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Friday, February 25, 2011

Bill Bengston interview with Michall Jeffers

15 comments:

vic smyth said...

As promised (forewarned :), I'd like to ask you some questions regarding the Bengston method. Let me know if I am posting it in the appropriate place/format.

My understanding from books that I've read is that in level II Reiki some symbols are taught. Is there any similarity between what is done with these symbols in Reiki and Bengston's cycling method?

Judith said...

Thought-provoking question, Vic :) Reiki symbols are said to be used to activate different facets of Reiki during healing (e.g., the mental/emotional symbol, the distance symbol), and also by teachers to activate the ability to do Reiki in their students during attunements. But some Reiki traditions would say that there is no need or purpose for the symbols. You just intend Reiki, and it flows.

So in some ways "cycling" could be similar, in that it helps Dr. Bengston activate healing ability in students during workshops, in a sort of attunement; and in that afterwards the student can use "cycling" to initiate the flow. I've said before that it can be a kind of "anchor" in the NLP sense, as I suppose Reiki symbols can also be anchors.

But Dr. Bengston has assigned another function to "cycling", getting the everyday mind out of the way, which is not at all associated with Reiki symbols, or at least not to my knowledge.

I hope this helps. Any Reiki masters or Bengston practitioners out there who disagree or have a different take, feel free to chime in!

vic smyth said...

Judith, thanks for your reply.

Re: another function to "cycling", getting the everyday mind out of the way

I've been meditating daily for 30 years, for the past 4 years, about 4 times a day (I'm semi-retired). I've reached a point where I can readily turn off the little chatterbox in my mind and slip into different levels of consciousness. Does this accomplish the same goal that cycling does? When I dabbled in metaphysical healing (based on Joel Goldsmith's The Infinite Way)decades ago, with some success, this is all I did; make an intention, affirm that "God is", then attempt to shut off the chatterbox.

Judith said...

I'm not sure. I've seen what you describe in other forms of healing, e.g., Frank Kinslow's Quantum Entrainment. I think Dr. Bengston would likely say that there is more to "cycling" than that. Unlike meditation, "cycling" seems to speed up the brain. There is a distinct sensation to it that feels very different from meditation.

vic smyth said...

Hi Judith, thanks again for your reply. It's interesting that you say that cycling feels different from meditation. Oschman's work shows that different frequencies (measured by EEG) are effective for different types of healing. Bengston reported being recorded at 200 hz when cycling. Has any of your research/experience shown that different healing modalities create different frequencies? That different modalities are better for different types of healing (immune system, ligaments, wounds, etc)?

Judith said...

When I was doing only Reiki and Quantum Touch, I had clients who could tell the two apart and expressed a distinct preference for one or the other. I don't know whether this would translate into different frequencies as measured by an EEG. Quantum Touch is marketed as being good for bones and muscles, and can occasionally straighten scoliotic spines. Reiki tends to manifest in sometimes unintended healings, not only on the physical but also other levels; e.g., someone I periodically treated for a dysfunctional limb would invariably get a new job or girlfriend or life opportunity within a week or two of the treatment, while the intended target of the treatment, the dysfunctional limb, stayed pretty much the same.

James Oschman also says in his book that the "signal" that can be measured coming out of healers' hands cycles through all the frequencies the body's various tissues need to heal. I don't think this was tested on practitioners of different modalities, but it would be interesting to see how different modalities rated in this regard. It might also be different from one individual healer to another, regardless of modality.

