Reiki master William Lee Rand has created the first comprehensive, interactive "tool kit" for the hundreds of thousands of Reiki

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Product Description

Who doesn't know someone who has experienced Reiki? In the past decades, this energetic healing art from Japan has exploded in popularity. Now, Reiki master William Lee Rand has created the first comprehensive, interactive "tool kit" for the hundreds of thousands of Reiki students to use in their personal or professional practice. Listeners at all levels— from recently attuned beginners to experienced practitioners—will discover an indispensable source of teaching on audio, video, and the printed page in Th e Reiki Touch. This one-of-a-kind kit includes: • Detailed training on DVD, featuring step-by-step instruction on Reiki energy techniques • 20 reference cards for the key hand positions used in Reiki healing • Guided meditations on CD for spiritual protection, quickening your healing process, and spiritual techniques for problem solving • Music CD especially designed to accompany Reiki practice • 100-page workbook, complete with illustrations and diagrams, covering such topics as sending Reiki healing over distances, using Reiki to see auras and explore past lives, energizing your creativity, and much more

Through independent publishing alone, William Lee Rand has sold over 120,000 handbooks for Reiki students. Now with The Reiki Touch, he brings to anyone interested in this popular healing art the definitive all-purpose guide for every aspect of Reiki practice.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #40376 in Books
• Published on: 2005-12-23
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 100 pages

About the Author
William Lee Rand is founder and president of The International Center for Reiki Training, creator of the Karuna Reiki system, and author of Reiki: The Healing Touch (Vision, 1998), Reiki For a New Millennium (Vision, 2000), and numerous other Reiki articles and tapes. He received his master level training from five lineage-holding Reiki masters in 1989, and has taught in the U.S. and around the world.

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Customer Reviews

The Reiki Touch
What is Reiki?

Reiki is a Japanese term.
Rei means something mysterious,miraculous, and sacred.
Ki means the atmosphere or something subtle or the energy of the universe.

The Japanese words Reiki can be defined as a miraculous and sacred energy of the universe, which sustains all life (Reiki is the name, used by Usui Sensei, for the universal/cosmic energy.)

Reiki is Spiritually Guided energy. Reiki is the name of the energy that is used with the System of Reiki. Reiki is the name used by Usui Sensei to the cosmic/universal energy.
-Hyakuten Inamoto Sensei(Founder of Komyo Reiki Kai)
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***The word Reiki is treated as a loan word and therefore written in katakana as the kanji can be deceptive, rei also referring to the spirits of dead people or ghosts. To make things more complicated still, when spoken, the word Reiki may be understood as "cool air".

Rei: Spiritually Guided, God's Love or Light, sacred, miraculous. Rei guides the ki, the second Japanese character in the word Reiki and stands for life energy. The energy that is used to give life to God's creation.

Reiki is a healing technique that utilizes deep relaxation to calm the mind, reduce stress, relax the body, and ease the spirit. Reiki can be combined with other healing modalities.

Benefits of Reiki:
-Stress reduction
-Supports physical, mental, social, emotional and spiritual well being
-Promotes qualities of loving,caring,compassion,trusting,peace,serenity
-Ease pain and discomfort
-Strengthens the immune system
-An intelligent energy that goes to the greatest need


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William Lee Rand's Reiki Touch includes:

1. DVD Video
* Hand positions for Treating Others
* Hand Positions for Self Treatment
* Byosen Scanning: uses the sensitivity of the palms to discover those areas in need of Reiki
* Gyoshi Ho: Sending Reiki with the eyes.
* Reiki Healing Session

2. Audio CD Meditations/ Music CD

3. 100 page Workbook
5. 30 Illustrated Cards

Comments :-)

***The DVD is OK. For CD, I prefer to use other Reiki Music such as:

1. Feather on the Breath of God (Audio CD) Jacobsen, Erin
2. Reiki Offering (Shastro & Nadama)
3. Garden of the Gods (Deuter)
4. Healing Waters (Dean Everson)
5. Sound Healing (Dean Everson)
6. Reiki Hands of Light (Deuter)
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Reiki Facts: (Hyakuten Inamoto Sensei)
This is not included in the workbook.

1. In the Western countries, it's been incorrectly said that Reiki healing method was rediscovered by Usui Sensei (founder of the Reiki Ryoho (Healing Art/Method) after researches in the Buddhist scriptures.

