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Mikao Usui was a Japanese Tendai Buddhist who studied Kiko, a form of Martial Arts similar to Qiging. In 1922 he went on a search to discover a healing method, similar to that used by Jesus and the Buddha, that would not deplete his own life force energy. After years of dedicated research and a twenty-one-day retreat on Mount Kurama, involving meditation, fasting, and prayer. Usui claimed that by mystical revelation he had gained the knowledge and spiritual power to apply and attune others to what is called “Reiki”.

The name Reiki derives from two Japanese characters rei’ (meaning ‘unseen’ or ‘spiritual’) and ki (Chinese qi or chi, here meaning ‘energy’ or ‘life force’, Prana in India, Mana in Hawaii and other names around the world). In English, the meaning of Reiki is often given as ‘Universal life force energy’ or “Spiritually guided life force energy”.

Reiki is a holistic therapy which brings about healing on physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels. It is said that healing may occur in any or all of these domains in a single treatment, without a complete understanding needed by either the practitioner or the recipient. It is administered by “laying on hands” and is based on the idea that an unseen “life force energy” flows through us and is what causes us to be alive. If one’s “life force energy” is low, then we are more likely to get sick or feel stress, and if it is high, we are more capable of being happy and healthy. Reiki is a simple, natural and safe method of spiritual healing and self-improvement that everyone can use. It has been promoted as being effective in helping virtually every known illness and malady and always creates a beneficial effect. It also works in conjunction with all other medical or therapeutic techniques to relieve side effects and promote recovery. An amazingly simple technique to learn, the ability to use Reiki is not taught in the usual sense but is transferred to the student during a Reiki class. This ability is passed on during an “attunement” given by a Reiki Master and allows the student to tap into an unlimited supply of “life force energy” to improve one’s health and enhance the quality of life.

When we have emotional issues going on in our lives it can cause a block in the flow of our energy field or aura. If we are unable to deal with these issues, the block may move through the layers to manifest as illness or injury. When the paractitioner does Reiki on himself/herself or others, the energy blockage is cleared, allowing the mind-body-soul system to return back into homeostasis, which then speeds up the  healing process and return back to health and balance once more. The Reiki practitioner is simply the channel or hollow reed, through which the energy flows. It is drawn by the client/patient to use for their highest good, whether that is for physical, mental, emotional or spiritual purposes, or a combination of any of these levels.

Carol Macrae had been a Registered Nurse in the past, then went on to help her husband own and operate fitness centres.

She learned Reiki in 1998 after her knees had been swollen for three years due to managing fitness centres and teaching too many high impact aerobic classes every week for over 10 years. Even though surgeons told her there was a 20% chance an operation could fix her knees, and that she could never exercise again, not even go for walks, she was devestated, but would not give up.

Reiki found Carol, after a series of events which culminated in a Reiki book falling off a shelf in front of her in a book shop. After reading this book, she knew that she would have to fix herself. After taking the Reiki Levels 1 and 2 classes in Byron Bay, Carol returned home, put her hands on her knees for 20 minutes, then went to bed. In the morning when she worke, the pain and swelling was gon forever and her knees were fully healed. She exclaimed “Oh my God, this is not my imagination, this is real!” Three weeks later Carol began doing Reiki treatments on clients and saw miracles appear below her hands!

A year later Carol trained to become a Reiki and Seichim (Egyptian Healing) Master and Teacher. Three weeks later Carol started teaching Reiki to her students, who had been her clients who also wanted to be able to share this gift with their families and friends. Since then Carol has taught over 700 students and has 76 Reiki Masters she has also trained, so that they too can share the magic that is Reiki. 

This was the beginning of Carol’s life work as a healer, Clinical and 5-PATH Hypnothersapist, Touch For Health Kinesilogist, Theta Healer and Spiritual leader in her community. To heal herself, then share what she has learned with others to heal our world is her quest.