Dignity Dialogue — April 2022
Try Pranic Healing
In these testing times when survival is at stake, healing physically and mentally is important. Raj S. Rangarajan provides a few pointers.
How often have we heard the refrain from medical practitioners in the EU: “It’s a matter of time, it is beyond us, guess, it’s timefor prayer.” This sentiment from doctors is prevalent in many cultures, religions and faiths all over the globe. Even in movies. Some openly carry their faiths with manifest articulation and external displays, others practice their beliefs quietly. Some others are insecure and reach out to the almighty in some form. In these situations do prayers help?
Over the past two plus years, with the onset of the corona virus pandemic and following uncertainties in day-to-day living (read ‘survival’ in some countries), many seniors, younger folk and even school-going kids have been worried.
Some are helpless and throw tantrums to cope. The number of people who have taken to prayer has increased all over the world. Temples, churches, mosques, gurdwaras and other places of worship are overflowing with nonbelievers and nihilists. Reasons attributed are the relentless scourge of the pandemic with its mutative variants — Delta and now albeit a ‘milder’ Omicron — leading to doubts and fear of the unknown.
Some of us personally know or have heard of someone who succumbed to the virus affliction. In hospitals and nursing facilities in the US, we hear periodically of horror stories of helpless frustration as also joyous celebrations. Each day brings varied mixed emotions for frontline healthcare workers — doctors, nurses, caregivers, porters, drivers and other hospital staff — who are intimately involved in this common calling of healing. One wonders how they survive each day. One’s faith helps when everything seems lost. Ask any hospital care worker.
Vidya Tathacharya
Connecting with an unknown power beyond oneself seems to help many. Prayer keeps them going? Some articulate their sentiments overtly, others in subtle allusions in conversations with family and friends. Social networks and some media sadly spread negativity and a pervasive sense of doom.
With the pandemic not abating, many are supremely stressed and are hurting — physically, mentally and psychologically. There are instances of people hiring psychologists or therapists to live their daily lives. Many of us have to cope with newer healing mechanisms. Varied techniques are being offered — holistic, spiritual, natural, energy, crystals, reiki, aromatherapy, et al.
One of the ‘energy’ methods used is called pranic healing founded by Grand Master Choa Kuk Sui (GMCKS), originally from the Philippines. His disciple from California is Master Stephen Co. Pranic healing is a highly developed and tested system of energy treatment that uses ‘prana’ to balance, harmonise and transform the body’s energy processes.
There is no touching of patients in this healing process as in allopathy. One such practitioner from Chennai is Vidya Tathacharya who follows Master Co. Vidya is an invocative, instructive healer and uses her basic faith and universal energy to heal people by following certain protocols. Her close, personal thoughts are addressed to herself — like prayer — and her spiritual focus is directed toward the person’s ailment. Her soul concentration helps the patient in distress. Attached to the Twin Hearts Meditation in Chennai since 2014, Vidya has been quietly healing ailments ranging from physical distress to lingering anger, from broken emotional relationships to road rage.
Qualified in psychology Vidya says, “Pranic healing doesn’t have to necessarily pertain to physical illness; the practice can also be applied to practical aspirations like getting a new apartment or acquiring a life partner.” Her practice trains women managers through proactive, Zoom sessions in their respective career disciplines. She also conducts group-energy courses in pranic psychotherapy where she addresses mental stresses, phobias, depression or other compulsive behaviour. Vidya narrated a recent incident wherein she healed a lady remotely.
An acquaintance had hinted that a particular person in Mumbai had suffered a stroke. While the patient was being stabilised by doctors, Vidya — 1,400 km away — focussed her ‘chakras’ and meditative experience to slowly redirect the existent pure energy toward the patient. Within five days the patient recovered and was in a position to start walking again. Each of us can self-heal; we don’t need another caregiver (see resources below). With ‘prana’ or life force all around us we can motivate our spiritual energy centres of the body to absorb and process our own bodies. Proper pranic breathing techniques will help us in absorbing air prana. If we expose ourselves to the sun, we can absorb sun prana.
Vidya adds, “The feedback from these meetings is very satisfying and personally instructive.” Lakshmi Gayatri Mantra is suggested for prosperity. Also shown below are pointers in terms of the chakras and the aura that accompanies it. It also shows how a specific part of one’s body can be healed by distant healing: it involves scanning the affected part, cleansing the dirty energy and energising the body part with fresh energy. Guru Stephen Co recommends bathing with water (with salt) will help in removing diseased energy from our body as well. Water and salt therapy is reportedly effective, strengthening the body and making it stronger.
A college classmate of mine has been constantly complaining that because of the pandemic problem, he lives in a state of terror. He is restless, cannot sleep, and admits that he would prefer to die. Mercifully, his cool, philosophically-minded wife realistically reassures him that dying is not that easy! His will to not live is constantly being tested by his will power to continue to survive, thanks to his daily dose of prescribed medication from homeopathy and ayurveda. In a light-hearted aside the wife admonishes: “Stop threatening!”
Resources
• https://www.thepranichealers.com/masterchoa-kok-sui-courses
• https://www.masterco.org/
• https://praniclifestyle.com/blogs/pranic-lifestyle/lakshmi-gayatrimantra-by-master-choakok-sui
• https://pranickolkata.com/twin-hearts/
