"Re­lax­ation is the key to nat­ur­al heal­ing. If you can re­lax a per­son then you can stim­u­late the heal­ing process." –The Ma­han Tantric, Yo­gi Bha­jan

Yo­gi Aftab Singh

Over the last 35 years, I have found this to be in­deed true in every case that I have worked. I use a sys­tem called Merid­i­an Chakra Heal­ing, and I have com­bined it with Kun­dali­ni yo­ga to in­crease its ef­fec­tive­ness.

These are my main tools for stim­u­lat­ing heal­ing, and I have found, over the years, that peo­ple re­spond ex­treme­ly well when ei­ther or both of these meth­ods are ap­plied.The nexus of this heal­ing prac­tice is the Merid­i­an Chakra Heal­ing Tech­nique, as taught by the Ma­han Tantric, Yo­gi Bha­jan.

The tech­nique breaks through the men­tal bar­ri­ers that in­hib­it the heal­ing process. It re­lax­es and re­builds the en­tire sys­tem, clears away psy­chic junk, and sim­u­lates self-heal­ing.The merid­i­ans are like the elec­tri­cal cir­cuits in the body. In the Chi­nese sys­tem there are 12 main merid­i­ans, and in the In­di­an sys­tem, where they are called "nadis," there are three.

Elec­tri­cal puls­es, ki or prana, flow up, down, and through the body by way of these merid­i­ans or nadis. As you may know, when elec­tric­i­ty moves through an ob­ject it cre­ates an elec­tro­mag­net­ic field, and this hap­pens, too, in the hu­man body. This elec­tro­mag­net­ic field charges the au­ra and the chakras.

The chakras, which are ei­ther mas­cu­line or fem­i­nine, are en­er­gy sub-sta­tions. There are sev­en main chakras: at each there is a vor­tex of nerves, a cor­re­spond­ing gland, and they are ad­di­tion­al­ly as­so­ci­at­ed with var­i­ous states of spir­i­tu­al con­scious­ness, or evo­lu­tion.

When stress­es, or emo­tion­al, men­tal and psy­chic blocks in­hib­it our en­er­gy, we be­come un­healthy and in­ef­fec­tive. The en­er­gy flow through the merid­i­ans be­comes weak or er­rat­ic, and the chakras are un­der­nour­ished. If our en­er­gies are, how­ev­er, al­lowed to flow freely, health and well-be­ing are en­cour­aged, the chakras are nour­ished, and our elec­tro-mag­net­ic fields, or auras, are strength­ened and en­hanced. This is how heal­ing starts.

In prepar­ing for a heal­ing ses­sion, I usu­al­ly look at the client's horo­scope. Be­fore I even be­gin phys­i­cal­ly treat­ing my client, their per­son­al horo­scope will show me their ar­eas of like­ly men­tal and phys­i­cal weak­ness, and so give me an in­sight in­to the needs of the per­son I will be treat­ing.

For ex­am­ple, a per­son with Sat­urn in Vir­go will have di­ges­tive prob­lems, so I will con­cen­trate my en­er­gy on this area, while some­one with Uranus in their Twelfth House is like­ly to have a great deal of trou­ble sleep­ing, and is in need of deep re­lax­ation.

Dur­ing the ac­tu­al ap­pli­ca­tion of the Merid­i­an Chakra Heal­ing Tech­nique, the client re­moves his shoes, and lies on his back, on a ta­ble, or on a soft padding. The ses­sions last be­tween 45 min­utes to one hour, de­pend­ing on how eas­i­ly it is to re-bal­ance the per­son's en­er­gy flow.

Af­ter the treat­ment, as a way to help main­tain the bal­anced state, I would sug­gest a spe­cif­ic Kun­dali­ni yo­ga rou­tine that suits this par­tic­u­lar per­son and their con­di­tion. Usu­al­ly on­ly one treat­ment ses­sion is all that is need­ed to suf­fi­cient­ly clear the mind and trig­ger heal­ing, but if a per­son has a chron­ic con­di­tion or has suf­fered some ex­treme trau­ma, then a re­peat ses­sion or two may be nec­es­sary.

Dur­ing the time that I have been treat­ing peo­ple, I have found that, in many in­stances, an ad­verse con­di­tion in our men­tal and emo­tion­al states will be re­flect­ed in the phys­i­cal body as dis­ease, dis­com­fort or pain, and that by re­mov­ing the in­ter­nal en­er­gy blocks and al­low­ing some­one's en­er­gy to flow in har­mo­ny, they will ex­pe­ri­ence a re­newed or re­ju­ve­nat­ed sense of calm, joy and im­proved health.

It is my hope that I can share this with as many peo­ple as pos­si­ble dur­ing my vis­it to Trinidad.

ABOUT YO­GI AFTAB

Yo­gi Aftab Singh is a na­tive of T&T, but is now based in West Los An­ge­les, Cal­i­for­nia. He in­tro­duced Kun­dali­ni yo­ga to Trinidad in 1973, and host­ed the first yo­ga pro­gramme on NBS 610 Ra­dio, Re­lax­ation Through Yo­ga, in the 1980s.

He is a se­nior mem­ber of the Yo­ga Teach­ers' As­so­ci­a­tion of Aus­tralia, where he lived and taught the Merid­i­an Chakra Tech­nique for sev­er­al years.Singh is al­so an or­dained Sikh min­is­ter, and teach­es with the per­son­al bless­ings of his late teacher, the Ma­han Tantric, Yo­gi Bha­jan.

He will be vis­it­ing Trinidad from Oc­to­ber 14�26, of­fer­ing work­shops and pri­vate heal­ing ses­sions. For fur­ther in­for­ma­tion, e-mail: work­shops@yo­giaftab.com, or vis­it the web site: http://www.GoRe­lax.com