All the stuff I learned about healing : article from 2019 : Part 1

Originally posted September 8th 2019 on Medium (then taken down), and updated with edits for clarity.

Estimate for read time is 25 mins. It’s meaty. My views today differ slightly, more-so in having a more streamlined perspective on healing, its goals and how it all works. New article sharing that, to come.

May this piece illuminate and entertain. <3

MY APPROACH… (As of September 2019)

Through journeys in healing the self and working with others seeking similar, I’ve formed a high level model about how this all works and I aim to share it across numerous posts, videos and digital media.

My primary goal is to de-fluff and mechanize the emotional system as much as possible so anyone and everyone can help themselves in less time than it took me and others who had similar challenges.

These ideas are directed to be free of dogma, religion, etc… They’re practical and actionable. Zero fluff, ambiguity and “spiritual elitism”. I don’t like the word ‘spiritual’. Far as I know, it’s meant to mean “the path of connecting to your most authentic experience of being”, which is oftentimes years and years of de-conditioning and work along following inspirations tirelessly. And certainly not a path exclusively accessed by meditating every day, mastering yoga poses and the typical stuff you hear around divine this and that.

Everything I share has been boiled down to what can produce consistent, repeatable results. Before deploying techniques to others, know that I have been King Lab Rat in the process and if a datapoint is shared without this process, I’ll label this clearly. 

My goal is a long game and I aim to make my mark here serving those who want the most impactful ideas and tools I can find and create to serve their own desires in whatever path they choose.

THE MOST IMPORTANT CHUNK OF INFO : OUR BODIES ARE A DIGESTIVE SYSTEM FOR THE EMOTIONS

The first thing I want to delve into, is how our issues are represented in the physical body as tangible sensations (what we call pain or physical discomfort) and/or medical ailments, mysterious or otherwise.

The learnings I’m sharing to follow were absorbed across working through and with various old-world disciplines, master healers and personal experimentation over the years.

Self-assumed spiritualists / seekers will often refer to these representations as ‘Heavy energies’ or ‘Negative energies’. Sometimes ‘blockages’ (not necessarily the digestive kind), sometimes ‘Low vibrational frequencies’… even if these terms are inaccurate semantically, you will hear these as continual reference.

Regardless, the objective of these terms is to describe an expression of emotional energy that we have not yet learned to see, feel, accept or process.

These energies often emerge in the body when our mind, body and energy connection is re-wired to cope with something that has been judged as a painful, difficult or ‘bad’ experience… with the goal of bypassing the feeling that wishes to be avoided.

Once the re-wiring is complete, a new coping mechanism exists. Now with the new mechanism created inside the person, when they experience a pattern of events that triggers the feeling or pattern that was judged as ‘bad’, the newly installed circuitry/plumbing creates new mental and emotional pathways that protect the person / you from feeling the true emotion we originally judged as bad… and we don’t experience it anymore.

This guy, but he protects you with angry feelings when you just want to cry.

Typically, that bypass will embody itself as a feeling of numbness, emptiness, agitation or disconnection of some sort, in place of where the original ‘judged’ emotional experience would arise. This replacement is seen as less [insert negative quality here] than the original emotion. This is a coping mechanism – which is easier to comprehend as an installed piece of living software within you.

For example, if you went through feelings of powerlessness during experiences of abuse, you may have created mechanisms around feeling empowered in ways you understood at the time of creation.

So if you were a child when you built your mechanism, the level of wisdom you have at the time is limited to that child’s mind. The mechanism you build could be fairly crude, where you choose to code yourself to get very angry quickly to give yourself the illusion of empowerment. If you still have such a mechanism in adulthood, observing adults may think you’re quick to anger or bi-polar, or otherwise. Often, this crudely designed mechanism is created because anger is understood as a kind of strength-giving feeling in the physiology. This would logically – within the mind of a child – be seen as a form of empowering yourself against a threat.

Too young to code?

In the event that the emotional process does not get sent down a bypass, you’ll experience the emotion in the intended way in your body. From that place, you’ll receive an experience of understanding, and receive experience in the mind, body and spirit. This is the true digestive product of the body in the experience of emotional processing; EXPERIENCE POINTS.

I’m kidding. But only slightly…

Based on these experiences, I conclude that our body can be viewed as a digestive system for the emotions, where the end nourishment is wisdom, awareness and growth. This process also feeds and benefits the intuitive / psychic senses, but I’ll delve into that in another article.

