Episode 9
Navigating Stress and Anxiety through Holistic Practices
The central focus of today’s discourse is the profound intersection of mental health and holistic practices, as exemplified by our esteemed guest, Ruki Alwalia. Hailing from Jaipur, Ruki's multifaceted journey encompasses her roles as a certified yoga and meditation instructor, a Reiki practitioner, and a former corporate professional. Throughout our conversation, we delve into her transformative experiences, illustrating how she integrates yoga, meditation, and Reiki to foster balance, healing, and authentic happiness in individuals beset by the stresses of modern life. Ruki eloquently articulates the intricacies of hypnosis, including both Ericksonian and regressive techniques, and elucidates their applicability in addressing emotional blockages and facilitating personal growth. This episode serves as an invaluable resource for those seeking to navigate the complexities of mental wellness through a holistic lens.
The conversation unfolds in an enlightening dialogue between Shobhna and her guest, Ruki Alwalia, who brings a wealth of experience in yoga, meditation, and holistic healing practices. Ruki's journey is particularly compelling, marked by her transition from a conventional corporate environment to embracing the profound depths of spirituality and self-discovery. It is within this context that Ruki reveals her initial discontent with life, despite outward success and material abundance, which propelled her quest for inner peace. The discourse delves into the intricate interplay between personal experience and transformative practices such as yoga, Reiki, and hypnosis, emphasizing their roles in achieving balance and emotional wellbeing. Ruki articulates how these modalities can facilitate significant healing, offering listeners practical insights into their applications and benefits.
Takeaways:
- The podcast features Ruki Alwalia, who combines yoga, meditation, and Reiki to promote healing.
- Ruki's journey began in a corporate environment, leading her to seek peace through spiritual practices.
- She emphasizes the importance of addressing emotional blockages to achieve mental well-being.
- The integration of hypnosis and Reiki helps individuals transform limiting beliefs for personal growth.
- Ruki advocates for a consistent practice of breathing techniques to enhance mental clarity and reduce stress.
- Surrounding oneself with uplifting individuals is crucial for maintaining a positive mindset.
Transcript
Hi, everyone.
Speaker A:This is Shobhna.
Speaker A:And this is Busy Free Mind, a space where we talk about mental health from every angle.
Speaker A:Today I'm excited to welcome Ruki Alwalia, an inspiring woman from Jaipur whose life beautifully blends culture, spirituality and global experience.
Speaker A:She is a certified yoga and meditation teacher, a Reiki practitioner, and has worked as a TV presenter.
Speaker A:And in the corporate world before, Rohi has seen firsthand how stress affects us at home, at work, and everywhere in between.
Speaker A:Now she uses yoga, meditation and Reiki to help people find balance, healing and genuine happiness.
Speaker A:Ruhi, thank you for joining us.
Speaker A:Welcome to Busy Free Mind.
Speaker A:How are you?
Speaker B:Thank you very much.
Speaker B:I'm fine, thank you.
Speaker B:Thank you so much, Shopana.
Speaker A:Thank you.
Speaker A:Ruhi.
Speaker A:Ruhi, can you share a bit about your journey into yoha, meditation, Reiki and hypnosis?
Speaker A:What initially drew you to these practices?
Speaker B:All right, before I even utter a word, let me just begin this with a small prayer invoking the divine feminine.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker B:Visarva bhuteshu Shanti Rupena sansita.
Speaker B:Namastase namastase, namastase.
Speaker B:Om shanti, shanti shantihima TRA.
Speaker B:Hari yom.
Speaker B:So this was a beautiful invocation of the divine feminine, Devi, as we call in India.
Speaker B:So may all of us be blessed with Buddhi, the discerning power, Shakti, the power without which you can't even breathe.
Speaker B:You can't exist in this world.
Speaker B:And shanti, peace, that is the basic need of every individual.
Speaker B:So now coming back to your question, how I came here, I think it was.
Speaker B:Now I understand that it was a search of peace because I was born and brought up in a family where I had good education, very loving parents, good family support, and, you know, studies were important.
Speaker B:So I come from a family where most of the people in my family are doctors.
Speaker B:And, you know, and I went to the corporate world, I worked as a TV presentator.
Speaker B:But what brought me to this yoga, meditation, Reiki was that constant dissatisfaction with myself.
Speaker B:Constantly.
Speaker B:I was dissatisfied so to a point that I was so much irritated of my own self that if I.
Speaker B:If I were to spend time with my own self, I would not have liked to do it.
Speaker B:And my questions were like, what is it that is not fine with me?
Speaker B:You know, I have money, I have a good family, I have kids, I have like, everything.
Speaker B:Everything that, you know, people generally assume that, you know, if you're blessed with all of these things, then you should be the happiest on this earth.
Speaker B:So.
Speaker B:And I was always constantly complaining, finding faults with others, finding Faults with my own self.
Speaker B:But to all of that, you know, putting all of that aside, right from the childhood, there was a lot of spiritual environment in my family.
Speaker B:So I was very blessed that with, you know, this intellectual background, there was spirituality being practiced parallelly.
Speaker B:And I was very much drawn to the spiritual side.
Speaker B:But when, you know, I. I came to Europe for the first time.
Speaker B:So it was actually a blessing in disguise because at the first I just lost every.
Speaker B:Every support system and you know, I was brought into a new culture.
Speaker B:I had to adapt to a lot of new things.
Speaker B:So that's where whole, you know, my shadow started coming out.
Speaker B:That dissatisfaction, complaining, always not being happy, not being satisfied.
Speaker B:And I was constantly looking for what can make me happy.
Speaker B:How can I be like, satisfied?
Speaker B:What is it?
Speaker B:Satisfaction.
Speaker B:What is it, Shanti?
Speaker B:What is it?
Speaker B:Peace.
Speaker B:And then.
Speaker B:You know, I actually thanked my son Arjun when I was pregnant with him.
Speaker B:That's where I developed clairvoyance and mediumship.
Speaker B:So I just started meditating at that time because, you know, there's a branch of yoga called the prenatal yoga where in the Indian culture it is believed that if the mother practices yoga so the child is going to imbibe all the qualities, everything that the mother is consuming through her senses.
