TREATING WHAT IS THERE

Notes from mid noughties:



Begin anywhere. Areas are wooden as if unattached. They have no basis but seem to allude to another area. They shield it. Front it out of shame. They are loose limbs or fraught with an abhoration that they do not yet know themselves. Senseless. Here is a pervading sense of danger that they turn away from. They are twisted; gnarled. Like fruitless branches of a tree.

What is happening in the belly of the trunk? What are the conditions under the earth? It is dry, the marrow turned to dust or wet and clogged. Stifling and bound in upon itself.
The limbs and extremities, scattered at tangents, do not articulate the centre and send out its` good, disperse its waste. The call and return has gone missing.

So to lift these disjointed limbs. Let them in turn sink back down a little into this raised support. Bit by bit, a course of descent, of least resistance will be mapped out like a retracing of a lost path.

Gradually from extremity to within, the source of the need will pour into a single crevice. As if many tributaries flowed back into the crossroads; this meeting point. Here like an arrow–head, is the point of binding. From here the river will run back out more assertively and it will have its affect on the many tributaries; the disaffected limbs will be implicated. From one end of the spine to the other- from head to sacrum, a realignment will whip-snap itself back into place. Direction is everything. When we become the journey-maker the journey of least resistance will allow itself to come through.

A passageway will open up and simultaneously the extremities will shake into place.

All areas of obstruction and need, of Kyo and Jitsu will renew themselves. Perhaps an arrow-line from chest to lower back or from lower abdomen to sacrum will call out either at the back or the front. Like nails riven through the body they must be eased out. There must be containment, stillness and warmth. And sharp movement in reverse.

A presence felt, then removed. Both presence and absence together.

In the space between, the person will come through. A breathing, utilizing organism full of needs and cares and motivations and expressions.

Breath nurtures, freeing movement, thought, feeling which will simultaneously converge at the arrow-head which before was taken up as a shadow of need or a front of disconnected exposure.

Intention will come through as we sit a while, before piece by piece allowing a space of realization. Engaging and letting go then becomes a simultaneous transition. A passing between the two. A specification of focus within and in connection to a wider pool of support and reference.

It is the context or habitat of operation that is the most crucial in any process of re-vitalization and on-going life.