by SS Gurusahay Singh Khalsa, Atlanta, Georgia
2025 (Second Quarter)
Spring was in full bloom. It was a day off from work and I was heading into the weekend, on my way to get a massage. The phone rang just as I was walking into the massage office, and I decided to ignore it. But, as I looked at the name of the caller, I decided I had to answer it because it was a patient.
She said she was suffering from the pollen season combined with the smoke of some local fires. In addition to her sinuses being blocked, her anxiety level was sky-high about the fires moving toward her.
As I was heading into the massage, my thoughts were not focused on the office or patients and their problems. So, when she asked me to help her with her sinuses and her anxiety, to give her ideas of some things to do at home, my mind immediately said, “Oh no, what am I going to tell her? I don’t know what to tell her.” But, as I’ve learned to do many times before with patients, I accessed my Shuniya, my state of healing, my state of intuition.
In that state of deep listening, I was able to access my intelligence. I was able to access things that I knew to suggest that would help her situation. It was as if I switched into a different mode where I could see and understand the necessary information to help her heal herself. In addition, it gave me an emotional connection to her, to help her deal with the pain, suffering and fear that she was in.
I realized that the more I listened to her, and the more I listened to the infinite space of the Shuniya, the more the information that I needed to help her flowed through me.
I’ve often seen myself enter this state, and have often wondered how I get there. What I’ve decided and realized over the years is that it’s a combination of Sadhana and Guru’s Grace.
As part of the Khalsa Chiropractic Association, I had the honor and privilege of studying directly with the Siri Singh Sahib Ji. He would teach us different ancient healing techniques, and would constantly instill in us the idea that we were not doctors, but that we were healers.
We spent many hours as a group discussing his teachings about healing with each other, and we collectively realized that the thing that created the most healing in us was to have a regular, daily Sadhana or meditation, or reliance and relationship to the Guru. These practices helped us to tune into that special space of listening that helped us to become healers.
And what is a natural healer? It’s being in that state of Shuniya, of listening, of compassion, of empathy. It’s realizing that I’m just a channel for that healing energy. By doing daily, regular practice, it helps me to access that space more clearly, more quickly, and more authentically.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
SS Gurusahay Singh Khalsa, D.C., Dipl.Ac., has been in private practice since 1978 and is the director of the GRD Healing Arts Clinic, a multi-disciplinary health and healing clinic in Atlanta, GA. His specialties include acupuncture, gentle chiropractic care, nutrition, applied kinesiology (muscle testing), and yoga therapy. Gurusahay educates and inspires people to improve the quality of their living by enabling them to take control of their own life physically, mentally and spiritually. He has lectured extensively for more than 50 years on health care, wellness and longevity, and Kundalini yoga. He has been a Minister and student of Sikh Dharma since 1975.
