Dear Fiends

Here is the essay which we request for certification at the AIM training by Rodiani , she is from Greece, came to the seminar in Bucharest and decided also to join the AIM training in Portugal the next weekend – you can see why she is a active and healthy at her age – its her openness to change – so she is a very good person to talk about the concept of “Stagnation” and “Reset” that are taught at the training and are key concepts of Informational Medicine

AIM TRAINING, JUNE 25-28, 2010

RODIANI VOREADOU

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

It is 10:00 a.m. and Mr. Fat arrives for his first visit to Dr. Neu. Mr. Fat is deeply depressed and desperate, as his health has been rapidly deteriorating recently and, in fact, the comment of his doctor about his last lab report was that, if things continue like this, in spite of the medications he is taking, the end of his life may be very unpredictably near. That is why he decided to try “something new” with Dr. Neu, as a friend suggested to him without giving further explanations.

He rings the doorbell and a polite voice asks for his name.

“This is Mr. Fat.”

“Welcome, Mr. Fat, come in” – and, as the door opens, a loud shriek of terror is heard, followed by wild belly laughs.

Puzzled, Mr. Fat stops on his steps for a moment, and in the next instant the polite voice brings him back to reality:

“Dr. Neu, first floor, number seven. Please walk to the elevator to your right”.

As Mr. Fat gets off the elevator, office 7 is not at all difficult to find. Because there is a big golden number seven blinking in front of the door, with two faces, laughing and crying, the symbols of comedy and tragedy, appearing the one after the other in random rhythm and positions around the blinking number, making the corridor look almost an entrance of a recreation center. But he is assured that he is at the right place, because the name of Dr. Neu, with all his credentials, is engraved on a very professional finely decorated metallic shingle by the door.

Mr. Fat looks for the doorbell. Impulsively, he grabs the handle, turns it and slowly pushes forward.

“Ouch!” is heard, and he immediately withdraws his hand, taking one step back.

“Welcome, please come in”, the polite voice calls him again.

He pushes the door again and enters a small room with a three chairs (“not so comfortable”, he murmurs) and something like a receptionist’s desk, where a pleasant face calls him to come near.

He is asked about his very basic details and a picture is taken of him. Then he is given some forms to fill in, and a pair of headphones. He is instructed to put the headphones on right now and walk through that “WELCOME!” door to the waiting room, where he is to sit down, take a pen, fill in the forms, give them to the office assistant (the lady in white) and wait until Dr. Neu calls him personally.

Mr. Fat feels puzzled, but he decides to follow the instructions. With headphones on, he pushes the “WELCOME!” door and finds himself in a corridor as a joyful low volume music starts playing in the headphones. A few seconds after that, he hears a voice, on top of the music:

“Are you sure?”

Who is it? He thinks. Where did the voice come from?

Mr. Fat is now walking in a corridor, which seems to go around the wall of a big room. To his right, big wall-sized crystal clear windows give him the view of a terrace densely filled with plants and flowers, giving the impression of a most beautiful Japanese garden. Signs with joyful, encouraging, supporting warm messages appear on screens artistically placed among the natural elements of his changing field of view as he walks. To his left, there is a gray wall with some windows, and question and exclamation marks are painted on it, in various sizes and colors. The windows do not allow him to see through clearly.

As he walks in this corridor, unexpected sounds interrupt the soft music in the headphones each time he makes a turn and the view changes.

Finally he is in front of the open door of the waiting room. To be precise, there is no door, just a wide opening and a sign with instructions: “Please grab a pen, take a seat at the desks and fill in your forms. Then give them to the assistant in white and proceed to the circular room.”

The area with the desks is rectangular with the two opposing walls in different colors. Mr. Fat takes a seat in the gray area and takes some time filling in the forms.

During this time, he hears voices coming from the headphones and saying things he finds rather disturbing and confusing, like:

“On a gray wall, take off all light and it becomes black; project bright animated colors on it and it becomes attractive to look on – it may even distract you from your deep thoughts, you know”

or:

“It’s your choice – My choice about what?”

or:

“Forget it all, there is no hope – What do you mean? – Nothing, just a joke!”

Mr. Fat finds all this very silly. Especially the fact that the forms he is filling are decorated with funny cartoon-like faces. His emotions are mixed. His despair is now mixed with anger and some curiosity.

