I have practiced healing myself and others for more than 40 years. During this time I have developed some useful understanding of illness, injury, and recovery—healing myself, friends, occasional clients, and even a few animals. One of the techniques I developed was mental energy projection with breathing.
Back in 1980, I briefly took up the Chinese martial art of kung fu. Part of the training involved developing the Chi energy (different cultures call it different things, but it’s essentially the vital life force flowing through all things), and this was done through both body shape positions and controlled breathing.
In short, projection of the Chi energy into and through the physical body enabled a person to deflect strikes from others and to increase personal protection and strength if forced to attack in defense. (Entertaining and useful by-products included influencing the balance of another person over a short distance and being able to handle hot objects without receiving burns.)
With my existing interest in channeled healing, it suddenly occurred to me that if Chi energy could protect a person from receiving an injury, it might also be used to speed up the healing process after sustaining an injury.
This thought intrigued me because I used to make and maintain things using wood and various tools. Sometimes a misplaced hammer blow would catch a thumb, causing much pain. Maybe I could immediately project my Chi energy into the area of injury and alleviate the pain.
Suffice to say, it worked really well. Pain disappeared more quickly and injuries healed faster than if I’d just left them alone.
In the Awakening Adventure (August 2022), Mike Dooley presented with a number of channelers. One of them, Lyssa Royal Holt, channeled Sasha. In the Q&A session afterwards, Sasha gave an example of using somatic experiences of the body to release stored emotion and trauma.
Using a painful knee as an example, Sasha said, “You bring attention to the area of pain and then, like a nose on your knee, breathe in and out through that knee.” At the time, I thought about how I often used breathing in my own healing, but reflecting on this several months later, I realized I did it slightly differently.
Rather than breathing in through an area of the body, I breathed out and sent energy to an area of the body. Now I don’t know if this is what Sasha actually meant, but let me explain my own process in support of the “using breathing” suggestion, derived from the Chi experiences I have mentioned above:
- Slowly breathe in through the nose, using your diaphragm to draw air into the bottom of the lungs before filling to the top of the lungs
- Slowly breathe out through the mouth while focusing your attention on the area to be healed
- Think the words, “cleanse and heal” (or something similar of your own choice)
When you are doing this correctly, you will feel a heightened sensation in the area being focused on, i.e., the pain will probably increase at first. Repeat the process a few times.
You can do this anytime you like throughout the day, during the night, or whenever your attention is taken to the pain or ailment.
Using the breath seems to do three things: it focuses your attention; it focuses your intention; and it revitalizes the area focused on—perhaps increasing the oxygen flow to that area and at the same time, stirring the cells to increased activity in that area.
It also tells your brain that you are aware of the situation, and it doesn’t have to keep reminding you that an area of the body needs attention.
Now, think about what naturally occurs when you injure yourself:
- You notice the pain
- You may cry out
- You focus your attention on the area of injury
- Your breathing becomes more rapid
However, this time you take control of the situation:
- You acknowledge what has happened
- You control your breathing
- You project energy to the injured area
- You mentally affirm that you are healing the injury
I’m quite sure that our ancestors consciously used these techniques and we have simply forgotten about them. They are now just a part of our autonomic response system—similar to the fight or flight impulse.
So next time you injure yourself, or develop an affliction, give some conscious thought to kick-starting and processing your own recovery. Remember to act immediately, rather than leaving things until later.
Energy projection with breathing gives you a head start on recovery and can be used throughout the natural healing process—together with anything else you may have normally prescribed for you from a doctor.
