Mechanism Behind Psychosomatic Diseases Notes

The Nature Of The Energy Body

The energy body interpenetrates the visible physical body and extends beyond it by four to five inches. This invisible luminous energy field which follows the contour of the visible physical body is called the inner aura. When the energy body becomes sick, it may be caused partially by general or localized depletion of prana in the energy body. This is called pranic depletion.

• The inner aura of the affected part is reduced to about two inches or less. For example, near-sighted persons usually have pranic depletion around the eye areas.
• The inner aura around the eye area may be smaller than two inches. However, there are cases in which an eye may suffer pranic depletion and congestion simultaneously.
• The more severe the sickness, the smaller the affected inner aura. There are cases in which the affected inner aura has been reduced to half an inch or less.
• You can learn to feel the inner auras with your palms in two to four sessions by following the instructions in this book. Feeling the aura is called scanning.
• Sickness may also be caused by excess prana in localized areas or areas for a prolonged period of time. This is called pranic congestion. The affected areas may protrude to about seven inches or more.

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• In more severe cases, the affected inner aura may protrude to two and a half feet or more. An example is a person suffering from heart enlargement who has pranic congestion around the heart, left shoulder, and upper left arm.
• The affected areas may protrude to about one foot in thickness. In pranic depletion and congestion, the surrounding fine meridians or bioplasmic channels are partially or severely blocked.
• It means prana cannot flow freely in and out around the affected area. Clairvoyantly, the affected areas are seen as light gray to dark gray in color.
• If these are inflamed, then they appear muddy red; with some cases of cancer, they appear muddy yellow-red; with appendicitis, muddy green; and with some cases of ear problems, muddy orange.
• From the surface of the physical body are bioplasmic rays perpendicularly projecting from it. These rays are called health rays which interpenetrate the inner aura.
• The sum of these health rays is called the health aura. The health rays and the health aura are roughly two or three feet in length.
• The health aura follows the contour of the visible physical body and functions as a protective force field that shields the whole body from germs and diseased energy in the surroundings.

• Toxins, wastes, germs, and diseased energy are expelled by the health rays predominantly through the pores. If a person is weakened, the health rays droop and are partially entangled.
• Then the whole body becomes susceptible to infection. The capacity of the health rays to expel toxins, wastes, germs, and diseased energy is also greatly diminished. Healing is facilitated by strengthening and disentangling the health rays.
• Beyond the health aura is another luminous energy field, called the outer aura. It interpenetrates the inner and health aura and usually extends about one meter away from the visible physical body.
• It is usually multicolored and shaped like an inverted egg. Its colors are influenced by the physical, emotional, and mental states of the person.
• Clairvoyantly, some sick persons have been observed to have holes in their outer auras through which prana leaks out. Therefore, the outer aura can be considered as a force field that contains or prevents the leaking out of pranic energy.
• In a sense, it acts as a container for subtle energies. The size of the chakras, inner aura, health rays, health aura, and outer aura may considerably increase as the human race evolves to a higher level.

The Intimate Relationship Between The Energy Body And The Physical Body

Both the energy body and the visible physical body are so closely related that what affects one affects the other and vice-versa. For instance, if the bioplasmic throat is weakened. Then this may manifest on the visible physical body as a cough, cold, sore throat, tonsillitis, or other throat-related problems. Should a person accidentally cut his skin, there is a corresponding pranic leak in the area where there is bleeding.

• Initially, the affected area where there is a cut or sprain would become temporarily brighter due to pranic leak but would inevitably become greyish because of pranic depletion.
• If any part of the energy body is weakened either because of pranic congestion or depletion, the visible physical counterpart would either malfunction or become susceptible to infection.
• For example, a depleted solar plexus and liver may manifest as jaundice or hepatitis. From the given examples, it becomes quite clear that the energy body and the visible physical body affect each other.
• By healing the energy body, the visible physical body gets healed in the process. This is called the Law of Correspondence. By regularly cleansing and energizing with prana, the near-sighted eyes would gradually improve and heal.
• A person with heart enlargement can be relieved in one or two sessions by simply decongesting the affected heart, shoulder, and upper left arm areas.
• A complete cure would take at least several months. By decongesting and energizing the head area, headaches can be removed in a few minutes.

Diseases First Appear In The Energy Body And Can Be Prevented From Manifesting

Through clairvoyant observations, a disease can be seen in the energy body even before it manifests itself in the visible physical body. Non-clairvoyants may scan or feel that the inner aura of the affected part is either smaller or bigger than usual. For instance, before a person suffers from a cough and cold, the bioplasmic throat and lungs are practically depleted and can be observed clairvoyantly as grayish.

