MARCH 13 & 14 ACUSTONETM      ·      TUI NA CUPPING SLIDE CUPPING      ·   FIRE CUPPING GUA-SHA By Mónica Calvo, Tong Ren Therapist, LMT   from: 9 AM to 4 PM WHERE:        15 Cottage St. Quincy Ma §§§     Please wear comfortable clothes since you will give and receive treatment. Course fee:      $250 ($50 deposit is required.)              Checks, or cash. For more information and registration, please call 617-605-3308 or mail to monicacalvo@aol.com ----------------------------------------- Latest News Story - NBC 7 Boston NBC Boston Channel 7 recently produced a news story on Tong Ren and the success stories we have had. This segment was broadcasted on May 15th 2008 and we would like to share it with everyone. This is great news as Tong Ren Therapy is spreading rapidly. I4r3FrzFBc"  Printable version of "Theory of Tong Ren Therapy" To save file, right click and chose "Save As" Theory of Tong Ren Therapy Any healing system needs a theory to support it, no matter where it comes from or whether it makes sense. The theory of the collective unconscious is the basis for Tong Ren therapy, without proof all theories are merely conjecture. Proof may be found in research or empirical data. Tong Ren has not been proved by any expert research. This type of research involves financial support, political support, religious beliefs, development of modern science, and case studies by a qualified practitioner. The proof for all of my theories is only through the experience and results of my patients and me. I have no doubt that Tong Ren therapy works. No one can argue and deny the work we have done or the results we have achieved. With everything we have done, people like to know the theory behind the truth and its philosophy. Yet, many things are still a puzzle. As with much of Western healing theory, no one can be sure why it works. For example, how many billions of dollars are spent on cancer research and labor and yet has anyone found why cancer occurs? We know so little from this giant quest, but we still use the three big treatments -- surgery, chemotherapy and radiation -- to kill the cancer. Their effectiveness has been disappointing, and yet we look ahead with hope. In my practice, it is easy to reduce the suffering in some cancer cases with Chi Gong and Tong Ren therapy. Yet, some tell me that if they do not understand the theory of Chi Gong and Tong Ren healing, they would rather die, and they refuse to try my healing. This is very surprising to me. I can tell them honestly that I do not know the true theory of Chi Gong and Tong Ren healing, but I do know the method and I have the ability to release the syndrome. In some cases, the tumor immediately disappears or becomes smaller. Interestingly, most cancer patients are not knowledgeable about chemotherapy, but they are willing to try it because they have faith in Western medicine. Ask a doctor or someone who already received chemotherapy treatments one simple question: who developed chemotherapy originally? My is not connected with any religion nor should it be viewed as a mystery. My belief in Tong Ren healing is associated with the philosophy of the collective unconscious and the power of the mind. Many people accept the idea that there is an unconscious and that the mind is powerful. Many books describe these philosophical views. In religion we have faith healing. This theory is the belief in God. Many people laugh at and deny faith healing. These people have closed minds; but if they interview and do research, then there can be no denial. Maybe the healing rate is low. Maybe their philosophy cannot be agreed upon and accepted. However, the truth is that faith healing works and laughter cannot stop people from using this approach. In fact, since the beginning of human history each nation and religion has had its own healing methods. Religious and mystical healing has its own way to bring energy to heal patients. No matter what people name the energy, I believe it is the same. This is similar to Chi Gong healing. Each style has its own name and technique to describe the same thing. When a group comes together to form a collective unconscious, as in a healing meditation, this collective mind can be a healing power. This type of healing power needs a leader. When we form a group to be a collective unconscious mind, we need a leader or form to do it, just as a computer needs a font to show a letter on a monitor. In Tong Ren therapy we use a regular plastic acupuncture model to form the healing image. The acupuncture model becomes an energetic representation of the patient’s body. By placing the needles in the appropriate area on the model and connecting the mind with our collective unconscious, we can also engage in a treatment between the practitioner and patient. The connection between the healer and the patient is formed and modified by the energetic representation of the acupuncture model. Just as light shining through a slide will display an image, the Chi directed to the patient is modified by the image of the acupuncture model with needles inserted at specific points. The pattern of needles and the points selected are the same as the acupuncturist would use if inserting the needles in the patient’s body. Both inserting needles in the model and in the patient’s body are means to balance the patient’s Chi. The difference, of