Reiki symbols are Japanese forms derived from Sanskrit are mostly influenced by this old language. These symbols are means of centering or focusing your attention in order to connect with “specific” healing frequencies and are used to increase energy and to help direct the flow of Ki (or chi in Chinese). These symbols are taught during the Second Degree of Reiki by a Reiki master. They are pictorial/written symbols that are used in the attunement processes and in the healing processes.

The energy involved, the Ki, was and still is the root of the entire body of Chinese medicine, where it is known as chi. Its name is actually meant to be a mantra that helps one connect with the symbol’s energy, and means “Right consciousness is the root for everything”, or better yet, “Correct thought is the essence of being”. During the Reiki attunement the energy of the attunement causes the Reiki symbols to become a stimulus and the particular energy the symbol represents which is present during the attunement becomes the response.

Reiki Symbols

Traditional Reiki uses three main symbols and the addition of a fourth at the master level. Here are more details explanation about the function of each symbols:

Cho Ku Rei

This is the symbol that most manuals describe as “The Power Symbol.” It is a powerful symbol. Use the symbol for healing, but it is also useful for charging objects with healing energy. it is understandable that the ChoKuRei also has protective qualities. Unless there is some Divine purpose that must prevail – which is rare – the person or object will be protected by virtue of being aligned with the Divine.

Sei Hei Ki

This is one of the Reiki Symbols that is most often referred to as “the mental emotional” symbol. When seen with “second sight,” this symbol seems to raise a sort of bluewhite  light that infuses the body and especially the aura. The aura is particularly sensitive to thoughts and emotions: what you think almost spontaneously fills the aura, for good or ill. Most illnesses begin here, then, with thoughts or emotions, altering the blueprint of the physical body, until the unhealthy condition manifests in the physical body.Healing the symptoms only might provide temporary relief.

Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen

Often called “the Distance Symbol,” that pulls aside the veil of illusion and reveals the Universal Truth: time and distance do not actually exist. Use this symbol if you want to heal people at an apparent distance, or when there might be a time factor. If you know someone’s illness began with an incident in childhood, for instance, you can use this symbol to work on that incident, bringing the healing all the way to the present. If a surgery or dental appointment is looming, you can “send” healing to the day and place of the event. “Sending” is not the best of words to use for this process, but it’s the one most of us understand the best.

Dai Ko Myo

Dai Ko Myo is the master symbol of Usui Reiki. Its function is to align and open all the chakras and prepare the body for the permanent transmission of Reiki.

Reiki symbols are use extensively in the Reiki healing method; even though Reiki energy can be transmitted without any symbols, these symbols are very effective to guide and boost the proper energy for specific healing or other purposes. Reiki symbols are very important.

Each of the symbols can be activated in several ways. First, they can be drawn in the palm of your hand. Second, they can be visualized. Third, they can be spelled or called out loud three times each. Then they can be placed or drawn on the patient’s chakras, on their hands or on the area to be treated. All of the Reiki symbols can be use individually or together in combination. Those symbols are really powerful in the Reiki healing method.