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Quantum Entrainment
To drop attention from the contents of mind down to pure awareness — the silent ‘nothing’ in which everything is perceived — and rest there (often with a light two-finger touch on self or another), letting the body-mind relax and reorganise of its own accord.
QE in 5 lines: Rest two fingers lightly on a spot (or just close your eyes). Drop attention from the thought to the awareness it appears in — glance, glance again, notice the silent “nothing.” Stay there and do nothing; let the body settle by itself. Notice what’s different. The awareness-and-relaxation is real; the “instant/quantum healing” framing is unproven — never use in place of medical care.
What it is
Quantum Entrainment (QE) is the core practice of Frank Kinslow, an American chiropractor who developed it in 2007. At its heart QE is a single contemplative move: drop attention away from thoughts, sensations, and effort, and become aware of awareness itself — the silent, alert “nothing” in which every experience is appearing.
Kinslow’s pointer is famously simple: glance down, then glance up quickly, and notice the gap — “What’s there? Nothing is there, right? Pure awareness.” QE is often delivered with a light two-finger touch on oneself or another person; the touch is not a manipulation but a way of giving relaxed attention a place to rest.
From there the practitioner does, in Kinslow’s words, essentially nothing — and the nervous system is left to settle and reorganise on its own. It is worth saying up front: although it is dressed in the language of physics (“entrainment,” “quantum”), QE is best understood as a structured act of attention, relaxation, and light touch — not a literal manipulation of matter at the quantum level (see Why It Works and empirical status).
The Method
A faithful rendering of QE as Kinslow teaches it in The Secret of Instant Healing (2008) and his seminars:
- Make light contact. If working on yourself or another, rest two fingers lightly on a spot — Kinslow’s instruction is essentially to touch and then pay attention to what you are touching. (The touch can be dropped once the awareness move is familiar; QE simplifies toward a purely mental practice.)
- Drop to pure awareness. Let attention fall away from the thought or sensation and toward the awareness in which it is appearing. Use the glance trick if helpful — look, then look again, and notice the wordless “nothing” that is present before the next thought. Kinslow calls this pure awareness.
- Do nothing — be aware. This is the active ingredient and the hardest instruction: don’t try to heal, fix, or change anything. Simply remain quietly aware. As he puts it, “simply by doing nothing you set in motion healing waves of change.”
- Let the system reorganise. Stay out of the way. Kinslow describes the body-mind softening and rebalancing by itself — a felt “drop,” a wave, a deepening of stillness — without the practitioner directing it.
- Notice what is different. After a short while, observe any shift in how the spot, the body, or the state feels — and let that be enough. (This is a faithful summary of QE as taught, not a reproduction of copyrighted training material. “What’s there? Nothing is there. Pure awareness” and “simply by doing nothing you set in motion healing waves of change” are Kinslow’s published phrasings, attributed.)
Source & Lineage
Frank Kinslow (b. 1951), a chiropractor with a doctorate in clinical spiritual counselling, reports arriving at QE in 2007 during a personal crisis — three days on a couch with “nothing to do and nowhere to go,” from which he recognised a restful, silent awareness beneath all striving.
He systematised it as Quantum Entrainment, taught through The Secret of Instant Healing (2008), The Secret of Quantum Living, and international seminars. QE belongs to the family of light-touch, intention-led modalities — close kin to Richard Bartlett’s Matrix Energetics Two-Point and Eric Pearl’s Reconnective Healing, all of which emphasise “getting out of the way.” Its distinctive signature is that the lever is explicitly awareness of awareness and a named felt-tone, the Eufeeling.
Common refinements
Trying to make something happen. QE explicitly fails on effort. The instruction is to be aware and do nothing; straining to “heal” reinstates the busy mind it is meant to drop.
- Hunting for a special state. Pure awareness isn’t an object to find — it’s the silent space already here. The moment you search for an experience, you’re back in thought.
- Treating the felt “wave” as proof. A wobble, warmth, or “drop” is what relaxed, suggestible bodies do — not evidence that physics was altered or disease cured.
- Using it diagnostically or therapeutically in place of care. It is not a medical instrument. Keep all real treatment in place.
- If you still use it: treat it as a calming awareness-and-touch practice, keep claims modest, and let “doing nothing” be genuinely effortless.