(Japanese) Spiritual offering or blessing.
This is the Japanese origin of what is known today as attunements, initiations or transformations. Reiju is one of the five elements of the system of Reiki. It helps to strengthen students’ connection with spiritual energy and raises their personal energy levels. This in turn gives a sense of reconnection to one’s true self. It also helps to clear the meridians, allowing students to conduct more energy through the body.
Reiju is the same for each level — there are no differences as it is the student’s ability to draw on more energy that creates the differences, not the reiju itself. No symbols or mantras are used in the reiju. The reiju appears to have links to practices from within the more esoteric elements of Tendai Buddhism called Mikkyô. It mirrors a Tendai ritual called Go Shimbô, also known as ‘Dharma for Protecting the Body’.