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The diagram in this post shows the effects of trauma on the waveform anatomy.
The effects of trauma on the waveform anatomy
When there is a physical, emotional, or metaphysical trauma, the wave membranes are impacted, causing an area that is dented, folded, or otherwise malformed. To get an idea of the effect, imagine poking your thumb into the side of an empty aluminum can.
When the wave membranes are misaligned, ichor (life energy, or chi) can no longer flow freely through the impact area. The ichor then starts to collect and calcify at the trauma site, eventually creating a mass of stagnant energy called a pain-body.
Why Are Pain-Bodies Harmful?
The pain-body has two effects on the waveform anatomy:
- It sets the wave membranes in their unhealthy position, so that the trauma cannot fully heal.
- It creates a feedback loop, so that each time ichor is passed into the trauma site, an energetic pattern (usually an emotional or physical response) is activated.
If a pain-body is not addressed, several processes occur over time:
- The pain-body gets larger and more embedded in the system.
- The pain-body begins to grow “roots” that branch out from the main trauma site into other areas of the body, often following the path of damaged waveform membranes.
- More pain-bodies begin to form around trauma site. This creates a kind of scaffolding that supports the body in an unhealthy position.
This is one way that people become entrenched, or entrained, in unhealthy beliefs, attitudes, or behaviors stemming from a trauma.
What Does This Mean for You?
Most people have pain-bodies embedded within their bodies. I have not yet seen a client who didn’t. Pain-bodies create negative patterns in our lives, including chronic pain, recurring thoughts, and addictions.
Maybe you have a chronic issue you tend to experience on a psychological level (habits or emotional triggers), a physical level (chronic pain or injury), an energetic level (imbalanced chi), or a metaphysical level (relationship with karma, or Spirit). Many of my clients experience issues on all of these different levels. If these various levels of experience are the building blocks that make up the whole of our chronic issues, pain-bodies are the mortar that binds them together.
If you want to dismantle the structure that’s perpetuating your chronic mental, physical, or metaphysical issues, contact me to get started today.
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This is the first of what I hope will be a series of graphics depicting the waveform anatomy. It shows the three basic components of the waveform anatomy operating in its natural, healthy state.
An overview of the waveform anatomy in its natural, healthy state
Wave membranes provide the alignment and structure for the waveform-anatomy. The space between the wave membranes is the channel through which fluidic life energy, ichor, flows.
The chakras turn, pumping energy from the outside environment into the body through the posterior side, and then pumping the ichor (or chi) energy out between the wave membranes anteriorly. The ichor passes through the spaces between the waveform membranes, and back out into the outside environment.
More to Come
This graphic is a very high-level overview of the waveform anatomy. For one thing, there are infinitely more wave membranes than what are depicted here. However, it’s somewhat like drawing the circulatory system in the allopathic anatomical model. Usually high-level diagrams just show the major veins and arteries. Because of the limitations of screen size and 2-D graphics, illustrators have to leave out a lot of detail for the sake of clarity. It’s a similar situation here.
And let’s face it, I’m no Alex Gray. My graphic design skills do serve me very well, but they definitely have limitations. So, it may take a few tries to depict everything I want to show.
I definitely have a few more graphics in mind I want to create, so please stay tuned for some upcoming posts in the near future.
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Welcome to my updated web site! I’m excited to announce a new logo and tag line, — “Healing on a Whole New Level”TM — presented in an all-new web site design.
New Tag Line
Overall, the web site changes were spurred by a recent mental crystallization in my understanding and communication around Waveform Healing TM. This centers around the spectrum of consciousness and a clearer, more comprehensive view of the waveform anatomy. I felt the tag line “Healing on a Whole New Level” better conveyed that message, and I also wanted to build a more energized logo and web site to help deliver that message.
New Logo
My new logo is a sunburst yellow spiral with a violet flame.
The logo should invoke all the vast symbology that spirals have in human history and cultures. In the context of Waveform Healing, the spiral represents the waveform anatomy in general, and the chakras in particular. More generally, it can also be seen to represent the sun and its attendant meaning, eternity, levels of consciousness, a connection with the cosmos and with the universal mind, and simply the process of transformation and healing.
