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Invisible as it may be, our Habit Body is our very best friend. It records and
remembers every daily routine so our waking mind doesn't have to relearn every
daily habit all over again, every morning, when we wake up.
The phrase “habit body” enables much more direct address to habits we wish to
access and upgrade. Upgrading dysfunctional habits on any level, is a sturdy
definition of personal-spiritual growth.
According to the Three Selves model, by design the human psyche revolves
around you, the conscious self. The idea is to free up your attention so you can
apply it to making healthy decisions and more conscious choices in life.
If you had to also breathe consciously, also blink your eyes consciously, also
digest your food consciously—you would have virtually no time to think thru the
complex decisions and choices life presents us with. Our habit body frees the
conscious self to spend more of its time and energy thinking, planning,
navigating, deciding and choosing.
A habit body, a lower helper self, is a good deal for us, so when faced with
repetitive situations, like tying our shoe laces or washing the baby, we can
respond today and tomorrow, the same way we responded yesterday, without
having to think thru every detail each time. Our habit body excuses our waking,
conscious self from “re-inventing the wheel” every day.
Origins
The origins of the idea of a habit body probably go back to Buddhism, probably in
connection with the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Clairvoyant observations were
evidently recorded of a body of habits continuing on independently, for a short
time, after the death of individuals.
The phrase “habit body” resurfaces in modern times after the convergence of NLP
and muscle testing. By 1990 interested lay persons and practitioners were
enabled, with practice, to navigate to, identify and address, invisible habits, on
any level PACME. Your Habit Body, An Owner's Manual did not appear until 2010.
The habit body is clearly synonymous with the inner child from the 1970s-1980s.
“Habit body” simply reframes the topic, shifting the focus to how 90% to 95% of
our behavior is based on habits, as Bruce Lipton suggests in his videos in 2011
and ongoing. Clearly the therapeutic uses of addressing the habit body directly
are manifold.
The habit body can be addressed directly thru the following methods:
- Gestalt two chairs technique. Less skill is needed to experiment with this.
- Self-muscle-testing, kinesiology testing, including dowsing. More skill is needed
to experiment with this.
'Always use love all ways' is the recommended context when exploring the habit
body as this is the firmware of human beings. If you break something—you're
responsible. Deliberately altering and upgrading habits is performed successfully
primarily by trained and skilled practitioners with extensive counseling training
and high emotional IQ. Both Gestalt and NLP caution “inner ecology” is a real
consideration and must be acknowledged, checked for and worked with for safe
and effective change work.
For example our values are invisible. Honesty, forgiveness and curiosity are all
invisible. To paraphrase NLP, what makes us most truly human “cannot be carried
in a wheelbarrow.” Like many aspects of being fully human, habits while invisible,
are highly patterned and conditioned; therefore, habits are "visible" to thinking.
This suggest how two-thirds of our habit body is NOT fully conscious.
In the first few pages of Study of Man (1919) Rudolf Steiner observed how the
human psyche is spread out over a range, over a continuum of frequency.
Waking ~ We are most awake in our minds, eyes, face and hands. There is little
here we are NOT aware of in these areas, while awake. Habits active here include
how we talk, chew food, do our homework, housework and other deliberate tasks,
decisions and choices. Examples of conscious habit are paying the rent, taking
the kids to school. In these habits we are most awake, have the most
wakefulness; therefore, the most ability to make choices and alter our own
habits. Conscious habits take the least effort to change and upgrade.
Dreaming ~ we are dreaming in our blood, skin, muscles and digestive organs.
We are partly aware of them, partly unawares. Habits active here include most of
our sensory channels, especially the five animal senses and our kinesthetic sense
of well-being. We "dream" here. We never fully know how we see; we never fully
grasp HOW we feel what we feel.
We can only take these percepts in, assemble them according to our habits, and
call this reality. In this Steiner is very close to thinkers proposing "we dream our
reality;" and to General Semantics-NLP, which proposes what we call "reality" is
no more nor less than our habitual way of assembling sense percepts into sense-
memory-constructs we can engage and interact with.
Sleeping ~ we are most asleep in our bones and small intestine. These are
organs that work best far apart from the rapid change and choice-making of the
waking mind. Habits active here include blood cell formation, nutrient
assimilation, tissue-building.
Examples of SUBconscious habits are how we dream at night, how much feeling
we can consciously tolerate, how we feel about ourselves, other people, the world
and God. We are less awake here; therefore, we have less ability to make
choices and changes here. These habits take considerable effort to change,
upgrade and purify. Mostly SUBconscious issues can be addressed in talk therapy
and increasingly in muscle testing sessions.
Examples of UNconscious habits are who we think we are, and basically all
assumptions about what is real about ourselves, other people, the world and God.
In these habits we are least awake, least conscious; therefore, we have the least
ability to make choices and these habits take the greatest effort to upgrade.
Without Grace, these habits typically take years to change, upgrade and purify.
Deeply UNconscious are very difficult to addresses directly without direct
clairvoyant perception and/or with muscle testing.
We automate our own behavior, transferring and delegating simple tasks to our
"invisible butler."
By the time we are five years old, we have thousands of routines and behaviors,
including language, lodged in the sub- and unconscious as habits. Welcome to
your habit body.
One of the few things left standing from the earliest days of experimental
psychology, is Pavlov’s stimulus-response (S-R) experiments with dogs.
