Giani Thakur Singh Ji

I caught up with Giani ji at the end of his month long U.K tour. He’s such an approachable, down-to-earth person despite his vast knowledge and international standing. We talked as if we'd known each other for years, no formality, straight into deep, fascinating conversation.

Giani has a keen interest in auras and his insight into aura shapes was amazing. He explained how with regular spiritual practice in the form of prayer and meditation a person's aura can increase in size - deeply spiritual people can sometimes have auras so big it's as if there were a giant standing behind them!

Giani is a great believer in reiki, urging me to undertake training in it and incorporate the approach into my therapeutic practice. He gave an example of a heart surgeon who gives all his patients reiki healing before commencing surgery, accounting for a 100 per cent success rate in patient recovery. Giani knows a lot about the chakras too, both from a spiritual perspective as well as for healing. He related an interesting technique, saying the energy of any chakra can be balanced by doing Mool Mantar jaap or simran while holding a hand over the affected chakra. The other way to do it is to place a hand over the chakra straight after Mool Mantar or simran has finished. The Gurbani or simran helps release the energy blockage in an underactive chakra, while calming one which is overactive.

Wary of time as we both had other appointments, we moved on to the subject of interpreting dreams and especially prophetic dreams which foretell future events. This led our conversation nicely to the future and what that might look like in terms of life here on earth.

Giani ji is constantly attending to people’s problems as they seek advice from him in person, by phone or through radio shows. Coming from a helping profession myself, I wanted to check that he wasn't absorbing this negativity in some way. He agreed he was internalising it into the muscles of his body and promised to walk at least 20 minutes everyday in order to release the negative energy. It's a routine he does have back home in Patiala but which gets overlooked when he’s on tour because of the sheer volume of people wanting to meet him. So he’s going to be doing ‘walkie talkies’ now – taking people who want to meet up with him out for a walk! So if you go to see Giani ji make sure you’re wearing comfortable shoes!