Walking into the light

Walking into the light

May 2023

Shivi Verma and Navni Chawla report on the Life Positive International Healing Festival 2023  that was held in March 2023 in New Delhi 

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The Life Positive International Healing  

Festival 2023 was a mélange of eclectic  workshops and top-notch facilitators.  The participants enjoyed the gourmet food, the  natural ambience full of greenery and water  bodies, and exclusive skills and knowledge  imparted in the workshops. 

P L Garg says, “The food and management of  the workshops were very good. I have gained  the knowledge of Meta heal and WEST  therapies, and will come again.” 

“I liked everything about the healing festival. I  had an excellent experience in the workshops,  and I would like to attend more such festivals,”  says Anita Passi. 

Mr Ranjit Singh says, “The Life Positive team  was helpful and cooperative, and I had a great  time learning new things in the workshop.” 

The dedicated and dynamic facilitators opened  up a new world for the participants through  some amazing insights, tools, and techniques.  Below is a glimpse of the workshops. 

Day 1. March 18, 2023 

Meta heal therapy by Dr Ramandeep Kaur Dr Ramandeep Kaur began the workshop  by introducing herself. She is a certified life  coach and energy medicine practitioner. She  holds a doctorate in Metaphysics. During her  

introduction, she shared how she gathered her  life together after going through a major low  by choosing to ardently work on herself. 

Later, she asked all the participants to  introduce themselves and also share their  reason ofor being in the workshop. Everyone  had something unique to say, and it set an  enthusiastic tone for the entire workshop.  

Dr Ramandeep addressed some root emotions  like anger, guilt, fear, and sadness in brief.  The one emotion that she picked up on that  day to dive deep into was anger. She explained  how anger is not a negative emotion; rather,  it is just an emotion like any other. What’s  important is to learn to manage and use it  positively, as only then can one examine anger  comprehensively, reach its root, and learn to  channel it, thereby protecting oneself from its  dangerous repercussions. 

Dr Ramandeep said that anger manifests  in the form of high blood pressure, heavy  shoulders and chest, aches and pains in the  body, jaw lock, rashes, cirrhosis, fatty liver,  lower back ache, PCOD, and globules in the  blood. Anger is also believed to block arteries  and the seven chakras (subtle energy centres)  in our body. Sometimes, anger and resentment  get stored as fat in the hips, especially when it  is felt against one’s parents. Dr Ramandeep  spoke about concepts like ‘displaced anger’  and ‘triggers of anger.’ Displaced anger is  directing one’s anger on someone who did not  cause it but on a weaker target who you think  will take it. She drew a pyramid on the board  showing the different layers of mind: namely  conscious, sub-conscious, and unconscious.  A lot of things that make us angry today are  deeply embedded in one of these layers. She  said that triggers are a part of one’s karmic  

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formed early on through womb learning (a  mother’s thoughts affect her baby’s mind or  psychology). Then as a child grows up and  goes through life, they pick up triggers of anger  through experiences, relationships, education,  values, belief systems, and the surrounding  culture. After this, Dr Ramandeep talked  about our responses to a potential threat or  anger like fight, flight, freeze, or fawn. She  explained that these arose from the limbic  brain situated behind the head and also exist  in our energy body. 

Talking about conflict resolution, Dr  Ramandeep explained that just like water  flows over a piece of rock lying in the river,  without disturbing the rock, and the rock also  allows the water to pass over it, smoothening  its edge, similarly, in a room, two opinions can  co-exist and everyone is allowed to have their  point of view. She advised, “Don’t lose your  own perspective or ground, but at the same  time, hold space for the other as well.” 

A really smart exercise that Dr Ramandeep  made everyone do was a self-examination of  one’s own anger. She asked the participants  to take 15–20 minutes and jot down on their  notepads about 

•  Patterns of anger that they observed within  and around (family). 

•  The root cause of their anger. 

•  The way they express anger. 

•  Self-observation regarding being a family  scapegoat or suppression of anger in  childhood. 

After this, Dr Ramandeep conducted an  intense session where everyone was asked to  go back to a very angry memory and release it  on a pillow with the help of a partner. During  this activity, so many people cried, shouted,  and truly released their suppressed anger.  This was a very healthy exercise and made the  participants feel light and free. 

Dr Ramandeep gave some more practical and  effective tools that one could use in moments of  anger after leaving the workshop: 

•  Tapping using four fingers on the protruding  bone above the chest and humming the  sound ‘Hmmm’ to calm down the nervous  system. This exercise also helps improve  one’s immune system. 

