Powerful hands-on bodywork usually facilitates relaxation -- and supports the body's natural healing responses. It is gratifying that bodywork usually helps resolve problems.

Energy osmosis -- a process that I work with in sessions -- is addressed here. In addition, we'll present my Mind-Body Physical Theory. Your research and insights will be much appreciated! Wonder if we're onto something here!

Energy Osmosis:

"Nature abhors a relative vacuum and will seek to fill it."

If the chakric core of the "healer" has a lower osmotic pressure than the client at her or his points of tension, nature wants to equalize the pressure by draining pressure from tense points into the lower-pressure points of the "healer."

The "healer" touches an acupressure release point on the client's body, and the relatively higher pressure there - experienced as muscle or cellular tension - releases into the "healer's" body.

It may clear via the "healer's" throat, making a noise, as the client's tension crosses the "healer's" vocal chords.

If a relatively small amount of tension is being released, the sound is soft. If a lot of tension is released, it may resemble a stuttering "jack hammer" - what I call the "little bang." The universe, perhaps, started with a Big Bang. Releasing a significant amount of one's tension has the potential to give a client a brand-new start in life!

The "healer" can use the clearing sounds to help calibrate his work... To identify the optimal release points, how deeply to press, and what vectors to use. If there is no sound when pressing on a reflex point, it is not an effective release point for the client in that moment. The "healer" can quickly identify a release point because he feels a subtle or dramatic increase of pressure inside his body. Taking a deep breath, he hears the releasing through his throat.

Sound also helps minimize or maximize the acupressure applied, as the client prefers, to enhance pleasant, comfortable sessions. If sound accompanies light pressure, there really is no need for deeper pressure, which might cause pain...although some clients prefer deep pressure.

As a session progresses, most clients want to experience deeper and deeper pressure. It feels good! Pressure is gradually increased to keep the releasing sounds coming.

How did the "healer" - and how can you - permanently lower your osmotic pressure to become less tense and enjoy lower blood pressure, among other healthy responses?

Wasn't it Socrates who directed, "Physician, Heal Thyself!" It requires a sustained commitment to an effective self-healing program.

How sweet it is to live in comfort with one's mind and body -- and face the world with relaxed health and comfort!

A "healer" who has low osmotic pressure inside his chakric core has, I think, little choice in life but to use it to help others release tension. Making noise is a natural by-product of his work. Tension leaves the client's body relatively quickly. It may stay away for several days after a session, and hopefully longer -- depending on a myriad of factors, such as the client's nutritional preparation and lifestyle.

The main prerequisites to enjoying permanent healing are, I think: * To nutritionally prepare by taking the five categories of essential nutrition, as taught by Dr. John Ray, founder of Body Electronics: a) Digestive enzymes. b) A complete source of all the chelated, colloidal minerals. c) All the vitamins in natural form. d) Essential amino acids, precursors of the proteins. e) Essential fatty acids, and... * To be willing to get in touch with mental and emotional dimensions associated with physical problems. This has worked for me -- and I've seen it work for others.

Mind-Body Physical Theory

My work has become intensely powerful, with the release of heat and energy in most sessions -- and if the client is ready, emotional releasing as well.

I have practiced Body Electronics since 1986, using sustained acupressure to dissolve calcified, crystallized reflex (energy switch) points in feet, neck, hands, etc. Heat is released and felt intensely.

It's very exciting to experience that clients who are nutritionally prepared also now generate heat from my holding points that appear not to be heavily crystalized -- that is, regular tension points. First, this background for my theory:

* Our early ancestors developed a survival mechanism that prepared them to fight or flee in the face of environmental stressors -- an approaching lion on the savanna, for example.

* The "Fight, Flight or Freeze Syndrome" involves accelerated adrenal activity, faster heart beat, breathing, and other heightened physiological responses.

* These responses produce extra heat that was would be dissipated on the savannah by fighting or fleeing. Natural fabrics (if one wore anything), also dissipated heat.

* Nowadays, people have difficulty dissipating the heat generated from living in a frequent -- and for many continuous -- state of tension. We cannot conveniently or acceptably fight or flee. Synthetic clothing conducts heat poorly.

Now the theory:

* Unexpended heat arising from environmental stressors -- if one doesn't "fight," "flee," or at least exercise -- slowly boils body fluids, forming little gas bubbles. Remember high school physics? Heat/energy are absorbed when liquid is converted into gas.

* Trapped in body tissues and reflexive switches, gas bubbles exert pressure that one feels as physical tension, tightness, lower energy, and perhaps malaise. Serious health challenges may ensue.

* Unreleased tension causes physiological problems because it inhibits... a) Electromagnetic nerve (life force or Chi) energy flow, b) Circulation of blood supply and with it, oxygen and nutrients that healthy cells require, c) Lymphatic recycling of Trapped Plasma Proteins from interstitial areas back into the bloodstream. When TPPs remain in inter-cellular areas, they interfere with the potassium/sodium balance needed for healthy cell function.

* This might help explain the role tension plays in many diseases and psychological challenges. Among the obvious are heart, lung, and digestive problems. Emotional factors, such as depression, engage people in a vicious circle. Unconscious mental resistance to life's circumstances begets physical tension, which contributes to feeling upset.

* Thus a model for Mind-Body Relationships: Mental perception of a stressor translates into physical tension. The way "out" is to lighten our mental definitions and redefine "stressors" as not being stressful. Spiritual faith, meditation, and prayer help! Getting powerful bodywork helps, too, because...ah, relief!...we experience how good we can feel -- and have something to work toward. It helps release discomfort, even if only temporarily.

Final observations:

* Deep, energetic bodywork releases heat trapped in body tissues. No question about that. My clients and I often feel intense heat! This is universally true for persons who nutritionally prepare themselves.

* The experience of heat coming from physical points on the client's body may come from the reconversion of gas bubbles to fluid, which the body can easily circulate and dissipate. This causes a predictable sense of ease. And assists in restoring healthy physiological function.

(Only occasionally does a session not "work" to provide relief. I suspect that the reason for an occasional "failure" is not so much physical as a client's psychological resistance to the process.)

In Loving Touch...

OMAR!