9 Ways to Enhance Distance Healing
Sometimes we love someone who is seriously ill. We would do anything for them, but feel powerless. It’s especially difficult when we can’t even get to them in person, as they live far away. You are considering distance healing–perhaps as a last resort or perhaps because you are already familiar with its well-researched potential.. You want to see real, tangible results. Not just feeling good (though that’s nice), but measurable physical changes that even a blood test or scan can confirm.
Whether you’re working to cool aggressive tumors, reduce pain, or foster deep well-being, you know that distance healing taps into the quantum field of interconnectedness, where space and time are no barriers to its effects. You’ve seen the research that confirms its power, and you understand it’s more than just theory; it’s measurable, effective, and transformative.
But knowing that distance healing works for others is just the start. The true challenge lies in making it effective for yourself and your loved one. In this article, I’m sharing 9 essential ways to enhance your distance healing practice—proven techniques that I use to help clients cool aggressive tumors, reduce pain, and experience true shifts.
Whether for one-on-one or group sessions, these practical tips will help you maximize the effectiveness of your healing efforts. Each of these tips applies to using the Bengston Method for distance healing, and many of the tips apply to any form of distance healing.
Tip #1: Use a Symbol to Establish a Deep Connection
When you’re working on healing someone from a distance, it’s rather understandable (to say the least) to feel disconnected. That’s why using a symbol—something as simple as a lock of hair, a photo, or a piece of paper with their name—can help you overcome that feeling. “It’s a bridge—a tangible reminder to your subconscious that you’re already connected, even if your bodies are miles apart.”
For example, I often use a lock of my client’s hair, holding it in my palm to create a tangible sense of connection. The key is to imagine that your hand is touching them…because in quantum terms, it is. This can distract your ego from shutting down the connection.
Choose a symbol that resonates. It doesn’t need to be fancy—just something that helps you feel their presence.
When doing group distance healing, you could hold an object that, in your imagination, represents everyone involved in the session. Holding this symbol in your hand while focusing on the distance healing process allows your subconscious mind to behave as though you are physically present with them, which can significantly enhance the connection.
Once you feel connected, let the symbol recede into the background of the healing session. This connection-then-detachment process is so important for powerful healing results. Once the connection is made, you can let it fade to the background—like holding a loved one’s hand as you walk, then shifting your attention to the road ahead. The bond is still there. Your subconscious knows what to do.
Holding a symbol helps you relax into the process without needing to constantly maintain intense concentration. In the Bengston Method, we want a “fleeting intention,” and this object in our hands can help us do just that.
Tip #2: Do Your Remote Healing Sessions “Live”
Healing sessions conducted live with your patient are particularly powerful. They create a simultaneous experience that not only enhances your sense of connection but also helps your patient fully receive the healing.
There are certain styles of distance healing where your patient gives you permission to do a session without their conscious presence. This is certainly an option, but I think it’s an advanced one. Since you’re already not physically present, adding the additional separation of time can create an additional barrier in your subconscious mind. Instead of feeling connected, it might feel as if you are just “making it up.” If you are not intuitive enough yet to sense an astral connection, make it easier by using phone or video contact while doing the healing.
I’ve spent years practicing skills like “time traveling” to heal the past and future and truly knowing if I am “there.” I train private clients how to do this as well. If you’re just beginning with distance healing, aim to conduct most of your sessions live with your patient.
Live sessions don’t just help you do your remote healing technique. They also help your recipient receive healing. This “allowing of the healing” goes deeper than just a conscious desire—our whole unconscious biology needs to participate. Witnessing the process together adds a level of intimacy with each other and with the process. This joint participation often enhances the healing process to emerge deeply through both conscious and unconscious pathways.
When live sessions aren’t possible, recordings are a beautiful fallback. Your voice, your presence–it still carries. Narrating your experience helps you stay focused, and when your patient listens later, they can benefit from their healing again. The recording still carries the energetic imprint of the live healing intention, allowing your patients to attune to the healing information within themselves whenever needed. Many patients have found that revisiting these recordings during moments of need helps them reconnect to their healing. This is why I often record my live sessions—to allow them to listen and benefit repeatedly.
While live connection is generally ideal, it’s not always possible, and that’s okay. There are actually advantages to doing sessions without your recipient consciously participating, so focus on those. When my patients aren’t available at the same time as me, I record my session. In these moments, I often find it easier to sense their soul and spirit, and I receive more intuitive symbolic images or waking dreams that they later find meaningful. Not being present at the same time can create unique opportunities that wouldn’t otherwise exist.
I spend many hours a day going about my business while doing William Bengston’s Image Cycling in the background, with an image of my patient’s recovery on my list. This is a version of distance healing while not being involved in time with them.
So yes, showing up live usually works best for beginners, but it’s not a rigid rule. Every situation is unique, and experimenting with different approaches will help you keep your practice fresh and effective.
