There is no widely accepted explanation for these variations. Usually, emphasis on practitioner training has been on better point location or more or less stimulation. This occurs when the client becomes open and vulnerable, responsive in energy to the self and the environment. When a person is open, the energy fixations that underlie disease states can release. The personality is an expression of habituated conformations of the pattern of the energy body.
Illness is an expression of frozen energy, occurring when the energy body closes, or rigidifies.
To heal, the person needs to thaw. The factors in the personality that encourage blockage are field dependency and roles and obligations, where the person is satisfying demands external to the self. A person opens up in intimate dialogue with self and others. Thus, the challenge is to help the client to establish intimate relationships with the self, and with others. The release that permits the thaw can come through a variety of approaches.