Zero Balancing: Conscious Touch and Transformation

by Jim McCormick

Overview

Zero Balancing - conscious touch and transformation offers a practical and multi-layered approach to personal transformation for practitioners of Zero Balancing. The author explains the basic principles of Zero Balancing and then gives examples of how to use those principles in bodywork through the use of fascinating case histories and detailed stories of individual sessions with clients. Overall the book provides a step-by-step guide for clinicians. Each chapter stands on its own but together they build up to give the whole story of Zero Balancing's unique ability to assist in personal transformation for ZB clients. The book illustrates how working with the body and mind through touch can lead to a richer sense of self and a more satisfying life as well as assisting with numerous health issues.

Jim McCormick is known for creating a caring and creative environment, where participants feel safe to be their full selves, while exploring new ideas and skills. Into the pages of this book he has woven his 50 years of experience in alternative medicine. His explanation of the unique principles behind Zero Balancing and how to apply them is presented clearly, warmly and with good humor and joy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781913426156
Publisher:	Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Publication date:	05/27/2021
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	7.48(w) x 9.61(h) x 0.39(d)

About the Author

Jim McCormick LAC met Zero Balancing's founder, Dr Fritz Smith, while studying Traditional Chinese Acupuncture with Dr J. R. Worsley at Kenilworth, UK, in the fall of 1972. He began his Zero Balancing training in 1974 and in 1979 became the first teacher of ZB after Dr Smith. He is currently on the Faculty of the Zero Balancing Health Association (ZBHA) in the USA. Jim teaches Zero Balancing to students around the world, including in Canada, Mexico, Australia and New Zealand, Switzerland, Austria and Finland, as well as in The UK and the USA. He is president of the non-profit Zero Balancing Touch Foundation. He is co-president of Cambridge Health Associates, a holistic health center in Massachusetts, USA, where he practices Zero Balancing and traditional acupuncture. Jim McCormick has woven his 50 years of experience in alternative medicine into this book in which he explains the unique principles behind Zero Balancing and illustrates them with detailed case histories. Jim is known for creating a caring and creative environment, where participants feel safe to be their full selves, while exploring new ideas and skills. He presents information clearly, warmly and with good humor and joy.

Table of Contents

Foreword Fritz Frederick Smith ix

Foreword James L Oschman xi

Preface xiii

Acknowledgments xix

About the Author xxi

Glossary xxiii

Introduction xxv

Part 1 Basic Principles of Zero Balancing

1 A Skittish Donkey 3

2 Structure and Energy: Listening for the Donkey 7

3 Foundation Joints 15

4 The Bones Store Our Essence 21

5 Living in the Moment 27

6 Working Signs 31

7 Creating a Frame 35

8 Living From Your Core Self 41

9 Body Felt Sense 47

10 Altered States of Consciousness 51

11 Verbal Fulcrums 55

Part 2 Healing Principles

12 Amplify the Wellness 63

13 Caring, Compassion, and Containment 69

14 Boundaries 75

15 Feeling Stuck 79

16 Overcoming Abandonment 83

17 Dealing with Anger 87

18 Resistance 89

19 Anxiety and Depression 93

20 Trauma and Zero Balancing 97

Part 3 Body, Mind, and Spirit

21 Unifying Body, Mind, and Spirit 105

Part 4 Transformation

22 Zero Balancing and the Power of Transformation 117

Part 5 Research on Zero Balancing

23 Research on Zero Balancing 125

Bibliography 137

Permissions 139

Index 143