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Healing On The Fast Track:
How to use subtle movement explorations and guided awareness for profound healing.
Most healing modalities engage just one or two levels of consciousness to support healing: talk therapy works mostly with the mind; energy healing like Reiki works mostly with energy; and many forms of body work focus entirely on physical structures.
But the whole person includes all of these levels of consciousness – and more. How can the whole person be engaged for faster and more profound healing?
By using subtle movement explorations and guided awareness, you can engage all these levels of consciousness to heal quickly. There are four keys to doing this:
To explain these four keys, I’ll take the example of the movement of reaching for love – and how to do it in a way that uncovers and dissolves your barriers to connecting more deeply with others.
Quality of Movement
It’s easy to make a movement to reach for something. We reach for cups, door handles and light switches on a daily basis without even thinking about it. These movements are so automatic that we have no awareness of the quality of movement. However, if you slow the movement down, and reduce the amount of physical force, you’ll discover that your habitual movements are far from smooth and flowing. Try reaching for something. Now try reaching for the same thing, but taking 30 to 60 seconds to reach it. As you slow the movement down, you’ll discover that there are some places where the movement is easy and takes little effort. There are other places where the movement takes a little extra effort, or the movement takes a little detour from a direct line.
Reaching for an inanimate object like a cup usually has little meaning behind it, so the variations in quality of movement will probably be very subtle. As we add in more meaning-laden intentions to the movement, the variations in quality of movement will become more pronounced.
Intention and Attention
By adding an intention to a movement, you can focus your awareness on a particular topic. For example, turn your attention to the topic of receiving love. Now pick someone who you would like to experience more love with (this could be a person from your past, someone currently in your life, or someone you would like to meet in the future). Now create the intention that you are going to reach for love from that person.
First make a movement to reach for love. Now slow that movement down so that it takes 30 to 60 seconds to complete the movement. Try exploring the movement several times, each time increasing your awareness of the quality of the movement. You’ll notice that there are places where the movement takes more or less effort.
Exploration of Barriers
We call the places where it takes a little extra effort to make a movement ‘barriers’. Keeping the intention of reaching for love in mind, now start to search for the barriers to that movement. When you find a place in the movement that requires extra effort, press up against the barrier (like car tires pushed up against a speed bump, without going over the speed bump).
Barriers occur where we have internal rules against the thing we are doing. The internal conflict means that it requires extra work to make the movement. If you’re willing to gently push up against a barrier, without pushing through it, you’ll start to discover what those rules are about.
Engaging Your Whole Body & Whole Being
As you push up against a barrier, you’ll start to notice that more than just your hand and arm are engaged in the movement. The less effort and the more awareness you use, the more you’ll discover other things going on in your body.
By exploring a barrier in this way, you’ve gone beyond what was already accessible to your mental awareness, and you’ve started to uncover information from all levels of consciousness, including your mind, body, emotions and energy.
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