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
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
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,
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.