The hands on energy healing treatment you will receive is normally done sitting in a chair, but can be done lying down if you are not able to sit comfortably. Mostly you are fully clothed; you only need to take off your shoes. What the therapist is doing is using acupressure on the foot and hand meridian endpoints, in a specific sequence to elevate your overall bodily energetic vibration, or increase your rate of flow of energy throughout the body’s central nervous system. If the session is long distance, then this does not apply and is described on the treatment page.

In this therapy there is no attempt made to diagnose or intervene, yet intuitive insights might be acted upon, in regards to applying touch therapy to specific body areas, which might be more blocked and need a boost. As much as possible, we leave the business of healing to be done and determined by one’s innate healer. The therapist’s role is simply to provide a clear and highly amplified signal to which your body will try to match via entrainment and resonance principles of physics. This strong and clear signal is possible to provide due to the practitioner’s many 100’s of hours of practice of doing this technique and thereby learning how to willingly withdraw energy from thinking, or being able to quiet one’s mind. When one’s mind is at rest, there is the most energy available ‘left over’ to be used for healing, which is similar to what happens when one is in the deepest state of sleep at night.

Your ‘lower’ body vibration will automatically try to match the higher vibration of the therapist, as soon as there is contact (this is the principle in shaktipat), and this is where ‘work’ happens in your body as healing, as electrons speed up their rate of flow they have the ability to do more work, to open blockages and enhance electron flow in the body through the muscles and nervous system. This rise in energy your body makes, is like ‘extra fuel’ for you and will be used by your innate healer, to make the necessary internal repairs needed to increase your health and well being, in exactly the order that is most efficient and important for your survival.

Each treatment will raise your overall energetic vibration, and change you just a tiny bit, by opening parts inside (opening and enhancing nervous system pathways), and this effect is long lasting, and especially more so if one learns to do the exercise and does it at home regularly and/or receives regular treatments. Eventually becoming independent from the therapist, and taking over the task of one’s healing is part of the intention of the service offered. The main role of the therapist is to act as a catalyst as long as needed to raise up your energy enough to the point where you can take over and complete your process to a full healing. Because parts of the body are opened which weren’t before, one’s overall level of energetic vibration will be higher, and thus more energy is available for healing and it will continue working, in a chain reaction to continue to open and enhance the nervous system or flow of internal energy. Thus, a single treatment can keep on working and healing for many days after the initial session.

Acupressure is an alternative health therapy, based on acupuncture, but instead of using needles, it only involves applying slight pressure to acupoints on the meridian paths of the body using one’s fingers. The Quickened Hands Technique primarily applies acupressure to the endpoints of the meridians on the toes, fingers, spine and skull, in a specific sequence, to take advantage of the body’s normal sequence of activation, which builds a greater vibration as it goes, by activating entire segments of the body and using this activated part as a strong vibrating force to help open the next part. The treatment proceeds from toe to head and takes around 45 – 60 minutes.

Acupuncture vessels, or meridians, are areas of high-energy movement through muscle and nerves, following the skeletal structure, located near the surface of the skin and thus can easily be felt by hand and stimulated and are located throughout the body in various paths which were mapped out a long time ago by the Chinese. These meridians have been measured and mapped by modern technological methods, electronically, thematically, and radioactively.  Meridians were named by the life function with which they seem to associate. In most cases, this name is similar to the name of a gross organ we're familiar with, yet muscle indication of energy blockage doesn't mean there's damage to the organ named. We cannot say that a weak muscle means a weak organ - we can only note that a portion of the meridian energy flow indicates blockage or constriction.

Along these meridians, there are specific acupuncture ‘points’ which make up the meridian. Today one can purchase acupoint electronic pens, which can detect the location of acupoints on the body by beeping when the pen is directly on top of it, which can be a helpful tool when practicing and learning to feel acupoints by hand. These points are electromagnetic in character and consist of small, oval cells called Bonham corpuscles, which surround the capillaries in the skin, the blood vessels, and the organs throughout the body. There are some 500 points, which are being used, most frequently in a definite sequence, depending on the action desired. Online Printable Meridian Charts and AcuPoints database:

http://www.yinyanghouse.com/acupuncturepoints/locations_theory_and_clinical_applications

When you receive the treatment ‘you’ don’t have to do anything, except to relax. During the treatment you might notice various healing symptoms (below), which indicate signs of healing going on in your body. Normally these symptoms are very fleeting and only last a second or two, and rarely cause discomfort or pain. Sometimes it might be the case that you feel muscular pain, or a sudden contraction of muscles, similar to a Charlie horse and there is a feeling of strong tension in a particular area of the body. This is caused by muscle charges being built up into various opposing muscles in a targeted body part of the musculoskeletal system by your ‘innate healer’, for the purpose to open up or straighten this area of the body. Most muscles of the musculoskeletal system work in pairs—called agonists and antagonists. During a movement, the muscle responsible for moving the body part contracts or shortens; this muscle is called the agonist. The antagonist muscle acts against or in opposition to the agonist muscle, stretching when the agonist contracts. The antagonist muscle is responsible for moving the body part (often a bone) back or closer to its original and optimal position.