Ultimately, it’s a shame that we’ve not been taught how to navigate or relate to our emotional senses in this way, and society still regards emotional experiences as largely invalid or wasteful, probably as they are yet to result in making anyone money.

There’s more to go into solely on the digestive system concept. I plan to, but this article is already long enough and the aspects below are pretty damn important.

Nothing like a big ol’ ‘release’

PROOF OF HOW WE PROCESS AND STORE EMOTIONS

Want to validate this on yourself? Sit somewhere you can focus and recall a point in time where someone upset you. When you remember that time, you will feel a sensation of some kind somewhere in the body. 

As a shorthand guide, pay attention to temperature, character of motion and speed of motion, of the sensation.

You may feel warmth, or light coldness and numbness. Possibly intense heat or what we call ‘searing pain’. You may experience a subtle buzz, a prickliness, a throb, pulse, tense stiffness or tightness as character of motion. These characterizations of motion may come fast or slow at various levels of intensity. 

If you sit with what you see as pain and observe it, in a way a wine taster might attempt to experience the qualities of a wine  – more savoring and experiencing over judgement – you’ll see that what you regard as pain is more of an aggregate of intense sensations hitting you at once.

Intense sensations

Here’s a direct flow of how this typically plays out, using a typical case…

  1. Catalyst : Someone recalls a person or some event that brings up anger.

  2. Sensations Arise : The body presents a sensation of heat, with a rapid, deep, stabbing pulse of low to high intensity, on the left side of the chest. It’s not a heart attack; it’s what we would describe as ‘searing pain’.

  3. Reflex : Immediately, a person would retract from it, distracting themselves elsewhere, mentally or practically, and/or numbing themselves from its existence. “Tickle” and “Itch” sensations are the most popular sensation aggregates that inspire one to have a “pull away” or “remove” reflex.

  4. Ready to De-bug the Process : If a person chooses not to pull away, and they observe the sensations as if sampling a wine, chocolate or otherwise — meaning they experience the intensity and qualities as-is, without resistance being allowing to label the sensations as ‘bad’ or ‘problematic’, ‘evil’, ‘painful’… the sensations lose their sense of threat, and oftentimes, will move to another part of the body or change in place.

  5. Energetic Releases / “Energy Pooping” : When these changes manifest, one may typically experience a range of energy release manifestations, including but not limited to…

    1. Burping, farting, coughing, yawning, half-yawning, phlegm, vomiting, crying, screaming… or that strange defensive laugh that happens in awkward situations.

    2. This is the body’s method of releasing energy materially. This is the emotional digestive system working for you.

  6. Next Layer and Deepening : Often, a release leads to a mental realization, and/or a full cathartic release. Following that, Part 2 of this series of experiences will be what emerges, and the cycle repeats, though at a different layer of the issue, or associated issue tied to the source of the problem.

Shamanic, Ayurvedic, Buddhist and otherwise ‘invisible world’ systems all over the world know these ideas well. If you’ve experienced an energy healing of any kind, it’s likely you can recall either having endlessly yawned, cried, vomited, resisted or felt a euphoric buzz as if you took a drug.

Every one of these systems I’ve encountered has a common thread that personal healing is at the core of a human’s personal and environmental evolution, with the goal of finding and becoming the authentic self.

If authenticity was a person, probably. David Bowie. Photo credit : Ron Frehm / Associated Press

This focus is considered a foundational stone to mastering the systems in question, with specific benefits in the development of intuitive abilities as well.

A lot of belief systems — I mean general ‘life’ ones — seem to drive the idea that when you’ve found an underlaying issue, or thing controlling your behavior under the hood, the most effective and efficient approach should be to laser focus into it, and zap it out, rip it out from the roots, commit it to fiery death and so on…

When I first started, this approach made the most sense. It seemed to embody the value of courage; a value often aligned with aggression in movies, attacking a goal head on. 

How NOT to address your emotional issues

Thing is, stored energies in the body are more complex and nuanced than a cause and effect problem like, a stain on a tile floor, or ripping out weeds with your hands, or task it to a robot (theoretically).

Through my experiences receiving guided self-healing, and guiding it in others, I’ve observed time and time again it’s much like communicating with a limited AI/Artificial Intelligence.

When directly approached, you’ll see and feel emotional energies in the body become adaptive, multi-layered, dynamic and complex. Try to get aggressive with particular sensations and watch them hide, deceive, create numbness or distract you.

It can be challenging, and requires an accepting, non judgmental approach. Thankfully, there’s some consistent patterns I’ve been able to note and feel across my journeys.

