Compare Spiritual Healing and Reiki

What's the difference between Reiki and Spiritual Healing?

Spiritual Healing otherwise known as Psychic & Spiritual Healing has been a practise for thousands of years, its practitioners believing the essence of healing energy channelled is of a spiritual order. Dr Mikao Usui, the founder of Reiki healing believed the same. The manner in which any spiritual healer by whatever healing name they practise becomes a healer is as follows: The prospective healer must have a sense of care for others, be able to shift their consciousness from the ordinary and mundane to the psychic and spiritual level and dedicate time and energy to the practise of healing.

You cannot become a healer by reading a book -it is practise that makes a healer and invariably the prospective healer learns from a person with a proven record of healing. This process of initiation varies from a do as I do approach in which the trainee follows the directions and copies the practise of their teacher to ritualistic methods of induction -and of course it can be a combination of these two approaches.

In the JCPF the process of initiation commences with the introductory psychic & spiritual development course and continues during clinic training practise until such time the tutor has evidence that the trainee is capable and able to work on their own as a healer. Initiatory steps include stimulation of the energy system, introduction and development of a relationship with Guides of the Spiritual World and tests upon theoretical knowledge that includes healing standards and conduct guidelines. Dedicated course programmes are not part of some other spiritual healing organisations and the 'ultimate product' not only may take longer to produce, the individual trainee might become able as a group healer only. The Reiki system of initiation is always carried out one to one between the trainee and the Reiki teacher ritualistically and in stages is given healing symbols that activate higher consciousness.

The practical process of training can differ widely -Reiki healing is a highly structured system of course programmes interspersed with practise development where philosophically the accent is upon the universal and emphasis is upon the natural, whereas in some spiritual healing organisations tuition is less structured and philosophically it can be much more an emphasis upon religious and psychic and spiritual teachings. In the JCPF we steer a middle course -some course programme and a much larger element of self initiated practise albeit with tutor help on hand. We don't insist upon a religious conviction but in accordance with our Spiritualist principles teach the need to invoke and develop relationships with guides of the Spirit World.

The key to successful practise of any healing method of practise is the ability of the healer to control their 'front and back door' of the human condition. Control of the 'front door' is the ability to manifest healing energies whilst being capable in the same period of being aware of the normal conscious world. Control of the 'back door' is the ability to facilitate the spiritual order of energies into the human system whilst being protected from unseen forces that can disrupt or deny the emission of healing.

In the JCPF control of these 'doors' is accomplished by developing the energy nature (both in the introductory programme and in healing practise thereafter) and initiating the trainee into the psychic nature of their mind and body system during which they learn about guides and doorkeepers, those spiritual guides of the Higher Worlds. By developing a relationship with these beings the trainee can ensure protection and facilitation of spiritual order energies whilst healing and cessation of these same energies when healing is concluded. Other methods of grounding are also taught to ensure control of the 'front door'.

When Reiki healing is effectively taught the practitioner has control over the 'front door' and relies upon the spiritual order of their initiation to protect them from unseen dangers.

Any system is ultimately the responsibility of the practitioner and problems and lack of power are always caused by the practitioner's state of 'connection' being unsafe. A good Reiki healer may not have a consciously aware relationship with denizens of the Afterlife yet may still be controlled and likewise a spiritual healer developed as described above who does not invoke the Guide relationship can be open to disruptive forces.

Initiation by symbol and initiation by opening the psychic door and developing a Guide relationship is not mutually exclusive or in conflict -the symbol promotes an abstract relationship whereas the awareness of Guides gives objective awareness via the supernormal senses. JCPF spiritual healers are expected to develop the Guide relationship whereas Reiki healers may choose not to.

In conclusion it's worth noting that Dr Mikado Usui was a Japanese Spiritualist and his methods of teaching involved a practical understanding of the human energy system. During the 20th century following Reiki introduction in the 20's a number of Reiki branches were born that adapted the understanding of different energy healing practises to the simple principled approach that Usui taught. In essence the history of Spiritual healing is no different.