- Dr.(Mrs) Leena Bahrani,PSYCHIATRIST, Mumbai

Walking down the memory lane and looking back, during the last few years there has been a shift in the consciousness, a shift to “ONE’S OWN SELF”. By profession, I am a PSYCHIATRIST, practicing for more than two decades. As I completed my M.D. in Psychiatry, I met my Guru, My guide H.H.Swami Chinmayanandaji and life since then has taken a ‘U’ Turn, and the journey started. At each step since then and at different levels changes have taken place. It has been a beautiful unfolding process.

About 6 years ago I read the book “Many Masters Many Lives” by Dr. Brian Weiss. Around the same time the migraine attacks became very severe and it reduced my efficiency and functioning. I was guided to do the Kriya of “The Art of Living”. After this, the mind was better, but at the body level the migraine increased. There arose a question - why am I not responding to any form of treatment? Then I met Dr Newton in June -’05 for the basic past life regression workshop. Frankly speaking, although I could feel, I didn’t move much as I couldn’t visualize. There was a lull for about six months. This was followed by a sudden restlessness and a call to go for the Past Life Regression Therapy Teacher’s training course in June-‘06.

During the training, I could feel and experience the changes and the depth and the clarity of the inner world became clearer. There was a lot of release at the emotional level and an understanding about self and the situations increased. Messages from the higher Self were clear. Working with personal P.L.R.T. sessions with Dr. Newton opened the doorways to other insights, and the need to work with the belief systems surfaced. The depth during these sessions with Dr. Newton brought the guidance and messages from the higher Self very clearly. This was very encouraging and enlightening.

Working with the patients not only helped them relive and relieve their pain and trauma, but it also guided them towards the learning and understanding as to why in life we have been placed in a particular situation, also why the body is going through some disease process or a mind is going through a disturbance because of a particular person or situation. It brings awareness as to why we are going through financial loss, difficult relationships etc.

Thus the dive into the subconscious mind had guidance to many issues. An understanding flowed, that I am responsible for what I am going through and that I need to accept it all. Also, the answer is within me and I need to seek it. Well my migraine pains still continued and the intellect questioned why.

When the Rebirthing-Breathwork Workshop was to take place, it was indeed at a time when I already had other commitments, but my intuition guided that this is to be priority. Well, consciously connecting to the breath was simple, deep and wonderful and associating it with the five elements within us to the” FIVE ELMENTS OF MOTHER NATURE” was amazing, purifying and in the whole process one could feel DIVINITY within and outside. Earlier, along the path I could feel some blocks within but really couldn’t understand. With the rebirthing, there occurred a clearance, a free flow of energy, an understanding and awareness of what the intellect knew. I could now actually visualize, sense and experience the belief systems and the emotional baggage which were the blocks within me.

“HOLY GEETA” by H. H .Swami Chinmayanandaji has always been my guide. It is a way of living life. P.L.R.T helps to relive and relieve our PAST EVENTS and change the BELIEF SYSTEMS that block our growth. Holy Geeta also explains that we are the products of our Vasanas (i.e. Belief Systems) and our life’s purpose is to exhaust and rise above them. It is because of our ego-centric desires and the belief systems (vasanas) that there is a rift between our objective mind and the subjective mind. Thus the teachings of Holy Geeta on Karmas and Karmaphal, The Law of Cause and Effect, all come alive with P.L.R.T. Also, we realize the importance of our efforts in the NOW (the present moment) which changes the FUTURE. The Prarabhadha is what comes to me and Purusharatha is my Self Effort, which is my steering wheel guiding my present moment, clearing the road for the future use.

Another realization that came up strongly in the rebirthing was - I AM A WITNESS TO THE HAPPENINGS. As the conscious connected breath set in a rhythm, the awareness of the different Koshas of the human being became prominent:

• the Annamaya Kosh (being aware of the Physical Body)
• the Pranamaya Kosh (the breath riding on the blood vessels and feeling only the rush of the blood through the vessels
• the Manomaya Kosh (being aware of the emotions and the subconscious mind), with
• flashes of past life recalls (the feeling of oneness with the earth, water, space, air elements, and the Joy and Bliss within).

Also, the deeper message surfaced - ACCEPTANCE, SURRENDER, UNCONDITIONAL LOVE - then the experience of heat and cold at the same time, the peak of pain and the peak of joy, being able to see one’s own Shadow self and True self at the same time further wiped away the mist on the mirror, bringing about the clarity of the reflection. Thus life is to playfully learn. The pain still accompanies me, but it has brought a deeper understanding which intellectually I knew, but now I am able to embrace it without further question. Thus pain, difficult situations and people around us are truly guides to our true nature “OUR OWNSELF”.