India, April 15 -- Lying there, I was sceptical, truth be told. I was attending a session called Access Bars. Essentially it is a technique which was started by Gary Douglas of over 30 years ago. The technique consists of 32 points on the head, called Access Bars, which when lightly touched stimulate positive changes in the brain and defragment the electromagnetic components of stress, thought and emotion. The bar session usually lasts for 60-90 minutes.

Coming back to the session, I had just heard how phenomenally it had changed lives of people - a gentleman had managed to better his eyesight, another shrugged off cervical pain as if it had never existed and yet another did not have to worry about money. But then, it was the cynical old...