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REIKI SYMBOLS AND INNOVATIVE WAYS
TO USE THEM
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Table of Contents
Part 1: The Symbols ......................................................................................................................................4
Meaning of Cho Ku Rei or The Reiki Power Symbol..................................................................................4
How to Use the Reiki Power Symbol.....................................................................................................4
Example Uses of the Reiki Power Symbol.............................................................................................5
Meaning of Reiki Emotional / Mental Symbol Sei He Ki ...........................................................................6
How to Use the Reiki Emotional / Mental Symbol ...............................................................................7
Example Uses of the Reiki Emotional / Mental Symbol........................................................................7
Meaning of Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen or the Reiki Distance Healing Symbol ..................................................8
Example Uses of the Reiki Distance Healing Symbol ............................................................................9
How to use the Reiki Distance Healing Symbol ....................................................................................9
How to Send Distance Healing Reiki Using Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen........................................................10
Benefits of Receiving a Reiki Session through the Reiki Distance Healing Symbol.............................10
Part 2: Innovative Ways to Use the Symbols..............................................................................................11
5 Steps to Find Lost Objects Using Reiki .................................................................................................11
Reiki Alarm Clock.....................................................................................................................................11
Looking for Parking Space with Reiki......................................................................................................11
Charging Bathtub Water with Reiki ........................................................................................................12
Treating Future Situations with Reiki......................................................................................................12
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Reiki Symbols and Innovative Ways to
Use Them
Reiki symbols are basically Sanskrit derived Japanese forms that helps improve the flow of Life Force
Energy. These symbols are an essential part of Reiki practice and they used to be secret and revealed
only to Reiki students who are initiated into the advance or master level. However, with the technology
available today it’s hard to keep anything secret :), so information about them can easily be found on
the internet.
Although these symbols do not have any special power in of themselves, using these them after
attunement helps a practitioner focus the Reiki energies. There are primarily three symbols used in
traditional Reiki. They are Cho ku Rei or the Reiki Power Symbol, Sei He Ki or the Emotional or Mental
Healing Symbol, and Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen or the Distance Healing Symbol.
This book contains two parts. Part 1 presents the symbols and some ways to use them individually. Part
2 contains some innovative ways to use the symbols together to manage some day to day situations.

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Part 1: The Symbols
Meaning of Cho Ku Rei or The Reiki Power Symbol
Cho Ku Rei which is considered one of the first symbols used in Usui Reiki essentially means “Placing all
the powers of the universe here”. The Reiki power symbol basically works like a “switch” that helps to
instantly increase Reiki practitioner’s ability to channel the energies. The main purpose of using it is to
enhance the power of Reiki and draw the energy around and concentrate it on the required purpose.
The power symbol looks like a coil, and it is meant to not only increase and decrease the flow of
energies, but also aids in modifying the flow of “ki” energies to a great extent. The Cho Ku Rei can be
drawn in both counter and spiral clockwise directions. Some Reiki masters draw it counter clockwise
when applied in areas or places where there is excess energy, and clockwise in areas where there is
deficient energy or used during a Reiki session in a person who tends to lack energy.
Cho Ku Rei – the Power Symbol
How to Use the Reiki Power Symbol
The Reiki power symbol is used primarily to connect with Reiki energy at the start of a session and also
to help boost the Reiki power whenever it is required during a session. Reiki practitioners have their
own preference about using the Cho Ku Rei symbol. As an example a healer might draw or visualizes the
symbol in front of them and repeat the mantra “Cho ku Rei” three times.
Using this power symbol on the palms of the hand and on each chakra helps to clear channels and
empowers a practitioner’s hands before giving a Reiki treatment. Similarly, while using the power
symbol over the crown of the clients head helps create positive energy around him, using Cho Ku Rei
over the client’s lower back and behind his heart helps seal the energy in at the end of the treatment.
Although Cho Ku Rei can be used anytime during a Reiki session, it proves to be especially effective
when it is used in the start (to increase Reiki energy) or at the end (to close a treatment and seal the
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Example Uses of the Reiki Power Symbol
The Reiki power symbol is an all-purpose symbol that can be used anywhere and everywhere for
anything. Here are a few ways that Cho Ku Rei can be used.
Empower other Reiki Symbols
Using the Reiki power symbol before other Reiki symbols such as Mental or Emotional Symbol or the
Distance Healing Symbol proves to be highly beneficial in empowering these symbols and helping them
work in a more efficient way.
Helps in Spot Treatment
Drawing Cho Ku Rei on a specific part of your body helps in focusing the Reiki energies on that particular
spot, thereby helping cure or heal the problem in a successful way.
