We understand that the Reiki precepts are about the mind and that they describe the state of mind: anshin ritsume or satori = enlightenment=great bright light (Dai Komyo) = our True Self = Reiki. Thus with the Reiki precepts Mikao Usui has indicated the direction of our development on the Reiki path.The what of Reiki …
If you are familiar with Hatsurei Ho meditation, then you are practicing Reiki as a spiritual practice. This meditation is is taught in Okuden Reiki II of traditional Reiki, which means that it already presupposes the presence of basic skills and concepts of the traditional Reiki system. That is, you already understand that Reiki is …
5/30/2020 Anya van Til Being a mother of three I have seen my kids get hurt innumerous times. As a mother of course I had to help them. I should say that I have become better at this with time as I learned through practice all the do’s and don’ts. In the beginning I panicked just …
5/15/2020 Anya van Til At the time of lock down we are to do mostly distance treatments and online sessions.What does it mean for us?Many of us are facing the fact that distance healings are quite tricky. You don’t see, hear or feel your client. You do not perceive him or her with your senses …
3/24/2020 Anya van Til The Corona virus crisis is letting us see where we are exactly at this point of our lives and practices. Are we still having fears and worries? If yes, then this situation is providing us a powerful opportunity to keep practicing to streamline and strengthen our practice and bring it into …
3/1/2020 Anya van Til Last night I brought my 12 year old daughter to bed and had to comfort her. She was upset about some critique she got from her brother. Even though the critique was valid, she felt too upset to fall asleep.I had to help her out “It’s not about what someone says”, I …
2/5/2020 Anya van TIl “One of the essential messages of the Buddha is that it’s really important to get to know the experience of dukkha, or dissatisfaction. Not to know it intellectually, not to write a thesis about it, but to get to know it by meeting this experience directly. Until we know dukkha, we …
7/23/2019 Anya van Til It’s been tropical weather. So we have set up a swimming pool. Kids jumped in it immediately and were playing and having fun right away. It was a pleasure to see them enjoy themselves. I was standing there smiling, cheering them up to do things and once in a while I …
7/7/2019 Anya van Til Is your inbox and FB page overflowing with all kinds of advice to improve your affairs, your health, your relationship? Nowadays there are ready-made methods in every area: from blowing your nose to whatever management. Various step-by-step plans pop up like mushrooms after the rain to immediately stimulate improvement in a …
12/21/2018 Frans Stiene and Anya van Til In simple terms, Shugyo means to cultivate. The system of Reiki is exactly the same: it is a system about cultivating. But what are we cultivating? We are cultivating our own inner great bright light, our true self. Thus we can say that the essence of both Shugyo …
