Pranic Healing® and Reiki
Pranic Healing® and Reiki
Complementary Therapies for the Modern Healer
REIKI is a very good healing modality that has helped many people. It was originated by Dr. Usui and popularized by thousands of REIKI Masters. PRANIC HEALING was originated by GrandMaster Choa Kok Sui of the Philippines and is taught by certified PRANIC HEALING Instructors in over 81 countries.
According to the REIKI Masters who have attended PRANIC HEALING classes, as well as my own observations as a teacher and healer, here are some of the major differences between PRANIC HEALING and REIKI:
1. PRANIC HEALING is a non-touch system of healing. REIKI practitioners touch the body most of the time, but they also employ some non-touch techniques.
2. PRANIC HEALING teaches its students to “scan,” or actually feel the aura, to assess areas of energetic depletion and congestion or stagnation, which helps identify problem areas that need healing. REIKI usually doesn’t use any energy-assessment technique but relies on the intuition of the practitioner.
3. PRANIC HEALING employs a manual cleansing technique called “sweeping” to remove blockages and stagnant energies before giving fresh energy to the patient; REIKI has no comparable technique. PRANIC HEALING believes cleansing is critical to the healing process because diseased energies and negative emotions have to first be removed before energizing the body or they may manifest physically, and sometimes dramatically, through vomiting, loose bowel movement, a rash, flu or other symptoms.
Such expelling is often labeled as “detoxification”, however, it is quite uncomfortable and can be prevented with proper cleansing. In fact, cleansing alone often allows the body to quickly heal itself by permitting fresh energy to penetrate deeper into the body to be utilized as healing fuel.
4. PRANIC HEALING employs a “cookbook” approach to healing. According to thousands of case reports gathered by Grand-Master Choa Kok Sui, every ailment produces a unique set of energy patterns that can be identified in the energy body’s 11 major chakras and numerous meridians. REIKI has essentially one energy technique, facilitating the flow of Reiki energy into whatever area needs healing, to address all health problems.
PRANIC HEALING, by contrast, uses specific energetic routines of cleansing and energizing that are matched to the specific patterns of energetic deficiencies caused by a particular illness. PRANIC HEALING, thus, offers a quicker, more targeted and more effective system of healing.
5. PRANIC HEALING teaches its practitioners to directly draw energy from the sun, air, ground and other spiritual sources and then project this prana into their subjects’ auras and chakras. REIKI practitioners have to be “initiated” by a REIKI Master and given “symbols” to access the healing energies. It is similar to having to obtain a “password.” PRANIC HEALING employs simple breathing and visualization exercises that allow anyone to heal immediately with minimal instruction.
6. PRANIC HEALING includes a practice called “energetic hygiene” rarely found in any healing modality, including REIKI. Energetic hygiene is a set of practices: breathing, dietary recommendations and other cleansing routines designed to keep your personal energy tank clean and full.
REIKI Masters attending PRANIC HEALING classes agree that energetic hygiene is one of the greatest benefits of the class, particularly the techniques that enable them to cleanse themselves of contaminating energy they pick up from clients and how to prevent subjects or negative people from draining their life force. This is particularly important not only for REIKI practitioners, but also other healthcare providers because these people frequently experience pain or the ailment of their subjects and become drained and tired after healing someone.
7. PRANIC HEALING employs the use of color energies that dramatically accelerate the body’s innate healing abilities. In fact, many REIKI Masters who have taken PRANIC HEALING often say that if they have a subject who wants immediate relief or rapid healings, they use PRANIC HEALING — particularly, the colored pranic techniques. But, if they have a subject who wants a relaxing and soothing session, they use REIKI.
In summary, both PRANIC HEALING and REIKI are excellent healing modalities and help alleviate pain and suffering. However, PRANIC HEALING gives you the tools to produce faster and more immediate results while “immunizing” you against contamination from the people you are healing.
