Chapter 6: The Mind Dance and the Still Point

When there are no inner battles and you KNOW something is true, there is no debate. You know it from the bottom of your heart. (Your ego, however, wanting to have this ability, will often get in the way and try to copy this feeling so that sometimes your ‘knowing’ comes from the heart of your bottom and is incorrect.)

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When KNOWING is accurate, the feeling is that the knowledge is pure and you might even say that knowledge ‘comes from God’. All I know is some truths exist internally, are there before language and are independent of language. In this situation there is no inner battle. However, the Tower of Babel story from the Bible taught us that as soon as you speak those truths, by turning them into a language, the language changes them and they instantly gain an inner contradiction. They become relative truths, dependent on time, space and culture. You feel this for yourself when you wake from a dream knowing something absolutely but unable to express it to another person. 

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And so we play the mind dance wanting to know and communicate the truth but unable to do so with words. We can get close to understanding the truth of what someone has written, especially if what we read or hear comes from the same or similar culture to us but even then if we take what is written as being absolute truth it will cause us problems. Religious texts are the most difficult.

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The mind dance

There is only one illness: a distortion in the flow of life force. This one illness manifests in all the diseases that exist in the Western medical texts. There are many different ways of removing symptoms with the use of many different pharmaceutical drugs but there is just one way to remove the illness for each person. That one way is personal to the patient and is the main reason Western medical drugs rarely cure, even if they partially remove symptoms.

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If there is only one way to remove the distortion in the flow of life force and cure each person, why and how has a multibillion-dollar industry grown up around removing symptoms? The answer to that question lies in our ego. There are people prepared to say ‘We know better than the body and can remove this particular symptom with our expensive drug.’ And who doesn’t want to get rid of their symptoms?

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Pharmaceutical companies employ scientists who aren't paid to look at the whole illness, they are only paid to look at the symptoms. The larger truth is that medicine, while it may reduce symptoms, actually diminishes the health of the people who take it and sometimes can even cause death.

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To a certain degree, we are all guilty. What do you do when you have a headache? Do you take a painkiller? I think most people have done so. Looking at the cause of your problem has gained a whole lot of criticism because it is somehow believed you need a counsellor and at least six months of therapy to process your family dynamics, just to resolve your headache. 

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If there is only one illness why are there so many diseases? Chapter 7 aims to answer that question and looks at groups of symptoms that have been pulled together and defined as a particular disease.

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The mind dance and the still point

Being in perfect health requires your mind, emotions and body all to be healthy. Which comes first, mind, body or emotions? By now it should be clear that the life force is the most important. The mind, body and emotions reflect what is going on in the flow of life force, each according to its nature.

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When you have a perfect mind, free from inner contradiction and settled in the still point, a healthy body without illness will follow. Health, both mental and physical, is only dependent on the flow of life force. Whenever you think something isn’t healthy that is because something isn’t healthy.

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There is no other definition of perfect health other than being able to sit in a still point. So it is possible to be healthy and only have one leg, or have any other disability, as long as you can rest in a still point. Whenever someone has any symptom, be it physical, mental or emotional, there will be an inner contradiction and battle behind it and a distortion in the flow of life force. When that inner contradiction is cleared so is the physical, mental or emotional symptom. If someone has one leg and no inner contradiction they will have no issue with their body. Their body will be perfect for them. It isn't the state of the body that determines health but the state of the flow of life force.

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Your body/mind is always trying to clear whatever inner contradiction you may have, but if you don’t listen, the only resource it has to get you to listen is to ‘turn up the volume’ and increase the number or intensity of your symptoms. Symptoms aren't bad things to be removed. Even though they feel like they are, especially if you ignored the earlier signs. Instead, they are pointers in the direction of how you can get better. Ignore them or medicate them and your health will suffer. Luckily, your body/mind will keep trying to get you better even if you do try to medicate them; it just takes longer.

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Questions about health, then, always come down to: ‘How do I complete this dance and rest in a still point?’

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Health lies in a still point and the only way to get there is to allow your life force to take you there, in the same way a stream will find its easiest course. When you are at peace you ‘know’ it. When you aren't at peace or are ‘in the dance’ you only sometimes know it. 