Speaker B:Whatever she is feeling, she's going to transfer it to the baby.
Speaker B:So I just started meditating at that time, not knowing what meditation is, just sitting in silence and, you know, connecting with my, with my baby.
Speaker B:And that's the time when I had my first premonition dream.
Speaker B:So I was supposed to go to the gynaic to see the sex of the child.
Speaker B:As you know, it's very common here in Europe.
Speaker B:And in the dream, the gynaic told me, oh, congratulations, it's a baby boy.
Speaker B:And the entire scene was so clear, vivid in the dream that the next week when I went for the scan, it happened exactly the same way.
Speaker B:So I was reliving it.
Speaker B:So I thought at the beginning, oh, it's a motherly instinct, you know, it happens to all the mothers.
Speaker B:Maybe I'm.
Speaker B:Because I may be very happy of, you know, having a child and all of that.
Speaker B:And then I kept meditating.
Speaker B:I started doing yoga also at that time.
Speaker B:I did yoga before, but it was like, you know, like most people often on.
Speaker B:So today I'm in a good phase, I do yoga, tomorrow I'm not in a good phase.
Speaker B:Let me just, you know, put yoga aside.
Speaker B:So I was doing these two practices very, very consistently.
Speaker B:And at the same time I was doing a Management course from the University of Geneva.
Speaker B:So that course was an intensive course of night one.
Speaker B:So it was very interesting.
Speaker B:Nine months of pregnancy, nine months of that management course.
Speaker B:And, you know, I started doing yoga meditation.
Speaker B:So it was during that time that I developed, you know, Claire audience.
Speaker B:So I kind of hear messages.
Speaker B:I don't hear a voice, I hear messages.
Speaker B:I had visions.
Speaker B:So I have very, very clear indications on how I have to do things.
Speaker B:And you know, when, now that I'm working with so many people so I can, I get information about them that helps me to guide them to the right kind of tool that will help them transform something in their life.
Speaker B:So I was doing this management course and by the end, so I was always, you know, good in studies, that was not a problem.
Speaker B:And all the teachers and everyone very happy.
Speaker B:And I just heard a message, go and do yoga and meditation.
Speaker B:That's what you have to do.
Speaker B:So my son was born, I delivered him, and when he was four months old, I was in India and I started doing my yoga meditation training in a very formal way.
Speaker B:And during that time there was a family friend of ours who was a gynecologist, a very dear friend of my parents, a trustworthy person.
Speaker B:She initiated me to Reiki.
Speaker B:And I was very interested to know how this gynecologist is using Reiki to heal patients, you know.
Speaker B:So when that initiation happened, it was almost like that.
Speaker B:My Sahasrara chakra, it just opened up more as to say that something in me, the channel opened where I was able to receive more information so I could sense things, I could have visions, I could have clairaudience messages, Claire sentience, you know, the order in a place, etc.
Speaker B:So a lot of things started happening and I was just going with the flow, not knowing because I told you, like nobody was a clairvoyant.
Speaker B:Glad audience.
Speaker B:In my family, we come from a family of doctors.
Speaker B:The backgrounds, the people that we were hanging with were all professionals.
Speaker B:So I was kind of moving with the flow.
Speaker B:But I have to give the credit to my beautiful parents who always supported me, not understanding what was happening to me.
Speaker B:But they were very respectful of it, you know, because you get to hear a lot of comments like, oh, what are you going to do?
Speaker B:You know, you worked in the corporate, how are you going to make your career now?
Speaker B:And you know, it's good.
Speaker B:Believe in God, believe in this, but don't get too much into this.
Speaker B:So I never understood this affair of too much, what is too much and what is not too much.
Speaker B:So that's where, you know, the whole journey began.
Speaker A:So, Ruki, for our listeners who may be unfamiliar, could you briefly explain what is Ericksonian hypnosis, regressive hypnosis, and reiki aura.
Speaker B:Okay, all right.
Speaker B:So my journey began with yoga meditation.
Speaker B:And then, you know, I am very passionate about exploring the mind body connection.
Speaker B:So I think it is so interesting to me because I wanted to understand what was happening to me first of all.
Speaker B:And as of now, so I work as a mind body coach, so I use different tools.
Speaker B:Yoga, meditation, reiki hypnosis, Ericksonian hypnosis, quantum healing hypnosis, tarot mediumship.
Speaker B:Now, all these are different tools.
Speaker B:Coming to the Ericksonian hypnosis.
Speaker B:So hypnosis has been used as a technique since many, many years to have an access to your subconscious mind.
Speaker B:Sometimes, you know, shobhna, in life you do things and you don't know why you're doing it.
Speaker B:Why do you have an impulse for something?
Speaker B:You know, why will someone always be attracted to eating sugar?
Speaker B:Could be attracted to eating carrots.
Speaker B:Why not carrots?
Speaker B:You know, so we all have impulses, we all have fears, we all have limiting beliefs, we all have doubts.
Speaker B:We have so much of so many emotions that stop us from being who we can be, who we want to be.
Speaker B:Now hypnosis, Ericksonian hypnosis, helps you to go to that part of your subconscious where memories are stored, those memories that are driving you to take a certain action.
Speaker B:Okay?
Speaker B:So as a hypnotherapist, we take people into very relaxed state of, you know, of their mind so that their conscious mind can be quietened for some time.
Speaker B:And we go and work in the subconscious mind to change the memories or to heal the memory.
Speaker B:Sometimes somebody get.
Speaker B:Go through a trauma and that trauma is stuck in your subconscious.
Speaker B:And now that trauma is.
Speaker B:Is driving your conscious mind, and that is why you are scared of something or that is why, you know, you can't speak in public.
Speaker B:Or maybe you cannot have this affinity towards carrots, let's say.
Speaker B:And why only sugar?
Speaker B:You know, so we are always those memories are triggering those responses, and we go and, you know, as hypnotherist, hypnotherapist work on those memories.
Speaker B:Now coming to quantum healing hypnosis.
Speaker B:So this is a method that was developed by Dolores Cannon.