• These areas when scanned can be felt as hollows in the inner aura. Another example: A person who is about to suffer from jaundice can be observed clairvoyantly as having a gray solar plexus and liver.
• Physical tests or diagnoses will show the patient as normal or healthy. Unless the patient is treated, the disease will manifest inevitably on the visible physical body.
• The author had a patient who was a habitual drinker. Based on scanning, his solar plexus chakra (energy center) was depleted, a part of the liver was depleted and another part of it was congested.
• He told his patient that he had a liver problem and that it should be treated as soon as possible. The patient had a blood test and the medical finding showed that his liver was fine. As a result, he was hesitant to be treated.
• After several months, the patient had severe pain in the liver and the medical finding showed that he had hepatitis. The disease must be treated before it manifests on the visible physical body.
• The emphasis is on prevention. It is a lot easier and faster to heal the disease when it is still in the energy body and has not yet manifested in the visible physical body.
• Manifestation of the disease can also be prevented by taking proper medication. In cases where the disease has manifested, healing should be applied as early as possible.
• The earlier pranic treatment is applied, the faster the rate of healing. Healing becomes more difficult if the disease has developed fully since it takes more time and more pranic energy.
• It is important that the disease must be treated as early as possible to ensure a speedy recovery.

The Mind Can Influence To A Certain Degree The Pattern Of The Energy Body

Clairvoyants have observed that the visible physical body is patterned or molded after the energy body. The mind can intentionally or unintentionally influence the pattern of the energy body. Men well-versed in esoteric studies encourage their pregnant wives to look at beautiful things, listen to harmonious music, feel and think positively, engage in serious studies, and avoid the opposites.

• These activities affect not only the features of the unborn baby but also his emotional and mental potentialities and tendencies. If the influences are positive, then the effects are positive.
• If the influences are negative, then the effects are negative. Pregnant women should take note of this so that they would be able to bear better children.
• This idea that the mind can influence and actually mold the energy body to a certain degree is not new. There is a Biblical story in Genesis that illustrates this point.
• This concerns the manner in which Jacob was able to successfully build up his own flock. Jacob had been working for his father-in-law, Laban, for approximately twenty years and yearned to establish himself financially.
• An agreement was made between Laban and Jacob that all goats born speckled, spotted, and striped and all lambs born black would belong to Jacob, Laban, being a shrewd businessman.
• That same day removed all the male goats that were streaked or spotted, and all the speckled or spotted female goats (all that had white on them), including all the dark-colored lambs.
• Genetically, it would be very difficult, if not unlikely, to breed the types of goats and lambs promised to him.
• Jacob, through divine guidance, “took fresh-cut branches from Poplar, almond, and plane trees and made white stripes on them by peeling the bark and exposing the white inner wood of the branches.
• Then he placed the peeled branches in all the watering troughs so that they would be directly in front of the flocks when they came to drink. When the flocks were in heat and came to drink, they mated in front of the branches.
• And they bore young that were streaked (or) speckled (or) spotted. In this way, Jacob becomes very prosperous. As to the outcome concerning the black lambs, the Holy Bible was not clear about it.
• From this story, it becomes clear that what we see, feel, and think can influence the energy body, especially that of the unborn baby.

Chakras Or Energy Centers

Chakras or whirling energy centers are very important parts of the energy body. Just as the visible physical body has vital and minor, organs, the energy body has major, minor, and mini chakras. Major chakras are whirling energy centers which in general are about three to four inches in diameter. They control and energize the major and vital organs of the visible physical body.

• Major chakras are just like power stations that supply life energy to major and vital organs. When the power stations malfunction, the vital organs become sick or diseased because they do not have enough life energy to operate properly.
• Minor chakras are about one to two inches in diameter. Mini chakras are smaller than one inch in diameter. Minor and mini chakras control and energize the less important parts of the visible physical body. The chakras interpenetrate and extend beyond the visible physical body.

They have several important functions as follows:

1. They absorb, digest, and distribute prana to the different parts of the body.
2. The chakras control, energize and are responsible for the proper functioning of the whole physical body and its different parts and organs. The endocrine glands are controlled and energized by some of the major chakras.
3. The endocrine glands can be stimulated or inhibited by controlling or manipulating the major chakras. A lot of ailments are caused partially by the malfunctioning of the chakras.
4. Some chakras are sites or centers of the psychic faculties. Activation of certain chakras (energy centers) may result in the development of certain psychic faculties. For example) among the easiest and safest chakras to activate are the hand chakras.
5. These are located at the center of the palms. By activating the hand chakras, one develops the ability to feel subtle energies and the ability to feel the outer, healthy, and inner auras.
6. This can simply be accomplished by regularly concentrating on them. In this book, it is called sensitizing the hands.

Eleven Major Chakras

1. Basic Chakra. This chakra is located at the base of the spine or the coccyx area. The basic chakra controls energizes and strengthens the whole visible physical body. It controls and energizes the muscular and skeletal systems, the spine, the production and the quality of the blood produced, the adrenal glands, the tissues of the body, and of the internal organs.

