Usui is considered as the Grand Master of Reiki or founder of Usui Reiki system.  Dr Mikao Usai was a brilliant Medicine and Physiology student during his earlier years. Usui was born on August 15, 1865. He started some business and it was a failure , then to get relaxation he started practicing meditation. Hence he was very much attracted to the kind of feeling which those meditation gave him, he thought of experiencing it to its highest level.For that he decided to go to a holy mountain and joined a meditation camp where they do fasting , chanting as part of meditation. This training was known as “Isya Guo”

During Isya Gua training he felt that some kind of energy was getting in to his crown chakra which had increased his meditation power and healing capacity. Later on he realized that this energy can be transferred to others and they also can heal anyone. He systematized the process of attaining this energy and developed a healing therapy which was later known as Usui Reiki.

Usui considered this gift of God as his responsibility to practice and teach others who suffer from illness. He later on created different levels of reiki training. He also developed three symbols for attaining this power which is later known as attunement. All those who follows Usui Reiki is trained how to use these three reiki symbols for healing and curing others and self.