Tip #3: Prepare for the Session Artfully, not Rigidly
Respect. Reverence. Intentionality. Create a quiet, comfortable space. Light a candle. Take a few deep breaths to center yourself. Avoid distractions. pray, enter the stillness, exercise vigorously, or sit in a special chair. There are so many time-honored distance healing preparations!
Healing is an art, not a formula. Good preparation can set the stage for a powerful session, but avoiding rigid rituals is important. If lighting a candle feels right in the moment, do it. If it doesn’t, that’s okay too. The key is to let the preparation reflect what feels genuine to you—whatever resonates most at that moment will make the difference.
One of the core principles of the Bengston Method is to avoid ritual. Doing all the ‘right’ things rigidly can hinder the process–but that doesn’t mean they are always wrong.
For example, you may be struck with a feeling of reverence and respect for the distance healing you are doing, which may enhance its effects. But just because reverence worked once doesn’t mean it should now be used as a technique to force healing in future sessions. Genuine reverence arises from inside the healing process. It’s not a performance or a mindset you use to create a miracle.
The same goes for always lighting a candle, sitting in a special chair, or doing the dishes while you heal to avoid over-focusing. These forms of preparation can be powerful if they come from genuine inspiration. However, if they become a prescribed protocol (aka ritual), they may fall flat and even hinder the healing process.
Consider that whatever resonates with you at the moment will affect the healing process, and then watch what happens. It’s not about repeating past actions—it’s about being present and open to what feels right now. The consistency and power you seek are in that consistent feeling of resonance. It’s your bodily felt sense of coherence with what you are doing. That is the preparation that helps, and it takes on many forms.
Tip #4: Open Your Heart
I preach detachment and neutrality, but that is not emotional detachment. It’s about avoiding anything too sentimental or “lovey-dovey.” it’s about observing emotions, experiencing them, but not using them as tools to accomplish the healing. Genuine care for my patient is essential; when I truly care, my perception sharpens, and I’m more effective.
Opening your heart creates an intuitive connection. This isn’t some deep mystery—it applies to anything we put effort into. If you care deeply, that “special sauce” of intuitive guidance kicks in, and everything goes better.
Here’s the tip: open your heart to the possibility of healing and maintain curiosity about how it will unfold. Feel a warm sensation in your chest, like when petting a dog or holding a baby. Don’t just think about love—feel it.
Open your heart to yourself, your patient, other participants, your cycling list—everything involved. Generating positive emotion helps transform the desire for healing into a tangible reality. Emotion acts as the “carrier wave” for healing.
Positive emotions provide a powerful foundation, but healing also requires embracing moments of neutrality and discomfort. The true healing energy doesn’t always feel like love. At the peak of a healing, I experience profound neutrality beyond emotion. Every cancer cure I’ve seen, whether human or animal, involved a “release of the shadow”—a process where suppressed emotions surfaced. These releases can look like sudden waves of sadness, anger, or physical sensations that seem unrelated. For example, one of my patients experienced a sudden, overwhelming sadness during a session that came out of nowhere. They felt the urge to cry deeply, and after allowing themselves to fully release those emotions, they reported feeling a profound sense of lightness and relief. These moments, though challenging, signify blocked energies being released and are crucial for healing.
If your heart is open during these releases, you can support your patient without stifling the process. Your open-hearted presence can help ease the release of what needs to go.
Tip #5: Ground Yourself
In our valiant effort to help, we often end up leaking our energy. We may try to “send” our love to our patient or “take on” their troubles to relieve them. This doesn’t help them heal, and it can hurt us over time. Cancer, in many ways, reflects compromised boundaries—cells no longer respecting the body’s natural limits. The solution is to keep yourself grounded during distance healing.
Think of grounding yourself like planting deep roots into the earth, just like a tree. When a tree has strong roots, it can weather any storm and stand tall without being uprooted. In the same way, grounding yourself allows you to remain stable and resilient during healing sessions, fully present without losing your energy.
I attribute much of the success of my cancer treatments to maintaining a strong, grounded presence, even when connecting with potentially lethal tumors. Grounding allows me to fully feel my emotions and gain more accurate intuitive readings on my clients. No matter how grounded I think I am, there’s always room to ground a bit deeper—just like love or money, a little extra always helps!!
Contain yourself. We are not the source of healing—our patients and their Source moving through them are. Our role is simply to be present and grounded while cycling and being thought/heart connected with our healee. Grounding allows you to be fully engaged without compromising your own energy.
A Grounding Visualization:
Take a few deep breaths to “arrive.” Imagine a cord attaching you to the Earth’s center. Feel the stability this connection brings—like the unshakable strength of a tree rooted firmly in the ground. When you are grounded, you will notice a difference in the quality of your distance healing sessions—more presence, more focus, and better boundaries. [See this short video] for how to ground with your Physicality, Life Force, Emotions, and Spirit.
