The TRANSITION DIET
For many people the Rebuilding Diet involves a drastic change from present dietary patterns. Too rapid a change from long standing patterns of diet may actually be traumatic for some people because patterns of personality are usually involved in unhealthy eating habits. Dietary change, although necessary for improved health, may need to be more gradual in these situations. When dietary habits are long standing, the necessary reform may be approached through the following steps:
Those who feel more comfortable with a more gradual change in dietary patterns may apply the following suggestions:
BEGIN:
AVOID:
REDUCE:
INCREASE:
USE - to replace coffee, tea, and soft drinks:
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THE REBUILDING DIET
....the fruit of a tree yeilding seed;
to you it shall be for meat.
Genesis 1:29
The Rebuilding Diet is designed to complement and enhance the Holistic approach to health. Adherence to the diet assists the cleansing process, helps maintain improved body alignment, and provides the necessary nutrients for improved cell and organ func-tion. The Rebuilding Diet includes foods that have the highest expression of the Life Force.
Life Force is the animating power of life. It expresses in the human form through the nervous, endocrine, and circulatory systems until it enlivens every cell with the very quality of life itself. The Life Force has intelligence, purpose, and concern. It knows how and when to cleanse, rebuild, and heal the spirit, mind, and body of man. This same force expresses in live foods through vitamins, minerals, proteins, enzymes, and still more subtle influences.
The Rebuilding Diet is designed to maximize the intake of vitalizing foods containing high proportions of the Life Force. It is also designed to minimize the intake of mucus forming, toxin producing, and poison permeated foods for these reduce the ability of the Life Force to express itself in the being of man.
The Rebuilding Diet consists of three basic food groups:
A fourth group of foods is offered for regular supplementary use:
A fifth group of foods is offered for occasional supplementary use:
In order to benefit most completely from the Rebuilding Diet certain general prin-ciples should be observed. Study these scientific principles until they are understood. They can be categorized into 4 main sections. Apply them with joy. (see next page)
....My meat is to do the Wi11 of Him who sent me,
and finish his work.
John 4:34
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GUIDING PRINCIPLES OF THE REBUILDING DIET
(Rebuilding Diet Page 2)
I. GENERAL PRINCIPLES
II. COOKING PRINCIPLES
A. Make cooking a ritual of joy.
B. When cooking
USE: steaming, baking, broiling, "waterless", stir-frying (wok), or slow cooking with low heat.
AVOID: microwaving, boiling, frying, deep frying or over cooking by any means.
C. When cooking
USE: stainless steel, glass, porcelain or occasionally cast iron.
AVOID: aluminum, Teflon, and most non-stick cookware.
III. EATING PRINCIPLES
IV. FOOD COMBINING PRINCIPLES
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THREE DAY APPLE FAST AND SEVEN DAY CLEANSE
I. Eat raw apples and nothing else for three days. Aapples should be clean and as free as possible from pesticide's and waxes.
II. Eat raw fruits and raw vegetables for seven days. Soaked and sprouted nuts, grains are recommend along with the fruits and vegetables
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Another Cleansing Diet
BARAKA Holistic Clinic,
2105 Wilshire Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90403,
213-829-0453
Eliminate:
All foods with white sugar and white flour, food coloring, preservatives and chemicals. Read labels carefully. Some foods high in sugar include: catsup, cereals, crackers, some peanut butters, salad dressings, and bouillon cubes. Many packaged foods contain preservatives, chemicals and food colorings.
Eat lots of vegetables:
They may be steamed, stir-fried in peanut-oil, or raw, and should be fresh, rather than canned or frozen.
Fresh vegetable juices may be taken, but carrot juice is too sweet to drink by itself. Add green vegetable juices (spinach, celery, parsley, etc.) to this, or dilute with pure water. Have no more than 6-8 oz. of vegetable juice at one time, since it is highly concentrated.
Excellent vegetables high in vitamin A to assist the liver include: beets, beet greens, chard, spinach, parsley, carrots, yellow squashes, yams, pumpkin.
