Reiki Principles

Just for today I will not worry

Just for today I will not anger

Just for today I will do my work with integrity

Just for today I will treat all living things with kindness

Just for today I will live the attitude of gratitude

Usui called these principles "the secret methods of inviting happiness", "the spiritual medicine of many diseases"

(David F Vennells, Reiki Mastery, 2005)

From my own experience, living even just the ‘attitude of gratitude’ can turn your day around, and help you find even one positive aspect to enable you to better deal with difficulties and challenges.

Usui developed these principles and asked his students to recite them to themselves twice a day. In the city of Kyoto Usui would give Reiki healing to all who needed it, especially those living in the slums of the city. However Usui came to see people whom he had given Reiki to returning to the slums. Speaking with some of these people Usui realised that it was their negative mindset that kept them ill, and that people benefit from Reiki when they commit to the healing on all levels – Physical, Emotional, Mental and Spiritual. Usui developed the principles as a way for his students to maintain the right state of mind and body to be healing channels of Reiki.

You don’t have to be a Reiki practitioner to say these principles, and you don’t have to say these principles to receive healing. If you choose to you can say these principles to yourself for a few days and see how your mindset and outlook improves.

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