HEALTH: The Miracle of Self-Healing

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The Miracle of Self-Healing

By Master Co

Your body already heals itself.

You may take antibiotics to combat infections, dose yourself with

aspirin to reduce pain, or put a cast on a broken wrist. But these

medical procedures do not " heal " you. They reduce inflammation, battle

bacteria, or make proper healing easier. It is your body that heals

itself. Through some process that we don't fully understand, your body

has the amazing, innate ability to repair itself.

Medical science can explain the neurological and biochemical responses

involved in healing: nerve messages to the brain, white blood cells to

combat infection, platelets to clot the blood, formation of a scab as

the skin grows back beneath. But medical science does not know how the

body knows to do this, and it doesn't know what force powers this

healing process. Traditional medical thinking holds that both this

healing process and the energy used in it are beyond our willful control.

Energy medicine is a broad category of alternative healing methods that

utilize universal life force as their primary healing modality. In

energy medicine, good health results from having the right amount of

this energy flowing smoothly through the body, while health problems or

ailments result from a deficiency or blockage of this energy.

While mainstream medicine has been slow—and often outright reluctant—to

accept the principles of energy medicine, some medical researchers have

conducted experiments that support its basic tenets. There are

fascinating investigations into the regeneration ability of simple,

less-evolved life forms that strongly support the notion of an energetic

template or mold. Newts can regenerate a new eye, including optic nerve,

in about forty days. Goldfish and salamanders can regenerate spinal

fibers. Humans have some regenerative capability. The human liver can

replace a portion of its mass lost due to injury through what medical

science calls compensatory hypertrophy, the ability of cells to increase

their rate of division and replace the lost tissue. And damage to or

dysfunction of one kidney frequently leads to enlargement of the other.

With this in mind, the following principles are used in Pranic Healing:

-Life can heal itself.

-Healing is a self-regenerating ability.

-Healing is a self-regenerating force and an intelligence can direct it.

-Healing is a larger energetic template that directs cells to grow and

differentiate.

These simple laws underpin the energy and healing work in Pranic

Healing® as developed by Grandmaster Choa Kok Sui. Prana is essential to

self-healing. It is the force that is known as chi to the Chinese, mana

to the Polynesians, and prana throughout India.

When energy flows through the body properly, you are in a state of

health. This is the most fundamental truth about prana, the body, the

mind, and our health. If the aura is clean, the meridians clear, and the

chakras balanced and functioning properly, the body is in a state of

physical and mental health.

When there is an energetic disturbance in the body, a disease state is

created. When the body's energy is disrupted in some way, when it is

prevented from flowing smoothly through the meridians, to and from the

chakras, and to and from the organs, a health problem is present (or

about to be present). There are two types of energetic disturbances:

congestion, which is an accumulation of either excess or dirty prana;

and depletion, which is a deficiency of prana. These energetic

disturbances can be either general (occurring throughout the entire

aura) or local (occurring in a specific area, chakra or meridian). For

the body to be returned to a state of health, these energetic

disturbances must be corrected.

You can sense, increase, and direct the body's supply of prana to

improve your health—if you have the proper training. Prana is a living

force; it has consciousness. It can be built up and consciously

controlled. There is a saying in chi kung practice: " The chi follows the

yi. " Chi is a synonym for universal life force. We don't have a

perfectly equivalent word for yi in English, but it refers to the mind

or intent. Thus, the rough translation is: " energy follows thought; "

prana goes where you intend it to go. You want to build up a surplus of

prana and direct it to improve your health.

The body always moves toward homeostasis. Homeostasis is a Greek word

meaning a state of stability or equanimity between different but

interdependent groups or elements of an organism. All systems in nature

move toward balance. The body, too, seeks a balanced energetic level.

Why? This state of equilibrium, or health, is our natural state. Our

body naturally seeks health.

Illnesses manifest in the energy body before they manifest in the

physical body. The energy body is the template or mold for the physical

body; it surrounds and interpenetrates the physical body. Thus, health

problems occur first as irregularities or disturbances in the energy

body before they become symptoms or full-blown health problems in the

physical body. By treating problems at the energetic level, you heal the

physical body. Additionally, through regular energy-generation exercises

and proactive steps to keep the energy body clean, you help prevent

physical ailments from occurring and greatly diminish their effects if

they do physically manifest.

Healing occurs first in the energy body before it becomes apparent in

the physical body. When energy healing is applied to the aura, there can

often be very rapid and dramatic positive results in the physical body.

But, there can also be a slight lag in time before the healing manifests

in the physical body. The length of this time lag depends on factors

such as the healer's experience and proficiency, the complexity and

severity of the health problem, and the current energy level of the

person with the affliction.

One of the major root causes of the energetic disturbances that cause

many physical ailments is frequently negative thoughts and emotions

stored in the body. Thoughts, emotions, beliefs, and memories contain

real energy that is stored unconsciously in the physical body. Consider:

How do you know when you're nervous, angry, or fearful? Not through

intellectual awareness. Only by feeling a physical manifestation in your

body—for example, stomach spasms, a tight neck, an increased heart rate,

a sudden urge to go to the bathroom, heavy perspiration, etc. Negative

emotions themselves do not cause problems; our resistance to feeling

them and releasing their energy in a constructive way causes the problem.

When you avoid experiencing negative emotions and beliefs, your body's

musculature physically constricts and holds onto them. Held tightly in

the body over a period of time, these negative emotions, limiting

beliefs, and traumatic memories form blockages and energetic

disturbances that lead to physical health problems. Certainly, your

health can be affected adversely by external factors such as bacteria

and viruses, as well as poor life choices, bad habits, and accidents.

But many health problems result from an energetic disturbance that is

ultimately caused by the unconscious mind trapping a negative emotion or

limiting belief within the body.

Your body seeks to heal itself and return to health—it is our natural

state. You can develop skills to help regain or maintain your health. It

is a self-regenerating, energetic template that you can learn to

do—using only your own two hands.

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Master Co will be presenting " Your Hands Can Heal You, " a Pranic

Healing Weekend Intensive in Chicago on June 12 and 13, 2004. See Master

Co's website, www.yourhandscanhealyou.com or call Transitions Bookplace

at 312-957-7323 for more information.

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