"Pranic Healing" for healthcare providers

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I recently recieved a pamphlet in the mail for a "Pranic Healing" weekend seminar for healthcare providers. Course fee: $400. For $400 the course promises to teach me how to heal my patients with techniques that utilize "prana" to energize and balance the energy field... Here's an excerpt from the pamphlet:

"Pranic Healing is based on the prinicle that the body is a "self-repairing" living entity that possesses the innate ability to heal itself. It recognizes that the healing process can be accelerated by increasing the life force (vital energy, prana, chi) to affected parts of the physical body... techniques are applied to the bioelectromagnetic field known as the aura or bioplasmic body. This invisible energy field interpenetrates the physical body and extends beyond it by four or five inches. If there are blockages or imbalances in this energy field, there are corresponding changes in the physical body that may manifest as illness."

The course presenter is a "Certified Pranic Healing Instructor, a Senior Certified Pranic Healer, and coordinator of the Pranic Healing Certification Program..." Does this mean she certified herself? And if the body is a "self-repairing" entity, why does it need a pranic healer? Shouldn't it be fixing itself? And I love, "bioelectromagnetic field known as the aura or bioplasmic body," Hummm.... write that is a progress note...

If I'm ever in the ER with a stoke and a BP of 260/130 I hope my healthcare provider is using drugs to dilate my vessels or dissolve the clot, not using pranic healing. Maybe I'm just to close minded. What you all think?

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i think it sounds great as a supplemental therapy, and not a primary one.

leslie

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I agree there is some energy within us all - but heck! Even a car battery is chemically dependent. If the body were truly self-healing AIDS would not exist. Or a lot of other stuff.

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I recently recieved a pamphlet in the mail for a "Pranic Healing" weekend seminar for healthcare providers. Course fee: $400. For $400 the course promises to teach me how to heal my patients with techniques that utilize "prana" to energize and balance the energy field... Here's an excerpt from the pamphlet:

"Pranic Healing is based on the prinicle that the body is a "self-repairing" living entity that possesses the innate ability to heal itself. It recognizes that the healing process can be accelerated by increasing the life force (vital energy, prana, chi) to affected parts of the physical body... techniques are applied to the bioelectromagnetic field known as the aura or bioplasmic body. This invisible energy field interpenetrates the physical body and extends beyond it by four or five inches. If there are blockages or imbalances in this energy field, there are corresponding changes in the physical body that may manifest as illness."

The course presenter is a "Certified Pranic Healing Instructor, a Senior Certified Pranic Healer, and coordinator of the Pranic Healing Certification Program..." Does this mean she certified herself? And if the body is a "self-repairing" entity, why does it need a pranic healer? Shouldn't it be fixing itself? And I love, "bioelectromagnetic field known as the aura or bioplasmic body," Hummm.... write that is a progress note...

If I'm ever in the ER with a stoke and a BP of 260/130 I hope my healthcare provider is using drugs to dilate my vessels or dissolve the clot, not using pranic healing. Maybe I'm just to close minded. What you all think?

There is obviously energy coming out of the body or some sort of energy field. thats why x-rays and radioactive isotopes and cell phones can disrupt it. I wouldn't go to this person, though. Do some google-ing. There are plenty of books out there on healing with energy. I would read those if you are interested.

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Agreed. That's why I don't like the phrase "alternative" medicine. I prefer integrative or complementary, meaning it's to be used with traditional western methods.

Most of these integrative or even alternative methods focus on wellness and prevention through lifestyle and have been for thousands of years. Western medicine has tradtionally been focused on treating rather than prevention until fairly recently in its history.

As far as certifying herself, no it doesn't mean that. Look at it again. She likely got her certification elsewhere or was certified at her current place of employement and worked her way up. And I didn't see anywhere that you quoted as them saying not to use an ER for life-threatening illnesses.

Even a few years ago, acupunture was pooh-poohed by the medical community. Now it's recognized as a viable alternative to pain management as well as other things.

Don't keep such an open mind that your brains fall out, but don't be so close minded that you miss some really good options, either.

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What you all think?

I think someone's getting rich.

BTW, how exactly does a energy field get a "blockage"? Wouldn't it just ooze out in another direction?

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BTW, how exactly does a energy field get a "blockage"? Wouldn't it just ooze out in another direction?

silly goose.

only when you administer the new & improved, "energy-everywhere" laxatives, will it ooze.

sheesh.

leslie

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:lol2: :lol2: :lol2:

I stand corrected :)

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Specializes in Trauma ICU,ER,ACLS/BLS instructor.

Don't keep such an open mind that your brains fall out, but don't be so close minded that you miss some really good options, either.

I love this!......

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silly goose.

only when you administer the new & improved, "energy-everywhere" laxatives, will it ooze.

sheesh.

leslie

Let me see if I can get this straight: If I administer the "energy-everywhere" laxative used for an energy field prep prior to a pranoscopy, it is possible to have an uncontrolled energy ooze or a "code-chi"?

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Let me see if I can get this straight: If I administer the "energy-everywhere" laxative used for an energy field prep prior to a pranoscopy, it is possible to have an uncontrolled energy ooze or a "code-chi"?

hmmmm, interesting.

i've always known it to be a "code-chit"...

nothing to get pranal over.

leslie

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lol @ leslie...

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