Speaker B:She was in the US she's written many books on quantum healing hypnosis.
Speaker B:So it is a hypnosis where we regress a person.
Speaker B:Now regression means I can regress you to what happened just five minutes back, 10 minutes back, 10 days back, 10 weeks back, 10 years back, or 10 lifetimes back.
Speaker B:Because we do not know where the memory is coming from, what is the root cause of your problem.
Speaker B:So we regress a person and your subconscious will actually drive you to that moment where the memory was stuck so that we can go there, heal, release the memory so that you can come back to the present and operate from a point of view, strength and confidence.
Speaker B:So let me give you an example.
Speaker B:For example, you know, I gave you example for both hypnosis Ericksonian and quantum healing.
Speaker B:So I had this girl coming to me for hypnosis Ericksonian.
Speaker B:She wanted to be a radiologist here in Switzerland.
Speaker B:And she was kind of, you know, she told me, well, you know, I'm very scared after spending four, five years, I think this is not the field for me and I can't understand and, you know, there's something that is blocking me.
Speaker B:So the problem was very specific.
Speaker B:The goal was to prepare her for that exam of radiology.
Speaker B:And she had certain concepts in physics that she could not understand.
Speaker B:So I told her, I said, okay, get me your notes.
Speaker B:Let's see, you know, what is blocking you.
Speaker B:And we did a couple of sessions on hypnosis and she was happily able to clear her exams because there was sometimes a lack of confidence, you know, sometimes there could be fear of an exam that may not necessarily be coming from a past life, but your general conditioning, you know, on a day to day basis.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:Somebody maybe may have told you, for example, oh, you're not good enough, you know, you can never be a radiologist, you know, or maybe because you came from this door and the radiologist, they always enter from that door.
Speaker B:So you can't be that person.
Speaker B:That's exactly what happened to that, this girl.
Speaker B:Right?
Speaker B:So, you know, we, we just cleared all those limiting beliefs and she was able to prepare for her exam, pass her exam.
Speaker B:And as of now, she's working in a very big hospital here in Switzerland.
Speaker B:So that was one example of hypnosis Ericksonian quantum healing hypnosis.
Speaker B:A few years back, I had this person who had a bakery.
Speaker B:She came to me.
Speaker B:She was a baker and she was surrounded by breads and, you know, the sweets and everything.
Speaker B:And she was very overweight.
Speaker B:She came to me.
Speaker B:Her problem was that she had lost a very dear person.
Speaker B:And she just received the news that the person died in an accident.
Speaker B:All of a sudden she could never see that person.
Speaker B:She got to know about the death after a couple of years and she was carrying that heaviness, that trauma.
Speaker B:And she was deeply related to that person.
Speaker B:So she wanted to release that trauma.
Speaker B:So I just asked her, you know, during the counseling session, I said, would you also like to work on the issue of your overweight?
Speaker B:She said, yeah, okay, but that's not my main goal.
Speaker B:I said, you know, let's see.
Speaker B:Let's see where the subconscious takes us.
Speaker B:So it was a beautiful session.
Speaker B:She was able to release all the heaviness that she was carrying from the loss of that person.
Speaker B:We went to many lives, and she definitely had many, many relationships with that person in different forms.
Speaker B:You know, your relationship could be your brother, could be your husband, your husband could be your sister, your sister could be your teacher, whosoever.
Speaker B:We never lose contact with people, you know.
Speaker B:So she was able to release the trauma, and she was also carrying that heaviness that, you know, resulted in overweight.
Speaker B:The session was over.
Speaker B:She was very happy.
Speaker B:She went back about four months later.
Speaker B:I had so many people coming for hypnosis, coming from that bakery.
Speaker B:So I didn't understand, like, everybody's coming from that bakery.
Speaker B:So I asked people, I said, everybody's coming from there.
Speaker B:What happened?
Speaker B:She said, the clients told me that, you know, you should have seen that person.
Speaker B:She's not 30 kilos of weight, although that was not our primary goal.
Speaker B:So, you know, sometimes the weight that you are carrying could be coming emotion, some stress, you know, somewhere in your current life or in your past life.
Speaker B:Maybe in the current life, we have to regress you to the age when the trauma happened.
Speaker B:For example, three years, two years, or in your mother's womb.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:That's where the yoga, prenatal come into place.
Speaker B:Whatever the mother is consuming is going to have an effect.
Speaker B:In India, we call it the Garba Sanskar.
Speaker B:So these are the two examples from hypnosis.
Speaker A:Beautiful.
Speaker A:So is it possible for all to go through the previous life and get to know what's happened?
Speaker B:Say, it is possible for everyone, but condition apply.
Speaker B:I'm speaking from my experience.
Speaker B:There is a divine time to everything.
Speaker B:You can't force things, not because you are paying, you want, you will have.
Speaker B:If that is not what you're supposed to experience, you will not experience it no matter what.
Speaker A:True.
Speaker B:That is a very clear understanding that I have been able to, you know, learn from my experience, my work experience, and from my own spiritual practice.
Speaker B:It's just like, you know, when you begin a spiritual practice, you are into meditation.
Speaker B:You want to have an experience.
Speaker B:You say, I deserve this, I deserve this.
Speaker B:Who knows what you deserve.
Speaker B:There's something called adhikara.
Speaker B:You're right.
Speaker B:And that only nature knows what is your right?
Speaker B:Because what is your level?
Speaker B:What have you done from lives and lives and lives.
Speaker B:What do you have to clear before moving to something else?
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker B:It's possible for everybody.
Speaker B:But if it's not the divine time, things will just not happen.
Speaker B:You know, you can't force things.
Speaker B:There's a Japanese method.
Speaker B:You know, there was a doctor called Dr. Mikasi who believed that there was a parallel way to the alternative.
Speaker B:Let'S alternative medicine.
Speaker B:There was a way to heal someone.
Speaker B:He believed that when the energy is not balanced in your body, you will have a suffering.
Speaker B:It could be on the physical level, emotional level, or mental level, or spiritual level.
Speaker B:So reiki helps to harmonize, balance the energy.