Six Quick Steps to Greater Energy and Better Health
It is unfortunate that many of us lead hurried lives and are too busy to take care of ourselves the way we should — eating well, getting sufficient exercise, and taking the time to get the rest we really need to increase our energy and maintain our mental, emotional, and physical well-being. It’s fortunate, though, that for the stressed person seeking greater vitality, health — and tranquility — amid the hustle of the modern world, there is one particular healing technology that offers a simple, easy-to-implement solution: Pranic Healing®. Pranic Healing® is a form of energy medicine that teaches its practitioners to increase, control and direct the prana, or universal life force, that is all around us for their own personal health and energetic benefit. Pranic Healing® was created by Chinese-Filipino spiritual teacher and energy master, Grandmaster Choa Kok Sui, who spent years researching such esoteric systems as yoga, chi kung, Kabbalah (a form of ancient Jewish mysticism and spiritual practice), and many others in order to create a simple, practical, effective “optimum” energy healing system anyone could learn and use.
There are six steps to this healing system. The first step is clearing negative emotions and limiting beliefs. Negative emotions, fears, anxieties, traumatic memories and phobias reduce your energy by blocking the flow of prana through your aura, the energy body that surrounds and interpenetrates your physical body. When the flow of prana is blocked or otherwise inhibited, it can ultimately lead to physical illness. Thus, there is a strong emotional component to any ailment, and negative emotions must be cleared or resolved in order to maintain a state of high energy and good health.
The second step is pranic breathing. This is a highly-energizing breathing technique that utilizes the principles of rhythm, a specific breathing count, and retention, the purposeful holding of the breath in the lungs at specific times, to enable practitioners to draw in large quantities of prana to boost their own vitality and relieve health problems.
The third step is energy manipulation, which consists of three methods of manually cleaning your energy body and maintaining the smooth, plentiful flow of prana through it. These techniques include scanning, or using your hands to actually feel for energetic imbalances in your aura; sweeping, or cleaning away the dirty or congested prana with several specific hand movements; and energizing, or drawing in prana and projecting it into areas of energetic depletion.
These techniques may sound a bit strange, but the truth is, with proper training and only about 20 minutes of daily practice, nearly everyone can learn to feel, sweep and project energy in just a couple of weeks.
The fourth step is energetic hygiene, which is the practice of keeping your energy body as clean and charged up as possible through emotional regulation, dietary recommendations, special physical exercises, the use of salt as an energetic cleansing agent and numerous other techniques. Most people feel their personal energy surge when they begin practicing energetic hygiene regularly.
The fifth step is meditation. Grandmaster Choa teaches a number of meditations for calming the mind and increasing the supply of prana. But beginning Pranic Healing® students are taught two basic meditations: a mindfulness meditation to still the thoughts allowing a greater flow of cleansing energy, and Meditation on Twin Hearts, a powerful meditation on peace and loving kindness that draws in enormous quantities of healing prana.
The sixth and final step consists of the two very powerful energy-generation exercises, of which both have been modified by Grandmaster Choa to make them simple to perform while still ensuring that they enable the practitioner to produce great quantities of high-quality prana. These include the modified Tibetan Yogic Exercises and the modified Mentalphysics Exercises. Both sets take only minutes to perform.
Experience "Coming Home"The Tibetan Master Djwhal Khul said, “All disease is a result of inhibited Soul Life... The art of the healer consists of releasing the Soul, so it can flow through the aggregate of organisms which constitute any particular form. The true and future healing is brought about when the life of the Soul can flow without impediment and hindrance throughout every aspect of the form. It can then vitalize it." What this means is, the more abundant the flow of spiritual energy (Soul Life) coming into the body through the crown chakra, the faster the rate of healing.
The Soul is a spark from the universal flame, which some call God. God puts forth this portion of the Godhead, which then incarnates, or takes a body, in the lower plane, the earth. As an extension of God, our Soul is in a state of permanent health, a state of prolonged awareness, peace, love and bliss. We may not be consciously aware of it, but we inherently know that this state of peace resides within us.
As we seek health, success and happiness in the physical world, we are often oblivious to how close true health, success and happiness are, because we don’t look inward. But when we become aware of the limitations of our physical body and the imperfections of the material world — as we must inevitably — our innate knowledge of this inner state of peace and health is stirred.
