Tina Chadda is a Kenyan national with a strong Indian connection. She is a medical intuitive, Reiki Master and coach. An investment banker by profession, she has been in Doha for 12 years and involved in creating awareness among people about the energy within and how people can improve by using their energy in a positive way.
Chadda has been conducting workshops and addressing seminars in Qatar addressing people with problems like mental stress, hypertension, and emotional problems.
Community got a chance to meet Tina recently to discern about energy healing. Excerpts from the interview:
Please share briefly your journey with us.
I was born in Kenya where my family has been for four generations. I come from a Sikh family. My great grandfather came to Kenya in 1890 from Lahore before the partition of the Indian subcontinent. My mother’s family is from Amritsar in India while my grandparents, my parents, and I were all born in Kenya. My great grandfather was actually the first engineer in Kenya.
I studied in the UK. Professionally, I am an investment banker. I had worked for City Bank in London. Then, I joined an auditing consulting company in Kenya as financial consultant. Later, I was hired by Procter & Gamble.
I am not married and live in Qatar with my brother, who is a pilot with Qatar Airways. We live with his family here.
When and how did you come to Qatar?
What triggered the move was a robbery that took place when I was alone at my house in Kenya. Four robbers broke into my house and I was so scared. After that I never felt comfortable living there. My parents were in India at the time with my father working for Coca-Cola. My mother flew back to Kenya overnight, we wrapped up things, rented out the house and left for India.
We lived in Mumbai where my spiritual journey began. After his job ended with Coca-Cola, my father returned to Kenya, but I was never comfortable. Later on, my brother got a job in Qatar and I followed him a year later in 2005. I started doing freelancing as a financial consultant. I have however, increasingly been feeling that I need to follow what is my passion. My passion is energy work, helping people and bringing out the highest expression in people.
How would you best describe the concept of Energy Awareness?
Energy is in us and around us. It is omnipotent and omnipresent. We, as human beings, are unique because we have our physical aspects and our non-physical aspects. We are sitting on the periphery of both aspects. We have been bringing our non-physical aspects, like thoughts and emotions, into physical aspects. First, we think and then, we manifest. What we think and what emotions we develop, we manifest them later in our lives.
How do you teach people to follow the concept for their good?
There are different aspects of awareness. There is your mind awareness, body awareness, spirit awareness, and the whole purpose is to become more coherent. If all your energies are in alignment mentally, physically, and emotionally, it is easier to manifest and you are in the flow. The people you think are lucky and get whatever they want…it is because their energy is in alignment. It is effortless for them to manifest whatever they want. Being coherent is actually our natural state. Over a period of time, we develop blocks with fears, limitations, and with whatever mind habits we have picked up from around us. These blocks stand in the way of our coherence. So once you remove these blocks, you become coherent.
These blocks accumulated over a period of time are later in the life manifested in a physical condition like disease. A disease does not simply happen. It is now a known fact that people who have cancer, long before they have the cancer, they have had five symptoms in common; the symptoms are lack of water intake, sleep issues, long held emotional issues (resentment, being overly self-critical, judgmental, angry, bitter, etc.), constipation, and acidity. So, the way you develop your emotions, it affects your body.
How did you learn about the energy concept?
After the robbery incident when I went to India, I had a lot of free time there. I would watch a video about an American teacher telling and explaining the subject. Your energy goes where you attention is. People focus more on things that they do not have.
Then, I met a lady in Mumbai and she taught me more about how energy works and how to channel energy, how to clear energy, and how to be more aligned and present. Athletes and actors are believed to be very present in their bodies. Being present in the now improves your performance.
I have done a lot of study, workshops and have practised in different countries.
How did you envision teaching the concept in Qatar?
Over a period of time, I noticed people having stress and depression. I felt that I had something valuable that I could share with people here. I believe I can help bring out the highest expression in somebody by eliminating the issues that are dragging them down.
I want to tell people that there is a way to resolve their issues and they do not need to take extreme measures.
What kind of response have you been getting here?
I have been getting a good response. People are very enthusiastic. It is very rewarding to see somebody making a shift and people’s outlook towards their families shifting. Recently, a working woman came to me and said that her thoughts that she was not good enough were leading her to suicidal thoughts. After getting help from me, her confidence is risen and she is much more enthusiastic. She has actually moved forward as a person.
How do you see life in general in Qatar?
I love the security here. I applaud the government for taking steps to bring in medicine, education, and sports to the country. The maturity Qatar has shown to the recent political crisis is a classic example of energy awareness. I love to see that they are investing their resources in medical research.
What are your future plans?
I plan to develop workshops for children, giving them confidence, helping them deal with exam issues, peer pressure and bullying. Essentially, I want to help kids.
What message would you like to share as an expert?
If you lean to shift the energy within, you will create massive shifts outside. And that is something I can guarantee. If you shift the way you think and the way you feel, you can create whatever you want.
MISSION: u201cI want to tell people that there is a way to resolve their issues and they do not need to take extreme measures,u201d says Tina Chadda. Photo by Ram Chand
