My Experience
Applying the scan method started shortly after my first Reiki level 1 attunement. My training had not included scanning, my training had involved a very specific set of hand placements, performed in order both on the front of the body and back of the body. It dawned on me to use the scan as a method when I was creating an author workshop in Hawaii 2015.
Consciously working with my intuitive abilities during healings lead me to pay regard to a "signal" which would guide me to apply reiki in a specific area of the body. As I went from hand placement to hand placement, the signal would also tell me how long to keep my hands there. From my very first reiki healing, I understood the area itself had meaning. Making the connection to Louis Hay's body of work, specifically; "You Can Heal Yourself", helped me understand the body-mind connection. I immediately attached it to my understanding of numerology by using a clients' diagnosis.
As my intuitive abilities increased (practice and my next level attunement), my empathic abilities kicked in and I soon had more information to offer in regards to the 'hits' I was getting. Understanding how much time it would take in a session to do all the hand placements AND interpret the information, I began doing an initial scan, jotting down my findings, delving into each one and clearing them. My sessions include clients participation in both the interpretation and clearing of the energy as I am just the conduit.
It wasn't until 2020 that I learned that this 'scan' method was an intended purposeful thing to do. In March of 2020, my Reiki Master Art Kuhns, gave me a copy of Rands Reiki Master handbook to study when he conducted my Reiki Master attunement. In reading this book, I learned Rand had the idea to scan clients back in 1980. He refers to it as a ‘Byosen Scan’ (page 57 of Level I and II of The Healing Touch handbook).
Low and behold- further study of reiki's history, I've discovered that the intensive and rather expensive ($10,000) training included the intuitive piece... the scanning of the body to discover where the reiki needed to be applied and for how long. At some point, some students were unable to do this intuitive piece and the hand placements were developed!
Combining all of this information: the signal, the body part, body-mind connection and the numerology interpretation of it, incredible insight was gained. Which leads to greater healing because of understanding the spiritual aspect of illnesses.
What is a Byosen Scan?
So what exactly is this byosen scan? Fun fact: Rand might have come into scanning naturally, as I had, but it was part of reiki healing from the start!
