Change your life with Access BARS
After more than two decades as an optometrist, Boago Modiisane discusses how he got into the field, how he serves the community and why the job continues to fulfill
In this conversation with Access him. Bars’ practitioner Nasreen Essack,
SunHealth explores a path to asking
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as a potent and pragmatic tool by the energy in our minds and our bodies started my private practice in 2000. ment and rehabilitation, counseling, families, schools, businesses, athletes, we can change things in our lives that and interdisciplinary consultation.
Opticians are primary health care professionals who provide vision care through refraction and dispensing of optical aids such as spectacles.
Access Bars? What is it? What are the BARS and why are they called that?
do not serve us.
Why should one consider having their BARS run? (That is what it is called right?)
Yes that’s right we call it having your Bars run! One should have their BARS run so that they can experience more ease. The worst case scenario is that it will feel like a massage and the best case scenario, your whole life could change.
Someone described it to me as a delete button for all the negativity accumulated over the course of one’s life. How exactly does that work?
When the various BARS / points are touched energy begins to move through the body and whatever is “stucking” you begins to “unstuck”. If I can use these words to describe what happens?
Your point of view creates your reality; if you change your point of view you change your reality. With running your BARS you dissipate your limiting points of view and this then gives you the opportunity to choose something different that can create more ease.
It sounds like a mind healing tool…Can it be used to heal, say depression?
We do not like to make medical claims but a scientific study published in the Journal of Energy Psychology said the results of one Access Bars session showed an 80-plus percent reduction in depression and anxiety.
Also many people who have had their BARS run say they have experienced greater mental clarity, motivation and problem solving capacity significant increase is joy and happiness, improved manageability of depressive and anxious tendencies, decrease in interpersonal and intrapersonal conflicts,
deeper relaxation and non-interrupted sleep.
How can this tool be used to enhance one’s life?
This can be used to enhance any and every area of one’s life if one is seeking that change as well as being truly willing to change. From my own experience having my BARS run regularly and using the tools of Access Consciousness improved my life and living to a level I never thought possible. ‘
These tools literally gave me a new lease on life.
How long does a typical session last? Take us through the process of a BAR run?
A typical session lasts about an hour. The client lies down on their back and the practitioner positions themselves at the client’s head. The practitioner then touches the various points for a few minutes each. It is as simple as that but the change can be phenomenal.
What should one expect after a run?
Each and every person is different and every session is different. We all have different things we want to change so there is no standard to result. The target is to become joyful.
Who is your typical client and what issues do they often come with?
I can’t say there is a typical client. We are all unique and special. Most clients come because they want coping mechanisms for what is happening in their lives and they are searching for more joy and more ease.
Can anyone learn and run one’s own bars at home?
Yes. It is possible to run one’s own BARS but I also hold sessions where we do BARS swaps and we just have so much fun and change.
So the modality is called Access Consciousness of which Access Bars is a part of. How is conciousness defined?
Consciousness includes everything and judges nothing. We are so programmed to judge ourselves and each other, we spend so much time judging and being judged. When we step out of judgement we become more conscious and again are able to choose that which is greater.
Judgement causes “stuckness” and limits our potential. When we stop judging we step out of sadness and despair and see all that is possible.
Any final word you would like to leave us with?
Have a BARS session and experience the process for yourself. Also use this mantra ten times in the morning and ten times in the evening: “ALL OF LIFE COMES TO ME WITH EASE, JOY AND GLORY!”