Effectiveness of Pranic Healing in treatment of Insomnia

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Introduction: Insomnia is the subject of public health concern as it has affected quality life of millions of people. It has found to adversely influence physical, mental and social health as well as professional life. Globally, 37% of adult population experience insomnia. There are many pharmacological, non-pharmacological and complementary and alternative measures to treat insomnia. Pranic Healing, the growing complementary energy medicine in health care realm developed by Master Choa Kok Sui was used to describe its effectiveness in the healing of Insomnia. Methods: Case series study was applied to present the findings of two Nepalese adults being treated of insomnia with Pranic Healing. In this modality of energy medicine, treatment was done by assessing, cleansing and energizing the state of aura and energy level in the different energy centers through the rhythmic hand movement. Results: Cases were suffering from insomnia for more than a month which led them into stress, fatigue, irritation and inefficiency. Pranic Healing therapy found that the over-activation of their Basic and Solar Plexus chakras were the immediate cause of insomnia. Pranic healer cleansed, energized and balanced their chakras with vital life energy or Prana for two healing episodes. Even today, both of the cases were found to have deep nocturnal sleeps with active and efficient life. Conclusions: Pranic Healing, a complementary therapy is effective in healing insomnia and in promoting, maintaining and restoring health of people. However, experimental studies can be done to further validate the effectiveness of Pranic Healing.

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Journal of Karnnali Academy of Health Sciences Case Report
Effectiveness of Pranic Healing in Treatment of Insomnia: Case Series
Nishant Lama
Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine and Public Health, Karnali Academy of Health
Sciences, Jumla, Nepal
Pranic Healer and Arhatic Yoga Practitioner, Pranic Healing Yoga Nepal Trust, Naxal, Kathmandu
Corresponding Author:
Nishant Lama
Email: nishant.tmg@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
Introduction: Insomnia is the subject of public health concern as it has affected quality life of millions of
people. It has found to adversely influence physical, mental and social health as well as professional life.
Globally, 37% of adult population experience insomnia. There are many pharmacological, non-
pharmacological and complementary and alternative measures to treat insomnia. Pranic Healing, the growing
complementary energy medicine in health care realm developed by Master Choa Kok Sui was used to describe
its effectiveness in the healing of Insomnia.
Methods: Case series study was applied to present the findings of two Nepalese adults being treated of
insomnia with Pranic Healing. In this modality of energy medicine, treatment was done by assessing, cleansing
and energizing the state of aura and energy level in the different energy centers through the rhythmic hand
movement.
Results: Cases were suffering from insomnia for more than a month which led them into stress, fatigue,
irritation and inefficiency. Pranic Healing therapy found that the over-activation of their Basic and Solar Plexus
chakras were the immediate cause of insomnia. Pranic healer cleansed, energized and balanced their chakras
with vital life energy or Prana for two healing episodes. Even today, both of the cases were found to have deep
nocturnal sleeps with active and efficient life.
Conclusions: Pranic Healing, a complementary therapy is effective in healing insomnia and in promoting,
maintaining and restoring health of people. However, experimental studies can be done to further validate the
effectiveness of Pranic Healing.
Keywords: Pranic Healing, Insomnia, Master Choa Kok Sui, Nepal
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INTRODUCTION
Sleep is necessity, not a choice. It is an
essential, active and involuntary phenomenon
for effective human functions.1Insomnia is a
collective term for inability to obtain adequate
sleep like difficulty to fall asleep, frequent
nocturnal awakening and wake up early in
morning and unable to fall asleep again.2It is
dissatisfaction of an individual with quantity or
quality of sleep.3 Causes of insomnia may be
physical, medical conditions, drug related,
mental and behavioural.2Insomnia is the issue
of public health concern because it affects
quality of life of millions of people around the
globe.4Studies have shown that insomnia is the
independent risk factor for suicidal
attempts.5At present, 37% of adults experience
insomnia globally. The top five lifestyle
factors that are detrimental to an individual’s
sleep are worry/stress (54%), sleep
environment (40%), occupation and education
schedule (37%), entertainment (36%) and
health condition (32%).6
Pharmacological and non-pharmacological
approaches are the recommended approaches
for the management of insomnia.
Pharmacological approach is suited to those
having insomnia of less than three months.
Despite the known potential adverse
consequences of long-term use of medications,
pharmacological approach is most often used
for more than three months. Most common
form of nonpharmacological approach in the
management of chronic insomnia is Cognitive
Behavioural Therapy (CBT) that includes the
combine multitudes of interventions of
behavioural and cognitive techniques.7There
are also few complementary medical therapy
advised for treatments of insomnia.8
Pranic healing is the growing complementary
energy medicine or therapy in health care
realm. It is no touch, no drug natural energy
healing modality developed based on more
than 20 years of research and experiments
done by Master Choa Kok Sui.9,10 Physical
body is covered with energy body inside out
which is called aura or bioplasmic body.
According to energy medicine, for the
existence of life, body requires Prana or vital
energy to function properly.11Prana is
pervasive in nature because the sources of
Prana are air, sun and ground.12Pranic Healing
is an approach to accelerate the innate ability
of a body to heal all dimensions of health-
physical, emotional, mental, social and
spiritual. Pranic healing has found the factors
influencing chakras of the energy body
correspondingly influencing the physical body
and vice versa. So, Pranic Healing focus on
healing energy body that ultimately heal the
physical body.12This study aims to describe the
effectiveness of Pranic Healing in the
treatment of insomnia.

