Proper diet simply refers to pure and nutritious
food. In general meat, and in particular pork, contains a lot of dirty
grayishenergy and therefore it is better to avoid them. Fresh
vegetables and fruits are nutritious, pure and luminous. They carry a
lot of pranic energy or life force. Taking one to two grams of bee pollen
daily is also very beneficial. Bee pollen is physically nutritious and
contains a lot of life force.
Breathing
is of two types, the correct way and the incorrect way. The correct way
is abdominal breathing and the incorrect way is chest breathing. It is
the diaphragm, which enables the lungs to expand and to contract. The
lungs by themselves do not have the capacity to expand in order to draw
in air, or to contract in order to expel used-up air. With abdominal breathing,
the abdomen is slightly pushed out during inhalation, causing the diaphragm
to be pulled down, which enables the lungs to draw in more air. During
exhalation, the abdomen is slightly pulled in, causing the diaphragm to
be pushed up, which enables the lungs to exhale more used-up air. Also,
more pranic energy is drawn in during inhalation and more used-up energy
is expelled during exhalation.
With chest breathing, the abdomen is pulled in during inhalation, causing
the diaphragm to be pushed up resulting in less air being drawn in. During
exhalation, the abdomen is pushed out, causing the diaphragm to be pulled
down in less air being expelled. Prolonged chest breathing also tends
to congest the front heart chakra, resulting in chest pain and
difficulty in breathing.
Exercising has acleansing effectphysically and etherically.
Physically, waste matter and toxins are eliminated through sweating. When
a person is exercising, the auras of the energy body pulsate; whitish
gray light or used-up energy is expelled and fresh pranic energy is drawn
in. The chakras, the meridians and the
organs are cleansed of used-up energy and diseased energy. Blood and pranic
circulations are greatly improved by regular exercise. The body feels
better and lighter after exercising. Regular physical exercise is a must
to maintain a clean, highly vitalized, healthy body.
Tai Chi,
chi kung exercise, hatha
yoga, dancing,
martial arts,
sports, jogging, hiking or brisk walking,
if done regularly, have very good effects on the body. The left and right
parts of the body should preferably be in balance, while exercising. Otherwise,
the part of the body, which is not sufficiently exercised will become
weaker and partially congested, which may manifest as pain or discomfort.
Fifteen to thirty minutes of exercise daily is sufficient.
Proper hygiene consists of physical hygiene, etheric hygiene, emotional
hygiene, and mental hygiene.
Smoking is a very unhygienic habit. Smokers have unclean physical as
well as etheric bodies. In the case of chain smokers, the etheric body
is polluted with dirty brown energy, which partially blocks most of
the meridians, thereby weakening the physical body in general. Since
the back meridian in the spine is partially blocked; the back solar
plexus chakra, the meng mein
chakra, and the basic chakra
tend to become congested and overactivated, thereby making the smoker
susceptible to hypertension. The front heart
chakra is partially affected, making the habitually heavy
smoker susceptible to heart
problems, since the front heart chakra is closely connected to
the back heart chakra.
Habitual drinking of liquor with high alcohol content is etherically
unhygienic. It makes the etheric body unclean and gross. Drug addiction
impurifies and damages the etheric body, making the addict susceptible
to undesirable external psychic influences.
In certain lands the etheric energy is unclean. This is clairvoyantly
seen as light grayish energy coming out of the ground. If the reclaimed
land has been dumped with garbage, then the area is etherically impure
or polluted. These areas, in the long run, tend to adversely affect
the physical and psychological health of its residents. It is just like
living in a highly polluted city.
Certain places are likewise etherically quite unclean like hospitals,
funeral parlors, cemeteries and others. Relatively weak persons are
advised to take a shower using water and salt after visiting any one
of these places.
If a very sickly person has used a room for a long period of time, then
the room is filled with diseased energy, and it must be cleansed. If
a room or a house has been occupied by a negative or psychologically
disturbed person, then the room is not physically and psychologically
conducive to one's well being. Etherically unclean rooms can be cleansed
by using water and salt, burning sandalwood incense, praying, exposing
to sunlight, besides others.
Objects can also be etherically contaminated. As a general guideline,
it is better to avoid lending one's personal things to others to avoid
etheric contamination. Likewise, it is advisable to avoid using the
personal things of other people.
When buying or accepting second-hand things, especially pieces of jewelry,
it is advisable to know the condition of the previous owner(s) since
the characteristics of the previous owner are impregnated in his personal
belongings. If the previous owner was quite sickly or very negative,
then possessing a second-hand item from him or her would be unhealthy
and unlucky.
One can also be contaminated when interacting with others. When interacting
with a sick person, you may tend to feel depleted since the sick person
may subconsciously absorb some of your healthy pranic energy and you
may also accidentally absorb some of the diseased energy.
It is a healthy practice to go to the beach regularly about once a month
or once every two months. Seawater has a cleansing effect on the energy
body. The body is highly energized with prana from the fresh
air, sunlight, and ground.
Proper emotional and mental hygiene consists of internal and external
hygiene. Internal emotional and mental hygiene simply means proper emotions
and proper thoughts. Positive emotions and thoughts like happiness, kindness,
joy, enthusiasm, and others tend to have beneficial effects psychologically,
etherically, and physically.
