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The Sat Yoga Approach to Healing and Self-Realization has formulated a unique, wholistic system of maintaining and recovering health and wellbeing, as part of the greater process of attaining inner illumination and liberation from the veils of the ego. The “7-Body Wellness” program involves the recognition that we do not have just one body, the physical organism, as modern medicine asserts, but rather, we each have seven bodies. These seven must all be harmoniously aligned for the full power of health and healing to manifest.

Beyond yet within the material organism and its physiological and chemical processes lies the pranic body, the field of bioelectrical forces. This body has been the subject of much of what is now referred to as complementary medicine, such as accupuncture, qigong, and other traditional Eastern medical approaches. Prana, or chi, can be considered the life energy that animates the body. If this energy is blocked, deficient, or chaotic, the results will show up as symptoms in the physical organism.

The third body is the mental/emotional body. Most of the levels of the human mind lie below the threshold of consciousness. If there are pathological thought patterns, or traumatized affect, repressed in the unconscious, these can be the source of psychosomatic illness, and will disturb both of the previously mentioned bodies.

Beyond the mental body lies the archetypal wisdom body. If the mental sheath is cut off from the archetypal sheath, then that will show up as a lack of depth, clarity, and capacity to comprehend, as well as an intellectual listlessness and sense of futility.

Beyond that one finds the light body. If the mental and physical bodies are not able to receive and absorb the blissful luminescence of this higher body, the development of the capacity to love will be stunted and aggressivity and envy will dominate the personality.

In addition, we have a karmic body, which represents the psychic energies carried over from past lifetimes, which will constitute a pressure toward the manifestation of old patterns of thought and experience that generally have no place in the logic of one’s current existence. Unless the rogue forces from the past can be re-channeled and placed under the command structure of the current identity-consciousness, they also can cause havoc in one’s life.

Finally, we are all part of the one great body that is the universe. If we can realize our unity with the whole, and overcome the error of egocentricity, then the unlimited power of healing that sustains the universe itself becomes available to flow through us unimpeded.