How often in life do we experience sustained periods of contentment in our relationships, work, health, and feel blessed with abundant energy: a state of being when, faced with difficult challenges, we can stay centred, balanced and find positive outcomes from potential pitfalls?

Mostly we are only too conscious of our symptoms and pain, be they physical, emotional, mental or spiritual. Sometimes they have been present so long, the belief is; 'That's just the way it is. I have to live with it, and there's nothing I can do. It's downhill all the way.' And so it will be.

Some feisty people won't give up without a fight. They may put enormous will-power into changing the same old patterns, but it can be a bit like running up a down escalator; with a punch of triumph at the top... before sliding demoralised to the bottom again!

There is an easier way....

Holographic Repatterning, inspired and developed by Chloe Wordsworth, is one of those powerful healing systems that create extraordinary life changes. Through the kinesiology tool of muscle checking, HR identifies and transforms those conscious and unconscious patterns that keep us at a low level of coherence - where, frankly, we don't feel so good!

At the beginning of an HR session, the recipient might identify their Problem as, "No matter how hard I try in life, I always fail." And the muscle check would be "on", indicating this person is resonating with a negative pattern. The New Possibility Intention - what the person wants to manifest instead - for example, might be, "I am happy and fulfilled in everything I do." The muscle check would be "off' initially, because the person is not in harmony with that positive pattern. Simply, through the muscle check, the practitioner identifies which Repatterning is needed to transform our negative or non-coherent beliefs, experiences and life-depleting habits.

There is a wealth of Repatternings in themed books written by Chloe; for instance 'Primary Patterns', 'Chakra', 'Meridian and Five Element', 'Vision' and 'Relationships'. When checking what aspects of the Repatterning are needed to achieve a higher level of coherence and well-being, the statements that come up from the books are always spot on, often giving the receiver an insight of "Ah haa...I hadn't thought of that, but it's true!" Self-realisation of unconscious patterns can be highly empowering.

Having identified areas of non-coherence (mainly by written and spoken statements), the muscle check indicates which healing modalities are needed to transform the old distressing patterns and to achieve higher levels of coherence and well-being. Once there, having shed your outworn baggage, you stay there - at the top of the escalator feeling lighter, more positive, content and fulfilled, with a clearer balanced perspective. And because you have changed, you often take others up with you too.

Modalities for creating coherence work on the principal of the Chaos Theory: a butterfly flaps its wings on the Equator and creates a tornado in Totnes. Even a tiny movement resonating and amplifying around the World can create enormous changes. Just so - a tiny healing modality, using sound, breath, movement, colour, an energetic contact, fragrance or geometric shapes can create beautiful life changes. When we recheck the statements after the healing modality, the patterns have switched to a higher level of coherence. And we feel better.

Other healing modalities may be needed during the repatterning. Negative fears, responses, feelings, mental states can be diffused from the system; in effect dumping them forever. Positive lasting outcomes, feelings, brainwaves, childhood needs can be fused in. Identifying and doing positive actions for change can support healing.

The HR Energy Constriction Release is a most powerful clearing modality. You may have noticed that sometimes we react out of all proportion to seemingly trivial events, with tears, anger, shutting down, restlessness. These are signs of energy constrictions. They are often set up in childhood, when for some reason our life or spirit needs are not met. It can happen to our child aspect in later life too. When anything similar to that earlier painful experience occurs, it triggers our old childhood shutdown: breath stops, life-enhancing energy stops and movement stops.

If this occurs at any point in a repatterning, we stop and release that constricted energy: We gently encourage longer deeper breaths, check where the energy is constricted and get it flowing again, identify negative emotional and physical feelings and breathe them out. We check the age of the child who needs to express the negative feelings to the person who failed to hear them in the first place. The practitioner, proxying for that person gives the positive response the child aspect wants to hear.

Katsugen - inner directed movement - starts the body moving again. Finally the needs of the child are expressed and heard at last, and a symbol or image representing those needs being met are integrated into some area of the physical body or a chakra. Forgiveness may follow as old resentments and hurt dissolve. This too is empowerment.