Speaker B:What we call prana in India, what we call chi in Chinese, and reiki in Japanese.
Speaker B:So there is a universal energy that is flowing through us, that is making everything work.
Speaker B:Your heart work, your lungs work, your intestines work.
Speaker B:You know, we don't go and tell our heart, you know, go pump the blood, please, and give this to this artery.
Speaker B:Filter it from here.
Speaker B:And don't forget the lymphatic system does that.
Speaker B:Oh, I've just eaten something.
Speaker B:Can my big intestines, you know, absorb this and small intestine this, you know, otherwise it would be in a mess.
Speaker B:There is something called.
Speaker B:You know, the prana.
Speaker B:We are on an autopilot system now.
Speaker B:When something is stuck in that system, when there is a blockage in the energy, that's where you feel blocked on the physical, mental, or emotional level.
Speaker B:So Reiki helps to remove those blockages and so that the energy can circulate in a correct way so that you can be in harmony with your own self.
Speaker B:It can help release stress, emotion, pain, accept things.
Speaker B:Because acceptation is the biggest healing tool.
Speaker B:And most of the time, we want a lot of things, but we don't accept.
Speaker B:When you start accepting, that's the first step to healing.
Speaker B:Because there is no resistance.
Speaker B:True.
Speaker B:Very true.
Speaker A:So, Ruhi, how do these practices differ from conventional therapy or meditation techniques?
Speaker B:Well, I would say, you know, they're all interlinked.
Speaker B:They're all interlinked.
Speaker B:I wouldn't say.
Speaker B:That you can do this and you cannot do that.
Speaker B:I have a lot of people who are doing yoga at the same time.
Speaker B:They're doing meditation.
Speaker B:They're also doing reiki, and they're also into hypnosis, you know, so everything, actually.
Speaker B:Everything is interconnected.
Speaker B:Now, you could Be having specific issues.
Speaker B:Let's say, for example, you could be having a problem with your spine, you know, and your spine is too.
Speaker B:Say your spine is really tired because you are a sedentary worker.
Speaker B:You work for nine hours sitting on the desk.
Speaker B:So definitely you must do yoga because your spine is meant to do everything except for sitting, you know, so that's the anatomy of the science, the anatomy of the spine.
Speaker B:So yoga will help you to release stress at the physical level.
Speaker B:It is also a very deep spiritual practice.
Speaker B:It helps your body to be prepared for meditation.
Speaker B:Listen, if you are in discomfort, if you are in pain, how will you meditate?
Speaker B:It's not possible.
Speaker B:It's really not possible.
Speaker B:You will be struggling again.
Speaker B:There will be resistance, then there will be blockages, right?
Speaker B:So yoga caters to that physical aspect.
Speaker B:And in India, we are very clear, especially in the Devi worship culture, that my body is divine.
Speaker B:That's the temple.
Speaker B:So that's the main doorway to enter into the divinity within me.
Speaker B:I can't say, oh, my body, I don't like it, you know, I don't care.
Speaker B:You know, everything is divine.
Speaker B:At least I'm speaking from the Indian culture perspective.
Speaker B:So yoga helps you to balance energies at the physical level so that you're comfortable, you give the fuel to your body, the way the body is required to function.
Speaker B:Meditation is something that I think everybody should do irrespective of your life is going well or not well.
Speaker B:Right?
Speaker B:Because meditation is such a beautiful journey.
Speaker B:It's about knowing yourself.
Speaker B:It's about accepting the parts of you that you don't like.
Speaker B:It's also culturing the parts of you that you didn't know existed within you, the shakti, the power within you, you know, so it's just such a beautiful journey from realizing that you are a gross human being.
Speaker B:But in fact, no, you are a beautiful, divine being.
Speaker B:You know, it's very difficult to accept, oh, am I divine?
Speaker B:I'm divine.
Speaker B:You can keep repeating it to yourself, I'm divine, I'm divine, I'm divine.
Speaker B:It may work, it may not work.
Speaker B:It may work for 10 days.
Speaker B:And after 10 days you say, well, you know, I'm fed up of it.
Speaker B:Meditation will just help you accept your own self the way you are, because you don't have to be any other way.
Speaker B:I mean, like, if the universe created you, there's some intelligent power that created you the way you are, why you are not me, why I'm not you, and somebody else is not, you know, like us.
Speaker B:There has to be diversity There has to be some intelligent.
Speaker B:Power that knows who you are.
Speaker B:Right?
Speaker B:And meditation also helps to work on your karmas.
Speaker B:That's very important.
Speaker B:Whatever is happening in your life is a result of your own karmas.
Speaker B:There's nobody who's responsible.
Speaker B:If we can understand that, accept it, then, you know, it's.
Speaker B:It's a beautiful thing.
Speaker B:But meditation, why I say it's important, because it has to be a reminder, like a daily reminder, because you will hear it once, you will like it, but will you be able to follow it and practice it every day?
Speaker B:So there has to be some discipline, some practice that grounds you to this reality.
Speaker B:When you are grounded to this reality, that's where you can go explore and do things, because you are grounded.
Speaker B:But imagine if a person is not grounded, how he would be.
Speaker B:Today I'm up, tomorrow I'm down.
Speaker B:It's the yo yo pattern, right?
Speaker A:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:Reiki, you know, you can get it done whenever you feel like.
Speaker B:Like it's.
Speaker B:It's more like of an intuitive thing, or at least the.
Speaker B:The period where we are, you know, the Kali Yuga, this.
Speaker B:This whole.
Speaker B:World, you know, where everything is too fast and we are interacting constantly with machines and with humans, right?
Speaker B:With reality and with virtuality.
Speaker B:So there is a lot of pollution in the environment, and there is a lot of pollution within us.
Speaker B:So it's nice to get a cleansing done on a regular basis because there are parts that we can cleanse, and there are parts we can't cleanse by ourselves.
Speaker B:We can cleanse it by ourselves.
Speaker B:If you have a very strong spiritual discipline in your life, everyday discipline, Right.
Speaker B:So Reiki helps you there.