Cool pattern swirl thing. Just a nice image bookmark


THE PATTERNS…

For those desiring to be a recipient or participant rather than lead their healing, there are many effective approaches including guided meditations, shamanic tools like constellation group-work, yoga, QHHT, massages with energetic work, sound healing, acupuncture, somatic bodywork, ecstatic dance, plant medicines, energy transmission healing…

All of these modalities, and others will work at varying levels of impact per the individual and where they’re at. Between all these modalities exist key factors urgent to embrace for best results:

1. Loving intention is the key
Loving focus, compassion to the self and patient understanding is central to open the door of possibility for the most effective transformation of an emotional problem.

Violent, driven, aggressive attention has never succeeded in completely healing an issue, far as I know from my own experiences; as a facilitator and as a patient. I’m open to being wrong about this. So far, this idea stands consistently true in my explorations.

Consider that your emotional issue is you as a young kid. Would berating this kid cause the kid to cooperate, or to rebel and tell you where to shove it?

Hidden Emotions by Editz4U

2. Feeling the hidden emotion
Feeling the emotion hiding under the physical sensation is when the healing truly begins on the physical level. Intellectualization through therapy helped me a little to share those understandings with others, but rarely did it ever complete a healing work.

‘Knowing’ is not enough. If it was, we could read books all day and never have to face anything on an emotional level. The deepest wisdom I received always came from within. This happened after I gave myself permission to feel what I wasn’t allowing myself to feel previously, and yes, this happened also within sessions guided by others. Even when others guide, we are the ones who finally choose to feel something. Healing requires feeling. There is no avoiding this.

An old issue returns…

3. The Frustrated Revisitation aka “Damnit, I thought I dealt with this!”
As you get further in self-healing and wisdom, your perspective on your own existence and life will change and evolve. This perspective will mean you can see new angles on old things and solve old problems with deeper impact.

People committed to evolving themselves, will evolve their perspectives as a natural, unavoidable result. Which leads to revisitation.

It’s also why the path of self-discovery is paralyzing for many, as it is a continual abandoning of what you know, gifting you with a reward of new eyes… often hiding behind a stepping into the unknown.

Sometimes, the unknown looks like this

Losing the safety of comfort and familiarity is often terrifying, particularly when you have no idea whether the reward is better than what you have, and might replace it permanently.

Eventually, some find peace in the Tai-Chi dance of consistent change. It can eventually feel like a video-game with quest triggers being every ‘negative’ feeling, cueing a path in deconstructing one’s own delusions as the meat of the quest… with the reward being new insight, perspective and wisdom to take on…

…more exhilarating quests!

A new quest!

At first occurrence of an issue revisitation, it may appear like you’ve gone down the wrong path. “Why is this coming back? I was done with it? Am I wasting my time? Am I a failure? Did I screw it up? 

Truth is, this is normal. Deep traumas I’ve had to deal with in myself were maybe revisited anywhere from a handful to a dozen times. They may return again. BUT WHY?

You cannot heal what you cannot feel FULLY.

How can you feel an emotional story to its full extent unless you’re able to recognize that feeling in all its nuance and detail… which often comes with experience, wisdom and prior healing awareness.

When we’re kids, our palate is not sophisticated enough to enjoy olives (at least that’s what I was told when I hated olives). It’s a similar experience with our ability to fully feel our emotions.

He wasn’t

4. You’re Ready, or You’re Not
Choosing to be ready, doesn’t always work. Sometimes we want to be ready to face something, and it’s our frustration speaking for our impatience, trying to force it out. 

The hint that your perceived readiness is egoic, is when you have that intense hope and aggression as the driving force towards healing.

“I must get rid of this! I hate it!” - Does this sound familiar?

You’ll notice that this is a symptom as described in ‘Feeling the Hidden Emotion’ (scroll up 2 sections). It’s important to highlight this phenomena as part of the common trickery we can play on ourselves.

When a sh*tty temper is a coping mechanism

5. Coping Mechanisms : We Designed Them to Protect Us
These mechanisms are often birthed from a belief, spawned at the moment of a trauma, from the lego bricks of what our wisdom at that time understands.

So if you were 5 when you designed a coping mechanism to protect you from a bully, aka “bullying energies”, that programming code comes from the level of wisdom of a 5 year old.

Oftentimes, we still hold these mechanisms in our 30s, 40s and so on until we begin working on ourselves meaningfully.

