The Five Pranic Healing Virtues: A Complete Guide to Character Building
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The five Pranic Healing virtues are loving-kindness and non-injury, honesty and non-lying, generosity and non-stealing, moderation and non-excessiveness, and constancy of aim and effort with non-laziness. Grandmaster Choa Kok Sui taught them as the base for healing, prosperity and spiritual growth. This guide explains each one and how to live it daily.
Each virtue has two sides. One side is the good quality you grow. The other is the harm you stop doing. Grandmaster Choa Kok Sui called the five virtues principles for success. He taught that many of life's biggest problems come from weak character, not bad luck.
Table of Contents
What Are the Pranic Healing Virtues?
Why Do Virtues Matter in Pranic Healing?
Virtue 1: Loving-Kindness and Non-Injury
Virtue 2: Honesty and Non-Lying
Virtue 3: Generosity and Non-Stealing
Virtue 4: Moderation and Non-Excessiveness
Virtue 5: Constancy of Aim and Effort, and Non-Laziness
How to Practise the Five Virtues Every Day
The Five Virtues in Real Life
What Research and Current Trends Show
Frequently Asked Questions
What Are the Pranic Healing Virtues?
Pranic Healing is a no-touch, no-drug energy healing system. Grandmaster Choa Kok Sui, a Filipino-Chinese chemical engineer, shaped it into a clear method anyone can learn. His first book, now titled Miracles Through Pranic Healing, has been translated into more than 30 languages.
Alongside healing methods, he taught character building. This means growing good qualities and removing weak ones on purpose, one step at a time. Accounts of his life say he began this inner work himself at age 13, long before he started teaching.
He set out the five virtues in Compassionate Objectivity: The Golden Lotus Sutras on Character Building. The Golden Lotus Sutras series is drawn from notes on nine years of his lectures. The virtues also appear in his book Achieving Oneness with the Higher Soul.
The Five Virtues at a Glance
Virtue | The good you grow | The harm you avoid | One simple daily habit |
1. Loving-kindness and non-injury | Kindness, patience, helpfulness | Harm in action, word and thought | Speak one kind word on purpose |
2. Honesty and non-lying | Truth with others and yourself, humility | Lies, self-deception, pride | Note one moment you were tempted to bend the truth |
3. Generosity and non-stealing | Giving time, money, warmth and knowledge | Taking things, credit or ideas that are not yours | Give someone credit by name |
4. Moderation and non-excessiveness | Balance and self-control | Excess, waste, being ruled by desire | Keep to one set limit, such as a budget |
5. Constancy of aim and effort, and non-laziness | Focus and steady effort | Laziness, delay, scattered goals | Practise at the same time and place each day |
Why Do Virtues Matter in Pranic Healing?
In Pranic Healing, thoughts and emotions carry energy. Grandmaster Choa Kok Sui taught that they are the seeds, while your words and actions are the fruits. Clean, kind thoughts grow into kind deeds. Angry, harsh thoughts grow into harm. The virtues train the seeds.
He also taught that each person is a being of divine love, divine intelligence and divine will. The virtues are how these show up in daily life. Loving-kindness and generosity flow from divine love. Honesty flows from divine intelligence.
Virtues and the Energy Body
In his book Pranic Psychotherapy, he links character to the chakras. A person with a strong heart chakra but a weak solar plexus chakra may be taken advantage of. An overactive solar plexus can make a person selfish. He described mental health as balancing loving-kindness with self-interest.
He also taught that a healer should stay calm and detached during a session. A nervous or worried healer, he wrote, holds back the flow of prana. Steady character supports steady healing work.
Virtues and Real Success
In his lectures, he said real power comes from within, through character building. He also warned that when virtues grow out of balance, a fall may follow. This is why the five virtues are practised as a set, with each one keeping the others in check.
Virtue 1: Loving-Kindness and Non-Injury
Loving-kindness means goodwill put into action. Non-injury means not harming others in deed, word or thought. Grandmaster Choa Kok Sui taught that loving-kindness in action is being helpful. Politeness, courtesy and small acts of help all count.
He gave a clear order for practice. Master non-violence in speech first, then non-violence in thought. Watch what you think and say, because harsh words and angry thoughts shape both your energy and your results.
How to Practise It
Pause before you reply when you feel angry or hurt.
Swap blame for a calm request. Say what you need, not what the other person did wrong.
Bless people in need. He shared the story of Annie Besant, who read the news to find people who needed help and then blessed them.
Practise the Meditation on Twin Hearts, which includes blessing the Earth with loving-kindness.
Keep It Balanced
Kindness does not mean letting others misuse you. Recall the heart and solar plexus balance above. Healthy loving-kindness includes firm, fair boundaries. You can say no kindly.
Virtue 2: Honesty and Non-Lying
This virtue covers honesty to others and honesty to yourself. It also includes humility and freedom from pride. Grandmaster Choa Kok Sui linked it to divine intelligence: the ability to see things as they are and respond in the right way.
