Activation Energy | The TetraSeed

ONE OF THE PRIME CHALLENGES OF ANYONE WORKING with transformative processes, self-generated evolutionary processes, is the matter of Activation Energy.

The intensity of your impulse to change (cumulatively, to evolve) must be at least equal to the intensity of the tendency of things to stay as they are (the intensity of  their integrity).

What that means in Earth language is that the urge to move something must be at least equal to the force keeping it in place for a change to be possible. That amount of force, in any particular case, we call, its Activation Energy. This much is obvious, upon looking at it.

Working at transformation with insufficient Activation Energy makes the going slow, at best, and one never really gets to the root. So, one keeps pursuing the root more and more. This takes time, but it does eventually result in your gathering Activation Energy and you will eventually get to the root and dissolve it.

SPEEDING UP, "EVENTUALLY"

Recognizing and not being satisfied with, "eventually", practitioners of certain approaches employ a measure to "charge up" Activation Energy -- everything from Bellows Breathing (pranayama) to Holographic Breathwork, BioEnergetics, and related approaches.

Other approaches use awakening and self-grooming practices: The Avatar Course, The Lineage of Don Juan's Warrior's Way, and numerous others. These latter teachings employ practices used to gather or recover the force of one's being from ensnarement by subconscious memory patterns. They are grooming processes, preparation for personal evolutionary (and maturational) changes.

Other practices involve wisdom-contemplations that lead beyond mind, leaving a trail of "clean-up" in their wake.

For my part, what I found, when confronted with dense activation patterns in myself, that felt like they would never change, was that the way that works easiest was to confront each such dense activation pattern, as felt (as an involuntary state of tension), to find in it the four operation sets of intelligence:

INTENDING, IMAGINING, REMEMBERING, ATTENDING




nicknamed, The TetraSeed.



Upon sufficient activation of that set of four operations, the denseness of one's condition is overcome and it starts to soften. It does so without any special extra effort to make it soften -- just by virtue of finding those operations in that item, that stress pattern, whatever it may be: the operation sets of 


INTENDING, IMAGINING, REMEMBERING, ATTENDING
and their corresponding objective aspects, as shown, above (color-coded)


One might immediately wonder how one does that. There exist procedures that use those four operation sets in special patterns, patterns that produce specific kinds of changes to how one operates. In other words, they tune up your operating system, they debug you. They allow you to uncover mental viruses in yourself that are pervasive in these times, and to remove, dissolve, or tame them.

In other words, instead of them having you, you have them, and you discover the previously unconscious way you are keeping yourself that way, and then you can relax something in yourself and have those things simply dissolve away, commonly with postural shifts of shape.

The success of all of this depends upon your having sufficient Activation Energy available to match the intensity of the integrity of the item in yourself you want to change, upgrade, or dissolve. You've got to be equal to it -- and that's what the TetraSeed Transformation procedures end up doing.

That being so, these procedure would jet-assist other kinds of transformational procedures and processes from various transformational teachings.

The Bridge Between the Worlds

It was never always one or the other. That's what he found. Things were too weird, too open-ended, as it were.

He never knew when it would start, when it would happen, when what he was used to wasn't that way, anymore, and there was no sign that it ever had been.

He called it, "side-slipping", his drift between neighboring time-tracks, experienced as mysterious shifts from one world to another similar, but different.

He wasn't a time-traveler. He wasn't even a space traveler, in the usual sense. He was an "across-time traveler" -- and sometimes that looked like space travel, in the usual sense. But it wasn't.

"He" wasn't traveling. It was as if the entire universe of worlds was suddenly a different one, one that felt reminiscent of something he had known before, but which, he had learned, was likely to contain quirky differences. He was always where he was. Things changed around him. The differences were sometimes dream-like, to him, and he kept his sense of humor and his wits about him.

There is a section of universe-space called, The Jewel Belt. Seen from interstellar space, it is extraordinarily beautiful. Stars of many many sizes and colors float, there, but at the great distances of separation, they all look like points of light of varying brilliance suspended in curtains of space dust, so that the stars illuminate them faintly with a nebula-like effect and they glow behind and around them. The stars look like gems strewn on dark, dark-grey silk seen in twilight.

Of course, he had seen it. On one of his side-slipping occasions, he had been dreaming he was enjoying a fantastic meal at an overladen table, when suddenly, he had detected in the dream-space to his left and behind him, a disturbance like the shaking of a tree -- but, of course, no tree, just the impression of something shaking.

He turned his attention, there, to view it, and suddenly dream-space itself started quivering and shaking and fragmenting with pieces getting smaller and spinning out of sight into an awesome, dense, enclosing blackness populated with stars. A great swirl of numinous light could be seen across the face of the forever night.

