Lesson 1: Where to Place Your Hands

After I've said my opening prayer, the first thing I do is scan the person's body in order to figure out where to place my hands. I just run my hand from the top of their head down their body, holding my hand perhaps two inches from touching them. I use my intuition and my felt sense and I try to trust those. You can find out about the Body Scan method as well as other methods for figuring out where to work in the Intuition module.

A place that draws me in often feels to me like a break or a hole in the person's energy. Often, your hand will just stop there, though it might be a micro pause, so don't talk yourself out of it. Just trust yourself and go with it. This is actually much easier to feel on someone else's body than your own. 

When you're working on yourself, you can try to run your hand around, but you've got a lot more information coming in because you're not just feeling in your hand, you're also feeling inside your own body. This can be confusing. 

Of course, we often have a place that hurts or is uncomfortable and we want to fix that place. So that might be the best place to try first. Just be aware that the place that's most loudly calling your attention isn't necessarily where your body is working to heal itself, so if this doesn't process well, you might just be in the wrong spot. To learn about why this happens, click on the 'Your Body is a Jenga Puzzle lesson. I also share more intuitive methods for figuring out where to put your hands in the lesson about that. 

Once you find a place to hold the first hand, you're going to try to feel where it wants to connect to. To do this on someone else, just pulse out from your first hand and be open to knowing where that pulse pulls to or lands. Another way to say that is, 'Just imagine you can feel it.' 

If you're trying to work on yourself, then, once you place your first hand, you can try to figure out where to place the second hand by either trying to imagine where the first spot is drawing to, just like when you're working on someone else, or you can switch into your internal felt sense and try to feel where it wants to connect to. 

In both cases, once your two hands are placed, you may feel that they draw together and pull your hands in. Or like they latch together. That's the beginning of processing. So congratulations—you're healing yourself!

No joke—putting two hands on your body is healing. Across the board. You don't even really have to have your hands in the "right" place. When you put your hands on your body, their heat and pressure will turn the gel inside your cells into liquid. They'll discharge toxins and uptake nutrients with more alacrity. So as long as you've got two hands on your body you're self-healing and you're doing it right. 

 In the next lesson, we'll cover why.