FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ's)

What is This Website?

  This website is the official worldwide website of Chios Energy Healing, perhaps the most comprehensive and powerful aura and chakra-based energy healing art in the world today. It contains complete information and full explanation of the “breakthrough” energy healing techniques of Chios that, in contrast to those of most other energy healing arts, are made freely available to everyone in all nations of the world. This website is a complete exposition of those techniques, and a series of progressive instructional materials useful in learning the techniques may be downloaded directly from this website for free. Unlike the large majority of energy healing websites on the Internet, which merely take their content from other places, this website is entirely the product of original research and development.

What is Chios Energy Healing?

  Energy Healing is based upon the premise that illness or affliction in the body, emotions, mind and spirit has as its ultimate cause defects in the higher energy field surrounding the body. This energy field is composed of the seven chakras and the seven layers of aura, and has been known and discussed in many spiritual systems since ancient times. This energy field is the higher "energy pattern" which mirrors conditions in the body, emotions, mind and spirit of each person and that must be itself healed, for true physical, emotional and psychological/spiritual healing to take place.

  Chios Energy Healing is based upon a new series of powerful techniques that specifically and powerfully heal the true, root energetic defects in the aura and chakras—techniques which have not previously been available in any spiritual or energy healing system. The Chios Master Techniques—Chakra Charging, Chakra System Rebalancing, Radiatory Healing, Seventh-Layer Healing and Frisson Healing—remain the most powerful energy healing techniques of their kind available anywhere in the world, since the introduction of Chios in 1994. Chios healing treatments, using these techniques, provide healing that might otherwise be unavailable from other healing arts. They may also facilitate spiritual growth, as an adjunct to other personal growth practices, as well as to provide generally enhanced health to body, mind and spirit.

Why is All the Chios Information Put Out for Free, on the Chios Website, When Other Healing Systems Do Not Make Their Techniques So Universally Available?

  Energy healing is a key element of the profound change in consciousness now underway on our world, in this important time of transition. While the Chios system is trademarked and copyrighted (to protect the purity of the knowledge, and to prevent theft or misuse), it was the decision of Stephen H. Barrett (the creator of Chios) that this information be made freely available to all, throughout the world. As with academic or scientific knowledge, which is published openly to foster the advancement of human knowledge and society, so is this important knowledge shared openly with all. And so perhaps one should not ask why the Chios knowledge is given so freely, but ask: Why do other healing arts not do the same? Excessive commercialism, profiteering and the hording of knowledge are all contrary to the new paradigm of spirituality and consciousness emerging in our world today.

What is the Difference Between Chios and Reiki?

  Chios is not a form of Reiki. They are separate healing arts with separate techniques. There are some important differences between Chios and Reiki:

1. Chios healing includes a complete, progressive series of advanced techniques in energy healing—unique to Chios and not available in Reiki, etc.—which powerfully heal the aura and chakra system. The Chios Level III (Master) Techniques, in particular, are fundamental advances in energy healing not previously available to the healing community.
2. Chios healing also includes an integral meditation method (Chios Meditation), and additional exercises for the development of the psychic abilities useful to the energy healer. Also included are in-depth techniques for complementary care of serious illness. Chios is a fully integrated system of advanced techniques beyond any previously available.
3. Chios healing is supported by comprehensive, standardized instructional literature for the teacher, student and practitioner—materials which preserve the purity of the Chios information and techniques. The Chios literature is freely available to all and may be downloaded directly from the Internet anywhere in the world.
4. Chios healing includes standardized attunement procedures for both in-person and distance attunements—procedures which preserve the purity and integrity of the Chios attunements.

Are Chios Attunements the Same as Reiki Attunements?

  No, they are not, and the attunements are not interchangeable. Chios is a separate healing art from Reiki, using separate and different attunements. If you wish to practice Chios healing you should receive the Chios attunements. Attunements may be requested by contacting Chios Master Teachers: see Contact Chios Master Teachers to find a Chios Master in your local area (or one who may provide attunements by distance).

What Does the Word "Chios" Mean, How Is It Pronounced and Why Was It Chosen as the Name of This Healing Art?

  The word "Chios" (pronounced Cheeˊ ohss) is from the language of the ancient civilization of Bactria. The closest English translation to this word is "life force," although there is a fuller, richer meaning: Chios is the life-welling in all living things, as they strive upwards towards growth and towards the light and enlightenment. This meaning also includes the struggle of spiritual growth, and of the spiritual process. Steve Barrett (the creator of Chios) had a past life in this civilization, during which he studied and used many of the healing techniques Chios now includes. The word "Chios" was chosen, for its beauty and relevance, as the name of this healing art.

May I Translate the Chios Information (the Course Manuals and Workbooks) Into Other Languages?

  Yes, you may, but only to furnish the information to your healing students, or as a public service for those in your home country who may be interested in learning Chios healing and meditation. You may not publish the copyrighted Chios information (or any excerpt from it) as your own, in book form or in any other commercial form, nor personally profit from it. If you translate Chios information into other languages, you must first ask for written permission (giving information on your intended use). You must also include a copyright notice (acknowledgement), in the text of your translation, indicating Stephen H. Barrett (creator of Chios) as copyright holder. The appropriate form is: ©1994 - 2011 Stephen H. Barrett. All Rights Reserved. Other than these simple rules, translation of the Chios information is strongly encouraged, so it may be shared with all.

What Are the Requirements to Become a Chios Master Teacher?

  You must receive the full series of 3 Chios attunements from a Certified Chios Master Teacher. You must also complete a study of the Chios instructional materials (which are offered free through this website: see Download Course Manuals, which will involve learning the techniques of all 3 Chios course levels (as detailed in the 3 course manuals) and also completing the 3 study workbooks. Certification as a new Chios Master Teacher requires your teacher's verification (certification) that you have been accurately attuned and have also completed this complete study program. Note that, unlike many energy healing arts, you do not merely receive attunements to get your certificate, but must complete this study program which requires an investment of time and effort.

Why Are There Course Requirements, Certification and the List of Approved Chios Master Teachers?

  Chios healing is taught by approved Certified Chios Master Teachers, who give authentic Chios attunements which preserve the exact techniques. Certified Chios Master Teachers also teach the Chios system using the original, authentic Chios information and healing techniques. Attunements and teaching is done according to specific guidelines, which protect the purity of the attunements and of the techniques being taught. These guidelines are not motivated by desire to impose authority or bureaucracy, but instead to guarantee the viability and protect the integrity of Chios healing and prevent the kinds of abuses which have seriously damaged other healing arts, such as Reiki. The Chios teaching guidelines are posted on the Certification Requirements page. The intention is to protect the student, protect the Chios attunements and information, guarantee the worth of Chios degrees, and enhance the recognition and value of Chios healing and Chios healers, by the healing community and society at large.

Where Can One Find Out More Information About Chios?

  This website is an excellent resource and also offers free downloads of the Chios information (instructional manuals and educational workbooks). Also, many Chios healing Master Teachers and practitioners also offer attunements and courses, and other information in their local areas and over the Internet. You may locate these resources by googling (using "Chios Healing" or similar keywords).