Accepting All Parts of Us DEEP DEMOCRACY
Parts that are sick
Why me? Why now?
• Repeating Question: • Tell me a reason why people get sick? • Monologue: Explore your relationship to illness. What are your beliefs and attitudes towards illness? How do you relate to the part of you that is sick? What are your reactions toward sick people? Cancer? Covid?
Caroline Myss
The 1 st Truth: You Can’t Reason with Illness, Crisis or God
Top 3 UnReasonable Explanations for Illness
There is a lesson in this crisis – I just have to find it.
Illness is the result of negativity.
It’s my karma.
“Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, flying here and there. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was a man. Soon I woke up, and I was a man again. Now I do not know whether I was a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.”
Primary and Secondary Process
Primary
Secondary Less Agency (Happened to Me) Less Awareness Less Identity (Not Me)
More Agency (I did it) More Awareness More Identity (Me) More Intention
Less Intention (Unintentional)
Unconscious Mind • Jung has shown that by approaching the unconscious and learning its symbolic language, we live richer and fuller lives. • We begin to live in partnership with the unconscious rather than at its mercy or in constant warfare with it.
• Active Imagination is a dialogue that you enter into with the different parts of yourself that live in the unconscious mind. • In your imagination you begin to talk to your images and interact with them. They answer back. You are startled to find out that they express radically different viewpoints from those of your conscious mind. They tell you things you never consciously knew and express thoughts that you never consciously thought. • Although Jung held dreams in high regard, he considered Active Imagination to be an even more effective path to the unconscious .
• In Active Imagination, the events take place on the imaginative level, which is neither conscious nor unconscious but a meeting place, a common ground where both meet on equal terms and together create a life experience that combined the elements of both.
Channels •Auditory •Body Feeling = Proprioception •Movement • Relationships
•World •Visual
Arnold Mindell takes Jung’s philosophy of active imagination and broadens it so that it becomes multi-channeled.
• When I had finished all my reading and listening to other therapists, I had the feeling that they were manipulating the body, programming it and telling their clients how their bodies should be. • But I wanted to find out what the body itself had to say. • How would the body behave when left alone? • I asked myself, "Why am I sick? What have my fevers, my aches and pains, got to do with me, if anything at all?"
Don’t try to reduce, fix or heal the symptoms. Why not follow the body's own
approach and amplify the body symptoms?
Our symptoms have meaning and that our bodies are dreaming. Physical symptoms are inevitably reflected in dreams. The dreambody is dream and body at once.
Body’s symptoms is crucial to the meaning of the disease.
Body symptoms are not only problems to be solved. Chronic symptoms are koans—apparently unanswerable questions meant to increase our consciousness –to awaken us.
Just about everyone is upset when faced with serious illness and perhaps even impending death. Nevertheless in the world of dreams, symptoms can reveal the most awesome messages from infinity. We need to recognise the real and dreamland message of symptoms. You're only ill from the bio-medical perspective. From another, you are having big dreams in your body and you are lucky to receive dramatic messages from Spirit.
• To learn to work with symptoms, you need to learn to focus your awareness during stillness. • Awareness is a core element in the sense of body wellness.
Symptoms require dropping our everyday thinking and using deeper awareness to perceive the divine wisdom in our bodies.
• Training Awareness, not curing illness, is our basic task.
Before exploring a bodily symptom, please make sure that you are taken care of medically. Take the medicines you need. See the healers/doctors. Inner Work is not a substitute for medical/healer care.
Using multidimensional approaches to wellness
Rainbow Medicine
Who not to work on: 1. Anyone with a cast on 2. Anyone who is recovering from an injury 3. Anyone who is recovering from a surgery 4. Anyone who is concerned about her pregnancy 5. Anyone who is connected to a machine e.g. pacemaker
4 Steps of Working with the Dreambody
Self- Exploration: Become aware of a signal. 1
Amplify the signal. 2
Change the channel. 3
Complete the work. 4
• How do you experience the problem? • What is it doing to you? • How are you aware of this problem; how do you know you have it? • How would you give it someone else? • What is the essential quality or energy of this problem? • If this problem had a personality or was a figure, who or what would it be?
