John F. Barnes talks about 'being in Channel 3'. In our 2014 interview for Functional Therapy Magazine he told me he 'made it up'. Essentially it's a shorthand for being in that mode that just flows.
Channel 3 is your instinctive / intuitive mode.
The opposite is Channel 5 - the thinking and forcing mode. The rational and intellectual might hold us back.
So, how do I get there.
I have been immersing myself in the moment with mindfulness practices and with being in the moment and letting my intuition guide me.
A great trick for this has been my study of Reiki.
In Reiki you are applying a rather strange idea of 'energy healing' to a person. There are a lot of formalized ideas behind it... but ultimately it's a feeling.
So, imagine learning this feeling with other Reiki Students. There doesn't really have to be a goal when you are working with other students so you can explore.
This is such a new idea... therapy practice is so goal driven that if you aren't making specific progress towards specific goals you thought of when you first met your client then you are not successful.
(I think this goal focus is good in general but it might prevent us from seeking the source of the problem.) (A compromise is to be open to progress being made in other areas.)
For now we have to compromise and do what the goal says...
More on this next time.
Yours,
Ed
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