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METHODOLOGY
Study Design
Case series was used to describe the cases of
insomnia treated through Pranic Healing.
Procedure of Healing12
Following steps were strictly followed
throughout the healing sessions for each
subject where rhythmic hand movements were
done properly.
1. The subject was comfortably sat on a
chair with palms put on thighs facing
upwards in a peaceful setting;
2. The subject was asked to close his/her
eyes and also to gently touch the palate
with the tip of tongue for a better flow of
Prana or energy;
3. Bowl containing a fist of salt and one
liter of water was kept aside of the
subject as a disposal unit.
4. Researcher, a Pranic Healer prayed to
supreme god and spiritual teacher to
assist, protect and make him a divine
channel of healing to heal the subject;
5. The basic techniques of Pranic Healing
were applied:
• Self-sensitization of hand and fingers
chakras were done byhealer
• Scanning of aura and major energy
centers of subject was done to identify
the congestion (accumulation) and
depletion (lower) of energy as well as
activation level of energy centers.
[Energy scanning was done by
sensitizing hand minor chakras of healer
and by just looking and forming
intention to scan a specific part or area of
the subject]
• Cleansing (removing the energy blocks or
diseased energy) and energizing of energy
centers of the subject was done as per the
Pranic Healing Protocol mentioned in
Advanced Pranic Healing book.12
• Projected energy was stabilized and etheric
link between healer and case was released.
6. The diseased energy collected in a
disposable unit was properly disposed;
7. Energy hygiene was maintained by the
healer through washing hands with soap and
water; and
8. Thanks giving prayer was done at the end of
the session
Each healing session or episode took time about
45 minutes.
Ethical Consideration
Both cases were well informed about
mechanism of action of Pranic Healing,
healing procedures and required healing
episodes to heal the problem. Consent was
taken from both the cases to use their
testimony to write this case reports.

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CASE DESCRIPTION
First Case:
Case first was 38 years married male from
Nepal. Professionally he was a medical
Photograph 1: Male Subject in healing posture
Photograph 2: Female Subject in healing posture
doctor. He had gone through the problem of
sleepless nights since last three months. He
shared, he could not have a single episode of
nap till 5-6 am but after 6 am, he could have
tired sleep which did not last for 2 hours. This
pattern of sleep was becoming his life style. It
had disturbed his daily life, decreased his work
efficiency, and exhausted, lack of
concentration and interest in work. He even
could not attend the medical conferences that
used to be in his working hospital. To
overcome this situation, he tried every possible
method like stopped watching mobiles,
decreased screen time and heard relaxing sleep
music at night. Despite these tries, sleep
problem was increasing. So, he consulted his
psychiatrist friend who suggested him to take
anxiolytic medicine. Finally, he came to
researcher for Pranic Healing of insomnia.
Second Case:
Case second was 26 years unmarried female
Nepalese citizen. Professionally she was a
radiology technologist. She was not in any
medication when she came to Pranic healer or
researcher with complaints of troublesome
sleep on 21st February 2020. It was happening
to her from almost a month back which led her
into irritation, tiredness and stress.
RESULT
Two sessions of advance Pranic healing were
given for two alternative days to both of the
cases to heal their problem of insomnia.
First Pranic Healing Session

