The Anatomy of Healing
Posted on Mar 21, 2020 by Harsha Vardhan (Founder Director & Trainer), Nidhi Agrawal (Co-founder, Director & Trainer)
Sri Yukteswar Giri, Guru of ParamhansaYogananda, a mighty gyanavatar (Embodied wisdom) famously said:
"Imagination is the door through which disease as well as healing enters. Disbelieve in the reality of sickness even when you are ill; an unrecognized visitor will flee!"
COVID 2019, a household name now, has registered it’s name in the dubious record of health pandemics that have struck humanity. People’s first response is to press the panic button and get insecure. This wave of fear is far more contagious than the disease itself. Man’s self-preservation streak makes him stock up on groceries, masks, medicines, toilet rolls and hand sanitizers among other things, even if it means depriving another human being of his needs. In the pandemonium to buy stuff he forgets even the basic health advisory when he elbows his way through the store.
The sheer madness accompanied with me-first attitude creates more division than unity in a common cause. The way people hoard the consumables creates an artificial shortage for those who don’t. Such people do not realize that it if others are not helped to be infection free, their own safety will be at risk. As they say to err is to be human but surely one should not err to the extent that one can put hundreds of others at risk.
What needs to be done?
Medically speaking: You have heard it all. Apply the instructions diligently. Understand the advisory, observe and absorb. Apply it in your daily life and help implement it on others. There is no cure for COVID19 and neither there is cure for any virus. The only protection we have is our own immunity. Medicines will only give symptomatic relief till our body alone fights the battle. Just understand thoroughly what doctors say and stay away from all sensationalism on the media. They have to create news at the expense of your peace. Don’t be a scoreboard for the number of infections and deaths in the world. Just live quietly in your safety.
Spiritually speaking: Our physical body is mounted upon two other bodies. The Energy body and the Causal body. Without delving into details of the spiritual construction of our body, let us focus on what we need to do. The Energy body or Aura is a sum total of our physical, mental and emotional states. It carries impressions of past life as well as the current. Any distortion or imbalance in the energy body manifests itself as disease in the body. The feeling of fear, hate, anger, greed, envy, desire, resentment…the list is endless, punctures holes in the energy body thus making it vulnerable to imbalance and thereby . It directly paralysis the immune system. So loving all detachedly is a good idea even for yourself.
Do Not Fear. Just know what needs to be done in the circumstances and remain calm and fearless. Do not react to every impulse. Just remain centered and respond with confidence. Bank your hopes in God. He has given us a mind to apply and rest we have to lean on him. Serve others while you can.
Take Sunlight. Sun is still the purest and uncorrupted form of resource unaffected by the marauding human. Besides giving you a much needed dose of free vitamin D (crucial to ward off infection), it enthuses body’s prana into action.
Energise the body. A cell succumbs to an infection when it lacks it’s own Pranic energy. The invading microbe overpowers a lesser adversary. When the cells are charged with Prana they cannot be invaded easily. Body is energized by massage, sunlight, exercise and nutritious food. Anyone who knows Paramhansa Yogananda’s energization exercises can benefit greatly from them. Brastika pranayama is highly useful in charging the body cells. It is good time to learn it.
Pre-existing diseases are usually a drag on the immune system. A new infection can be too much to handle for the already burdened immune system. Minimize the current issue if not it cannot be totally eliminated. Knowing that immune system is the only defense against an incoming virus, we have to assist our system following all the above advice.
Do not give energy to a problem by aggravating it by way of sharing, watching or worrying about it. Stay away from the highly dubious and unreliable WhatsApp university, TV or other social media which is pumping an issue out of proportion for their vested interests. Our mind’s visualization can manifest reality. Just the way we fear and attract problems we can heal ourselves with positive intent and visualization.
Disbelieve in the power of the microbe. You are way too powerful than a fragile microbe that can’t stand even soap water. They are not telling you stories that over 90% of patients have been cured. Most on their own. The dreaded Corona passed without alarm like a common cold. Just that those stories are not reaching you.
God is the doer. He is making humans take a break and reflect on what they have done to the planet in the name of growth (greed). Believe in his healing power. Surrender unto him. He has forced humans to introspect. Only fear could push us into our self-made cocoons. Society will recalibrate to life again. Maybe only to forget again. But such lessons are precious.
Realign Consciousness. With Love and care for all.