Overview of Tong Ren Therapy

Tong Ren Therapy is a powerful and exciting form of energy healing. It has been developed over the last 25 years by TCM practitioner Tom Tam, combining the science of Western medicine with the wisdom of ancient Eastern knowledge and insights. The practice of Tong Ren is spreading rapidly, and it is now available in at least 40 of the United States, and at least 8 countries. Its popularity is driven by its success at curing or controlling various cancers and other debilitating conditions that have not responded to traditional Western medicine or to other forms of energy healing alone. A study was recently published by doctors at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (a Harvard Medical School affiliate), evaluating the effect of Tong Ren on 265 patients at 7 different sites in Massachusetts and Connecticut with cancer, autoimmune, endocrine, musculoskeletal and other disorders. 89% of patients responded positively to the Tong Ren Therapy, including cures of numerous cancers and other serious illnesses. Please take a moment to review The Tong Ren Healing Method: A Survey Study – AM Sullivan, S Bauer-Wu, M Miovic - Complementary Health Practice Review, 2008, http://chp.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/14/1/19. Additional studies to evaluate the effectiveness of Tong Ren are pending.

Tong Ren can achieve extraordinary healing by combining complementary elements of Eastern and Western medicine. Eastern medicine has long held that the body has a natural tendency to heal. Each organ is kept healthy by the natural flow of Chi energy, and interruption or blockage of that necessary bioelectric signal leads to disease. Western science brings improved understanding of anatomy, physiology and neurology, and has developed study designs and statistical analysis to assess the effectiveness of treatment modalities, but has concentrated on biochemistry and cell function, largely ignoring bioelectricity. As noted by Dr. Carl Jung, East and West have fundamentally contradictory but complementary understandings of the body, of the mind and of healing, and neither is adequate alone. Both are necessary components in a healing system for many difficult health problems... the marriage of Chi energy and Quantum Physics.

But Tong Ren is not simply the sum of two sciences. Its healing power grows an additional quantum leap by harnessing another natural tendency we have all observed in nature: harmony. The perfectly synchronized movements of birds flying in a flock, or fish swimming in a school are not coordinated by the usual senses of sight, sound, smell, feel or taste -- but rather by "brainwave entrainment". The human brain has a Frequency Following Response, tending to change its dominant electroencephalogram patterns toward the frequency of external stimuli. A natural propensity toward gradual synchronization is even seen in non-biologic systems, such as two pendulum clocks side-by-side on a wall. Tong Ren Therapy utilizes this natural tendency toward Harmony to bring diseased organs back into synchrony with the healthy bioelectrical patterns of Tong Ren practitioners, and even more importantly into entrainment with the larger and more powerful Collective Unconsciousness.

Dr. Carl Jung, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and more recently Gary Zukav and others have described the evolving development of a sphere of Collective Unconsciousness. As an anthropologist, Teilhard traced the natural evolution of life on earth from the development of cells, then plants, through animal and finally human form. This visible biologic evolution then progressed to internal intellectual development, and now finally to globally evolving organization on the level of spirit-energy or the Collective Unconsciousness. We are all part of this upward spiral of organization, regardless of our awareness. In Tong Ren Therapy we tap into this vast reserve of healthy bioelectrical patterns and health-sustaining energy. The identity of the individual practitioner is immaterial, because the healing power does not come from that practitioner, but rather from the collectively evolving milieu.