Don't Be Scared, It's Worth It!

By Gene Clerkin, D.C.

I remember hearing Dr. Donald Epstein say, “It's not about feeling better, it's about better feeling.” At the time he was talking about chiropractic, or at least his version of it. Even back then I understood the idea of restoring life energy and connection in the body as opposed to fixation on symptom removal. I also knew that healing sometimes meant feeling, even if it doesn't always feel good. However, what I didn't understand was the depth of a statement like that in relation to our socio-cultural conditioning.

 

Somewhere, sometime in our culture we've adopted a story that we have held to be the truth. The story is that we must numb ourselves to this experience we call life and block our selves from having to feel anything painful, physically or emotionally. That sounds like a pretty good idea but I suspect it doesn't really work for us. Even so, it is often the case that cultural conditioning overrides the issue of whether or not any particular version of reality serves us.

 

I looked in the thesaurus for the word experience, and in the form of a verb it offered several replacements including to feel, go through, face, come in contact with, live through, suffer or undergo. So, it appears, according to this source, that if we are to experience life, then part of that experience might be to feel, or that feeling is part of the experience.

 

See, symptoms that we experience have a purpose and that purpose is to initiate a call for change. It means something is not working and change or adaptation is required. It just so happens that feeling is what prompts us to make a change. (a concept advertisers are keenly aware of) Almost everyone that comes to see me with concern about a symptom has essentially the same story. They've tried one or several methods to get rid of “it” and either they haven't worked or have only worked temporarily. While the variety of methods is endless, the approach is fundamentally the same. They are all geared toward quelling the symptom. Of course nobody likes symptoms but if the symptom is a call for change, and we remove it without having contemplated the need to change any of our thoughts or behaviors then, we have effectively killed the messenger before receiving the message. Unfortunately or fortunately, depending on your perception, there will probably be more messages coming.

 

Whenever we experience a symptom, or any unpleasant feeling, our conditioning directs us into judging it as wrong. We systematically numb ourselves not only from that experience, but from the depth of the experience we call life. If you visit a wellness practitioner then the approach would be fundamentally different from the previously mentioned. When speaking of wellness, the methodology is one which promotes and supports adaptation and growth.

 

Intermediate care of Network Spinal Analysis is most commonly the time when we really begin to have a deeper experience of ourselves and a clearing of the physical anchors or patterns of unresolved energy. Along with it can come the fear of this deeper connection and retracing that will likely accompany the process.

 

Several months ago I read an article written by Cliff Bostick and was captured by something he wrote. “The wound's cure, the unbroken gaze of love, was scarier than enduring the pain of disconnection.” I took that to mean that it's our fear that drives us to avoid a deeper experience of life. This fear, fostered by our conditioning, is what ultimately keeps us from our healing. Well, I'm here to tell you this: Life is about better feeling…. And it's worth it!

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Transformational What?

By Gene Clerkin, D.C.

The feeling or experience is difficult to put into words. You arrive on Friday evening and enter a room with approximately five hundred people, most of whom you don't know. So, what's the first thing you do? You begin to judge. She's fat, he's skinny, she's pretty, and he's weird looking. It's a virtually unconscious behavior. Sunday afternoon arrives, you look around and once again take inventory of the same five hundred people from Friday night, only this time everyone looks different. Without the filter of judgment, clouding the spirit, everyone looks beautiful. Quite amazing.

 

So, what happens in a two and a half day window of time that could effect one's perception in such a profound way?

 

To begin with, the Transformational Gate, a personal growth and healing seminar, uses a group dynamic to enhance the intensity and depth of the healing experience. Network Care, the main vehicle of the Gate, utilizes the vibration based principle of harmonic entrainment. Basically, energies that are synchronized are more efficient. When you have seventy five people in the same room being entrained together, the energy literally hits you in the face.

