OK So I just attended the new 'whatever' coaching/healing/therapeutic technique and it's totally fabluss. You haven't heard of the 'whatever' technique? Oh it's the latest thing, you invert the third eye by taking the chakras out completely and washing them in duck urine, metaphorically of course. It all comes from the bagwanwainruney, I've been getting fabluss results.
This is the common discourse at 'spiritual' or coaching gatherings where in order to differentiate yourself from the million or so other practitioners that live in your street, you suddenly possess the latest new thing or technique that's either better than or the next level of whatever everyone else is doing. The problem is other practitioners soon get a whiff of the idea and they all rush off to match your credentials and your USP is short lived.
Watch coaching circles for a while and you'll see the latest crazes do the rounds. A good example of this was the explosion of NLP techniques, derivatives and ninja type levels, culminating if memory serves in 'Grand Master NLP practitioner'. How insecure do you have to be to call yourself that? And how good can it be if you learn it from a one day workshop?
OK so with all these things,we're basically talking about placebo, or manipulating belief. My biggest problem is that it's used as a means of parting impressionable people from their money and I'm not sure where I stand ethically with that. Like homeopathy, it works as a placebo and placebo often gets results, so is that good or bad, the mugs are cured because we've spouted gibberish at them and given them some water... healer or conman?
I guess what we do is trick the brain into either healing the ailment or if we assume that the physical self and subconscious mind are hugely linked, and the latter is actually responsible in some cases for problems with the former and that by convincing the subconscious that what you are doing will heal the problem is enough for the subconscious either to let go, or release the relevant antibodies or like whatever it might do to give the impression of a cure. Psychological cause, phsyical symptom perhaps? I don't know and the problem is, neither does anyone else and a bit like religion, when anyone claims they got all the answers, they are either lying for self gain or suffering from a level of mental illness directly proportional in seriousness to the vigour with which they prosthelytise.
Anyway assuming you want to try this sort of thing for personal gain, malintent or for harmless fun, it's dead simple, you just need to either need to be a sociopath or decide only to use your newfound powers for the cause of good. Though it's worth noting at this point that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. If you believe in hell that is.
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