Vegetable Slaw:
You can make your own delicious slaw from shredded raw beets, carrots, and red cabbage, with an oil-and-vinegar dressing, or dressing made from safflower mayonnaise diluted with a little water and vinegar. This is high in vitamin A and is good as a snack or with meals
Green Drink:
Each day make a fresh batch of green drink by blending ½ bunch of fresh parsley with 16 oz. of diluted canned pineapple juice (2 parts juice, 1 part pure water) Blend, strain, and drink as a cleansing, pick-up snack. Parsley is high in Vitamins A and C, and is a mild diuretic.
Water:
Pure spring or distilled water will best help flush toxins from your body which are being stirred up as a result of this improved diet. It is important to drink as much water as you can throughout the day. One-half glass every hour is more effective than a glass or two at once. Water in other beverages does not work like water alone. Put a pitcher of water on your desk, and carry a bottle in your car. Do whatever you have to as a reminder, but drink small amounts of pure water frequently
Fruit:
Fresh fruit or diluted sugar-free fruit juices may be eaten several times a day. Avoid large quantities at one time.
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Efficient Body-Sizing Strategies
(I n t e g r a t e d M i n d - B o d y W e i g h t M a n a g e m e n t )
Chris Pringer, assembled for web page 5/17/08, rev'd 5/20-22/08
INTRODUCTION
First off, the "Transition Diet" will provide most of what one needs for getting back into one's "running weight" - the height/mass ratio that you feel good running with or carrying as yourself in. The "Principles Of Natural Healing" (sister page to this one, link below) will tell you why and more about how.
About *Realistic Goal Setting*: Just as with the "Transition Diet," incorporate this approach as slowly or as quickly as you can maintain. (If done too fast, you may find it too uncomfortable, then bounce back to the old ways, and so could just be a waste of time.) There's nothing wrong with a two or three year plan IF you can maintain patience and constancy in determination. Some plans, if you're dealing with internal health and/or hormone/neurotransmitter challenges, are wiser kept in the 4 to 7 year range. But even if it takes you 10 years to get to an acceptably optimal health status, you still get to enjoy that for most, possibly ALL, of the rest of your much more enjoyably prolonged life.
After accomplishing your running weight, having attained it gradually and much more consciously, your maintaining it will be far easier compared to that after using most "weight loss diets." Because, as you will probably find out, they both motivate the personality and treat the body differently. That's due in large part because of the "Efficient Body-Sizing" system brings about 1) greatly increased awareness in mind-body preventative health maintenance, 2) blood pH (and overall systemic) balance, as well as 3) the attitude processing and healing that occurs over time, the wonderful result of which will bring all the rest about, eventually if not sooner.
A naturopath or other naturopathically oriented practitioner can probably provide both technical assistance and motivational support as needed. If you require other medications, be sure to check with your physician, of course (ideally, in collaboration with a naturopath, in my opinion).
You may have gathered by now what this approach is not: this approach is not Jenny Craig, nor is it Weight Watchers. And it is not convenient. There may be "healing crisis" - transformative, but rarely pleasant (see the section below on "Cleansing Reactions"). On the other hand, it is also not about calorie counting. And (to the degree that it doesn't contradict the other points here and in the noted references), whatever a) you can digest well, and which also b) provides sufficient nutrients and blood suger & pH balance, c) keeps the GI Tract healthy, and d) doesn't tax the liver very much, will probably work ok for your plan. That is, so long as you also follow the principles noted here and basic principles of moderation and common sense, then 2-3 lbs weight loss per week may be challenging, but may also be doable. (Ok, that wasn't simple. You'll need to read and consider the noted references.)
Convenience & Attitude: If you've always needed someone else to make you do things, then the system and strategies proposed here may not work for you. This system will require effort and watchful discipline - taking notes and revising your working plan as you get to know your strengths and weaknesses more - as well as compassion and common sense most days. If you are doing this for others (inspite of, or in competition with others, etc), then it may not work. Even if you are doing it for "only" one special other, then you are making that other person the motivator, the one in charge of your approval, based on your subjective perception of his/her evaluation of your progress during any given period of time.
On the other hand, if you are doing this because you truly desire health, then armed with this approach, nothing will stand in your way of your becoming as healthy as you can be.