He called pride the most serious weakness, because it cuts a student off from the teacher. He linked pride and self-deception to a poor self-image. Honest self-review, where you look at both your good deeds and your faults, is the cure.
Honesty With Kindness
Truth should not hurt people for no reason. He taught a harmless form of honesty: weigh your words so the truth helps. This is not a licence for needless white lies. It is a call for tact.
Discernment and Clear Thinking
The virtue also asks for discernment. Do not accept any idea blindly, no matter who says it. Test claims, check facts and let go of beliefs with no basis. Keeping your promises belongs here too. Only commit to what you can deliver.
What Research Says
A "Science of Honesty" study at the University of Notre Dame followed 110 people aged 18 to 71 for 10 weeks. When people in the no-lie group told three fewer white lies in a week, they reported about four fewer mental health complaints and three fewer physical complaints. The findings were presented at the American Psychological Association's 2012 convention.
Virtue 3: Generosity and Non-Stealing
Generosity grows out of loving-kindness. Grandmaster Choa Kok Sui taught giving on every level: physical help, emotional warmth and support, and sharing what you know. He called this virtue the secret of abundance. Giving is like planting seeds that return many times over.
Non-stealing goes beyond not taking objects. It also means not taking credit, affection or merit that belongs to someone else. He asked students to respect intellectual property too, so pirated films and unlicensed software fall under this virtue.
Tithing in Pranic Healing
Tithing means giving part of your income, often 10%, to worthy causes. In Grandmaster Choa Kok Sui's teachings, it is one of the main ways to practise generosity. Service and tithing sit at the heart of his approach to spiritual growth.
What Research Says
A 2008 study in the journal Science, by Elizabeth Dunn, Lara Aknin and Michael Norton, found that spending on others predicted greater happiness. In one test, people told to spend money on others felt happier than those told to spend it on themselves. The amount was as small as US$5.
Virtue 4: Moderation and Non-Excessiveness
Moderation means balance. Grandmaster Choa Kok Sui taught that desires are not wrong, but being ruled by them causes harm. The goal is self-mastery, not denial. You can enjoy life without letting any habit, craving or mood take over.
Moderation and Money
He called moderation one of the secrets of prosperity. His teachings advise living within your means and not spending past your budget. They also suggest saving and investing 20% to 30% of income after tax and tithing. This is guidance from his teachings, not personal financial advice.
Moderation on the Spiritual Path
Moderation also applies to spiritual effort. Some students try to crush every flaw at once. That is excess too. His approach favours transforming unwanted energy rather than forcing it down. Too much guilt or worry is also excess. Learn from the past, act well today and plan without fear.
Signs of Excess to Watch For
Working long hours with no rest or recovery
Spending money to ease stress
Eating or drinking past what the body needs
Scrolling late into the night
Harsh self-blame after a small mistake
Virtue 5: Constancy of Aim and Effort, and Non-Laziness
This virtue means choosing a clear goal and working at it steadily. In Experiencing Being, one of his Golden Lotus Sutras, Grandmaster Choa Kok Sui compares it to steam. Loose steam scatters, but steam held in an engine can pull a whole train. Focused effort works the same way.
He asked students to focus on what helps their spiritual growth, career, finances and relationships. Laziness and scattered attention slow progress in all four areas.
How to Build Constancy
Pick one clear aim for the next few months.
Set a fixed time and place for your daily practice.
Start small so you can keep going on busy days.
Track the practice, not your mood. Show up whether you feel like it or not.
If you miss a day, restart the next day. One gap does not erase your progress.
What Research Says
Habit research backs this up. In a University College London study led by Phillippa Lally, published in the European Journal of Social Psychology in 2010, a new daily habit took a median of 66 days to feel natural. The range was 18 to 254 days. Missing a single day did not undo progress.
How to Practise the Five Virtues Every Day?
Grandmaster Choa Kok Sui gave simple, repeatable tools for character building. Here is a practical routine based on his teachings.
Daily inner reflection. Each morning, spend 5 to 10 minutes looking back on the day before. Note what went well and where you fell short, then choose one fix. He taught that without reflection there is no awareness, and without awareness there is no change.
Invocations for each virtue. Focus on one virtue at a time. Repeat a short prayer of thanks for that virtue seven times a day for two months, then move to the next. All five take about ten months.
Meditation on Twin Hearts. This guided meditation works on the heart and crown chakras and includes blessing the Earth with loving-kindness. It is the most widely practised meditation in the Pranic Healing tradition.
Service and tithing. Put generosity into action through regular giving and helping others.
Study. Read his books, such as Compassionate Objectivity and Achieving Oneness with the Higher Soul.
Check the balance. Make sure no virtue grows at the cost of another.
His teaching behind this method is simple: repeated good thoughts become good actions, and in time, a virtue.
