Access Consciousness© & Access Bars: A complete Guide to this energy healing modality
I experienced my first session during a Bars class in Manhattan. It was 5 months into my new life in NYC and somehow the Bars crossed my path. I remember thinking—How is it possible that I never heard about this magic?—Access facilitators are located in so many countries and I never knew— I like to think I was simply not ready for the magic, yet.
How I found Access Consciousness
Just as my husband and I moved to New York, the city was starting to open up again after the pandemic, it was only allowed to dine outside and most of the city was empty. It was amazing to see NYC with no tourists!
When we moved, Marc had to start work straight away but I didn't have a work permit, so I could not work. I spent almost a year waiting for my work permit—so free time I had, and a lot of it.
I was following some energy healers on social media. I was a Reiki practitioner already and I always loved everything related to mysticism, shamanism, ancient history, and energy so I used my time to dive really deep into those topics. I was reading like crazy, book after book.
I was eager to learn and to find answers to the mystery (the doctors in Sydney called us that—"a mystery" after trying for close to four years to get pregnant with no success)–and because everything is orchestrated to perfection, I came across Access Consciousness or how practitioners call it: Access.
Straight away I was into it. I didn't sign up for a session—I signed up to learn the modality straight away!
What is Access Consciousness?
Access Consciousness is a different approach to life.
Access—according to Gary Douglas, Access Consciousness founder—is "where everything exists and nothing is judged." Yes! That was exactly what I needed.
Access is a pragmatic set of tools, verbal and hands-on processes that allow you to create change in your life in an easy and direct way. It will help you create everything you desire with total ease, it sounds like magic, right? Well, it’s close to. And you can ask the thousands of practitioners and facilitators around the world and listen to their transformation stories, including mine.
Access is based on asking questions and following the energy. Over time, when you start applying the tools, your awareness increases and expands and it can be extremely transformative. Access is about accessing your consciousness. It will allow you to see yourself different, full of untapped potential and infinite possibilities.
The Access mantra is: "All of life comes to me with ease, joy and glory."
The tools: Questions as a way of being
I became fascinated with the expansive energy of Access practitioners, always calling for possibilities, asking questions like:
What else is possible?
How does this get any better?
What energy can I be to attract XYZ?
What is this? (referring to the energy I'm perceiving)
Is this a contribution to my life?
What energy, space, consciousness, choice, magic, miracles, and possibilities can I and my body be to achieve XYZ?
Can you see how accessing this modern wisdom can shift your perception of your everyday life?
Access Consciousness teaches us that a question empowers you and an answer limits you. Because when you look for an answer you are defining something, limiting the possibilities.
When you ask an open question like "Universe, show me…" you are allowing the energy to come to you. Your vibration shifts and you will start to attract possibilities.
Why? Because when you don't know the answer to something, your mind will try to find one—and if you don't have one, it will look deep in your "hard drive" (your mind) and review your past, trying to match a similar situation, good or bad. Now, if you've had a bad experience, where do you think your mind goes first? Exactly.
By revisiting your own “hard drive” you are basically programming yourself to believe that the outcome will always be the same, and cutting down the universal flow of possibilities and potential.
Access helped me be more aware—it increased my self-awareness and consciousness, and with that my unconscious mind started to shed, layer by layer.
Straight away I started applying what I learnt. I was asking questions to everything and using the Access clearing statement to literally melt away limiting beliefs from my life. It was like magic. I was mind-blown!
What are the Access Bars?
Access Bars® is a deeply nurturing process that has assisted thousands of people to change many aspects of their life and body—including stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, health, weight, body image, sleep, money, sex, relationships, and so much more.
The Bars® are 32 points on the head that store the electromagnetic component of your thoughts, feelings, emotions, ideas, beliefs, and considerations as they are stored in the brain.
When activated, the Bars can help facilitate a reduction of stress, pain, old belief systems, and trauma throughout the body and increase positive attitudes toward life. It's an opportunity to let go of everything.
I like to explain the Bars as if they are buttons in your head. The practitioner knows how to activate them, and with that your mind and body know that it's safe and okay to release the old to make space for the new. It's like a big pressure cooker—by activating the Bars, the steam is released little by little. The less pressure in your mind and body, the more expansion and space for you to create a new reality.
Access Bars opens you up to truly be you.
How do the Bars work?
When the Access Bars are lightly touched, the brain waves actually slow down, allowing behavioural patterns, belief systems, and points of view that you have been running from childhood—or from other lifetimes—to be accessed.
The brain waves change from beta waves (attentive mode) to alpha/theta waves (relaxed, almost sleep mode). Brain wave measurement shows increased brain coherence after receiving Access Bars. Access Bars optimise brain performance, increase concentration ability, and improve emotional stability. See here what a neuroscientist thinks about the Access Bars.
In fewer words, you'll start to change. And what happens when you start to change? You become a more conscious individual about yourself and your body. But the biggest shift is that your environment will change too. You become an agent of change everywhere you go.
Because when your energy starts shifting, your whole world shifts too. Now, that is something else!
What can you expect in a session?
Bars is a gateway to infinite possibilities. Clearing limitations on one Bar may have positive effects on many areas of your life. Say a client has an issue with communication—that might be blocking their abundance and resulting in money issues. By clearing the "communication Bar," all sorts of things might clear at the same time.
A session can be done in as little as twenty minutes and go up to an hour and a half. The whole time the receiver will lie face up, fully clothed and without shoes.
During a session, clients report feeling energy moving within their bodies, occasional strange sensations or spasms. Some fall completely asleep and don't feel a thing—they usually wake up from what feels like a deep state of relaxation.
Usually after a session you feel extremely relaxed, with renewed energy and sometimes very thirsty. That also applies to any energy healing modality—water is a conductor of energy, so when lots of energy moves, a lot of fluids are used.
My very first session I felt total calmness and peace. I felt like floating—not sleeping, not awake—just existing. I remember someone eventually touching my shoulder to let me know the session had finished. Wow, what was that? I was gone… somewhere. I felt a bit dizzy and spacey. Later I learnt that's completely normal. Energy moves, and with that the molecules of our bodies and our energy field rearrange, it might make you feel strange, but good strange.
What changed in me
I must say that when I discovered Access I was deeply rooted in victimhood and was heavily programmed with many limiting belief systems. But something in me told me this was a path I needed to follow.
At first it was hard to change my mindset and start using the questions—it was like learning a new language. When I found Access I was experiencing grief, doing therapy, healing my womb. I was in the middle of a low point, probably the lowest point of my life; way before I learnt about shamanic practices, before I became a coach and a womb healing practitioner. This was the beginning of everything.
Here is what shifted in me:
My self-awareness increased.
My consciousness expanded.
I started trusting my knowing (my intuition) I noticed my body communicating with me.
I learnt to recognise when my intuition was saying yes or no.
I shed many limiting belief systems.
I released old patterns and points of view that didn't belong to me.
I learnt about the power of choosing.
I learnt to observe and perceive instead of accept, react, and defend—and to stop being affected by other people's points of view and my environment. Huge game changer!
The victim mindset transformed into empowerment. The more I was changing, the more I felt joyful for no reason. Later, when I started studying shamanism, I found out that joy is actually the true human state of being (lols).
I learnt about the power of having an interesting point of view and shifting my energy to make it strong.
As I integrated the Access teachings, concepts like vibration, frequency, molecules, field, toroid, and energy centres became part of my reality—they activated in me a world of possibilities, a world that ultimately pushed me out of my comfort zone to become an entrepreneur, started supporting people and create The Light Arts.
