Ancient Indian texts refer to the navel as the epicenter of the entire body. Disturbances in the position of the navel relative to other parts of the abdomen are the main cause of digestive disorders.

Although the old man did not teach him the exact technique, the innovative Lajpatrai recalled that the process exerted pressure on certain points of his body. His mother often suffered from stomach aches. With her as a willing subject, he devised a novel method of using his feet to produce a similar effect, relieving his mother of her pains.

When he had perfected the technique, he began treating others in his neighborhood. Soon, hordes of people suffering from constipation, dysentery, and other abdominal disorders from nearby and distant areas would line up in front of his father’s home, whom he treated with his newly founded technique with great success.

The riots during partition claimed his house as one of its early victims. The once-prosperous family had to leave all their belongings and arrived in Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay) as refugees in 1947.

As the breadwinner of a large household (the only son among nine siblings – he had six elder and two younger sisters), young Lajpatrai had a grueling and hectic schedule. Despite this, he would spend a major part of his after-work hours providing free treatment to patients, a habit developed from the tender age of 11 years. In the process, he invented several newer techniques and developed a distinctively original method of curing people from various ailments without medicines.

His formal education was until the 10th class, but he could not give the exams due to the partition of India and the formation of Pakistan. However, he was doing a lot of free service in refugee camps. So he was awarded the Matriculation certificate despite not sitting for the exams. But the idea of receiving a certificate without giving the examination was anathema to him.After about four years, he sat for and successfully completed the examination for the tenth grade.

Family circumstances did not permit him to study further. But nothing could dampen his drive to upgrade his knowledge through intensive self-study of books related to nature cure, human anatomy, and physiology from a very young age. Eventually, he qualified for a degree in naturopathy.

In due course, based on practical experience gained by treating hundreds of patients and integrating it with wisdom from ancient Indian scriptures, he applied the principles of physiology in a novel approach to cure ailments in a manner unparalleled in modern times. His technique has since been christened by students and well-wishers as Dr. Lajpatrai Mehra's Neurotherapy (LMNT).

His compassionate outlook and passionate dedication to providing relief to the maximum number of patients motivate him to train as many students as possible. To date, the help of just a few dedicated followers, he has trained over 1000 students, conducted more than a hundred free Neurotherapy camps across the country, and treated thousands of patients in India and abroad.

Currently, there are over 650 centers in 24 states across the country, as well as each the one in Canada, U.K., Italy, and Australia, dedicated to spreading Dr. Lajpatrai Mehra's Neurotherapy. Every year, more centers are being established. Most of these centers have been set up within the last 10 years, following the establishment of the residential training center, "Dr. Lajpatrai Mehra's Neurotherapy Academy," at Suryamal near Wada, 125 km from Mumbai, in Mokhada Taluk, Thane District. Students from all over India come here to help realize his dream of establishing at least one LMNT center in every six villages. More than three thousand families earn their livelihood through this therapy.

After learning the techniques at Dr. Mehra's Ashram/Academy, these students operate their own centers where LMNT techniques are the sole mode of treatment. These centers are run either with the support of socially-minded organizations like Seva Bharati or independently by the students themselves, without any financial ancially – from Dr. Mehra or his team of teachers.