Dina,
Thank you for your kind words. What I was referring to in regards to the Takata's "makes the system simpler" was the organization of various hand positions.
I preface the following remarks with the caution that I have not personally heard the tapes where Takato details a "standard" treatment, and so the following is based on what I have been told by one who was actually there. (This is also what we term "heresay," and so my disclaimer.)
Most Reiki practitioners are taught the standard litany of hand positions, the head, torso, legs & feet, then flip them over and do the back.
Takata's treatment hand position organization started at the diaphram, worked down the torso, then did the head. For a variety of reasons, she felt the head wasn't all that big a deal unless she was dealing with the eyes, ears or sinuses. Mental issues were mostly dealt with through the lower organs.
It wasn't until she was gone, I am told, that the hand positions most of us use today were adopted by a number of the 22 original masters. But they weren't, apparently, a part of Takata's teaching.
That is what I meant...does it clarify things?
With love from the Corndodger
