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Overcoming emotional problems through pranic healing

Prashant S. Shah

Abstract
Pranic healing is an alternative to drug therapy. It is recognised in treating many common conditions
like exhaustion, congestion, backaches, and stress-related disorders. However, what is not well known is
that it is also effective in treating emotional disturbances such as negative attitudes, rigid beliefs, sexual
perversions, wildly fluctuating moods, phobias and addictions. Medical science treats such disorders
with drugs, as in psychiatry. However, patients usually feel the side-effects of drugs and discontinue
the treatment. Psychotherapy is another alternative, but that treatment is very expensive and it works
very slowly. Pranic healing, on the other hand, gives results that are quick and often long-lasting. The
treatment is given by working on the chakras in the energy body. The chakra-related disorders that can
be effectively treated in this way are discussed.

What is pranic healing? What are the chakras?

Pranic healing is an alternative to drug therapy In addition to the physical body we have a
that works on the holistic principle. In pranic ‘pranic double-body’. It is a subtle body that
healing, the healer is not required to know extends to about three inches beyond the
the nature of a disease in detail. The cause of physical body. This double-body absorbs
the ailment may be due to improper lifestyle, prana or life-energy from inside the body
like unhealthy diet or eating habits, excessive and outside the body. Its main function is to
physical or emotional stress; improper medical distribute prana throughout the whole body.
treatment or even a childhood trauma. The prana circulates in the body as currents
However, the healer doesn’t deal with these that flow smoothly along certain channels. In
causes directly. He only treats with the effect addition to these currents, there are energy
these causes have produced on the pranic centres or points within the pranic body
(energy) body. Then he invites the patient to where the pranic energy gets focused and
participate in finding and removing the deeper forms nodes. These energy centres are usually
causes to avoid a recurrence of the ailment. The called chakras. These chakras distribute the
treatment is given by working on the chakras pranic energy to the different endocrine
in the pranic body. glands in the body and to the more subtle,

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