The TIA(tm) Path

2008 Sept 24th - The TIA(tm) Path

- We're ultimate creators. Everything we experience is a holographic product of our inner world.

- Address issues internally and external "reality" shape shifts.

- The formula for Change, Transformation, Evolution, Self-Actualization, Enlightenment, World Peace:

Bodymind Contractions ... Resistence ... Fear
*
Authentically Addressed ... Evaporated ... Resolved
=
Degree of Change, Transformation, Evolution,
Self-Actualization, Enlightenment,
World Peace

- The portal to resolution is "needs consciousness".

- The steps to resolution can be found in type dynamics and "3-Breath Work"

- We need community of practice to go deeper and see deeper than we can see / go by ourselves. The eyeball can't see itself. Threshholds of challenge beyond our skill require others holding the container while we do the work.

- Bodywork is critical for enhancing release. Listening to the body locates release opportunities.

- We are all Face of Spirit, the expression of It more or less contorted through ego / personality / bodymind contractions. For purer expression of Spirit, resolve / attend to contractions.

- As purer Spirit, we gain access to 3 bodies of awareness, influence and guidance.

- At birth we have a "dharma", a set of bodymind challenges, a set of natural inclinations to contract. With life experiences we can gather more, especially if in painful experiences we recycled pain rather than released it.

- To see your contractions:
........look to your recurring issues / challenges
........look to your rules / contractions
........look to your type preferences / spiral center of gravity / birth number, etc.
........look to your discontents / unfulfilled dreams

- Thoughts reveal emotion. Emotion is an indicator of health, a symptom of resolution or the need for resolution.

- Through best practices on 7 aspects we can consciously peel away our own bodymind blocks to Show As Spirit and shine as the Lights We Most Deeply Are.

- Even as contraction, even as the unconscious playing out of dharma, we are teachers and angels for each other.

- The fuel for the hard work of Change, Transformation, Evolution, Self-Actualization, Enlightenment, World Peace - is Gratitude and Celebration.

- All reality is a liquid dream, a holographic representation of contraction and resolution. With skill you can transform "reality" overnight.

- This can be easy. It takes action, it takes commitment, but it can be easy. When we're on track, even release that feels "hard" feels like "sweet pain".

- All the challenges we face personally, interpersonally, culturally and globally come back to Spirit reaching toward evolution, and producing symptoms to show where there is contraction. We have everything we need to resolve all world issues. All we experience today globally - wars, starvation, economic crises, all come back to Spirit Emergent trying to resolve contraction.

If this inspires and/or confuses you, and you want to learn more, please email or call me.

If this makes sense to you and you want to collaborate toward change, transformation, evolution, and enlightenment in yourself, your relationships, community, or on the planet, please email or call me.

Humbly yours
and in Sacred Service,
-- Gail

Copyright 2008 Gail Taylor. Copy permission granted to fully in-tact, unmodified copies of this post that include reference to Gail Taylor and http://www.TheIntegratedApproach.com.

Both/And and John's Brilliant Reminders

This was so delicious I *had* to include it as a stand-alone post.

This was a comment about my post here.

And what I wrote in response.

Cherishing the multiplicity of things,
Gail

----

John Curtis said...

The Secret is the latest and by far the worst example of a HIGHLY profitable trend where self-help gurus with fabricated new age titles and little relevant education, credentials or legitimate expertise brainwash us into believing that they know what is best for us, our marriages and our families.

Often their only contribution to society is introducing some exotic sounding, new age philosophy. However, they often cleverly form an incestuous group of like-minded “experts” who cross-promote each other by swearing their success is due to following the beliefs of another member of their “cult!” All the while, they ply the airwaves jockeying for an ever-larger audience by appearing in the national media to garner third-party endorsements.

The Self-Help Movement has become the Self-Destruct Movement by diminishing or destroying our critical thinking skills to choose and evolve on our own. We have given up the freedom to build healthy lives, marriages and families based on our unique history and life experience. Instead many victims, blinded to the value of their own life experiences, are attracted to the latest secret in self-help, in an attempt to find out what they should think, feel and how they should act... this is the definition of a cult.

The solution is a return to our (common) senses! The best way out of this learned “self-helplessness” is to go cold turkey. Stop following ALL self-help gurus now. Begin, instead, to reclaim your natural, God-given ability to think for yourself. The common sense that was once readily available to all of us is still there free of charge and waiting to be applied to just about any challenge we might face in life… all you have to do is use it.