course, is that when the model is used the patient can be treated over great distance. This is similar to some Japanese acupuncture methods in which the needle is just touched to the skin but not inserted. Because Chi and the collective unconscious are not limited by space, only the connection must be made. The healing power is not from the acupuncture model--it is from our mind, and this mind transforms into a healing force. This healing energy we call Chi. In the human body, Chi has its own way to circulate. We must regulate the Chi and make it run on its track. This is the same theory that a Chi Gong master uses to make Chi circulate in a patient’s body. There are a thousand different Chi Gong healing systems in China. Each system has its own way and technique in the use of Chi for healing purposes. In Tong Ren healing, we have our own way also. The points used on the model are on the meridians of TCM. We choose the points for the Tong Ren treatment from the basic Tom Tam Healing System, which includes TCM and new research. When we practice Tong Ren healing, we must follow a common way and standardize our method. In the future when more people repeat the same way, this way will have more power. In this way our collective unconscious intent and experience increases the strength of the Tong Ren therapy. In my practice, I can clearly affirm that the more I practice Tong Ren, the more ease and power I have. The purpose of this method of healing is to help someone become balanced from Chi circulation. This balance is good for anyone and does not cause any harm. If anyone tried to use this technique to harm someone, it would not work. To harm someone is not in the Tong Ren therapy philosophy. It is also not a part of our collective unconscious intent. If any of the practitioners try to harm someone with our Tong Ren, they will harm themselves. A healer is one who tries to heal someone. Hurting people is against the healer’s consciousness. So when someone wants to learn Tong Ren healing, they must purify the mind towards healing sickness and helping the hopeless. From the point of view of karmic theory, we could say that if patients believe in the efficiency of Tong Ren, they are collectively creating a karmic field or mind imprint for this approach to manifest healing. The more people who believe in and are open to Tong Ren the more powerful it becomes. Furthermore, the more they practice this method, the more potent it becomes. This is in accord with the Buddhist understanding of mind imprinting because all ideas are collected in the subconscious and gather power as time passes. Additionally, Buddhist theory states all things manifest in our environment because of the imprints we create in our subconscious mind. Therefore, we could say healing in Tong Ren happens because we have planted seeds in our subconscious and created a prior manifestation. Moreover, Buddhist and other Eastern systems believe all manifestations come from the mind, and within this understanding, we can acknowledge that the body itself can be healed, if we create the imprint for the healing to happen in the subconscious mind. In these systems, the body is the mind at a lower vibration frequency. The body is a creation or projection of the mind. When we form a collective unconscious intent and force, and translate it towards the healing power, this power has the highest quality. When we put people into the Chi Gong state, the Chi automatically knows how to balance the Chi in the body. Our mind cannot change the healing purpose. The West has a famous research story called The Hundredth Monkey. Scientists studied the behavior of monkeys inhabiting a group of islands. One day a monkey on one island was spotted going to the ocean to clean mud off a piece of food. This was the first time the scientists had observed such behavior. Their excitement increased when scientists from the next island reported that the monkeys on their island had begun the same action. Although there was no contact between the two groups of monkeys, in a short time, both groups had developed the same behavior, a transfer of knowledge without direct contact. One could speculate that this was mere coincidence, yet it would seem more likely that this was a tangible example of a collective unconscious at work. I believe that in teaching the best phrase is, “Monkey see, monkey do.” Now it seems even if they do not see, they can do. Perhaps as more people practice Tong Ren eventually Tong Ren will be practiced by the whole world. The West practices hypnotic suggestion and guided meditation. Tong Ren therapy is more than the power of suggestion since we can produce a healing effect on babies and animals. This means Tong Ren therapy does not need language to influence the patient. It is a transfer of Chi, healing and knowledge without any guided thought or the use of the power of suggestion. If a group of Tong Ren therapists perform Tong Ren therapy, they can gather more Chi to affect another group of Tong Ren therapists. In this way the whole group of the Tong Ren therapists’ healing power keeps growing. Many of the Tong Ren practitioners will realize that every few months their healing effect is stronger. This is because each day, as more people practice Tong Ren, the healing power grows within the collective unconscious. As more