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We’ve tried to use ‘standard’ psychological, shamanic or spiritual terminology whenever we can.
- Apex phenomenon:
- Coined by Dr.
Callahan, it refers to the common occurrence after an
issue is eliminated by a therapy, the client tries to
explain the change by something they know, such as being
distracted, even though the explanation clearly doesn't
fit. The definition has been extended to include the
phenomenon of the client forgetting (to the point of
disbelief) that the healed issue was ever a problem for
them.
- Applied kinesiology:
- Also commonly
called muscle testing. Developed for chiropractic, uses
changing muscle strength to test for various problems and
sensitivities to toxins. It mistakenly assumes the body
isn't self aware with it's own agenda. It uses the same
mechanism that is used in dowsing.
- Beauty Way state:
- Gives a sense
of continuous peace, aliveness, instinctive knowledge of
spiritual truths, and a sense that physical things are
essentially beautiful. Also called the 'Aliveness' state.
Caused by head and heart fusion with body in present.
- Body:
- The reptilian
brain, at the base of the skull. It thinks in gestalt
body sensations (called the 'felt sense' in Focusing).
Experiences itself in the lower belly. Known as
the hara
in Japanese.
Moves the OBE awareness around. Is the brain that we
communicate when doing dowsing or muscle testing.
- Breathwork:
- Using
hyperventilation for extended periods of time to
facilitate healing. A variety of processes exist.
- BSFF - Be Set Free Fast:
- Invented by
Larry Nims, it is a spinoff of TFT involving only 3
meridian points. It is also important for the variation
called Instant BSFF, where the process is programmed
internally to occur at a cue word; and because of his
approach for healing traumas that cause psychological
reversal. www.besetfreefast.com
- Buddha brain:
- The
prefrontal lobes in the brain. Experientially it feels
like a huge, massive statue of Buddha located above the
head. Normally its awareness is fused with the mind
brain's.
- Buddha brain structures:
- They 'look'
like cables or containers internal or external to the
body, often appearing like the movie idea of an alien
implant. Created by the Buddha brain because of trauma.
They often cause physical pain.
- Chakras:
- Energy
centers associated with different areas of the body. They
'look' like white or colored balls or sailing ship
steering wheels. During fusion of the brains they merge
into one white disk near the center of the body.
- Cellular memories:
- Memories of
the sperm, egg, and zygote. Includes sensations,
feelings, and thoughts. Also applied in the literature to
memories of the body consciousness alone.
- CoA (Center of Awareness):
- Using a
finger, you can find your center of awareness by pointing
at where 'you' are in your body. Can be at a particular
point, or diffuse, and both internal to the body and
external.
- Coalescence:
- The
precellular organelles combine to form a primordial germ
cell at the coalescence stage. This occurs inside the
parent who is still a blastocyst inside the grandmother.
- Copies:
- A duplicate
of someone else's painful feelings or sensations in your
own body.
- Cords:
- Cords give
one the sensation that others have a 'personality'
(emotional tone) when one things about them. They can be
'seen' as hollow tubes between people.
- CPL - Calm, peace, lightness:
- The endpoint
to healing a trauma, caused when the client goes into a
peak state, usually temporarily.
- Dowsing:
- Using
pendulum or rod to communicate with the body
consciousness. It uses the same underlying body mechanism
as in muscle testing or applied kinesiology.
- DPR - Distant Personality Release:
- An Institute
for the Study of Peak States (ISPS) technique that
eliminates transference and counter-transference between
people by dissolving structures called 'cords'. It is
taught in The Basic
Whole-Hearted Healing Manual.
- EFT - Emotional Freedom Technique:
- A therapy
that uses tapping on meridian points to eliminate
emotional and physical discomfort. Classified as a power
therapy, in the subcategory of an 'energy' or 'meridian'
therapy. www.emofree.com
- Extended Triune Brain Model:
- Based on the
Papez-MacLean triune brain model, it describes a
nine-part structure to the brain. These parts are
commonly called the perineum, body, placenta, solar
plexus, heart, spine, mind, and Buddha brains.
- Focusing:
- Invented by
Dr. Eugene Gendlin, involves becoming aware of the body
consciousness communicating (the 'felt sense') to release
held traumatic material. www.focusing.org
- Fusion:
- The most
connected that two or more brain awarenesses can get.
When fused, they become one awareness without any
separate identity remaining. When all the brains fuse,
their awareness can be seen to 'look' like a golden ball
just below navel, and the body feels 'hollow'. Probable
origin of the concept of the ‘philosopher’s
stone’ in medieval alchemy. Before fusion, the
alchemical drawings show the Buddha brain as the crown,
the mind as the man, the heart as the woman, and the body
as the throne. 'Merged' brain awarenesses are not as
connected.