• It also affects and energizes the sexual organs. The basic chakra affects the body heat general vitality, and the growth of infants and children Malfunctioning of this chakra manifests as arthritis and spinal ailments.
• Blood ailments, cancer, bone cancer, leukemia, allergy, growth problem, low vitality, and slow healing of wounds and broken bones.
• Persons with highly activated basic chakras tend to be robust and healthy, while those with less active basic chakras tend to be fragile and weak.
• Old people usually have depleted or very depleted basic chakras. This is why their bodies are weak and become smaller their spine tend to curve, and they tend to develop arthritis.
• The basic chakra is like the root of a tree. If the root is weak” the tree is weak. If the basic chakra is very weak, the body is also very weak. Another term for the basic chakra is “root chakra”.

2. Sex Chakra. This chakra is located in the pubic area. It controls and energizes the sexual organs and the bladder. Malfunctioning of this chakra manifests as sex-related problems. The ajna chakra, throat chakra, and basic chakra have a strong influence on the sex chakra. Malfunctioning of any of these chakras may result in malfunctioning of the sex chakra.

3. Meng Mein Chakra. This chakra is located at the back of the navel. It serves as a “pumping station” in the spine; thus, it is responsible for the upward flow of subtle pranic energies coming from the basic chakra.

• It controls and energizes the kidneys and adrenal glands. It also controls the blood pressure. Malfunctioning of this chakra manifests as kidney problems, low vitality, high blood pressure, and back problems.
• The meng mein chakra of infants, children, pregnant women, and very old people should not be energized because of the possible adverse effects that will be produced (please read Advanced Pranic Healing by Choa Kok Sui).
• The meng mein chakra is about 1/3 1/2 the size of the other major chakras. This chakra should be treated only by experienced or advanced pranic healers. The meng mein chakra and the sex chakra control and energize the urinary system.

4. Navel Chakra. This chakra is located on the navel. It controls and energizes the small intestine and large intestine appendix. It affects the general vitality of a person. Malfunctioning of the navel chakra manifests as constipation, appendicitis, difficulty in giving birth, low vitality, and other diseases related to the intestines.

• The word “ki” is used quite loosely to mean subtle energies. Ki is sometimes used to mean air prana, ground prana, red prana, and other types of prana. It is also used to mean a type of “biosynthetic ki” produced by the navel chakra.
• This “biosynthetic ki” is quite different from prana or life energy. It affects one’s ability to draw in distribute, and assimilate prana. During bad weather conditions the quantity of air prana is quite scarce.
• Persons with lesser “biosynthetic ki” have greater difficulty drawing in air prana; therefore, they tend to feel more tired or low than the average person.
• The body gets nutrients by drinking and eating and, in the process, produces hormones through the endocrine glands. The food, water, and juices correspond to the different types of pranic energies that are absorbed by the energy body.
• The hormones produced by the body correspond to the biosynthetic ki produced by the energy body. The biosynthetic ki produced by the navel chakra is golden in color.

1. Larynx
2. Thyroid
3. Esophagus
4. Lungs
5. Heart
6. Liver
7. Stomach
8. Spleen
9. Pancreas
10. Kidneys
11. Transverse colon
12. Ascending colon
13. Descending colon
14. Small intestine
15. Uterus
16. Ovary
17. Bladder
18. Testicles
19. Prostate gland
20. Diaphragm

5. Spleen Chakra. The front spleen chakra is located on the left part of the abdomen between the front solar plexus chakra and the navel chakra. It is located in the middle part of the left bottom rib.

• The back spleen chakra lies at the back of the front spleen chakra. The spleen chakra is about 1/3 to 1/2 the size of the other major chakras.
• The front and back spleen chakras control and energize the spleen. The spleen purifies the blood of disease-causing germs. It also destroys worn-out blood cells.
• The front and back spleen chakras are the major entry points of air prana or air vitality globules. Air prana is digested by the spleen chakra; the digested prana is distributed to the other major chakras and the entire body thereby energizing them.
• The spleen chakra apparently plays a vital part in man’s general well-being. A weak spleen chakra means a weak physical body and low pranic energy level.
• It is not advisable to energize the spleen chakra of infants and children because they may faint as a result of pranic congestion Should this happen, just apply general sweeping.
• Also, it is not advisable to energize the spleen chakra of patients with hypertension or a history of hypertension because this may increase blood pressure.
• However, this chakra is used to treat patients who are very weak or very depleted. In cases of severe infection, the spleen chakra should be treated to facilitate the rate of healing. Only experienced or advanced pranic healers should energize the spleen chakra.

6. Solar Plexus Chakra. There are two solar plexus Chakra: the one located at the solar plexus area or the hollow area between the ribs is called the front solar plexus chakra, and the one at the back is called the back solar plexus chakra.