Speaker B:Hypnosis is whenever you want to overcome any limiting belief in your life.
Speaker B:What is it that is stopping you to move ahead?
Speaker B:Any fear, any doubt, any blockage?
Speaker B:That's where you can, you know, go for hypnosis and you can interact with your therapist so that the therapist is able to guide you whether should you go for a regressive session or whether should you go for a hypnosis Ericksonian session?
Speaker A:Wonderful.
Speaker A:Ruby, you combine hypnosis and Reiki, right?
Speaker A:What is the main benefit of working with.
Speaker A:Working on the mind with hypnosis while also balancing the body's energy with Reiki, or how this combination help people feel better for a long time, right?
Speaker B:So I do that a lot in my Shakti sessions.
Speaker B:The Shakti coaching sessions are basically designed so that there is a blend of Reiki and a blend of hypnosis.
Speaker B:You know, because that's.
Speaker B:There's certain things that need to be balanced at the energetic level.
Speaker B:Your prana, your prana shakti, your major life force that is driving everything, this autopilot system in you.
Speaker B:So for that reason, Reiki is very, very essential.
Speaker B:It's very helpful.
Speaker B:Often people tell me they feel calm, they feel that they are grounded.
Speaker B:Now when you feel calm, when you are grounded, you can take decision from that space.
Speaker B:And when combined with hypnosis there, you can work on your limiting beliefs.
Speaker B:You can work on, you know, really changing your belief system.
Speaker B:Sometimes you're doing things just because you repeated it to yourself 10,000 times that you are stupid.
Speaker B:You are stupid.
Speaker B:You are stupid.
Speaker B:I'm not beautiful.
Speaker B:I'm not beautiful.
Speaker B:I'm not beautiful.
Speaker B:You know, she is good.
Speaker B:I'm not good.
Speaker B:She is good.
Speaker B:I'm not good.
Speaker B:So that's that internal talk that you have in your head.
Speaker B:You don't have to go and speak it to someone.
Speaker B:That internal talk defines your belief system.
Speaker B:So hypnosis help you to remove that, you know, belief system.
Speaker B:It's like you're taking a wife and you're clearing that belief system, whereas Reiki, you take a wipe and energetically you clean.
Speaker B:So, you know, they work on your mind and your body and at the subtle energy levels, like Reiki would work at the physical level, but also at the subtle energy level.
Speaker B:And when you are giving the right kind of information to your subconscious, who hypnosis then combined together the physical and the spiritual and the mental will be aligned so that you can operate in the world from that place.
Speaker A:Regressive hypnosis sometimes explores past life trauma, as you said.
Speaker A:How do you explain its healing effects to people who might not believe in their past lives?
Speaker B:Well, I would say that, you know, there's nothing to do with belief or not belief.
Speaker B:I said there is a divine type.
Speaker B:I've had people who believe in past lives and they were not being able to go to their past lives.
Speaker B:That's not the time.
Speaker B:And I've had people who didn't believe at all in the past lives, but were able to go into their past lives.
Speaker B:So I would say from my experience, there's nothing like I believe or I don't believe.
Speaker B:You know, your beliefs will also change with your experiences.
Speaker B:I would say the most important thing is not to negate anything, not to reject anything.
Speaker B:Just be open.
Speaker B:When you are open, you can absorb the information that you're supposed to absorb at that time.
Speaker B:When you come with preconceived notions, then you block because you know it's like, you want something from me.
Speaker B:Let's say you want $10 from me, and you come and you ask, give me $10.
Speaker B:And I was thinking to give you thousand dollars, you just ask $10.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:So that was your limiting belief.
Speaker B:There was a fear.
Speaker B:Fear that I deserve only $10.
Speaker B:I can't ask for more.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:Well, that is why I think it has nothing to do with your belief system.
Speaker B:Just be open.
Speaker B:As far as the regression is concerned, it happens, it happens.
Speaker B:It doesn't happen.
Speaker B:This is not the right time.
Speaker B:And I've seen that sometimes people don't experience it in the first time, but they are able to experience it, you know, sometime later.
Speaker B:Because their belief is, can I trust this person?
Speaker B:Sometimes people will come, and not necessarily you will trust the therapist.
Speaker B:You may have doubts.
Speaker B:Sometimes they don't want to open up.
Speaker B:The internal belief is, oh, well, I don't want her to know everything about my life.
Speaker B:That's terrible.
Speaker B:You know, so there are many layers to it.
Speaker B:You just have to be open to it.
Speaker B:It happens, it happens.
Speaker B:It doesn't happen, doesn't happen.
Speaker B:It'll happen if it is supposed to happen sometime later.
Speaker B:And when you have this approach, you know, Shokuna, you take off the burden that you're carrying.
Speaker B:Even as a client, when you go to the therapist, why do you have to carry that burden of performing?
Speaker B:That's the biggest cause of stress.
Speaker B:And that's what exactly, meditation teaches you, the art of doing nothing, the art of being lazy.
Speaker B:We really need that in today's time because there's so much of effort being put into too many things that it is a constant stress for your mind and for your body.
Speaker B:Why do you have to take so much of stress?
Speaker B:In the end, what is going to be the end result of taking so much of stress?
Speaker A:But sometimes people don't even understand that we are taking stress.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker B:See, that's where we come to the notion of Dharma.
Speaker B:You know, Dharma means your duty, right?
Speaker B:Your duty is going to be defined by the context and the space and the time where you are.
Speaker B:Let's say the Dharma of a mother who has delivered the child is nourishing the child nourishment, right?
Speaker B:So either she can give a bottle or she can breastfeed the child.
Speaker B:That's a Dharma.
Speaker B:Now, when she starts thinking at that point, oh, I could have done that.
Speaker B:I could have done that job.
Speaker B:Why am I here, etc.
Speaker B:That is a Dharma.
Speaker B:You're messing up with your Dharma.
Speaker B:That's definitely going to create suffering for you suffering in what sense?
Speaker B:Stress.
Speaker B:Fear of being able to perform or not, fear of being accepted or not, fear of fitting into your clothes or not, fear of getting that toned body right now or not, etc.