Please, let's all work together to stop the flock of "sheepeople" who blindly move from one UNPROVEN concept to the next, looking for the answers to life's challenges that you already possess and that is the OBVIOUS!

September 7, 2008 3:07 PM

Gail Taylor - TheIntegratedApproach.com said...

I relish your critical thinking and discernments, John. Brilliant.

I know this probably doesn't apply to you, but I've heard lots of people bashing the work of some-person-or-other who's doing their best to contribute (my friends Ken Wilber, David Deida, Marshall Rosenberg, and many other thinkers I know were all bashed by many), somewhere or other.

Even the writers of "The Secret" are TRYING to make a contribution.

And some people DO benefit from that bit!

And that bit, combined with many other bits, I believe, moves the world needle of consciousness forward through evolution.

I wonder, of all of the people bashing one thing or another, how many of them are capable of "Both/And" thinking.

(Which reminds me, I had a post I wanted to write about that! Thank you for the reminder!!)

Both/And - y'know, instead of Either/Or thinking (ex: This Sucks, That's Great, Run From All That Sucks)...(aka Good/Bad Right/Wrong duality-based arguments that can happen ad-infinausium even beyond war and death) --

Both/And - This AND that. Taking the gold nuggets that DO work for you, and just using the "law of two feet" on the rest (walk away and go find other nuggets that work better for you -- and leave what you don't like to the people who DO benefit - to benefit).

In other words, remembering that just because it's not the "end-all" for you, doesn't mean it HAS to be the "end all" at all. For anyone. And that doesn't make it worthless.

But then again, our world wouldn't be what it is without people pushing against things they don't love and resisting them with high-volume screaming warnings; where else would we find opposing views to chew on?

Anyway, thank you for reminding me to me to post the Both/And concept! I cherish your intelligent insights!

And thank you for reminding us all to think!

Admiring your contribution and your willingness to put it out there!!

Sending blessings,
Gail

Transform "The Secret" To Results in 30 Minutes Or Less

Are you one of my friends who's hooked on "The Secret"?

Or are you a critic of "The Secret"?

I like "The Secret", within reason. Just like the book, "Think And Grow Rich", and the book, "The Science of Getting Rich", I won't deny that how we think effects what we do and how we do it. Where ever we go, there we are, and there our beliefs are that come with us.

However, I also think that the concept, "Thoughts are Things" only partly gets the job done. I've lots of friends who subscribe to, "The Secret" who are still "trying" to get what they want.

Like many other practices, I think it's necessary, but insufficient.

Here's what I mean - in short --

• Affirmations without action risk producing nothing but self-chatter.
• Action without connection to the driving value risks becoming tedious drudgery and 'have to's.
• Understanding the driving values without *experiencing* it viscerally risks living as cognitive reporting without the life juice of emotion.
  

You've heard me talk about this quad before (values, thoughts, action, emotion) if you've taken my 10-Minute Manifestor (tm) course.

And you've heard me talk about the whole system of you (mind, body, spirit, heart, gut, action, environment) if you've done anything with The Integrated Approach (TIA - "TEE-ah").

Meanwhile, here's a way you can Transform "The Secret" To Results in 30 Minutes Or Less!

WHAT TO DO:

1. Decide what it is you want to manifest. Your response might be something like, "more love", "more money", or "more delight about my job".


2. Transform the "more" into measurables. How will you know when you've landed? How much? By when? Your response might be something like, "A life partner before Dec 2009" or "$10K more income by Nov. 15th" or "I rank myself at a 7 or above of delight (on a scale of 10) about my job by this time next week".


3. Name 1-3 underlying values you're trying to fulfill with this desire. (For a list of core motives, underlying values, universal needs, go to page 2 of this document)


4. For 90 seconds, experience the joy, delight and fulfillment of what it looks like when you've ALREADY experienced fulfillment of #1. What do you feel? Where in your body do you feel it? What's different about your posture, your emotions, how you think, how you talk, or how you act? How are others treating you differently? How does that feel? Stay with this until you experience the delight at a 7 or above (on a scale of 10).