This is called spiritual restlessness. There are many ways spiritual restlessness is awakened. It is commonly prompted by a life crisis, such as a reversal of fortune or tragedy that is difficult to explain, for example, disastrous material loss or the death of someone close. It is often felt when we have a premature brush with mortality ourselves, or when we near the end of our life and seek to put things in order.
Or, we may feel it after we attain our worldly goals: success, fame, prosperity, or in the case of our focus here, physical health. Then find ourselves wondering if “that’s all there is.” It may arise simply as a result of exploring physical health through alternative or esoteric practices. Or, it may be awakened naturally in those who are particularly sensitive or spiritually developed.
Regardless of how we come to this awareness, we all have with-in us this intrinsic need to “return to the source,” to have contact with our Soul to access that inner peace and health. Below is a portion of a short but powerful meditation that will allow you to experience a glimpse of your Soul’s Divine Nature.
1. Sit in a darkened room, face East, close your eyes, and relax your body by performing seven cycles of pranic (slow and deep diaphragmatic) breathing. Connect your tongue to the roof of the mouth.
2. Imagine a golden flame above your crown. With your eyelids closed, look up to the flame then silently say,
“I AM not the body; the body is a vehicle of the Soul. I AM not my emotions or my thoughts; they are just products of the Soul. I AM not even the mind. The mind is the just the instrument of the Soul. I AM the Soul! I AM a being of Divine Intelligence, Divine Love, and Divine Power. I AM connected to God. I AM one with God. I AM one with All. I AM the Soul!”
Repeat affirmation nine times. Allow yourself to completely MELT INTO THE FLAME... Be still, be aware and simply let go for five minutes or more. (We recommend recording your voice nine times and playing it back during the meditation).
The Tibetan Master Djwhal Khul said, “All disease is a result of inhibited Soul Life... The art of the healer consists of releasing the Soul, so it can flow through the aggregate of organisms which constitute any particular form. The true and future healing is brought about when the life of the Soul can flow without impediment and hindrance throughout every aspect of the form. It can then vitalize it." What this means is, the more abundant the flow of spiritual energy (Soul Life) coming into the body through the crown chakra, the faster the rate of healing.
The Soul is a spark from the universal flame, which some call God. God puts forth this portion of the Godhead, which then incarnates, or takes a body, in the lower plane, the earth. As an extension of God, our Soul is in a state of permanent health, a state of prolonged awareness, peace, love and bliss. We may not be consciously aware of it, but we inherently know that this state of peace resides within us.
As we seek health, success and happiness in the physical world, we are often oblivious to how close true health, success and happiness are, because we don’t look inward. But when we become aware of the limitations of our physical body and the imperfections of the material world — as we must inevitably — our innate knowledge of this inner state of peace and health is stirred.
This is called spiritual restlessness. There are many ways spiritual restlessness is awakened. It is commonly prompted by a life crisis, such as a reversal of fortune or tragedy that is difficult to explain, for example, disastrous material loss or the death of someone close. It is often felt when we have a premature brush with mortality ourselves, or when we near the end of our life and seek to put things in order.
Or, we may feel it after we attain our worldly goals: success, fame, prosperity, or in the case of our focus here, physical health. Then find ourselves wondering if “that’s all there is.” It may arise simply as a result of exploring physical health through alternative or esoteric practices. Or, it may be awakened naturally in those who are particularly sensitive or spiritually developed.
Regardless of how we come to this awareness, we all have with-in us this intrinsic need to “return to the source,” to have contact with our Soul to access that inner peace and health. Below is a portion of a short but powerful meditation that will allow you to experience a glimpse of your Soul’s Divine Nature.
1. Sit in a darkened room, face East, close your eyes, and relax your body by performing seven cycles of pranic (slow and deep diaphragmatic) breathing. Connect your tongue to the roof of the mouth.
2. Imagine a golden flame above your crown. With your eyelids closed, look up to the flame then silently say,
“I AM not the body; the body is a vehicle of the Soul. I AM not my emotions or my thoughts; they are just products of the Soul. I AM not even the mind. The mind is the just the instrument of the Soul. I AM the Soul! I AM a being of Divine Intelligence, Divine Love, and Divine Power. I AM connected to God. I AM one with God. I AM one with All. I AM the Soul!”