He hands in the forms and the headphones and the assistant in white makes a gesture guiding him to the circular room.

There is a big poster at the entrance, with a picture of a beautiful ancient temple in the middle of a forest. He stops to read:

“A little History lesson: Some thousand years ago, in ancient Greece, sick people did not go to clinics or hospitals, but to healing temples. There the priests guided them to clean and purify themselves in a special way and, when they were ready, they had to sleep in a special room in the temple, where the god of healing would appear in their dream and give them the remedy or the healing they needed.

Today all this mystery has been replaced by science and educated doctors, who apply advanced technology to help and support the patient in his/her healing.”

The waiting room is circular, with comfortable chairs all around and modest delicate decoration. Everything here is moderate, as if to allow the persons in the room to be the main object of attention.

There are a few people here and they are talking. Mr. Fat’s mood is totally foreign to any kind of conversation, but his ears do perceive the words of enthusiasm and the healing stories included in those conversations. Gradually he forgets his anger and his despair turns into a kind of jealousy and, deep inside, a spark of hope – Oh, no! his case is so different. He is really hopeless.

However, there is an attraction in the positiveness shared in that room. He hears someone expressing doubts and fears and how another encourages him. Can this silly place be the healing temple for him, too? he thinks. After all, it may be silly, but it is pleasant, beautifully made, the chairs are so comfortable and the light and color of the room radiate a warm acceptance. But he has been told that he will not live for long! – the familiar cold hard sensations grabs his chest and mind and a cold wave fills his body. He would like to cry now, but feels ashamed to do it.

Suddenly, his time comes. The doctor opens the door and calls him by his name. He continues to speak only after the door is closed behind them.

“Welcome, Mr. Fat. I am Dr. Neu and I am here to help you. Please make yourself comfortable. You have this serious issue. How are you today? If there is a specific barrier, something that limits you or prevents you from expressing yourself, please feel free to talk to me now, so that we can do the best for you.”

Mr. Fat is emotionally confused for a moment. His despair, now mixed with a little hope, together with much doubt seem to melt away by a warm feeling of receiving the kind of loving attention he so desperately needs – and a big surprise: “the specific barrier, something that limits you or prevents you from expressing yourself” – this is exactly how he has been feeling for a long time now: he has been describing himself as being “held in a cage”. Dr. Neu had just addressed his most painful spot! Mr. Fat’s surprise immediately opens up into trust.

Dr. Neu does not need many explanations. He soon proceeds to the first “prescription”: he quickly explains the need for a proper diet and orders the foods to be avoided.

“Oh, doctor! Please do not take me off the pastries! They are the only joy that remains in my life!”

……….

I do not need to continue the story of the relationship of this patient to Dr. Neu. I tried to express a view of one of the basic notions we discussed in the training: RESET. During the training I became aware of the variety of resets we can introduce to the client’s life and to our own life.

Of course this presupposes the recognition of a stagnation and involves working with the right brain as well as with the left.

Already from my first listening to Kiran online during his seminar in Johannesburg, the idea of “Health = DLE”, which places stagnation as the primary cause of disease, both impressed and satisfied me. It impressed me, because it clearly expresses something that seemed to exist unrecognized in my thinking; and it satisfied me, because I agree with it and also my “like-minded” friends agree to it, so I feel that I am in familiar ground.

 

I used to consider disease as a message and the training clarified the notion of reset as the needed solution, the ultimate target of the message. About DLE as the state of health I can say that human health to me means the true fullness of human potential, which includes awareness, flexibility, infinity of possibilities, quick responding to situations, openness, always being ready for more and for the new, all of these being aspects of DLE.

I decided to touch the application of the idea of RESET to the initial contact with the client, because this impressed me and made me start thinking about ways of applying it in my practice, not only of CoRe, but also of any helping modality and, in a broader sense, in the place where I work, which (aside from the “business” part of it) has to do with helping people in various ways.

PS 1. In the setting described above, the noises and words are supposed to be more than the ones described, and they are supposed to be introduced randomly or according to the client’s name, issue and place where he chooses to sit when he fills in the forms. Thus, in the waiting room, people may also discuss the sounds they heard and how they were not the same, which adds to the resetting confusion to all.

PS 2. Some of the details about the patient facts and reactions are taken from my experience during working with CoRe.

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