SHODEN
FIRST LEVEL MANUAL CONTENTS
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* A 170 page, Glossy soft cover manual
Professionally printed and bound.
Introduction
Using the course audio CD's
Lineage
Background
What is Reiki ?
What is Energy ?
The Reiki Symbol
Reiki and Chi Kung
Suggested reading
Books
Websites
Where did Reiki come from ?
The History of Reiki
Japan in Usui's time
Usui's Life
The Roots of Reiki
Usui's Associates
Usui the Man
Usui's Motivation
Usui Sensei Teaches his System
How Usui Taught
Some Unusual Students
Dr Chujiro Hayashi
Hawayo Takata
Reiki in Japan
Learning Reiki
Who learns Reiki ?
Short term effects in Reiki
'Clearing Out'
Powerful Reactions on the day of the course
Resolving Health Problems
Longer term effects of Reiki
Believing that Reiki actually works
Following the System
What did Mikao Usui teach ?
The Original System
First Degree ( Shoden )
How can we follow the Teachings ?
Reiju Empowerments
Mikao Usui's Precepts and Mindfulness
Daily Energy Exercises
Self-healing practises
Treating others
Reiki Evolution courses and their content
Mikao Usui's Precepts and Mindfulness
Precepts and Buddhism
The Origin of Mikao Usui's Precepts
These are Mikao Usui's Precepts
The Importance of the Precepts
What do the precepts mean to you ?
Just for Today
Do not Anger, do not Worry
Be Humble
Be honest in your dealings witth people
Be Compassionate
'Releasing' exercise
Mindfulness and Mikao Usui's system
Mindfulness and the Precepts
Reiju
What are Empowerments ?
Repeating your Empowerments
What are 'Atunements ?'
Are 'Distant Connections' effective ?
Why do we need Attunements or Empowerments ?
What will I feel when I receive an Empowerment ?
Students Experiences - receiving Reiju Empowerments
Experiencing Energy
Feel energy between your hands
Feel energy on a partner's hand
Feel energy on a partner's head and shoulders
Push someone off balance using energy
Play with 'Energy Balls'
Students experiences - playing with Energy and Scanning
Daily Energy Exercises
The Tanden
Two simple Energy exercises
Kenyoku
Joshin Kokkyu Ho
A simple sequence
'Hatsurei Ho'
Stage One - Relax
Stage Two - Mokunen ( Focusing )
Stage Three - Kenyoku
Stage Four - Connect to Reiki
Stage Five - Joshin Kokkyu Ho
Stage Eight - Gokai Sansho ( optional )
Stage Nine - Mokunen
Essay on Seichin Toitsu
Receiving Distant Empowerments
Other uses for parts of Hatsurei Ho
Kenyoku ( Dry Bathing )
Joshin Kokkyu Ho
Gassho
Other ways of making your Reiki strong
Treat other people
Practise other Energy Cultivation Techniques
Students experiences - Hatsurei Ho
Regular Self-Treatments
Healing Meditation
Self-treatment Meditation
Alternative approaches
Why these particular hand positions ?
Advantages of the Self-treament Meditation
Students experiences - Self-treatment Meditation
Intuitive Hands-on Self-treatments
'Western Style' Hands-on Self-treatments
Treating 'difficult to reach' areas
Using Western Self-treatments in practise
Combining Japanese and Western approaches
The effects of Self-treatments
Working on other people
Experiencing Treatments
What will you feel when treating others
The Early Stages
Aches and Pains
Nausea and Queasiness
Coolness
An absence of sensations
Effects noticed after the treatment has finished
What people feel when they are treated
Relaxation, sometimes very deep relaxation
Heat or warmth from your hands
Seeing colours
Floating or sinking
'Movement' or 'Drawing'
Disorientation
Memories coming to the surface
Pressure or difficulty in breathing
A feeling of intense cold
Emotional release
'Physical' release
The effect of Reiki on people you treat
Physical problems
Mental and Emotional problems
Anorexia
Multiple Addictions
A whole range of problems
Treating a dog
Giving Reiki treatments
Situations when you should not treat someone
Different treatments approaches
'Short Blasts'
Seated Reiki Treatments
Starting the treatment
Merging with the energy
Merging with the recipient
Finishing the treatment
Hand positions for seated treatments
Students experiences - treating head and shoulders
'Full Reiki Treatments'
Starting the treatment
Merging with the energy
Merging with the recipient
Finishing the treatment
Working from the Tanden
'Connecting' to the energy
'Reiki On'
How to hold your hands as you treat
Your state of mind when you treat
Letting your hands tell you how long to treat
Feeling the Energy Field
Scanning
Students experiences - Scanning
Intuitive working
Focusing on results
Creating a 'Conducive Atmosphere'
Treating 'both sides'
A few other suggestions about treatments
Hand Positions : Supine treatments
Dealing with physical discomfort when you treat
Back Treatments
The Hand Positions, Thoughts and Emotions
Using Reiki with other Therapies
'Hands-On' Therapies
Spiritual Healing
Crystal Healing
Treating Plants and Animals
Treating Plants
Treating Animals
Students experiences - treating plants and animals
Distant Healing
Self-treatment Meditation approach
An even simpler approach
First Degree 'Homework'
Work on yourself
Receive Reiji on Mondays
Live the Precepts
Practise on others
Moving on to Second degree
Appendix
Sources of information about Japanese Reiki
Frank Arjava Petter
Hiroshi Doi
Chris Marsh
The Usui Memorial
Mikao Usui talks about his System
Poems of the Meiji Emperor
