13. What is a Reiki system? How many systems are there?
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This item is from the Millennium Edition of the alt.healing.reiki FAQ, by Scott Maxfield (v2.001).
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13. What is a Reiki system? How many systems are there?
There are more systems than I care to enumerate and they are sometimes little more than a chance for one-upmanship by saying "mine is better". They all are based on the same Reiki energy (since there is only one Reiki energy). They differ in the name (which is often trademarked), in the symbols used, in the attunement process (both of these normally being jealously guarded secrets) and in the details such as the hand positions used in treatments. All systems ultimately derive from the system originally introduced by Mikao Usui. I wouldn't consider them to be improvements on the original, only different, sometimes actually detracting through the inclusion of needless ritual and elaboration.
"What Reiki is not" has a little to say on ritual.
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