The Fascinating World of Pranic Healing Part 1: My introduction.

A week ago, I had been on a long overdue shopping spree. So there I was, walking all over town, and finally in one of the malls. I suddenly twisted my foot as I was about to get in line to check out. The pain was so excruciating that I thought I would not even be able to stand for long, leave along pay for the stuff and walk back to my car outside carrying those heavy bags accumulated over the day.

The line was long, and soon people began staring at me. Not because I was rolling about in pain, but because they saw me making odd movements in the air with my left hand near my foot. It took exactly 45 seconds for the pain in my foot to vanish and not only did I pay and walk out pain free to my car, I spent another 2 hours in various other stores before heading home.

Am I magician? Am I witch or a voodoo expert or am I adept at self hypnosis? Nothing of that sort, really.

Welcome to the world of Pranic healing.

Until the first week of March 2009, I knew very little about this amazing technique that can not only heal others but self heal. Instead, I had been sitting in despair because a woman I consider my sister from another mother, was battling a neurological problem, no one had been able to diagnose, for 2 years. I used to call my friend Mahfuz, pocket Hercules because she packed so much energy in her petite frame. If you were to put all of us in a line and pick out the fittest, most health conscious person, least likely to get sick, Mahfuz would have walked away with first prize. She has been a super micro biologist, super mom, a fantastic wife, a great hostess with an open house for everyone and anyone, and one of the loveliest people you could ever meet.

A strict vegetarian, Mahfuz has used organic stuff, walked 10 miles daily, and had all her medical check ups and that of her family done meticulously. So what happened two years ago was something no one has been able to fathom-neither the top docs, nor us. It began with a numbness around her mouth and soon traveled all over her body, to the point that she has limited sensation in her feet and hands and her entire body is stiff-like some put an iron cast over her that weights 200 pounds and she has to walk with it on. If she is still leading a normal life, it’s her sheer will power and positive spirit, and continuous efforts to stay active and the way her kindly overworked, now superman hubby and her calmer son help out. She has been tested for every neurological and other major illness under the sun and the symptoms don’t match. She has tried Ayurveda and Homeopathy-to no avail. In March when I heard that she was having a hard time even walking a mile, I felt a sense of utter helplessness and despair.

I remember praying to God and saying, please find a way for me to help her. I still don’t know how a video on youtube caught my attention, a day after that prayer. It was a special investigative report by CBS on something called Pranic healing. I saw testimonials from healees who had been treated by this no touch, no medicine technique and walk away from all kinds of health problems- blindness due to a blood disorder, or after being told they would never walk again, and many other issues.

It was fascinating. I wondered if somehow that could help Mahfuz. I started searching for a center in Atlanta, only to find there was none. Then we found out that instructors were coming from Florida to teach classes. I contacted the first name I saw on the instructors’ list. A lovely, gracious woman, Connie Williams spoke with me and said “Oh actually we are holding classes this very weekend.” Was that a sign? I think it was, going by how quickly things happened.

I told her frankly that I was a nosy journalist, and that I was looking to help a friend, but not to expect even a word out of me about the technique if I wasn’t convinced it was something that worked. But if it did, I would spend my life educating people about it. I heard her lovely laughter at the other end of the phone, as she said- “Certainly. I understand.” I cleared all my appointments for the weekend of March 14th/15th. A close friend of mine who is a very successful physician has been having migraines for the past 2 decades and has tried everything- from traditional to alternative medicine without success. She too, saw the video when I was at her place and decided to do the first level course as well.

I had been battling two health issues that had kept me sick and unhealthy throughout 2008. I had been suffering severe bronchial infections that would continue to recur and leave me perpetually weak and exhausted. Then in December I had also fallen on my knees from my full height on a concrete parking lot as I slipped on oil slick left by another car. I still had swelling around the knee area and difficulty standing and sitting. When I went to attend the class, I was actually still recovering from the worst bout of flu I had had in years. I was still wheezing, and my left ear was clogged to the point I thought I was losing my hearing.

I went to attend the course with an open mind, but also in an investigative mode. In the past years I have received so many requests- from featuring someone’s spiritual guru, someone’s healing technique, or write stories on other alternative treatments. I have found very few really genuine healers or spiritual masters. Mostly I’ve found followers or over zealous gurus themselves wanting promotion in the media. That is why you will see very few featured on my site.

This was one of the rare times, no one tried to shove stuff down my throat. Neither of the two instructors, Connie Williams, or Dr Valerie Davis, asked me for favors of any kind. There were no expectations that I would do anything even after taking the courses.

I found Connie to be very non intrusive, full of warmth, energy, incredible patience and humility. Dr Davis, a physician was equally gracious. In fact it’s interesting to see how many doctors are involved in pranic healing. They teach their nurses how to apply the technique and treat physicians themselves.

