In the most recent Quantum-Touch Newsletter, Richard Gordon 
gave 5 succinct tips for improving your sessions. Tip #1 
was: "Go into an allowing state while giving it your all. 
The challenge is to do both at once." Excellent advice! 
 
But while some of you may already instinctively be doing 
this, others of you may be asking, "Well, what does that 
actually mean? How do I go into an allowing state while 
giving it my all? Doesn't 'giving it my all' mean trying 
with all my might to accomplish the result that I want for 
my client? And if so, isn't that the opposite of 
'allowing'?" 
 
First things first: what is "an allowing state"? It is 
being with "what is" without resisting it. You are simply 
allowing the present moment to be what it is – which it is 
whether you like it or not anyway! 
 
"But," you say, "My friend is in pain, and I certainly 
don't want to allow that! Otherwise, why would I be here 
doing QT?! How the heck is allowing the present moment "be 
what it is" helping my friend with her pain?" 
 
Look at it this way: Connecting with one aspect of what is 
– that your friend is in pain – is what gives rise to your 
desire to help and to your action of sweeping and 
breathing. But now you add something extra. You think, "I 
just HAVE to make this terrible pain go away! What if this 
doesn't work? I have to try harder! Poor Janie. And she's 
always making fun of this energy stuff. What if I fail and 
she thinks I'm an idiot! I've got to make this work!" 
 
If you scan your body for a moment as you are under the 
sway of this "efforting," you will notice the bodily 
tensions that necessarily accompany it. I tend to hold 
tension in my left knee, and if I'm efforting, my personal 
body scan will invariably reveal holding and constriction 
there. One of your shoulders may be lifted and clenched. 
Your neck may feel strained. You may notice tightness 
around your eyes. Are your toes gripping the floor? Are 
your fingers stiff and tight? Tension constricts and blocks 
the energy channels running through your body. Your 
efforting has done nothing more than create interference 
and gum up the works. 
 
The first step of "being with what is" is scanning your 
body and connecting with what's going on right here, right 
now. Are your shoulders lifting up and tightening? Allow 
them to drop into the spaciousness of the present moment. 
Focus your attention on your breathing and sweeping. 
Remember, you have no overt control over your friend's 
pain. You simply offer energy through sweeping and 
breathing, and her system does with it what it will. The 
more unimpeded your sweeping and breathing is, the more 
lifeforce is available to your friend. So let's just stick 
with that for now.  
 
Feel the energy coming up from your feet, feel it going 
down through your arms. That's all you need to do. If the 
inspiration arises to increase the flow with other 
techniques, of course that's fine. Just be focused on the 
experience of whatever techniques you're using. It's like 
something I read once about Japanese Kabuki theatre 
training – 90% of the actors' training is focused on 
dropping any little habit, any little affectation, any 
little unnecessary tension that's not contributing to what 
is being expressed at a particular moment. 
 
What about visualizing your friend as healthy, or as having 
been healed five years ago, as you sweep and breathe? 
Again, this is great. Just scan yourself here and there as 
you're doing this – are you feeling any sense of strain 
beneath the image? If so, you are not really focused on the 
positive image, even if that's what you are consciously 
visualizing – you're actually focused on the disconnect 
between what you really, really want to happen and the bad 
thing you strongly suspect is going to happen. (A wonderful 
insight from the Abraham-Hicks book, "Ask and It Is 
Given.") And of course, this sense of strain will be 
accompanied by actual muscle tension somewhere in your 
body, blocking the full flow of lifeforce. So, again, drop 
whatever it is that you're tensing into the spaciousness of 
the present moment. Connect with the sensation of the 
sweeping and breathing. Bring the positive image to mind 
again. Pay attention to whether your body is feeling 
connected, spacious, fully in the perfection of the moment 
of sweeping, breathing, knowing the truth of the image.  
 
The wonderful point of the "five years ago" technique is to 
by-pass the feeling of anxious joy – "I can't believe it! 
Can this really be happening!?" – that you feel when you 
suddenly get something you've been LONGING for. When you're 
in a state of longing, you're leaning toward some future 
state, leaning away from the present moment that you have 
judged and found wanting. And this lack of balance 
necessarily creates compensating tensions, which create 
interference, which blocks the flow of lifeforce.  
 
So how do you give it your all? Sweep and breathe. Become 
aware of what is. Scan your body. Pay attention to the 
areas of tension you feel, of interference. Drop any 
tensions you become aware of. Drop them into the 
spaciousness of the present moment. Drop them into what is. 
When you're spinning your chakras, scan yourself for any 
signs of drag caused by doubt or longing. If you feel any, 
release them into the present moment. When you're 
visualizing positive images, scan yourself for signs of 
strain or worry or other interference. Release any 
interference you may feel into what is. 
 
You "give it your all" by giving all of it up to the 
present moment.  

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