Self-development & Therapies > PAMPERING > Metamorphic Technique

The Metamorphic Technique is a simple light massage to certain reflexes in the feet, hands and head. It is a very light touch, but many people find the effect to be deep and long lasting. The purpose of the technique is to release energy blocks, and thus to free up the healing life force of the 0 to enable him or her to find their way forward unhindered.

Use

• Many people choose to receive the Metamorphic Technique during times of change or upheaval in their lives:- when they are coping with bereavement, moving house, changing job, facing redundancy, divorce or any other challenging situation in which they find themselves.

• The technique helps them to a different viewpoint of the situation no matter how challenging. Instead of feeling themselves to be a victim of circumstance, they find that they can see their way through the pain and confusion, and also regain sight of their own needs and desires.

• This allows them to come through the time of difficulty more smoothly and easily, and also to use the experience as a helpful lesson for growth and development.

• The main changes are emotional and psychological, however some people with physical disabilities have found themselves to be more mobile and free of pain after one or more sessions

Reaction

Many people respond immediately and dramatically after only one session, whilst others need the support of a weekly session for some months.

Others use the technique as a form of preventative medicine, enjoying the added benefit from regular monthly or bimonthly sessions of continued increase of energy, a releasing of past ingrained habit and a general awakening to life.

Theory of the Metamorphic Technique

St John’s theory is that the most important formative time of our lives is the prenatal period.

He believed that we each had a perfect ‘template for becoming’ imprinted on our cells at conception, and for real changes to occur, we have to reconnect with this original pattern.

Our life experiences can alter the natural optimum pattern that we each retain deep inside, by causing energy pathways to be blocked. This can happen at any time when we internalise fear, uncertainty or any type of emotional discomfort. The distortions brought about by life’s traumas (large and small) can result in our being physically, emotionally, mentally or spiritually ill.

The Metamorphic Technique is one of the holistic ‘energy’ therapies that can smooth out the blocks and rebalance all the energy pathways, putting us back in line with our best selves and freeing us to attain our true potential.

Roots

The Technique dates from the 1960s when naturopath and reflexologist, Robert St John, was working with emotionally and psychologically damaged children.

He wanted to give his patients a long lasting and effective catalyst for change. And he did not feel that what he was able to offer through existing methods was enough to make a profound change to any of them. He was rewarded in his quest for a ‘deeper’ and more long lasting technique once he began to explore the use of spinal reflex points from a different perspective.

He came to believe that the spinal reflex points on the feet and hands, as well as some areas on the head correspond to our time in the womb.

That by stimulating these points he could actually touch our personal potential for growth and attainment - that perfect self we each are before the strains of our mother’ pregnancy, the trauma of birth and the challenges of life distort us into a stressed and unhealthy reflection of what we might have been.

St John found that by using a particular method of light massage, he could release blocks and facilitate ‘transformations’ into out best self on both physical and emotional levels.