Frequently Asked Questions
What Is Depth Healing—HowDoes It Differ From Other
Forms Of Healing Work?
Although initially having trained in Reiki and other energy healing methods, I feel my healing abilities expanded and deepened over decades of spiritual practices and through the blessings and inspiration of a world-renowned enlightened Spiritual Teacher by the name of Ammachi (The Holy Mother). This ever emerging work, which I have named “Depth Healing,” is therefore not a method which can be learned in schools or in seminars — instead it has evolved over a lifetime committed to helping others with their inner transformation. Depth Healing differers from other healing methods because it requires the ability to see deeply into people in order to understand the origin of their pain, issues, and physical disease. Not all “healers” possess deeply intuitive insight. It takes a lot of time to develop, and requires a lot of purification of one’s own mind to truly see another individual clearly — and not just a mirror of oneself. For medical intuition, it is also very helpful to have had a background teaching anatomy, and the experience working as a chiropractic physician for 37 years. Over this time in practice, my understanding of healing was tested daily, amidst constant challenges which required developing ever new ways to give immediate, effective, and lasting results throughout thouseands of treatments on patients — for both their physical and emotional issues.
Depth Healing also differs from most healing methods because most healers try to keep a distance from their client’s pain, they even learn techniques to protect themselves while doing healing work. In Depth Healing, on the other hand, the goal is to merge with a client’s pain, so we process it together — from the inside. I may even take a substantial amount of a client’s pain directly into my body to process it more quickly than they can. This creates a much deeper connection and empathic understanding, resulting in considerably greater motivation to remove what has now become our “mutual pain and suffering” and the subtler mental/emotional roots causing it. In my work, all healing is therefore “mutual”, and thus leads not only to my clients’ relief, but to also a greater spiritual purification within me. If a healing client doesn’t walk away from a session in joy, I also cannot walk away from the session in joy! So I work extra hard for an exceptionally good outcome in every healing session. I often even continue to work on some of my client’s more subtle issues over time after returning home, while engaging in my own deeper spiritual practices daily.
Another example of how Depth Healing differs from most other healing methods is that through intuitive insight, a person is led remove each layer of their pain, discomfort, and suffering. Thus, Depth Healing can be considered an advanced form of Shadow Work, as opposed to Light Work. In my view, focusing on cleaning away the darkness which covers our true inner light is a much more thorough approach than adding light, and hoping all the darkness comes out. This is exactly they way we heal ourselves as children: we cry, tantrum, and release whatever pain we feel until only our inner light and joy shines through again. If you wanted to clean your home, you’d probably want to hire a thorough cleaner instead of a really positive thinker, if you want it to come out truly sparkling. So in Depth Healing, we may use forms of visualization and imagery which seeks to bring people to face whatever triggers them, progressively delving more and more into layers of the shadow and unconscious mind. We may also go back in time to earlier moments in this life or beyond, looking to uproot the invisible and unknown origins of past trauma. Progressively removing layer upon layer of darkness is encouraged in healing sessions until eventually only a state of light, love, and joy remains. — even in the face of what used to bring up stress, pain, or anxiety.
Lastly, having been trained as a doctor, I always make sure in each session to use a rating scale so both my client and I can clearly see the progress we are making! This keeps me in touch with my client’s true perception of their progress, instead of just my own personal perception of their progress. Such a rating scale is always based on real life examples of how light-hearted freedom, love, and joy would look like and feel like, so there is a real measure of internal and external validity to the progress a person is experiencing while we work together. How many healer’s set such a high bar — for example — as having a person fully experience a “Romeo & Juliet” kind of love again for their partner, or not concluding a session until a person feels nothing less than the same joy as a “puppy running on the beach, having his best day?” In my work, I insist on setting these high goals, and my clients and I achieve them daily!
