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seriously mentally retarded children have become moderate and the moderate children have become mild and the mild children will start becoming normal. From our school, already eight children have gone back to normal schools. We run regular non-residential schools in Bangalore.
The latest area we have taken up is very akin to what Swami Pragyamurti was speaking of, cancer, the most dreaded disease. It is here that we started examining some terminal cancer patients seven years ago. Most of these patients were declared as having three to six months to live. We started with relaxation, with shavasana and yoga nidra, with meditation and breathing practices, and they began to improve. After seven years, all of them are living and working eight hours a day. After looking at this research, our Director of the Kidwai Institute of Oncology, gave us a group of one hundred people on whom to test the efficacy of yoga. We began pilot studies, and found improvement in the wellbeing of the patients. All the patients gave very positive feedback to the Director. Then we started our control studies on breast cancer. Recently we have started studies on cancer of the cervix.
What exactly do we do here? Firstly, we have tried to improve the immune defence. This happens by relaxation. It is well known that when a person is stressed out, then immune suppression takes place. Once we start releasing the stress the immune strength starts increasing. Secondly, to increase the immune strength we use pranic energy and mental energy. We have developed very subtle techniques which we call Pranic Energization Techniques, Mind and Memory Technique, Mind Sound Resonance Technique, Mastering The Emotions Technique, a series of eight techniques to deal with these cancer patients. Once they start learning, their immune defence starts increasing which starts gobbling up the cancer cells, and the tumors start reducing.
We had a person with throat cancer who could not eat anything. He had been suffering for three years and the doctor said he could not help, even with chemotherapy or radiotherapy. Then he started with us. He had a tremendous faith in the Bhagavad Gita and the atman. He said, "I am not the body, I am the atman". He began relaxing and amazingly, within ten days his tumor started reducing. On the fourteenth day, when Dr. Krishna Bhagava, the Director of the Institute of
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