STAGES OF TRANSFORMATION

The following is a description of the twelve stages of self-discovery and personal

transformation, a process in which the facilitator acts as a personal guide. The first five

stages from ‘Comfort’ to ‘Guidance’ are required to initiate and support the latter seven

stages from ‘Learning’ to ‘Growth’. While the former five stages relate to the learner’s

interaction with the ‘facilitator’, the latter seven stages relate to the subjective learning

process that wells up from within. This learning is referred to as Self-Exploring and

Learning from Feedback or SELF, which is considered an inborn capacity rather than a

skill that is acquired. During the process of Self-Exploring and Learning from Feedback

most learners reach a point where witnessing becomes essentially continuous. From that

point onwards the learner continually uses feedback from what wells up from within to

enhance his/her awareness.

The twelve stages of transformation are:

Comfort – The facilitator makes the learner feel at ease.

Reading – The facilitator witnesses the subjective domain of the learner through the

Radial Pulse and other complementary forms of reading; the facilitator

interprets this in real-time to produce usable ‘information’.

Feedback – The facilitator dynamically feeds back the information. This reveals the

psychophysical process and creates a basis from where the learner can choose to

witness from the subjective-Self.

Shift – The learner chooses to witness from the subjective-Self. From here the

learner witnesses all personal experiences, from subtle to gross, as they emerge

in the mind-body. The learner can at that time consciously register, recognize,

acknowledge, allow, intently sense/feel and process these experiences.

Witnessing reveals the action-reaction patterns between the subjective and

objective that makes the past appear in the present.

Guidance – The facilitator feeds back information about the learner’s (subconscious)

choice to witness from the subjective-Self and assists the learner in making this

witnessing continuous. As a witness the learner need not automatically react to

what s/he witnesses.

Learning - The learner learns:

o To recognize painful memories and how these can elicit uncomfortable

psychophysical sensations, the Inner Response Dialogue.

o To understand what these psychophysical sensations are associated with.

o To recognize patterned responses and connected traumas that make one feel

afraid, sad and rejected.

o To recognize how witnessing may spontaneously elicit memories about the

situations that created these traumas and the responses that try to keep these

in check.

o To recognize how different events can trigger painful memories and awaken

connected patterned responses.

o How all of the above underlie our actions, reactions, (habitual) health

behavior, and everything else that we can relate to objectively.

o How all of the above learning takes place spontaneously, effortlessly and

completely when the learner witnesses from the subjective-Self.

Modification – The course and effect of the Inner Response Dialogue is altered once the

learner consciously refrains from automatically reacting to it. As a result the

learner’s behavior, habits, and also the course of development of the disease can

thus be transformed.

De-hypnotizing – The illusion that the conditioned patterns superimpose onto the

learner’s perception, behavior, communication and actions is sustainably

weakened.

Desensitization – The painful memories and connected patterned responses (Inner

Response Dialogue) lose their influence on the learner’s thinking, feeling,

behavior, communication and actions.

Catharsis – A transformational cleansing takes place, which processes painful memories

and neutralizes the disease-creating patterned responses (Inner Response

Dialogue).

Satisfaction – A state of balance in mind and body is brought about by the harmonic

conscious flow of free will and feelings of joy and inspiration.

Growth – Conscious ‘witnessing’ from the subjective-Self is experienced with fewer

interruptions. Thus in a relatively short time witnessing can be made

continuous. The learner is more and more able to consciously choose for those

opportunities that cater to his/her inner needs in the present.

Witnessing brings us back to a single moment wherein we discover who we truly are.