He had almost lost his lunch, and now he was there, feeling a bit dizzy as space seemed to rotate around him. He gazed at the field of stars in the backdrop of the always night and he knew that he could perceive only light coming directly at his eyes,  He felt seen.

The silence was absorbing. He felt as if his mind was being pulled out of his head in all directions, except he had no head -- into an incomprehensibility in which all he could make sense of was the feel of his shoulders or something like them.

Soon, he fell silent and peaceful, and it was then that he heard the singing of the night, as if voices that surrounded his heart exulted in the beauty of the place in an anthem of joy. And he understood.

It was the peace of space, one with The Eternal.

All of this, side-slipping in a dream.

When he woke, the world was different. Again.

He was different.

He had been absorbed out until all that was left was the anthem of joy in the stars. When he awoke, what he took of the anthem of joy was a trace of seductive memory, but what he brought to life was different: he no longer saw his home world as his native familiar; he now saw it from a kind of outside perspective. They say that travel broadens one. He was broadened.

After that, the side-slippings became more frequent. Each one tugged at his insides in a different way. Each one required a new letting go.

He found that he was becoming more and more like the space between worlds, that undefined space, that Zone of Incomprehensibility. He did not fear it. He found it as himself, his natural state, more and more. He was falling out of self, just as he had side-slipped between worlds.

One time, he was invited to a party. People were there that he knew and that he knew not. But, as he approached the doorway to the room, he leaned in and took it all in and found himself wondering, "Which one am I?" When an enthusiastic couple pushed their way past him, he came to himself.

The side-slipping most often occurred during his mental practices contemplating the four-fold nature of reality taught to him by his mentor to exercise his intelligence. A peculiar dissolution of self and mind would occur during the practices during which he would find it difficult to remember which step of the practice came next or even what the focus of the session was. He would "come back" realizing that he had been gone without realizing it.

It seemed altogether different from having dozed off. There was always an enhanced clarity, afterwards, a sense of ready refreshment unlike the heavy dopiness of rising from sleep.

Eventually, he realized that his mentor hadn't told him all. His mentor had referred to them as, "mental exercises". What they really were were training exercises for the manipulation of the reality matrix. Side-slipping was just a sign of being a novice. Synchronicities were another sign.

So, he was still side-slipping -- a bit of a rickety bridge between the worlds. He'd get better.

His mentor had recently taught him an exercise for "stabilizing intelligence". That's what his mentor had called it, with a quiet, sly smile on his face.

Now, he knew better.

That rascal.












More Detail about Sacroiliac Joint Dysfunction

If you've arrived at this article from a search, you may wish to see the basic article (of which this entry is a more detailed version), first:

Understanding Sacroiliac Joint Pain | Stopping the Pain and Weird Symptoms

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WHO IS THIS ARTICLE FOR?


This article is for you if . . .

  • you have found the information provided both by medical practitioners and "alternative" medical practitioners to be "thin soup" that doesn't make you feel particularly optimistic about your recovery from sacroiliac joint dysfunction and doesn't increase your understanding, much, but only leaves you feeling faintly hopeful -- hope perhaps tinged with desperation or despair.

  • you have found pain medications inadequate to deal with the pain.

  • you have tried therapies and/or surgery and are still in pain.

  • you want lasting relief and are willing to do the work to get it.
Clinical Somatic Education has a distinctive approach to addressing Sacroiliac Joint Dysfunction (S-I Joint Dysfunction) that diverges from the conventional medical model.  While the medical field focuses on symptom-specific treatments such as medication, surgery, or mechanical interventions, it usually overlooks the crucial aspect of muscle/movement memory.  Even disciplines like chiropractic or osteopathy, which may address skeletal alignment, tend to neglect this vital component.  Moreover, the field of "pain management" primarily aims to mask pain rather than eliminate its underlying cause.

In contrast, clinical somatic education employs action patterns to liberate and re-pattern the muscular tensions responsible for the pain and perpetuation of S-I Joint Dysfunction. These patterns play a pivotal role in shaping the pelvic region over time. This novel approach, rooted in the connection between the brain and muscles, eliminates the need for traditional methods like stretching, strengthening, or soft-tissue manipulation. By correcting muscle/movement memory, it achieves the lasting benefits typically hoped for from those techniques.

One of the key resources for people learning about Somatics is Thomas Hanna's book, "Somatics | ReAwakening the Mind's Control of Movement, Flexibility and Health," which delves into the formation and enduring resolution of tension patterns associated with injuries, chronic stress, and their symptoms. 

