What is pranic healing?

Pranic healing is an alternative to drug therapy that works on the holistic principle. In pranic healing, the healer is not required to know the nature of a disease in detail. The cause of the ailment may be due to improper lifestyle, like unhealthy diet or eating habits, excessive physical or emotional stress; improper medical treatment or even a childhood trauma. However, the healer doesn’t deal with these causes directly. He only treats with the effect these causes have produced on the pranic (energy) body. Then he invites the patient to participate in finding and removing the deeper causes to avoid a recurrence of the ailment. The treatment is given by working on the chakras in the pranic body.

What are the chakras?

In addition to the physical body we have a ‘pranic double-body’. It is a subtle body that extends to about three inches beyond the physical body. This double-body absorbs prana or life-energy from inside the body and outside the body. Its main function is to distribute prana throughout the whole body. The prana circulates in the body as currents that flow smoothly along certain channels. In addition to these currents, there are energy centres or points within the pranic body where the pranic energy gets focused and forms nodes. These energy centres are usually called chakras. These chakras distribute the pranic energy to the different endocrine glands in the body and to the more subtle, astral bodies. Whenever there is a deficiency of prana or a congestion of spoilt prana in any of these chakras, a great emotional imbalance arises in the person.

Deep emotional wounds like those that arise from abuse, personal loss, unresolved trauma, etc. give rise to negative emotions and negative thoughts on the astral plane. When we harbour such thoughts and emotions they get life and become like emotional parasites that feed on the inner plane. When these parasites become strong they draw on our vitality and create ‘energy locks’ with spoilt energy within our pranic body. The pranic healer can draw out this spoilt energy and release these energy locks. What does that do? It restores the circulation of the prana in the pranic body, which in turn restores health in the physical and astral body. The treatment normally consists of cleansing the energy field of a chakra, and pumping fresh energy into it and then restoring the flow of the pranic current that feeds it. Many deep psychological conditions are associated with the energy in the chakras. When this energy field is treated, the patient feels good immediately. It usually gives relief from the pressure of emotions and leaves the patient feeling lighter.

Some chakra-related disorders

Here is an outline of some disorders that arise due to energy imbalance in the chakras, which can be treated by pranic healers:

Overcoming emotional problems through pranic healing