STRATEGIES AND TECHNIQUES
for a) Establishing Momentum in the direction we want to go - the *Building* side of the transformative process,
and b) Breaking Habits and reducing baggage - the *Cleansing* side of the transformative process.
*Countering "the payoff"*
A) Recognise and understand "the payoff" of having applied the extra tissue to your body.
This is often one or more of the following coping mechanisms:
the extra tissue is consciously or unconsciously perceived as Protection from physical abuse (due to added size), as Protection from being steriotyped (as "too sexy," oversexed, easy, etc), as protection from or in rebellion to being ignored (due to judgement as insufficiently intellectual, spiritual, or emotionally valid), as protection from jealousy and thus rejection/banishment by existing/potential friends (related to the fear of being/appearing "too sexy"), a combination of the foregoing and/or other types of "protection," etc.
B) Appreciation: of the time, trouble, creativity, energy, etc that was put into providing each form of protection that was developed, and how it was developed, etc. VERY important step - the inner child usually will not give up coping mechanisms easily. And it IS a sacrifice to give up what the body-mind-spirit knows was meant to be accepted and loved as a natural part of oneself. Hence, the more sacrifice involved in the development of the mechanism, the more valued the mechanism, the more appreciation will be needed as part of re-establishing the True means of protection [step C]. Appreciations are done via dialog with the inner-child ["Love Letter" ref in step C2].
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Honoring and actually appreciating the extra pounds for how and why it was added, for what it gave you as part of your survival, vrs detesting it as something foreign or contrary to your purposes, will greatly assist you in taking charge of the next stage of letting it go -- letting it go permanently that is. So long as some part of you (the inner-child) needs it, or needs the behaviour that produces it for some reason, then that part will always contend for it. Once you meet that need in another (healthy) way, then that will generally insure long-term maintenance of your optimal height-weight ratio for any given time or circumstance. The healthy way of meeting that need was what was needed in the first place, long, long ago. But the parenting responsible for meeting that need was what was insufficient, for whatever reason, understandable or otherwise. Here, you are taking the time that is necessary to learn to be the parent that is dependably supportive to yourself in the way that you needed but didn't have that as a child.
C) Replace the coping mechanism by providing True/Real/Actual/Effective means of/for protection, and/or come to fully recognize that you already do or can do that. The true source of your protection is your empowered and increasingly emotionally mature self. We are all a work in progress. Our knowing that, along with our truly caring for ourselves and others, can keep us both humble and striving for imrovement in our relations with others - via improved relations with ourselves. Self-empowerment is essential for establishing & maintaining such healthy relations, as well as for maintaining momentum in the direction we want to go. For one set of reminders for empowerment see "Questions for Empowerment," Positive Response Questions (PRQ's) designed specifically for Personal Empowerment. On the *Cleansing* side of this part of the transformative process is habit-breaking. See the "What the Bleep" reference below for a recommended aid to habit breaking.
C2) For Dialog w/Inner Child, and as otherwise needed for inner-clarity with the overall process: utilize the "HOW TO WRITE A LOVE LETTER - Therapeutic Journaling/Dialog Technique" via these links:
Can open directly, or can also download by right-clicking, then click on "Save target as":
Word Doc format for 'TheLoveLetter'-JournalExercise.doc or Text format for 'TheLoveLetter'-JournalExercise)
D) * Vision and "Treasure Mapping" (creating a visual/graphic for your fridgerator door and other places. Create one that helps you to see your face on the body you're aiming to have. Put it where you can look/gaze at it frequently, thus helping to re-program your mind, and thence your cells.)
Affirmations for Efficient Body-Sizing:
Here are just a few. You may find many other affirmations and related assists useful to you (there are literally pages full available, including explantions of why/how they work, how to construct them, how not to, etc) via the Body-Mind Integration Home Page (see footer below).
* I make it safe to take charge of permanently insuring my long-term maintenance of my optimal height-weight ratio for any given time or circumstance according to my highest needs.
* I enjoy focusing on each bite of food that I put into my mouth more and more each meal and each day.
* I am successful in my creating and utilizing new and more efficient ways to solve problems in and through my Ever-Re-Newing Form!
* I forgive and release the old ways of solving problems (that I am conscious or unconscious of) as I also replace them with ways that work for all of me.
