How to Connect in Distance Healing (Without Overthinking)
by Suzanne Clegg, RDN, LAc, Octave Resonance Healing™
Distance healing is profoundly simple. It doesn’t require special gifts, elaborate rituals, or complicated visualizations. At its core, it’s about connection—connecting with your mind, your awareness, and your imagination.
Yet many people overthink it. They worry they’re “not doing it right.” They wonder if they’re really connecting with their healee or if they’re just making it up. I understand that feeling well, because I’ve been there too.
🎥 This article grew out of my recent video teaching of the same name: How to Connect in Distance Healing (Without Overthinking). If you’d rather watch than read, you can catch the full story there.
In the Bengston Method of distance healing, this connection happens through resonance, not force. You’re not sending energy across space—you’re aligning awareness across space.
A Lesson from a Broken Van
A few weeks ago, my camper van had a major electrical issue. The repair shop tried to fix it, but somehow tipped the van on the lift and left the battery system disconnected. It was complicated—custom wiring, solar controllers, charge controllers, breakers, and fuses.
Rather than finding a custom van electrician (a difficult task!) and, once found, paying them hundreds of dollars an hour to learn my system (and hopefully repair it), I decided to fix it myself under the supervision of my brother, who is an electrical engineer.
He looked at the setup and said, “You’ve already got this. Black on black, red on red. Just connect the wires. If you go slowly and check the voltage, it’ll work.”
And he was right. Once I stopped doubting myself and focused on simply connecting things, I was able to troubleshoot and get things working. As a result of doing it myself, I now feel more friendly and confident with my complex system. I am less intimidated looking at all that equipment.
It reminded me of distance healing. We often make it more complicated than it needs to be, but in truth—it’s that simple. Black on black, red on red. Just connect.
But here’s where the comparison ends.
Distance healing isn’t like electricity in the sense of sending a current or transmitting energy through invisible wires. We’re not pushing chi, light, or force across space. What happens is far more immediate—a kind of instant resonance that doesn’t depend on electromagnetic fields at all. Research on the Bengston Method shows it doesn’t operate through measurable EM frequencies. So while the simplicity of the wiring metaphor still holds, and my felt experience of connecting wires and having them instantly work, the mechanism is quite different—and much faster.
🎥 This blog grew out of a recent live video I recorded:
👉 How to Connect in Distance Healing (Without Overthinking)
In that spontaneous talk, I explored this idea as it was unfolding. Here, I’ve expanded and refined it — especially how “connection” in distance healing works very differently from electricity.
Connection Is Awareness
People often ask how to know they’re connected during distance healing. I like to start with something familiar.
Think of your bed. Can you picture it? The color of the sheets, the shape of the pillows, the way the light hits it? Whether you’re looking right at it or imagining it, you’re connecting with it through awareness.
Now bring your attention to the soles of your feet. Wiggle your toes. Feel the floor beneath them. You’ve connected again—this time, not with imagination, but with sensation.
Finally, ask yourself: What time of day is it right now? Notice how your awareness reaches for the answer—perhaps glancing at a clock or sensing daylight through a window. That reaching is the same kind of awareness you use when you connect with someone at a distance.
Thinking, imagining, and noticing are all spiritual activities. They don’t require religion or dogma. They simply require presence.
Imagination and the Bengston Method of Distance Healing
When I lead group distance healings, I often read the names of people and animals who’ve asked to be included.
Sometimes participants say, “I don’t know what Sky the Cat looks like. How can I connect if I can’t picture her?”
My answer: You don’t have to know. Just wonder. Ask your imagination to give you a picture—even if it’s symbolic. One person might see a black cat, another a white cat, another might sense softness or warmth.
Each image becomes what I call an “astral address.” It’s how your awareness locates the being you’re connecting with, even if your mental picture isn’t accurate.
Curiosity opens more perception than certainty ever can. When we approach the healing list with wonder rather than rigid accuracy, we participate in a collective web of awareness—a kind of group resonance that strengthens the field.
This is true whether you’re working with energy healing for people or pets. The imagination is the bridge that allows you to connect across distance without needing proof or precision.
Pretending Is a Bridge
One of my friends has a rare gift: she can sense what’s happening in another room—sometimes even “see” through walls. When I asked how she learned it, she said, “I just pretended I could. It started as a game, and over time it became more real.”
That’s how most authentic psychic perception develops—through relaxed play, not pressure.
So if you’re new to remote energy healing with imagination, start by pretending you’re connected. Let your imagination do what it naturally does. The connection is real whether or not your mind believes it. With practice, your perception may become more accurate, but accuracy isn’t the goal—connection is.
Let It Be Simple
Distance healing is like electricity—only simpler. Once the resonance is active, you don’t have to understand every mechanism. You just connect, stay curious, and let the energy do what it knows how to do.
So if you ever find yourself wondering, Am I really doing this right?, take a breath.
Think of your bed. Feel your feet. Remember the cat named Sky.
And then—just connect.
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