Speaker B:Etc.
Speaker B:So when you are true to your dharma, you know you will not create the suffering in the first place.
Speaker B:When people are constantly stressed, it's not because they are doing their duties.
Speaker B:They are just not doing what they're supposed to do in that particular.
Speaker B:Time and context.
Speaker B:And again, I'm a huge fan of meditation.
Speaker B:I'll say that meditation teaches you to be present in the now, in the moment, so that you can do your dharma.
Speaker B:It's not about escaping.
Speaker B:It's about doing what is required out of you in this time and space.
Speaker B:And that's it.
Speaker B:You have to put a full stop there.
Speaker B:If you keep on putting commas, commas, commas, then it's too tiring.
Speaker A:Beautifully explained.
Speaker A:How do you see practices help people manage stress, anxiety or emotional blockages in today's fast paced world?
Speaker B:Well, you know, there are, there's so many techniques first of all, so you can pick up whatever resonates with you.
Speaker B:The most important thing is for me, there are two ingredients to a successful practice.
Speaker B:By successful practice, I mean if you want a result out of a practice, that's patience and perseverance.
Speaker B:Those two things.
Speaker B:There's nothing like two minute maggi recipe.
Speaker B:Raymond, you know, it sounds psychological.
Speaker B:It is going to excite you because who doesn't want to get out of the suffering and problems in two minutes?
Speaker B:The thing is, nothing will bring you out of that into 2 minutes, 10 minutes or 10 days.
Speaker B:You pick up a practice, do it consistently, Forget about the result again.
Speaker B:You know, don't close yourself to just $10.
Speaker B:You may get thousand dollars.
Speaker B:All right, just do it, do it, do it.
Speaker B:Because when you do these practices, there are so many studies that show that there are changes at your neurons.
Speaker B:The brain begins to change.
Speaker B:You know, there's something called action and reaction.
Speaker B:Most of the time in this world we are reacting to things.
Speaker B:Reacting, why?
Speaker B:Because we've experienced something again.
Speaker B:That's where the hypnosis memories come.
Speaker B:I have this memory.
Speaker B:This person is always rude to me.
Speaker B:So day before I meet him, I have to be in the defensive mode.
Speaker B:I have to attack him, right?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:So that is reaction.
Speaker B:Now when you start doing these spiritual practices on a regular basis, there is a shift in your mind and body.
Speaker B:And very clearly there are so many studies.
Speaker B:You can go on the Internet and read how the, you know, the Neuron patterning is changed.
Speaker B:Now the same person, I've identified that he's a trigger in my life.
Speaker B:He's not bad, he's not good.
Speaker B:But whenever he comes, I react in this way.
Speaker B:So now that's the first step of awareness you've identified.
Speaker B:Now the second step is either you will continue to react the same way, or you will say, well, I'm really bored of the same reaction.
Speaker B:It's not bringing anything, you know.
Speaker B:No, it's not adding any value to my life.
Speaker B:Let me just shut my mouth and let him act the way he wants to act.
Speaker B:It doesn't mean that you are powerless.
Speaker B:You've gained over your power.
Speaker B:You're being so smart, so intelligent that you are now starting to manage your energy.
Speaker B:Why would you lose your energy, your youthfulness, you know, your beauty into reacting things.
Speaker B:When you act, you conserve your energy and you conserve the energy at the cellular level.
Speaker B:That's why you'll see, yogis don't react.
Speaker A:Age.
Speaker B:Yeah, they don't react because they've understood the art.
Speaker B:And by practicing, they have mastered the act of not acting.
Speaker B:Not everything in the world asks for your reaction.
Speaker B:Even in your own family, forget about a third person, even your kids, I mean, they don't, you know, they.
Speaker B:They don't ask for your reaction.
Speaker B:You're constantly wasting your energy.
Speaker B:If you can identify your own self, you know, if you can observe your own self, that is what you culture through the spiritual practices, then you're able to choose and make a decision.
Speaker B:Like in the beginning, I did that prayer.
Speaker B:We say, let us, you know, let.
Speaker B:Let Ma bless us all with the discerning power you can discern.
Speaker B:That's where you exercise your power.
Speaker A:So, Rohi, you combine multiple modalities in your work, like yoga, meditation, hypnosis and reiki.
Speaker A:How do you decide which method or which approach is to use for the particular client?
Speaker A:How do you decide?
Speaker B:That's where mediumship comes in, you know.
Speaker B:Because I just allow myself to be guided by what the guides tell me.
Speaker B:Like, as I told you, I'm a tarot reader and a medium.
Speaker B:And that mediumship I developed, developed instantly during my first pregnancy.
Speaker B:So when the person comes, either the person knows what is the problem and what exactly is the.
Speaker B:The problem area that we have to work on.
Speaker B:Fine.
Speaker B:Then I can direct that person to yoga, meditation or reiki or maybe tarot or hypnosis.
Speaker B:Sometimes people come and they don't.
Speaker B:They don't know.
Speaker B:They don't know, you know, they're completely lost.
Speaker B:I don't know, I'm not feeling good.
Speaker B:Everything is a mess in my life.
Speaker B:I don't know now when there is this kind of a situation.
Speaker B:I do channeling mediumship and during the channeling I get messages.
Speaker B:And those messages help me then to use a modality later on to help the person.
Speaker B:I'll give you an example.
Speaker B:Very recently I had someone who had come for a session of tarot.
Speaker B:Tarot and mediumship, the two, you know, separate things.
Speaker B:In mediumship, I first channel the message and then I use tarot, the cards, in order to kind of see, you know, the different aspects of health, career, relationship or finances relating to the questions that people have.
Speaker B:So that person came and they took an appointment for tarot.
Speaker B:And I asked them, so there was his daughter and the person.
Speaker B:So the daughter was someone who knew me since last, many, many years.
Speaker B:The father was seeing for the first time and she said that we've got a very bad news.
Speaker B:The father was diagnosed that 95% of his lungs were not working.
Speaker B:So there has to be a lung transplantation that has to be done under emergency.
Speaker B:And he had about 10 days time.