In many instances, negative emotion is one of the critical factors, if
not the most critical factor, in severe ailments. Harboring or explosively
expressing negative may manifest as glaucoma, migraine headache, acute
sinusitis, hyperthyroidism, respiratory ailments like asthma, heart ailments,
diabetes, gastric or intestinal ulcer, high cholesterol, infected liver,
constipation, twisted intestine, damaged kidneys, hypertension, rheumatoid
arthritis, cancer
and others.
When negative emotions are accompanied by negative thoughts, the upper
charkas like the throat, ajna,
forehead or crown
charkas will also be affected. This may manifest as hyperthyroidism,
acute sinusitis, migraine headache, glaucoma, epilepsy, and others.
When negative
emotions are accompanied by expressed or inhibited physical aggression,
the lower charkas like the meng main chakra, and the basic
chakra will also be affected. This may manifest as hypertension,
damaged kidneys, herniated disk, skin ailments, rheumatoid arthritis,
blood ailments, and others.
External emotional
and mental hygiene means proper company, since emotions and thoughts are
transmissible. Negative emotions and thoughts are infectious. Therefore,
after to a person with psychological problems, one may feel depressed
and physically exhausted. Prolonged interaction with this type of persons
may manifest as physical ailment(s).
It is preferably to be sexually selective, since it is very easy to be
etherically and psychologically contaminated through indiscriminate sexual
interactions. After such an interaction, it is advisable to clean oneself
physically, etherically, emotionally, and mentally.
Food should preferably be handled and prepared by persons in good health
and bad energy can
easily be transmitted to food and objects.
Interacting with people who are optimistic, enthusiastic, radient and
very healthy is very psychologically and etherically beneficial.
Some severe ailments are emotional in origin. Some patients have so much
deep-seated hurt or resentment towards certain person(s). Although pranic
healing does greatly improve the condition of the patient, the rate of
healing would be much faster if the patient consciously exerts an effort
to forgive those who may have actually or imaginarily hurt him or her.
The act of forgiving
is therapeutic and is necessary for good health. It helps normalize the
other affected charkas.
Cruelty to fellow beings and to animals is one of the major causes of
severe painful ailments. If one repeatedly causes pain to others, then
one will also harvest intense pain in the form of severe ailment. If one
repeatedly deprives others of physical sustenance (income, money or food),
then one will also be deprived of physical sustenance. This may manifest
as severe lung ailments wherein one keeps gasping for life (sustenance).
The affected body will gradually wilt. This will also have adverse financial
effects.
Even prophets are not exempted from the law of karma. Negative
karma can be neutralized by learning the lesson that has to be
learned, using the law of forgiveness and the law of mercy. Avoid cruelty
and show kindness to others; this is a major key to good health, to happiness,
and to avoiding severe painful ailments.
The nature of the work, the psychological condition of co-workers, and
the working overall environment of a person do affect considerably the
health of the worker. In this so-called modern developed world, there
is too much stress
or tension. In other words, there is a lot of work pressure, hurriedness,
worry and anxiety,
irritation, anger, and hurt feelings, excessive aggressiveness, bullying
and harassment.
Severe stress or tension, in the long run, causes the solar plexus chakra
and the other charkas to malfunction. This may manifest as gastric
ulcer, heart ailments, hyperthyroidism, severe sinusitis, migraine headache,
malfunctioning liver, damaged kidneys, general weakness, depression and
others.
Meditation
would definitely help a lot in coping with stressful conditions. In certain
cases, where the meditation has certain degree of limitation, it may be
wiser to change for a better job or a livelihood that is less demanding
and with saner working condition.
The psychological state of co-workers is also important since stress is
physically very infectious. People under great stress radiate stress energy
to the surrounding people through their charkas and auras.
Consciously or subconsciously, they transfer a great bulk of their stress
energy by being nasty and rude to others. This type of behavior is unacceptable
and quite uncivilized. In the future, such behavior will be considered
coarse and barbaric. It is very impolite and improper to dump one's psychic
faces on others. The proper way to dispose of stress energy is to meditate,
to do self-pranic healing or to have pranic treatment. Work productivity
can be improved substantially by letting executives and workers have regular
pranic treatment.
Prolonged stress is a psychological ailment, which will adversely affect
the physical body. In more developed countries, stress is a national epidemic.
It is the right of each worker to have not only a physically safe working
environment but also a psychologically healthy environment to work in.
It is just a matter of time that this basic human right will be recognized
and respected.
With people who are undergoing a lot of stress, the solar plexus chakra
is very congested and over activated. The solar plexus chakra is
filled with dirty and red energy. The other chakras are also affected.
Apply self-localized
sweeping on the front solar plexus chakra for thirty times or more.
The sweeping should be done slowly and in counterclockwise motion. Throw
the dirty energy to the basin with water and salt. This will substantially
reduce the stress.
Do keep pranic breathing for twelve cycles or more in order to further
normalize the solar plexus chakra, to achieve inner calmness, and
to recharge one-self. Or do meditation on Twin Hearts.
