During the session one prominent emotion and one significant belief showed up in his energy field - Grief and Effort Unreceived. Curiously, both of these were attached to a story about losing a football at age 10. There was also another story relating to Effort Unreceived that he inherited from me, as well as a further story of Grief involving a past life during which he’d lost his fingers in a sporting accident(!) After detecting these stories I deleted their energy and following the session, debriefed him on what came up. I began by asking, did you ever lose a football when you were 10 years old? He immediately sat up. ‘Don’t you remember, Mum? I’ve never forgotten about losing that ball, it’s like it was yesterday!’ He reminded me of the family trip we had taken to New York and the stroll down West 34th. We’d popped into Macy’s and his father had bought him a just-out Nike ball. An avid football fan and player, he was so proud of that shiny red trophy of his trip to America. On his first day back to school he showed it to his admiring classmates, then took it out into the playground at lunchtime for a play. One of the older boys sidled up to him, grabbed the ball out of his grasp and gave it an almighty kick, accidentally booting it out of the school playground into the adjoining woods. My son was distraught. Despite the boy and the school caretaker helping him to search among the trees and shrubbery, the ball was not to be found. It was lost forever. I vaguely remembered the story. At the time, a busy working mother, I imagine that I would have been more concerned about money wasted on an expensive ball he’d possessed for less than a week. I wasn’t a healer back then, and wasn’t to know that this was a significant and soul-destroying story that would imbed in my son’s cells, eat at his heart, and sap his energy for years to come.  Grief is a low vibration emotion. So too, is the belief of Effort Unreceived. The latter is a rationale that argues, ‘Why make an effort, why even try, when no matter what I do nothing works / I won’t get rewarded / no-one will notice? In other words, why bother, when whatever I do I will only end up losing my ball? The psychology of my son’s journey from optimistic, energetic, studious child to one who was de-energised and under-exploiting his potential made perfect sense! During the session he experienced many sensations including tingling in various parts of his body and white lights flashing behind his eyes. Afterwards, he felt calm and relaxed, even when thinking about the story. A few days following the healing he texted me from university: ‘Big difference in my energy levels!!! I’m up at 7.30am every day!! I feel a lot more positive and far more excited by things. Thank you, Mum, I really appreciate it.”