Lesson 1: How to Allow

We've already figured out where we want to heal. We've got our two hands latched or maybe we're just holding our attention firmly in one place and, in this lesson, we're going to learn to 'Allow.' 

The most important thing to remember is that allowing takes place simultaneously with attending. So you're not going to abandon the focus you have on the place you want to heal. You're going to keep your attention picturing the knee or elbow or kidney or wherever while you simultaneously activate the peripheral vision. 

This will automatically pull your energetic body back a little bit. 

Now, I used to tell people to 'sit behind themselves,' because that was how I learned it and it made sense to me. But people who have a tendency to disassociate will pull back too far. When you activate your peripheral vision you tend to stay in this very tight range of your body. It makes sense. When you activate your peripheral vision, you're getting ready to fight or flee, you're taking in more information, your right brain is turned on. So you should be super embodied at this moment. 

If you do have a tendency to disassociate, then ignore the whole peripheral vision thing and use this idea instead: Just get very still. Pay attention and then just get very still. Listen. Let information in. 

When you can activate the right brain as you're simultaneously using your left brain and holding attention on something, your body will understand exactly what to do. It'll just go directly into healing that area. You'll know this has happened because you'll begin to feel the body start to process. 

So these are the basics. Now, allow me to share an instructive story about how I figured all this out in the next lesson.