Overview

The Metamorphic Technique is a simple approach to self-healing and personal development. We all have great potential, but due to limiting beliefs that we hold about ourselves and our lives, we tend to get stuck in particular patterns that keep us from fully realising that potential. These patterns can show up in various ways - physical or mental illness, emotional problems, limiting attitudes or repeating patterns of behaviour. Beneath these external symptoms are corresponding patterns of energy. The Metamorphic Technique acts as a catalyst to this energy (also known as the life force) gently enabling you to transform your patterns and begin to move from who you are, to who you can be.

History

The Metamorphic Technique has its origins in the work of Robert St John, a British naturopath and reflexologist. During the 1960's he discovered that he could bring about significant changes by applying a light touch to particular points on the feet that reflexologists call the spinal reflexes. Later he realised that everyone has their own capacity for self healing and that if he allowed it to become fully active whilst practising, then his patients would be empowered to be their own healers in a truly effective way.

Gaston Saint-Pierre, who studied extensively with Robert St John during the 1970s saw the potential for the development of a practical tool for self-healing and the realisation of one's potential that could be easily integrated into everyday life. He therefore went on to further develop the work and created the term 'The Metamorphic Technique' to differentiate the new direction the work was now taking. The word 'technique' is defined as a way of approaching a task that perfects itself in the practice

Benefits

The Metamorphic Technique is:-

• A unique tool for transformation
• Not a treatment or therapy, but a technique that helps trigger your own inner life force, enabling you to better realise your potential
• A technique that looks at transforming energy patterns
• Empowering. Any changes that occur originate entirely from within the recipient. That person's own life force has an innate intelligence of its own. The practitioner simply acts as a catalyst in the process
• Gentle, non-invasive and completely safe

Procedure

A session usually lasts for about an hour. The recipient removes their shoes and socks and may be either sitting or lying down. The practitioner uses a light touch on the spinal reflex points in the feet, hands and head. Sessions are non-diagnostic: the practitioner does not seek to address specific symptoms or problems, so there is no need to take a case history. Some people may wish to talk about it and that is fine, but it is not necessary.

The practitioner creates an environment in which that person's life force is free to do whatever is needed. The person is empowered to be his or her own healer. Most people find sessions very pleasant and relaxing.

Source of information: The Metamorphic Association