Repeat affirmation nine times. Allow yourself to completely MELT INTO THE FLAME... Be still, be aware and simply let go for five minutes or more. (We recommend recording your voice nine times and playing it back during the meditation).
Reflections on Pranic Healing®
I have this image of having coffee with my brother-in-law who happens to be an M.D. — a research physician. He says to me “anything new in your life Bob?” I say, “Oh, I just took a workshop on Pranic Healing — it was pretty cool. You know, energy stuff. The healer waves his hands around a patient, and as a result of working with the patient’s energy field, the patient is healed.”
My brother-in-law, who is very intellectually oriented, (studies statistics, does double-blind studies, reads respected scientific journals) is faced with a dilemma. Should he ask for the check from the waiter, declaring that he has an important meeting to attend, change the subject, or probe, while holding back an urge to laugh? My bet says he changes the subject.
Pranic Healing is however, making its way into the jargon and minds of the west. And like acupuncture and other healing modalities that have come from the east, Pranic Healing will first have to overcome the skepticism of the western world.
I’m a skeptic by nature myself, but after attending a two-day workshop on Pranic Healing®, I believe those walls of skepticism will break, crumble and fall, sooner rather than later.
WHAT IS PRANIC HEALING®?
Pranic Healing, according to their website — www.pranichealing.com — “is a highly developed and tested system of energy-based healing techniques that utilizes ‘prana’ to balance, harmonize and transform the body’s energy processes. ‘Prana’ is a Sanskrit word meaning ‘life-force.’ This invisible bio-energy or vital energy keeps the body alive and maintains a state of good health.”
Prana is an invisible energy which has eluded western methods of detection. Although a few years back a Russian scientist developed what came to be known as Kirlian photography, which documented an energy field around the body, there is still a reluctance on the part of western medicine to accept what cannot be tested by traditional scientific methods.
The website continues on, describing Pranic Healing® as “a simple, yet powerful and effective, no-touch energy healing. It is based on the fundamental principle that the body is a ‘self-repairing’ living entity that possesses the innate ability to heal itself. Pranic Healing works on the principle that the healing process is accelerated by increasing the life force or vital energy on the affected part of the physical body.”
THE WORKSHOP
The two-day workshop on Pranic Healing® which I attended was held at the Holiday Inn in Burbank, California. The workshop was led by Master Stephen Co, a disciple of Grand Master Choa Kok Sui, the founder of Pranic Healing®. There were about twenty attendees and five or six support staff for this particular workshop. The purpose of the workshop was to learn the basic healing techniques of Pranic Healing®. The workshop ran from 9:30 to 5:30, Saturday and Sunday. By the end of the two-day workshop, we would be able to practice Pranic Healing techniques on family and friends.
As I entered the room, a few minutes before the workshop was scheduled to begin, I was immediately aware of the soothing music floating through the air, and two individuals at the front of the room. One of the individuals was Master Stephen Co. Trim and youthful in appearance, Master Co was holding in his hand what appeared to be a crystal. It had the shape of a very fat pencil and was about six or seven inches long.
Apparently Master Co was performing a healing. The “patient” had his back toward Master Co, and was about three feet away from him. From my vantage point, it looked like Master Co was scribbling in the air with the crystal, occasional flicking his wrist (the one holding the crystal) toward a bowl of salt water on the floor. This mini-healing session lasted a few more minutes, as I stared in fascination. The “scribbling” I witnessed would make more sense by the end of the workshop.
The premise of Pranic Healing® is that there is an energy field around the body. This field is sometimes seen by clairvoyants and referred to as the aura. According to the tenets of Pranic Healing, disease will first manifest itself in this energy field before expressing itself in the body. The Pranic Healer works with this energy field that surrounds the body. Healing the energy field acts as a catalyst to inspire the body’s ability to heal itself.
After introductions and a brief discussion, we broke off into partners and began learning the healing techniques developed by Grand Master Shui.
Grand Master Shui was an engineer by training. At a very young age he became interested in eastern thought — from yoga to mysticism. His engineering background, combined with an interest in eastern thought and the healing arts, led to the development of Pranic Healing®.