Violet has the shortest wavelength (highest frequency) in the visible color spectrum. In Buddhism, the violet flame represents the light of shambhala — the transformative fire in which the ego is immolated and consciousness is transformed. In Theosophy, the violet flame is associated with knowledge, healing, and transformation.
New (Unfinished!) Page Design
The page design is a work in progress. As Brigid, says, “It’s really white!” I’m hoping to create some imagery that brings the whole thing together over time. I am now working on some original images to demonstrate Waveform Healing, and that process may lead me in the right direction.
However, I do like that it is a somewhat blank slate with room to grow in the future. I’m also pleased the site is now built around the font Garamond. Garamond is the font I use on my computer when I write. I feel it is the best reflection of the tone of my writing as I hear it in my head. It feels the most natural to me. So, I’m glad to be able to share that expression with my visitors more directly.
And I look forward to continuing to share with you in the future. As always, I’ll be here, trying to communicate as clearly and directly as I can the special power of Waveform Healing.
This glossary is an attempt to establish a standard terminology for talking about Waveform HealingTM. The glossary serves as a basic overview of the Waveform Healing modality, and as a reference point for future discussions.
Waveform Healing
A healing modality that operates on a special energetic level, where all living things operate acording to their waveform anatomy.
At a basic level, Waveform Healing is simple to understand. It involves three kinds of healing processes. The description of each process should be understood to have both a literal (physical) and metaphorical (metaphysical) meaning:
- Peel back and realign the energetic layers (wave membranes) that are injured or are protecting injury.
- Open the chakras.
- Remove the blockages (pain-bodies) that are disrupting the proper, healthy flow of energy.
This can sound quite similar to other energy-based healing modalities. The difference is the perceptual wavelenth, or conscious frame of reference, on which Waveform Healing takes place. That particular level of operation, called the waveform anatomy, is what makes Waveform Healing unique from other healing modalities.
Waveform Anatomy
The totality of the parts of the body and energy system on which Waveform Healing operates. The main anatomical features of a healthy waveform anatomy are chakras and wave membranes, whose function is to channel a fluid life energy called ichor.
Perception of the waveform anatomy requres a subtle perceptual shift of consciousness. This shift can be communicated and transferred from one person to another during Waveform Healing work.
Chakra
Seven spiral-shaped “turbines” that circulate ichor through the wave membranes.
The chakras circulate energy from the surronding environment, through the human body, and back out into the surrounding enviornment again. This is one way in which we are constantly exchanging energy with our environment. It is a process that can be described both as circulation and respiration.
Note that this is a specific, functional and anatomical definition of a chakra. Waveform Healing does not address other functions or interpretations of the chakras, such as centers for personal development (creativity, power, love, etc) or portals to various states of consciousness. (For an expansive discussion of various interpretations of the chakras, see Wikipedia.)
Wave Membrane
Wave-shaped, membrane-like energy structures that open outward from the charkas in layers, like the petals of a flower.
Wave membranes are one of the main distinguishing characteristics of the waveform anatomy. From the Waveform Healing perspective, trauma causes the waveform membranes to bend, fold or become otherwise misshapen. This misalignment can cause chronic or recurrng health issues or emotional patterns.
Ichor
A fluid energy that emanates from the chakras and flows outward between the wave membranes. Like the flow of blood, chi, kundalini, or other fluids and energies within the body, the flow of ichor can rise and fall at various times of the day, at times of excitement and rest, or for a host of other reasons.
The name ichor is derived from the name for the blood of the gods in Greek mythology. The perceived qualities of ichor in Waveform Healing can range in color and quality, but it is commonly perceived as a cool, thick liquid, the color of golden light.
Pain-Body
An energetic or emotional pattern, often expressed as anger, fear, or physical pain.
From the perspective of Waveform Healing, pain-bodies are the result of of ichor that cannot flow freely between the wave membranes. It therefore sets and hardens in a particular shape and location within the body, which in turn creates the recurring energetic pattern. This pattern can then seem to take on a “life of its own.”
Through Waveform Healing therapy, pain-bodies can be removed directly, or the waveform membranes can be realigned so that the proper flow of ichor can clear them away.
The term pain-body is borrowed from author Eckhart Tolle. It matches with the emotional phenomenon Tolle describes (semi-autonomous energy forms born out of trauma). However, in Waveform Healing, pain-bodies have an additional, physical dimension, in that they also have their own unique physical anatomies and common anatomical charcteristics.
