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Nithya Spiritual healing, become a channel of cosmic consciousness

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Spiritual healing is one of the most beautiful and joyful ways to experience ourselves as part of the cosmic consciousness. The enlightened master Swami Vivekananda says beautifully that all our spiritual efforts should have two purposes: liberation of the self, and the well-being of the world (aatmano mokshaartham jagat hitaaya cha). Spiritual healing is a wonderful way to achieve both.

Spiritual healing has two aspects: One, connecting directly to the cosmic energy; Two, becoming a channel to pass on this energy to one who is in need of it. Healing is nothing but a way of expressing our compassion, our care towards somebody to help restore his physical, mental and emotional health to him.

What is real health?

We normally think of health as just physical health or medical fitness. No! Good health is much more than just absence of disease. It is a state of ease and wellness in our entire system. Good health includes a fit body, mental and emotional vitality and spiritual well-being. When all three are present, that is good health. Whether you believe it or not, accept it or not, you are an embodiment of bliss! You are not just the body. You are created to live as a blissful being all the time. Only when you are constantly bubbling with bliss, can you be called really healthy!

Swami Vivekananda
Nithyananda

What is healing? Why is it needed?

The science of giving energy to a person who is diseased, sick or who is feeling a lack of energy, is what we call healing What we call disease is nothing but a state of insufficient energy, or blocks in the energy flow to a certain organ or limb in the body. These energy blocks are caused by certain engraved memories (samskaras) or negative emotions present in our system. The wrong mental patterns and negative emotions can powerful influence our state of health. In fact, most of our diseases are psychosomatic. They are rooted in the mind. Not knowing this, we try to tackle our diseases at the physical level. Understand, the body is like the hardware and the mind is like the software. We try to fix the hardware when it is the software that is causing the problem! When the software is corrupted, it continuously gives the wrong instructions to the hardware, the body. It is our mental setup that is the root cause of disease and imbalance in our body-mind system. If our body and mind are at ease with each other, we feel this ease as a sense of wellbeing. If our body and mind are not at ease with each other, we feel the dis-ease, which we call disease!

Since the body and mind are so deeply connected, it is possible to heal physical diseases just by changing the mental set-up. By making the relevant lifestyle changes, through spiritual practices and especially through meditation, we can easily come out of our samskaras and restore ourselves to good health But sometimes, we are unable to do this on our own. We may not know the right technique or may not make enough time to meditate. Because of poor health, we may not have enough energy for meditation and spiritual practices. In such cases, someone who is a meditator can meditate and pass on the energy to us.

How is spiritual healing different from other forms of healing?

Spiritual healing is healing through cosmic energy. Different types of healing employ different energies like pranic or bio-energy and mental energies (willpower or visualization) to facilitate healing. In spiritual healing, we channel the energy directly from the source, the highest conscious energy of the cosmos. Cosmic energy is not a blind energy like, say, electricity. It is a conscious energy. It knows where to flow and how to heal, because it has its own independent intelligence. Because of this, spiritual healing can never have any negative side-effects. Moreover, when you are connected to an inexhaustible energy source, there is no danger of losing energy by healing. On the contrary, the cosmic energy first enters and fills the healer, and then overflows into the one who is receiving the healing! Instantaneous healing and distance healing (where healer and patient are not physically in contact) are proof that this conscious energy is beyond the constraints of space and time.

How does spiritual healing work?

In spiritual healing, the healer connects to the cosmic energy and channels it into the diseased organ or body part through the relevant chakra.

The chakras are the subtle energy hubs of the body. Although they exist on the energy plane, in the physical body they are represented along the length of the spine. The seven major chakras are located in a straight line from the root of the spine to the crown of the head.

Each chakra strongly influences the functioning of the surrounding organs and glands.

They act as open windows to receive the universal energy. When we channel healing energy to the relevant chakra rather than to the affected body part, the energy is absorbed and distributed rapidly and the healing is faster.

Nithyananda Paramashivam

Who can receive healing?

The healing energy is available to anyone who is in need of it. It is not restricted in any way. There are a few tips that help a person receive the energy in a beautiful way. People with an open heart and open mind receive the energy more easily and quickly than those who question the energy with their logic. Many people ask me, ‘Should we have faith to get healed?’ I tell them there is no need to have faith. To know that an apple is tasty you don’t need to believe. Just have a bite, and you will know. That’s all!

To know the sun is rising in the east you don’t need to believe it. Just open your eyes and see, you will know for yourself. There is no need to blindly believe. To receive healing, you don’t need to have faith. You need to have only one thing: an open mind, the willingness to receive. If your mind is open, you will not resist the healing energy. Try to understand the concept and enter into it with full sincerity, that is enough. Just have the courage and openness to experiment without demanding proof of experience before even experimenting. Integrate your thoughts, intelligence, emotions and spirit and align them towards the concept.

