A week passed between Ethan’s first and second sessions. When he appeared on screen for session two, something was different. Not dramatically different, he wasn’t a new person. But lighter. The word he kept using was lighter.

What Happened Between Sessions

The first thing Ethan told me was that he’d cried. A lot. Not from sadness, exactly, but from something he couldn’t quite name. “I would cry for no reason and all the reasons,” he said. That phrase stayed with me. I told him to let it come, whatever his body was asking for, to be gentle with himself and allow the tears to fall. This is release. It doesn’t always look the way we expect.

After the first sound healing session, he’d slept for fourteen hours. He told me it was the best sleep he’d gotten in years. Not just long, but genuinely restful. After that, falling asleep became easier. Staying asleep became easier. For someone with chronic fatigue, this alone was significant.

But it went further than sleep. Ethan picked up tai-chi again, something he’d dropped. He found it easier to move, to pick up his feet, to walk. He bought a cane he’d been contemplating for a while, not out of defeat, but out of self-care, a tool to help him enjoy longer walks through the countryside near his home. His psychic readings improved, he said. The connections with his clients felt clearer. And he’d been more productive with his writing in one week than he had been in months.

He was also chanting. The bija mantras I’d recommended, Ram, Yam, Om, Ah, all had become part of his daily practice, along with the fourfold breathing technique from the session. He’d taken the homework seriously. He was actively participating in his own healing, and it showed.

Session 2: Going Deeper

I assessed his energy field before we began. The shift was encouraging: his third eye and crown had come back into balance — both normal now. His solar plexus was still overactive, and his heart was still deficient, but the upper centers had settled. The chanting and breathwork were doing their job. Now we could go deeper into the core imbalance.

His intention for this session evolved slightly: “I can walk with comfort and ease. My mind is clear, I am focused, and my chakras are balanced.” More specific. More grounded. He was learning what to ask for.

This session was different from the first. Where session one had been about breaking things loose, a first contact with stuck energy, session two felt more intentional, more precise. I started with the grail, then moved into something new: triads with spoken affirmations.

I’d consulted my pendulum before the session to ask which triads could best serve Ethan’s healing. One of the things I’ve learned to trust is divination as a diagnostic tool alongside the structured techniques from my training. The pendulum swung strongly for certain combinations, and I followed its guidance.

After the C major triad with the affirmation “I am relaxed and well balanced. My head is clear,” I moved into the release work, the E bowl again, tapping to the left, working through seconds and thirds. But this time, I introduced the E minor triad, and asked Ethan to repeat an affirmation that I sensed was important:

“I love myself. I love the world. And everyone in it.”

The Moment Something Moved

I watched Ethan’s face change as he tried to say those words. His voice shifted. There was tension, not resistance exactly, but a place where the words met something inside him that wasn’t ready to let them through easily. I could hear it. I could feel it.

I didn’t push. I reminded him to breathe. To accept whatever was arising. To hold his intention loosely, like an open hand rather than a fist. I kept playing the E minor triad, letting it hold the space, and when I sensed he was ready, I offered the affirmation again. This time it came easier. The third time, it was his.

When the energy lightened — and I could feel the moment it did, I transitioned to E-flat major, a triad that carries a completely different quality. Where E minor opens and releases, E-flat major grounds and empowers. I asked him to repeat: “I stand on my own feet and transmit the light to others.”

For someone whose deepest wish was to walk with ease, those words carried a weight that went beyond metaphor.

I closed with the grounding intervals, the fourth, the fifth, high C to low C, all while visualizing the transmuted energy flowing down to his heart, filling what had been depleted, then continuing down through his legs into the earth. Seeing him walking through the English countryside. Comfortable. Strong.

What Ethan Felt

He sat in silence for about six minutes after the session ended. When he came back, he told me the triads and affirmations had been really powerful. He said he could feel energy moving through him in a way that was different from the first session, less like something being broken open, more like something being rearranged. He mentioned specifically that E-flat major had resonated with him. He really enjoyed it.

I asked him to continue his bija mantra practice and review the aftercare recommendations I’d sent.

What This Session Taught Me

Two things. First: check your bowls after cleaning them. I’d accidentally swapped two of my sharps bowls when I was reorganizing after a cleaning session, and a couple of notes weren’t right when I went to play them. I fixed it quickly, Ethan didn’t seem to notice, but it was a good reminder to run through the setup before the client connects. Play the bowls. Verify positions. Don’t assume.

Second, and more important: the combination of triads with spoken affirmations is powerful in a way I’m still learning to appreciate. There’s something about the harmonic structure of a triad, three notes in relationship, that creates a container for words that a single tone or interval can’t match. When Ethan struggled to say “I love myself” over the E minor triad, and then gradually found his way to it, that wasn’t just him repeating words. That was his energy field reorganizing around a new truth. The triad held the space for it to happen.

I made a note: use more triads. Trust the ones the pendulum selects. And don’t rush the affirmations, let the client find their own timing.

Session three would bring something unexpected: a reversal.

Continue reading: Part 3 — The Reversal