We are in the middle of the third and fourth “Body Reset” workshops. After more than seventy participants, we have detected an interesting pattern, which we can use to predict with some certainty who will benefit most from the workshop.
We have noticed that quite a few people with specific problems, usually on an energetic level – mental, emotional and/or spiritual – come to the workshop. They have tried all kinds of techniques and since they didn’t help, they have come back to our workshop.
Of course, with the expectation that this time it will be different.
Let’s take a look at one of the main reasons why they haven’t had success with other techniques so far… and whether this workshop will give them better results. (Hint: it’s not about the technique.)
Although the technique is not in itself a cure, consistent application of the technique is a prerequisite for success.
One of the biggest hidden secrets of healing is: it is not the technique per se that produces results, but the consistent and committed application of the technique is a prerequisite for success.
This seemingly paradoxical phrase is the cause and reason why doing certain activities will benefit someone or even save them from ailments, while someone else will do exactly the same things but nothing will change in their life.
Although at first sight the first and second parts of the sentence seem to be in conflict – some might even say mutually exclusive – the opposite is true.
Let’s look at the issue through a practical example.
Imagine a (great) healer who has adopted a healing technique from someone else, or who has developed a technique of his own. In either case, his technique is undoubtedly and demonstrably successful, as he has proved by himself, or through his own healing, and later by helping many others.
On the other hand, we have the patient seeking relief from a health problem. He or she usually comes to a healer hoping that the healer will relieve him or her of his or her problems. Sometimes this happens, but often it doesn’t … and the result does not depend on the technique, nor on the healer’s skill, experience, dedication …
The key to success lies in both, not (only) in the healer. There is a documented case – also described in the book “The Big Ugly Crisis” – where a doctor wanted to find out how successful the placebo effect was on an asthma patient. When he gave him a strong, “real” medicine, the asthma attack subsided. Just as expected.
The next time, he tried a placebo in the same patient. He gave the patient a tablet that did not contain any active ingredients, but looked like the real thing. Of course, the doctor did not confide this to the patient; he only told him that it was a different or “new” medicine.
This time, the effect was not there. The patient said that although the seizure had subsided, the drug did not work as strongly as the first time.
Thus, the doctor was convinced through his own experience of the well-known placebo effect: it works to a certain extent, but not as well as the actual medicine.
Some time later, he received an interesting message from a pharmaceutical company. They apologised for the mistake of mixing up the two drugs; one was a placebo, the other a real medicine.
How is it possible, then, that the first drug – the placebo – worked better than the second, the real one? The result was not based on the chemical composition of the medicine, but on (the doctor’s) belief in the effect.
Since he believed the first pill to be the right one – and had no reason to doubt its chemical composition – the pill worked as he expected.
But that is only one side of the coin. The other side was the patient’s unwavering openness, trust and belief in the “white coat”. Because the patient was completely open and trusting of the doctor’s instructions, he literally took on the doctor’s beliefs.
And here lies the key. The more the “receiver” – in this case, the patient – is open, transparent, trusting without limits and not doubting the result, the more the belief of the “transmitter” or the person who delivers a message or performs a technique takes over.
But how is this boundless faith and openness manifested? Through the precise and consistent implementation of the instructions given to the “receiver” by the “transmitter”.
Here lies the link between technique and effect, or between the first and the second part of an apparently paradoxical sentence. To repeat it – technique does not cure, but its consistent and precise application is a prerequisite for success.
When a patient truly trusts a doctor or healer, he will carry out everything that is asked of him to the letter; without thinking about why he is doing it, how it works and so on. Since the doctor told him to take three tablets a day and that he would improve within a week, the patient’s story is over. He just has to take the pills.
Why different techniques can heal us
We know that people have been healed by practising a wide variety of techniques, including “strange” ones. It was not the technique per se that healed them, but:
- the energy they expressed within themselves (confidence, gratitude, joy when their condition improves…),
- the energy of the “transmitter” (self-evident achievement of the result, sovereignty of execution, boundless faith in the technique and the effect, etc.).
The technique was merely a tool or device around which the healer and the patient developed their beliefs.
When the patient has placed himself completely in the hands of the healer or physician – this includes the removal of unconscious blockages; for example, a belief as to whether the patient deserves to be healed, or a karmic ordeal in terms of the symbolism of the disease pointing to some other blocked energy – the (conscious and unconscious) belief of the latter has been reflected in the former.
However, the technique can be applied in different ways and affect different levels. In fact, it is not so much the level from which or how the technique works that matters, but how receptive the patient is to it. (Read: at which level is the patient most open to it, trusting it and able to surrender to it.)
There are techniques that take place on a physical level (massage, exercise, etc.), a chemical level (pills, supplements, tinctures, various preparations and “concoctions”), a measurable energetic level (electrical devices, magnetic waves, radiant heat, colour therapy, etc.) or a non-measurable energetic or spiritual level (prayer, laying on of hands, sending out energy, meditation, mass instantaneous and spontaneous healings, etc.).so-called “faith healers” …).
All techniques have been proven to work throughout history … but never for all people. There is no example of people taking, for example, a certain dietary supplement or practising a certain meditation and all getting great results as a result.
When the cards are stacked – when the technician, the healer and the patient are on the same wavelength, you could say – a breakthrough happens.
American healer and expert in many healing techniques Burt Goldman (“American Monk”), best known for his “Quantum Jumping” method of creative visualisation, has healed thousands and thousands of people over his long career – now in its 90s.
He claims that no one has been cured by the technique because, in testing the limits of which technique will (still) work, he has also saved people from health ailments by drawing on paper or by wrapping a scarf around them. He used whatever came to mind as a technique, and the results were always the same – as long as the patient trusted him.
The key issue is always faith or commitment and trust, but, as said, not necessarily (only) at the conscious level. Sometimes we try very hard to open up and trust, but it is precisely this rape to results that hinders success.
Even Jesus, the great healer, could not heal the people in his own village… because they knew him mainly as the carpenter’s son. So they were prejudiced and the healing could not happen.
On the other hand, he told the people he healed over and over again that it was their faith that healed them, not him.
The same technique can give diametrically opposite results
This fact helps us to clarify another paradox, namely the diametric effect of the same technique or approach.
Let’s look at an example. In his book “You can cure anything”, Dr Martin Brofman writes that some people lose weight with grapefruit, while others lose weight. Those who focus on a lower calorie intake will lose weight because grapefruit is a very low-calorie food.
Others watch their carbohydrate or sugar intake. Grapefruit is high in sugar, so eating too much of it will make you feel sick. “Both realities are true. People who believe in either of them can easily prove they are right. One reality does not exclude the other,” Brofman writes.
In fact, it goes even further. There have been cases where people thought they were doing the technique exactly as instructed, but got it wrong. The result was exactly what would have been expected if the person had performed the technique correctly – which, on a mental level, or from the point of view of the “facts”, is completely at odds with logic. But the thing works!
During my own treatment, I also saw for myself the legitimacy of this principle. At the beginning of a special, strict diet to overcome a fatal disease, I was taking the wrong oil. But it did me no harm. On the contrary, the process was the same as if I had taken the recommended oil.
Another example was given by Richard Gordon, a healer. He started out with a completely wrong bone alignment technique, but the results were remarkable – just as they were later when he corrected the technique and started doing it correctly. “The Universe understood my purpose,” says Gordon.
In the next article, you’ll find concrete tips on how to make a technique – whichever one you choose – really work for you.
Taken from the materials for the “Body Reset” workshop.