• The term “solar plexus chakra” Shall mean both the front and back solar plexus chakras. This chakra controls and energizes the diaphragm, pancreas, liver, stomach, and to a certain degree.
• Energizes the large and small intestines, appendix, lungs, heart, and other parts of the body. This chakra also affects the quality of the blood because it controls and energizes the liver which detoxifies the blood.
• The solar plexus, through the liver, controls the cholesterol level of the body. It, therefore, affects the condition of the heart. The solar plexus chakra is the energy-clearing house center.
• Subtle energies from the lower chakras and from the higher chakras pass through it. The whole body can be energized through the solar plexus chakra.
• On rare occasions, over-energizing this chakra without first thoroughly cleansing may result in pranic congestion, thereby partially paralyzing the diaphragm, resulting in difficulty in breathing.
• Congested prana should be removed immediately. The solar plexus chakra also controls the heating and cooling system of the body.
• Malfunctioning of this chakra may manifest as diabetes, ulcer, hepatitis, heart ailments, and other illness related to the organs mentioned. The solar plexus chakra and the navel chakra control and energize the gastrointestinal system.

7. Heart Chakra. The front heart chakra is located at the center of the chest. It energizes and controls the heart, the thymus, the gland, and the circulatory system.

• Malfunctioning of the front heart chakra manifests as heart and circulatory ailments. The solar plexus chakra is quite sensitive to emotion, tension, and stress, and has a strong influence on the physical heart and the front heart chakra.
• Malfunctioning of the solar plexus chakra may cause the front heart chakra and the physical heart to also malfunction. The front heart chakra is closely connected to the front solar plexus chakra by several big energy channels.
• And is also energized by the front solar plexus chakra to a certain degree. Patients with heart problems usually have malfunctioning solar plexus chakra.
• The back heart chakra is located at the back of the heart. It primarily controls and energizes the lungs and, to a lesser degree, the heart and the thymus gland.
• Malfunctioning of the back heart chakra manifests as lung problems such as asthma, tuberculosis, and others.
• Energizing of the heart is done through the back heart chakra. Energizing the front heart chakra directly and immediately energizes the physical heart.
• However, the pranic energy tends to localize or does not spread easily to other parts of the body. This may result in serious heart pranic congestion.
• It is not therefore advisable to intensely energize the front heart chakra for a prolonged period of time. Experienced pranic healers energize through the back heart chakra.
• This does not have a localized effect on the physical heart. Excess prana can easily flow to the lungs and to other parts of the body. The whole body could be energized through the back heart chakra.

8. Throat Chakra. This chakra is located at the center of the throat. It controls and energizes the throat, the thyroid glands, the parathyroid glands, and the lymphatic system. To a certain degree, it also influences the sex chakra. Malfunctioning of the throat chakra manifests as throat-related ailments such as goiter, sore throat, loss of voice, asthma, sterility, etc.

9. Ajna Chakra. This chakra is located in the area between the eyebrows. It controls and energizes the pituitary gland, the endocrine glands and energizes the brain to a certain extent.

• It is also called the master chakra because it directs and controls the other major chakras and their corresponding endocrine glands and vital organs. It also affects the eyes and the nose.
• Malfunctioning of this chakra manifests as diseases related to the endocrine glands like diabetes. This requires not only treating the solar plexus chakra which controls the pancreas, but also the ajna chakra.
• Energizing this chakra also causes the whole body to be energized. The mechanism is different from the crown and the forehead chakra.
• Instead of the usual funneling effect, energizing the ajna chakra causes the other chakras to light up in a certain rapid sequence, thereby energizing the whole body.
• That is why in charismatic healing or invocative healing, the healers touch with their fingers or palms either on the crown or the forehead or the ajna chakra of the patients.
• The sudden intense rushing in of prana into the head area causes some patients to lose consciousness. The Ajna, throat, back heart, and solar plexus chakras control and energize the respiratory system.

10. Forehead Chakra. This is located at the center of the forehead. It controls and energizes the pineal gland and the nervous system. Malfunctioning of the forehead chakra may manifest as loss of memory, paralysis, and epilepsy. Energizing this chakra has a similar funneling effect to the crown chakra causing the whole body to be flooded with prana.

11. Crown Chakra. This is located at the crown of the head. It controls and energizes the pineal gland, the brain, and the entire body. It is one of the major entry points of prana. Energizing the crown chakra has the effect of energizing the whole body. It is similar to pouring water on a funnel causing the whole body to be flooded with prana.

• Some healers proceed to energize the crown chakra even though the affected part is somewhere else. Malfunctioning of the crown chakra may manifest as diseases related to the pineal gland and brain. These may manifest as physical or psychological illnesses.
• The crown and forehead chakra facilitates the harmonizing and normalizing of the other chakras, just as the pineal gland facilitates the harmonizing and normalizing of the other endocrine glands of the body.
• Modern scientific research shows that the pineal gland is connected with the aging and anti-aging process. The whole body can be energized through the crown, forehead, ajna, back heart, solar plexus, navel, spleen, basic, hand, and foot chakras.
• An affected part can be energized directly or through the nearest chakra. Some healers may energize through a farther chakra, like the ajna or the crown chakra to treat a heart or abdominal problem.
• Therefore, one can deduce that there are so many possible healing techniques to treat one type of ailment. But the basic principles are the same: cleansing and energizing.
• Acupuncture points and chakras are gates through which prana can easily go in and out. By energizing through the nearest chakra, the projected prana will have easy and direct access to the affected part.
• While energizing directly, the affected part has a filtering action on the projected prana; therefore, energizing takes more time and more prana.
• In energizing the whole body, the solar plexus chakra is usually used because of its proximity to the many important organs in the body. It is located at the center of the trunk which contains many essential organs.
• When energizing the solar plexus. Chakra, it should be done slowly and gently. Too much and too intense energy can cause difficulty in breathing.
• Many ancient esoteric books reveal only seven chakras or less. Although a few of them hint at the existence of more than seven, only in this book is the closely-guarded secret of the 11 major chakras explicitly revealed and explained in detail.
• A thorough knowledge of the 11 major chakras is important. Just as learning physical anatomy is necessary for a person to become a good medical doctor.
• A full understanding of the 11 major chakras, which correspond to the anatomy of the energy body, is necessary to become a highly proficient pranic healer or energy healer.