In a recent article chaplain Kerry Egan says that when she works the dying, they mostly talk about their relationships with their their families and loved ones. When she told her Harvard Divinity School professor about this, he was appalled. He thought a chaplain’s job was to talk about topics that are lofty and spiritual, not ones that are earthly and mundane.
But Egan has found that she serves the church’s “higher” truth by meeting the patients where they are — within the context of their experience. Egan says:
…People talk to the chaplain about their families because that is how we talk about God. That is how we talk about the meaning of our lives. That is how how we talk about the big spiritual questions of human existence. We don’t live our lives in our heads, in theology and theories. We live our lives in our families…
For Egan, working with people on the level of their experience — their family relationships — is the gateway to spiritual resolution and healing.
This is true in our daily lives, and it’s true in healing. We need to engage on the right level, or wavelength, for the situation at hand.
In terms of our relationships, as human beings we can communicate on many different levels — emotional, logical, financial, spiritual. When people meet in agreement, we often say they are “on the same wavelength” or “speaking the same language.”
On the other hand, when people are operating on different levels, or wavelengths, conflict can occur. It’s often considered inappropriate in our culture, for example, to allow business decisions to be guided by emotion — “It’s just business,” so they say. Likewise, if one’s behavior toward their friends and family is motivated by money, their behavior is viewed as callous, or even “inhuman.”
It’s not that an emotional interaction is any more or less real than a financial transaction. Each situation is seen as real within its own context, and seen as unreal when viewed from a deeper, broader, higher, perspective. Both can seem appropriate or inappropriate, depending on the context. It’s just a matter of right perspective, right time.
Like relationships, we can experience healing on many levels — biochemical levels, biomechanical levels, psychological levels, or subtle energy levels. You can take medicine, have surgery, get physical therapy, engage in talk therapy, receive acupuncture, Reiki, or any number of energy-oriented healing techniques. Any of these approaches may offer healing on one or more levels that could be the right approach for the context of your issue at the right time.
Waveform Healing operates on one of these levels, too — the level I call the waveform anatomy. When your waveform anatomy is damaged or dysfunctional, Waveform Healing seems to address the issue directly in a way that no other healing approach can. In other words, it can be the right approach within the right context for your issue at the right time.
Finding a path toward healing is a way of finding out about ourselves and how we engage in the material world, with other human beings, and with the more subtle energetic or spiritual realms. It is both a physical journey and a metaphysical one.
But wherever your path leads, each step is about finding the right wavelength: The right level to engage your issue at the right time.
I will talk more in later blog posts about how you can know if Waveform Healing is the right approach for you. Until then, good health and God speed you on your healing path.
Hi there! I’m glad to take an opportunity to catch you up on all the new changes going on in my life, my healing practice, and around my web site.
New Home
In the last couple of months, I moved from Mountain View, CA, to a lovely cottage nestled in a tiny, secluded valley in the redwoods in the Santa Cruz Mountains. I am feeling “totally blissed out” to be back in the peace and beauty here after two years in the bustle and noise of Silicon Valley. The change has been great for my physical, mental, spiritual, and overall energetic health.
New Locations
Along with the move of my home, all three physical locations where I practice my healing work have undergone some kind of change over the last few months. First, I will no longer be seeing clients regularly in San Francisco. It is simply too far for me to drive now. Second, my Silicon Valley office at Firefly Willows is undergoing some transition while they look for a space. You can keep up those changes here, or at fireflywillows.com. Finally, my space in Santa Cruz has changed ownership. I don’t know what that means for my practice there., but it is certainly a new ripple in the energy stream.
If you want to come in for an appointment, the best place for an in-person consultation right now is in Santa Cruz. Otherwise I’m still available by phone or Skype, as usual.
New Name
If you read my blog you know I am always endeavoring to better communicate the amazing and humbling healing power I work with. I’m happy to say that in the last few months, there seems to have been a convergence on many fronts to help facilitate that communication. I look forward to sharing more about that with you in posts that will be coming soon.
In the meantime you will notice the most obvious change: I’m now calling my work Waveform HealingTM. The old name, Multi-Dimensional Energy Mechanics, had a certain functional accuracy, but I hope this new name will be more accessible to a wider variety of people.