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While scanning the energy level of case first, it
was found that his major energy centers like
Crown, Forehead, Ajna, Throat, Solar Plexus,
Basic and Navel chakras were congested with
diseased energy. Among those major chakras,
Solar Plexus and Basic chakras were the most
congested one. Similarly, these two major
chakras were over-activated, triple in size to
the normal size of the respective chakras. So,
all the congested energies were extracted and
disintegrated from each of the major chakras
applying the advance techniques of Pranic
healing. Concerned chakras were energized
with fresh and healthy colour Prana. The over-
activated chakras were inhibited as per healing
protocol.
Similarly, the case second also had the
congested major chakras and over-activated
solar plexus and basic chakra. Her two chakras
were over-activated to the double of their
normal size. Advance Pranic healing measures
were taken to heal her as well.
Second Pranic Healing Session
In second Pranic healing session, while
scanning the energy level, the congestion level
of major chakras and over-activation level of
Solar Plexus and Basic chakras were reduced
about fifty percent as compared to their pre
healing level. This suggested that their health
had got better by first healing than pre healing
level. The second session of advance Pranic
healing was given further, where all the major
chakras were cleansed, concerned chakras
were strengthened with healthy Prana, over-
activated chakras were normalized and overall
the energy body was balanced.
Experience of the Cases after Pranic
Healing
The case first shared his experience about the
effect of first Pranic healing session that “I
went for about 45 minutes of healing. Because
of this first healing, I had a deep sleep that
night. As I woke up next morning, I was fresh,
energized throughout the day, free of fatigue,
headache and nausea.” After the second
healing on next day, he reported that “problem
of insomnia of last three months had totally
gone.” While preparing for manuscript, after
two months of last healing session, follow up
was done to know his sleep condition. He was
excited and grateful to Pranic Healing because
he was able to have sound sleep and to do his
professional and family activities with
enthusiasm.
The case second mentioned that “With an hour
of healing session, I felt much relieved and
stress free. My body was energized, fresh and
active than before.” Before starting second
healing her sleep condition of the last night
was enquired and she reported that she was
able to sleep well. Then she was provided
second healing and her sleep condition was
again enquired the next day. She revealed that
the irritation and stress have gone completely
along with insomnia. After a month while
writing the manuscript, she was asked about

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her sleep, she happily said “thank you for
introducing Pranic Healing in my life, it’s
working miraculously to have sound sleep.”
DISCUSSION
Over activation of Solar Plexus chakra and
Basic chakra along with congested upper
chakras were found in both the cases and those
were the conditions leading them to insomnia.
This is supported by the fact that Basic chakra
controls heart and brain indirectly.When the
Basic chakra is over-activated, it manifests as
hyperactiveness, restlessness and insomnia.
Similarly, Solar plexus chakra controls
gastrointestinal organs and adrenal gland. This
chakra is basically influenced by emotions like
anger, stress, hatred, etc and when Solar plexus
chakra gets over-activated, it results in
disturbance of gastrointestinal and adrenal
gland functions. Meng Mein is the chakra
which acts as pumping station for energy that
comes from Solar Plexus and Basic chakras to
the upward flow of energy to the adrenal gland
and brain.12,13 Studies have shown that
Hypothalamo-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA)
hyperactivity is associated with metabolic,
cognitive and psychiatric disorders as well as
sleep disturbances.14
The most common impacts of insomnia
expressed by cases were exhaustion, irritation,
stress, difficulty in daily life and professional
life activities. These findings have been
supported by an international survey of
sleeping problems in the general population of
the USA, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the
UK and Japan.15
Both of the cases were healed from a month
long insomnia and they were energized and
healthy. Similar, result was found in study
done in India where subjects were able to
return to their normal sleeping pattern after
Pranic Healing sessions as well as experienced
calmness and being energetic.9
CONCLUSION
The Pranic healing is effective alternative
therapy for the management of insomnia that
brings calmness, activeness and wellbeing in
people by promoting, maintaining and
restoring health of people. However,
experimental studies with large sample size
can be conducted to validate its effectiveness.
Acknowledgement
Author expresses his utmost gratitude to the
founder of Modern Pranic Healing, Master
Choa Kok Sui. He is thankful to Ms. Anju
Lama, the Certified Pranic Healer of Pranic
Light Nepal, Bouddha for her guidance,
encouragement and support throughout the
study. He is also indebted to the study
participants for their voluntary participation as
well as for providing consent to transcribe their
testimony into this study.

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