Access Bars

What the session is like

You lie down or recline, fully clothed, somewhere quiet and warm. I rest my fingers lightly on points around your head and hold them. That is genuinely the whole of it: no oils, no pressure, nothing manipulated.

People often say afterwards that they had not realised how loud their own head had become until it went quiet. Others fall asleep. Both count as a good session.

What it is meant to do

The idea behind Access Bars is that those points hold the accumulation of thoughts, judgements and decisions we pick up over a lifetime, and that touching them lets some of that settle. It is often likened to clearing space on a phone that has run out of storage.

I am careful about how I describe this, because it is a relaxation treatment rather than a medical one and nobody can promise a particular result. What I can tell you is what clients report: feeling calmer, sleeping better, carrying less tension, finding things less of an effort for a while afterwards.

Why I use it myself

When we lost seven family members within as many months, Access Bars was my own lifeline. I had my Bars run weekly. It did not take the loss away, and it was not supposed to, but it let me feel the sadness without drowning in it, and it kept some gratitude alive at a time when that might have been impossible.

That is why it is on this list. I do not offer anything I have not leaned on myself.

Alongside everything else

Access Bars sits comfortably next to medical treatment, medication, physiotherapy, counselling or anything else you have going on. It is not a substitute for any of them. Please keep your appointments and keep taking what you have been prescribed.