The Mechanism Behind Psychosomatic Diseases

Uncontrolled and suppressed emotions and feelings such as anger, worry, prolonged irritation, and frustrations have undesirable potent effects on the energy body. For instance, anger and frustration may result in pranic depletion around the solar plexus chakra and abdominal areas or may manifest as pranic congestion around the solar plexus chakra and the front heart chakra.

• In the first case, it manifests itself as indigestion or loose bowel movement. In the long run, it may manifest itself as an ulcer or a gallbladder problem.
• In the second case, it may manifest as heart enlargement or some other heart-related problems. It seems that a negative emotion may manifest as a certain type of disease in one patient but may manifest as another type of disease in another patient.
• Anger and intense worry devitalize the whole energy body so that the body becomes susceptible to all kinds of diseases. Negative emotions cause disturbances in the energy body so that the whole physical body becomes sick.
• You may have experienced that after intense anger or an altercation, you felt physically exhausted or became sick. This is because both the energy and visible physical bodies had been drained of prana or life energy and become susceptible to infection.
• If the ailment is of emotional origin, the patient must not only be given pranic healing but also psychological counseling. He should be asked to undergo a course in Character-building and to meditate regularly to help him overcome his negative emotional tendencies.
• Through daily inner reflection and meditation, the patient will develop greater self-awareness and emotional maturity, greatly improving his ability to control and channel his emotions, and consequently, vastly improving his health.
• It should be noted that in this case, pranic healing will not produce a permanent cure unless there is a corresponding emotional change. It is like extinguishing a fire caused by an arsonist without bothering to catch the culprit.
• What is to prevent the arsonist from burning the house again once it has been rebuilt? The root cause of the disease must be removed so that permanent healing can take place.

The External And Internal Factors Of Diseases

In understanding diseases, one should take into consideration the external and internal factors or the seen and unseen causes, External factors mean those physical factors which contribute to diseases like germs. Malnutrition, toxins, pollutants, lack of exercise, poor breathing habits, insufficient water intake, etc. Internal factors mean the emotional and energy factors which contribute to diseases like negative emotions, blocked meridians, pranic depletion and congestion and chakral malfunctioning, etc.

• For instance, an emotional factor may lead to the weakening of the solar plexus chakra and the liver, and the attack by a virus will lead to an inflammation of the liver. The external factor is the virus.
• The internal factors are the negative emotion and weakening of the solar plexus chakra and the liver, which make the liver vulnerable to viral infection.
• If the person’s solar plexus chakra and liver are in good condition, and if he is a person of higher vitality, then his probability of contracting the disease is lesser.
• His body’s defense mechanism or detoxifying and eliminating system would likely overcome the virus or the toxin.
• The application of pranic healing would cleanse, strengthen, and gradually restore the solar plexus chakra and the liver to their normal conditions. This can be done with or without the aid of. drugs.

Diseases may manifest under the following conditions:

1. The presence of external and internal factors.
2. The presence of an overwhelming internal factor only. For example, a person harboring intense anger and frustration may cause severe pranic congestion around the solar plexus chakra and, in the long run, the heart.
3. Even if he were to watch his diet, he would still end up with a heart problem like heart enlargement. Also, habitual tension or stress may result in pranic congestion around the eye area and, in the long run, may result in glaucoma.
4. The presence of an overwhelming external factor only. For instance, taking a large dose of poison would certainly be fatal even if your energy body is in perfect condition. Poor reading habits would also eventually result in eye defects.

What Are The Functions Of The Energy Body?

