"What’s the Alternative"

By Susan Clark – Style Magazine, Sunday Times, London

‘Question: Can you tell me anything about a therapy called the Metamorphic Technique? My friends rave on about its effects but don’t seem to be able to explain how it works.

Mrs S Gill, Walsall

Answer: This is one of these "secret" hands-on therapies that devotees deliberately keep quiet about, not least because skilled practitioners are few and far between and if the secret of how brilliant it is ever got out, none of us would ever get an appointment.

I am happy to spill the beans because it was this little known technique that dramatically changed my life for the better and set me on the road to improved well being. A spin off from reflexology, the technique was developed in the 1960’s to help treat autistic children. Good practitioners describe how they simply "hold" the energy while the clients own life force gets to work to eliminate the emotional blocks that are preventing them reaching their full potential.

The theory is that from the very moment of conception, traumas are held within the memory of every cell in the body and that until these memories are released, you cannot move on and fulfil your life’s true purpose.

These releases are triggered by a gentle foot, hand and head massage that may make you want to go to sleep or may leave you feeling re-energised and raring to go. This is not a talk therapy (which makes it popular with men).

I like it because it gets results – fast – and because you cannot sabotage the process by over intellectualising what is going on.’