DISTANCE HEALING & Benefits

DISTANCE HEALING

This is know as ‘absent healing 'also, you can transmit your prana through space to your friend who is living at distance. He should have a receptive mental attitude. You must feel yourself in direct relation and in sympathy with the man whom you heal with this distant healing method.

You can fix hours of appointment with him through correspondence. You can write to him: “Get ready at 4a.m. Have a receptive mental attitude. Lie down in an easy chair. Close your eyes. I shall transmit my prana”. Say mentally to the patient: “I am transmitting a supply of prana”. Do kumbhaka when you send prana. Practise rhythmical breathing also. Have a mental image that the prana is leaving your mind when you exhale; it is passing through space and is entering the system of the patient. The prana travels unseen like the wireless (radio) waves and flashes like lightning across space. The prana that is coloured by the thoughts of the healer is projected outside. You can recharge yourself with prana by prana by practicing kumbhaka. This requires long, steady, regular practice.

SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS:

1. In the early morning, answer the call of nature and sit for the practice. Practise pranayama in a dry, well-ventilated rook. Pranayama requires deep concentration and attention. It is always better to have the practice in a steady sitting posture. Do not keep anyone by your side, to avoid distraction of the mind.
2. Before you sit for pranayama practice, thoroughly clean the nostrils well. You can take a small quantity of fruit juice or a small cup of milk or coffee even before the practice. When you finish the practice take a cup of milk or light Tiffin after ten minutes.
3. Spread a tiger-skin or a fourfold blanket. Over this spread a piece of white cloth. Then sit for the pranayama practice facing the north.
4. Have one sitting only in the morning during summer. If there is heat in the brain or head, apply amla oil butter on the head before you take your bath. Take sugar candy dissolved in water. This will cool your whole system. Do sitali pranayama also. You will not be affected by the heat.
5. Strictly avoid too much talking, eating, sleeping, mixing with friends and exertion. ‘Verily yoga is not for him who eats too much, who abstains to excess, is addicted to too much sleep, or even to wakefulness’. (Bhagavad Gita VI.16) .Take a little ghee with rice when you take your meals. This will lubricate the bowels and allow vayu to move downwards freely. ‘Without observing moderation of diet, if one takes to the yoga practices he cannot obtain any benefit, but gets various diseases’. (Gherands Samhita V.16)
6. Perfect celibacy for six months or one year will doubtlessly enable you to acquire rapid progress in the practice and in spiritual advancement. Do not talk with ladies. Do not laugh and joke with them. Shun their company entirely. Without brahmacharya and dietetic regulations if you practice yoga exercises you will not get maximum benefit in the spiritual practices. But, for ordinary health you can practice mild exercises.
7. Be regular and systematic in your practice. Never miss a day.
   Stop the practice when you are ailing seriously. Some people twist the muscles of the face when they do kumbhaka (retention)> It should be avoided. It is a symptom to indicate that they are going beyond their capacity. This must be strictly avoided. Such people cannot have a regulated inhalation and exhalation.
8. Obstacles in yoga are sleeping in daytime, late vigil at night, excess of urine and faces, unwholesome food and laborious mental operation with prana. When one is attacked by any disease one says that the disease is due to the practice of yoga. This is a serious mistake.
9. Get up at 4a.m. Meditate or do japa for half an hour. Then do asanas and mudras. Take rest for 15 minutes. Then do pranayama. Physical exercises can be conveniently combined with asanas. If you have sufficient time at your disposal you can do pranayama after finishing all the yoga exercises and meditation. Pranayama can also be performed as soon as you get up from bed just before japa and meditation. The mind gets one-pointed after the practice of pranayama. It will make your body light and you will enjoy meditation. You must have a routine according to your convenience and time.
10. First do japa and meditation. Then you can take to asanas and pranayama exercises. Then finish the course of practice by another short sitting in meditation.
11. Pranayama, though it concerns the breath, gives good exercise for the various internal organs and the whole body.
12. The general order of practice is: first of all asanas.then mudras, then pranayama and then meditation (dhyana). Since the early morning time is suitable for meditation, you can follow this order: japa, meditation, asanas, mudras and pranayama. This is a better way. You can follow the order which is suitable to you. After doing asanas, take rest for five minutes and then begin pranayama.
