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The Magical CHI Palm

The Magic of the CHI Palm

Why do so many people claim that the CHI Palm is magical?

The answer is simple: they observe changes they believed were impossible. Obviously, those changes were possible—because they actually happened. So where does the magic come in?

How the Brain Makes Sense of the World

The brain works by looking for familiar patterns to simplify the megabits of information received by the eyes, ears, taste, smell, and touch. The brain does this by taking all this data and searching for a memory that seems to be a best fit for the data. The brain brings this memory forward and suddenly the brain sees the world through the filter of the identified memory. The megabits of raw information abruptly fall away and we are left with a memory of the past imposed over the present moment. At this point the situation is simplified and the brain stops looking.

Why We Miss What’s Actually Happening

Magic is explained by the fact that we usually see our memories superimposed over the present, so often don’t notice the details of what is really going on. We continue to see what we saw last time until we see something that simply cannot be explained by our memories, the framework by which we navigate the world. We don’t see the actual events. We only see what can fit into our framework. In other words, we often live in our memories until we are presented with something that doesn’t fit our framework. If we don’t have a similar memory, we often can’t see what is right in front of us. Instead, we see what we expect to see. This is how magicians trick us.

Why Events are Often Impossible

When new experiences clash with old beliefs.

Imagine you twisted your ankle. Your brain immediately calls up a memory which involves a doctor, an x-ray, an elastic bandage and hobbling around on a painful, swollen ankle for a month. Then imagine someone coming up to you and claiming they can put their CHI Palm on you and claims your pain will be gone in 5 minutes and the swelling will disappear within 10 minutes. Your brain processes this and comes up with a clear analysis which appears obvious to you: “That’s impossible. Go away!!!”

What Happens When the Brain Has No Reference

Blankness, Disbelief, or Shock

But what happens when we actually experience something for which we have no similar memories? Many people will just go blank and not even notice the discrepancy between the situation in front of them and the memory presented by their brain. They just continue on as if it didn’t happen. Others will just stare, captured in the moment with their brain unable to process anything.

Cognitive Dissonance

Cognitive Dissonance

So, back to the sprained ankle. Imagine you are in pain and your ankle is swollen and beginning to turn purple and this pushy CHI Palm enthusiast keeps insisting that putting his CHI Palm on your ankle is suddenly going to make it all better. After struggling to keep this annoying person away from you, you really want relief, so you finally agree. Sure enough, within 5 minutes your pain has dropped way down, and within 10 minutes the swelling is mostly gone. This result seems impossible. Not because it is impossible, but rather, because your brain already connected sprained ankle with images of doctor, x-ray, elastic bandage, and, of course, pain and swelling for a month. You have no way of understanding what just happened, and yet it happened. It is human nature to get really upset when we get proof that one of our firmly held beliefs is incorrect. You are faced with the choice of telling this helpful person to get lost or to try to stand yourself up and walk. This cognitive dissonance can be excruciating.

The Magic of the CHI Palm

Magic!

Then, out of the blue, your brain springs to life and finds a memory that makes sense of the madness: You remember a magic show where seemingly impossible things kept happening on stage while you watched, trying to spot the trick. Suddenly, you reinterpret this entire sprained ankle experience as a magic show. The cognitive dissonance disappears and your brain relaxes. Magic is a perfect way out of so many painful conflicts in our brains.

Many will just stop here. There is reality, like x-rays and elastic bandages. Then, there is magic like the CHI Palm. Problem solved. Like God, Santa Claus, Angels, Narnia, Star Wars, and the Tooth Fairy, the CHI Palm is placed in the world of magic. This is actually quite a workable solution for the brain. We can simply go about our daily lives, and when we have pain, put the CHI Palm wherever it hurts.

Do You Believe in Magic?

This magic label simply didn’t work for me. I am an engineer and don’t really believe in magic. I first met an early CHI device while traveling in China. I caught the flu so suffered from many pains and inflammations. Sore throat, headache, lung congestion, overall misery. The device seemed to work on everything, but that was impossible. I figured it must be the power of positive thinking or something. Was I was creating it with my expectation? So I started applying it to everyone with pain I could find. It worked on them too. Again, I thought, “Maybe my expectation is affecting the outcome.”

For statistical validation (and the possibility for profit) I bought 100 of these devices and started selling them. About half of purchasers were ecstatic with the results. The other half simply declared that the device didn’t do anything useful. At last, I had an opportunity to utilize my engineering training. I started comparing the machines that worked with those that did not. I discovered that there were huge frequency differences between the devices which worked and those which customers had declared useless. We started sorting through them, updating components and testing more and more thoroughly. Over the last 30 years I have learned a lot about how they work. We have made many improvements during this time, and now, I am proud to report that 99% of people who purchase the CHI Palm love them. Despite our 30 day unconditional return policy, we get less than 1% of customers returning their CHI Palms because they believe them to be ineffective.

Many still insist the CHI Palm couldn’t possibly work. This group has mostly avoided trying it. I believe we all have free choice, so I honor their decisions. A few have declared it to be magic and declare that magic is evil, so they stay far away from it.

Many who have declared it to be magic and like the idea of magic make great use of it. This is a very practical mindset to get the most out of their CHI Palm. They apply it to everything imaginable and get positive results most of the time.

A few seek answers as to how and why it works. Even fewer, like me, become obsessed with this quest. This opens big doors to the relationship between sound/vibration, frequency, and consciousness. In fact, what is revealed from their explorations is often that our consciousness is a primary factor in our wellbeing, and is largely congested with unconscious trauma, emotional turbulence, and confusing “facts”. Physical, emotional, and mental congestion appear to be the major cause of human suffering. This congestion can be understood as forms of consciousness, or unconscious reactive patterns in the nervous system. The CHI Palm dissolves much of this congestion.

Ironically, this perspective often provides the greatest freedom. Without the need to understand how or why the CHI Palm works, you are free to explore its use openly and creatively, applying it wherever it feels appropriate, without mental resistance or limitation. In this way, the Magic Theory becomes a practical tool in itself—one that allows curiosity, experimentation, and experience to take precedence over rigid beliefs or intellectual certainty.

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Choose the Explanation That Gives You Freedom

If you believe that our bodies are nothing more than biochemical factories—and that our thoughts, beliefs, and expectations have little or nothing to do with our well-being—then I suggest you stay with what I call the “Magic Theory” of CHI Palm effectiveness.

Within that framework, the CHI Palm doesn’t need to be explained, justified, or analyzed. It simply works, in ways that may not fit neatly into conventional models of biology or medicine. By placing it in the category of “magic,” the mind is relieved of the burden of reconciling conflicting explanations, and the internal tension of trying to make sense of the unexpected simply dissolves.

Sometimes, letting go of the need for explanation is exactly what allows the widest range of possibility.

A systems engineer by training, he moved early in his career from efficient use of fossil fuel energy to efficient use of human energy. Human consciousness is severely crippled in most all of us compared to the full potentials of consciousness so Richard has made studying and optimizing human consciousness into a 30 year career choice.

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