If you do encounter such a stronger tension, which feels a bit painful, then try to relax that part of the body and not focus on it being ‘uncomfortable’, instead try to relax and stay with it until tension is released. When we can come to a place of non-reaction, as the observing presence, while experiencing any kind of painful sensation, often the healing of that body area is more effective because we are allowing energy into this area to do the work needed. It is often when we identify with symptoms as unwanted sensations, that it is experienced as painful because we are resisting or not allowing energy to penetrate that area. There can be several reasons for this, but mostly having to do with old trauma and memories, and we are afraid that if we let energy into that area, then we will feel the pain all over again. Eventually in our healing journey, we will learn that ‘pain’ is actually our friend and a clear sign that tissues are being transformed and healed. Pain is actually a sign of the intense heat of transformation going on, and if one observes closely one can see that on one side of the tissue there is pleasure as the previously painful area is being healed, one can observe the transformation process itself, the fire of transformation, and need not identify either with the pleasure of the healed tissue, nor with the process going on to heal it. One can simply sit back and observe, and then there is absolutely no pain, but this does take practice…

This kind of muscular reaction can last from a few minutes up to a few days, off and on. The intensity and duration of this reaction, depends upon how blocked that area of the body is and how important it is for your healing, to move or adjust bones in that area. After the charge is built up in the opposing muscles tension will build and one will feel more discomfort, until eventually there will be a release of that tension, often shifting the position of a bone or ligament and you will feel a release. This always feels good and often sudden symptoms will follow such a release such as tingling, itching, sudden numbness, electric buzzing, shocks, twitches, shivers, flashes, tones, etc., (very short lived), indicating a new pathway through the neurons has been created/opened and the nervous system now has ‘more energy’ and is working rapidly to make strengthen connections. Another healing reaction that can follow this muscle tension event and subsequent release is then a swelling in an associated body joint. This happens because after a bone is released to a new position, then the joint often needs to be adjusted as well, and swelling here is just like what happens when one sprains one’s ankle, it is to repair or rebuild the joint to a new position. The indication then is to try to rest this joint as much as possible until the swelling recedes. The swelling like this, in a joint can last longer than a few days, depending upon the degree of release of the bone.

Healing is a ‘growing process’, and expectations should not be too high to expect miraculous or instantaneous cures. Look at the reality -- bodies take time to mend and repair and also to build up a disease in the body, and it also takes time to re-grow a new body. Try to see your healing process as an intense physical therapy, for example like what might be needed in exercises to rejuvenate two broken legs. Yet, this doesn’t mean that one won’t experience ‘miracle healing event’s’ on your journey (you will) and you will also get relief, day to day, as your body gradually heals. As long as you continue regularly with it, it is very likely you will gradually improve and feel better each day as your body heals and you will notice the progress. So for an attitude, be happy with the little steps and improvements you make each day and try not to focus too much on the long term goal, what you want to heal. It is healing, jus tit is not happening in the order or how you would expect it. I’m not saying this to fool you, you will be the judge, and will be able to notice the healings taking place yourself. Just I say this, to warn you not to expect it to happen ‘over night’, or instantaneously – that is not how healing works. Sometimes when healing it’s hard to know if a symptom is one of healing or something that should be taken more seriously and is ‘not going away’, and should be seen by a medical professional. In general, I’ve noticed that if a symptom persists in exactly the same way, unchanged and is painful, for more than 3 days, then I would consult with a medical professional. Of course, this also depends upon what kind of symptom it is, as some symptoms are very serious and indicate immediate medical attention is needed as soon as they appear. Once a treatment is complete it is a good idea to relax and gain from the treatment and try to ensure plenty of water is taken to help eliminate toxins.

Below are common ‘healing reaction’ symptoms, which normally have a lifespan of a few seconds and up to 30 minutes and then recede. It is unusual to experience more than one at a time, they usually occur singularly and DO NOT HAPPEN EVERY TIME.

Healing Reactions / Healing Symptoms (1 second – 30 minutes in duration):

Tingling, numbness, muscle cramps with slight pain, intestinal rumbling, passing gas or belching, jerks, twitches, reflexive response of body, small spasms, hearing tones in ears, seeing 'stars' or flashing lights with eyes closed, chills, hot flash, shivering, sweating, sudden change in hearing, ringing in ears, tone in ears, vision, taste, smell or sense of touch (usually more enhanced and then fading), change in thirst, food cravings, fatigue, insomnia, rashes, pimples, hives, feeling of insects crawling on skin/itching, headache or skull pressure, cracking or popping sound in skeleton or skull bones, popping in ears, muscle aches, joint swelling, shivers, sneezing, increase in bowel movements, nasal drainage, jaw clicks, increase in urination, sudden bowel cleaning, falling asleep during treatment, rapid eye movements, feeling of vibration in the body, retreival of repressed memory or trauma, shocks in body, light shows like seeing stars, feeling strong rushes of energy along spine, strong emotional outburts, change in perception, vivid colors, ....