DevaKai
03-08-2009, 08:28 PM
a network approach to wholeness
by;Donald M Epstein D.C.
founder and developer of network chiropractic
with Nathaniel Altman
Stage One: SUFFERING
Different from pain, suffering is marked b a profound awareness that "something is wrong." Parts of our being have been separated from our Inner Self-- the core of our being. This especially occurs when we are confronted with a traumatic or chaotic event or loss. the lesson of this stage is the acceptance that nothing works at this time; we are presently helpless.
Stage 2: POLARITIES AND RHYTHMS
The awareness that suffering involves cycles, polarities, and patterns is the essence of this stage. It begins with the search for the "magic genie" who will save us from our distress, pain , or crisis. We try to gain power over our helplessness through external authorities, procedures, and treatments. Eventually, as we heal, we see that our genie is not so magical. We become aware of our rhythms and polarities, and discover that we are partially responsible for our distress.
Stage 3: STUCK IN A Perspective
This stage of healing involves the recognition that our distress is associated with being stuck in a perspective. Our concepts or our physiology have been fixated. We don't need to know who we've been stuck, or what to do about it. We just need to have the simple awareness that we've been stuck.
Stage 4: RECLAIMING OUR POWER
This stage of healing is one in which we realize that the "script" determined by the above three stages is no longer desirable or no longer works. Initially, we are angry that we have lost our power and we are determined not to let it happen again. As we progress through this stage, we no longer choose to dishonor ourselves.
Stage 5: MERGING With THE ILLUSION
This stage is associated with having a strong enough sense of self to merge with the illusion which keeps us from our "light" or our "shadow". With merging, the part of our nature we have alienated, disliked, or ignored is integrated into the rest of our being to create more wholeness.
Stage 6: PREPARATION FOR Resolution
In stage 6 we build momentum and flexibility. the alienated traumatized, denied or redirected consciousness or energy is being prepared for discharge and resolution. We feel the tension building within ourselves as this process advances, and find ways to create change and improve flexibility to continue the process.
Stage 7: RESOLUTION
This stage may involve a discharge of the muscular system, such as movement of the extremities, or processes such as fever, coughing, sneezing, crying, screaming, and laughing. When the discharge occurs after the previous 6 stages, and a sense of accomplishment, peace, and inner strength accompanies the process, then resolution has been achieved.
Stage 8: EMPTINESS IN CONNECTEDNESS
After the resolution and discharge we are emptied. this is not a space of nothingness, but instead a place of possibilities. We enter into a state of gratitude, vulnerability: connection with our external rhythms, and alignment with events around us. We expect serendipity to be available for us as a natural way of life.
Stage 9: LIGHT BEHIND THE FORM
From our place in emptiness and gratitude we become aware of our fullness of light and energy. We experience that we are more than our physical body, and actually become aware of the flow of life force through and around us. We may even experience our energetic connection to others. this occurs in conjunction with awe and joy for the process.
Stage 10: ASCENT
There is an awareness of Being-- not as an intellectual being, but as intelligence itself; not as housing a Spirit, but as Spirit itself. We experience our union with the creative force of the Universe. We transcend all limits, boundaries, language, judgment, and our existing sense of self. We receive the gift of knowing the oneness of all creation, and gain immense wisdom during this stage.
Stage 11: DESCENT
We are renewed beyond our limits and sense of self and enter into the world again. We know that we are part of all we percieve and responsible for what we know. We live without being attached to our situations. We love and serve life and others. We communicate with ourselves and others through our wounds instead of from them.
Stage 12: COMMUNITY
We experience our involvement with humanity and recognize that wholeness comes from bringing our gifts of individuality into community. We recognize that all of our choices are spiritual ones and affect the entire globe of beings. Eventually we realize that the limits of what we can bring to community stems from our own lack of wholeness. therefore we seek to re-experience the rhythm of the earlier stages.
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by;Donald M Epstein D.C.
founder and developer of network chiropractic
with Nathaniel Altman
Stage One: SUFFERING
Different from pain, suffering is marked b a profound awareness that "something is wrong." Parts of our being have been separated from our Inner Self-- the core of our being. This especially occurs when we are confronted with a traumatic or chaotic event or loss. the lesson of this stage is the acceptance that nothing works at this time; we are presently helpless.
Stage 2: POLARITIES AND RHYTHMS
The awareness that suffering involves cycles, polarities, and patterns is the essence of this stage. It begins with the search for the "magic genie" who will save us from our distress, pain , or crisis. We try to gain power over our helplessness through external authorities, procedures, and treatments. Eventually, as we heal, we see that our genie is not so magical. We become aware of our rhythms and polarities, and discover that we are partially responsible for our distress.
Stage 3: STUCK IN A Perspective
This stage of healing involves the recognition that our distress is associated with being stuck in a perspective. Our concepts or our physiology have been fixated. We don't need to know who we've been stuck, or what to do about it. We just need to have the simple awareness that we've been stuck.
Stage 4: RECLAIMING OUR POWER
This stage of healing is one in which we realize that the "script" determined by the above three stages is no longer desirable or no longer works. Initially, we are angry that we have lost our power and we are determined not to let it happen again. As we progress through this stage, we no longer choose to dishonor ourselves.
Stage 5: MERGING With THE ILLUSION
This stage is associated with having a strong enough sense of self to merge with the illusion which keeps us from our "light" or our "shadow". With merging, the part of our nature we have alienated, disliked, or ignored is integrated into the rest of our being to create more wholeness.
Stage 6: PREPARATION FOR Resolution
In stage 6 we build momentum and flexibility. the alienated traumatized, denied or redirected consciousness or energy is being prepared for discharge and resolution. We feel the tension building within ourselves as this process advances, and find ways to create change and improve flexibility to continue the process.
Stage 7: RESOLUTION
This stage may involve a discharge of the muscular system, such as movement of the extremities, or processes such as fever, coughing, sneezing, crying, screaming, and laughing. When the discharge occurs after the previous 6 stages, and a sense of accomplishment, peace, and inner strength accompanies the process, then resolution has been achieved.
Stage 8: EMPTINESS IN CONNECTEDNESS
After the resolution and discharge we are emptied. this is not a space of nothingness, but instead a place of possibilities. We enter into a state of gratitude, vulnerability: connection with our external rhythms, and alignment with events around us. We expect serendipity to be available for us as a natural way of life.
Stage 9: LIGHT BEHIND THE FORM
From our place in emptiness and gratitude we become aware of our fullness of light and energy. We experience that we are more than our physical body, and actually become aware of the flow of life force through and around us. We may even experience our energetic connection to others. this occurs in conjunction with awe and joy for the process.
Stage 10: ASCENT
There is an awareness of Being-- not as an intellectual being, but as intelligence itself; not as housing a Spirit, but as Spirit itself. We experience our union with the creative force of the Universe. We transcend all limits, boundaries, language, judgment, and our existing sense of self. We receive the gift of knowing the oneness of all creation, and gain immense wisdom during this stage.
Stage 11: DESCENT
We are renewed beyond our limits and sense of self and enter into the world again. We know that we are part of all we percieve and responsible for what we know. We live without being attached to our situations. We love and serve life and others. We communicate with ourselves and others through our wounds instead of from them.
Stage 12: COMMUNITY
We experience our involvement with humanity and recognize that wholeness comes from bringing our gifts of individuality into community. We recognize that all of our choices are spiritual ones and affect the entire globe of beings. Eventually we realize that the limits of what we can bring to community stems from our own lack of wholeness. therefore we seek to re-experience the rhythm of the earlier stages.
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