53. Complementary Therapy or 'just' a Spiritual Practice

Similarly, as with the term “complementary therapy” Phyllis Furumoto hesitates to encapsulate Reiki to the restraints of the title’s question.

I consider Reiki to be a bona fide option for anybody who wants to have benefit on a physical, emotional, mental or spiritual level.

There are four aspects: healing practice, personal development, spiritual discipline and mystic order. Each is present when we get in touch with Reiki. Often the first experience is relieve of symptoms. In whatever form of practice, Reiki promotes and sometimes provokes healing in the large and in the small sense of the word.

Reiki can be someone’s spiritual practice and become a much broader landscape from which to operate as a human being. As a community of people who choose Reiki as a spiritual practice we can be seen as a mystic order…

…without the benefit or intercession of someone else, like a minister, a priest, a facilitator.