In weekly sessions, Hameed continued to learn through his own experience how the impressions left by our personal history settle into the tissues, living in the body as tension patterns and influencing who we are and how we live. But he went further in recognizing that our physical tensions carry those historical patterns as an identity that must be deconstructed. – Karen Johnson, The Jeweled Path: The Biography of the Diamond Approach to Inner Realization, Ch. 3