patients come to believe in the Tong Ren healing power, this further increases the healing power of the collective unconscious. To date, many people still do not believe that acupuncture can heal many diseases, even though it is a physical, mechanical stimulation technique. Tong Ren healing uses the same acupuncture points as acupuncture, but Tong Ren does not need the physical stimulation caused by acupuncture. Tong Ren is a mind or psychophysical healing method, which causes many people to doubt, deny and argue its theory and healing result. Recent medical studies prove that the mind is powerful in the healing process. These studies use a placebo in order to arrive at this conclusion. Sugar pills can trigger healing without any chemical effect. Indeed, many of the reports show that sugar pills are often more effective than chemical medicine or even surgery in certain research studies. If the mind proves to be a power to heal disease, the question is: what form of the mind promotes the healing of illness? The mind is a form of brainwave. If we can discover the form of this brainwave, then we can access the healing state. The mind can react to the sensory organs, as light or the reflection of an image reacts through eyesight, sound or noise through hearing, smell from the nose, taste from the mouth, and touch, temperature from the skin. Besides mechanical or physical stimulation, brainwave communication also can change the mind. .

In 1656, a Dutch scientist whose name is Christian Huygens, while working on the design of the pendulum clock, found that if he placed two unsynchronized clocks side by side on a wall, later the two clocks would slowly synchronize to each other. The two clocks can be mechanically synchronized. This same concept, known as the Frequency Following Response (FFR), is a natural occurring phenomenon of the human brain. The human brain has a tendency to change its dominant EEG frequency towards the frequency of the dominant external stimuli applied to it. Scientific studies have shown that one brainwave can affect others. This is called brainwave entrainment or brain frequency entrainment. In nature, the birds, fishes, all animals have the capacity for brainwave entrainment. When a group of birds are flying, all the birds follow a leader to fly. When we look at a school of fish swimming, all the fish follow a leader as well. The point bird and pilot fish do not need to make a sound or any physical signal to lead others to follow. Their guiding signal is from the brainwave. Brainwave entrainment involves a frequency following response. According to scientific studies, a mother’s brainwave entrainment can alter a baby’s heart beat and brainwave. When two women live together, it may change their menstrual cycle, indicating the effect on the hormone levels. In Tong Ren healing the belief is that the healing mind can change the patient’s mind and physical condition. Basically the brainwave contains two important aspects; one is the brainwave frequency which has four categories: Beta, Alpha, Theta and Delta. The other pertains to the type of signal from each organ. In the case of a radio wave it includes the radio wave frequency and the content of sound signal, as exhibited by speech or music. When we pick up the correct frequency with the radio, then we can connect the radio station to receive its sound signal. Brainwave entrainment operates with two different signals: one signal initiates outside of the being and the other signal emanates internally. In Chi Gong healing, patients can receive the Chi from the Chi Gong healer, and the patient also can guide his or her own Chi circulation within the body. In Tong Ren healing, we follow the same theory; the Tong Ren healer can send the brainwave to the patient for healing, and the patient can guide his own brainwave for self-healing as well. When the brainwave is active, its electromagnetic field is active. The electromagnetic field is one type of energy in the universe. The electromagnetic field is also a signal. Radio waves belong to the electromagnetic field. The concept of brainwave entrainment has the same theory as the television remote control, which uses electromagnetic energy. In the case of a television remote control, we must setup the code for each function. When we push the right button, then the television can function in the right order. Each human being or animal has the signal or code for healing. Each organ of a being has a different code and frequency. When we find the right code signal, then we can make the organ function normally. According to acupuncture research, when a nerve around the acupuncture point has been anesthetized, acupuncture does not work because the signal cannot pass to the brain. If we can send the healing signal or code directly to the brain, it may benefit the healing progress. The birds, fishes and all animals have the brainwave entrainment reaction. In the modern world, everything in electrical production uses wireless or remote control. The brainwave entrainment of a being, or in the case of an electrical product remote control or wireless access, all come from electrical magnetic function. Yet, in practice, many scientists or experts still doubt whether the human being has brainwave entrainment ability that can be used for healing. So far the popular brainwave