1. It absorbs, distributes, and energizes the whole physical body with prana or ki. Prana or ki is that life energy that nourishes the whole body so that it could, together with its different organs, function properly and normally. Without prana, the body would die.
2. It acts as a mold or pattern for the visible physical body. This allows the visible physical body to maintain its shape form and feature despite years of continuous metabolism.
3. To be more exact, the visible physical body is molded after the energy body. If the energy body is defective, then the visible physical body is defective. They are so closely related that what affects one affects the other.
4. If one gets sick, the other also gets sick. If one gets healed, the other also gets healed. This may manifest gradually or almost instantaneously, assuming there are no interfering factors.
5. The energy body, through the chakras or whirling energy centers, controls and is responsible for the proper functioning of the whole physical body and its different parts and organs.
6. This includes the endocrine glands, which are external manifestations of some of the major chakras. A lot of sicknesses are caused partially by the malfunctioning of one or more chakras.
7. The energy body, through its health rays and health auras, serves as a protective shield against germs and diseased energy.
8. Diseased energy, used-up energy, toxins, wastes, and germs are expelled by the health rays predominantly via the pores, thereby purifying the whole physical body.

Basic Problems And Treatments In Pranic Healing

Pranic healing involves the use of prana and the manipulation of bioplasmic matter in the patient’s body. The following are the basic problems and treatments encountered in pranic healing:

1. In areas where there is pranic depletion, cleansing, and energizing are applied to the affected areas. The emphasis is on energizing.
2. In areas where there is pranic congestion, diseased and congested energy is removed or extracted from the affected areas. This is followed by projecting prana to the treated. area. The emphasis is on cleansing or decongesting.
3. A malfunctioning chakra is restored by simply cleansing and energizing it with prana.
4. Drooping and entangled health rays are disentangled and strengthened.
5. Blocked meridians or energy channels are cleansed and energized.
6. Prana which leaks out through holes in the outer aura is sealed.
7. Specific types of prana are applied to produce specific results. Certain illnesses need a specific type or type of prana to produce faster results. This is taught in advanced pranic healing.

Levels In Pranic Healing

Pranic healing has several levels gradating from simple to more complicated concepts and from easy to difficult techniques.

Level One: Elementary Pranic Healing

• At this level, the concepts and techniques are easy to learn. Tactile concentration is required. It takes about three to five sessions to learn the basic principles and techniques and to be able to do simple pranic healing.
• About a few days, a few weeks, or a few months of regular practice and application are required to become proficient, depending on the attitude of the student.

Level Two: Intermediate Pranic Healing

• This level is still easy. Pranic breathing is used at this level. Visual concentration is optional but still not required.
• Just as in level one, this takes about three to five sessions to learn the basic principles and techniques to be able to start healing more difficult cases.
• To become proficient, takes about a few weeks to about two months of regular practice and application, depending on the attitude of the student.

Level Three: Distant Pranic Healing

This level involves a gradual development of one’s psychic faculty. It may take several weeks or months to a year or two of regular practice and application to become very accurate in diagnosis and to produce specific, accurate, predetermined results.

Level Four: Advanced Pranic Healing

• The use of visualization techniques is definitely required and a more thorough knowledge of the nature of diseases and the properties of different types of prana is necessary.
• Advanced pranic healers are expected to have a strong energetic body and a big inner aura. This is taught in the book Advanced Pranic Healing by Choa Kok Sui.
• Advanced pranic healing uses color prana and advanced healing techniques to produce rapid healing results. Becoming proficient in advanced pranic healing would require at least one to two years of regular practice.

Level Five: Pranic Psychotherapy

Pranic psychotherapy is advanced pranic healing applied in the field of psychological ailments. The practitioner should be at least proficient in intermediate pranic healing. This is taught in the book Pranic Psychotherapy by Choa Kok Sui.

Level Six: Pranic Crystal Healing

Pranic Crystal Healing is using crystals as instruments to facilitate pranic treatment.

Levels Of Certification

Associate Pranic Healer

Proficient in elementary and intermediate pranic healing. In the process of becoming proficient in distant healing, advanced pranic healing and pranic psychotherapy, an associate pranic healer is just like a medical intern or an apprentice.

Certified Pranic Healer

Proficient in advanced pranic healing, pranic psychotherapy, and pranic crystal healing.

Certified Pranic Psychotherapist

A certified pranic healer who has specialized in pranic psychotherapy.

Certified Senior Pranic Healer

Very experienced and proficient in advanced pranic healing, pranic psychotherapy, and pranic crystal healing. At the moment, relatively rare.

Certified Assistant Master Pranic Healer

• Proficient in using powerful and very advanced pranic healing techniques not revealed at the moment to the public. A certified assistant master pranic healer has been trained under the guidance of a master or grand master pranic healer.
• Also, should have a track record of producing many rapid miraculous healing that other pranic healers in general will find difficult to duplicate. At the moment, rare.

Certified Master Pranic Healer

Much more skillful and powerful than an assistant master pranic healer. Has trained several students to become certified assistant master pranic healers. At the moment, very rare.

Certified Grand Master Pranic Healer

• Can heal very difficult cases in one or two sessions if karmically permissible and if the patient is receptive. The high level of healing skill achieved is extremely rare.
• The standards set in Pranic Healing are relatively high. As a matter of fact, an associate pranic healer is usually more skillful and competent in healing than another healer with the title of a master belonging to some other schools.
• Many healers of other schools are adapting techniques from pranic healing. This is good. However, pranic healing is not given proper acknowledgment. Credit should be given where it is due.