Speaker B:And after 10 days they would do a scan and would do a lung transplantation.
Speaker B:So I said, I don't understand, why did you take an appointment of tarot?
Speaker B:I mean, do you want me to check the cards and tell you, should you go for it or not?
Speaker B:I don't see that, you know, a point.
Speaker B:So let's do one thing.
Speaker B:We'll go for mediumship and let's see what the guides have to give me as a message.
Speaker B:So, you know, I got the message that, you know, the person had, had stored a lot of anger in his lungs.
Speaker B:I'm telling you, in shock, the message that I got.
Speaker B:So basically, you know, and he was not able to forget certain people, he was not able to forget certain things.
Speaker B:There was a lot of anger stored in the lungs.
Speaker B:And my guides told me, you know what, what you can do is do a hypno hypnosis session with him, couple of hypnosis sessions, go and change the memory in the cells of the lungs.
Speaker B:That made so much of sense.
Speaker B:Because we are made up of cells.
Speaker B:There's a whole branch in science about cellular memory.
Speaker B:The cells carry the memory through hypnosis.
Speaker B:Go change the memory that you don't want.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker B:So we, you know, we worked on that and during that first session when I was channeling this person who came to me, he was constantly coughing, he had fibrosis.
Speaker B:So it's a condition where he Constantly cough.
Speaker B:And he was using his oxygen mask.
Speaker B:He told me 80% of the time in the day.
Speaker B:So at that particular time, he didn't have the oxygen mask.
Speaker B:He was carrying it in his bag.
Speaker B:He was coughing.
Speaker B:So when I started channeling for 50 minutes, he did not cough.
Speaker B:So that was, for me, the biggest indication that, yes, there's something that is already working.
Speaker B:So when I channeled the message and I asked him, I said, you know, you tell me because I just hear and I just deliver like a postman.
Speaker B:I don't really, you know, understand it.
Speaker B:So I'm just like a channel.
Speaker B:And he started crying.
Speaker B:He said, yes, this makes sense to me.
Speaker B:This makes sense to me.
Speaker B:Now.
Speaker B:What can I do?
Speaker B:I said, well, what we can do is we'll do a couple of hypnosis sessions.
Speaker B:I need to see you every day for the next five, six days.
Speaker B:Because we just had 10 days period.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:And there is a lot of work to do, so let's go for hypnosis.
Speaker B:And he told me, if I do this, can I avoid the lung transplantation?
Speaker B:I said, that's not the goal.
Speaker B:The goal is if this message resonated with you, just work on the message and see what's going to come your way.
Speaker B:You know, as such, even if you don't work on yourself, you'll have to have a lung transplantation.
Speaker B:If you work, just.
Speaker B:Just say so.
Speaker B:He said, okay, I'm going to work.
Speaker B:So he came the next day for the hypnosis session and we had the weekend gap.
Speaker B:And then I saw him on Monday.
Speaker B:So Monday he told me that he was feeling better.
Speaker B:He had started to gain weight.
Speaker B:He had lost a lot of weight because he was on medication.
Speaker B:And he started reducing the usage of oxygen mask.
Speaker B:He practically did not cough.
Speaker B:So we had the session sessions, at least five, six sessions I think we had.
Speaker B:And he felt, he felt better.
Speaker B:He felt more joyful, he was happier.
Speaker B:He felt good.
Speaker B:He felt like there was a new sense of energy that was circulating, that blocked energy.
Speaker B:When it starts circulating, you start feeling better.
Speaker B:So he went for the scan and the doctor said, well, we don't have to do the lung transplantation right now because we see some changes in your lungs.
Speaker B:Maybe you were less stressed, maybe you could be environmental factors.
Speaker B:We can't determine the factor, you know.
Speaker B:So he was happy.
Speaker B:He went on a holiday to Spain to enjoy Samsung.
Speaker B:Right.
Speaker B:It was for the first time in his life, he was 65 years old, first time in his life that he had ever done any spiritual practice.
Speaker B:He came just because the daughter asked him to come because it was a life threatening situation.
Speaker B:The daughter knew me, so you know, he came.
Speaker B:So that's what I'm saying.
Speaker B:Like you can come without a belief or with a belief, doesn't really matter, you know, just do it, explore.
Speaker B:See, see for yourself.
Speaker A:Beautiful.
Speaker A:That was my next question.
Speaker A:Can you share a memorable story from your practice?
Speaker A:And you explained it well before and are there any simple techniques or exercise from these practices that listeners can try at their home?
Speaker B:All right, first of all, I would say just surround yourself with beautiful people.
Speaker B:By beauty, I don't just mean the external beauty.
Speaker B:People who laugh, who smile and it could be your baker.
Speaker B:It doesn't have to be anyone from the family.
Speaker B:You know, sometimes we don't find nobody in the family and we want to get rid of the family.
Speaker B:That also is okay.
Speaker B:You don't have to condition yourself to be with a certain person or not.
Speaker B:Just surround yourself with people who uplift you.
Speaker B:That's very important.
Speaker B:Even today you have to, you know, you have to bring up a plant.
Speaker B:So you're going to put the seed in a particular environment.
Speaker B:You have to check the season, you have to check the soil.
Speaker B:You are not just going to plant the seeds in any Tom, Dick, Harry environment.
Speaker B:So why are you doing it to you?
Speaker B:Right?
Speaker B:So that's a easy technique, I'm saying, because you're going to find people around you, okay, if not physically, virtually.
Speaker B:You know, I have a lot of sessions where I work on zoom with people in different countries, in different time zones.
Speaker B:So you have to surround yourself with people who uplift you, who are joyful, whatever you want to attract in your life.
Speaker B:If you want to be sad, surround yourself with people who are sad.
Speaker B:You know, that's your choice.
Speaker B:Then you have to assume it.
Speaker B:It's nothing.
Speaker B:It's not, it's not for me.
Speaker B:It's not about, this is good, this is bad, you know, this is your life, this is your responsibility so that you can be at shanti, at peace with your own self.
Speaker B:Right?
Speaker A:Right.
Speaker B:Secondly is work on your breath because your breath is in you, it's not in anybody else.
