Reiki has its origins in Japan where in the 1920's Mikao Usui undertook a study of the healing phenomena of history's greatest spiritual leaders. Through study, research, and meditation, he evolved a system of healing he called reiki. He spent the rest of his life practicing and teaching this method of natural healing which involves the laying on of hands and distant treatment. Dr. Usui authored the precepts of reiki.

One of Dr. Usui's students, Chujiro Hayashi continued his work after Usui's death opening a clinic and school in Tokyo. One of Dr. Hayashi's students, Mrs. Hawayo Takata, who was born in Hawaii of Japanese descent, consulted with Dr. Hayashi about a medical problem she was having, studied reiki under him, and in 1938 was designated a reiki master. Mrs. Takata brought reiki to the mainland of the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. Mrs. Takata's granddaughter Phyllis Lei Furumoto, the present grandmaster of the Usui System of Natural Healing Usui Shiki Ryoho has taught and has encouraged the teaching of traditional reiki worldwide.

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