Sensory grounded signals must be identified in and of themselves. Distinct from any reactions, interpretations, or thoughts about them.
Working with Visualization
Honing Your Skills
Encourage yourself while using the visual channel. Say, “Yes, dream on, wonderful, and what happens now, and look at that, etc.”
• As your eyes open, notice carefully what happens. • People are blind in that they do not notice what they see. Ask yourself why your vision focuses on to a particular person or object. o How do they open? o Are you seeing humans, plant life, mountains? o Are you in a room? Look around the room. Notice what you look at. o Now you are using your extraverted seeing.
Amplifying Your Hearing
Honing Your Skills
• Notice when you hear things. • Are you hearing outer or inner sounds? • Do you hear an internal dialogue? • Listen carefully. • Who is talking? Is it a male or female voice, old or young, harsh or sweet, menacing or apologetic? • Amplify these sounds in your own individual way.
• Listen to what happens. • Consider the possibility that you only hear that which you do not know or do not accept in yourself. • Can you hear things which are not right for you? • If you have hearing or memory problems, you have them for a good reason. Try having them consciously and enjoy them. • When you do hear and see, you are hearing and seeing exactly the right thing, that which will bring you some new information. • If you already had this knowledge or information, you might not be hearing it again.
• Take the material which stays long enough to catch and amplify it; make it louder, clearer, more beautiful or horrible, melodious, staccato, rhythmic, or non-rhythmic. • From which ear do you seem to be hearing? Or do you hear through your back like some people?
Proprioception = Body Feeling
Honing Your Skills
The most powerful way to propriocept is to keep still because movement relieves sensations before they get a chance to reach your awareness.
Movement
Honing Your Skills
• Follow your minute tendencies to move. • Start with slow movements. • If you are sitting in a lotus position, you might find yourself moving back and forth. o Notice your desire to bend forwards and backwards, to relieve your back muscles. o Notice what happens in your neck, your jaws, inside your mouth. o Notice what sort of movements happen in your throat as you sway from side to side.
• If you find yourself getting up, then get up in such a way that it becomes the most fascinating thing you have ever done. • Examine and investigate your movement. • Notice if your joints creak and discover where they are. • Investigate your movement: your tendons, inner muscles, even the inner abdominal experiences which help you move. • If you move slowly enough, you will have a full- time job just moving a cm in any direction.
Movement is letting your body dream.
Pick up the movements that happen to you spontaneously. Amplify them. Take them to their limits and then change channels to increase your awareness of what your body is doing.
• If you stand up, notice what happens. o Stand up completely. o Stand first on one leg, then on the other. o Which carries more weight when you stand on both?
o Do you bounce slowly from one to the other? o Do you start to walk?
Working on your edges • What vision, figure, object or scene can you almost not bear to look at? • What do you not like hearing? • Which tones or voices do you detest? • What feelings, emotions, physical sensations or body parts can you almost not bear to focus upon? • What movements seem to be forbidden to you? • What relationship issues would you like to avoid, and which people do you hate? • What world situation do you avoid or is beyond your ability to comprehend and tolerate?
Dreaming at the Edge
• If you write down the answers to these questions, then you will be able to find out or even guess what you are going to dream, for dreams circulate around edges, around the interaction between primary and secondary processes. • If you know your edges in the various channels, you can guess the accidental and creative movements, the synchronicities, the relationship troubles and the kinds of psychosomatic body experiences you will have.
Limited Viewpoint: I am located solely at a particular spot on the planet.
Tell me in such detail that I can reproduce the symptoms in me. If you cannot describe in detail, your proprioception is not good.
Working with symptoms
• In a way symptoms are koans asking you to let your body dance, to use awareness and re- experience the deepest aspects of yourself. • Life is asking you many unanswerable questions. Your body is also trying to dance the answers. • By learning to focus your awareness, you can use the unpredictable movements within you to resolve many mysteries, including your body symptoms.
• • Your body is nonlocal. • Symptoms cannot always be healed by local medications directed to specific parts of your body, because the body problems you suffer from are in a way not solely your own. • They are also found in relationships and community problems in the past and even in the future.
• We cannot solve the problems in the body only by looking within the body. To solve some of our problems, we need to work with the whole world in the exact manner we experience it.
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