Ananda Healing🔗

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Many of us Ananda Healers had taken the process of healing for granted. We had been initiated by an enlightened Master. The Master had told us: “Go forth and heal!” People healed when we worked with them. No other explanation seemed necessary.

Till one afternoon, when one of our most experienced Healers asked a few of us:

What is disease? How is it caused? How is it cured? How does spiritual healing work? What is ananda healing? How does meditation help healing?

Answers were not that obvious as we felt they were. We had to search within ourselves for answers. We talked and through the process we Ananda Healers have consulted our Master, who was possibly sleeping 5000 miles away. Let us tell you what we learnt.

We salute our Master and the Healer who made us think. May their tribes increase!

The human body is like a river. On the surface the river looks the same always. It is sometimes calm and sometimes turbulent, but essentially the same. The water that is in the river is however never the same; it changes every instant.

Our body looks the same from outside. It does grow, but after a point it is always recognizable as the individual. Yet, within the body, the cells, the building blocks that make up the body die and are born every instant. There is no cell that remains the same within our body after six months. We are all rivers, rivers of energy.

Our bones, muscles, tissues and all limbs are made of cells. Our cells are made of DNA structure. These living elements of cells and DNA are intelligent. Our intelligence does not reside in our brains alone; they are distributed in every single cell of our mind body system. The intelligence of our cells is their living energy. Not just the cells, but even our thoughts carry our energy.

No learned person will dispute these points; they are proven facts.

When our energy system is disrupted we are not at ease; we feel dis-eased. Each system of medical healing tackles our diseases in its own unique way. Western allopathic medicine believes in working on specific symptom individually at each body part. If heart is diseased the heart is carefully examined. It is then treated based on tested and tried out empirical methods. Allopathic medicines are all chemicals. These drugs are developed by noticing the effects of plant or herbal cures for similar diseases or by formulating new chemical drugs which are then extensively tested upon symptoms. Even if our diseases are cured by this approach, we are left with the residue of chemicals in our body. These residues may give rise to other diseases.

Other forms of medicine such as Homeopathy, Ayurveda etc. are more holistic. They take the individual personality into account, instead of treating all of us like a collection of body parts. Very few systems such as the Traditional Chinese Medicine as well ancient kalaripayattu techniques of India go further to look at the body as an energy system. They try to cure the body by unblocking energy pathways and activating them. In some of the more advanced techniques of these systems the mind is addressed as well.

Recently many spiritual healing techniques such as Reiki and Pranic Healing have become popular. They are also effective. These techniques rightly establish a connection between the energy of the Universe that surrounds us and the energy system within us. They attempt to heal by energizing the human body by using the Universe energy through the contact of an initiated healer. Many of these techniques can affect the healer negatively unless precautions are taken. Pranic Healers are told to wash their hands in salt water after healing so that the diseases of the healed do not affect them. Many others involve processes and rituals that divert the mind.

Indian scriptures talk about the five elements of nature: earth, water, fire, air and ether. Energy of the Universe is etheric energy, the subtlest, most powerful and the most abundant of all energy. We are all an inherent part of these five elements. These five elements are an integral part of us. Through spiritual healing we recoup energy from own elements back into us. Because of this spiritual healing can never harm us.

Swami Nithyananda Parahamsa initiates seekers into Ananda Healing System. Ananda healing system is essentially a spiritual healing system. Ananda Healing uses the Universe energy to empower the human energy system to heal itself. As in all the spiritual energy healing methods here also the healer is a conduit for the energy to flow through. However, Ananda Healing has a few major differences from other commonly practiced spiritual healing techniques.

• Ananda healing has no symbols or rituals to follow. Once initiated just the intent to heal with a focus on one's ananda gandha starts the healing process. Since healing energy is intelligent it does not have to be applied at any specific point. The energy flow stops when what is required for the healing has been received.

• The person getting healed is advised to practice a mahamantra meditation

• Experiments have been conducted upon Nithyananda at Oklahoma University, USA and at St. Louis, USA recently. These show that during the healing process extraordinary changes take place both in Swami's brain and in the brain of the person being healed. The connection between the Healer, the Healed and the Cosmic Energy is gradually being demystified and explained in modern scientific terms.

All spiritual healing, including Ananda Healing, should be used only as a complement to a main stream healing such as allopathy. The Doctor must decide when traditional medicine should be discontinued based on his observation of patient's progress.