If you think you know how to ground yourself already, the tip is to ground yourself even more. Your inner gesture of arriving deeper into the here and now helps you and your healee.
Tip #6: Participate Fully
If you attend my weekly free distance healing session in the Spirit Gate Cancer Support Facebook Group, this tip is for you.
To truly benefit from distance healing, engaging fully with each session is key. Think of each session as planting seeds in a garden—what you nurture and invest in will grow into a flourishing healing experience over time. Each moment of focused participation is like watering and tending to those seeds, leading to gradual, yet profound, growth and transformation.
Healing, even with the help of group distance healing, is fundamentally an inside-out process for humans. It’s not enough to passively listen and expect results. You must actively engage, set your intention, be present, and open yourself to healing. For animals, simply having their name on the list may be enough, but as humans, our conscious participation facilitates our healing.
I’ve noticed that the people who get the best results are those who attend regularly, actively participate in the chat during the session and share comments about their experiences afterward. This kind of full engagement creates a powerful feedback loop, deepening the connection with the healing process and amplifying the benefits over time.
You can decide what “full participation” means for you each time. Don’t approach the event as a passive experience; instead, engage actively, ‘communing’ with the collective energy. Attend regularly, and let each session bring something new to you. Consistent practice helps you build a deeper connection to the process, making each session more impactful. Trust that whatever you bring is enough, and aim to work at your personal edge. Newcomers are always welcome!
Be present, open your heart, and avoid multitasking.
Tip #7: Harness the Power of Letting Go
Detachment is key to healing. Healing isn’t about doing everything perfectly with the expectation of guaranteed results. Let go and let God. In the Spirit Gate Cancer Support Facebook Group, I built this into the process by formally ending the conscious part of the healing session and stating that it will “remain active” for several more days. After that, it transitions into an even subtler form that may seem inactive but actually represents a deeper surrender to Source.
If you want to participate in this letting-go process (and potentially enhance the distance healing results), try lighting a candle during the event. When you snuff it out, affirm that the process is being transferred to a more subtle and foundational realm—whether you call it your subconscious, supra-conscious, or something else that resonates with you. This candle ritual symbolizes your inner intention to let go, connecting your physical action with the spiritual process of surrender. This ritual is mostly a playful, educational exercise. Let it teach you how to let go of control. Once you have it, you don’t need the candle. The important part is not the candle ritual but the practice of letting go so that you can simply observe without expectation.
Surrendering to a higher/deeper power has nothing to do with “believing” it will work. Please do not believe it will work—that expectation can interfere. When I hand you a physical object, I don’t “believe” I’m handing it to you—I simply do it. The same principle applies to handing off intentions or ideas: just do it, and observe what unfolds. Approach it matter-of-factly, with a sense of calm interest and curiosity in the process, without expecting or trying to force a particular outcome.
Engage with the process, contribute sincerely, and observe what unfolds—without the need for belief or powerful intention.
Tip #8: Refresh Your Image Cycling Practice
This tip is for those familiar with William Bengston’s Image Cycling technique and who are using it for their distance healing practice. Keeping your cycling list fresh is essential to enhance its effectiveness. Take a few minutes to review and update your images, ensuring they still resonate with you. A stale list can lead to diminished effectiveness, while a refreshed one can help reignite the process.
Remember, keeping your practice dynamic is part of what makes it powerful. Let your images evolve along with your intentions.
Tip #9: Focus on Awareness, Not Rules
How long do you treat? How often? How fast do you cycle? Are images critical to your cycling? There are countless questions about how to do distance healing with the Bengston Method. While these questions are natural and helpful as a starting point, the true power of healing comes from cultivating awareness rather than relying on rigid rules.
Healing effectiveness depends on your awareness and honesty with the process. But how can we become aware of subtle phenomena that we’re not even sure are real? Often, these subtle cues get filtered out by our minds, making them difficult to notice.
Instead of focusing solely on getting these details “right,” direct your attention to cultivating a deeper awareness. Here are my top three tips for fostering awareness in your healing practice:
- Ask yourself: “What can I be aware of that if I were aware of it, would help this healing process?” Just asking the question will open up your intuition. You may gain a new insight right away, or it may come to you later.
- Practice, practice, practice: Consistent practice is key to cultivating awareness over time.
- Book a session with me: During our session, I can help you notice subtle feedback that might otherwise be missed and teach you how to be aware of these subtle shifts as they arise. Stand on my shoulders to help your loved one. I’ve been doing holistic healing for over 40 years. With my support, clients often get substantial results in their first session.
There you have it! 9 tips for enhancing your distance healing practice. For more (and more and more) tips, see my YouTube channel or read my blogs.
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