ABOUT SACROILIAC JOINTS

What Do Your Sacroiliac Joints Do?

 



Your S-I joints allow the walking movements of your legs to move flexibly, through your pelvis (which flexes at the S-I joints), to your trunk. Your S-I joints lend "cushion" to your spine and pelvis, when you sit. If the joints are jammed or the muscles of your pelvis are tight, there's no cushion and sitting can be fatiguing.

These distortions affect the muscles of the trunk (primarily the back, the psoas muscles, and the quadratus lumborum ("QL").


What Happens to Your Sacrum in Sacroiliac Joint Dysfunction

Your sacrum gets turned, usually jammed one side forward, one side back, commonly with a side-tilt and a forward or backward tilt. That causes your whole pelvis to twist, the side opposite the jammed side forward. (More rarely, both sides are jammed forward -- more about that, later.) In addition, one side may jammed downward (side-tilt), causing the appearance of unequal leg length -- even though the legs are the same length -- and the appearance of one hip being higher. You may have heard all this, before, from your health practitioner; now you understand it, better.

Distortions of movement and spine shape may follow, with pain as far as the jaws and down the legs.

The pain triggers muscles of the abdomen to tighten, especially when bending forward or turning over, in bed. It's often a very delicate situation -- as you may have experienced.

Muscular pulls where the legs connect to the pelvis (the psoas muscles, the inner and front thigh muscles, the hamstrings, and buttocks) interfere with walking and add pain. Pulling forces interfere with walking and sitting and affect the S-I joints. In the healthy condition, everything is comfortable; in the unhealthy, jammed condition, there's strain and pain.

How a Turned Sacrum Causes Sacroiliac Joint Pain

When a sacrum is turned from its home position in the pelvis, we call that, "displacement". It's out of place. With displacement comes distortion of pelvic shape, which puts strain on ligaments of the pelvis, puts pressure on internal organs, and generates pain. The brain senses those strains and pain, and, as a reflexive response, causes muscular contractions that generate a "gripping" sensation in the pelvis that gets worse with movements such as bending forward to put on socks or flush the toilet, rolling over in bed or attempting to stand up straight. The pain triggers cringing, in which muscles tighten up, potentially anywhere.

Non-spasm pain may radiate from the S-I joints into the pelvis, lower abdomen, groin, or sex organs. One person with whom I worked had a diagnosis of interstitial cystitis (intense bladder pain) -- and a twisted sacrum from falls from horses.

Therapists unfamiliar with the bizarre symptoms of S-I Joint Dysfunction may attempt to treat symptoms as if they originate where they appear. Such treatment attempts fail. They don't address the symptoms at their origin -- the twisted sacrum.

A CONSIDERABLY MORE DETAILED UNDERSTANDING of SACROILIAC JOINT DYSFUNCTION

In investigating sacroiliac joint dysfunction in myself, I came to understand the condition and its causes. At that point, I had an idea of what I could do to correct it: set up ongoing, symmetrical muscular forces to make my pelvis (sacral position) become symmetrical. I was the first "guinea pig"; I developed the exercises, in myself, and refined them based on the effects I felt. Remember -- I was qualified to do that, having been in clinical practice, since 1990.

As I stated, earlier, S-I joint pain comes from excessive and unbalanced forces on the S-I joints that trigger muscular reactions. Now, I'll go into more detail.

Most cases of SIJD start with an accident, such as a hard fall (athletic injury, fall from a bicycle or horse, ladder, tree, or rooftop); I told you what I think caused it, in me. Because the changes of muscular tension from an injury are asymmetrical -- meaning, the right and left sides no longer mirror each other, they keep the pelvis distorted. These muscular forces don't change in any lasting way with stretching because they're programmed into muscle/movement memory and so reappear, shortly after stretching or manipulation.

The brain recognizes the strains felt in the pelvis as an emergency situation: the integrity of the person's movement system is in crisis. Brain-triggered contraction patterns follow (as an emergency response) to reflexively stabilize the situation -- but it's a grip, not a correction to pelvic shape because the correct sense of pelvic shape has been lost in the injury. 


The term we use in clinical somatic education is, "sensory-motor amnesia" (S-MA). These muscular contractions are so strong that they hurt and trigger pain-related tightening, throughout the body, but one isn't in touch with holding them tight because the tightness is "on automatic". 

Radiating pain follows from the distortion.

Ligaments

What happens to ligaments chronically under strain? They get inflamed. Inflammation is nature's way of forcing fluids and nutrients into tissue that is strained (or injured) so it can heal. But under this kind of strain, no healing is possible -- basically because it is not a "damage" situation, but an ongoing strain-and-irritation situation. Suppressing the inflammation is of no help. The ligaments aren't the problem, anyway.