Several world-renowned enlightened spiritual teachers have granted me boons for my healing work, and for this I am truly grateful. One of the most important ones is that my work will always bring clients permanent healing, instead of just an incomplete “surgery” which will need re-doing because it wasn’t thorough enough. Few healing modalities can bring such results, and I’m thrilled to be able to offer people such a gift of the grace I received!
How Will I Feel After My First Session?
Many people feel amazing after a first session, like there has been a huge release and epiphany. However, if you’ve been tolerating difficult propblems for some time, while you may walk out feeling great after the first session, you may need to be patient for longer-lasting reslts. Understanding that you’ve entered into a healing process is key! Looking for miraculous results is very common among people who come to a healer, and a good healer should be able to surprise you with how great you can feel facing any particular challenge in life. But like any and all therapies — if you want long-term results, you may require a few sessions to feel a progressive lightening with how you feel in the midst of all of life’s challenges.
Tolerating issues over long periods of time requires us to learn to become ‘thick-skinned,’ and we often use phrases like “I’m trying not to let things get to me,” or “I’m trying to put my problems behind me,” or “like water off a duck’s back, I’m trying not let anything bother me.” But while tolerating is a great practice for the short-term, over a long period of time mere tolerance allows pressures to build up inside of us, adversely affecting our bodies and our mind. Our practice of insensitivity does not lead to overcoming our issues, instead it eventually becomes part of the problem and not a solution.
Sensitivity is often looked down upon and seen as a weakness in the business world and in our busy lives, while the ability to maintain our cool and calm exterior amidst great pressures and stress is often rewarded. Most of us have learned, therefore, to maintain an ‘aloofness’ or disconnection with respect to our emotional bodies, in order to feel less disturbances from the trying circumstances, situations, and people with whom we come into contact in the midst of our daily lives. In so doing, we leave large segments of our inner emotional world un-met and un-healed. After some time, even after we’ve achieved one or more of our outer goals, it is not uncommon to find that we still have not achieved the sense of the inner peace and joy we hoped would accompany our outward success.
During the healing process we are about to embark upon, we will be encountering and processing through large amounts of emotional issues which have never been fully faced or fully released. While this process is very natural (most children spontaneously know how to do it) this work does have a particular side-effect: it is likely that some of your previously switched-off emotional sensitivity will be regained, making you more aware of the unhealed emotional buttons (or wounds) which you are still carrying.
With this new found sensitivity, many things in life that you were tolerating and pushing out of your emotional consciousness will begin to become less tolerable. Thus, within the first several sessions, while a lot of improvement may be felt along the specific lines of the topics we face and process, you may become more sensitive to some of your issues in subject areas which we have not yet processed.
So expect great breakthroughs — we’ll aim higher than most any other methods of healing can for each session! But, realize we are entering into a healing process, and long-lasting results usually require a few sessions to achieve.
How Long Are Healing Sessions?
Depth Healing is much like a form of surgery, where layers and layers of an issue are carefully brought up and removed, until we obtain our desired result. Understanding how surgery works, we would never think to ask a surgeon to schedule a ‘one-hour gall bladder surgery.’ Instead we would ask the doctor to leave enough time in their schedule to make sure the surgery is done very well, is successful, and complete.
So, after returning from India and offering only timed one-hour sessions for a few years, I began experimenting with making sessions as long as necessary to achieve a clean breakthrough and sense of completion in one session. What I found was that the total amount of time (and of course money) that a person would have to spend in one longer session was actually less than in many shorter ones. This was because the roots of the original problem had been removed, and wouldn’t keep growing back in-between sessions. Thus, so much catch-up work was eliminated, and people were happier with reaching the particular healing goals set in each session.
So instead of fixed-time appointments, I began offering “Reach My Goal” sessions, similar to the way one would approach setting up a surgery. The intention being to reach the goal we set for the session, while also achieving a state of clarity and joy, and clents are only charged for the time needed to accomplish this. Currently, shorter 90 minute timed-sessions are also offered for people who have undergone deeper healing work, and who wish to learn how to use various self-healing tools which I’ve developed.
