Six years after her first encounter with Bioenergy healing, Tania Ahsan meets founder Michael Cohen again to find out how his technique has developed.
"I recommended the treatment six years ago and that hasn’t changed"
by Tania Ahsan
Editor of Kindred Spirit, Mar 2009
Six years after her first encounter with Bioenergy healing, Tania Ahsan meets founder Michael Cohen again to find out how his technique has developed.
Bioenergy healing is an unusual therapy on the face of it. The practitioner scans your body for blockages and then pulses his or her index finger on particular blockage points before ‘stretching’ your energy outwards across the room to clear it. You sometimes get ‘pointed’ at as if you’re being accused of something but really it’s just an energy ‘laser’ from the index finger being pointed at your energy blockage. Having already experienced this process, I was interested in learning how much had changed and developed since my first session all those years ago.
For a start, founder of the technique, Michael Cohen now scans using just his eyes. You stand (or sit or lie depending on your mobility) and he scans you just like Superman using his x-ray vision. Michael likens it to scanning a barcode. It’s super-fast and through that he can tell where to start the healing work. Throughout the session he keeps re-scanning to keep the work up to date and see where the next blockage is. He also asks for feedback on the sensations you’re feeling throughout, which makes you a lot more conscious of your body.
This development in his scanning technique just happened through a natural evolution. “One day I was working with a client and I could actually see where the blockages were. At first I didn’t trust what I was seeing but then I just had to go with it. “The result has been to allow him to work even faster on diagnosing where the energy needs to be cleared and he says he is working at a “heightened, instinctual level”.
Going the distance
“We now offer distance healing and have started a training school,” adds Michael, talking to me in their plush, dedicated clinic on Gloucester Place, London W1. Michael’s wife Jo also works with him in the clinic now and, for some sessions, they both work on clients together. I have one of these double-whammy sessions and am impressed by how different the two practitioners feel energetically. Jo’s ‘pulsing’ feels almost like reflexology and feels much more physical while Michael’s feels weirder, like an elastic substance is being manipulated around you. The two together is rather an enjoyable experience as you feel both physically and energetically ‘worked’ on.
Given how precise the energy manipulation is, I wondered how the distance healing works. “When you use a mobile phone,” explains Michael, “you can be in London and can connect immediately with someone in Australia.
" The client can feel the distance healing working for themselves and it’s tangible "
Only your phone and their phone make that connection because you have their unique frequency number and they have your unique frequency number. I do that with natural energy. I use something to tune in to the client’s individual frequency, be it their voice over the phone, a photo or a web cam, and do the healing directed to their individual specific frequency.”
The interesting thing is that, unlike some other distance healing methods, you actually feel the energy being manipulated. I know how weird it is to have Michael or Jo stand behind you where you can’t see them and you know exactly what they’re working on from the sensations in your body. How much weirder would that sensation be, if the healer is located halfway across the world from you?
“It is experiential for the clients. The client can feel the distance healing working for themselves and it’s tangible. I have to say I don’t need any technology to do it. I use a phone or a webcam to connect with a person but I could just as easily do it with a photo and so the technology plays no part. Also, unlike group distance healing sessions, a Bioenergy healing session done at a distance is the same as one done with the client there as I spend an hour or so scanning and clearing the energy in exactly the same way. It’s on a one to one basis………………”
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More Information
• The Bioenergy Healing Research Foundation is holding foundation workshops in 2009 for those who’d like to learn the technique for themselves. The first is on 7-7th June. Visit www. bioenergyhealing.org.uk for other dates and more info. Or call 0845 456 1336 or email info@bioenergyhealing.org.uk
The Bioenergy Healing Clinic offer individual sessions at Gloucester Place, London W1 and through distance healing