5. This is the important part: As soon as you have hit your 7-or-above on #5, go do something right now that is precisely what you'd be doing when you are already fulfilled on this thing that you want. This isn't about doing something *toward* getting what you want. You can (and likely will) do that later. This is about embodying that you are already there, right now. If your desire was for "more love", maybe right now you'll spend 10 minutes journaling and cherishing how fulfilling it is to have so much love in your life. If your desire was for "more money", maybe what you'd do right now is go relax in the sunshine for 10 minutes and enjoy the breeze - now that you have what you need you can rest. If your desire was for "more delight about work", maybe what you'll do right now is a bit more work you love, because that's what you'd do right now if you were in love with your work.

By combining "The Secret" with complementary practices from other domains, we get a tool that gets the job done more quickly, more effectively, and with longer-lasting results. How else can you "melt the ice cube from all sides"(tm) ?

Try it and tell me your results, below!!

Curious,
Gail

Relieve Depression Without Drugs

I've treated several clients diagnosed with depression. In "melting the ice cube from all sides", here's a reference for dietary factors that can reduce or eliminate depression:

"The following dietary supplements have been shown to help restore neurotransmitter levels and alleviate depression:

• B vitamins—A full complement of B vitamins (including at least 1000 micrograms (mcg) vitamin B12, 250 milligrams (mg) vitamin B6, and 800 mcg of folic acid daily
• Zinc—15 to 30 mg daily
• TMG—2 to 4 grams (g) daily
• Cytidine diphosphate choline—250 to 500 mg daily (alternatively, 1 to 3 teaspoons liquid choline chloride mixed with 2 ounces juice daily, 1 tablespoon pure lecithin granules daily, or 250 mg glyceryl phosphoryl choline daily)
• Micronized creatine—500 mg (in capsule form) four to eight times daily
• N-acetylcysteine—600 mg (in capsule form) one to two times daily on an empty stomach
• Vitamin C—1 to 3 g daily
• Vitamin E—400 International Units (IU) daily, with 200 mg gamma tocopherol
• EPA/DHA—1400 mg EPA and 1000 mg DHA daily
• SAMe—400 to 1200 mg daily without food
• St John’s wort—300 to 900 mg daily
• Ginkgo biloba—120 mg daily
• L-phenylalanine—500 to 1000 mg early in the day
• Tyrosine—500 to 1000 mg daily
• Tryptophan—500 to 1000 mg once or twice daily on an empty stomach
• DHEA—15 to 75 mg daily, followed by blood testing in three to six weeks to make sure optimal levels are maintained. "
  

Reference: http://www.lef.org/protocols/emotional_health/depression_01.htm

Personally, I also find my mood elevates when I take Vitamin D (6K IUs/day, since I don't get as much sun exposure as our bodies need to produce it on my own), and Emergen-C packs (2 per day if I'm very busy, full of vitamins and high levels of Vit.C).

And of course, there's always the euphoria chocolate gives (same as the biochemistry post-orgasm). You pick your weapon of choice. ;)

New entry!

There's a new entry on my personal blog, entries I don't keep here, are there!

http://tiagail.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/catching-up-with-you/

Enjoy!
Gail

A Perspective Of God

A Perspective Of God

we're in a playground
the playground is for taking Thought beyond where It's been before
(Thought. Experience.)

and this playground is a smorgasbord of choices.
all of them.
all of the spiral, all quadrants, levels, lines, states, and types
all of the myriad choices of what it is to Be.

Self can be a dog rolling in the grass, and Experience That.
And That Is Good.
Self can be a wealthy old man coddling his granddaughter in love.
And That Is Good.
Self can be a 20-something, or a 30-something, or a 40-something, starting to Remember Self in the bodymind,
remembering that We Are That.

As Omniscience, as Omnipresence,
the one thing Self canNOT do -
is forget that It Is.
But in this playground, we can forget that We Are.

In this plaground, Self can be a dog rolling in the grass, utterly having forgotten that We Are. And enjoying being a dog in the grass.

In this playground, Self can be a grandfather coddling his granddaughter, utterly having forgotten that He Is. And enjoying the limited view.

In this playground, Self can be a someone something, remembering Self again, and enjoying the Experience of re-membering.
And That Is Good.

Self can be a child dying.
And That Is Good.
One thing Self canNOT do - is forget that It Is,
and Experience being a child dying.
But a dying child CAN experience being a child dying.
and in the eyes of Self -
That Is Good.
It is Experience.
It is what takes Experience beyond the Nondual, beyond Omniscience
It's Play in the Playground.

we're in a playground
the playground is for taking Thought beyond where It's been before
(Thought. Experience.)

and this playground is a smorgasbord of choices.
all of them.
all of the spiral, all quadrants, levels, lines, states, and types
all of the myriad choices of what it is to Be.

