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 PRANIC HEALING®

What is it?
DEFINITION AND EXPLANATION OF PRANIC HEALING
Pranic Healing® is a system of no-touch energy healing originated and developed by Choa Kok Sui, a Filipino businessman and engineer of Chinese descent.  Pranic Healing relies on the premise that the physical body holds within it the capacity to repair and heal itself.  Prana, a Sanskrit word meaning life force, is the essence of the body’s healing capacity and refers to the body’s skill in providing balance, harmony, and wholeness.

What is it used for?
CONDITIONS THAT PRANIC HEALING MAY BE HELPFUL FOR

Research and case studies have shown that Pranic Healing can assist:

- Balancing the energy of the body
- In increasing a sense of well being
- Helping headaches, gas pains, toothaches, and muscle pains
- Helping with cough and cold
- Relieving and lessening digestive ailments
- Major ailments such as eye, liver, kidney, and heart problems
- Increasing the rate of healing

Where did it come from?
HISTORY OF PRANIC HEALING
Pranic Healing was developed by founder Choa Kok Sui. Choa started his healing career in the late '80s. He borrowed from many sources in the yoga and mystical traditions to create his own patented system and, in the early '90s, introduced Pranic Healing in India. 

Trained as a chemical engineer, Choa was able to analyze and develop specific methods of Pranic Healing. Choa also developed Arhatic Yoga, a synthesis of many forms of yoga with the goal of self-realization. One of the major techniques in both of these practices is working with the Kundalini (life source energy) in the body in a safe manner, along with using the subtle energies in the body chakras (energy centers) and nadis (channels) and is the premise of Pranic Healing.

What is it based on?
THEORY OF PRANIC HEALING
Pranic Healing is based on two theories:

1. Law of Self-Recovery:
The law holds that the body has the capability to heal and repair itself, but that all healing takes place at a specific rate.  Minor injuries and illnesses may be overcome within a brief period of time, while more severe ailments take longer. 

2. Law of Life Energy:
For life to exist, the body must have prana, or life energy, and is stated to originate from sun, air and earth. Increasing life energy on the affected parts and on the entire body can accelerate the healing process.  Prana has a powerful effect on the body’s ability to heal itself through its own repair processes and its energy directed to the wounded area of the body has been stated to substantially increase the rate of recovery.

How is it done?
WHAT A SESSION OF PRANIC HEALING IS LIKE
Pranic Healing may be practiced virtually anywhere and with a photograph, can be done in distance healing. The technique described below is a basic technique, and some Pranic Healing practitioners may use other techniques during their session.

Practitioners will first relax themselves to get the best results in the session. They can first observe and correct their own breathing to bring about a homeostasis between positive and negative energies in the body.  By doing this they relax the nervous system, lessen heart activity and blood pressure, and increase digestion.  The practitioner may also encourage the client to perform relaxation and breathing exercises.
Before beginning a session, the practitioner can draw a real or imaginary circle around the patient and fill it with white light.  It can be recommended that the client be lying with his head toward the east whenever possible. The client may be clothed and close their eyes and concentrate on trying to see him/herself encompassed in the circle of white light. 

If the practitioner is right handed, she/he should kneel in a position to the left of the patient’s legs and vice versa. The practitioner then reaches forward, with arms extended holding the hands with palms inward, taking a deep breath, passing each hand along both sides of the patient’s body, about one inch away from the body surface from the head to the feet.  Following every complete pass the pranic healer forcefully shakes his or her hands to release any negativity which has emerged from the client.  At least seven of these passes are done in a session. Afterwards, the practitioner sits quietly resting, while viewing the client in the white light. The practitioner can repeat the breathing exercises.

Then the practitioner places his/her hands on the sides of the patient’s head with the thumbs gently resting on the temples. At this time the practitioner endeavors to channel through him or herself goodness, wellness and love to the client, and to send his or her own positive energy.  Then the practitioner can visualize the client surrounded by white light.  After resting, the practitioner can send energy to the heart through his hands.  Following another brief rest the practitioner can transmit energy to any wounded or ailing area. Periods of rest time are allowed to further integrate the new energy into the body.

Who does it?
PRANIC HEALING PRACTITIONERS
There are currently no regulations or educational requirements for Pranic Healing practitioners in the U.S. There are a wide variety of training programs from beginning to advanced available through the World Pranic Healing organization run by instructors and practitioners trained by Choa Kok Sui. Pranic Healing may be practiced alone or in conjunction with various other forms of touch or energy therapies that may require licensure.