Prose & Metaphor to Convey An Approach to Mind-Body Integration
Mind-Body Integration and "Body-Parenting"
and the Inner Communications that can form a powerful basis for Preventative Health Maintenance

Much of this was written to serve as a metaphor illustrating the dynamic relationships
of Spirit, mind, body, and emotions, as well as the inner-child-parent-family, including the cells, organs,
and body systems - It is based on the "Re-Parenting" approach of personal growth & self-healing.

      Page Sections & Links      
   "My Cells My Children"
   "From a Chat about Talking to One's Cells"
   "Communications and Healing: Trusting The Connections"
   "Web Dancing Connected"
 
    "The Chaliverse"     (Artwork)
   "Bringing My Family Together"
   Related Essays
   Copyright/Disclosure, Author, & HomePage Info


Note:   The principle of "As Above, So Below," has to do with relationships of things up and down the spiritual, psychological, and biological hierarchy(s) of human beings.
EG:   When one heals one's heart, this not only effects the capacity for health in a positive way of other organs and systems in one's own body but also the capacity of others in his/her community to heal their hearts as well. In that light, one might also apply this poetry as a metaphor, up and down the hierarchy of communal structure as well. And, to take that a step further, I wonder: might it be as much truth as it is metaphore?




  My Cells - My Children


My cells know what to do and they do what they know

resting into alignment and into the FLOW.

Nothing to make happen, nothing to make be

just allowing their being all they are as One with me.

appreciating their loyalty for serving against their way

in past times of survival, holding & protecting each day.

Reacting to experience, my voice at times unconscious,

at times so were others' -

passing on what I felt others knew best,

'though just fathers & mothers.

I'm learning as a parent, that nurturing part of me -

to be with my little selves, trusting me to be of Thee,

allowing my muscles to rest into their places

balancing into the PRESENCE, breathing into the spaces.

In Tune with the Blueprint and guidance of my BEING

that's eternally inviting my opening, feeling, and Seeing,

For these are all my CHILDREN, having always obeyed my voice,

now rejoining my family, all with awareness and choice.

[lines 8&9 edited 12/14/06 -cp]
 

"Talking To One's Cells"
From an On-line Chat


W:      ... My heart does that to me sometimes. Bad heart bad heart.
C:    <g> silly
W:    Maybe.
C:    don't talk about your hearts and parts that way, they might believe you someday
W:      Hmmmm.
W:      Believe WHAT?
C:      eg: not healthy to tell your inner kids they're bad
W:      Heart isn't really bad. Just does dumb things sometimes.
W:      Way dumb.
C:      they're overworked, hurt, mispercieving, etc, but not bad --
just responding to a misbehaving parent that forgot who the kids were
W:      Ain't misbehaving no more........


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Communications and Healing:    TRUSTING THE CONNECTIONS


          " Healing Work",  Connecting the points,  Connecting the families,

Connecting the children,  Connecting the parents,

                                                                            all inside oneself.

They all KNOW what to do, more "perfectly" than one can conceive 

      (after all,  they are the Mind of God - in form).   

    And with PRESENCE,    they do what they know.   

                    All the atoms, cells, organs, and systems...

          They're all good kids,  doing what my own mind has told them -

                      whether it's according to what works in the long run or not.

            Many thousands of messages from thousands of thoughts

                      makes for thousands of feelings over time...

                                bringing the families together...

So it's not always so simple.

                      But finding the patterns - 

          and people communicate even as they may try not to

                                (you can't not communicate) -

  and especially when one is in need - even if one is not aware of the need,

                              even if one believes one is not supposed to need, 

                              even if one tries to communicate another need, 

                      if you really listen long enough, 

they will commmunicate the need that is truely there.

        And since the healing occurs when connections are made within one, 

        and since the connections are made,

                      as the children and parents communicate - 

all inside one Self...

The "healer" needs only to listen and mediate, facilitate an environment 

  that allows and encourages what would otherwise happen naturally --

      bringing the families together.

          And it does for the most part to "perfection"

                  -- considering our place in evolution.   

          And it would be so -- without doing time & space on the Earth plane

                  --  in, for, and between all the other parts of us ALL --

          were it not for the messages -

old ones all, mimic'd or self created or from others in ONE's experience -

      that we have taken in and had stand on the bridges

      like censoring sentries

      between our inner worlds

as if those worlds were some foreign to us,

                    and God didn't know where else to put them --



"Can't Trust", you say?

            Experience - with and without limitation - how else to learn ?

and what if everybody - and all their cells and organs,
                      both (inner) children and parents - communicated efficiently,

                              and we all knew what we all    t r u e l y    n e e d e d ? 

