Finality,
__My thoughts now (subject to change, as I learn):
Heart is not subject to the rational/analytical processes, as Heart is allied with right-brain function. Heart: feelings, intuition, compassion, vis-à-vis the Intellect and left-brain function.
In the process of “letting go”, of Being, to open the self to ULE, the ego is bypassed and Heart is engaged. It happens, that this “letting-go” process is very effective—as the individual has stepped out of the way: holding no expectation and allowing "highest good" to prevail. When one makes less conscious effort (“hands-off”, so to speak ; ~) and permits oneself to just Be, it follows that the result is so much more. Through this process of “just Being” or “letting go”, coming from the Heart, the practitioner becomes a clear vessel for ULE.
__Finality: "I am not remembering any connection of reiki and intuition."
Through intention, when the practitioner asks that his hands be led or directed to the area of need, is not intuition being engaged? I am not at all sure that Usui ever actually used the word “intuition”, but that he did, I think, speak of asking that our hands be led or directed to the area of need or asking that our hands go to the area of need. It could be that Usui Sensei called it “a knowing” or maybe he did call it intuition.
At any rate he called this process: Reiji Ho.
As I understand it, Reiji Ho is performed at the beginning of a Reiki session. It is prayerful intention to connect with the ULE, to become one with it, to merge with ULE, to Be Reiki. It is a way of getting the head out of the way, of emptying the mind. An inner knowing, a deep knowing, a guidance takes over, aka intuition, as we become more open to listening, a mindfulness, which results in the guiding of the hands to the area of need. What are your thoughts?
Yes, I think of Intuition definitely as "Spirit connection", as you mention.
Peace Be,
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