The Healing Properties of Words

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‘I’m sorry, please forgive me, thank you, I love you’

In 1983 Dr Hew Len worked as a psychologist in a psychiatric hospital institution in Hawai for 3 years where most patients were incarcerated for rape, murder, assault or battery against people or property.  Staff often used ankle and wrist restraints and the use of seclusion rooms on patients due to high levels of violence. Staff sickness was high, visiting hours were rare and there was no rehabilitative work done with patients. 

After 3 years in 1987, the work in the psychiatric hospital had been transformed. Seclusion rooms were no longer in use, nor were ankle and wrist restraints, violence was rare and patients had become responsible for their own rehabilitative care with on and off site work. Family visits had increased and sick leave by staff was no longer a common problem. He did not do any therapy or counselling with the patients or run any conferences for staff or patients.

 What he did was take 100% responsibility for the experience that was happening all around him.  He used the process called Ho’oponopono which is a Hawaiian method of healing of repentance, forgiveness, and transmutation for what ever was going on WITHIN HIM.

 You see, whatever we experience in life is actually a reflection of our inner world.  Our old patterns and experiences which in turn affect our belief systems, our thoughts and finally the way we interact with the world, create our reality. Our 5 senses are our filters and are deeply affected by what we have experienced.  In actual fact, we only really see about 20% of what is happening around us and the rest is made up of memories of the mind.  So by cleaning away these memories and old belief systems, we can change the way we see the world and then change our experience of it. We can become freer, more joyful and less fearful. Kundalini Yoga and BodyTalk both work on this principle.

Dr Hew Len asked people to take full responsibility for what is in their world, whether it be illness, money issues or relationship problems and keep cleaning away the imperfect crap; the memories that react and replay as judgement, resentment, anger or irritation. When we take full responsibility for it, we can release it. 

He used 4 statements: ‘I’m sorry, please forgive me, Thank you, I love you’ and said it over and over to himself. 

He healed a whole hospital of patients. What do you want to heal in your life today?

Living on Prana-Universal Life Force

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The Art of Prana and Kundalini Yoga

Henri Monfort has not eaten food for the last 7 years and has trained his body to be nourished with Prana.  Many sages and yogi’s for centuries have also perfected this practice and currently there is about 35,000 people in the world who live in this way.

So what is Prana?  It is the Universal Life Force, the sub atomic energy or the first unit of energy.  Prana is the motion and coding of life energies through the realms of the mind and body and it is that which gives us life and which resides within us and everything around us.  By nourishing yourself with Prana then you are living within the flow of Universal Consciousness and nourishing yourself with it and so you experience Oneness or Totality which people describe as Universal Love.

Henri Monfort, describes drawing Prana from the air we breathe, the trees and the grass we have beneath us and from all the objects that we have around us. Even holding an apple, Henri is able to draw the Prana from this and describes being able to taste the sandwich that someone was eating on the other side of the bus he was on.  Prana is in everything because it is Life itself. By using the techniques that Henri describes, he believes one can eradicate the cellular memory of dis-ease and toxins in the body, renewing the cells so they vibrate with perfect harmony and health. 

We also use Prana during Kundalini Yoga and we work on mastering the breath through techniques such as Pranayama which is the science of Breath.  This is the foundation for promoting health and vitality, controlling our mood, developing good concentration, opening to the creativity of our emotions and promoting feelings of connectedness with ourselves and others.

We live in a world of duality and so there is always the experience of the gross and subtle breath, what is mine and ‘not mine’ and what is conscious and unconscious.  Kundalini is the yoga of awareness and so we examine the breath and break the habit to ignore it.  We use it as a tool to harness our connection with our body and slow the mind as the breath and its movement is also involved in the processing of emotions and thoughts.  By using the breath to slow our minds we can also break down the barriers which prevent us reaching our true potential.

As Yogi Bhajan stated ‘The main problem in the world is stress.  It is not going to decrease-it is going to increase.  If through pranayam the shock can be harnessed, the entire stress and disease can be eliminated.’