Here’s another way to understand this:

You begin with a perfectly optimal emotional circuit. It receives an input of energy, and creates an output. But your circuitry lives inside a human body that feels the energy circulating around in the form of sensations of varying intensity… to the point of overload. You are likely to have been birthed in a situation you were unable to escape (dependent on parents in the infant to teen years).

In that condition, it is extremely challenging to change your outer space if something doesn’t align with your needs… but you can change your inner space! If you don’t like how it feels, you have the power to rewire that circuit, or write new code to engage with that circuit. This will allow the energy to now pass around and through things you have labeled that you like and don’t like. As result, you have now become a programmer!

Keep in mind, nobody tends to hire programmers/coders who are 5 years of age. But the code and re-wiring crafted by our young programmer selves, live inside us un-checked and riddled with bugs throughout decades of our living existence.

A child programmer is likely to architect VERY buggy code.

THIS is what we are undoing as adults, when in the healing process.

Imagine how much code and re-wiring kids from rough backgrounds could have written within themselves.

Consider this idea:

Mental health ‘conditions’ and diagnoses could be simplified as code a child wrote, designed to bypass a mass of complex emotional discomforts they suffered in their environments.

Now consider that the ‘what’ or ‘who’ needing to be ‘ready’ to release a trauma, is the mindset, the code, ‘the spirit’ - the snapshot of consciousness of that kid who wrote that code.

Would you force a kid to do something difficult if they were tense with anxiety, or would you help them feel safe first?

Even if safe, a kid might still opt to avoid their big bad. Patience, acceptance, and loving empathy are needed to play in this space. Be gentle and eventually, the kid consciousness who programmed the protective walls within you, will learn to let their guard down, often through the boundaries they understood and lived by at that age.

Think about how patient you may need to be to get this little one out from under a bed. It’s not far off from working with younger self consciousnesses

If your young coder felt disempowered and abused, it would be helpful to give them/you love, trust and freedom. If they/you felt ignored and unloved, give them/that part of you acceptance and give your ears to allow that part of you to vent.

It bears repetition — in my experience, treating trapped energy like a scared kid, or small animal who’s unsafe and needing established trust is the only way that appears to consistently succeed at completing a healing.

‘Hunting’ the energy as if you want to kill or remove it, will make the energy self-preserve more aggressively. Yes I know it sounds weird. Try it and you’ll see.

If to heal is to unify the self, do we really want to take the position of eradicating pieces of ourselves as prey, or enemy… or would we rather employ and be met with gentle kindness, patience, grace and compassion?

6. We Are Many Versions of Ourselves in One Body
In the goal of healing the self, it helps to be comfortable relating to yourself as if you contain multiple consciousnesses in the same body. Generally, in a process of long-term healing, versions of your consciousness across ages will be interacted with in a meaningful way.

Many people feel uncomfortable with the multi-consciousness idea, as I did when first embarking on this quest. To me, it seemed fantasist and insane. However, once I learned that it’s natural for our personalities to fragment like this when traumatic histories are involved, I got over it. Especially when I began to see successful transformations occur rapidly through this lens, when coupled with somatic concepts I’d discovered by virtue of this work, and before I even knew what the hell ‘somatic’ meant.

If you’d like to see a dramatic visualization of the multiple-consciousness idea, here’s a clip from Doom Patrol - a stranger take on Superheroes, based off a DC comic Grant Morrison revamped - where all of Jane’s ‘selves’ live in a place called The Underground; a location in her psyche where the selves either argue or work together to decide what to do, and which self runs the show for the day. It’s more extreme than the concept I’m conveying, but it should help to paint a picture, even slightly.

This clip is from the under-rated DC show ‘Doom Patrol’. A trippy take on superhero stories from a place of mental health struggles and tragedy. This scene is where Jane, a character who suffers multiple personalities, but with different superpowers, finds a space where her fractured selves are all arguing, and she ventures into this space to attempt to unify them in some way.

If the clip is taken down, may the description help you find a replacement.


PRACTICES THAT ASSIST DEEP EMOTIONAL HEALING

There are a wealth of techniques out there to liberate stagnant emotional energies, varying in efficacy relative to the heaviness currently ready to release, and your own reaction of feeling safety within the activities.

What yielded best results for me, and what I typically suggest, is going with gut feeling toward a technique, even if it makes little logical or practical sense. Our subconscious and our intuition seem to know what we need more than our rational minds.

The suggestions below vary wildly, and have all helped me at some point…

  • Exercising in target heart rate zone — Exercising for at least 40 minutes, above the active heart rate for your age and weight range. Here’s some data about that. For me, the drugs that come from our bodies when we sweat in exercise are better than most anti-depressants.

