The energy of healing

Michele Marr

Picture this: you sweep your life clean of illness, pain, stress, bad

habits and just plain bad moods as easily as you sweep your home

clean of dust, dirt and cobwebs.

With knowledge and practice you can do just that, says Sheevaun

O’Connor Moran, founder and president of Energetic Solutions in

Huntington Beach.

Moran is a pranic healing expert and one of only 15 instructors

certified, through the Institute of Inner Studies, to teach pranic

healing in the U.S.

For most of the past 10 years, Moran had a highly successful

career as a sales and marketing executive in the pharmaceutical

industry. She was one of few women at the top of her field. She

appeared to be living the American dream.

But privately, she was increasing beleaguered by pain from a back

injury she suffered in an auto accident and by an intestinal illness

that eluded diagnosis until it nearly killed her.

Like many others who are drawn to pranic healing, Moran first

heard of its teachings and methods at a time when conventional

treatment had failed to restore her health.

“All I wanted was to never be in pain, to never be sick again,”

said Moran.

Then, one day, she tuned her car’s radio to a program while

driving and heard someone talking about pranic healing. She pulled

off the road and stopped to listen.

She sat in her car and followed instructions for a very basic

exercise to experience what in pranic healing is called “sensitizing”

-- the cultivation of subtle energy flow through the hands. It was

enough to convince Moran to enroll in a basic, two-day intensive

class.

Her back pain was alleviated and never returned. Moran was hooked.

“But there was no way I could tell anyone about [what I was

doing],” she said.

In the world of pharmaceuticals, anchored in Western methods of

science and medicine, pranic healing, with its roots in ancient,

Eastern healing arts and ideas, was “just too strange,” Moran said.

So she kept mum while she continued to study and advance her

skills, eventually becoming a senior student of the grand master of

pranic healing, Choa Kok Sui, the man who developed and trademarked

the modern Pranic Healing System.

Pranic is derived from the Sanskrit word “Prana,” which means life

force or life breath. Pranic healing is based on two fundamental

ideas.

One, called the law of self-recovery, says the body has the

capacity to heal itself. The other, called the law of life force, or

prana, says the body must have energy to live.

Pranic healers believe that an energy body, a life force, or aura,

surrounds the physical body. When the aura becomes contaminated,

depleted, blocked or overburdened, the physical body becomes weak or

sick.

Because pranic healing is directed at the energy body, it provides

a hands-off, no-touch means to help restore and sustain physical,

mental, emotional, spiritual and financial health.

It’s no longer looked upon with the same suspicion it once was.

Moran’s courses in pranic healing are accredited by the American

Nurses Assn. for continuing nursing education. Eric Robins, a Los

Angeles urologist, began augmenting his traditional practice with

pranic healing in 1998.

Two years later, on a special assignment segment for CBS, he said,

“We just use certain movements of our hands to get energy to flow

better...and we’ve seen pretty amazing results.”

Moran describes it as a “cookbook approach” that anyone can

practice and benefit from.

Through private consultations, short clinics on the basics of

pranic healing, classes and meditation and intensive weekend courses

that teach all levels of pranic healing, she helps them learn how.

“Some people call me their spiritual advisor, their energy doctor,

their mentor, or the woman who does that funny thing with her hands

that makes me feel better,” she said. “It’s all about energy and

love.”

* MICHELE MARR is a freelance writer from Huntington Beach. She

can be reached at [email protected].