Nithyananda in traditional attire

Nithya Spiritual Healing: the genesis

Nithyananda left home at the age of 17 and spent nine years wandering in search of the ultimate truth. During his wandering days, he spent many years in the Himalayan region, and more ahtn nine months in the mountain retreat of Tapovan. Tapovan is considered to be one of the ‘airstrips’ to the mystical energy field of Shambala. It is hidden away in the mountains, and has no proper access paths. Traveling to and from Tapovan requires extensive acclimatization. Nithyananda’s first encounter with his own latent healing powers happened while returning from Tapovan. He describes the happening: ‘I was returning from Tapovan by foot. As you come to the lower ranges, army trucks can be found moving along the mountain paths. I was given a ride in one such truck. In these army trucks, there are usually no seats – only wooden planks tightened with nuts and bolts. Suddenly the truck went over a big hump and I was lifted and thrown down on the wooden plank. My spine hit one of the bolts and was fractured When we reached the next army camp, the army doctor took an X-ray and said that I needed to rest for a month. 30 days was too long a time for me to stay in one place just resting! I did not bother about the doctor’s instructions, did not take any treatment and just put my hand on the injured area. That’s all. The injury was healed! That was how I discovered the power of healing that our body carries in itself.’

(During the Nithya Spiritual Healers’ Initiation, Nithyananda shares with the world this gift that he received with his enlightenment, through an initiation that transmits these healing powers to anyone who is willing to heal and serve.)

Nithya Spiritual Healers' Initiation

Nithya Spiritual Healers' initiation is the process where the master tunes you to the Existential energy and makes you a channel for the healing energy. Actually, Nithya Spiritual Healers' Initiation is directly related to enlightenment. Healing others is only a wonderful side-effect or byproduct of the process! When you serve as a healer, you actually get in touch with the deepest level of your being. Once you are initiated, you continuously feel the cosmic energy flowing in you. You are continuously in touch with your being. You radiate energy, peace and love. Healing is nothing but conscious, concentrated love. It is the energy which automatically heals others.

In Nithya Spiritual Healers' Initiation, the master opens the door to the energy of the Ananda Gandha chakra. The Ananda Gandha chakra is the subtlest energy center in your system. It is hidden in the innermost layer of your being, the bliss sheath (anandamaya kosha). At the point where the bliss sheath touches the pure consciousness (atman or Self), there lies the Ananda Gandha chakra. Because this chakra is so subtle, it lies latent in most of us. Unlike the other chakras, Ananda Gandha cannot be opened by ordinary meditation. It takes an enlightened consciousness to touch and open this chakra from within. This is the process of initiation.

Illustration of head and chakra

What is the difference between meditation and initiation?

Meditation is like trying to open the chakra from the outside and push our way in. Initiation is where an enlightened being enters our inner space, opens the chakra from within and draws us in!

The Ananda Gandha chakra is so deeply hidden that it is not accessible to meditation.

Even if you try to open it through meditation, it may take years or even lifetimes!

Just imagine that you are an ant on a huge iceberg trying to bore your way to the water below. How many thousands of lifetimes will it require? You can’t even imagine it happening! But a master who is already in the water, can simply drill a hole in the ice from below and just suck you in! You can also enter the water and enjoy it! This is what happens during the Nithya Spiritual Healers’ Initiation.

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What is special about the Ananda Gandha Chakra?

Ananda Gandha chakra is the space wherein our seven chakras, our seven energy bodies, and our five koshas all collapse to a single point. It is the single source of our physical, subtle and causal bodies. Ananda Gandha is the plane where the iceberg meets the water, where matter meets energy. It is the point where the three physical dimensions, space and time all disappear! All these are subtle mystical points! Anyhow, you can understand that Ananda Gandha is our direct connection to the universal energy.

The enlightened master lives in the space of Ananda Gandha. When he initiates you, he connects you to the same space. That is why the healing energy is able to give new life, new energy and heal disease. When the Ananda Gandha chakra is awakened, you are living in the space of enlightened consciousness. You become one with the cosmic energy.

Although the Ananda Gandha chakra exists in the metaphysical dimension, there is a path by which we can access it from the physical plane. The entry-point to the Ananda Gandha chakra is between the anahata and manipuraka chakras, that is, between the heart and navel areas of the body. Understand, the Ananda Gandha chakra itself does not lie there, only the path to it is there. During Nithya Spiritual Healing, you enter consciously into Ananda Gandha. Once this chakra is activated, the universal energy starts flowing through you continuously. You become a conscious participant in the cosmic energy play!

Nithyananda Paramashivam

Nithya Spiritual Healers’ Initiation: initiation, meditation, healing - all in one!

