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Master Stephen Co , Alternative & Complementary Medicine, answeredThe energetic anatomy has five basic components:
1. The chakras, the body’s power centers or transformers that take in and distribute prana.
2. The meridians, the body’s energy channels that transfer prana to and from the chakras and nearby organs and parts of the body.
3. The inner aura, an inner shell of prana that begins inside the body and extends about 5 inches out from the body in a healthy adult.
4. The outer aura, an outer shell of prana that also begins inside the body and extends up to several feet beyond the inner aura in a healthy adult. The outer aura holds in the body’s energy.
5. The health aura, an aggregation of 2-foot-long rays or beams that radiate from the body’s pores. In a healthy person, these health rays are straight and well defined, but in a sick person they are crooked or droopy.
These auras are concentric, much like the layers of an onion, with the three auras nesting inside one another.
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Master Stephen Co , Alternative & Complementary Medicine, answeredPranic Healing was created by a Chinese-Filipino spiritual teacher and energy master named Grandmaster Choa Kok Sui, who spent years researching the root teachings of esoteric systems such as yoga, chi kung, Kaballah (an ancient Jewish mystical-spiritual tradition), and many others in order to create a simple, practical, effective, "optimum" energy healing system that anyone could learn and use.
In his teens Grandmaster Choa was already an accomplished student of yoga and various meditation and spiritual systems. In his twenties, he continued intensive study of higher-level esoteric practices, with a particular focus on the use of vital life force for healing. He concluded that healing, at its most basic, consists of cleansing and energizing - that is, cleaning away dirty or blocked life force from the aura and replenishing the aura with fresh energy. Next, Grandmaster Choa, who by this time had also established himself as a businessman and engineer, applied a rigorous scientific approach to his inquiries. He set up a number of healing clinics in the Philippines to test the effectiveness of laying on of hands, chi kung, and other energy healing systems. Each patient who came in received a particular type of energetic treatment, and the results - or lack of results - of that particular treatment for that specific ailment were recorded. Grandmaster Choa also had highly skilled healers with heightened sensitivity - people with the ability to see vital life force in the body - observe the patients before and after treatment, so that he could detail the exact energetic effect of each system. These experiments were overseen by nurses and other medical professionals, as well.
These healing clinics continued for years, with Grandmaster Choa constantly testing and refining methods of cleaning out dirty energy and increasing the supply of healing energy. Finally, in 1987, Grandmaster Choa published his first book and held his first workshop in the Philippines to introduce Pranic Healing, a "best of the best" system of very specific instructions and sequences for cleansing and energizing particular parts of the body to achieve rapid healing. The system spread to the United States in 1990 and is now practiced worldwide. -
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There are three principal sources of prana: the air, from which we get air prana; the earth, from which we get ground prana; and the sun, from which we get solar prana. All living things have the innate ability to absorb and utilize prana to sustain life. We do this unconsciously. For instance, we get solar prana through exposure to sunlight. We get air prana through the act of respiration. And we absorb ground prana through our feet as we walk around every day. (We also get prana from the food we eat, but consuming food is merely an indirect way of obtaining prana that ultimately comes from the air, earth, and sun.)
Other, more powerful, conscious methods of acquiring prana can be employed to obtain both a greater quantity and a higher quality of this life force. These more powerful prana-generation techniques are the key to effective self-healing.
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Master Stephen Co , Alternative & Complementary Medicine, answeredIf you work with a woman who is or may be pregnant, you should practice only scanning and mild sweeping. Strong sweeping, energizing, and colored pranas can damage a fetus. There are sweeping and energizing routines for pregnant women, but they are reserved for experienced pranic healers.
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Master Stephen Co , Alternative & Complementary Medicine, answered
While all prana is energy, there are slight variations in the quality of the prana, depending on the source. For instance, solar prana is more refined than ground prana, which means that solar prana vibrates at a higher frequency than earth prana and is composed of smaller, finer particles. While all prana can be used for physical healing, its level of refinement dictates its suitability for certain purposes. For instance, higher-frequency prana is used for spiritual development and healing delicate areas, while lower-frequency prana is used for increasing physical power and healing not-so-delicate areas.
Prana is remarkably powerful and resilient, yet it is also very delicate. Prana can be used to relieve serious health problems. It can even be projected over great distances without losing its strength or effectiveness. But your prana can also be diminished or weakened by many factors, including your beliefs, emotions, attitudes, inhibitions, and traumatic memories, the food you eat, the people you associate with, where you work and live, how you work and live, what you say, what you think, and how you react to the general level of stress in your life.
In general, your state of health is tied to your supply of prana. When your prana is clean and plentiful, you are in good physical and mental health. When your prana is low or dirty, you typically experience some type of health problem.
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Master Stephen Co , Alternative & Complementary Medicine, answered
Illnesses manifest in the energy body before they manifest in the physical body. The energy body is the template, or mold, for the physical body; it surrounds and interpenetrates the physical body. Thus, health problems occur first as irregularities or disturbances in the energy body before they become symptoms or full-blown health problems in the physical body. By treating problems at the energetic level, you heal the physical body. Additionally, through regular energy-generation exercises and proactive steps to keep the energy body clean, you help prevent physical ailments from occurring and greatly diminish their effects if they do physically manifest.
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Master Stephen Co , Alternative & Complementary Medicine, answeredThere are two types of sweeping, general sweeping and local sweeping. General sweeping is a series of 10 two-handed sweeps - five down the front of the body and five down the back - that constitutes an overall head-to-toe and front-to-back cleansing of the energetic anatomy. Local sweeping is more targeted manual cleansing of a specific body part or chakra. Local sweeping is carried out with one hand, and the cleansing is deeper and more concentrated.
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Master Stephen Co , Alternative & Complementary Medicine, answeredSweeping is the Pranic Healing method of ensuring energetic cleanliness by manually removing contamination, or dirty energy, from your aura. Sweeping is the second of the three energy manipulation techniques.
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Master Stephen Co , Alternative & Complementary Medicine, answeredTo perform general sweeping, you use both hands in long, slow, graceful, hands-cupped movements. This induces what is called the healing state, a condition of advanced physical and mental relaxation in which you are optimally receptive to healing energy - and to healing. People describe this super-relaxed state as “a tremendous release of tension,” “all the heaviness is gone,” or “a feeling of lightness.” This relaxation is due to removal of dirty prana from the energy body and indirect clearing of negative emotions. As you sweep away the energetic blockages or functional boundaries from your aura, your body and mind fully relax.