S-R proposes when something is done to us, we react. It says we always react
because something is done to us. If we feel cold, we move closer to the fire. If we
are hungry we move towards food. If we are punished for stealing from the
cookie jar, we stop stealing. If we are driving and we see a red stop-light, we
stop.
Behaviorism (1920s-1950s) took this up and ran with it, proposing the entire
human psyche must be reduced to cause and effect, stimulus and response. The
idea that the human psyche could and should be reduced to mere external causes
prompting internal reactions, was a foundation of 19th and 20th century
scientific-materialism.
Skinner was not fond of Freud's innovations. Skinner wanted something much
more radical. He disliked the abstractions “desire,” “goals,” “pleasure” and
“values.” He found these “soft” ideas unscientific. Skinner broke through the
navel-gazing of 18th and 19th century European philosophy to a much more
direct approach in psychology. He limited psychology to the realm of the sensory,
the tangible, the objective and the measurable. In the early 20th century, we can
surmise Skinner was rebelling against the sometimes vague, sometimes patently
subjective, sometimes idiosyncratic and sometimes absurd definitions and
explanations for mental-emotional activity, common in the 17th, 18th and 19th
centuries.
Skinner was correct: reactivity is real and highly determinant. Pavlov’s dogs
really do salivate at food; and, at bells for food, if trained this way. Glasser was
correct too: choice trumps reactivity any time we make that choice and follow
thru with our intention to change behavior.
Useful contrast exists between reactivity, choice and habits. The consequences of
reactivity are greater than choice in the realm of walking into a bakery or a
kitchen with delicious food cooking. The consequences of choice are greater than
of habits and reactivity in the realm of therapy, self-healing and personal-spiritual
growth. Bertrand Babinet points out unnecessary reactivity is our chief obstacle
to personal-spiritual growth (Healing the Inner Family, 1997).
We have habits on each level PACME
This topic is covered more in the Spiritual Geography PACME article and book.
Habit Body
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Literature
Dickson, Bruce. You Have Three Selves, Vol 1 (2011). Tools That Heal Press, Los
Angeles, CA. ISBN=978-1475268775
http://www.amazon.com/You-Have-Three-Selves-
Vol/dp/1475268777/ref=la_B007SNVG46_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1347936492&sr=1-
2
Dickson, Bruce. You Have Three Selves, Vol 2 (2011). Tools That Heal Press, Los
Angeles, CA. ISBN=978- 1475268775
http://www.amazon.com/You-Have-Three-Selves-
Vol/dp/1475274009/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1347860558&sr=1-
2&keywords=three+selves+vol+2
Dickson, Bruce. Your Habit Body, An Owner's Manual. (2011). Tools That Heal
Press, Los Angeles, CA. ISBN=978-1449953300
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Garrison Keillor says, “Culture is what you know is so by age 12.” ALL culture can
be seen as just a bunch of habits, including your own. Once you can see it, you
can redirect it. 78 pages.
Meridian Metaphors,
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Have clients? The effectiveness of any energetic session can be estimated AHEAD
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Save your self from wasting effort when clients are of two minds on their issue
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momentum your client has to heal on that issue.
Willingness to heal is the key to aligning and integrating the three selves.
Willingness is where the whole topic of the 3S leads.
NOTE ~ This booklet assumes readers can already either self-test using
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This is a more exact, body-based, imagination than the “inner child;” also, a
moral imagination, disciplining us to see more clearly inside yet NOT spiral up into
unbridled fantasy.
Further, we have TWO Inner Courts, one in our gut brain, a second on in the four
brain quadrants. The two Courts make the previously mysterious topics of self-
esteem and self-concept understandable.
The greater precision of the Inner Court makes clear the conceptual strengths
and weaknesses of Personality Typologies such as MBTI, how personality is
formed thru preferences:
- The wonderful work of Ned Herrmann & Katherine Benziger is clarified and made
more artistic,
- The promise of earlier research on Right and left brain blossoms fully in the
Inner Court.
The books clearly lists dysfunctional expressions of each member of the Inner
Court, providing body-centric maps to locate where everyday disturbances
originate and track back to. If you can feel it―and locate it--you can heal it! All
aspects of the Inner Court lends itself highly to muscle testing experiments.
The Inner Court model is appropriate to grad students and ANYONE interested in
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NEW Energy Anatomy replaces some of the older views of human energy with
views much simpler to visualize
Particularly useful for energy school students and sensitive persons using testing
to sort out their abundant perceptions. More generally useful for efforts to
become more Coherent, Integrated and Aligned (the new CIA). Coupled with
Touch for Health, EFT, Energy Medicine or PTS Masters and Doctorate programs,
these views facilitate making your aura brighter.
1) Right and left in the body, yin & yang in the body.
5) Our gut brain has two frequencies, divided top and bottom, feeling above
(hey, hey hey!) and willingness below (ho, ho, ho!).
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Finally, we glance at what progress has been made towards a functional typology
of children's temperaments in Anthroposophy, MBTI and Katherine Benziger,
providing some directions for fruitful further study. The perplexing problem of
how children's typology differs from adult typology, is brought close to resolution.
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#3: Personal-spiritual change takes a long time and is always a slow process.
After all, you've had the problem for a long time.
#4: If you've had a negative belief for a long time, it will take a long time to
change.
#5: If you change quickly, it must be superficial and not long lasting.
#6: I can’t change; “This is the way I am; I’ll always be this way.”
#8: Changing old behaviors and thought patterns is often difficult and painful,
"No pain, no gain."
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