                      Well then, how -- else with honor -- could we act --

                              bringing the families together ?

                      And as one learns to trust one's own Self 

            (each of the parts as we come to know the whole being),

          we may learn to trust others -

                                                      at least to be themselves.

                    And knowing oneself, 

one knows more about what brings circumstances,

    and what kinds of situations come with various people,

              loving them for their experience that brought them to you,

                    in the way that creates the experience that you share with them.

      One cannot not communicate, so why not listen -- to self as well ?

          We tell stories,

            make conversation that helps us to laugh at our inner conversations

and to understand our own contradictions.

                    Someday we may each learn to speak 

                            who we ARE - feelings and all,  and know that it is safe -

                            even if someone seems to insist on percieving the world

                            only from his/her own experience, different from our own.

Perhaps, as we L-earn each other's trust/truth,

              we open to real-eye-zing our potent-I-all.

We seem to learn the best and the most at the point of paradox --

              at the place where we struggle 

                for more clarity and definition, or diffusion and connectedness --

                              and here, we might gleen how the ends of the world meet, 

Bringing the Families Together...




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  WEB DANCING CONNECTED


    The Way is Known

                        Here and Now Present with a Plan for me
                        Faith in "The Blueprint"

                        of my Higher Power, Spirit-Matrix-In-Form

    The Way is Facilitated

                        And I Am Guided

    Resources Now Made Available for each Step

                        As I enter, meet my inner cells/children, and meld

                        -- with appreciation for their roles & feelings --

                        I melt with Love the congealed areas of my life/body,

                        Old ways and paths forgiven, released in the Flow of Creation

                        Inherent Gifts now Real-Eyes-ed and accepted

                        Natural cycles now resume for these my Inner Children

    I Am the Vehicle

    The Chalice of My Being in Matter Form

    Web Dancing, Connected

    And My Heart Drives


  
             "The Chaliverse"       (JPG file)                 © 7-97, Chris Pringer

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Bringing My Family Together


I have discovered in me the Divine (Inner) Child
   who once loved enough to trust the untrustworthy
     and sacrifice its freedom (to be all it is)
in order to set the scene for learning and teaching -
    now the persona of my emotional body.

I discover (in me) the Divine Father and Mother
  and I realize Compassion in loving the child
    through my re-experience of his sacrifice ...
memories of separation, bonding broken, identity torn.
Uncovering and allowing, uncovering and allowing,
          I find my broken child,
   let him scream and pound, shake, or just pout.
I hear his needs and become the mother he cries for.

As the child now releases the quagmired feelings
and the muscle tension it held as its shield,
    the judgments are retired
and the Light of mind re-creates with Love.
The three lower bodies (mental, emotional, and physical)
    integrate, align with the higher bodies,
and ground my being into the clarity of my Purpose.

I discover more and more of myself as perfect
        ("ALL things considered").
Including the a-parent lacking, the a-parent wrongs
        of the a-parent past --
the roles each has played in the becoming
    of That I Am (always have been).
I need no longer react to the rules and judgments,
no longer transfixed by the fear I used to fear.

Unburdened by ego's need for protection of what I now feel,
Now Forgiveness and Clarity reveal the true nature
    of this part of the path.
    my path and choices clearly seen,
I act with power, compassion, and self-knowledge.

The discovery brings together the Divine Family in me
and integrates That in me for the rebirth of "my" Soul
    into my material body.
A small part of the Plan for Earth is restored.
    I Am That I Am (through me)
    the Power of All Life manifested.

    I am free! So Be It!

-- Christopher Pringer


  IDEALS IN TENSION = INTENTION
[ This reads both horizontally and vertically
(which is part of the whole metaphor it speaks to) ]


In
TENSION


Tension sustains the body  
Paradox sustains the mind  
Suspension is the bridge  
Awareness is the crossing  
Letting go the bridge  
of suspension  









 Values yet to be fully lived
 Potentials to be fully realized
 evolving us
 expanding limits
 of cognitive dissonance
 in abeyance
Time is of no consequence  
in Right Brain Logic


      Related Essays      

   
"Body-Mind Integration in the Personal Growth Process"
The Basic How's And Why's Of Psycho- Emotional Storage In The Body-Mind
(published in MASSAGE MAGAZINE, July-August 1992).
    "The Use of Questions in Effective Affirmation Therapy"
Theory & Examples for Practical Application. Theory section explains how this (PRQ) system compares to other affirmation techniques and therapies - how and why they work, advantages of PRQ's, etc. Includes Lots of Sample PRQ's (Positive Response Questions) for learning and affirming any desired knowledge, Simple How-To's in developing Pragmatic use of "the right question" -- from a test situation and/or from regular affirmations. Works well for the intangibles (Personal Growth oriented) which many would say has to come before you can truly enjoy the rest anyway. © `94
 
