HAWAYO TAKATA, THE MASTER PRACTITIONER OF REIKI

Today, The Grandma has been reading about Hawayo Hiromi Takata, the woman who who helped introduce the spiritual practice of Reiki to the Western World.

 

Hawayo Hiromi Takata (December 24, 1900-December 11, 1980) was a Japanese-American woman born in Hanamaulu, Territory of Hawaii, who helped introduce the spiritual practice of Reiki to the Western World.

Takata was trained in Reiki by Chujiro Hayashi in Tokyo, Japan and became a Master Practitioner by 1940. 

Hayashi had learned from Mikao Usui, the first teacher of Reiki, in the early 1900s. Identification of training lineage is common among Reiki practitioners. Within the tradition, Takata is sometimes known as Reiki Grand Master Teacher Hawayo Takata.

Takata lied about Reiki's history of development to make Reiki more appealing to the West. To this end she made a relation of Reiki with Jesus Christ and not with Buddhism. She also falsely presented Usui as the dean of a Christian school. While he had obtained the knowledge of Reiki from the Buddhist religious book Tantra of the Lightning Flash, Takata claimed that he had been inspired from the story of Jesus Christ, who had healed with the touch of his hand, and so had come to America to learn Reiki. She told this to spread Reiki among Christians too, believing it would otherwise be extinct. However, Reiki originated from Buddhism.

Takata died at 2.45 a.m. on December 11, 1980 at Van Buren County Memorial Hospital, in Keosauqua, Iowa.

Reiki is a pseudoscientific form of energy healing, a type of alternative medicine originating in Japan.

Reiki practitioners use a technique called palm healing or hands-on healing through which, according to practitioners, a universal energy is transferred through the palms of the practitioner to the client, to encourage emotional or physical healing. It is based on qi (chi), which practitioners say is a universal life force, although there is no empirical evidence that such a life force exists.

Reiki is used as an illustrative example of pseudoscience in scholarly texts and academic journal articles. The marketing of reiki has been described as fraudulent misrepresentation, and itself as a nonsensical method, with a recommendation that the American government agency NCCAM should stop funding reiki research because it has no substantiated health value and lacks a scientifically plausible rationale.

Clinical research does not show reiki to be effective as a treatment for any medical condition, including cancer, diabetic neuropathy, anxiety or depression. There is no proof of the effectiveness of reiki therapy compared to placebo. Studies reporting positive effects have had methodological flaws.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the English alternative medicine word reiki comes from Japanese reiki (霊気) mysterious atmosphere, miraculous sign, combining rei universal and ki vital energy—the Sino-Japanese reading of Chinese língqì (靈氣) numinous atmosphere.

A session usually lasts for approximately one hour. A Level 1 practitioner places their hand or hands on or near various parts of the body for several minutes. During this time, a vital energy is meant to flow from the practitioner into the client's body. Level 2 practitioners alternatively may offer their services at a distance with no skin contact.

Mikao Usui originated the practice in Japan. According to the inscription on his memorial stone, Usui taught his system of reiki to more than 2,000 people during his lifetime. While teaching reiki in Fukuyama, Usui suffered a stroke and died on 9 March 1926.

The first reiki clinic in the United States was started in 1970 by Hawayo Takata, a student of Chujiro Hayashi, who was a disciple of Usui.

More information: AETW

I am a teacher of healing.
What's the sense of having a good mind
if the body is riddled with illness?

Hawayo Hiromi Takata