Speaker B:And studies have shown that 80% of the toxins can be released through breath.
Speaker B:Right?
Speaker B:So start breathing, start noticing your breath.
Speaker B:Just begin with simple deep inhalation and exhalation, keeping your mouth closed.
Speaker B:Because I see people doing.
Speaker B:Please don't open your mouth.
Speaker B:Because when you open your mouth, you're not letting your lungs work.
Speaker B:Your lungs are like balloons.
Speaker B:They need to be inflated and deflated.
Speaker B:That Happens only when you are using your nose so that your intercostal muscles are expanding and contracting, right?
Speaker B:So this you can do and start making movement a part of your daily life.
Speaker B:Anything you can stretch, you can walk, you can, you know, lift weights, whatever you can do, you can move.
Speaker B:So movement, breath, and surrounding yourself with, you know, people that you want to attract in your life.
Speaker B:Do those three things consistently.
Speaker B:It has to be a consistent practice.
Speaker A:Wonderful answer, Roki.
Speaker A:How do you envision the future of combining the spiritual practices with modern mental health strategies?
Speaker B:You know, well, I'm a kind of person.
Speaker B:I envision nothing.
Speaker B:I just live in the present.
Speaker B:I go with the flow.
Speaker B:Because when I am in the present, I can have access to so many things that my vision would limit me to have an access over those things.
Speaker B:So, you know, I don't envision anything.
Speaker B:I just live in the present.
Speaker B:I culture this practice on an everyday basis to live in the present.
Speaker B:And that's where you can change things for your future.
Speaker B:And you can also modify things in the past.
Speaker B:Because the present moment gives you a lot of information.
Speaker B:So what I'm going to receive now is going to change my future plans for tomorrow.
Speaker B:But what I'm going to receive tomorrow in the present is going to change my future plans.
Speaker B:I can just add on, add on, mix and match and see and this, you know, when I started working, I learned all these as different modalities and then slowly and slowly through information.
Speaker B:Thanks to my guides who keep guiding me.
Speaker B:I said, okay, this can be done, this can be done.
Speaker B:Sometimes you will not study that for sometimes it will not even come to your mind, you know, so you know, just in the present moment, whatever is coming, I just go with the flow, right?
Speaker A:So any final insights or guidance for our listeners to cultivate peace, clarity and self awareness in their lives?
Speaker B:I think the most underrated thing is smile.
Speaker B:You have to smile a lot, force yourself to smile.
Speaker B:You know, when you force yourself to smile, you are forcing your brain to accept an information.
Speaker B:Because the brain cannot distinguish between what is right, what is wrong, what is true, what is false.
Speaker B:So give that information to your brain that you want to attract slowly over a period of time, no matter what.
Speaker B:Even in difficult situations, the first action or reaction would be a smile.
Speaker B:It won't be like a frowned face because then you are taking power of the situation.
Speaker B:You are in charge of the situation.
Speaker B:When you are always thinking, always planning, you can't take charge of the situation because you don't know what life is going to bring you as A situation.
Speaker B:So might as well just train yourself to smile.
Speaker B:Smile.
Speaker B:That's why we have laughing yoga.
Speaker B:It is a therapy.
Speaker B:So that no matter whatever, even if you are in a damn situation, you just smile.
Speaker B:Because can you escape, you know, a traffic jam?
Speaker B:And you know, what is the point criticizing in the car?
Speaker B:Your husband, your kids and this and that.
Speaker B:And the whole world and this and that.
Speaker B:Well, you can do it if you enjoy it.
Speaker B:But if you don't enjoy it, you have to ask this question to yourself.
Speaker B:If you were left alone with your own self.
Speaker B:Would you like to be in your own company?
Speaker B:That's where whole my journey started.
Speaker B:To spirituality.
Speaker B:If the answer is no, then change.
Speaker B:If the answer is yes, then you are aligned.
Speaker B:Then stay the way you are.
Speaker B:So you have to laugh a lot.
Speaker B:You have to smile a lot.
Speaker B:You have to train.
Speaker B:Sometimes you have to force people.
Speaker B:I've seen that with my clients.
Speaker B:Sometimes people don't know to smile.
Speaker B:They want a reason.
Speaker B:I want a reason to smile.
Speaker B:Justify that reason to me.
Speaker B:Convince me.
Speaker B:And then I will give you a smile.
Speaker B:There has to be no reason.
Speaker B:You have to just smile.
Speaker B:Because you are like a flower.
Speaker B:You have to bloom.
Speaker B:A flower doesn't care.
Speaker B:You know.
Speaker B:This person is coming to the garden.
Speaker B:That person is coming to the garden.
Speaker B:I'm going to open up to this person.
Speaker B:That person.
Speaker B:No.
Speaker B:Nature is.
Speaker B:And spend time with nature.
Speaker B:Nature teaches you.
Speaker B:I mean like I would like to associate myself to the rising sun.
Speaker B:The sun doesn't care.
Speaker B:This person is good.
Speaker B:This person is bad.
Speaker B:I'm not going to shine to him.
Speaker B:I'm going to shine to her.
Speaker B:He says, I am sun.
Speaker B:I am in charge of my power.
Speaker B:You take what you are capable of taking from me.
Speaker B:But he is not going to hide.
Speaker B:The sun is never going to hide.
Speaker B:So spend your time in nature.
Speaker B:Train yourself to smile.
Speaker B:In any situation, in any circumstance.
Speaker B:Train it, train it, train it.
Speaker B:Till the time it becomes your belief.
Speaker B:It becomes a reality in your life.
Speaker A:Wonderful, Rohi.
Speaker A:Thank you so much.
Speaker A:And I just want to continue talking more and more.
Speaker A:More.
Speaker A:But I know our time is nearing.
Speaker A:Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom and your beautiful journey with us today.
Speaker A:And viewers.
Speaker A:To everyone listening here.
Speaker A:Thank you so much for spending this time with us.
Speaker A:This is busy free mind.
Speaker A:And take care.
Speaker A:Stay gentle with yourself.
Speaker A:And I'll see you in the next episode.