13. Some hatha yoga books interdict cold bath in the early morning. Probably the reason may be that one may catch cold or develop any complaint of the lungs, if he takes cold bath at 4a.m., particularly in cold places like Kashmir, Mussoorie, Darjeeling, etc. There is no restriction in hot places. I am always in favour of morning cold baths before one starts the yoga practices, as it is refreshing and stimulating. It drives off drowsiness. It brings equilibrium of circulation of blood. There is a healthy flow of blood towards the brain.
14. Asanas and pranayama remove all sorts of diseases, improve health, energies digestion, invigorate the nerves, straighten the sushumna nadi, remove rajas and awaken kundalini, Practice of asanas and pranayama bestows good health and a steady mind.
15. The maintenance of the body is impossible without asanas or some kind of physical exercise or activities. Even an orthodox vedantin is an unconscious hatha yogi. He practices some kind of asana daily. He practices pranayama also unconsciously because during meditaion pranayama comes by itself.
16. Whenever you feel uneasy, depressed or dejected, practice pranayama. You will be at once filled with new vigour, energy and strength. You will be elevated, renovated and filled with joy. Do this and try. Before you begin to write something – an essay, an article or a thesis – do pranayama first. You will bring out beautiful ideas and it will be an inspiring, powerful and original production.
17. Be regular in the practice. Regularity in the practice is very necessary if one wants to realise the maximum benefits of asanas and pranayama. Those who practice by fits and starts will not derive much benefit. Generally people practice for two months in the beginning with great enthusiasm and leave off the practice. This is a sad mistake. They always want a yoga teacher by their side. They have got the effeminate leaning mentality. They are lazy, torpid and slothful.
18. People do not want to remove mala (impurity) by selfless service, and tossing of the mind by yoga practices. They at once jump to awaken the kundalini and raise Brahmakara vritti. They will only break their legs. Those who attempt to awaken the kundalini by asanas and pranayama should have purity in thought, word and deed. They should have mental and physical brahmacharya. Then only they can enjoy the benefits of awakening the kundalini.
19. Sow the seed of spirituality in you young age. Do not waste veerya. Discipline the senses and mind. Do sadhana. When you become old, it will be difficult for you to do any rigid sadhana. Therefore be on the alert during your teens; you will see for yourself in a short time the particular benefits you derive from particular kinds of sadhana.
20. Everyone should select a course of a few exercises in asana, pranayama and meditation according to his temperament, capacity, convenience and requirement.
21. It is quite possible for a man to practice celibacy, albeit there are various sorts of temptations and distractions. A well – disciplined life, study of scriptures, satsang, japa, dhyana pranayama, sattvic and moderate diet, daily introspection and enquiry, self-analysis and self-correction, right conduct and practice of yama, niyama, physical and verbal tapas, will all pave a long way in the attainment of this end. People have irregular, unrighteous, immoderate, irreligious, undisciplined life. Hence they suffer and fail in the attainment of the goal of life. Just as the elephant throws san on its own head, so also they themselves bring difficulties and troubles on their own heads on account of their foolishness.
22. Do not shake the body unnecessarily. By shaking the body often the mind also is disturbed. Do not scratch the body every now and then. The asana should be steady and firm as a rock when you do pranayama, japa and meditation.
23. You must find out for yourself according to your health and constitution what sort of dietetic regulation will suit and what particular pranayama will exactly help you. Then only can you safely proceed with your sadhana. First read all the instructions of the various exercises given in this book from the beginning to the end. Clearly understand the technique. If you have any doubts, just ask any yoga student to demonstrate and then practice it. This is the safest method. You should not select any one of the exercises at random and begin to practice it in a wrong way.
24. In all the exercises I have suggested the mantra ‘OM’ is the time-unit. You can have your guru mantra, Rama, Siva, Gayatri or mere number as the time-unit according to your inclination. Gayatri or OM is the best for pranayama.                In the beginning you must observe some tim-unit for inhalation, retention and exhalation. The time-unit and the proper ratio come by themselves when you do them as long as you comfortable can. When you have advanced in the practice you will be naturally established in the normal ratio through force of habit.
25. For some days in the beginning you must count the number and see how you progress. In the advanced stages, you need not distract the mind in counting. The lungs will tell you when the required number is finished.