My Personal Journey in Touch for Health
Conrad Ho (Hong Kong)
Sep. 9, 2009
When I took the Touch for Health (“TFH”) Synthesis Workshop for the first time in May 1999, my overall impression was lots of bits and pieces here and there, without being able to formulate a big picture of these information and skills falling into place, into one system called “Touch for Health”. I was lost in details. Naturally, apart from applying certain small bits to certain situations in a piecemeal fashion, like helping myself get some better sleep by using the Emotional Stress Release technique, I did not really use TFH and could not appreciate the depth and width of it.
I did TFH Synthesis for the second time in October 1999. After mastering the techniques on the operational level, my mind was free this time to appreciate the intention and design of the system. Things just made sense to me all of a sudden by themselves. I was deeply enchanted by the ability of Dr. John Thie, a Westerner, to mix and match Western and Chinese techniques and concepts into one amazing system which proved itself to be able to produce amazing results.
I started to launch my personal quest to try out how good the TFH system was. Each day, at least one TFH balance was done on me, either by myself or some fellow TFH students. At certain periods, I was so dedicated to the level of obsession that I was just balancing myself the whole day through, from dawn to dusk. My record was 72 balances a day.
Still, it was a brave new world of TFH to me when I joined Dr. John Thie’s workshop in December 2000 in Santa Monica in California, U.S.A. What was the most special about Thie’s casework style was not his exceptionally fluid fluency in his techniques. The magic lies in the magician, not the wand. It was his penetrating and yet systemic perception of the client’s state and tendencies, plus his unlimited respect of the client’s self-responsibility. His most outstanding dictum (to me) which constantly surfaced during the course of a session with him was, after discussing for some time the background information and relevant issues, “So, what do you want?”
There is a certain spirit in the TFH system of wellness promotion, a certain aspiration embodied in a self-managed programme to approach or even reach wholeness and coherence. Every layman can master the system and use it to their own and their loved ones� advantages. The only question is: have you made the decision to shoulder the responsibility of promoting your own wellness?