* I honor and actually appreciate my adipose cells for how and why they (we) added the extra pounds, adding them in response to my unconscious direction, for what the extra size and or weight gave me as part of my survival or problem solving. As I appreciate my cells and convince them that I have more successful and efficient solutions for those kinds of challenges, I also appreciate their letting go of all excess matter that I no longer need for my highest benefit.
* I allow myself to be perfect in allowing myself to take the time I need to be as perfect as I truly need to be - and forgive myself for not feeling like I have been perfect enough according to whatever values by which I felt judged in the past as not perfect enough. EG: I give myself time and space to be who I truly am, learning to be in charge of how worthy I am (and of my approval), and I thereby come accept myself more and more for who I am in the meantime and henceforth. And I forgive those who thus judged me, doing my best to understand the judgement that they must also have felt from their parents.
* More and more over time, even if only a little at first, I am learning: To enjoy exercising appropriate awareness & management of feelings, including discerning between my own feelings and those of others, the most appropriate and effective response to it all as necessary, accepting what I need and letting go the rest; To know I am safely in charge of my mood and my happiness, of deciding what energy I take in and what energy I give out, of how any in-taken energy effects my mood or health - internally or externally, of who and what I am truely responsible to and for; To know that I am, therefore, more and more safely in charge of what kinds of interactions with people and things I experience, learning enjoy peace and cooperation with ALL, in Divine Order, Divine Love, & Divine Timing.
* More and more over time, in all my personal and other relationships, I am enjoying appropriately detached awareness of my emotional body's dynamics as related to past in-applicable empathy with others' expectations/approval, and thus now provide supportive energy and resources, for an appropriate degree of "emotional sensitivity," to self and others' feelings/emotions, as well as for psychic & extra-sensory discrimination and integrity if/as necessary, whether or not they may be in physical proximity, responding appropriately & effectively to others communications, whether or not an intended communication is made on whatever level.
The last 3 affirmations above are taken in large part from "Questions for Boundaries" - "Positive Response Questions" (PRQ's) designed specifically for learning and affirming Effective Communications of position, intention, & message, Maintaining Clarity for appropriate Connection, Direction, & Protection.
Most Efficient Snack
For your time and money in the long run (easily when other snacks are not purchased, by far when long-term health costs included):
Almonds and Raisens or almonds & other dried fruit, but not dried fruit alone. When chewed together, they are Amazing in their combined nutrients (ie: Almonds & raisens oxygenate red blood cells), provide sustained energy (without blood sugar-related peaks and crashes). At work you can keep a bag in your pocket - eat *in place of* other snacks - not along with. They are alkaline-forming in digestion with hi-fiber (for both blood and GI tract pH) in spite of the protein and the most healthiest of fatty acids. Raisens should definitely be organic due to amount of pesticide used on grapes. Cost efficiency improved by buying in bulk (30# boxes) if they can be stored properly (cool or frozen, bug/rodent proof).
CURRENT LIST OF RESOURCE PAGES Recommended for Efficient Body Sizing:
"The Transition Diet" (This Page) - Steps & principles telling how to transition -gradually & successfully- to a diet that promotes & sustains optimal health for body, mind, AND the planet, even from the standard American diet. This includes a Food-Combining Chart for optimal digestion and assimilation of nutrients, as well as for proper elimination. Incorporate this approach as slowly or as quickly as you can maintain. (If done too fast, you may find it too uncomfortable, then bounce back to the old ways, so would just be a waste of time).
PRINCIPLES of NATURAL HEALING --excerpts from Dr. Joel Robbin's "The Science of Healthful Living:"
A great deal of information has been put together on this page. "Principles" is the key descriptive word here, in every sense of the term. He makes the science part of it relatively easy. Note: People should know that there are health supplements that would be effective, but may not be, due to their being multi-level marketed in a disgustingly non-informative manner. I refer to the more unpleasant "cleansing effects" or "healing crisis" that some may experience from such supplements. Knowing the principles on this page, one may better take advantage of such events.
