[The following notes are only a summary. You can learn the technique by reading the book You Too Can Heal or The Magic of Healing and you can supplement this by taking a one-day workshop.]

Ideally, practitioners of the King Technique will follow a simple dress code, wearing a white cotton coat for the duration of the treatment. This has the effect of protecting the wearer and can always be washed. Similarly a white wooden or plastic stool is recommended, if it is available.

The healing method begins with the Practice of the Presence, a simple, yet powerful, visualisation. When the first patient is brought in, he/she is seated on the white stool, and is made comfortable and relaxed. The first major stage of the technique is the production of “passes” to clear the aura. In fact these movements are done in contact with the physical body the whole time: seven swift motions are done with both hands starting off on the front of the head and then pulling back and down the spine. These “passes” are designed to affect the major psychic centres of the body, because there are so many present in the spine. The Christ Centre, the Throat Centre, the Heart Centre, the Solar Plexus Centre, the Sex Centre and the Base of the Spine Centre are all used and stimulated by this action.

Once the aura has been “disturbed” in this way, the scene is set for the second major part of the technique, as the healer spends a prolongued period of time giving healng to the major psychic centres. These are treated from the top down using the front and back counterpart of the psychic centre in question, and again with the hands on the physical. So, for instance, you would spend some time with the right hand on the front of the Christ Centre and the left hand on the back before altering your position so that your hands are reversed. Throughout the healing process there is a focus on a number of things, including visualisation, with the image of perfect health in the patient.

Eventually, when the centres have been treated in a thorough, methodical way using this process, the patient is ready for “local” treatment, if necessary. This is not always essential. If it is, then there are many different ways of doing it, depending on the part of the body which needs the healing. Again there are fundamentally two parts to it – the clearing of the aura and the energising of it. This time the healing “passes” and the charging of the aura are to some extent interchangeable, though the healing “passes” are generally done second. Finally though the various areas will be cleaned out and considerable power put into them. Finally, when the charging of the subtle bodies is completed, there is the sealing of the aura. Basically the charging will probably have left it with areas where there is too much energy: the job is to smooth out these imbalances and so create an auric envelope in which there is a harmonious, subtle power. To do this, we approach the aura itself, with no contact between the hands and its subtle anatomy. Here the practitioner draws down his hands until they are about six inches away from the head, and he then runs them round the body, with one hand going to the right side and the other to the left. A number of such sealing passes are done, so that the aura has its excesses removed.

A quick healing prayer, or something conducive to the person, and the patient can go. There remains some cleansing to do, but otherwise the routine is completed.

We have said very little about the forms of development which need to be practised along with healing, and which are indeed important to its success - things like prayer, mantra, visualisation and deep breathing. The critical move though is to do it. When you do so, you start to realise that you really can do successfully from virtually a standing start, with no experience. You too can heal.