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A still point is our natural state; it is only when we are ‘in the dance’ that we are (sometimes) aware something isn’t right. We all learn how to get to a still point through baby steps and we start learning probably even before we are born. As we rest in our mother’s womb, her state of mind is intimately connected with our own. Mothers teach their babies to rest in the still point just by placing their hands on their bump and connecting or tuning in. It happens naturally and can be seen wherever there are pregnant people. This is love and that baby is learning about that love. A still point is love.

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After the baby is born, whenever it settles into peace and sleeps, it is usually in a still point. Whenever there is a problem and it is ‘in the dance’, it makes a noise that is difficult to ignore. It is trying to find its way back to the still point. Through this process, if we are lucky, we begin to learn what a still point is and isn’t and we continue to use that information throughout our lives.

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When you are in a real still point, there is nothing to tell you, you are there. If you had a voice in your head that told you that you were in a still point that voice would be part of the dance and would be proof you are still in the dance. The still point just is; no machine, doctor, priest or person can force you into one.

 

Moving To A Still Point

Being in the middle of a crisis is the most difficult time to try and learn how to move to a still point. The time to learn how still points work is when there is only a small disturbance, like when you have a tune stuck in your head and you want it out, for example. Understanding how you get rid of the tune is a good way to learn how to get to the still point because it is the same method you use to get rid of anxiety, trauma, guilt, grief, a bad memory and even hiccoughs.

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There are many methods of removing an unwanted tune from your head. You can do it with drugs. You can shock it out. You can replace it with another tune. Or you can process the need for it.

 

Burnout and stress

Burnout is set up by the inner contradiction: I have to do this ~ I don’t want to do this. The longer you force yourself and the more you force yourself the greater the burnout. The longer you keep it up without resolving it the worse it becomes. The pressures of believing you have to do something often come from a job where there are high expectations. In the UK, that often means doctors, nurses, police officers, prison officers, teachers and social workers but of course burnout isn't restricted to these professions. Burnout can be created by unresolved stress in any job.

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Just about the worst thing Western medical doctors do in this situation is to prescribe drugs. Drugs will never resolve burnout and stress and will only make it harder to resolve. Probably the second worst thing Western medicine does is believe that counselling is the way to sort out unresolved, emotional issues. Talking, in itself, can’t resolve a distortion in the flow of life force. However, for some people, it might help by removing some symptoms.

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Doctors in the UK probably think: I haven’t got time to help this person so who can I pass them on to? I am convinced their thinking often doesn’t go beyond that thought. Stress is always and only caused by the person who experiences it. Of course, people can put pressure on you that can translate into stress but it is only the patient who creates the stress. Stress comes from having a conscience and wanting to do a good job, sometimes a job that isn’t even possible. Here lie clues to the inner contradiction.

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Old hands in these difficult jobs manage to survive in a number of ways. Alcohol appears to release difficult thoughts, although it is only a temporary solution. Prescription drugs are given by doctors who feel they can’t do anything else. These always make the situation worse which is why some patients reject them. Not caring anymore is another solution but creates a deeper distortion. But there is a way to eliminate burnout and stress efficiently, quickly and painlessly without talking or taking medication.

 

You know when you are not well

When a person says they are not well but have no symptoms, Western medics can't do anything except perform tests. If the tests come back negative, does that mean that the person is healthy? Not necessarily. When something is wrong the patient feels it as a distortion in their flow of life force. It is always real. When a person is well they are content with their life and would not be asking for sympathy or attention.

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It is so important to listen to the patient. If they can feel something is wrong how difficult is it to have them lie on a couch, hold their head and ask them to feel the sensation that tells them they aren't well? A Boulderstone Technique practitioner can feel what is happening in the patient. There is a Western medical worry that the patient might be lying to get attention but isn’t this also an illness?

Peace, health and happiness are synonyms. When nothing agitates you then you are at peace, healthy and happy. As soon as something causes you to be upset and peace gets covered over, happiness is lost and your health is compromised. The level of ill health won't be measurable by a machine because there are too many factors but another human being, trained in the Boulderstone Technique, will be able to measure it, compare it to previous levels and know where you are headed. Something can always done because the illness doesn't exist in the external world.

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For example, a mother says she is upset because her children have grown up and left the family home. The problem may appear to exist outside of the mother but the real problem is inside her. How do I know? Because some people aren't upset by the same situation. The mother isn't residing in a still point. When she can get there, she will be at peace.

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