Monday, March 27, 2006

we are a bit of something else..............

when i treat clients i work to finding the nature of thier environment because to treat them as an individual will work temporarily........until they get in thier car and return home or to work. i need to know what they are a part of so that i can understand the environmental pressures and supports they live with.
we are all individuals with our own problems, but if you are dealing with an issue everyone else you come into contact with is too. this goes as big as the whole of the planet. we are all part of this global community. as we all heal so does everyone else.
a rising tide raises all ships.
the traditional psychological/medical models treat the symptoms of the individual. the shaman realised that an illness is the product of the whole environment. the village,the town, the city and the culture it`s self is part of the cause of each of our wellness and needs to be adressed.
the more bits created means the more repitition of the same work for each of the bits created by the fragmenting process. or we can treat the whole system from the top down.
the teacher teaches the child.......but the parents need to be involved, and the brothers and sisters and aunts and uncles and grandparents. otherwise we are creating lost souls to wander lost forever.
integration is the key.

5 comments:

Dr.Alistair said...

this situation gives you the opportunity to find your self and accept you so that you will recogignise that acceptance in others. you have chosen a path of enlightenment. nobody told you it was going to be easy........but nobody told you it would be this hard either. well, that`s the thing about going the distance.....most people can`t keep rowing the boat or pedalling the bike or just living every day to it`s fullest anyway. they have to fall back to the comfort of misery, where all the other miserable people are. it`s comfortable and miserable. you, on the other hand have had a taste of something else, something special, and you are demanding more.......
good.
now the work begins.
nothing dramatic, but all the same deadly serious. we are talking life and death here.
the life of happiness in unconditional love for yourself, or a slow tortuous death of guilt and obligation to anyone who raises thier voice or demands that you are reasonable about giving up your value in yourself for the "greater good".
live in love or die every day? hmm, quite a choice.

Dr.Alistair said...

there are times where you notice distinct changes in the whole of your world. it is as if everything is different. today is one of those days for me. the sun was shining and it was warm for the first time since summer so everyone`s mood was high, but it was more than that.it was as if i`d walked through a door into another reality. one so exactly the same as the other one that you barely noticed it, but everything was new. one of my friends said casually and with a sigh, that we are all going to do well this year.......he is a chiropractor and we were sitting an another friend`s office who is also a chiropractor and it was at that moment that i realised that i was in a new universe. i had "jumped the probability" as you put it. maybe it was ganesh? it was certainly the culmination of my intent to allow the universe to make the changes needed and i asked that i would know when the time was here. and here we are.............are you ready?

Dr.Alistair said...

a man once told a story about a race of people who were given the gift of being able to dream anything that they wanted to. they could indulge and create and destroy and rebuild and love and wander and invent and live fantastic lives full of excitement and adventure and danger and mystery. but pretty soon they got bored and got used to all the vast abundance of everthing around them and things settled down to everyday boredom in paradise and people eventually forgot they were just dreaming and turned to the mundane and trivial to occupy thier boredom. until one day people found themselves asking questions of people who seemed to be enlightened about such things and as an answer a man told a story about a race of people who were given a gift.............

Dr.Alistair said...

you are on the path of enlightenment because you appear that way to me. those appearances are that which i recognise as acceptance, patience, willingness to forgive the self and plainly asking how to live a more meaningful life. also the ability to recognise insights and the experiences of someone who has seen some things. trust me when i say that things were not always enlightened for me. we come to the light through the dark. i just chose to give up the struggle, the anger and the will to control. upon reflection i don`t even know why........but i would never go back to forcing my life. maybe it was having children that made me begin to search for a more meaningful existance.
that is certainly a big part of it.
i knew that i needed to get to love one day..........i`m glad it`s now.
i remember there were times where i couldn`t even say the word. that`s how much pain i was in. so i know the difference and recognise it in others.
enlightenment is love.
when we think we have it in another and it goes away.........we have been fooled. that is an illusion.
it is pain.
it is within our self, this love. when you find it there then you can begin to share it with others. then your universe changes. you jump the probability.

Dr.Alistair said...

that would be a nice day.