- Gaia:
- The
biological consciousness of the planet earth. In a
certain state of consciousness, it looks externally like
the flattened side of huge ball or building, with
vertical and horizontal line structures on it. Our
species occupies one band of the structure.
- Gaia commands:
- In a
particular peak state, Gaia can be 'heard' giving a
person biological commands during development, as well as
in the present. Also called Gaia instructions, Gaia
phrases, Gaia messages, etc.
- Generational trauma:
- Problems or
beliefs passed down through the family line. They can be
healed.
- Heart:
- The limbic
system, or old mammalian brain. It thinks in sequences of
emotions, and experiences itself in the center of the
chest.
- Holes:
- In an unusual
state of consciousness, people can 'see' what looks like
black holes in the body, that feel like infinitely deep
deficient emptiness. They are brought into awareness
during some therapies. They are caused by physical damage
to the body.
- Hollow state:
- The body
feels like a "hollow reed" or "empty tin can" when all of
the triune brain consciousnesses fuse together.
- Inner Peace state:
- The state
gives a sense of continuous inner peace. It also makes
all past emotional traumas no longer emotionally painful
when they are recalled. It is a Beauty Way substate.
- ISPS - Institute for the Study of Peak States:
- An
abbreviated form for the full name of the
Institute. www.peakstates.com
- Kundalini:
- Characterized
by the sensation of a small area of heat (about an inch
in diameter) that moves slowly up the spine. This can go
on for months and in some cases years. Kundalini
stimulates traumas and other unusual spiritual
experiences, creating severe problems for most people.
- Merging:
- Two or more
people sharing sensations, emotions, senses and memories.
It occurs when two (or more) people's brainwaves
synchronize. This can be dangerous if 'soul stealing'
occurs.
- Merging of brains:
- The
awarenesses of the biological brains can come together in
various combinations. Fusion is a more extreme experience
of merging. It is shown pictorially on a Perry diagram.
- Meridians:
- Energy
channels that wind through the body. Used in therapies
such as acupuncture and EFT. Found as physical structures
in the primary cell.
- Muscle testing:
- Communicating
with the body consciousness by using muscle strength as
an indicator. Same mechanism as applied kinesiology, and
the terms are sometimes used interchangeably.
- Mind:
- The
neocortex, or primate brain. It thinks in thoughts and
experiences itself in the head.
- OBE - Out of Body Experience:
- An experience
where you feel like you are located outside (or inside)
your physical body and seeing without using your eyes.
- Organelle brains:
- The
self-aware organelles in the sperm, egg or zygote. They
share consciousness with the corresponding multicelled
triune brains.
- Past lives:
- Encountered
in some therapies, the experience of having lived in the
past or the future with a different body and personality.
This is a different phenomenon from ancestral memories.
- Peak State:
- A stable,
long lasting peak experience. They give sensations and
abilities that cannot be experienced in average
consciousness. One of about 30 major states of
consciousness that gives experiences and abilities that
cannot be experienced in average consciousness. Felt as
vast improvement to the average state. Can be had in
combination and to various degrees. A number of substates
exist also.
- Perry diagram:
- A diagram
using circles to indicate the degree of connection or
merging of the triune brain awarenesses.
- Personality:
- This is what
others sense about a person when they turn their
attention to him. Rather than being a mental construct in
the observer, it is a real-time experience of particular
traumas in the person being observed.
- Power therapy:
- Phrase coined
by Dr. Figley who also originated the phrase 'post
traumatic stress disorder' (PTSD). It applies to
extremely effective therapies (originally EMDR, TIR, TFT,
and VKD) that remove symptoms from PTSD and other issues.
- Precellular organelles:
- The
self-aware organelles before they combine to form a
primordial germ cell. The different kinds are identified
by either their biological name in the cell (e.g.,
lysosome, nuclear wall, etc.), or by the triune brain
that they share a continuity of awareness with (e.g.,
body, heart, etc.).
- Precellular trauma:
- Trauma that
happens to the precellular organelles.
- Primary cell:
- The only cell
in the body that contains consciousness, that which
directs the rest of the entire organism.
- Primordial germ cell:
- The original
cell that eventually matures into a sperm or egg. It is
formed at coalescence inside the parent, who is still a
blastocyst inside the grandmother.
- Psychological reversal:
- The
individual has a counter commitment at the body
consciousness level to healing or peak performance. In
energy therapies, healing is blocked unless treated. In
WHH, it causes the client not to want to heal, but does
not block the healing directly.