Repeat the
procedure several times a day if necessary. Meditation on Twin Hearts
is preferably done not more than once or twice a day since it may cause
pranic congestion.
If stress is severe, contact an advanced pranic healer for regular preventive
pranic
psychotherapy treatment.
The lifestyle of a person is an important health factor. Undesirable habits
and excessiveness like smoking, alcoholism, drug abuse, excessive work
and excessive fun are to be avoided.
You can make your own invocation. Here is one example Master
Choa Kok Sui usually uses:
To
the Supreme God,
Thank you for Your Divine Blessings!
For guidance, help,
protection and illuminate With thanks and in full faith!
To my spiritual teachers,
To the holy angels, spiritual helpers, and all the great ones, Thank you
for your divine blessings! For guidance, help, protection and illuminate
With thanks and in full faith!
There are thousands of titles of esoteric books. Beginners would normally
be overwhelmed by the vast amount of reading materials. Different books may contain
different information, which may contradict each other. This is rather confusing
for the reader. Some books are substantial; some are not. The Grand Master Choa
Kok Sui has, therefore, recommended a list of reading materials.
1. Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda. Self-Realization Fellowship,
3880 San Rafael Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90065 U.S.A.
2. First Principles
of Theosophy by C. Jinarajadasa. The Theosophical Publishing House. 1921.
Adyar, Madras, India.
3.
The Ethric Double by Arthur E. Powell. Quest Book. The Theosophical Publishing
House, Wheaton Illinois 60187 U.S.A.
4. The
Astral Body by Arthur E. Powell. Quest Book. The Theosophical Publishing
House, Wheaton Illinois 60187 U.S.A.
5. The
Menial Body by Arthur E. Powell. The Theosophical Publishing House,
London Ltd., 68 Great Russel Street London, W.C.I, England.
6. The
Causal Body and the Ego by Arthur E. Powell. Theosophical Publishing
House, England.
7. The
Solar System by Arthur. E. Powell. The Theosophical Publishing House,
England.
8. The
Secret Science at Work by Max Freedom Long 1953. DeVorss and Co.,
P.O Box 550, Marina del Rey, CA 90294 U.S.A.
9. Esoteric
Healing by Alice Bailey. Lucis Publishing Company, 113 University
Place, 11th Floor, New York N.Y. 10003 U.S.A.
10. The
Secret Path by Paul Brunton. DeVorss & Co., Publishers.
11. The
Secrets of Chinese Meditation
by Lu K'uan Yu. 1964. Samuel Weiser, Inc., 740 Broadway, New York, N.Y.
10003 U.S.A.
12.
Kosher Yoga by Albert L. Schutz & Hilda W. de Schaps, Quantal Publishing,
P.O. Box l598 Goleta CA 93117-1598-0.
13.
Initiation into Hermetics by Franz Bardon, trans, by A. Radspieler. 1956.
Dieter Ruggeberg, Wuppertal, Western Germany.
14.
The Practice of Magical Evocation by Franz Bardon. Dieter Ruggeberg, Wuppertal,
Western Germany.
15.
The key to the True Quabbalah by Franz Bardon. Dieter Ruggeberg, Wuppertal,
Western Germany.
16. The
Yoga of Light (the Classic Esoteric Handbook of Kundalini Yoga-Hatha
Yoga Pradipika) by Hans Ulrich Rieker. The Dawn Horse Press, Star
Route 2 Middletown, California 95461 U.S.A.
17.
The Spiritual Science of Kriya Yoga by Goswami Kriyananda. The Temple of
Kriya Yoga, 2414 North Kedzie, Chicago, Illinois 60647 U.S.A.
18. Raja
Yoga by Swarni Vivekananda. Ramakrisna Vivekananda Center of New York,
17 East Street, New York, N.Y. 10028 U.S.A.
19.
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki. John Weather Bill, Inc., of
New York and Tokyo.
20.
Teachings of Tibetan Yoga. Translated and annotated by Garma C. Chang.
Citadel Press, 120 Enterprises Avenue, Secaucus Avenue, N.J. 07094 U.S.A.
21. A
Practical Guide to Qabbalistic Symbolism by Gareth Knight. Samuel Weiser,
Inc., P.O. Box 612, York Beach Maine 03910 U.S.A.
22.
Theosophical Books by Madame Blavatsky, C.W. Leadbeater or by Annie Besant.
The Theosophical Publishing House. Adyar, Madras, India.
23.
Esoteric Books by Edwin Dingle. Institute of Mental Physics, Yucca Valley,
California, U.S.A.
24.
Esoteric Books by Robert and Earlyn Chaney. Astara, 800 W. Arrow Hwy, P.O.
Box 5003, Upland, California 91785 U.S.A.
25.
Esoteric Books by Rudolf Steiner. Harper & Row Publishers, San Francisco,
U.S.A.
26.
Esoteric Books on Agni Yoga. 319 West 107th Street, New York, N.Y. 10025
U.S.A.
27.
Esoteric Books by Alice Bailey. Lucis Publishing Company, 113 University
Place 11th Floor New York N Y 10003 U.S.A.