Pranic Healing, like all other forms of healing depends upon the innate ability of the living organism to set itself right. A basic instinct of the organism is self preservation and tendency to self preservation of life within form is one of the great God-given capacities.
It is through the intelligence or consciousness expressed through the bio-plasmic and physical body that the different systems in the organism are able to function auomatically and harmoniously. This does not manifest at the level of ordinary consciousness but below it and cound be called sub-conscious. It is capable of receiving and following instructions from the conscious mind and can be to an extent influenced by the latter. Thoughts and feelings of the conscious mind also affect the sub-conscious. While self expansive feelings and thoughts from the conscious mind tend to keep the body healthy and hasten the rate of recovery, those which are self-restricting will hamper it.
For the patient to appreciate this aspect of his living, he has to be first counselled that;
(a) apart from the food and drink that he takes and the air he breathes, invisible vital energy or Prana plays a very crucial role in his life, consciousness and health;
(b) this vital energy permeates throughout his body and extends a few inches beyond it;
(c) emotions and thoughts also affect him since they are also subtle energies like the Prana;
(d) these are positive or negative depending upon the positive or negative nature of the thought or feeling;
(e) while positive energy will hasten the healing, negative energy will hamper it.
If he is worried about his illness or is antagonistic to it, he is creating negative energy through his anxiety; and hostility. Since energy follows thought, by thinking about the diseased part in this context, he is directing the negative energy to it. This will undo the good effects of the cleansing of negative energy and infusion of vital energy done during the healing. If prolonged, it will also affect the sub-conscious and hamper the body's natural healing process. Net result will be that the patient may continue to be unwell despite healing or medication.
The patient should therefore be advised that;
(a) while he may acknowledge tha existence of his illness and seek its solution, he should not ruminate over it or anticipate further difficulties, so as not to generate negative energy; and to
(b) divert his anxious attention from the diseased part so as to loosen the hold of negative energy on that part;
(c) dwell on positive emotions and thoughts to create positive energy and strengthen the effects of healing and hasten the body's own healing process;
(d) focus his attention on the positive side of relief from the problem, so that the relief may become fuller and complete.
But these are easier understood than practiced. The patient has therefore to be taught some practical techniques to regulate his emotions and thoughts.
Smiling at the Heart is a very effective method in bringing about a decisive change in the mood of the patient. In this, the patient relaxes with closed eyes doing rhythmic breathing, then recalls the most pleasant incident of his life and smiles. When this happy mood is established, he smiles at his heart as he would at his most favourite companion.
Krithika Balasubramanian, D. Venugopal, Danny Gorgonia, S. Anbaresan, P. I. Peter, SS & Cliff
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