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Cho Ku Rei

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The first symbol taught in the Usui line, commonly called the power symbol. Practitioners describe it as focusing and directing energy, and it opens and closes many sequences.

In practice

Drawn in the air or over the hands at the start of a session, and again to close one.

Taught in

Sources

  1. [A]Usui Reiki Ryōhō no Shōhō — Mikao Usui (1925)
  2. [B]Reiki symbols — Wikipedia contributors (2026)
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