Posted on Apr. 9, 2009 by Eileen Curteis, ssa, Reiki Healing Ministry
To understand Reiki is to enter into an experience of healing, a kind of healing Jesus spoke about when He said, “Physician, heal yourself.” In our Christian tradition, Jesus was and is the great healer in our midst. Whenever Jesus healed a power went forth from Him, a power that came from the Holy Spirit of God and was often manifested in a physical and felt way when Jesus touched the people that He healed. When Jesus left the earth, He said that the Spirit would be sent to us and that if we were open to the Almighty One we, too, would share in the gifts that were manifested through the life of Jesus.
As we embrace this new millennium, it is my firm belief as a Reiki practitioner that God wants to break into our fragmented lives in a new and tangible way where we can experience in the very core of our being what it means to surrender to God’s divine energy, to that centre inside us where healing happens. Reiki, a Japanese word meaning universal Life force energy, is a divine gift that allows this surrender to happen. Reiki is a spiritual doorway into the true self, a doorway that promotes holistic and natural healing and brings with it an inner peace and harmony to all levels of our being – spiritual, emotional, physical and mental.
Before Jesus came, this wondrous gift of natural healing was already present in the Buddhist tradition in India and Tibet where these ancient people had tapped into the power of God’s energy coursing through them and the universe. Today, we draw on the wisdom of Jesus and these ancient healers as we enter into our own quest for spiritual transformation.
Dr. Mikao Usui, of Buddhist lineage, rediscovered Reiki healing in the mid 1800’s and it is from the knowledge of this ancient Buddhist tradition in union with our Christian tradition that we have received a gift of grace that brings us into deeper union with God, with our universe, with ourselves and with others.
As Reiki practitioners, we become committed healers and open ourselves to becoming channels through which God’s energy can flow more freely.
Eileen Curteis, ssa.
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