No touch healing

IT’S HOT and it’s hard to find the energy to do anything. Unfortunately, they don’t sell energy in the shops, and, even if they did, it would be hard in this weather to find the energy to go to the shops to buy some.
But there is a quick-fix solution on offer, and the great thing is it involves a trip out at night when living actually becomes a tolerable experience… and no, this particular nocturnal activity doesn’t involve any blood sucking, sharp fangs or coffins. Just the opposite.
There is a group of people that meets at Highgate School every Monday night. They don’t actually have a name. They just gather together and do their best to help weary people that with an alternative therapy called pranic healing.
‘Prana’ from the Sanskrit, means vital life force. The Chinese refer it as ‘chi’, the Egyptians as ‘ka’ and in Hebrew it’s known as ‘ruah’.
Pranic healing is an ancient method of energy use involving the aura, the energy field around the human body, and the chakras, the body’s energy centres. It works on 11 chakras rather than the seven used in other alternative healing methods.
Described as a simple yet powerful and effective no-touch method of energy healing, it is based on the principle that the body is a self-repairing living entity that possesses the innate ability to heal itself. All it needs is a little boost from someone who knows how.
At Highgate on Monday, seven healers turned up with an almost equal number of ‘patients’. Pranic healing has been going on in Cyprus since February, when the first course was held and 20 people took part. The next two-day beginners’ course will be held in Nicosia in September.
Helen Weeks, a teacher, counsellor, life coach and hypnotherapist leads the group in Cyprus having practiced pranic healing for around 18 months after taking a course in the US.
“Now I can actually help people physically, which is really exciting,” she said. “I can help their minds, their hearts and their emotions and now I can also help physically.”
Weeks said the main work takes place on what she called the inner aura, which is the ‘health aura’. It is said that imbalances in the energy field show where in the body a potential illness might later occur, and believers say that if the imbalance can be rectified in the auric field in time, the illness in that part of the body can be averted.
“The inner aura is almost like a brush,” said Weeks. “When you have some weakness the brush gets tangled, so what we do is we make sure we get rid of all the tangles which means the energy can flow, which will assist the healing. We can also tell from the precise scanning if the energy is depleted and also where the energy is congested. We spend a lot of time on it on the course, so when we are finished we are much more aware of what we can feel.”
Seeing the healers at work as the ‘patients’ sat in chairs with their eyes closed was like watching a mime artist giving a rendition of a normal massage. As a ‘patient’, it crossed my mind that my assigned healer had gone off on a break and left me sitting like a dipstick with my eyes closed in the middle of the room. Eventually, I sneaked a peek and realised she was right there waving her arms around a few inches away, casting off the stress from my shoulder blades where it had taken up permanent residence.
Within a couple of minutes I felt transformed, an effect which lasted three days compared to the 24 hours from a standard massage.
“There are certain times when we just cleanse, and then we will energise to give the person more energy to help combat the different problems in the different areas that are weak in their bodies,” said Weeks, explaining that the energy comes from the universe and not from the healers themselves.
“If you ask for energy you will get it,” she added.
“I was very sceptical when I first started, but when you can feel things working through yourself you begin to realise we are all potentially incredible healers. We can heal our families, our children and most importantly ourselves. I always had the belief that some people are psychic, some clairvoyant, and I thought I would never be able to do anything like that.
“But every single person is capable of using the energy they have and working the energy of other people. I think people now are looking for other ways to heal themselves. Most people who come have been to their doctors and have been trying to do different things for a long time, and something hasn’t worked for them.”
Weeks cited the case of one man who suffered from insomnia, and after just one session reported that he was late for work the following day because he had overslept. Another case involved an 86-year-old woman who suffered such bad arthritis that she was using two walking sticks. The healing session helped ease her pain. “Two healers worked on her and within half an hour she got up and walked without her sticks. She said she hadn’t walked like that for 20 years,” said Weeks.
She also said that more and more doctors in Cyprus had been showing an interest in alternative healing methods to complement their medical practices and that in the US nurses were also being taught the practice of pranic healing.
“They are training nurses so people can get better faster. The quicker you heal the better you feel.”
There was certainly a lightness in my step as I left Highgate last Monday night at 10pm, so much so that I walked all the way back to the centre of Nicosia in what was clearly a sudden burst of long-forgotten energy.