The first method we learned in the workshop was referred to as “sweeping.” The practitioner sweeps his hands over the patient’s energy field, eliminating any “dirty prana.” At the end of each sweep, the practitioner would flick his or her hands toward a bowl on the floor containing water and salt. This salt water bowl would neutralize the dirty prana. The general sweeping was done five times in front of the patient’s body and five times on the back of the patient’s body with the practitioner’s hands always being at least twelve inches from the person.
After practicing the sweeping techniques, we learned how to clean and energize the various chakras in the body. In the workshop we would be focusing on eleven major chakras, or energy centers as they are referred to in Pranic literature. Each chakra had corresponding ailments associated with it. For example, if the patient had anxiety issues — emotional distress, anger, irritability — certain chakras would be cleansed and then energized, using specific Pranic Healing® techniques. The techniques could not only be used on others, but we could essentially heal ourselves using these same techniques.
The training we received was, by the end of the two-day workshop, more than enough to launch the attendees off on their own adventures as novice Pranic Healers.
STORIES
Perhaps the most enjoyable aspect of the workshop was listening to Stephen Co recount story after story of various healings. One that comes to mind was a trip that Co took up Mt. Baldy on a ski lift — as a sightseer — during the summer. Apparently he and his wife were traveling with another couple, who were in the ski lift chair directly behind them. Half way up the mountain, Co turned around expecting to see his friend enjoying the beautiful sights, only to see his friend, head tilted down, grabbing onto the chair lift center pole in sheer terror. is friend failed to mention to Co that he had a fear of heights.
At the top of the mountain the two couples decided to have lunch at the restaurant. Co, being the Pranic Healer he is, decided to perform a healing on his friend, to relieve his friend’s fear of heights. The problem was, they were in a public restaurant, eating lunch. So, if you can imagine . . . two couples sitting across from each other at a table, laughing, talking and eating, while Co surreptitiously attempts to heal his friend — right-hand making bizarre gyrations . . . scribbling in the air as covertly as possible. To the casual observer, it must have been quite a sight.
Well, to make a long story short, on the trip down the mountain on the ski lift, Co observed that his friend was not grabbing the chair lift bar in sheer terror, but gazing in sheer ecstasy, enjoying the majestic views that nature had to offer.
Eric Robins, M.D., had some stories to tell also (via a video we saw at the workshop). Apparently, Dr. Robins was the first western physician to introduce Pranic Healing to a major California hospital where he is a practitioner. Robins decided to offer Pranic Healing to his patients who weren’t responding to standard medical procedures. As a result, he observed firsthand, that Pranic Healing is an effective healing tool. So successful were his trials with Pranic Healing, well over a hundred physicians and nurses at his hospital took classes to learn these techniques themselves.
Dr. Robin’s stories can be read in the book, co-authored with Stephen Co and John Merryman, “Your Hands Can Heal You.”
Pranic Healing® will undoubtedly make inroads into the western medical community. As of this writing, it is being offered in some eighty countries. It’s just a matter of time before hospitals throughout the U.S. will have Pranic Healing on their list of services offered.
For those drawn to energy healing, I would highly recommend the Pranic Healing® courses being offered throughout the country. They are inexpensive and offer a first-hand look at energy healing.
by Robert Ross, Awareness Magazine
It is unfortunate that many of us lead hurried lives and are too busy to take care of ourselves the way we should — eating well, getting sufficient exercise, and taking the time to get the rest we really need to increase our energy and maintain our mental, emotional, and physical well-being. It’s fortunate, though, that for the stressed person seeking greater vitality, health — and tranquility — amid the hustle of the modern world, there is one particular healing technology that offers a simple, easy-to-implement solution: Pranic Healing®.
Complementary Therapies for the Modern Healer
REIKI is a very good healing modality that has helped many people. It was originated by Dr. Usui and popularized by thousands of REIKI Masters. PRANIC HEALING was originated by GrandMaster Choa Kok Sui of the Philippines and is taught by certified PRANIC HEALING Instructors in over 81 countries.
According to the REIKI Masters who have attended PRANIC HEALING classes, as well as my own observations as a teacher and healer, here are some of the major differences between PRANIC HEALING and REIKI:
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