Initiation into Ananda Healing is very simple at one level. It is also very complex at another. Ananda Healing capability can only be bestowed upon the Healer by a direct touch of Nithyananda. Nithyananda initiates the Healer subject to certain conditions of service to others and one's own life style. Healers must agree to heal anyone who approaches them, friend or foe, free of cost. Healers must be vegetarians, non smokers and use no alcohol or other drugs. Ananda Healers are not only initiated into healing, but also into a spiritual path.

chakras merge finally. Ananda Gandha is in the heart region and is the seat of bliss. Nithyananda awakens the Ananda Gandha of the seeker to allow the body to receive and give cosmic energy without any block. This is an experience that is severely limited by words. No Ananda Healer whom we know has remained the same after initiation. A major personal transformation is initiated as well. It is then the choice of the individual to make use of this transformation. At the most passive level one is still a powerful healer. With active practice the healer progresses on one's own spiritual path.

Swami Says:

Buddha has said: Healing is expression of your compassion and care towards someone to help them is healing. Healing is restoring physical, mental and emotional well being. Healing can happens at any of these levels.

The system of healing was created by Patanjali thousands of years ago, out of the practices of thousands of great masters who expressed their energies by healing others. According to him there are seven energy centers in our body that control our physical, mental, psychological, intellectual and Being level activities. These centers, also called chakras, are also someway related to our glandular functions. Techniques such as Kirlian photography have established the existence of chakras by photographing the aura or subtle energy field of our body. Diagnostically this technique predicts the onset of diseases six months ahead of other common medical tests. If a person is emotionally affected, depressed, the chakras are very small, size of a button. If the person is happy, chakras expand 60 times or more. Mind is shown to play a major role on the chakras.

Attitude of prayer and meditation create positive energy vibrations that in turn positively enhance energy of the chakras. Each chakra is associated with an emotion. The Heart chakra or Anahata chakra is related to love. Heart signifies love in almost all languages. This is not a coincidence. When you see a loved one after years you feel an emotion at your heart region. Emotion wells up in the heart region. The navel chakra, Manipuraka, is related to worry. Any shocking news affects your stomach first. Ambitious people and perfectionists develop ulcers. If an emotion is abused the chakra gets blocked and creates disease and illness. Discomfort between body and mind creates dis-ease.

Meditation creates healing energy. When a person for whatever reason is unable to meditate, someone else can meditate, create the energy and transfer the energy to the person who is ill.

Einstein says matter creates energy. Scriptures go further and say energy creates matter. Scientists now affirm that energy particles that constitute matter are simultaneously static and moving, and that matter and energy are the same in time and space. If matter, such as a piece of cloth, can be given to another, why not energy? All you need to know is how. Energy can be given and taken. Healing is the science of giving such energy to the ill.

Who can give energy? A person who has realized something beyond body and mind and has realized energy is one who can radiate and give energy. He should have experienced energy within himself. Whether you understand or not, believe or not, experience or not, you are in energy. Who can receive energy? Any one in need can. People with an open mind and heart receive it better. A person who has not experienced his emotional side, whose EQ is low, who does not trust some one would find it more difficult to be healed. People in Indian villages worship stone idols on the road side or rivers or natural powers with great faith and trust, and get healed.

US University researched 100 patients on the same disease and gave them colored water as placebo; not only the patients but even the doctors were not aware that these were not drugs. At the end of a week 40 patients were cured completely, 30 were cured at least 50%. This experiment was repeated in 11 other locations with similar results. They concluded that faith alone with no medical intervention cures a significant number of people.

Imagine, more than one third can be cured by faith and trust. Problem is that all our education denies this; it works on our intellect and starves our emotions. This is actually harmful. Intellectual growth without emotional growth is harmful, dangerous.

Mahabharata: There are three strengths: physical, mental and spiritual. If man has

only physical strength or power he will become a thug. If he has only intellectual strength he will be a criminal. Only when a man has spiritual strength in addition, can a person become useful to society. Atomic weapons stored in our planet can destroy the planet earth 700 times. It is because we have developed our physical and intellectual aspects without any inputs to our spiritual side. In Indian villages temples are the centre point; this was to develop the emotional and holistic development of people.

Sarada Devi says: Live with deep faith, deep trust and deep love. Even if you get cheated you would still live like a God. Without them even if you prosper you do not live your life.

People ask: our ancestors wasted energy by building big temples. Western countries build universities and infrastructure. I said: you do not understand yourself. These temples are the root of our emotional development. They keep us relatively safe from emotional disorders. Only 1% in India is affected by mental disorders. In most western countries 2 out 3 are affected.

If you are open to the cosmic energy you will be healed physically, emotionally.

One goes on pilgrimage to the place where the Ganga joins the sea; or observe the religious vows with care; or offers gifts. But if he be devoid of knowledge, he does not gain release-according to all schools of thought-even in a hundred lives.

Bhaja Govindam 17