Articles
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The Three Diamonds
At The Reiki Life, we use an internal map called the Three Diamonds to understand how Reiki moves through the body, mind, and spirit. This map is inspired by the traditional Japanese Tanden—three primary centers of awareness. 1. The Earth Diamond (Hara) Location: Lower abdomen (Seika Tanden). 2. The Heart Diamond Location: Center of the
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The Five Elements: The Architecture of the System
Moving Beyond Hand-Healing into the Fullness of the Usui Lineage In modern settings, Reiki is often reduced to a single act: placing hands on a body to address a symptom. While valuable, this is like looking at a single room and calling it a house. In the original Japanese tradition, Reiki is understood as a
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The Gravity of the Centre: Heso and Hara in Traditional Reiki
Reclaiming the “Battery” of Your Spiritual Life In traditional Japanese Reiki, the centre of the body is never a side note. While modern western practices often focus heavily on the upper chakras or “light,” the older teachings point relentlessly back to the belly—the Hara and the Heso (navel). They treated this region not just as
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The Deep Center: Advanced Insights into the Hara
Beyond the “Battery” – The Alchemical Seat of Reiki To truly understand why traditional Reiki keeps returning to the belly, we have to look past the physical abdomen. The Hara is the place where the “Heavenly” (spiritual) and the “Earthly” (physical) are forged into a single, functional human presence. If you only treat the Hara
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The Five Agreements: Living the Reiki Life
Spiritual Medicine for the Modern Heart In the original Japanese tradition, Mikao Usui did not teach the Five Precepts as a set of moral laws or distant goals. He called them the “Secret Method of Inviting Happiness” and the “Spiritual Medicine for All Diseases.” They were designed to be lived as active commitments—vibrations that we