  • Exercising for muscular growth — Exercise that pushes you outside your physical comfort zone of any kind, and allows you to enhance your body’s capabilities usually activates unique mood-boosting chemistry in the muscles. Here’s some Huberman research on this here.

  • Energy Work — A focused energy work or ritual from another to transform something specifically targeted. This tends to ground and lighten how a person feels in their body.

  • Yoga, Fascial Movement or other Physical forms which target key body areas energetically — You can use specific movement postures or ‘Asanas’ to target key areas. This allows you to work with the body in order to move energies stored in associated parts. If you simply recall where the sensation appears in the body when an emotional trigger arises, you can use the Asana corresponding to it.

    Here’s a decent list of exercises and associated benefit claims — I have sampled a few, and noted shifts in my mood, but have more exploration to embark on here. I’m sharing a full list I’ve found online for your own self-exploration. You can also check out The Human Garage and their work in work with targeted exercise to move trapped emotions from the fascia.

  • Acupuncture — Be picky with a practitioner. Definitely go on reputation from people who have had multiple visits and constant relief and change, so you know there’s consistency in the quality. Good acupuncture works reliably. Mediocre or bad acupuncture doesn’t.

  • Sound Healing — It works. When it’s the real stuff. Daniel Coates, is one of the most effective sound healers I’ve worked with. If a person can make a sound and it makes dense or inflamed areas in your body feel like they are physically softening or emptying, these sound healers are the real deal. The Integratron is a worldwide reputed sound bath location, which I’ve enjoyed immensely. You can also check out Swami Arun who provides sound healing at our Light Portal retreats. Great sound baths can be found anywhere, but like anything, high quality is standout and worth looking for.

  • Breathwork — It’s trippy in that we breathe all the time, yet when given focus and intent, it’s an incredibly powerful tool. So much so, Wim Hof proved by using breathwork - original name, Pranayama - you can re-wire your system to adapt to freezing temperatures and walk up a snow-covered mountain in your underpants without getting hypothermia.

    It’s also a great tool for transforming energies within, using targeted breathing and specific visualizations. Wim Hof also has a free to download app for mobile phones, with a few free techniques accessible.

  • Shamanic Journeying— This is a broad toolset rather than singular tool. Ultimately, it’s close to what we know as hypnosis. Using visualization, breathing patterns and keying in to sensations, you are guided on journies into your subconscious and all connected within, whether spiritual or simply mental.

    If you apply it to working on your multiple minds / selves, it’s one of the most powerfully connective and effective tools I’ve personally worked with. As a facilitator, I utilize this technique for guided work with clients. Due to its power as a passive form of healing to receive, it can be a challenge to facilitate it for yourself. Regardless, it’s one to take seriously.

  • Sweat Lodge aka Temazcal (also spelled Temezcal) — Intense heat coupled with ceremony and a space filled with people intending to release heavy energies has consistently served successfully for me as a participant. I highly recommend it. Be picky that the facilitator has the kind of vibe you feel comfortable and safe in.

    I experienced one facilitator who was snippy, abusive and edgy to the group, but the heat of the lodge was still effective and I’d attended enough to self-drive my experience while being able to ignore this man’s bitterness. My two favorites are Rahelio‘s in Sedona, and any Temazcal in Tulum by Erick ‘Colibri’ Delgado.

  • Constellation Healing — A transformational healing practice observed within the Zulu tribe by a priest named Bert Hellinger, who later brought it to the west. This is where a person is placed at the center of a space, and multiple people - a whole tribe, or typically 30+ people - surround them and through guided steps, tap into what has been referred to as their ‘morphic field’ - a term coined by scientist Rupert Sheldrake.

    This field can be experienced as a ‘radiance’ or radiant field containing a wealth of non-verbal / physical communicated data, along with the ancestral history that put it there.

    Practiced HSPs (highly sensitive persons) intuitives and psychics can connect with this field to acquire information. Attend a Human Constellation event and you’ll see it work and you might just be as floored as I was, provided it’s a solid practitioner, like Hazel Williams-Carter based in Los Angeles.

    The people on the outer circle intentionally connect with the central person’s ‘field’, and without prior knowledge, this group of strangers play out the key trauma playing out in the forefront to this person’s psyche. Cue crying, hugging, releasing, wisdom… the whole emotion purge buffet. It’s amazing and requires some bravery as you might end up sobbing heavily / deeply man-weeping in front of complete strangers.

