Pranic Healing

By Dixie Elise Hickman   

Pranic Healing, the new kid on the block in Atlanta, is a system of techniques for healing with energy. Its name comes from the Sanskrit 'prana,' translated often as 'breath' or more broadly as 'life force.' Although the system has been taught throughout the world, August 24-25 will be the first formal class offered in Atlanta. 

A team of experienced Pranic Healers and teachers from Florida and New York visited Atlanta in June to introduce the idea. Lecture attendees included experienced healers from other modalities as well as novices to energy work. The lecture mirrored what seems to be the general pattern for all Pranic Healing courses: hear, see, and do - strongly experiential. When it came time for an actual demonstration of Pranic Healing, I got to be the guinea pig. 

Based on the assumption that the body is designed to heal itself, Pranic Healing clears and cleanses old, distorted energy in the body's electromagnetic field so that healing energy, or 'prana,' can help the body revitalize. A second assumption is that changes in human well-being happen first in the electromagnetic field, or aura, of the body and then manifest in the physical. 

Physically, the Pranic Healer works a few inches off the body, sweeping and plucking the old energy away and shaking it into salty water for recycling. Then the way is clear for new energy to be directed, through the palm of the healer's hand, into the aura and the body. The client sits comfortably or may lie down, fully clothed. Most people find a session very relaxing. Some people, especially other energetic healers, may feel the tingling of moving energy. As Louisa Wendler, Certified Pranic Healing Instructor and support person for the USA East Coast Center for Pranic Healing, moved the energy down my arm, it tickled. 

The lecture/demonstration ended with Master Choa Kok Sui's 'Meditation On Twin Hearts,' which reminds us that our own healing is enhanced when we share that healing with Mother Earth and her other inhabitants. This meditation is designed to cleanse and energize the meditator and also to raise the spiritual consciousness of the earth.

Certified Pranic Healing Instructor Lorraine Graves, from Pensacola, found herself especially drawn by the 'accelerated spiritual progress' available through Pranic Healing. She said that as a meditator of some twenty years, she knew she'd made spiritual advancement. As she measured her previous twenty years of meditation results, one year of this new method of meditation seemed like two thousand.