Clears Negative Energies
Drawing Cho Ku Rei mentally proves to be highly useful in clearing all the stagnated energies during a
Reiki session. Similarly, drawing it on the walls of a room helps in clearing all the negative energies in the
room, and drawing it in the atmosphere around a physical space aids in cleansing the area in an effective
manner.
Provide Protection
Drawing a large Power Symbol in front of a person or on each of his chakras works as a shield and
protects the person from negative energies in successful manner. Using this Reiki symbol helps create a
protective field around an individual, thereby protecting him from all negative energies around. Reiki
works on different levels (physically, emotionally or mentally) and Cho Ku Rei will naturally provide
protection on all these levels.
Makes Your Meal Healthier and More Nutritious
Drawing the Cho Ku Rei symbol over your meals before you start eating can help remove all the negative
energies present in the food thereby making it more healthy and nutritious for you to eat.
Reduce Side Effects of Medication
Drawing the Reiki power symbol on your medication can go a long way in helping reduce the side effects
of the drugs and helps them work in a more effective manner.
Improve Relationships
Drawing Cho Ku Rei on greetings, gifts and business cards will enhance both personal and professional
relationships in a positive way. However, remember that although relationships cannot be controlled
with Reiki, using these positive energies will work for the highest good and bring about the best results
for the relationship.
Prevent Misfortune
The Reiki power symbol helps in connecting to the universal energy instantly, and using it can help
prevent a misfortune or a bad event to a great extent. Since a misfortune essentially happens to an
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beneficial in purifying the energy system instantly, thereby preventing a misfortune in a successful
manner.
Enhance Creative Levels
It also helps revive your first three chakras; it not only helps in strengthening and activating their
harmonization, but also helps to enhance your creativity to unimaginable levels in a positive way.
Activating the Law of Attraction
Cho Ku Rei proves to be an amazing law of attraction focusing tool. Adding new functions to this symbol
and having a clear statement and good intention of what you want, you can use this Reiki symbol to help
you successfully achieve positive results. Just be sure to keep in mind that Reiki is an intelligent energy
that works for the highest good, therefore you should not form any attachments to the desired
outcome, but instead be open to new, creative solutions and experiences.
Meaning of Reiki Emotional / Mental Symbol Sei He Ki
The name “Sei He Ki” means “The earth and sky meet” or “God and Man become one”.
This Reiki symbol acts on a person’s conscious mind (the mental body) and subconscious mind
(emotional body), and is used primarily for emotional and mental healing, clearing, purification,
protection and balancing. This symbol is known as the Mental and Emotional Healing Symbol, but it
plays an important role in providing protection.
Most of our ailments are caused by mental and emotional imbalance in our bodies. The use of the
emotional healing symbol helps in bringing the problem to the surface and liberates emotional and
mental issues that cause of the problem. This symbol also aids in balancing the left and right side of the
brain and promotes peace and harmony. The use of Sei He Ki proves to be highly beneficial in drawing
gentle and subtle energies required to ease feeling of sorrow or suffering in a person.
Sei He Ki – the Emotional / Mental Symbol

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How to Use the Reiki Emotional / Mental Symbol
Different practitioners use the Reiki mental and emotional symbol in different ways. For example, the
practitioner draws the Cho Ku Rei (the power symbol) to create a connection with the Reiki energy
source. Sei He Ki is then drawn over the troubled area where the Reiki energies are required. The
energies are sealed by drawing the power symbol or Cho Ku Rei again. This sustains the effect of Sei He
Ki for a longer time.
Example Uses of the Reiki Emotional / Mental Symbol
Improve Memory Power
Reiki Sei He Ki symbol proves to be highly beneficial in improving your memor. Thus, while drawing this
Reiki symbol on pages of your book, it can help you memorize the content of the page while reading or
studying. Visualizing the symbol on top of your head can help you remember things that you might have
forgotten; such as your keys, the name of a person, and an answer for the test, or just about anything
else. The fact associated with usage of this symbol is that it enhances the functions of both the right and
left side of the brain and helps you remember things in a better way, improving your memory power
productively.
Get Rid of Bad Habits
Reiki mental and emotional symbol aids in restoring emotional and psychological balance in a person’s
body and promotes deep healing. The use of this Reiki symbol helps in eliminating unwanted or bad
habits such alcoholism, smoking cigarettes or overeating. Visualizing or drawing this Reiki symbol around
you helps in changing your negative beliefs, negative parental or social conditioning and makes you a
more positive person. It can help you to get rid of any habits that do not serve your higher good.
Improve Relationships
Drawing the Sei He Ki symbol around your surroundings and the people involved in a troubled
relationship can prove to highly beneficial in giving you the wisdom and strength to sort out your
problems amicably. Using this Reiki symbol will help bring relationship problems to the surface and
make you tackle them successfully.
Empowers Your Affirmations
Affirmations are powerful tools that can play a vital role in helping you to achieve your goal successfully.
