22/01/2026
Mikao Usui, the founder of the practice commonly called Reiki, referred to his ‘Reiki Ryoho’ as ‘the secret method of inviting happiness’. The secret was never a secret, simply hidden in plain sight, revealed in ‘the Now’ that is the foundation of his system of practice.
The Now is alive in the presence of treatment practice. Alive in the precepts as instructions for being ‘in the now moment’. The now is the environment of the second degree practice that connects with the non physical reality that exists beyond the five physical senses.
Phyllis Furumoto used the term ‘Mystic Order’ to give a name an to an aspect of the form of practice that she received from her teacher Hawayo Takata. Our physically based lived experience of the practice is the three aspects she called Healing Practice, Spiritual Discipline and Self Development.
Mystical Order, when viewed from these known physical life experiences may seem mysterious, even unknowable. Mikao Usui described the true purpose of his way as correcting the ‘heart-mind’. ‘Heart-mind’ is neither heart nor mind. The concept is of a third ‘place’ that is a synthesis of heart and mind.
The correction of the heart-mind is a mind shift directly into the experience of Mystic Order. From this totally novel and new vantage point, the nature of the practice and its opening into the knowing of who and what we truly are is revealed.
This is ‘The Secret Method’.
