Holistic Energy Healing: Pranic, Tantric, and Reiki

As you investigate holistic energy healing, you've no doubt come across exotic-sounding terms such as "chakra", "prana", "aura", and "tantra".

While reading books on spirituality, sex, and healing in the New Age literature section of the bookstore, you've been exposed to many ideas, but what's the real scoop behind these exotic vocabularies?

Are all energy healings the same?

Chakra or energy center is a term used in Pranic healing, an ancient Hindu system of energy healing.

"Prana" means life energy.

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Aura
"Aura" is another terminology traced to Pranic healing.

Aura is a non-physical body that consists of energy, which exists along with our physical body.

It's said that there are six layers pertaining to our aura when we speak of our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects. The status of your health can be seen through the study of the color and thickness of your aura.

Six colors are associated with aura and interpreted into six personalities. These colors are all present in an individual, but one or two are usually more pronounced…

• Green - ambitious achiever
• Blue - spiritual peacemaker
• White - unconventional chameleon
• Red - activist
• Orange - creative communicator
• Violet - psychic

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Tantra
Tantra is another method of energy healing, even though it's popularly associated with the peculiar practice of sex and spirituality.
Tantra comes from the word "tan", which means to spread or expand.
The concept of connectedness is a recurring theme in Tantric writings on sex and spirituality.

It's presupposed that the union of man and woman can reach spiritual levels during orgasm, which removes the body and mind off collected impurities. These impurities being negative energies can in turn manifest as physical illnesses.

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Reiki
Unlike Pranic and Tantric healings, which have Hindu origins, Reiki originated from Japan.

Having been "rediscovered" in the early 1900's, it's relatively younger than Pranic and Tantric healings.

Reiki stands for universal energy, an energy brought forth by higher intelligence.

Students of Reiki are taught how to tap this energy to heal physical, emotional, and mental illnesses.

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Differences & Similarities
Although Pranic, Tantra, and Reiki are all systems of energy healing, they differ in the type of energy tapped for healing: life energy, sexual energy, and universal energy, respectively.

What are some of the similarities?

• the concepts of the connectedness of mind, body, and spirit
• how energy impacts physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being
• the connection of individuals to all living and nonliving things around them and to the universe

Why Do People Turn to Energy Healing?
Pranic, Tantric, and Reiki are considered to be alternative methods of healing.

In spite of the accessibility and comparative ease of access of modern medicine, how come more and more people are being drawn to them?

Here are some possible reasons:

• Energy healing worked where modern medicine failed
  
  For several reasons, modern medical treatment has failed to heal ailments and conditions in several, if not many persons.
  
  So-called "mainstream" research may not be able to support this statement.
  
  However, for the families of the dying, the risk of using alternative methods ranging from herbals and organics, faith healers, witch doctors, and New Age healing techniques, makes perfect sense.



• People perceive modern medicine to be isolating
  
  Many times, medical treatments are focused on the disease and its causative agent, which can make a patient feel isolated and treated like a mere host of the disease.
  
  With energy healing, energy and spirituality are intimately linked, causing the patient to feel that all aspects of his health are being attended to.



• Energy healing is non-obtrusive and natural, thus it is safer
  
  Repeated surgical procedures are physically and emotionally traumatic for most patients.
  
  In light of the stress caused by surgical methods, it seems only logical that "going natural" is attractive to more and more people.
  
  
• Energy healing is a good way of relieving stress
  
  Because complicated equipment isn't needed, meditation meets the needs of highly stressed-out people who are looking for "non-stress" methods, such as energy healing

Remember, as the United States is increasingly controlled by multi-national corporations, there will be a battle between those seeking spiritual, holistic healing and those seeking profit from the latest drug alternative.

At the end of the day, what matters most is your health and how you believe you can best achieve it.

Change your life,

Matt


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