Today I’m going to spill the beans on the dirty secret that most healing teachers / healing modalities don’t talk about. You may already know this – I believe most of you do – but it’s the great unspoken secret.
Here it is: Healing techniques don’t heal people; people do.
Summary:
- Most healing techniques don’t really work, at least not the way their founders/ teachers believe they do.
- The miracle results you hear about come from great therapists, not from great tools / modalities. Most healing modalties exist because teachers or practitioners are confused about the difference between their technique working and their own energy just Being.
- If people stopped doing their techniques and could just “Be” present with people, their success rate would go up astronomically!
Let’s look at the evidence:
- Sick people very rarely can heal themselves, even with the most effective techniques. I’m forever hearing people say “I can help people, but I just can’t heal myself.” No excuses – if the technique actually worked it would be just as effective at self healing. If self-healing is harder, then the healing is not coming from the technique itself;
- Every technique, even the really slow and ineffective ones, has some success. Every healing modality has some miracle success stories (usually witnessed by a small number of successful people);
- Many people spend thousands of dollars on healing courses and came back pretty much the same as when they left. People spend a fortune trying to “learn how to heal” before they realise that you can’t – healing isn’t something you can do; and
- Most people using most techniques will never get miracle results. Some people will get miracle results no matter what they do!
I’ll say it again: Healing techniques don’t heal people; people do.
Example: I taught a healing modality for 5 years and I had some extraordinary miracles. I certainly wasn’t the only one, I have heard other great stories from the founder and a few leading teachers. But… my students, my friends, my clients, other people had trouble replicating the results.
To this day I still get written abuse from the founder of that modality saying “how dare you say that XX Healing doesn’t work?” She points, as evidence, to the miracles that have occurred here and there – and I agree that there are miracles. But the point they miss is that 50, or 70 or maybe 90% of their students are not getting the same miracles. A few miracles is either a placebo or a healer’s Beingness. It does not prove the technique itself works. And that’s the point of my article today.
It’s not the healing technique that matters, it’s You.
Those teachers / practitioners you might have met saying “I achieved this great result with XX Healing,” they would have got the same result with just about any technique. Take a really great homeopath and tell him that he only has sugar pills to cure people with, not remedies. A really great homeopath will STILL get a fantastic success rate with sugar pills, because it’s not remedies that heal people, it’s the homeopath him/herself.
I know a really great homeopath that heals without remedies. I know a great kinesiologist that no longer does muscle testing. I know plenty of Theta Healers who stopped connecting to the imagined Creator … all of them got better results when they stopped the tools of their trade. Why? Because healing techniques don’t heal people, people heal people.
This applies to Western medicine too. A sincere doctor giving someone a sugar pill will get a higher success rate than a cold, indifferent doctor handing over some new wonder drug. Did you know that this applies to surgery too? Yes, a sincere and caring surgeon can sometimes make a minor incision and “pretend” to do surgery. This can have a higher success rate than a different surgeon doing the invasive surgery. Even doctors know: It’s not the drug / surgery that matters, it’s the doctor. This used to be attributed to something called the placebo effect, but that’s not true. The placebo effect is about the client’s belief in the procedure, we are talking about the something MUCH more important: The practitioner’s belief in themselves.
I’ll say it again: Healing techniques don’t heal people; people do.
Do you get it?
If I go to see you as a healer, I don’t care what technique you use. You can wave your hand and say “Abracadabra” for all I care. It’s You that I want to see. It’s your Being, not the tools, not the words, not the tricks of the trade.
Why am I telling you this?
I’m stating what I hope is the obvious here because it’s time to change the focus of this blog, and the focus of the healing world.
It’s time to put a change how the world perceives healing. Healing techniques don’t “work” just because 1 or 2 or 10 people healed from that modality. The fact that the founder of a modality healed themself of cancer doesn’t prove the modality works – it only proves that the person was (in that moment) emotionally ready to heal themself.
As far as I’m concerned a modality doesn’t work unless everyone using it gets instant results. Everyone, including sick people healing themselves. If it only works for some people some of the time, then it’s either a placebo or a wonderful Beingness that some have, but not the technique working.
If a really expensive new cancer drug only healed 10% of people, you’d probably say that was a bit disappointing. But a spiritual healing technique that heals 10% of people is said to be miraculous. Really?
Did you know that a sugar pill can heal 30-40% of people? Receiving a few great testimonials does not prove that your technique works. This is so important that in the USA, the FTC has made it illegal to advertise your healing work using testimonials that aren’t backed by scientific research.
Perhaps uniquely in the healing world, I praise the FTC. I know that lots of sham healing modalities are based only on the testimonials of the founder and a small percent of success stories. These modalities are slowly being shut down.
Healing was never about tools, technique or commands. Healing is about (a) why a person (the practitioner) is drawn to healing courses or work in the first place; and (b) why a person (the client) is drawn to be healed.
Healing is about the PEOPLE. Consciousness. The tools really don’t matter.
Hang on, doesn’t Simon teach some healing technique?
Yes, I teach a healing technique, but that’s just a distraction from the main event. If you watch my instant healing videos, I ask you to freeze frame on the moment when the healing happens. Can you find it? Was there any word / command / technique that actually made the physical change? The answer is no. The only reason I talk out loud in my demo is to give the class something to think about, or perhaps something to “do” till they are ready to “Be.”
My friends, I’m not here to teach a technique, I’m here to teach people how to Be. The healing comes from your essential nature, not from the words you say or the things you do.
My job – the real function of RPT – is to connect people with the place in themselves where the healing comes from. That is Beingness. Once you are there it doesn’t matter whether you heal as “Simon says” or with homeopathy or Abracadabra. It doesn’t matter.
Over the comings weeks I’m going to be introducing you to a fresh look at the Placebo Effect, and the most important concept in RPT: coherence. That, ladies and gentlemen, is what it’s all about. When you achieve coherence, or full Beingness, or Mastery, or whatever words your science or spirituality call it, you heal just by being emotionally present.
People heal people, healing techniques have become irrelevant.
Comments / thoughts
A blog exists on comments and debate. Please write! Especially if you happen to disagree with me! (And I know people do, I get plenty of abuse from the “XX Healing works” crowd.) I love a good debate or discussion. Have you seen a healing technique that you think works independently from who is doing it? Do you think that Reference Point Therapy would still work if anyone (a robot?) says “I acknowledge you,” without any emotional presence at all?
Let us know what you think, and join the mailing list to be the first to know about the new coherence updates.
With Love!
Simon
Murray 
Monica Wafer 
Holly Brennan Shabtai 
Dawn Henderson 
Amy 
tom jones 
At the end of the day I don’t care if you call it RPT, Ho’oponopono, surgery or magic mushrooms, be honest about who’s doing the healing…
GaryBegue 
Peter Taylor 
George Duisman 
Hey Simon,
AWESOME MAN, I love the way you put it so Simply.
It is that simple.
cheers
Paul
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Jude Reply:
May 6th, 2010 at 2:11 am
Hi Simon – i am loving your new blog! Regarding ‘Healing’s Dirty little Secret’ and Beingness, does this also mean that Beingness heals animals as well! i am guessing it’s the same thing but maybe I can invite you to comment further.
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simonrose Reply:
May 6th, 2010 at 10:43 pm
yes, of course! Same for animals.
Great to hear from you and welcome to the new blog.
blessings
Simon
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