HeartMath Institute
"We have a tremendous body of research here at the Institute on the heart and its influence. The fact that electrical energy produced by the heart is 60 times stronger than that of the brain is not our research; that is known by anybody involved in the biophysics field. What we've been able to show is that yes, that's true, and that frequency is being received by every single cell in the body. And the frequency content of the heart's electrical energy emission changes relative to our perceptions, how we're taking in what we're taking in. So certain heart-based types of qualities like care, appreciation or love that have often just been associated metaphorically with the heart really do produce dramatic changes in the electrical energy output of the heart when people are perceiving/receiving from a place of care or appreciation. And in turn, our research shows that when that electrical energy changes, it goes to what's called 'coherent frequency patterns'. We're able to correlate that to changes in the immune system and changes in hormonal balance. And we also see changes in perception and intelligence. There's a lot more to what the heart is doing than people realize. It's not just a blood pump." Various publications and workshops (corporate and otherwise) are available. Enjoy the IHM Research Papers, Abstracts, and Reports (at http://www.heartmath.org/RP.html). This is truly leading edge stuff. -cp
"What the Bleep Do We Know - Down the Rabbit Hole":
"The original 'What The Bleep Do We Know' was made for a theatrical experience of under two hours. With these new expanded versions [in 'Down the Rabbit Hole'], the filmmakers were finally able to include all the topics as originally intended. The completed picture presents all the elements that are intrinsic to the worldview put forth in BLEEP. Topics such as Quantum Entanglement, the Double Slit Experiment, Healing and the Cell, the split and re-unification of spirit and science - all are addressed in the detail required to tell the story. The scientists make up quite the impressive list.
IMHO, this production offers ground breaking implications... Because the most difficult thing for any human to do is break a habit, whether physical, emotional, or mental. And that is exactly the potential of what I call the "Bleep Tool Kit": the capability to break habits on every level, whether personal or interpersonal, community or inter-community, and whether just conceived or fully manifested. All that (and the creation of our tool kits therewith) depends on the investment of time and application of principle. I recommend interested people buy the DVD (renting it is also easy), enjoy it once through (will take a number of hours so figure on a two or three sittings), and after that just let it play as you do whatever you do in the house. It's inspiring, uplifting, and fun. Some of the segments are heady, but so long as your brain is a tool designed to work better the more you exercise it, why not give it a workout! (And a new web page is being compiled on that very topic.)
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"CLEANSING REACTIONS"
People should know that there are health supplements being sold that would be effective, but may end up not being so, due to their not being sold or provided with sufficient guidance or instruction; IE: the way that most multi-level marketed products are sold. My statement refers to the more unpleasant "cleansing reactions," "cleansing effects," or "healing crisis" that some people may experience from such supplements. Knowing the principles put forth on the "Science of Healthful Living" and "Transition Diet" pages, one may better take advantage of such critical and potentially *transformative* events. The proper response to such conditions varies greatly, depending on the person and the circumstance. In most cases can be "remedied" by very simple measures. If a physician is not versed in naturopathic nutrition, and you contact him with "emergincy" symptoms, you are likely to get a prescription that will cause your system to hold on to the material that the body is trying to get rid of.
However: the more out of balance one's internal organ system is, the more likely you are to experience cleansing reactions, and the more you may have a real need for close guidance by a knowledable professional - a naturopath (N.D.) or experienced naturopathic nutritionist. Cleansing therapies/supplements should not be attempted by those with known internal organ, hormone, immune system, or neurotransmitter conditions without their physician's guidance. -cp
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 "PRINCIPLES of NATURAL HEALING"
(at http://www.chalicebridge.com/Sci-HealthFul-Lvg.html), exerpted from Dr. Joel Robbin's "The Science of Healthful Living," is Highly organized and in layman's language. There is much instruction about the how's & why's of diseases and conditions of ill-health, natural healing events & processes, among many other essentials in naturopathic perspective. There is a section for current resources added as well.
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Mind-Body Memory Research & the Future of Preventative Medicine ?