•  Moving the body along with music. This is a  form of self-love, especially for the body. •  White light visualisation (imagining being  enveloped by white light) when angry. This  immediately cools you down. 

•  Candle flame concentration. 

•  Forgiving, releasing, and healthy crying. 

Dr Ramandeep said anger against another person  can be easily managed or resolved by expressing  it simply in two sentences (telling the other  person assertively without being disrespectful or  hurtful): 

•  I feel angry with you because _______. •  Please give me some space to cool down right  now. 

Dr Ramandeep also explained that, usually, we  feel angry when our boundaries are violated. So,  one must learn to draw boundaries while dealing  with other people right from the beginning. 

I conclude that this workshop was very  comprehensive and gave hands-on tools to deal  with anger and enormously reduce the damage  that it could possibly cause. 

Heal your life with Past Life Regression by  Ambika Khanna 

Seasoned past life regression (PLR) therapist  Ambika Khanna impressed everybody with her  deep and profound knowledge of the modality  of past life regression. Ambika said that most  unresolved and unexplained sufferings of human  beings can be traced back to their past lives, and  once the core issue is accessed, the patterns do  

not take long to resolve. 

Ambika began the workshop by asking the  participants their reason for participating in  it. One participant said that he wanted to know  what bad karma he had created in his past life.  Another said that he wanted to know the root  cause of his complex relationship with his father.  Yet another wanted to know how to ascertain as  to what one was seeing during the regression  was real and not a figment of one’s imagination.  Ambika said that PLR was deep therapy and  capable of answering questions like Who am I?;  What is the purpose of life?; What happens after  death?; and Have I lived before? 

Regarding the question of imagination, Ambika  said that PLR takes the ‘healee’ to a deep  subconscious brainwave frequency. It’s a state  where all the memories of past lives as well as  life between lives are stored. So what you are  seeing in your third eye is not your imagination  but what is popping up from the subconscious  archive. 

Ambika pointed out that what is happening  during regression is spontaneous and not  controlled by the conscious mind. Therefore,  healees need to trust their vision, trust the  healer, and drop the habitual logical thinking  mind which tries to rationalise everything. 

To make participants practise going into the  deep Theta wave state, Ambika guided them all  step by step into accessing their birth memories.  Many could see things vividly, while some felt  blocked. He said that PLR explains how destiny  is created, and what it means when we create our  own life. 

After this, Ambika took us through two PLR  sessions, one for a nagging relationship issue,  and another, for health. During regression, one  participant realised that his current boss, with  whom he was having a difficult relationship,  was his wife in his previous life and he had  

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not done justice to her. Ambika said that we are  made of energy, consciousness, and wisdom—the  same things which constitute the Divine—and  that we are a sum total of all our past lives. We  create our life plan based on the learnings we want  to complete in a certain incarnation. When we  learn a certain lesson, our karma gets voided and  evolution happens. A woman participant could  understand the erratic and confusing behaviour of  her partner through PLR. She saw that they were  a deeply attached couple in their past lives as well,  but after she passed away, her husband could not  take her death. This has led him to be emotionally  distant from her in this lifetime, even though he  loves her very much. She seemed relieved of her  worries. 

Ambika’s was a deeply enlightening and  cathartic workshop, helping people experientially  understand the law of cause and effect. 

Day 2. March 19, 2023  

WEST by Kalyaan Kumar Jain 

Mr Kalyaan started the WEST workshop by  getting to know the group better through  individual introductions. Then he introduced  the concept of WEST, which stood for Wisdom,  Energy, Space, and Time. He said that our life,  which is ruled by various deities, demigods,  forces of nature, and elements, is a micro part of  the entire macro universe. Direction has a huge  

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effect on one’s karmic unfolding. He said that the  modern world might reject the age-old science  of vaastu or planetary effects, but when one’s  life turns upside down due to certain incidents,  one resorts to adopting all these remedies to  seek solace and solutions.The major focus of this  workshop was the planet Saturn and the direction  ‘west.’ Kalyaan said that Saturn is the planet of  real wisdom that rules the west direction. He also  shared that every planet rules over 10 types of  health in a person’s life. 

Kalyaan revealed that there comes a time at  least once in 33 years in a person’s life when all  the wealth, fame, and name created by them are  wiped out by time, or kaal, to make them learn  some important life lessons. He added that the  WEST programme and its DASHA and DISHA  aspects help individuals to understand, co-create,  and build their positive portfolio of punya. All his  teachings were based on Vedic texts, the Puranas,  his experiences, his research on directions, and  the learning accumulated over the years. 

