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Heal thyself via Reiki, Pranic route
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Alternative therapies hasten the healing process without any side effects. The best part is that they can be used in conjunction with other systems of medicine.
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Salma Mehdi (seated in the centre) and her disciples conducting a Reiki healing session. Photo: C.V. Subrahmanyam.
Long after the West had adopted natural healing processes, vexed with modern medicine which is wrought with side-effects and costs a fortune, Indians are now beginning to look towards alternative health systems, most of which have their roots in ancient Indian practices.
Reiki and Pranic Healing are two such alternative systems, which have been derived from ancient Indian systems. The Usui system of natural healing using Reiki was revived by Mikao Usui of Japan in the late 1800s. The founder of Pranic Healing is Master Choa Kok Sui, a 52-year man from the Phillipines.
`Rei' means spiritual consciousness or divine wisdom that understands the problems of a person, their cause and the method of healing, while `Ki' signifies the life force, the universal vital life force that pervades all living things.
Durga Malleswari conducting a Pranic Healing session. --- Photo: K.R. Deepak
Usui was the president of a small Christian University - Doshishua University - in Kyoto, Japan. The queries raised by his students regarding the healing powers of Jesus, sent his mind thinking. He resigned his post as president of the university and proceeded to Chicago to learn the secret Jesus's healing the sick, and in the process earned a doctorate for himself. But he could not unveil the secret.
On learning that the Buddha had healed his disciples and devotees with a mere touch, Usui, after a seven-year search and reading of the original Buddhist scriptures in Sanskrit, came across the methods used by the Buddha to heal. After a 21-day penance, Usui found the key to the healing by the Buddha and Jesus and passed on the knowledge to his disciples, who spread the process globally.
A master should have unconditional love towards patients. Reiki is a divine energy, which heals and we (Reiki practitioners) are only a channel for flow or transfer of that energy, says Reiki master, Salma Mehdi, who has been practicing the system for the last seven years. In the first degree, the treatment is by touch and from the second degree onwards, touching the patient is not required.
The master and patient can be miles apart but Reiki treatment can be given through `distance healing'. "I have successfully treated a woman in Coimbatore, Shakuntala Devi, who suffered multiple organ failure, from here (Visakhapatnam). The treatment took about one-and-a-half months time and now she is completely all right. She had come to know of me through her sister, who stays in the city," says Salma.
She recalls, "Initially, I was a non-believer in Reiki. In 1995, I had a slipped disc problem and when allopathic medicines failed to cure me, I was very much depressed. When someone suggested that I should go for Reiki treatment, I brushed the suggestion aside but later thought: why not give it a try? I learnt it and practised the system and completely cured myself. "
Attunement gives the Reiki channel, the power to draw much more energy from the space for healing. Whole body cleaning (on all 24 points) for at least 21 days after attunement is essential to make the Reiki channel perfectly useful.
Having cured herself, Salma decided to cure others suffering from various diseases and there was no looking back for her ever since. Apart from Reiki, she has also learnt acupressure and Pranic healing.
A healing session in progress
The system, however, will not work when the patient to whom Reiki is being given is not receptive or does not have faith in the system, she says.
"Reiki is something which could be experienced by any person for quick relief from most health problems," says Uma Rao, who was cured of her gynaecological problem after undergoing treatment for six months.
Sirisha, a housewife, was cured of her anxiety and hot flushes through Reiki. She has learnt the first degree and now uses it to cure her daughter, Dolly, (a Std. I pupil of Timpany School) of minor ailments.
"I had been suffering from back pain for the past six years. My problem was identified as `disc prolapse' and I took treatment from the noted orthpaedician, Dharma Rao, who advised physiotherapy and it helped in losing weight but I had to be on a high dose of pain killers," says a 48-year old housewife, V. Indira Devi.
She came to know of Reiki healing through an acquaintance in June 2001 and she met Salma. She was given acupressure treatment for 15 days and again after three weeks the treatment was repeated. "I felt some improvement in my condition. I was taking Reiki treatment for one hour every day and from then onwards I feel as though I have undergone a total transformation."
Indira Devi takes Homoeo medicines for pain relief. Her sinus problem was also cured following Reiki treatment. "However, I still experience occasional pain, when I exert myself too much," she says.
"I had arthritis two years ago. I underwent the first degree healing for 21 days and there was noticeable improvement in my condition. I have been practising the therapy ever since. I do not suffer from the problem any longer, says R. Ratnakumari, another housewife of Railway New Colony.
The term `Pranic healing' originated from the Sanskrit word `Prana', which refers to the vital energy or life force, which keeps the body alive and healthy. It is the process of transferring that vital energy from the healer to the patients. Treatment does not require physical contact since the healer works on the bioplasmic body and not the physical body.
The bioplasmic body is the invisible living energy that penertrates the physical body, says Pranic healing practitioner, Durga Malleswari, who is also the joint secretary of the Pranic Healers Association. She conducts classes for prospective trainers and also treats patients at Akkayyapalem.
"When the sense organs are affected, motor and sensory impulses start and reach the brain and reverberate. It produces negative effect or in other words psychological feelings of destruction, according to the theory of Pranic healing", explains an allopathic doctor, Rama Rao, who has been practising the system for the past two years at Tagarapuvalsa.
"The system has produced very good results for localised pain and for correcting negative emotions," says Dr. Rama Rao who learnt the system from his friends. He suggests introduction of Pranic healing as a subject in neuro-physiology.
"I tried Pranic healing as a last resort to relieve myself of my back pain after unsuccessfully trying allopathy and homoeopathy. Within three days, I felt a lot better and in course of time I was totally cured," says a housewife, M. Sarada Devi, who encourages others to practise the system.
Gulping the pills for no reason can result in damage to the body, but adopting alternative systems can reduce tensions and cure many ailments sans side effects.
B. Madhu Gopal
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