In 0-point@yahoogroups.com, "Jack_e_Funne" <jack_e_funne@y...> wrote:
> G and all,
>
Just to add my perspective as a Zero Balancer on John's Feed-back...

I think his description is excellent, and well observed considering
he was in an altered state (with his permission, and yours I'd like
to use it as a case history in my promotional material).
The interview before the session is used to frame the participant's
experience of the session; by having them recall significant events
leading up to "now" and to focus on their current experience of being
in their body, we create a frame in which changes can occur.
I wouldn't go so far as to say that Zero Balancing can reverse the
adverse effects of living, but by connecting with them, the
neutrality of an altered state opens people to their own changes.
Neutrality of purpose is an important principle in Zero Balancing.
Fritz Smith took pains to explain that our job as a practitioner is
to hold 100 percent of attention and zero percent of intention when
we're working with people. As much as we might want to "heal"
whatever our patient presumes(or worse that we might presume) is
wrong with them, it's not up to us to impose our will, but simply to
offer a neutral space in which the work that needs to be done can
occur.

The body-felt changes that John describes are pretty much standard.
Each session follows the same protocol, with a few small variations,
to alter the focus on specific areas of pain for example, but even
though each session is the same to a casual observer, the reality of
the experience is completely different, even with the same patient a
week later.
It is quite common during a session for the person to experience a
range of mood changes, there can be laughter and tears; some people
experience total recall of long forgotten memories. Some that I have
worked on have "revisited" childhood situations, recalled significant
conversations, and accessed quite specific dreams whilst they have
been on the table (and afterwards in their sleep).
Although the areas where attention is given are the same and
connections (fulcrums in ZB jargon) are made in the same sequence,
the degree of presssure (which ranges from hardly any and to almost
none) and the length of time (usually around ten or twenty seconds)
and the pauses between fulcrums depend on what the practitioner feels
through their fingers; but if anyone asks me to explain what I feel,
I can't tell them.

One of the biggest problems in offering Zero Balancing to people is
to explain to them what it's good for. In my experience it seems
able to "fix" pretty much anything. Yesterday I used it to help a
cab-driver with a bad back, today I used it to help relieve the
rheumaticky joint pain of a lady suffering from lupus. Tomorrow, I'm
helping a woman who's husband has deserted her for a "younger model"
and both sons having left home, is now facing the grief of the forced
sale of a family home that she has cherished for thirty years.

I expect that John will find (or maybe has already discovered) that
the effects of his one Zero Balancing session have lasted a lot
longer than the confines of the actual session and that he will
continue to experience beneficial reverberations in his whole being
for some time yet.
So aside from just helping people to feel good, I am constantly
amazed (and humbled) by the power of Zero Balancing to help people in
ways that seem to extend the scope of bodywork way beyond the
confines of the body into the areas of deep spiritual quiet that
empower permanent changes.
By enhancing our experience of being who we are, Zero Balancing seems
able to enhance our experience of life itself.

Mike Groves