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chapter sixThe Magic Touch

Success Story: Marion Rosen

If you bring forth what is within you,what you bring forth will save you.—The Gospel according to Thomas

The deep twinkle in her 92-year-old blue eyes was the first thing I noticed.

Here was the woman who, in her late fifties, had given birth to an international phenomenon, a pioneering method of therapeutic bodywork admired by physicians, psychologists, chiropractors, and other health-care professionals worldwide; here was the expert who had personally touched thousands of patients and had built a network of practitioners in 15 nations to carry forward the organization that bears her name.

Here was the Marion Rosen, at work on yet another weekend between trips and office appointments, in ...