  • Plant Medicine — The affects and applications vary wildly, from simple presence, dissolution, disassociation to full-on connection with unity consciousness. Wachuma (San Pedro), Ayahuasca, Peyote, Psylicibin Mushrooms, Rapeh, Marijuana (in a ceremonial context, it can assist transformation), Yopo, heirloom Cannabis strains, Tepezcohuite, Iboga, Sananga… and many more exist to help shift your perspective.

    I’ve found the odd plant medicine helpful, though I must stress that if you feel drawn to work with one, choose your facilitator and environment carefully. While going through the plant journey is powerful, integrating is a critical phase and where experienced Shamans – ones who are empathic to a Western mindset and know how to reflect and hold a space – are the most helpful.

    Taking Ayahuasca in ‘Shaman Dave’s tiny apartment in West Hollywood away from trees and raw land, is most certainly NOT the optimal experience. The experience I recommend is to be connective and among wild, alive plant nature.

    The kind you find in a forest, a jungle, or an out of town retreat center or similar, set across a few days with caring souls watching over your stages of emotional breakdowns and breakthroughs, so they can support where needed and your nerve system can fully disarm. And have a few weeks off after to integrate. I also offer integration services on a sliding scale.

  • Automatic Writing — Typically I’ll turn off my phone, light a candle and tell everyone to leave me alone for a bit. Then I write while visualizing the energy from wherever I feel activated sensations in the body, and breathe them up my arm and out my pen. Some do this technique by writing with their non-dominant hand and report it to be very effective.

    I will begin writing sentences from the perspective of “I’m feeling this”, and all I’m doing is declaring “I’m feeling…[x]” until a story unravels. If your brain gets involved – you feel a light tension outward from it trying to control the narrative – it’s probably a protective energy and should be given room to speak from a place of empathy and understanding, to reach a feeling.

    Example; “I feel I need to protect this feeling of X because…”
    There’s more, but this should get you started and your intuition might help guide the rest. The goal is to unearth hidden or unseen feelings and let them speak through the pen.

  • Emotional Alchemy – This can seem a daunting technique for those who tend to avoid feeling. It’s a skill to be developed with discernment. Those who have typically experienced severe trauma have learned to do this without realizing as such. In short, it’s the art of feeling a thing you’ve labeled painful, and knowing how to transform it energetically into a fuel to drive you forward.

    Some do it by physically moving the point of sensation connected with the emotional discomfort to a ‘higher’ point of the body. Others might do it by feeling the discomfort intensely, opening to more, and then remembering a happy or ecstatic memory and moving the energy into the newer area of sensation arising which connects to the happy memory.

    I have most commonly seen and exercised ‘alchemy’ using break-up pain, rejection, rage over betrayals, and even grief over a death… Not all the time, but when used, it often transcended me into a new level of compassion and wisdom, and activated a deep purge of tears or laughter.

    When utilized correctly, this is one of the most powerful and empowering transformation tools out there; to turn lead into gold… pain into strength… or even pleasure… It’s a powerful tool, but not always easy to access and can sometimes be over-utilized into emotional-spiritual bypassing. Play responsibly.

  • Somatic Therapy – This an emerging field in the healing spaces. There’s fascial movements from folks like The Human Garage, or my own LiTMuS technique (coming soon in recorded video form), and even intentional Ecstatic Dance.

    I’m told - and have yet to try - a technique called 5 Rhythms, whereby people dance in specific ways and can bring awareness to, and access trapped emotional densities during dance.

    Ultimately, targeted physical movement with intention to feel and process what is trapped through a form of expression - yawn, cough, cry, yell, laugh, maybe even puke, etc… can be effective. And of course, targeted Yoga Assanas as well.

The feeling of purging tension from the body

PART 2 will come probably in the form of a fully fledged course, taking the best of what I’ve learned into a complete system.

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Massive thanks go to Eric Oesterling, Michael Wilson, Mike Wilson, Sofia Samrad, Jasmin Schweizer, Cory Lewis, Lindsey Barber and Mark Smith for their feedback and extra eyeballs upon this formerly abundant typo obstacle course.

Also thanks to those who contributed to my experiences leading to this knowledge base; those people (who I’m not endorsing necessarily, but am giving respect to…) include and are not limited to : Shaman Durek, Satya Narayan Goenka, Hazel Williams-Carter, Deborah Stellamaris, Rachel Stavis, Saranam, Colby Rebel, Swami Sankarananda, Keri Ports, Emily Condit, Chris Drew, Daniel Coates, Griffin Ced, Joe Weiss and Jen Soska.

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