The Reiki Mental Symbol works in the subconscious mind, repeating the name of this symbol mentally
can help in empowerment of your affirmations and help you accomplish your goal.
Personal Bodyguard
Drawing the Reiki mental and emotional symbol around you can go a long way in protecting you from
the negative vibrations and allowing only the positive energies to reach you. This Reiki symbol is
otherwise called protection symbol and can also be used as protective shield during purification
ceremonies to help in removing negative energy from the physical body or from the aura. In fact, this
symbol tends to work like an “antiseptic ointment“, when used before, during or after an operation or
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Reduce Stress
Place both your hands on your crown and visualize the Reiki mental and emotional symbol spinning on
your head. By doing so, you will be amazed to see this spin of symbol does not make you feel dizzy, but
instead, will help in facilitating harmony and balance in your body. Ultimately, it will help you get relief
from stress at all levels.
Dissipates Headaches
Sei He Ki is used to heal emotional issues that can cause physical problems too. By using this Reiki
symbol, you can find a way to heal your headaches caused due any mental or emotional instability.
Thus, using this Reiki symbol proves to be a good solution to help you cure your headaches naturally,
without having to take any kind of medications (remember to drink a lot of water too, as many
headaches are caused by dehydration).
Helps to Find Lost Objects
Drawing the Reiki mental and emotional symbol in the front of you and asking for assistance to locate
lost objects will help you either find the objects or give you ability to think and remember the location at
which you kept it in the first place. Thus, this Reiki symbol proves to be useful in helping you find
misplaced things in an easy and simple manner.
Harmony
Reiki Sei He Ki symbol teaches us about the synchronization or harmony of things in nature. This symbol
teaches subconsciously about the rhythmic cycle of nature, the need of adaptability towards changes
and understanding the importance of non attachment. The symbol proves to be highly beneficial in
making an individual tgain more positive outlook of life and helping them stay happy throughout their
life.
Meaning of Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen or the Reiki Distance Healing Symbol
This Reiki symbol which means’ having no present, past or future’ is essentially used for absentee
healing and to send Reiki energy across time and space. The fact that distance is no barrier while using
this Reiki symbol, this symbol is primarily used to bridge time and heal karmic tendencies that have
manifested as sickness or illness in the body or resulted in emotional or mental pain or distress.

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Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen – the Distance Healing Symbol
Example Uses of the Reiki Distance Healing Symbol
Heal the Past
Sending Reiki in the past helps heal past life traumas that happen to be affecting you in negatively the
present. Things done in the past cannot be changed; but sending Reiki to the past not only helps
reframe the experience as part of learning process, but also helps heal the pain and move on with our
lives in a more confident and positive manner.
Enhance Future Conditions
Using the distance healing symbol for the future helps in storing the Reiki energy like a battery to be
accessed at a time when you require it in the future. Thus, sending Reiki ahead for doctor’s
appointments, interviews, examinations, workshops, weather or traveling can go a long way in helping
you adjust to the unforeseen and unknown circumstances of the future.
To Heal across Time and Space
The Reiki distance healing symbol proves to be highly beneficial to send Reiki across a room, town, to
different parts of your country or just anywhere across the world in a simple, easy and successful
manner.
How to use the Reiki Distance Healing Symbol
The Reiki distance healing symbol is considered one of the most powerful and helpful symbol by most
Reiki practitioners. However, when using this symbol, it is important to understand that the energies
used in long distance healing work more effectively on the subtle body of an individual like the aura or
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healing requires time to work on physical body and heal physical pain; sending Reiki energy for a
particular problem such as headaches or backaches can limit the energies to a great extent. The
recommended practice is to send Reiki to an individual as a whole, and this will allow the energy to
reach directly to the part of the body where it is required the most.
Periodically empowering the long distance healing on day to day basis plays a vital role in helping the
energies work effectively in a successful manner. However, it should be noted that Reiki cannot be used
to change an individual or his behavior. The wisdom of Reiki understands what is best for the individual,
and the energies act accordingly for the best possible outcome.
How to Send Distance Healing Reiki Using Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen
There are many ways to send Reiki, and different Masters might use different techniques. Here we
present one of these techniques. You can change it to better match your style – remember, Reiki can do
no harm; just send with the intention that the highest good be served.
1. Activate the power symbol by drawing and repeating the name Cho Ku Rei thrice.
2. Draw and repeat the name of the Reiki distance healing symbol thrice mentally. Seal it with the
power symbol.
3. Write the name of the recipient in a piece of paper and hold the paper in between your hands.
4. Draw the symbol Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen in the air above the paper. Repeat the mantra thrice.
5. Repeat the name of the recipient thrice and their location once.Draw the power symbol and
repeat the mantra thrice.
