The In your face Boston Healer who flipped the script: A Chicken and a Hug in Taipei

Master Brian Collins performing a Chi Gong demo in 1996 so when you say “That’s Bullshit”.. here is some proof for ya, that’s me right there above as a very young man showing my Chi Gong chops in Guangzhou China…..

There are moments in life when ego tries to stand in the way of true service—and it always reveals the true nature of a person.

In 1996, I was invited to Taipei and Mainland China as part of a cultural exchange highlighting Qi Gong and energy medicine. I didn’t go as a star or a master—I went as a humble practitioner open to whatever experience the universe had in store for me. At the time, I was a MUCH younger man, deep in intensive training in Chi Gong, Hawaiian Spirituality and Filipino Martial Arts and was just starting to fully understand how spiritual energy could move through the body in real-time to alter time and space.

At a Taipei health fair, locals from the mountain regions came into the big city hoping for help for chronic issues. Many of them had never received proper care, relying mostly on the strength of their own will. I started casually working with people at the fair—not as part of a performance or any main stage—just a few quick energy sessions to ease pain and bring alignment where I could.

👉 Then it happened.

Someone experienced instant relief after seeing me.

Then another and another….

A small line then formed to have me aid them.

…TIt quickly became a crowd.

Suddenly, people were stepping out of the “official” healing line and forming a separate one… for me—the gasp! Lo fan? (foreigner). The “Master” we were traveling with was not amused at this at all. His pride had been punctured by something he couldn’t control: pure, intention-based energy transfer. He had the titles. He had the spotlight, but….

But I had something different: presence, purpose, and permission.

And the people around me felt the chi as well.

One elderly man who had come down from the mountains shuffled toward me.

He’d carried a severe farming neck injury for years—something that had made it hard to sleep, eat, and live. After a brief five-minute session, the life long pain was gone completely. His eyes widened. He looked around, unsure if it was a trick.

But it wasn’t.

He returned about an hour later, teary-eyed, and offered me the most meaningful gift he could find: a live chicken from his village that he brought to sell.

That was his currency of gratitude.

I smiled, bowed, and told him it was 100% free and just asked him for a hug for payment. He looked up at the large white man who had just helped him, tears now streaking his face, and embraced me with the full energy of his ancestors behind him and offered a genuine hug. And I knew in that moment—I wasn’t there to impress or to perform.

I was there to shake things up, me, the unexpected Lo Fan Chi Gong Master

A white guy with this ability? Who wasn’t greedy or an obnoxious jerk?

I was there to unlock my true self.

This moment—chicken and all—remains one of the most honest expressions of what true healing is and the pure gratitude someone showed me for simply being me. Sure after this trip, I went on in my multi-decade career to do things like curing the blind and aiding countless infertile women in having children, life long migraine cures in 1 touch, etc, etc, etc, blah blah blah so many “miracles”…. but I also saw that some clients expected me to cure them, in fact some demanded and treated me as their personal energy slave.

But I have learned MUCH since my time at my former brick and mortar Newbury Street office in Boston and well, those who demanded and expected a slave? well are still who they are, lost deep inside and well, they will eventually meet whatever they believe in and discuss it with that/them/whatever.

It is not about the taking the spotlight on the stage.

It’s not about the sacred robe or special hat.

It’s not about the title,

Its not the wireless face mic to tower over and scream at people your philosophy

Its not about inner demand, manipulation to acquire or fear energy guiding you

It’s about understanding your gravitational connection.

At Life in Synergy, this is how we still operate (roll).

From Boston to Taipei, from the wonderful energy of the Kalalau Valley in Kaua’i, the truth of healing hasn’t changed: you don’t need the spotlight—you need sincerity. Our decades-long success, including Helena Collins Apex Life in Synergy® Program, Helena Collins Synergistics Fitness Method® and the EFV Keys program, are built on this kind of real-world energy work—where truth, transformation, and yes, even live chickens, show up when you’re aligned with your mission.

If you feel the call to experience this level of transformation in your life, it’s time to pick up and answer,

as your world can’t be put on hold any longer.

Learn more about the Apex Life in Synergy Program here and learn how to unlock YOUR true self.

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