Recommended Readings

The Chakras by C.W. Leadbeater. 1927. The Theosophical Publishing House. Adyar, Madras. This book deals with the different types of prana. It also discusses the negative effects of alcohol, drugs, and tobacco on the etheric body.

• It contains 10 colored illustrations of the chakras based on the clairvoyant observations of Mr. Leadbeater. Esoteric Healing by Alice Bailey 1953. New York. Lucis. Publishing Company.
• The Aura by W.J. Kilner. 1911. York Beach, Maine. Samuel Reiser, Inc. The Etheric Double by A.E. Powell. 1969. Wheaton, III. The Theosophical Publishing House, Quest Books.
• Essentially, this book is a treatise on the etheric body and etheric phenomena. Its contents are largely based on the writings of Madame Blavatsky, C.W. Leadbeater, and Annie Besant.
• These highly developed clairvoyants conducted clairvoyant research and experiments. They recorded their observations and conclusions in their writings during the years 1897-1923.

The following is a summation of the main points relevant to the study of pranic healing:

1. The whole physical body is actually composed of two bodies: the visible physical body and the invisible etheric body which is made up of finer substances called etheric matter. This etheric body corresponds to what is now called the bioplasmic body.
2. The etheric body is the vehicle of prana or ki.
3. The etheric body has many nadis or etheric channels through which prana or ki flows. These etheric channels are the equivalent of the meridians or bioplasmic channels.
4. The etheric body is the mold or pattern of the visible physical body.
5. The etheric body has several chakras or etheric whirling centers which absorb, digest, and distribute prana and is responsible for the proper functioning of the whole body.
6. Some chakras are psychic faculty centers or the sites of our psychic faculties.
7. Prana can be obtained from sunlight, air, and trees.
8. The visible physical body and its etheric body are so closely interrelated that what affects one also affects the other.
9. Healing is brought about by removing the diseased etheric matter from the patient’s etheric body and by transferring or projecting prana from the healer’s etheric body to that of the patient’s etheric body.
10. A strong health aura acts as a protective shield against germs and infection.
11. Persons whose limbs have been amputated sometimes complain that they still feel the limb.in place. The reason for this is that the etheric counterpart or the etheric mold is still intact.

It should be noted that the existence of the etheric body and other important points mentioned in the preceding items were later verified or rediscovered by Russian scientists.

Modern Findings

Theories of the Chakras: Bridge to Higher Consciousness by Hiroshi Motoyama. 1981. Wheaton, III. The Theosophical Publishing House. This book deals with the scientific experiments and personal experience of Dr. Hiroshi Motoyama on the chakras. It also gives instructions on how to activate the chakras.

• The Chinese acupuncture meridians are compared with the Indian nadis. This book is quite interesting and very informative.
• Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain by Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1970. Bantam edition, 1971.
• This book describes the extensive scientific investigations on psychic phenomena being conducted in the Soviet Union. Many of the findings merely reconfirm what has been known by esoteric students since ancient times.

All references are made to the Bantam edition.

1. In 1939, Semyon Davidovich Kirlian and his wife developed Kirlian photography based on high-frequency electric field which is used to take pictures of a portion of the invisible energy body or the bioplasmic body.
2. Based on the studies of the Kirlians, it has been observed that disease first manifests on the bioplasmic body before it appears on the visible physical body.
3. At the highly respected Kirov State University in Alma- Ata, a group of biologists, biochemists, and biophysicists declared that the bioplasmic body is not merely some sort of plasma-like constellation of ionized, excited electrons.
4. Protons and possibly some other particle is a whole unified organism in itself which acts as a unit that gives off its own electromagnetic fields.
5. Emotions, states of mind, and thoughts affect the bioplasmic body.
6. Based on the findings of the State University of Kaza- khitan, the energy body has a specific organizing pattern that determines the form of the organism.
7. For instance, Dr. Alexander Studitsky of the Institute of Animal Morphology in Moscow minced up muscle tissue and packed it into a wound in a rat’s body. An entirely new muscle was grown. From this, they concluded that there is some sort of an organizing pattern.
8. If a man loses a finger or an arm, he still retains the bioplasmic finger or arm so that sometimes he still feels it is still there.
9. Dr. Mikhail Kuzmich Gaikin, a Leningrad scientist, confirmed the existence of bioplasmic channels and centers that correspond to the meridians and the acupuncture points described in ancient Chinese medicine.
10. With the aid of the tobiscope, he accurately pinpointed the location of the acupuncture points. Later, a young physicist, Victor Adamenko invented an improved version of the to biscope and called it the CCAP.
11. The conductivity of the Channels of Acupuncture Points, which locates not only acupuncture points but also numerically graphed reactions and changes in the bioplasmic body.
12. The acupuncture points correspond to the bright spots in the bioplasmic body.
13. The Russians also seriously considered the possibility of stimulating certain points in the bioplasmic body to activate latent psychic abilities.
14. Researches done on Russian psychic healers indicate that psychic healing involves a transfer of energy from the bioplasmic body of the healer to the bioplasmic body of his patient.