The first few hours went in understanding what was Pranic healing. In a nutshell, I would describe Pranic healing as a very effective tool to heal not just yourself but others without the use of medicine or touching your healee. And all you need is a pair of hands and the knowledge of how to use those hands. All of you can go to youtube and click on these links to get a better understanding.

After being explained the process by which this system works, and how the technique was perfected by Master Choa Kok Sui, a man who was an engineer and a very successful businessman and hence the ultimate logician, we were then asked to follow the protocol to do some practical experiments on each other and see if we can heal others.

At the time we were paired with a partner, and they were people we had just met in class. We were given some warm up exercises and then asked to use our hands to heal any health issue our partner may be struggling with.

My partner, a former dentist and now a massage therapist, had come down from Florida. She had an arthritic vertebra in her neck which was painful. I asked her to treat my still swollen, painful knees. I also turned to Connie and asked her to help me with my bronchial infection. Connie’s treatment as well as the treatment I gave and received lasted just a few minutes. To my amazement, my wheezing vanished, I felt as if 20 pounds of weight was lifted from my chest and my ear tubes were so quickly healed that now when someone even talks softly on the phone I have to move the phone many inches away. It seems like they are screaming in my ears.

My knees suddenly became almost 65 percent less painful and the rest I self healed over a period of time. I have not had a cold since. My partner said her pain vanished and did not return the next day!

It was utterly fascinating. My physician friend got treated for her severe migraine and the severity was greatly reduced much to her surprise. There have been days she has been totally pain free.

While this was just the basic level course, I was impressed enough to sign up to become a certified healer. My physician friend signed up as well.

Even though I was told there would be more powerful techniques in subsequent courses, I decided to treat my friend Mahfuz, immediately and see what would happen, because the level 2 course was only taking place in the 3rd week of April.

A week later I went over to her home and treated her for about 90 minutes. I was frankly not expecting anything to happen because her ailment was so severe. But to her surprise and mine, the first thing that happened was that she started feeling sensation around her numb mouth. A pain on the left side of her neck vanished; her thumb started vibrating and wouldn’t stop. I treated her knees that have been hurting because she twists her feet so often. She was watching my hands that were 5-6 inches away from the knees, and she said-“I can see you are not touching me and yet I feel a very large mass of warm energy penetrating my knees.”

I have since then taken the level 2 course and have learned more advanced techniques. I’m also using techniques taught in the level 3 and 4 courses, which I haven’t done yet by just reading the books on them, with startling results, as I wait for the instructors to return in July to teach those courses. About 10 days ago, I went and gave a 3 and a half hour treatment to Mahfuz again. In between there had been long gaps as she lives about 45 minutes away and I couldn’t go to treat her regularly. But after that treatment, for the first time in a year, she went shopping to 4-5 different stores, because of the high level of energy she felt. It gives me hope that while it may take time, she will be cured.

I have since then worked on several people with varying degrees of problems, from chronic back pain, to migraines and seizures, to diabetics, people suffering from depression, herniated disks and even two dogs and the look of amazement on their faces when they feel their pain disappear is quite gratifying to say the least. One of the dogs, a gorgeous big fellow, slept so soundly through the night, that now we joke he is no longer a watch dog and I may just have the million dollar formula to cure insomnia in my hands!

Pranic healing is not a magic wand, and while chronic diseases take time to cure, the relief from pain is felt immediately by everyone in varying degrees when I treat them. It is also not a substitute for traditional medicine but works pretty well alongside all forms of medical treatments. In some cases it has healed where traditional medicine failed, as you will see in the videos. Pranic healing has made me realize even more powerfully the intricate mind body connection that can make or mar your health. I work as a life coach apart from being a journalist and I’m incorporating free pranic healing sessions for my clients in all those areas as I continue to work with people and on myself…

Another thing that has worked amazingly well is long distance healing where my healee and I are in different cities, or even countries and they feel every sensation as I use the technique to treat their problem. Many people are treating their family, their own kids, their elderly parents and their own bodies with great success.

There are several classes available, and to be a certified healer you have to do 3 courses that are mandatory and heal a certain number of people before you are given your certification. But for someone who wants to use this technique to take care of their well being and that of their family members, even the first level course is a great tool.

Master Choa Kok Sui wrote some amazing books that are almost like the perfect cookbook. Find the recipe, follow it exactly as it is given and you will be amazed at the results. I had read the first book for the basic course before I took it, but did find that I understood everything so much better after taking the course and trying things practically under the guidance of the instructors. And of course I keep hounding Connie with incessant questions.

There are centers all over USA and the world, so do give it a shot. Master Choa said his dream was that there should be one Pranic healer in every family.

The art of Pranic healing is the best gift you can give yourself. I went in as an open minded but skeptic journalist, but it has completely changed the way I look at healing and my own abilities to heal myself and others.

It is one of the most humbling and exhilarating experience to know that you hold the power to cure yourself and others and it is all so simple.