2. In the West, Usui Sensei is said to be a Christian minister and president of Christian based Dashisha University in Kyoto. Usui Sensei was from beginning to end a lay Buddhist.

3. Reiki healing method is to channel the energy of the universe, and an inspired healing art of Usui Sensei, NOT the outcome of his researches, or discovery, or re-discovery.

4. Traditionally there are no set hand positions except some positions on the head.

5. Once you are initiated into Reiki, Reiki healing ability will be all yours for the rest of your life.

6. Reiki energy will flow of its own accord (you cannot direct or manipulate it.)

***Reiki, the love, harmony and power to heal of the universe, does help and guide you to develop your spiritual growth for Reiki Ryoho is a spiritual path and practice.

***It is Reiki that does a fine job of healing, not YOU. (You as a Reiki practitioner do not do any healing. But you are very essential
for Reiki healing. Without you, Reiki cannot work.)

***The farther from the ego, the purer the Reiki channel will be.

***Deeds are the criteria of a good Reiki practitioner and a good Teacher. Your mental, verbal and bodily deeds, i.e., what you think, what you speak and what you do are of greatest importance.

***Komyo Reiki Kai, the system Inamoto Sensei has created, presents Reiki as it was understood and commonly practiced in the 1930's in Japan. This system places emphasis on spiritual enfoldment through the practice of Reiki Ryoho, aiming for "satori" or enlightenment.

Inamoto Sensei learned Reiki from Mrs. Chiyoko Yamaguchi who had trained with Chujiro Hayashi, one of Usui Sensei's original students.

I'm a Reiki beginner
As the title says... I'm a beginner, and The Reiki Touch kit seems to be a great introduction so far. I'm pleased with the packaging... everything fits nicely into a sturdy presentation box (what you see in the picture). I've begun reading the workbook, and I'll get further into the study when I have time to look more carefully at the cards. Good so far.

Worth the Money
The Reiki Touch by William Rand consists of an instructional workbook, a CD containing three guided meditations, a music CD, a DVD and 30 illustrated Reiki cards. It represents good value for money and is useful, if not always ideal, for beginners and experienced practitioners alike.

The Reiki workbook is both original and conventional. It is conventional in that it includes the usual explanation of what Reiki is; a brief summary of its history; an explanation and illustration of the standard Reiki hand positions; and a brief section on how Reiki has been received and accepted by the broader (scientific and medical) community. This is all interesting, if not exceptional. The material covered is a useful summary; but lacks the detail to be much more. It is therefore better suited to a Reiki beginner who hasn't read much on the subject before.

Things are more interesting when Rand deviates from the norm and either discusses his own person experiences with Reiki or illustrates various meditation techniques (most involving visualization) that help deepen your Reiki practice. Due to their more original content, both beginner and experienced practitioner have something to learn.

The 30 Reiki cards are original and useful, albeit more suited to the advanced practitioner - especially those that have practiced not traditional forms of Reiki (for instance, Rand's own Karuna reiki, Shamballa Reiki or the like). The reason for this is that many cards discuss many Reiki symbols that will either be unknown to anyone who has not studied Reiki levels 2 and 3, or unknown to those who have simply studied traditional Usui Reiki (that only contains four symbols).

The idea is for the cards to be used in a similar way to rune or tarot cards, with a practitioner using his or her intuition to choose a card that is meaningful to him or her at that present moment in time.
The cards would be slightly more useful if they were presented in a box of their own. That way they could be more easily carried around in your pocket. As it is, you need to keep them in the Reiki Touch (kit) box which is a good deal bigger than even a large book.

The DVD is more useful to beginners than advanced practitioners as, for the most part, it illustrates the basic hand positions to be used both on yourself and others. That said, most people will find at least one or two new positions that could prove useful. Also, it is interesting to see how an experienced practitioner like Rand works. That should prove useful even to some Reiki Masters.

The music CD is solid, if not exceptional. I wouldn't use it for a Reiki session since the music is a touch (but only a touch) too quick paced and not quite soothing enough; but it would be suitable background music in either a bookstore or home.

The meditation CD is probably the most interesting part of the collection. It contains three guided meditations involving visualization. These meditations involve meeting up with `enlightened beings', however, so if you don't like anything esoteric, then they may not be suitable for you. If you have an open mind, though, they should prove both interesting and useful.