- Pranic Therapy Part V
- By: G Kumar
Astrologer and Epistemologist
"The Unified Field of Einstein
is the Brahman of the Vedists and the Tao of the Chinese",
says Dr Fritjof Capra in his famous book " The Tao of Physics".
The Vedists called this Unitary Power by the name Prana. This
Cosmic Energy can be used to heal and healing via this Cosmic
Prana came to be known as Pranic Therapy. This article is a continuation
of the earlier article Pranic
Therapy Part IV.
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Attunement to Biorhythms
Along with regulation of food,
sleep, exercise and relaxation, the spiritual aspirant should
learn to attune his psychosomatic machine to his own biorhythms.
"Biological clocks"
were discovered in animals in the late 1950s and Biorhytms were
understood as a result. When the Moon rose ( which caused the
flow of tide ), mussels and crabs which live on seashores were
found to open their shells or become active even when they were
moved to a distant place. "Circadian rhythms" in the
human body were discovered later.
There are daily biorhythms, lunar
rhythms and solar rhythms.
Circadian Rhythms |
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It was found that level of sugar
in the blood, body temperature, BP, production of hormones and
enzymes changed according to a cyclic, regular and recurrent
pattern. While some have have 24 or 25 hour cycles others have
36 or 48 hour cycles. Even emotional sensitivity and intellectual
creativity increase and decrease according to biorhythms, apart
from physiological activities.
Lunar Rhythms
In the case of lunar people the
11th day of the lunar month ( Ekadasi ) or the day of the full
moon ( Pournami ) or the day of the New Moon (Amavasi) may act
as the pivotal point of change in their biorhythms. Some people
have 28 day cycles irrespective of the movement of the Moon.
Solar Rhythms
The Appollonians ( as the solar
people are called ) are more sensitive to changes of solar seasons
than the lunarian changes. With the onset of winter, spring,
summer and autumn they may find profound changes taking place
in their physiological processes and mental activity.
The existence of these biorhythms
were confirmed by research even though superficial minds may
not be able to detect these biorhythms. A spiritual aspirant
should recognise his biorhythms and adjust his prayer, meditation
and acitivities in accordance with these rhythms. Minor stomach
upsets, pain in joints, disturbed sleep, change of mood etc are
associated with biorhythms and the seeker shoud not be upset
by these minor changes.
Why holistic health practices
fail or succeed partially
Main reason for the failure of
holisitc health practices is that Prana or Life Energy does not
flow freely within the individual or between the individual and
the universal life, owing to the presence of obstructions within.
These obstructions are caused by Samskaras, psychic memories
or residual traces of our past actions and experiences. Samskaras
are of two kinds, those which only produce memories ( smriti
) of past experiences and those which produce impulses or drives
to repeat these experiences ( vasanas ). These two are interlinked
to form complex patterns of love, hate, fear etc. It is these
complexes that obstruct the free flow of Life-Energy in us.
Removing Mental Blocks
Many of these complexes are formed
in childhood and adolescence. When unpleasant or traumatic experiences
take place, the tendency of a child or teenager is to repress
them. Repression is a form of pushing the psychic memories into
the unconscious regions of the mind. The growing youth may not
be able to recollect those psychic memories again, but the repressed
samskaras lodged in the hidden recesses of the unconscious go
on creating psychological and psychosomatic problems for him.
All psychosomatic disorders cannot
be cured by holistic health techniques unless these repressed
complexities are ferreted out and confronted. The past samskaras
should be deactivated. For this the seeker has to dive deep into
his unconscious and encounter the past experiences and deactivate
them.
Most people find it difficult
to do it without the active help of a competent guide. Those
who depend on the Ocean of Consciousness ( the Absolute or God
) may, however, find that these inner blocks are removed by Divine
Grace. This is the rationale behind faith healing and miraculous
cures.
Extension of Consciousness
Life, a gift from the Divine,
is a great healing power. Nothing ever begins to be; Substance
merely undergoes a parallel transformation into conditions which
pre-existed in other conditions. Life, similarly, does not begin
to be. As Energy, as per the Law of Conservation of Energy or
Matter cannot be created or destroyed, so too is Life Eternal.
At the physical level, the eternal
healing power of life manifests itself as
a) Self-renewal
b) The immune system.
For many years it has been known
that the body can filter and re-use its fluids and repair damages
to tissues, especially skin and bone, by growing new cells. Modern
Science has shown that self-renewal is constantly taking place
in every part of the body. Almost all the cells in the body are
constantly being replaced by new ones. Somebody said "I
am not the same person I was one year ago"! The entire body
gets renewed in this way every year and this shows that it is
never too late to regain your health. By changing one's basic
attitudes and way of living, the damage to the body caused by
years of misuse and neglect can be overcome.
One the great marvels of the
universe is the human immune system. Those who are aware of the
biochemical processes going on in the body will agree with Walt
Whitman "To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably
perfect miracle". Dr Walter Cannon said "The Wisdom
of the body is the most precise of all selective refinements"
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The Components ( Four Units
) of our Immune System
The fourfold immune system consists
of the following units;
1 The granulocyte-macrophage
unit
2. The lymphocyte unit
3. The antibody unit
4. The complement unit
The first two are varieties of
white blood corpuscles, wherein the last two are chemicals, proteins.
All the four units of our immune system launch a concerted attack
on the invaders as soon as a few bacteria break into any tissue
in the body. ( The antibody unit has been defined as an army
of one million ) Western medical science is wondering who masterminds
this attack or who plans these strategies. Common sense, logic,
intuition and experience suggest that somewhere behind all this
there must be a master control. Why do sometimes cells become
malignant and attack neighbouring cells? Why it goes awry, sometimes,
when our defence units attack innocent cells mistaking them for
enemy microbes? Western medical science is researching hard to
find answers to these difficult questions.
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