. You frequently find that they are using up their own energy to heal somebody else: thus, if they were to give 8 hours of Reiki treatments in a row, they´d be exhausted (this does not happen if you are correctly initiated). Other times, they may feel the symptoms of the disease they are trying to heal: they may produce healing effects to some degree, but very often at the cost of the practitioner´s own health.
We should also mention that there are a number of properly trained masters with the correct lineage, who have chosen not to be Reiki Alliance members, or not to renew their membership, for various reasons. Learning from them will indeed give you Reiki in your hands. Unfortunately, in that case you do not belong to an international network so if you have to move to a different country, you cannot just look up a master from The Reiki Alliance and join them seamlessly.
It is very sad, because very often the “break in the chain” happened generations ago, and the people who went on down the line have no idea about this. They were never taught about lineage at all. They are usually very nice people who mean the very best and teach what they know with all their heart. Their students feel uplifted after such a course or treatment, they often feel relaxed and find it real nice. What I find tragic is that after some time they often leave Reiki aside, stating “it doesn´t work” and move on to other things. However, if they ever have the chance of receiving proper Reiki later on, even from a 1st degree student but who did learn within The Reiki Alliance, they will often feel shocked at the strength of the energy perceived, and may then realize that, after all, what they had been introduced to in the past, simply was not the same thing.
Mayni likes to keep the first part of her First Degree course open and free of charge so people can come and listen (here you can find the upcoming courses). You can then listen to the History of Reiki and the Principles, and get to know Mayni to see if you would like to have her as your master. Because the relationship you have with your master may get very close to your heart.
And then you are always welcome to repeat the courses with Mayni as many times as you want, and to attend the courses of other Reiki Alliance masters around the world, free of charge (except maybe for a small fee if the teacher has to rent a hotel meeting room and pay for it – otherwise we usually work in homes or perhaps a yoga school or something similar). Mayni has had visiting practitioners and masters from New Zealand, England, Colombia, and Argentina attending a course or Reiki exchange at home, and likewise, students of Mayni have been warmly welcome to attend a Reiki course or group in Australia and New York, among other places.
Please do your due diligence and research when choosing your Reiki master. It is an important decision! You may have to travel to find a proper master – Mayni was living in Spain and went to Germany to learn. But it was so worth it. Nowadays it is much easier than that!
Use your head, and follow your heart.
Welcome to the global Reiki family!
PS. In the website of The Reiki Alliance you can read a deeper explanation of the Nine Elements of the Form of Usui Shiki Ryoho.
Jag hade sökt ganska länge efter en bra glutenfri pankaksrecept. Ett par olika vänner rekommenderade detta superenkla recept, och idag hade jag faktiskt en mogen banan att testan den med. Resultatet var så gott att jag hade redan ätit det mesta när jag tänkte att det var värt att fotas för bloggen. 🙂
Superenkelt, snabbt, jättegott och mycket mättande!
Ingredienser:
1 banan
1 ägg
Kokosolja / smör / olja till pannan
Procedur: mosa bananen och ägget, med en gaffel eller elvisp. Häll hela smeten på en varm panna med lite fett. När det är gyllene, vänd med hjälp av en tallrik. Behöver ingen extra sötning.
Det var faktiskt ganska sött redan, så jag åt en del av det med några skivor kalkonbröstpålägg.
Har du lagt märke till hur den sak du koncentrerar dig på verkar dyka upp överallt? Liksom den där gamla roliga historian om att lära sig cykla – blir du ivrig med ”titta, ett träd, ett träd, ett träääääd!” – bums, så har du cyklat in i trädet.
Ett annat exempel: du kanske funderar på att köpa en viss bil och du börjar se den överallt. Eller tar reda på ett nytt sjukdom eller problem och börjar hitta information om det här och var.
Detta beror på två olika anledningar: å ena sida, din hjärna fokuserar på den önskvärda informationen och blockerar oviktig information. Detta sker automatiskt, för vi skulle bli galna om vi lade märke till absolut allt som händer vid varje tillfälle, så hjärnan filtrerar bort för att ge dig mer av vad den tror intresserar dig just nu.
Å andra sidan, genom attraktionslagen så graviterar vi emot de saker vi fokuserar på, som du kanske vet om du hört om detta.
För denna artikels syfte, låt oss prata om tacksamhet. Vad händer om du är fördjupad i dina problem? De verkar växa, inte sant? Fakturor att betala, oro med din partner, hälsoproblem, osv. Det är lätt att känna sig överväldigad, stressad och även deprimerad. Så hur kan vi vända på kakan? Fokusera på saker du kan vara tacksam för! Ibland kanske du morrar ”Vad skulle jag vara tacksam för, har du sett mitt bankkonto och mitt läkarintyg? Och min lägenhet är så ostädat, jag har väldiga högar med tvätt…”. Ok, låt oss hitta några saker du kan vara tacksam för.
Du sitter och läser denna artikel, så du har internetkoppling. Det gör dig privilegerad!
Du kan läsa! Många människor kan inte läsa – eller saknar ögon för att se, eller kanske glasögon…
Har du en ostädad lägenhet? Tänk på de hemlösa! Du har tak över huvudet.
Har du högar med smutsiga kläder? Då har du kläder, och mer än ett plagg!
Och så har du ben du kan gå med, ögon du kan höra med, mat att äta idag…
Låt mig utmana dig att använda ett fantastiskt verktyg: att föra tacksamhetsdagbok.
Varje kväll, hitta 3 saker du kan vara tacksam för idag. Det kan vara små saker, som att hinna med bussen, den snälla människan som höll dörren öppen åt dig, eller den lilla fågeln vars kvitter fick dig att le.
Snart kommer du finna att du under dagen söker efter saker du kan skriva ner på kvällen. Och gissa vad? De saker kommer ”magiskt” att dyka upp. Du kanske känner att du bara lägger märke till det goda i stället för det onda. Men du kommer också få känslan att det händer mer goda saker.
Denna är en mycket enkel men mycket kraftfull övning. Ta och försök göra det 3 veckor i rad och känn dess effekter! Du kommer känna att saker börjar gå bra (eller bättre) och flyter på i ditt liv.
Vill du uppgradera övningen lite? Skriv då 5 saker varje kväll. Det är lättare än du tror! Du kommer bli förundrar, jag lovar. Du kan gärna skriva en kommentar nedan när du väl gjort övningen. 🙂