by Michael Borokhovsky

In gratitude to my spiritual teacher Master Choa Kok Sui.

From ancient Greece to modern times, the ideas and practice of physical hygiene have continually evolved. For instance, the shower did not become a common practice until the late 19th century. In more recent times, people have focused on food cleanliness, emphasizing the benefits of organically grown whole foods. Indeed, what we put in our bodies is important; our diet affects our health and how our bodies function.

It’s important to consider the feelings and thoughts we store in our energy body. These too can impact our overall sense of well-being. Moreover, the feelings and thoughts that others direct toward us can affect our health. When someone is angry at or jealous of us or constantly criticizes us, they create negative energy entities that can get lodged in our system, influencing our physical or psychological balance. Negative people or stressful environments can expose us to energy contamination, which over time may propagate into our physical body and manifest physical pain, irritability or provoke short-circuited reactions atypical of our normal character.

In our energy healing practice, we’ve observed that healthcare professionals or healers sometimes experience symptoms of their patients. Most of us have probably felt that stress can be “contagious”. Emotions like sadness, anxiety, tiredness and even pain can sometimes “spread” from one person to another. When someone begins to yawn, it often makes others yawn, too. If one person laughs, it can prompt laughter in others as well. This is because we are constantly exchanging energies with those around us; positive energies rejuvenate us, while negative energies drain us. Working in an energetically negative environment, such as a hospital filled with suffering, can significantly contaminate one’s energy body leading to burnout.

There is a way to remove these contaminated energies from our energy body before they manifest as illnesses in our physical body. The simple energy shower exercise does just that.

To practice this exercise, position the hands above the head with the palms facing down. Inhale. Then start slowly exhaling while gently moving the hands down in a sweeping motion with the intention to remove dirty, diseased and stressful energies. Go from the top of the head down to the feet, pacing the motion while exhaling. Do it three times each morning as part of our hygiene routine to help prevent various health problems from arising in the first place.

Every illness is not necessarily a matter of karma. Not everything has a psychic meaning. Sometimes, a simple ignorance of hygiene can lead to unnecessary suffering or illness. We have all accepted physical hygiene as a daily necessity—showering, shampooing and flossing without a second thought. It’s time to introduce the concept of energy hygiene for improved health maintenance and prevention.

Anyone can say or write anything. I suggest meditating on this article as a seed thought. Question it, experiment and draw one’s own conclusions.

Michael Borokhovsky is a pranic energy healing teacher in Cherry Hill. Email thoughts to [email protected]. For more information on his classes, visit www.PranicHealingCenter.com.