Agitation and “The System”

Why is it that my son kills a bug during the day and he has agitated sleep that night?  Because that is a reflection of an aspect of reality… I’ve pointed this out to him just twice and now he can connect what action leads to an agitated mind and HE decides to stop doing that action.  It's more math than morals.  What we lack in our culture (particularly in medicine) are many people that know and live in accordance with these aspects of reality.  In fact, our cultural center-of-gravity is so far from anything resembling true understanding, that most of us cannot distinguish cause and effect.  And it is only when we do that we can free ourselves from the looping past.  

Once the looping energy (which we often experience as repeated discontent, frustration, etc) is met precisely, it becomes free to do something new.  This is what excites me so deeply about this work.  “Healing” and “awakening” work is pure creativity.  The universe self-organizes and collects more and more potential as it develops.  The collective awareness, in a deeply real sense, GROWS as we integrate the parts of us that have been dis-membered.  This is the re-membering.  And, in the remembering of our wholeness, something new is created.  Fusion comes to mind: two hydrogen atoms come together AND a giant amount of energy is released.  The future of medicine lies in tending our dismemberment.  Each of us is tasked with remembering our wholeness.  As we do, “the [medical] system” that we all project our shadow onto will change.

Why will “the system” change?  Because “the system” doesn’t exist as some independent entity “out there”.  “The system” is more thoughts than walls.  It is more a consciousness than a physical reality.  This is not to deny the physical reality of hospitals, pharmacies, insurance company parking garages, pharma executives’ airplanes…  Those exist.  And if they all went down in some great blaze, unless our consciousness changed, we’d rebuild physical structures that look nearly identical.  This points to the order of realities that we so often confuse/reverse. The subtle realm, the realm of thought and dream, from this perspective, has a more fundamental reality than the physical realm.  In a similar way, emotions are more fundamental than thoughts (it’s well established at this point that we make decisions via emotions, not thoughts).  Here I am starting to lay out an order of realities.  By understanding the order of realities, we can start to work on more and more fundamental levels and produce greater shifts in ourselves and the world.  For completeness, I’d like to point out that awareness itself is more fundamental than emotions and that awareness can be further stratified but that is beyond the scope of this article.

I lay out these levels of reality so that I am transparent about how I work with people.  Here are some foundational principles I follow:

1. I meet people where they are.  No prior experience expected.

2. We work across multiple levels of reality because of the synergistic effect of doing so.  Further, wholeness involves integration across them all.

3. The deftness of your being guides the journey.  I’m here to listen deeply and to discover along with you.  I don't have an agenda.  I bring a caring presence, precise attunement, and wonder.  You bring yourself.  That’s it.