 

Using a frequency of three entrainments daily, talented practitioners guide participants through network levels of care and healing stages of consciousness at an accelerated rate. This greatly advances individual's healing strategies and can provide them with a deeper level of connection than they've previously experienced, opening the door of possibility to their future healing. The experience of connection…

 

There is a progression of strategies from release of tension in level one and pattern clearing in level two, to the growth and expansion available in the level three experience. Late in the level two strategy, there is a spontaneous expansion of the thoracic cavity and opening of the heart energy. This contributes intensely to a feeling of connection with not only the self, but other people and what might be called the web of life. Many schools of thought suggest that this is a time when connection with the transcendent self is heightened.

 

Personally, my creativity soared after the last Gate I attended. It took me all of about ten minutes to write a song on the plane ride home and I followed that up with about fifteen more songs in the next thirty days. For me, that was unprecedented. I'll never forget a very intense experience at my first Gate, a dozen years ago. At the end of an entrainment my whole body went numb and I collapsed to the floor in a complete state of peace, where I remained for about ten minutes. There was no concern and no fear about judgment and I recall existing in that state for about a month. It is after an experience like that, when you realize why this is called a Transformational Gate.

 

The next Transformational Gate offered by Wise World Seminars will be held September 2- 4 in Denver , CO . If you are interested contact The Center For Holistic Health for more details, in a timely manner, because this event will sell out.

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Glistening: Nadi Shuddha

By yoga adept Maitreya Kadre

Several thousand years ago there appeared on the crest of Mount Kailas in the Himalaya Mountains a God being known as Lord Shiva. To Lord Shiva is credited the science of Yoga or union with God. Lord Shiva gave detailed practices and exercises (not calisthenics) for cleaning and clearing the electronic nodes (nadis) which form the net of human consciousness. Among these methods which are recorded for our use are texts such as the Hatha Yoga Praqdipika, Vijnana Bhairava, and Pratna Bijna Hridayam. To say the least, it is not a vague, fuzzy, or air-headed group of the “let's just make it up ourselves as we go along” experimenters. It is a science handed down from generation to generation directly from master to student in no uncertain terms. The electromagnetic field of the human being is comprised of 72,000 nadis. Current runs on these nodes. They can become dead (blocked) or corroded by stored impressions and shocks. The impressions can be categorized in five ways: right knowledge, wrong knowledge, imagination, sleep (dullness….”out to lunch”), and memory. To explore and grasp these tenets on a mental level alone is a subject necessary for the introduction to meditation. The science of yoga emphasizes the major nadi or shushumna which is paralleled by the spine and spinal cord and the two secondary nadis known as the ida and pingala “nerves”which spiral around the shushumna and are called the sun and moon channels or male and female, being positive and negative in the way electricity is charged positively and negatively.

So, we have been invited to share with you by our good friend, Dr. Gene Clerkin, an essay relating to holistic health. I have chosen for your well-being the subject of Nadi Shuddha or yogic bathing.

Bathing is familiar to us. We get water and scrub the skin to get the oil, sweat and dirt off. Yogic bathing is directed toward cleaning the positive and negative poles of the electromagnetic field or “organizing field” (as it is called by Dr. Epstein, founder of Network Spinal Analysis). It can include washing the sinus cavities with salty water by holding one nostril closed and filling the other cavity from a specially made long-spouted pitcher until the sinus cavities are filled and flushed on that side and then cleaning the other side. It can include passing of soft sterile gauze through the nostril and out the mouth or other nostril for the purpose of removing dense material and physical deposits. It can even include swallowing gauze. (not advised without expert guidance)