How Many Sessions Will I Need To Feel Better for the Long Term?
Most people come in after having lived with the pain and burden of their issues for quite some time... Even if one’s issues feel newly triggered, the emotional buttons, attachments, and patterns of thought behind such triggers could run deep. All healing requires some time and patience, and some understanding of the larger picture of what they are undertaking.
I've worked with so many people with chronic depression, chronic anxiety, relationship issues, and even persons who are coming off psychiatric medications, etc., and everyone has a point where they start feeling that a major life shift has begun to occur, a point when the shift feels steady, and a point when they realize in retrospect that it was lasting. It may take a few healing sessions, but after a certain amount of inner work, a lightness starts to prevail, until eventually a life change occurs where day-to-day living is qualitatively very different. Very rarely does a person feel such a shift after one session, but it does occasionally happen.
If a doctor suggests a patient take 7 days of antibiotics in order to treat an infection, it would not be expected that after the first pill that there would be much change. There may even be a temporary worsening of one’s symptoms due to the antibiotic kicking in and beginning to start fighting the infection. After 3 days, however, a person usually starts feeling better, and after a full 7 the disease that person had is typically cured for good. The same could be said for a lot of therapies involving healing long stuck diseases or patterns in the physical body... one needs patience to change them, and if you understand the nature of therapy, you wouldn't expect to feel good after one treatment -- in fact, sometimes after the first treatment, even more of our associated and yet unhealed physical trauma becomes apparent. It’s not uncommon for massage therapy, physical therapy, yoga, gym workouts, etc., to result in a lot of next day stiffness and soreness. If we understand how the body works, this is expected and does not become an obstacle: instead, it likely indicates that our first session was powerful and worked at a deep level.
Typically, after 3 to 6 sessions people express that they are feeling a lasting and significant shift that stays noticeable in their day-to-day lives.
How Do I Know If The Healing Work We Are Doing Is Helping?
Even after a wonderful experience in a first session, some people want to go home and “see how they feel” and “if the feeling is going to last”, in order to decide if they want to schedule further healing sessions. But this doesn't reflect a proper understanding of how the healing process works.
One should judge the effectiveness of a healing session by whether or not the “paticular goal” of that session was achieved.
Even after achieving almost impossible-to-believe lofty goals in a session, many people don’t understand that there are many facets of a problem affecting our day-to-day experience of life. While one facet can be healed, other facets of the problem — not yet dealt with — can quickly arise in its place, and feel like the next great burden. For example, if while working on relationship issues, in a first session a person reaches the amazing goal of ‘feeling no a trace of anger or upset” between themselves and their partner, there may be no significant relief yet with regard to issues around their “fear of losing their partner.” So clearly, even with such a tremendous breakthrough around one issue, all of a person’s overall anxiety and stress may not feel relieved after just the first session.
Using a previously analogy, if a doctor tells us that in order to get over a lung infection that we will need to take 7 doses of antibiotics, it wouldn't be prudent to take one pill and then decide if we want to take the others, based on how the first pill worked. We would expect some but not much change after the first pill, and perhaps we could even understand if some worsening occurs due to the antibiotics beginning to kick-in to fight the disease. If we had understanding of how antibiotics worked, we would continue with the remainder of the pills, knowing that by the last pill we should expect lasting relief. Definitely by the 3rd or 4th day of antibiotics, a doctor wants to see a clear change in a person’s wellness — if not, then further testing is done to consider a change of treatment and antibiotics. Thus, there is no clear way of assessing the effectiveness of the treatment regimen if you try to judge its success too soon.
Similarly, we should gauge the effectiveness of our healing work purely by the results we are able to achieve in each of our initial sessions. If the issues we came in with are dealt with well in each session, after 3 or 4 sessions, most people will be clearly feeling a palpable shift with regard to their overall experience of life.