Acofo: “Giving Back”

"GIVING Back,” "paying forward" "and at the end of the day." These are among common statements I heard from my classmates and professors at the Asian Institute of Management a decade ago. These phrases which were either used to explain, cut-short or introduce discussions by students and our professors from some more than 700 cases keep coming back to me as one often hear it from people in meetings. Specially official meetings. 

Echoes from the past.

When we conducted the Basic Pranic Healing Course to fourth year students of the Saint Vincent's High School, the only intention was to "give back."

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Give back to our Alumni. And give back what?  Give back our humble experiences, learning and probably DISCOVERIES from the SCHOOL known as LIFE. The conduct of the BPHC for 61 graduating high school students for one is a discovery in life. This I share with alumni of SVHS who took the course and practice it in life, pranic healing. And these persons include a mother among the graduating students. PH is not a religion. It is a science of energy. Everything is energy and as Robinson Kadlosan rightly caught it in the course, PH involves the manipulation of energy. Our physical bodies are energies, they too are matter. 

According to Physical Science energy and matter are one thus we are both matter and energy. This is a key fact of PH. And with PH it is the energy body that gets sick first before the physical body.

Heal the energy body and the physical body will follow. 

Some books refer to the energy body as the "etheric double". As a student of life, am not sure if the etheric double (energy body) is what we the Bontoks refer to as the "kadkadwa". And we perform rituals for the "kadkadwa" in cases of physical illness.

As Master Choa Kok Sui- the Filipino inventor/founder of PH writes and says "TRUTH IS UNIVERSAL." As an indigenous person, even the concept of "kadkadwa" by us Bontoks integrated in our healing practices makes one proud of being an IP.

Truth being universal affirms one’s identity as a spiritual being beyond the teachings of Christianity. I profess I am a Catholic. I go to mass almost everyday - a practice formed studying in a Catholic school like SVHS. Definitely to me - a gift.

Bringing PH to one's Alma Mater, we hope to strengthen the religious upbringing of our students-the soon -to be members of the global family of SVHS. By this we mean and we pray that they become better than us, better Christians, better alumni of SVHS.

The owner of Rustans, Ms. Tantoco – a practicing pranic healer keeps on attesting:  "when you take PH, you will love Jesus more; you will love your religion more.” Now, what's that to us who were formed in a religious school like SVHS. This is just one of the things we wanted to share to the fourth-year students of SVHS. 

It is GIVING BACK AND DOING IT HUMBLY ENOUGH. (How is this activity- the BPHC we conducted for the SVHS graduating students this year be a case of paying forward is next).