To me the most exciting difference is between "energy" healing and "informational" healing. I think most modalities are a mixture of the two. In "energy" healing the body is given a kind of a boost. E.g., in Quantum Touch they say that the recipient's vibration is raised to match the practitioner's in a process called entrainment. In "informational" healing, the body is given information on how to fix itself. Matrix Energetics claims to be such a method. The exciting thing about "informational" healing is that it makes instantaneous fixes possible. For instance, Richard Bartlett of ME does demonstrations on stage with scoliosis during which the scoliosis fixes itself while he is explaining what he intends to do. I once saw a broken nose that was bent to the left go back to its normal position in an instant. One minute it was crooked, a micro-second later it was straight. We didn't see it straighten itself, it just kind of went from one quantum state to another, if you will. The person said "thank you, I can breathe normally again", and went back to what he was doing before (sparring, actually). I've also heard of cancers disappearing like that. IMHO informational healing will be the mind-blowing shift of the future, perhaps rendering even energy healing obsolete.

vic smyth said...

Judith, thanks again for your response. I hope I'm not making a pest of myself badgering you with questions.

You mentioned earlier that a methodology I used was similar to Quantum Entrainment. I'm currently reading up on these and QE really appeals to me probably because of the similarity to what I did 30 years ago.

Do you use QE, and, if so, can you share some of your experiences with QE?

Thanks again,
vic

Judith said...

Not officially. I read the book and considered taking a course, but I didn't get that far. What Frank Kinslow teaches is very similar to the "Two Point" practiced in Matrix Energetics, except instead of using two points, he triangulates. Two points are on the patient, and the third point, I believe, is the equivalent of the Zero Point Field, or Source Energy, or what one might call God. I have taken Matrix Energetics, so what I use is the "Two Point". One of the phrases used in Matrix in relation to the "Two Point" is "let go and let God." Another technique I might use is to have one hand on the person I'm treating and the other one just out there floating around, and then I ask the question "what needs to happen here?" and often something does. People have felt things moving back into place deep inside their shoulders or knees; sometimes decades old injuries or complaints clear up. Things that physiotherapists or chiropractors kept treating with no success year upon year resolved in one or two treatments. It's a powerful technique.

I believe since all this healing comes from the same place, people keep discovering it, attaching different names and techniques to it, and teaching it in a variety of workshops. Many of them swear their technique the only way to do healing. BTW I was recently in Europe and saw many paintings on Christian subjects and I noticed that the hand positions of the saints are very similar to the hand positions I see when people are doing healing. I found that very interesting.

Best,
Judith

vic smyth said...

Judith, many thanks for your replies. Your blog has been a Godsend to me, what a wealth of information! Any plans for a book?

I've got plenty of stuff to mull over for now, I'll keep in touch.

With Lovingkindness,
vic

Judith said...

Maybe fiction :) For the moment this blog contains pretty much everything I've had to say about healing.

Yes, please, keep in touch!

Best,
Judith

vic smyth said...

One last item. I created a web page to help me learn how to cycle. (I practice cycling not as a healing modality but because it works like magic for me. I'm constantly removing things from the list once I've either attained the item, or, once a door is opened, I realize that I never wanted the item in the first place.) I emailed Bill to see if he thought that the web page would be helpful to learn cycling. He replied that he thought it would. Here's a link: http://vicsmyth.netne.net/cycle/ If you or anyone else is interested this can be customized so that you can put in your own images and run it off a pc, no web server needed. Just contact me and I'll tell you how to do it.

vic

Judith said...

That's very cool, Vic :) Can one moderate the speed and the size of the images?

Best,
Judith

vic smyth said...

Yes. I put a new link on the website with instructions: http://vicsmyth.netne.net/cycle/ Before you add your own images you would size them using any graphics tool such as Windows Paint. You can modify the starting speed, the rate of speed increase, the final speed, and the number images you want to use (at least for the flipcard method which is the one closest to Bengston's cycling method). You can tinker with it and give me some feedback if you have time.

vic smyth said...

I updated the webpage http://vicsmyth.netne.net/cycle/ so, yes, you can modify speed parameters. There's also instructions for using your own images. Though after reading your latest post about cycling, it may be moot at this point?

Judith said...

Not at all moot, Vic. My comments related to hyper-cycling, not to cycling in general. People still need a way to connect to their healing abilities. There seem to be as many ways to do it as there are energy healing courses, with some overlap, but cycling is a good way to start. Thank you for the link!