Kalyaan shared some very interesting facts about  Saturn: 

•  It is a planet that deals with pure joy and  energy—Shakti or Urjaa (feminine quality) •  It is a planet of sustenance. 

•  In terms of space (both mental and physical),  it is connected to a person’s mental status as  well as social status. 

•  It unfolds unknown life lessons for an  individual. 

•  It is also a planet that controls one level of  courage. 

•  If Saturn is strong in a person’s horoscope, it  protects them from the tests of time. 

•  Saturn is associated with the closing of a  chapter or the completion of a cycle.. 

•  Saturn, or even the west direction, also teaches  an individual when to stop or when enough is  enough. 

•  Saturn is linked with rest, closure, rewards,  and completion in life.  

•  Saturn is direct and pinpoints the issues at  hand. 

•  Saturn never influences; it quietly teaches you  a lesson. 

If a person’s Saturn becomes weak, he experiences  confusion, overwhelming feelings, uncertainty,  and indecisiveness. Kalyaan also explained that  if the west direction, which is ruled by Saturn, is  unhealed, then the following effects are seen: 

•  Loss of cash 

•  Loss of confidence 

•  Loss of respect in the community 

•  Loss of courage, clients, and potential profits  or business  

•  Compensations and pending refunds do not  come through or are extremely delayed Whereas, signs of a healed west direction are  reflected in a person’s life as timely distribution  of assets, peaceful retirement, detachment,  and selfless service. A basic tip to heal the west  direction in your house is to chant the Shani  mantra 33 times while standing and facing the  west direction. Grounding also helps. 

Kalyaan shared the following information about  the west direction in the class: 

Element: Water, Lord: Varuna, Planet: Saturn  Theme: The setting Sun; existence, Essence:  

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and black, Archangel: Michael and Azrael  Number: 8, Frequency: 33, Animal: Crow , Gem:  Blue Sapphire , Chakra: (Green) Anahata, or the  Heart Chakra, Manifestation: Heartbeat Qualities: Love, truth, joy, Sat-Chit-Ananda 

Kalyaan also highlighted some of the habits and  actions that weaken a person’s Saturn. However, it is  better to join his workshop to know more about these  things. All in all, Kalyaan’s workshop was terrific,  fascinating, and illuminating. Everyone learnt new  things, especially about the planet Saturn, and more  importantly, that non-interference in another’s life  brings peace in our own lives. 

Clinical Hypnosis by Rachana Nayar 

The workshop on clinical hypnosis by facilitator  Rachna Nayar was an empowering masterclass on  how to use the power of our minds to change our  lives. Talking about hypnosis, Rachna said that self 

hypnosis has been used since Vedic times to change  habits and manifest desired reality. In the West too,  hypnosis is very popular. 

Rachna explained clinical hypnosis through three  paradigms: state theory, non-state theory, and role  theory. According to the state theory, hypnosis  is a unique state of consciousness different from  wakefulness or sleep. The non-state theory says  hypnosis is not a unique state but depends on the  client’s expectations. In the role theory, the client  takes on the role of a person who needs to be  hypnotised. The key principles are leading people  from the conscious mind to the subconscious  mind, giving suggestions, relaxation, and trance  inductions. Training the participants on how to  lead their clients into hypnosis, Rachna gave them  a step-by-step method: Ask your clients what they  want to achieve, give them time to write what  they need, explain the importance of affirmation,  and cite examples. She then made us all read the  affirmations we had written and then, through  guided meditation, take them to a deep Theta state,  

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where affirmations get deeply ingrained in the  human psyche. 

She also taught clever switch words and how to  use the language of influence to get people to do  what you want. Like before and after statements.  Instead of telling children to clean up their rooms,  say, “Before cleaning your room, eat well, and after  cleaning your room, do your homework.” They are  more likely to do your bidding. Instead of ordering  your employees to do their work on time, ask them,  “How soon can you submit your project?” Their  mind begins to absorb the subtle instruction, and  they begin working accordingly. When trying to  convince a client, begin with ‘I’ and shift to ‘you.’  Like “When I started working, I did not have these  options, but you are lucky.” Use phrases like Have  you noticed?; Are you aware?; Do you realise?; and  Do you understand? for better effect and influence  over the mind of the person you are trying to  convince. 

The latter part of the workshop was dedicated  to participants freely sharing their life issues,  trying to understand the probable reason, pattern,  and belief that was blocking their manifestation.  Rachana helped them make positive affirmations  which they could use while trying to programme  their minds for achieving success in a certain  aspect of their lives. 

It was a simple, effective, and highly empowering  workshop.