How People Describe the Benefits of Zero Balancing

It's so relaxing, more like a treat than a treatment". Retired Laboratory Manager.

"Initially a really wonderful feeling of complete relaxation, a taking away of all tension.... but on a more everyday level the effects go on for sometime.... tensions ease away into a sense of well-being". Teacher.

"I find Zero Balancing a good form of stress release, it's a relaxing way to tune into my inner self and helps me think more positively". Finance Clerk.

“ Zero Balancing feels like being put in alignment.... short term I feel balanced and good, longer term I feel it has important effects.... like getting your car wheels balanced.... imperceptibly everything runs more smoothly”. Social Worker & mother of two.

“ I feel a lot more balanced, my whole being feels expanded, calm, still, peaceful”. Student.

“I felt really low in spirit and Zero Balancing lifted that for the majority of the time, it helped me find inner strength to put things into perspective. For me one treatment unfolds over a period of weeks”. Nursery Nurse.

“Zero Balancing is gentle and powerful, the link between touch that’s non-invasive is in deep physical contact with you, but it’s totally non-threatening, for me is a very helpful process”. Social Worker.

“After the ZB session I could turn my head more. In myself I didn’t feel so emotional. I felt free and buzzy, clearer and less tired. I also felt like my old self, I’ve not felt like that for years, probably since the car accident seven years ago”. Gardener.

“I felt more settled, my boundaries are clearer. I felt really strong in myself, and am really proud with myself at the way I dealt with a tricky confrontation. I’m generally feeling more positive”. Artist.

“My back has been heaps better, and the tingling in my shoulders and legs has gone”. Single mother.

“The best way that I can explain Zero Balancing is, it’s like having counselling without having to re-live the trauma. It’s a very gentle yet powerful body work technique. I recommend Zero Balancing to anyone who has had trauma of any kind in their lives”. PA, Accountancy firm.

What is a Zero Balancing session like?

A Zero Balancing session lasts between 20 and 40 minutes, depending on the energetic needs of the client. Clients remain fully clothed and the work is performed with them sitting and then lying on their back on a massage table. Zero Balancing uses specific finger pressure and held stretches called fulcrums. A fulcrum provides a point of stillness around which energy and structure can reorganise. It takes a person into a place of refreshing relaxation, which can bring about a profound experience of well-being and body-felt unity. This offers the opportunity to let go of unease and pain, both emotionally and physically, and to experience new levels of integration. The touch used in Zero Balancing has a characteristic clarity, which is pleasurable to receive.

The Benefits of Zero Balancing

Zero Balancing is beneficial for a wide range of people and effective in many ways.

It’s wonderful for stress reduction and helping people to process stress with greater ease. Stress can show itself as emotional/mental and or physical problems.


For some, a Zero Balancing session is the only chance they have to reach a place of stillness in their lives where they can begin to “let go”. It is one of the paradoxes that such a gentle approach can have such potential and power for change in a person’s life.

Many clients report responses ranging from the physical relief of pain, increased flexibility in their body to levels of refreshing relaxation and experiences of integration.

Others report that its benefits are so profound as to evoke deep peaceful states similar to those reached from intensive meditation.


Zero Balancing can help a person feel more integrated and solid in themselves. It can significantly improve our ability to adapt to and cope with changes with which life is continually confronting us.

One of the strengths of Zero Balancing, (because our body tissues store our emotions), is to access and release held emotional tension by working directly on the body. Having a “body felt” experience of a release of an emotion makes the released affect more complete and longer lasting.

Zero Balancing benefits the whole person while addressing specific needs and symptoms. These benefits include:-
• The experience of fundamental well-being.
• Relieving symptoms of stress and musculoskeletal tension.
• Reduced physical and emotional pain from both past and present.
• Body/mind support for life challenges and transitions, assisting people to adapt
   to the stresses of life promoting the quietening and centring of the body-mind.
• Feelings of deep states of relaxation.
• Enhanced momentum for self-actualization.

Sessions aim to enhance health and aid a person to reach further into their potential.

Zero Balancing promotes a deep sense of harmony and as a result our natural healing processes are empowered.

It is beneficial in many ways and the following are a guide to a number of areas in which it is especially useful:-

Stress Reduction

Zero Balancing is a gentle, non-invasive way of dealing with stress. Zero Balancing encourages energy to flow smoothly through the deep structures of the body helping to release stressful patterns. This enables us to respond to the challenges of life from a balanced state of embodied awareness.

Body Pain

Pain often occurs where energy flow is blocked, or weakened. This can be caused by emotional or mental stress or as a result of an accident or injury. Zero Balancing works with the whole body whilst being able to address specific areas of physical pain.

Personal Process

Zero Balancing can facilitate the release of mental habits and patterns of emotional response that hinder us. Unresolved issues from our personal history may be held in the body and act as obstacles to personal development. Zero Balancing can help to access and clear these obstructions, strengthening our ability to explore new possibilities of growth and change.

Reparative Touch

Sometimes our natural responses to touch have been distorted by events in our personal history. This may happen because of trauma, abuse or prolonged physical pain. Zero Balancing establishes an interface between giver and receiver in which the boundaries remain quite distinct yet sensitively 'in touch'. The safety of this respectful connection can enable a person to discover the positive aspects of human touch.

Traditional Chinese Acupuncture

ACUPUNCTURE is an ancient system of healing, originally part of the traditional medicine of China where it has been used for thousands of years to restore health and enhance well-being. Traditional Acupuncture comes from understanding a person's symptoms in the context of their whole being. Treatment aims to assist the conditions in which harmonious functioning restores itself and to nurture a strengthening of the person's general health. Response to treatment varies. along with improvements to the main complaint a person may notice that he or she sleeps better, feels more relaxed or feels more at ease. Often people find acupuncture extremely beneficial for conditions which have not responded to other forms of treatment.

Five Element Acupuncture

Five Element Acupuncture, as taught by Professor J.R. Worsley. It recognises the health of each person in relationship with the Five Elements, Fire, Earth, Meta, Water and Wood. Each element is connected to our organs and functions. For example, our Heart, Lungs, Colon, Kidneys and Bladder. Following the natural laws and the cycle of energy, treatment focuses on the entire health of a person on all levels of body, mind and spirit.

Paul Cohen

Paul qualified as an Acupuncturist in 1985, has since gained his Bachelorship in Acupuncture, and completed a further course in Traditional Chinese Medicine. He is one of the most experienced Five Element Acupuncturists in New Zealand and ran a busy practice on the south coast of England for over 15 years.

Paul gained his certificate as a Zero Balancer in 1992. He has been specifically trained by Dr Fritz Smith, the founder of Zero Balancing as a Core and Advanced Zero Balancing teacher. Paul is the only practising qualified Zero Balancing teacher in Australasia. He teaches in NZ and internationally.

He moved to New Zealand in August 2000 and established the Zero Balancing Association of New Zealand and Australia. www.ZeroBalancing.co.nz

Paul integrates both Acupuncture and Zero Balancing in his practice.

Paul works from St Benedicts Health Care, 40 St Benedicts Street, Newton, and his home on Waiheke Island.

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