"The Unified Field of Einstein is the Brahman of the Vedists and the Tao



of the Chinese", says Dr Fritjof Capra in his famous book " The Tao of

Physics". The Vedists called this Unitary Power by the name Prana. This

Cosmic Energy can be used to heal and healing via this Cosmic Prana

came to be known as Pranic Therapy.This article is a continuation of the

earlier article Pranic Therapy Part IV.

Attunement to Biorhythms

Along with regulation of food,sleep,exercise and relaxation, the spiritual

aspirant should learn to attune his psychosomatic machine to his own

biorhythms

"Biological clocks " were discovered in animals in the late 1950s & Bio-

rhytms were understood as a result. When the Moon rose ( which caused

the flow of tide ), mussels & crabs which live on seashores were found to

open their shells or become active even when they were moved to a distant

place. "Circadian rhythms" in the human body were discovered later.

There are daily biorhythms, lunar rhythms and solar rhythms.

Circadian Rhythms

It was found that level of sugar in the blood , body temperature, BP,

production of hormones & enzymes changed according to a cyclic,

regular & recurrent pattern. While some have have 24 or 25 hour

cycles others have 36 or 48 hour cycles. Even emotional sensitivity

& intellectual creativity increase & decrease according to biorhythms,

apart from physiological activities

Lunar Rhythms

In the case of lunar people the 11th day of the lunar month ( Ekadasi)

or the day of the full moon ( Pournami ) or the day of the New Moon

( Amavasi) may act as the pivotal point of change in their biorhythms.

Some people have 28 day cycles irrespective of the movement of the

Moon.

Solar Rhythms

The Appollonians ( as the solar people are called ) are more sensitive

to changes of solar seasons than the lunarian changes. With the onset

of winter, spring, summer & autumn they may find profound changes

taking place in their physiological processes & mental activity.

The existence of these biorhythms were confirmed by research even

though superficial minds may not be able to detect these biorhythms.

A spiritual aspirant should recognise his biorhythms & adjust his

prayer, meditation & acitivities in accordance with these rhythms.

Minor stomach upsets, pain in joints, disturbed sleep, change of

mood etc are associated with biorhythms & the seeker shoud not

be upset by these minor changes..

Why holistic health practices fail or succeed partially

Main reason for the failure of holisitc health practices is that Prana

or Life Energy does not flow freely within the individual or between

the individual & the universal life, owing to the presence of obstructions

within.These obstructions are caused by Samskaras, psychic memories

or residual traces of our past actions and experiences. Samskaras

are of two kinds, those which only produce memories ( smriti ) of

past experiences and those which produce impulses or drives

to repeat these experiences ( vasanas) . These two are interlinked

to form complex patterns of love, hate, fear etc. It is these complexes

that obstruct the free flow of Life-Energy in us.

Removing Mental Blocks

Many of these complexes are formed in childhood and adolescence.

When unpleasant or traumatic experiences take place, the tendency

of a child or teenager is to repress them. Repression is a form of

pushing the psychic memories into the unconscious regions of the

mind. The growing youth may not be able to recollect those psychic

memories again, but the repressed samskaras lodged in the hidden

recesses of the unconscious go on creating psychological and

psychosomatic problems for him.

All psychosomatic disorders cannot be cured by holistic health tech-

niques unless these repressed complexities are ferreted out and

confronted. The past samskaras should be deactivated. For this

the seeker has to dive deep into his unconscious & encounter the

past experiences and deactivate them.

Most people find it difficult to do it without the active help of a

competent guide. Those who depend on the Ocean of Consciousness

( the Absolute or God ) may , however, find that these inner blocks

are removed by Divine Grace. This is the rationale behind faith healing

& miraculous cures.

Extension of Consciousness

Life,a gift from the Divine, is a great healing power. Nothing ever

begins to be; Substance merely undergoes a parallel transformation

into conditions which pre-existed in other conditions. Life, similarly,

does not begin to be. As Energy, as per the Law of Conservation of

Energy or Matter cannot be created or destroyed, so too is Life Eternal.

At the physical level, the eternal healing power of life manifests itself as

a) Self-renewal

b) The immune system.

For many years it has been known that the body can filter and re-use

its fluids & repair damages to tissues, especially skin and bone, by

growing new cells. Modern Science has shown that self-renewal is

constantly taking place in every part of the body. Almost all the cells in

the body are constantly being replaced by new ones. Somebody said

" I am not the same person I was one year ago"! The entire body gets

renewed in this way every year & this shows that it is never too late

to regain your health. By changing one's basic attitudes and way of

living, the damage to the body caused by years of misuse & neglect

can be overcome.

One the great marvels of the universe is the human immune system.

Those who are aware of the biochemical processes going on in

the body will agree with Walt Whitman " To me every hour of the

day & night is an unspeakably perfect miracle". Dr Walter Cannon

said " The Wisdom of the body is the most precise of all selective

refinements" !

The Components ( Four Units ) of our Immune System

The fourfold immune system consists of the following units;

1 The granulocyte-macrophage unit

2. The lymphocyte unit

3. The antibody unit

4. The complement unit

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The first two are varieties of white blood corpuscles, wherein the last

two are chemicals, proteins. All the four units of our immune system

launch a concerted attack on the invaders as soon as a few bacteria

break into any tissue in the body. ( The antibody unit has been

defined as an army of one million) Western medical science is

wondering who masterminds this attack or who plans these strategies.

Common sense, logic, intuition & experience suggest that somewhere

behind all this there must be a master control. Why do sometimes cells

become malignant and attack neighbouring cells ? Why it goes awry,

sometimes,when our defence units attack innocent cells mistaking them

for enemy microbes ? Western medical science is researching

hard to find answers to these difficult questions.