During the Nithya Spiritual Healers’ Initiation, three things happen:

One, your Ananda Gandha chakra is permanently activated through the enlightened master’s touch; Two, you are initiated into the Ananda Gandha meditation, which is your direct link to the existential energy; Three, you become a channel through which this healing energy can be passed on to others.

Ananda Gandha meditation – living in the cosmic consciousness

Ananda Gandha meditation can be practiced only after you have been initiated into it by the enlightened master. If your Ananda Gandha chakra has not been opened, any meditation on this chakra will be fruitless. It will be like trying to open a door that has been locked from the inside! Once you are connected to the cosmic consciousness, you will see a new energy, a new enthusiasm, a new bliss radiating in you. In the beginning, you may feel this connection only during your meditation hours, but soon it will become a permanent experience. The most powerful effects of Ananda Gandha meditation are naturally felt on the spiritual plane, but there are some beautiful changes you will see even in your daily living:

Sat: Clarity inside and outside When you are centered within, you will have great clarity in your outer-world functioning, because you can see things objectively, without being driven by greed and fear. Chit: Dynamic consciousness You will have awareness and enthusiasm in everything you do. Every pore, every cell will radiate energy and enthusiasm. You will simply execute decisions one after another without feeling tired, and more importantly, with the same intelligence and enthusiasm. Ananda: Bliss for no reason You will remain blissful irrespective of what happens in the outer world. Being in Ananda Gandha continuously, you will not only have good physical and mental health but also the intelligence to handle anything that happens in the outer world.

Nithyananda Paramashivam

Benefits of Nithya Spiritual Healing

Nithya Spiritual Healing is a service provided free of cost at thousands of healing centers worldwide, as well as at free healing camps conducted regularly. This unique system of cosmic healing is a meditation for the healer and healing for the person receiving the energy.

Although the extent of benefit received differs from person to person, Nithya Spiritual Healing can be beneficial in some or all of these ways:

1. Relief from various physical ailments like cancer, chronic asthma, sinusitis, hernia, renal failure, diabetes, high blood pressure, back problems, allergies, seizures, migraine, wheezing, skin problems, insomnia, etc.

  1. Quick healing of physical injuries like burns, pains, aches, etc.
  1. Increased immunity to disease and enhanced general health
  1. Solutions to gynecological issues, infertility issues, etc.
  1. Relief from psychological problems like stress, anxiety, depression, phobias, etc.
  1. Higher energy levels to handle day-to-day life
  1. Emotional balance and mental peace
  1. Clarity and fulfillment in relationships
  1. Blissful, conflict-free daily living
  1. Introduction to a higher level of consciousness

[Figure: Nithyananda]

Living in the space of cosmic consciousness

ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE

This meditation is to be practiced only by initiated Nithya Spiritual Healers. It is a very effective technique to keep you continuously connected to the cosmic energy. The ananda gandha chakra is actually the source of your body, mind and emotions. Ananda gandha is your very being. When you act from the ananda gandha, you are acting from your being. This is a technique to keep you centered in the source, even when you are not meditating.

Nithyananda Paramashivam

INSTRUCTIONS

Duration: One hour minimum

At all times, experience yourself as living completely inside the ananda gandha chakra. Feel as if your body, mind and intellect have all collapsed into this chakra. Even your sense organs have dissolved in this chakra! When you look, look from your ananda gandha. When you listen, listen from your ananda gandha, When you speak, read, move your body, do it from your ananda gandha, Even your thinking should be from your ananda gandha!

This visualization can just revolutionize the way you experience the world. In just a few days, you will become totally unshakeable. You will be completely centered in your being. Even when your attention is outside, your awareness will be within. Distinctions such as material and spiritual, outer world and inner world naturally fall away. Slowly, you will lose your idea of being a limited individual; you will start living in the cosmic consciousness.

ANYTIME ANYWHERE MEDITATIONS

Vipassana

ABOUT THE TECHNIQUE

The word vipassana means realizing the Truth step by step.

Vipassana works with the simplest and toughest of all meditation techniques: mindfulness. The beauty of vipassana is that it can be practiced as a sit-down meditation, but can just as easily become an anytime, anywhere technique that can transform every moment into meditation. Vipassana has today come to mean breath-watching, but that is not the only vipassana technique. Vipassana includes both: awareness of action, and awareness of breath.

a) Awareness of action is the moment-to-moment awareness of your body, your actions, your thoughts, your emotions. Action does not mean only bodily action, but any movement that arises in you – physical, mental or emotional. When you walk, when you move your hand, when you smile, do it with awareness. Know perfectly well that it is you who is doing that action. Be alert. Not a single moment should pass in an unconscious state. Not a single action should happen unnoticed by you. Just like your body, watch your heart and mind. Be aware of every emotion that rises in your heart. Be aware of every thought that passes in and out of your mind. Don’t have opinions, don’t evaluate anything – just be a witness.