The First World Conference for Academic Exchange of Medical Qigong (Abstracts of Presentations). Beijing, China, 1988. As a matter of interest, it is further noted that in 1988.

Written papers (128 abstracts) were presented at the first world conference for the academic exchange of medical qigong in Beijing, China. It is noteworthy that the application of qigong to a wide range of illnesses and diseases was demonstrated in technical papers presented at the conference. A summary of a few selected abstracts is given below so that the reader can obtain some form of appreciation for the potential and far-ranging applications of qigong therapy.

1. A study of the Effect of the Emitted Qi (Life Energy) of Qigong on Human Carcinoma Cells by Feng Lida, Qian Juqing, Chen Suqing, et al.

• The effect of emitted qi (life energy) on Hale cells, and SGC- 7901 human gastric adenocarcinoma cells and chromosomes of the gastric adenocarcinoma cells were studied using the techniques of tissue culture, cytogenetics, and electron microscope.
• The results of these studies revealed that:
• The average destruction rate of the Hale cells by the emitted qi was 30.72%, with the highest destruction reaching 59.61% as contrasted with a 0% destruction rate of the untreated cells.
• In 41 experiments, the average destruction rate of the gastric adenocarcinoma cells was 25.02% after receiving emitted qi for 60 minutes compared with 0% destruction rate of the untreated cells. A scanning electron microscope was used to observe the cells.
• The rate of exchange, breaking, and centromere in the structure of the chromosomes of the gastric adenocarcinoma cells increased after receiving the emitted qi.
• Tabled results are given for each of the above cells tested, and between each of the groups, a statistical difference between the experimental group and the control group was established.

2. The Use of the Emitted Qi in Qigong and Acupuncture in the Treatment of Food Allergies by Chu Chow.

• Treatment of 52 patients with a medical diagnosis of food allergy for a duration of one to 25 years was reported. The treatment consisted of qigong therapy supported by acupuncture techniques.
• With acupuncture being used in the earlier stages of treatment, and qigong in the later stages of treatment. Acupuncture points were disclosed and generally referred to the areas for the strengthening of the spleen, liver, stomach, and lung systems.
• The use of the emitted qi of qigong in combination with acupuncture increased qi, which in turn helped the function of the internal organs and improved the immune system.
• The result was a decreased identity of allergic reactions and a cessation of the food substances as allergens.

3. The Effect of the Emitted Qi on the Immune Functions of Mice by Wang Yunsheng, Feng Lida, Chen Shuying, and Chen Haixing.

• To determine whether there is an effect on the regulation of the Immune response after a body is subjected to qi, an experiment wade using mice specimens.
• After receiving the emitted qi from well-trained qigong masters, experiments on the body indicate that qi energy can significantly enhance.
• The phagocytic function of the peritoneal macrophages and the activity of acid phosphatase suggest that the qi could activate peritoneal macrophages forming part of the immune system.

4. Effects of Qigong on Psychosomatic and Other Emotionally Rooted Disorders by Richard R. Pavek (U.S.A.). Shen, a specific form of qigong, was found to have a beneficial effect on suspected emotionally-rooted disorders.

Particularly involving menstrual and pre-menstrual distress, migraine, irritable bowel syndrome, eating disorders, chronic low back syndrome (both pre-surgery and post-surgery), and other emotional disorders such as anxiety, depression, blocked grief, and sleep disorders.

5. A study of the Effect of the Emitted Qi on the L-1210 Cells of Leukaemia in Mice by Zhao Xiuzhen and Feng Lida. The mice of the experimental group received 10 to 14 minutes of emitted qi once a day for a period of 10 days.

• While in the control group, no treatment was given. A statistical difference was discerned (P<0.01) with regard to the number of L-1210 cells still existing (using a light microscope).
• Thereby suggesting that the number of L-1210 cells could be remarkably reduced in the mice after receiving the emitted qi.

6. Qigong in Australia An Effective Weapon Against Stress by Jack Lim. Qigong is found to be an effective means for combating stress whose physical symptoms appear as increased heartbeat, physical exhaustion and insomnia, peptic ulcer, hypertension, and heart disease.

All 400 subjects presented in the survey reported marked improvement in their condition. They were from various fields of occupation, Example., doctors, business executives, lawyers, computer specialists, artists, housewives, students, and retirees.

7. Effects of the Emitted Qi on Healing of Experimental Fracture by Jia Lin and Jia Jinding (National Research Institute of Sports Science, Beijing, China).

• The comparative biological effects of the emitted qi for the healing of bone fractures in rabbits demonstrated that the amount and density of callus formation were better in the emitted qi group than in the control group.
• Similar results were also obtained for therapeutic effects on ultra trauma in overstrained muscles. It is suspected that the mechanism involved.
• The emitted qi is characterized by a form of electromagnetic field resulting in high bioactivity in the treatment of bones and muscles.