The name for my work is simply intended as a tool for communication. Whatever name can best convey what I’m doing and how it might benefit people is fine with me. The name could change again in the year, but at least for now Waveform Healing seems like the best fit for what I want to say about it.
New Posts
While all this has been going on, I’ve been building up a long queue of topics for my blog. As always, topics will cover the intersection of health, science, spirituality, and consciousness. I look forward to sharing those with you in the weeks and months ahead.
Many blessings,
Michael
Waveform HealingTM operates on a perceptual level where the human body works according to a special energetic anatomy. This anatomy is essential to every living thing — humans, animals and even plants. However, as far as I know, Waveform Healing is the only healing modality that deals directly with this particular aspect of our being.
The Basic Anatomy
In Waveform Healing, the human body is seen as a series of semi-solid, wave-like energetic layers, or “wave membranes.” These membranes emanate from the seven chakras. Within this system, the body looks somewhat like a multi-centered flower, where the layered wave membranes are the petals, and the chakras are the seven centers, or stigmata, of the flower.
During normal, healthy operation, energy flows through the chakras, and circulates outward through the space between the layered wave membranes. This process is one way in which life energy circulates through the bodies of living things.
The Effects of Trauma
When a person experiences a physical or emotional trauma, the wave membranes are impacted. For an idea of what this looks like, imagine placing your thumb on the outermost petal of a flower, and your index finger on the innermost petal, and then pinching your fingers together. The flower petals would be pulled out of their natural alignment and squished together between your fingers. This is similar to the effect of trauma on the wave membranes.
When a trauma occurs, the wave membranes are compressed and pulled from their natural alignment. When this happens, energy cannot flow in its normal, healthy current, outward from the chakras between the membranes. Instead, it gets stuck along its path, at the site of the traumatic impact.
This stuck energy is part of what causes the physical and emotional health issues I call pain-bodies. Pain-bodies are the emotional and behavioral manifestations of the energy that is clogged in these compressed pathways. What’s more, as long as these membranes are out of their natural alignment, one’s mental, emotional, and physical conditions also may not be able to fully return to their natural, healthy state.
There are ways to heal these impacts indirectly — yoga, bodywork, physical therapy, psychotherapy, and so on. However, I work with these patterns directly. When these energetic impacts are an issue, I find Waveform Healing can be a much more fast and direct path to healing.
How Waveform Healing Helps
Waveform Healing addresses the impacts of trauma in two main ways:
- It removes the pain-body energy patterns that may have built up following an impact.
- It resets the energetic membranes back to their natural position.
The result is that old energetic, physical, or emotional patterns disappear, and the body resets to its natural, healthy condition — or the “blueprint” of health, as it’s sometimes called.
For example, in the case of an alcoholic, the alcohol addiction might disappear. In the case of a person with a chronic pain, that pain might be healed.
For many people, Waveform Healing is the missing piece to finally finding healing from an old injury or emotional pattern. Could this be you?
In previous posts, we’ve looked at Ken Wilber’s Spectrum of Consciousness, and the various frequencies within the spectrum, and how the spectrum maps to the cycle of creation. In this post, I want to take a closer look at the Transpersonal Bands — the higher frequency, or spiritual, range of human experience.
Let’s acknowledge up front that Transpersonal experiences are by nature outside of our capacity for language. The best we can do to describe Transpersonal experiences is to apply metaphor — figurative language that directs our attention to the truth of the experience in a creative way, but can never quite adequately capture it.
That being said, we try our best. It’s in that spirit that I offer this expansion on the Transpersonal Bands from Wilber’s model.
Transpersonal Bands of Consciousness
The Veil
In my expansion of the Transpersonal bands, I’ve dispensed with Wilber’s Level of Mind, and arbitrarily divided the Transpersonal Experiences at a level we’ll call the Veil. The Veil represents a dramatic “peak” experience, sometimes described as lifting the veil of the illusion of separation. For many people, this seems to be an essential component of the conscious shift commonly called Enlightenment, or Self-Realization.
Seeing through the veil is like crossing a threshold to an experience of profound unity — a merging with the whole of the universe. This is what people refer to as Oneness, or the experience of Non-Duality.