- Regenerative healing:
- A particular
type of physical healing occurring in just minutes. Range
of healing includes injuries that cannot normally heal,
such as scars, cut spines, etc. We formerly called it
'Radical Physical Healing'.
- Realm of the Shaman:
- Home of the
sacred selves; the environment 'looks' like fluorescent
black velvet. A state that shamans enter in order to have
unusual abilities and perceptions. See Tom Brown
Junior’s The
Vision for more
description.
- Sacred selves:
- Each of the
triune brains has a counterpart in the Realm of the
Shaman that look roughly like totem pole figures or
pagodas. This awareness is blocked by triune brain
pretend identities in almost everyone.
- Self:
- Typically
called the conscious self, it is who we think we are. It
is made up of two separate parts: one is the CoA
(observing) self; the other is the directing self which
controls our moment-to-moment activities.
- Self identity:
- Each of the
biological brains pretends it's someone or something
else. This need to pretend is driven by a subtle pain in
the brain's core.
- Sensate Substitute:
- This
describes something that the body consciousness acquires
because the substitute feels similar to something else
that the body once needed for its survival.
- Skin boundary:
- A layer right
at skin level that gives us the sensation of having skin,
and that keeps our awareness confined to our bodies. It
can be experienced as burning or painful at the skin
level.
- Shamanic states:
- States that
are valued in shamanism. They typically involve the body
or a connection to Gaia (the planetary consciousness or
'life').
- Soul:
- A shamanic
concept, used in the expressions 'soul pieces', 'soul
stealing', and 'soul loss'. Well described in Sandra
Ingerman’s Soul
Retrieval. Involved
with the underlying mechanism of schizophrenia.
- Spirit:
- We define it
as the same as the observing (CoA) self.
- Spiritual emergency:
- An experience
from various spiritual, mystical or shamanic traditions
that becomes a crisis. This is not the same as a crisis
of faith.
- Spiritual states:
- We use this
label to identify peak states that involve the observing
(CoA) self. These states involve phenomena that are
generally experienced as being outside of the body, such
as the Creator, the Void, etc.
- Stable state:
- A peak state
that is retained without any maintenance, but not
necessarily continuously.
- Subconscious:
- The
awarenesses (and actions) of the individual triune
brains. With a certain peak states one can communicate
directly with the triune brains (i.e., the subconscious).
- SUDS - Subjective units of distress scale:
- Used to
evaluate the degree of pain in trauma. Originally from a
scale of 1 to 10, common usage is now from 0 (no pain) to
10 (as much pain as it's possible to have).
- TAT - Tapas Acupressure Technique:
- Invented by
Tapas Fleming originally to heal allergies, also works on
trauma and other issues. It is effective for generational
trauma. www.tat-intl.com
- TFT - Thought Field Therapy:
- The original
tapping on meridians therapy developed by Dr. Roger
Callihan. He also discovered 'psychological reversal' and
a way to temporarily turn it off, which is part of the
technique. www.tftrx.com
- TIR - Traumatic Incident Reduction:
- A power
therapy that uses regression. www.tir.org
- Trauma:
- A moment in
time, or string of moments when sensations, emotions, and
thoughts are stored from painful, difficult, or
pleasurable experiences. They cause problems because they
make fixed beliefs that guide behavior inappropriately.
Severe trauma creates post traumatic stress disorder
(PTSD).
- Trolling:
- Refers to
looking for trauma in the past without first finding a
symptom in the present.
- Triune brain:
- The brain is
built out of three separate biological brains, formed
through evolution. They are the R-complex (body), the
limbic system (heart), and the neocortex (mind). Each is
self aware, built for different functions, and thinks by
sensations, feelings, or thoughts respectively. The full
name is the 'Papez-MacLean triune brain model'. They
generate the phenomenon of the subconscious. With a
certain peak state they can be communicated with
directly.
- Triune brain shutdown:
- The triune
brains are able to partially or completely turn
themselves 'off'. When this happens, the person loses the
abilities that the particular triune brain gave them,
such as the heart's ability to experience others as more
than just objects, the mind's ability to form judgments,
etc. Samadhi is an example of a brain shutdown state.
- Underlying Happiness state:
- Characterized
by continuous underlying happiness in men, and happiness
and loving feeling in women. The state is caused by body
heart fusion.
- Unstable state:
- A peak state
that will stop if not actively maintained.
- Void:
- Also called
the Tao or Nothingness. It is outside of everything that
exists, including the Creator. One can go there and merge
consciousness with it permanently. It also has its own
awareness.
- WHH - Whole Hearted Healing therapy:
- A regression
technique. Uses the OBE experience to heal trauma.
www.peakstates.com