... needing to be rebuilt. Hayashi's best disciple and successor was a woman named Hawayo Takato. It is recorded that Takato lived to be eighty years old, but always appeared to be decades younger. She brought Reiki first to Hawaii, and then to America where it flourished. During her career, Takato ... things profound and life-affirming are simple" (Stein 56). These symbols have been crafted in Sanskrit-derived Japanese forms that are nearly 2500 years old (Stein 133). The symbols are signposts on the road of Enlightenment that leads to the ultimate healing. When engaging in Distance Healin...

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