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Chris Pringer @'SanctuariSi' Brownsville, Texas, 1984
Chris, 1984
              I began my studies in multi-level self-healing when in the service, in Thailand in the Winter of '73. The focus then was on self-help psychology, consciousness, and eastern and western mystical perspectives. This continued through my university studies in Norman, OK '74-'79. 1980 took me into naturopathic studies, primarily nutrition and herbology when I lived in Oklahoma City. Not seeing the naturopathic doctor route as affordable at the time, I found direction via a five-evening massage course, Fall '83. That led to a six month professional practice, followed up with the training in Sante Fe, NM, '84-'85 (described in the next paragraph).
        Since then I have practiced massage and/or healing facilitation for others, initially in Santa Fe, NM (during/after my training), then San Louis Obispo, CA, and Seattle, WA. This includes exploring personal challenges and self-healing methodology. A session may include various energy work modalities, Body/Energy-Awareness based Preventative Health Maintenance Instruction, or only Reiki or relaxation work in total silence. A client chooses based on whatever stress, pain, or concerns are present at that session. A client may request a "Body Pattern Reading," as well as various massage/bodywork therapies, all of which techniques are listed & described in the Body-Mind Integration Therapies Brochure. Individual, program, and 3-6 week interval-based rates are available.

My professional interests have primarily centered in three areas:
        1) Body-Centered Psycho-Spiritual Process (as in "Hakomi" style of) counseling and bodywork, including as assessing an individual for the most efficient means of addressing connective tissue injury, short and long term, and the most efficient application of the results of that assessment (on physical and/or emotional levels);
        2) in the basic hows & whys related to the storage & release of tension and "body memory" in the muscles and fascia. and in the related fascia memory storage dynamics - referring to the technical aspects of neuro-physical interface between connective tissue, emotion, and the brain);
        3) "Chalice-Bridging" style chakra balancing - based in the perspective that the chalice, far more than just a cup in this interpretation, is about the human embodiment of Spirit into the three "lower bodies" (mental, emotional, and physical) which compose the "Body-Mind". Which is also a "cauldron" for the balancing and integrating of Humanity with the Divine - individually and communally.

My training includes
        over 1370 hours of classes and practicum
, including with the New Mexico Academy of Massage and Advanced Healing Arts in Santa Fe, NM (1984-85), and with various accredited bodywork and therapy workshops (`86-present), as well as 100 hours training with the Alchemical Hypnotherapy Institute (1989), over 100 hrs apprenticeship with healing practitioner Robert "Mitra" (`85-`86), 150 hours apprenticeship with Silena Heron in Herbal Studies (`83-`84), Training, Certification, & Empowerment as Reiki Master (3rd Degree Johrei, 1991; Kundalini Reiki to 9th Level w/Gtunmo & Devic Template, 2004). For the detailed version my training, you may go to the latter half of the Body-Mind Integration Therapies Brochure. Which also includes (and relates context for) links to essays elaborating on aspects of imbalance and injury, assessment, and healing.




Personal Quotes on Body-Mind Awareness [ cp, 12'07 ]

BODY-MIND AWARENESS, at the core of preventive health awareness, is one of the most simple, efficacious, & cost-effective forms of HEALTH INSURANCE there can be. Hence, massage is far from just "a luxury item," and bodywork therapies can be indispensable for the healing of certain conditions.

MUSCLES RELATE TO ATTACHMENTS - to what we use to take our stance, to hold our place, to perceive and respond to our environment, and to extend who we are and/or want to be. Or used to be (in too many cases, perhaps).
That speaks not only to the body's condition and function, but to how it communicates awareness of where one is along one's path (of becoming who one truly is).

THE BODY IS . . . among other amazing things, a unique communications system -- intimately linked with one's TOTALITY.
Establishing rapport with one's body can be a PATH to self realization.

ONE OF MY DREAMS is a society where/in all children are taught how to feel/see/read their own body-mind communications such that preventive health maintenance eventually becomes second nature. And actually, for the most part, they would be encouraged to re-awaken and build upon what I believe to be a NATURAL INCLINATION - conscious self-healing and continuous expansion of awareness.

And the above goes FOR ALL OTHER ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES, to the degree that one utilizes them to improve such awareness and causative/pro-active connection with one's body-mind, and to employ the most effective tools for maintaining/improving one's health under any given condition or circumstance.

WHY DOES BODY AWARENESS = OPTIMUM HEALTH INSURANCE ?


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