A Sample 10-Month Virtue Plan
Months | Focus virtue | Simple action to pair with the invocation |
1 to 2 | Loving-kindness and non-injury | Go one full day at a time with no harsh words |
3 to 4 | Honesty and non-lying | Write one honest line about yourself each night |
5 to 6 | Generosity and non-stealing | Give one act of help or credit each day |
7 to 8 | Moderation and non-excessiveness | Set one limit on spending, screen time or portions |
9 to 10 | Constancy of aim and effort | Keep one fixed daily practice slot |
The Five Virtues in Real Life
The virtues are not only for meditation time. Here are simple examples of how they show up in ordinary days.
At Work
A team leader in a busy Bangkok office praises a junior colleague by name in a meeting. That is non-stealing of credit. She then turns down a deadline she knows her team cannot meet. That is honesty about commitments.
At Home
A parent feels angry after a long day. Instead of shouting, they breathe slowly and speak calmly. That is non-injury in speech. Pranic Psychotherapy suggests at least 12 cycles of slow, deep breathing to help calm the solar plexus chakra when anger rises.
In a Healing Session
A practitioner stays calm, kind and honest with a client. They do not promise results. They remind the client that Pranic Healing is a complementary practice that works alongside medical care, not in place of it.
In Business
The Prosperity and Abundance courses, including Spiritual Business Management, apply Pranic principles to work and money. The virtues fit in naturally: fair pricing, honest marketing, steady effort, careful spending and giving back.
What Research and Current Trends Show?
Interest in compassion-based meditation is growing. Researchers now study the Meditation on Twin Hearts, which uses loving-kindness as a core step. Recent entries on ClinicalTrials.gov include Twin Hearts studies on exam anxiety in nursing students and on mood, thinking and brain activity.
Study | What was studied | Key finding |
Loving-kindness meditation, practised daily for 7 weeks by working adults | More daily positive emotions, higher life satisfaction and fewer signs of depression | |
182 secondary school students after 4 weeks of Twin Hearts | Lower stress, anxiety and depression scores | |
22 nursing students practising Twin Hearts for 8 weeks | Reported positive experiences and greater awareness | |
Dunn, Aknin and Norton, Science (2008) | Spending money on others vs on oneself | Spending on others linked to greater happiness |
These studies are small and early. They point to promise, not proof. Pranic Healing is a complementary practice. It does not replace medical or mental health care, and it does not diagnose or prescribe.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the five virtues in Pranic Healing?
They are loving-kindness and non-injury, honesty and non-lying, generosity and non-stealing, moderation and non-excessiveness, and constancy of aim and effort with non-laziness. Grandmaster Choa Kok Sui set them out in his book Compassionate Objectivity. Each pairs a quality to grow with a harm to avoid.
Why are virtues important in Pranic Healing?
Pranic Healing teaches that thoughts and emotions carry energy. Good character keeps that energy clean and steady, which supports both healing and daily life. Grandmaster Choa Kok Sui taught that real inner power comes through character building.
Do I need to master the virtues before learning Pranic Healing?
No. Basic Pranic Healing Level 1 needs no prior experience and is open to anyone aged 16 or over. The virtues are a lifelong practice. You can build them step by step alongside your training.
How long does it take to build a virtue?
It varies by person. Grandmaster Choa Kok Sui's invocation method spends two months on each virtue, so all five take about ten months. Habit research from University College London found a median of 66 days for a new daily habit to feel natural.
Can the virtues help with prosperity?
Grandmaster Choa Kok Sui taught that generosity, tithing, moderation and hard work are keys to prosperity. The virtues support good money habits, such as living within your means and saving. They are not a promise of wealth, and they are not financial advice.
Can a virtue be overdone?
Yes. Kindness without self-interest can lead to being misused, and too much restraint turns moderation into excess. Grandmaster Choa Kok Sui warned that unbalanced virtues can lead to a fall. The goal is to grow all five together.
Is Pranic Healing a religion?
No. Pranic Healing is an energy healing system that people of any faith can learn. The five virtues echo values found in many traditions, such as the Buddhist precepts against harming, stealing and lying. Students keep their own beliefs.
Where can I learn about Pranic Healing virtues in Bangkok?
Saksit Meditation and Healing Centre in Bang Rak teaches the full Grandmaster Choa Kok Sui curriculum, from beginner level to Arhatic Yoga. Basic Pranic Healing Level 1 and Achieving Oneness with the Higher Soul both need no prior training. Beginners are also welcome at our Meditation on Twin Hearts sessions.
Final Thoughts
The five Pranic Healing virtues give you a clear, practical way to grow as a person and as a healer. Start with one virtue, reflect each morning and be patient with yourself. Small, steady steps build lasting character, and that character supports your health, your relationships and your spiritual growth.
Start Your Pranic Healing Journey in Bangkok
Ready to put the five virtues into practice with proper guidance? Register for Basic Pranic Healing Level 1 or Achieving Oneness with the Higher Soul at Saksit Meditation and Healing Centre. Both are two-day, certificated courses with no prerequisites.
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