entrainment technique is to use music or light for healing. In the study of psychology, there is something called the ideomotor effect in which the mind can cause the subject to move. The ideomotor effect is an unconscious psychological phenomenon. It is without conscious awareness, wherein a subject makes motions unconsciously. If the mind can make a subject move or react, it means that the mind can move the energy or Chi in the body. Automatic writing, dowsing, facilitated communication, and Ouija boards have also been attributed to the ideomotor effect. Some scientists use the ideomotor effect theory to explain the Chi Gong healing and Chi Gong practice. Tong Ren healing does not belong to any religious belief, or any mystery or superstition. Tong Ren healing has never attributed this motion to paranormal or supernatural force. Ideomotor effect is an ability a human is born with; it is instinctive. In the practice of Tong Ren, when we put needles in the doll or bang the doll on the acupuncture points, the image of the points with regard to location will result in a memory stored in the subconscious area of the brain. By studying the healing function of the acupuncture points, the healing function of the acupuncture points will be stored in the healer’s mind as a memory. When in practice, the Tong Ren healer’s mind already carries the signal of the point location and the point function for healing. During Tong Ren healing, the practitioner’s brainwave that carried the healing signal will entrain the patient’s mind. In this brainwave entrainment, the same happens as in the case of the television remote control functioning. If we send the right signal, then the patient will make progress in their healing. If we send the wrong signal from our brain, the patient will not have any reaction. However, the wrong signal will not cause any dangerous or harmful side effects. Brainwave entrainment requires the brainwave to be in a synchronized condition. Our collective unconscious with Tong Ren allows people to have an easy healing experience because the collective unconscious puts the brainwave into a synchronized condition. Our healing collective unconsciousness is formed from the past experience of Tong Ren healing, which is formed from the concept of belief, and our belief is based on the healing result. Without a good result the belief cannot be sustained. The healing result of Tong Ren therapy is stored in the brain as a subconscious experience. This memory will last and become a life experience. When more people experience healing by Tong Ren therapy, then more people believe Tong Ren therapy. This forms a more powerful collective unconsciousness. If the Tong Ren healing rate were low, its collective unconsciousness would fadeout of popularity. The Tong Ren healing experience does not work for some people. However, even when people do not believe in Tong Ren but are willing to try it, it can work with good results. Since Tong Ren works for animals, babies or patients in a coma, this is unarguable proof that it works. When people do not believe and they try to argue or deny, then the Tong Ren treatment will not work for them because this resistance is a power also. People who argue or deny are trying to guide the brainwave entrainment of others to listen to them and follow their theory. They cannot accept a new concept and try to prove that others are wrong. This mindset of opposition is contrary to our collective unconscious belief. In this situation, the Tong Ren practitioner should refuse or stop treatment because this is waste of energy. It is easy to understand that if a fish or a bird does not belong to the group, then the brainwave entrainment does not work. In some cases, people believe Tong Ren healing, but cannot feel anything from the Tong Ren treatment. In this case it may be caused by a functional problem in the patient’s sensory cortex. This area may be inactive, or sometimes it takes time to feel the energy moving. This kind of occurrence is very rare; most of the people receiving Tong Ren therapy feel tingling and/or a sensation of heat in their hands, face or anywhere in the body. We can also use the collective unconscious and brainwave entrainment theories to explain faith healing, religious healing or energy healing. Yet, the Tong Ren healing is different than other methods of healing. Tong Ren healing believes each disease must have a blockage. To heal the illness, one must open the blockage, which is the root cause of the problem. When we know the root of the problem, then we may know how to treat the problem. Each energy healing system has its own way to explain how to form energy. Tong Ren healing believes that the energy is from the unconscious, which is connected to the collective unconscious. When the Tong Ren practitioners heal others, in fact they heal themselves because the practitioner and the patient are both under the same collective unconscious. The more Tong Ren healers practice, the more energy they gain. Tong Ren therapy dolls do not have any energy and power. The healing power comes from the mind. The Tong Ren doll is simply a trigger for the healer’s mind. In time, when the healer’s level progresses to a point that it becomes second nature the Tong Ren healer won’t need any tools, just the mind, but this level is not for the beginner