The Fascia-Memory Project Home Page
is about prospective research into the relationships of connective tissue (fascia), 'body-Memory' & related dynamics, as well as research into new connective tissue scanning devices. Now includes a table of contents for the seven main sections/pages and two charts. Based on questions concerning the physiological relationships to the intangibles of emotional memory storage. For perspective on this far-reaching multi-faceted proposal, see Fascia-Memory Project Overview Chart. The range of application extends from the medical industry to personal home use, to public education, to social and correctional rehabilitation. |
One of my main visions / goals is a society where/in children are taught how to feel/see/read their own body-mind communications such that preventative health maintenance eventually becomes second nature. That would then be part of our upbringing and public schooling. (Sample benefit: Over time we would learn to channel our initial stress response into channels more creative than that of fight or flight. And actually, this "adrenal response" has been shown to be a learned response, and not necessarily innate. Hence, we 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.)
Related: "Fascia-based Memory Storage System Theory" - the original theory page with more background research references and bibliography.
"Catalog for Healthy Eating"
Bulk foods of the purest quality, like good-tasting (!) varieties of TVP (soy-based) and Seitan (concentrated protein from grains), dairy substitutes, healthy sweeteners, granolas. Also Organic baking supplies, cookbooks, and other goodies, including environment cleaning products. These are also folks one likes giving money too -- feeding people who work for a living. They have both 800# and website: 1-800-695-2241, www.healthy-eating.com
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a) Hardcopy reproduction is ok so long as it is for personal or non-profit organizational use only; b) Distribution and posting on web pages, blogs, and forums with my permission (mostly because I want to know where it's been put, and I'd be most honored to be asked). c) Any distribution of my writings or artwork must be w/o charge unless with prior agreement in writing with the author. d) The only exception to that regards the World Healing Prayers, which I encourage people to make all the copies they think will be used effectively without obligation to get my permission or even contact me. By the way, I have yet to ever sell -or give permission for anyone else to sell- any of my artwork on E-Bay or anywhere else. [noted 12/27/07]
DISCLAIMER: None of my writing, chalice art, or PolyPsyArt is intended to be, to replace, or discourage the appropriate use of, medical attention and/or treatment, but as educationally informative for the purpose of overall health enhancement and preventative maintenance. So far as I know, I have not quoted any other person without saying so. I have emulated a number of writers and teachers, so I wouldn't be surprised if many of my statements have very similar words and meanings as they. In any case, I have always tried to say what I believed. If you find that I have plagiarized anyone to any degree, please let me know -- by noting the complete published reference, and including the full quote and a few sentences of text before and after). This given, I will duly correct the writing.
AUTHORSHIP: Unless otherwise noted under the titles, all essays, artwork, prayers, pages at this site and sub-directories (as at my previous site at AOL), and with exception of some of the solid color and cloudy-sky color backgrounds and logo/headers for others' sites as noted) has been composed, rendered, and/or web-authored © by myself, Christopher Pringer, a member of Veteran's for Peace, ch.92 and of the "Seattle 12," practitioner in Body-Mind-Energy Integration Therapies since 1984, and ordained minister (Chalice-Bridging Ministries) since 1987. Most of the personal health-oriented essays at this site were written in the early 90's, as compared to the social/political health oriented pages since 1997. |
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ABOUT THE ART: The symbols for the "Chalice" - or Holy Grail - that I often use are drawn essentially from ancient archetypes. Here, the Chalice is essentially a "cauldron" for the balancing and integrating of Humanity with the Divine - individually and communally. And just to forestall any hasty categorization, I should say that these archetypes pre-date the Jewish faith by many centuries. They have their own rich meanings as related to the spiritual dilemma or paradox, balancing or synthesis of qualities (such as Yin & Yang), and healing transformation. The "Chalice-Star" over the three traveling magi is used in my Solstice or Christmas Card design to represent our quest - in this earthly dimension of body, mind, and spirit - for the inner-most Source of one's spirit and faith -- whether that would be the Inner Christ, Inner Buddha, Inner Mohammed, or the Divine Mother's Spirit connecting All Life, etc. |
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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 my brochure. Individual, program, and 3-6 week interval-based rates are available.
My 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 How's And Why's Of Psycho-Emotional Storage In The Body-Mind, 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), and 150 hours apprenticeship with Silena Heron in Herbal Studies (`83-`84). For the detailed version my training, you may go to the latter half of my Reiki Therapy Practice Brochure. Which also includes (and relates context for) links to essays elaborating on aspects of imbalance and injury, assessment, and healing.
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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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