6. Allow Reiki to flow (for three to five minutes) to the recipient for the greatest and highest good.
7. Finish the Reiki session by either clapping your hands or shaking them vigorously in order to cut
the connection.
An alternative way of distant healing is to either use their photograph or use a proxy ( a soft toy or any
object) instead of writing their name on a piece of paper.
Benefits of Receiving a Reiki Session through the Reiki Distance Healing Symbol
One of the greatest benefits of receiving Reiki energy through Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen is the fact that it
allows you to receive positive energy just anywhere and everywhere in a quick and easy manner. To
receive distant healing treatment, you do not have to spend extra time or go anywhere to receive Reiki
treatment. Distance healing treatment also proves to be a perfect tool for all those people who find it
uncomfortable to receive hands on Reiki treatment. Reiki sessions are not only affordable but also helps
maintain your privacy.
Reiki distance healing symbol can be used regularly to help keep your mind, body and spirit in harmony
in a successful manner. However, it is important to remember that one of the most significant things in
distant healing is the intention of the Reiki practitioner. Thus, formulating the intentions carefully and
using the Reiki distance healing symbol to transmit energies only for the highest good, whatever that is
and whether it is known to us or not, can go long way in producing positive results.

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Part 2: Innovative Ways to Use the Symbols
All these simple techniques can be performed by a second Reiki Degree practitioner. However, since
Reiki is intended to be done only for the good, it is important that the motive behind using these Reiki
techniques is harmless and is used only to help you solve your day to day problems.
5 Steps to Find Lost Objects Using Reiki
You can use Reiki for finding lost objects. Here’s how to do it.
Instructions
1. Write down the name or description of the lost object on a piece of white paper.
2. Draw the distance treatment symbol on the paper once and repeat the name of the symbol
thrice mentally.
3. Repeat three times the name or description of the object and ask the Reiki symbol to help you
to lead to the object.
4. Now, draw the mental healing symbol and repeat the name of this symbol thrice. Seal
everything with the power symbol.
5. Put the piece of paper in a safe place and return to normal life.
In the course of the day you will either find the lost object or just remember where the lost object is. Of
course, if it serves your highest good, that is :-).
Reiki Alarm Clock
Here’s another inovative way to use Reiki: Alarm Clock!
Instructions
1. Repeat the name of the distance healing symbol thrice after drawing it mentally.
2. First say your name and then say – please wake me up at – the required time- feeling energetic
and refreshed.
3. Now, mentally draw the mental healing symbol and repeat them name of the symbol thrice.
4. Seal everything by drawing the power symbol in your mind and repeating the name of this
symbol thrice.
This Reiki technique which takes about three to five minutes to be completed can help you wake up in
the morning at a specific time without having to use an alarm clock.
Looking for Parking Space with Reiki
This Reiki technique which takes about two minutes should be used before you start driving to a
particular destination. Using this technique will help you find a parking space easily.
Instructions
1. Relax completely before drawing the power symbol. Repeat the name of the symbol thrice.
2. Now, draw the distance healing symbol mentally. Repeat the name of the symbol three times.
3. Repeat the words “I will find a good parking space in – a particular location” three times.
4. Seal it by drawing the power symbol mentally and repeating the name of this symbol thrice.

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5. Drive to the required destination feeling completely relaxed.
Charging Bathtub Water with Reiki
This technique proves to be quite useful for helping you enrich your bathtub water with Reiki energy,
thereby helping you stay energetic and refreshed for the rest of the day.
Instructions
1. Place your hands on top of the bathtub water.
2. Draw the mental healing symbol one time and repeat the name of this symbol thrice.
3. Seal everything by drawing the power symbol and repeating the name of this symbol three
times.
4. Say- Let the energy run through this bathtub water.
5. Now, move your hands through this bath water quite a few times. This will help disperse the
energy all through the water tub in an efficient manner.
Bathing with water that is charged with Reiki can prove to be highly beneficial in not only cleansing all
the sweat and dirt from your body, but also in washing off all the tensions and worries of everyday life.
Treating Future Situations with Reiki
This Reiki technique requires about 10 to 15 minutes to be completed. It can be used for enriching
future situations with Reiki.
Instructions
1. Draw the distance treatment symbol once and repeat the name of this symbol thrice mentally.
2. Describe or name the particular situation you want to provide Reiki three times. Say- I want to
give Reiki to this situation -try to specify the day( date, month and year) and the approximate
time duration of that situation.
3. Draw the mental healing symbol once and repeat the name of this symbol thrice mentally. Send
it to the situation.
4. Seal everything by drawing and repeating the name of the power symbol thrice.
Keep in mind that treating other people involved in a situation requires you have the recipient’s
permission; send the energy only to yourself when treating a future situation using this Reiki technique.
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