Including, being a perspective that doesn't believe this poem.

Come. Let's dance.

What are the 3 Bodies?

This content is an excerpt from a conversation.

Previously in the conversation we talked about empathy, mirroring, and what a reflection is. In
this post the conversation continues.

enjoy!
g

--------------

this,
i believe is related to an earlier discussion you and i had with
regard to what i think you spoke of as the levels/stages of reflection.

Ah...now levels/stages is a totally separate topic from empathy/ reflection.

In KW's work, we have 3 bodies, each body has an associated "state" of consciousness.

- gross/physical body - awake state
- subtle body - dream state
- causal body - deep-sleep state.

We are capable of recognizing each of these "states of consciousness" and "3 bodies". When we are awake, there's a physical, tangible world. When we're dreaming, we see images, we feel emotions, but then we wake to find that our physical body has been just laying in bed for 8 hours. In the deep-sleep state we're utterly peaceful, expansive, in a place of 'no-thingness'.

So now think of the 3 bodies as an ever-expanding sphere.

In the gross/physical body, we have tangibles, we have body-centric sensations (first stage - if you stump your toe, suddenly you're entirely hijacked by the body-experience....if we're too hungry, over-tired, when we orgasm, all of these gross-body states can overwhelm us and are more visible / more present to us than the other states).

In the subtle body, we have intangibles - emotion, chakra sensations that are not associated with a particular organ (heart-break isn't in the physical heart; a lump in your throat isn't an actual lump), images (close your eyes and don't think of pink elephants)... We can "do a guided meditation", which is to say we can "expand beyond" our "simple bodymind personality experience", for example into an "image of a crystal clear stream winding softly through a lush forest". The images, emotions, and organ-independant sensations in our bodies belong to the subtle-body. Ever "sense" when someone is staring at you? Subtle field. Ever "feel" an angry person from across the room without looking? Subtle body. Ever have a great night where you felt like a million bucks, and you walk into a room and the whole room turns to look at you, because your energy body radiates into the entire room? Subtle field. Enough of that...close your eyes and "go to your happy place".

In the causal body, we "expand" beyond image, imagination, or bodymind emotions. In this "peak state", common experiences include feeling utterly at peace, utterly infinite, feeling one with everything, feeling as if you Are Everything. Non-duality is a discussion among those who've had causal "peak" experiences. Ever experience feeling one with nature? Causal peak experience.

Let's not confuse causal oneness with the non-differentiated infant who feels one with everything, though. First we are non-differentiated, then we differentiate, then we are capable of differentiation but also capable of oneness.

Likewise, Deida refers to 3 Stages - first we're me-centric, then i differentiate others and become "we-aware", then i become aware of something beyond "us" into something far greater. 1st, 2nd, 3rd stage. Likewise, if I'm having a "1st stage moment" i'm probably focused on the toe i stumped that hurts, or the growl in my stomach (all gross-body phenomena). If I'm having a 2nd stage moment I'm probably doing an "I'm ok, are you ok?" we-space check. If I'm having a 3rd stage moment I'm capable of tuning into and taking care of me, I'm capable of tuning into and taking care of you / other / us....and now I can - as an act of art, as full choice, as an expanded act connected into a far larger system than the personalities of you and me, make another choice that transcends you, me, or even the system of the tangible world...

1st, 2nd, 3rd.

I think we were talking about the 3 stages relative to Sasha's growth (or yours, for that matter, in terms of your needs-consciousness). Previously, you were largely unexpressed about your needs in terms of making requests (a 1st state area of development) but you'd try to meet your needs subversively. In the 2nd stage, we get masterful at making requests to meet our own needs in a way that also is in concert with the needs of the other. In 3rd stage practice, we can now adeptly attend to our needs, attend to others' needs, or drop needs altogether and transcend them into our Infinite Self, or we can include them and play the bodymind like an instrument and choose to attend, or refuse to attend, to needs as a face of Love, as an experiment in "What Opens Us/Other/System/Infinite more fully?".

Ask me questions if any of this sounds fuzzy - i've had Pinot Noir tonight. *wink*