Expansion and Fluidity
These peak experiences are temporary. They pass. After Awakening, people usually do not walk around in a continual state of primordial bliss for the rest of their lives. Instead, this experience is a kind of prelude to a lifelong process, or way of being that is independent of any particular experience. That process is a kind of perpetual expansion of conscious perception. The sensitivities become more fine-tuned, and one picks up more and more bandwidths, or frequencies, within the spectrum of consciousness.
The division between duality and non-duality experience erodes, until the entirety of experience becomes one fluid continuum. A deeply felt, non-dualistic experience can have an intrinsic value, but that kind of experience isn’t necessary to perpetuate enlightenment or the overall conscious expansion.
It is in this fine tuning of perception, this erosion of the perceived division between duality and non-duality, that I discovered my healing work. The experience is both dualistic and non-dualistic, and the division between the two doesn’t make much sense.
Waveform Healing/MDEM within the Spectrum of Consciousness
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Ken Wilber’s major divisions of the Spectrum of Consciousness map closely with spiritual teachings regarding the cycle of creation and destruction, birth and death. This cycle is happening all the time. What we perceive at any given moment simply depends upon what wavelength of perception we’re tuned into at the time.
All creation shares this cycle of birth and death, and the lifecycle of a star illustrates this cycle with particular majesty. And once we understand the relationship if the cycle of creation to the Spectrum of Consciousness, we can bring in our model of conscious frequencies, to see how they all fit together alongside the illustration of the star.
The Spectrum of Consciousness, the Cycle of Creation, and Conscious Frequencies
Location on the Spectrum: Universe
Phase of Creation: The Unmanifest / Absolute Potential / The Unborn
Phase of Star Lifecycle: Empty Vacuum of Space
The root level is Brahman — the undifferentiated essence of existence, and the Source from which all creation arrises.
In the lifecycle of a star, we can use the analogy of the emptiness of the vacuum of space.
Location on the Spectrum: Transpersonal Bands
Phase of Creation: Manifesting / Being Born / Coming into Being
Phase of Star Lifecycle: Nebula
As energy gathers, it begins to start to differentiate into individuated forms. In the Transpersonal Bands, we perceive this energy before it is fully differentiated in form.
In our star analogy, this is the nebula: An amorphous mass of gas and dust where energy begins to collect and gather, so it can be formed into self-sustaining stars.
Location on the Spectrum: Existential Level
Phase of Creation: Creation / Form / The Manifest
Phase of Star Lifecycle: Mature Star
The Existential Level is what Ken Wilber calls the Primary Duality. This is where we begin to perceive individuated forms. In the creation cycle, this is where individuated forms come into being.
This is the point at a mature star is formed. It is a distinct, self-sustaining object separated in space from other stars.
Location on the Spectrum: Philosophic Bands
Phase of Creation: Dissolution / Degradation
Phase of Star Lifecycle: Supernova
The Philosophic Bands represent a kind of post-mortem analysis of reality. Consciousness is out of sync with the present in order to analyze our impressions of the past or future.
In the cycle of creation, this maps to the phase of degradation, where form begins to dissolve and disintegrate.
In our star analogy, this is the supernova phase. The star, having expended the energy that sustained it in its prime, begins to eject huge clouds of gas, until it finally degrades to the point that its core violently explodes. The star’s physical form is no longer coherent and discrete.
Location on the Spectrum: Shadow Level
Phase of Creation: Collapse / Death
Phase of Star Lifecycle: Black Hole
The Shadow Level represents death. Consciousness at this level is not dealing with Reality-As-It-Is. It is always dealing with an imagined, dead state of affairs. These are the lowest frequencies of consciousness, and are generally associated with heaviness and anguish. The example is a person who is depressed, feeling the weight of the world on their shoulders.
Once the star has expended its energy as a supernova, it collapses into a black hole, the darkest, most dense entity in the known universe. The black hole analogy also helps to drive home our conscious frequencies because gravity has a very long wavelength: Around 600,000 kilometers, compared to 500 nanometers for visible light.
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Latest Blog Entry- Trauma, Pain-Bodies, and the Waveform Anatomy May 7, 2012The diagram in this post shows the effects of trauma on the waveform anatomy. When there is a physical, emotional, or metaphysical trauma, the wave membranes are impacted, causing an area that is dented, folded, or otherwise malformed. To get an idea of the effect, imagine poking your thumb into the side […]
- Trauma, Pain-Bodies, and the Waveform Anatomy May 7, 2012
