In 2010, when Hollywood director Christopher Nolan made Inception, there was a clear divide between lovers and haters. Based on a theory of implanting a person’s idea into someone else’s subconscious, the movie triggered heated debates about the power of human brain. Away from films, fiction and forced beliefs, there’s a small group of people who are using the power of brain waves, not to steal as shown in the movie, but to heal people. One of them is Rachna Mehra, a Delhi-based theta healer, who was recently honoured with the 100 Women Achiever Award in the healthcare and wellness category by President Pranab Mukherjee. The award is instituted by the Ministry of Women and Child Development.
Having been credited with healing of hundreds of people in her six years of practice, 51-year-old Mehra was leading a fulfilling life until she met Vianna Stibal in the US, who was holding a workshop on theta healing. Having healed her own nine-inch tumor over 20 years ago, Stibal had developed the therapy. Mehra was so inspired by Stibal that she decided to become a master. She describes theta as the state of mind, which when aligned can bring positivity in life. This is attained through the three Es: Education, Experience and Enlightenment. Mehra teaches people to say no in a respectful manner, and to let go of their guilt.
“A young mother who longs to go back to her job is filled with guilt, which blocks her path to success. She’s open to parasites, emotional and physical, and slips into depression. What follows is blocked energy in the pit of her stomach, making her digestive system weak. It’s all connected,” Mehra says.
Theta is essentially a brain wave, a state that is used by the physiologists during hypnosis. “But we don’t hypnotise anyone. Theta healing is a structured roadmap to the divine that helps people to evolve physically and emotionally,” she says.
Mehra says that Science has proved that brain frequency is lowered when we pray or meditate. This is what a theta healer aims to teach: to attain this lowered brain wave frequency more frequently. “The brain can be trained, with practice, to take the right path,” adds Mehra.
Usually people with anxiety, depression, relationship issues or those who have gone through the trauma of losing someone close, come to see her. It’s mostly women and young adults. “My most memorable case was of a cancer patient who lived a short, yet fulfilling life through theta healing,” she says.
What if someone doesn’t want to see her even if their family brings them to her? If it’s the divine will, she says, healing reaches them no matter what. She speaks about a lady who lost her young son and was not ready to share her experience. Healing reached her through common friends until she decided to see Mehra. She found peace at the end of it. But what does healing mean to such a mother? It’s the feeling of being at peace with their situation, by not being angry at the almighty and by finding purpose in life. “I channelised her energies and helped her move forward,” says Mehra.
However, there was one small glitch. In one of the advance levels of healing, Mehra talks about connecting with the soul. The lady, like many others, started believing that we are connecting her to her departed son’s soul. “I categorically tell people that we don’t do that. We connect them to their inner voice, thereby connecting them to the divine power,” she says.
Mehra doesn’t use any idols or a gamut of paraphernalia. There’s just a room full of music and a heart filled with self-love. In the two to three sessions that she gives—charging `3,000 per sitting—or during her three-day workshops, she asks two questions. What have they learnt from their experience, and how is that thought serving them? In the next session, she helps them come out of the three Rs: Resentment, Regret and Rejection through meditation. “It’s important to learn about our strengths and virtues and magnify them manifolds to bring positivity in our lives,” she says.
In the last session Mehra teaches the correct method of meditation. “It’s practical and attuned to our modern lifestyle. One can attain the theta state in a car too.” She’s not only busting the myth that meditation is difficult to practice, but also guiding people to self-heal through service, love, compassion, kindness and realising their true potential.
MIND MATTERS
■ Theta healing was founded by Vianna Stibal
■ It is the state of mind that can be attained with the three Es: Education, Experience and Enlightment
■ Those suffering from depression, anxiety and relationship issues seek this healing
■ Theta healing helps overcome the three Rs: Resentment, Regret and Rejection