One of the most horrific of all poisons to the nervous system is drug deposits, both legal and illegal. Recently, I met a very fine woman in Atlanta who has an excellent reputation as a spiritual leader of women. Her reputation preceded her, so that when I first laid eyes on her I was shocked to see that her “aura”, electromagnetic field, or bio-field was dingy near the surface of her skin. I had seen this before and knew it was from what people are now commonly calling “plant medicine.” I asked her if she used such substances and was told that she had previously but no longer did so. So I offered to guide her through a five day yoga bathing detoxification retreat. The deposits from drug use are very difficult to dislodge, especially in the nadis at the base of the neck. They can build up by long term habitual use even of things like aspirin or can even be left in the body of a new-born if drugs are administered to the mother during labor. Later, these drugs block the nadis and interfere with well-being. Many people experience and report the release of such substances during rigorous yogic training, at Network “Transformational Gates”, or as a result of some other authentic form of transformational “spiritual” work. You might for example, have smells or tastes of the substances being released.

Blocked nadis are the source of malaise, misery, and disease which comprise ignorance or the tendency to “ignore”.

Network Spinal Analysis is a major tool for this process which works directly in the bio-field. For more on this, visit Dr. Epstein's websites at www.associationfornetworkcare.com or www.wiseworldseminars.com

We will be holding a yoga practicum of nadi shuddha on July 18 th in Atlanta, Georgia. This consists of hot and cold bathing, pranayama or yogic breathing, fasting on a fresh juice of apple, papaya, onion, lemon and cayenne, all of which are performed on a four hour schedule around the clock followed by resting until the next “round”. The sleep cycle is interrupted and deep access to patterned behavior held unconsciously in the nadis of the bio-field is made available. I provide personal support and counseling on the application of yogic tenets during the three day cycle. We require one day of orientation and a day of integration at the end so that the entire process is 5 days.

I have offered this to select groups in California and at Hot Springs, North Carolina. People who complete this nadi shuddah retreat glisten when they emerge. The electromagnetic field is charged with new energy and behavior modification is accomplished in a natural method directly. This is an ancient method of healing that can have catalytic results and is a great way to launch into an individual yoga practice, by which I mean intending to complete and attain union with God. It is a bold step that accomplishes great change in a relatively short period.

It is also so much fun to do this cycle. There is always laughter even though the tone is serious; as water in the sunlight and moonlight naturally thrill us and has since the dawn of humanity.

Because of the nature of the event it is necessary to charge fees but no one will be turned away because they do not have money. We also have space for attendants to apprentice in assisting those on retreat.

For further information, contact:

Robin Rider

Telephone 678 640 5169

Benefits attributed to yogic practice:

1. youthfulness
2. energy
3. burns fat
4. reduces cholesterol
5. reduces high blood pressure
6. increases fertility
7. detoxes skin and organs (eliminating acne and mucous plugs in the liver, etc.)
8. cleans the blood and lymph system
9. enables one to develop the will and concentration
10. which can be applied in any area of life
11. for example to quit smoking if wished
12. miraculous cures of diseases and unhealthy conditions
13. improved outlook; more joy
14. dissolution of toxic substances like rage, jealousy, insecurity, etc.
15. light in the eyes
16. beauty in movement
17. increased magnetism

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Cut The Rope

by Gene Clerkin, D.C.

In my experience over the last decade there is a point in a person's healing process when they begin to get in touch with their “stuff”, meaning their past wounds and information they could not previously process. Consequently that stuff is stored in the body as physical anchors or stuck energy. This connection most often occurs in mid level two of Network Care and is also the most common time for people to drop out of care. Holding on to old patterns that don't necessarily work for us is sometimes less scary then connecting and releasing them. I wrote the following song based not only my observations but from the experience of my own process.

 

You're afraid to want to go to deep; the hill you're sliding down's too steep

You're doing everything you can to keep from feeling it again

You don't want to cut the rope, let go and open up your heart

 

The guard is always at the gate, pretending everything's ok

He's so strong but in his mind he don't realize he's blind

He don't want to cut the rope, let go and open up his heart

 

There's a little child and he's crying, deep inside feels like he's dying

He's doing everything he can to keep from feeling it again.

He don't want to cut the rope, let go and open up his heart

 

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