Muscles Triggered into Contraction by Injury

Isn't it true that injuries usually occur from one side, rather than exactly centered at the back or front?

What happens with any injury, then, is that a cringe response gets triggered -- a tightening centered at the injured region and radiating outward like the cracks in a damaged windshield -- but off-center, and the tightening isn't just momentary, but commonly lasts indefinitely.

The psoas muscles commonly tighten in reaction to a twisted sacrum. The video, below, tells about the psoas muscles.





It's common to misdiagnose tight psoas muscles as the problem causing the pain, when the psoas muscles are tightening in reaction to a twisted sacrum. When the sacrum straightens, psoas pain disappears.

TWO VARIATIONS OF S-I JOINT DYSFUNCTION ("SIJD")

  • Two-sided (bi-lateral) S-I Joint Pain
  • One-sided (uni-lateral) S-I Joint Pain (more common)

Two-Sided SIJD

Bi-lateral (two-sided) S-I joint pain is simpler than one-sided S-I joint pain. Bilateral S-I joint pain involves compression at both S-I joints.

One cause of bi-lateral SIJD is sitting too long, perched on the edge of a chair in a condition of high tension and stress, as at a desk doing work by phone or on a computer. That pattern of tension involves the groin, hip joint flexors and psoas muscles in front, and the back muscles. The combination produces strain on the iliosacral ligaments -- and soreness. Sometimes, it can be corrected by retraining the psoas muscles and hip joint flexors -- an easy "fix".

One-Sided SIJD

One-sided sacroiliac joint dysfunction is worse than two-sided SIJD and accounts for nearly all the chronic S-I joint pain I have seen.

Asymmetrical (off-center) muscle pulls and posture place more stress on one S-I joint than on the other.

Symptoms commonly appear at different locations on each side and people commonly mistake the locations of pain as the locations of the problems. Clinicians may also mistake groin pain as a sign of psoas muscle dysfunction, rather than as pain radiating from an S-I joint.


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If you're used to exercises or therapies that produce such small changes that you can hardly tell if anything is different, this isn't that. With somatic education exercises, you can feel changes rather quickly (obvious after two practice sessions). As, your movement and posture change, the symptoms of SIJD fade out.

To get started with the program, Comforting Your S-I Joints and to see a statement of the expected result of each section of exercises, you may enter your information, below.

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A quick-response email message will come to your email address requesting permission to mail to you. Once you give permission, "Getting Started for Free" emails will come to you with bite-size steps for Unit 1 of Comforting Your S-I Joints. 


Unit 1 is preparatory for the section of the program that causes your sacrum position to straighten. Getting started will allow you to evaluate how well these exercises work, for you, in general.

Clinical Somatic Education has a distinctive approach to addressing Sacroiliac Joint Dysfunction (S-I Joint Dysfunction) that diverges from the conventional medical model.  While the medical field focuses on symptom-specific treatments such as medication, surgery, or mechanical interventions, it usually overlooks the crucial aspect of muscle/movement memory.  Even disciplines like chiropractic or osteopathy, which may address skeletal alignment, tend to neglect this vital component.  Moreover, the field of "pain management" primarily aims to mask pain rather than eliminate its underlying cause.

In contrast, clinical somatic education employs action patterns to liberate and re-pattern the muscular tensions responsible for the pain and perpetuation of S-I Joint Dysfunction. These patterns play a pivotal role in shaping the pelvic region over time. This novel approach, rooted in the connection between the brain and muscles, eliminates the need for traditional methods like stretching, strengthening, or soft-tissue manipulation. By correcting muscle/movement memory, it achieves the lasting benefits typically hoped for from those techniques.
 
Comforting Your S-I Joints is a system of action patterns to reprogram muscle/movement memory. Improvements start almost immediately and accumulate over time. The entire system extinguishes pain and restores mobility. 

 





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One of the key resources for people learning about Somatics is Thomas Hanna's book, "Somatics | ReAwakening the Mind's Control of Movement, Flexibility and Health," which delves into the formation and enduring resolution of tension patterns associated with injuries, chronic stress, and their symptoms. 

Lawrence Gold is a practitioner of clinical somatic education (Hanna Somatic Education) in private practice since 1990. He has trained practitioners and developed of self-relief programs for special needs. A former sufferer of S-I joint dysfunction, he developed the program, Comforting Your S-I Joints, as part of solving his own problem and published it only after testing it successfully with others who had the same condition. Reach him by email, here.



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