Reorganizational Healing (ROH) is an innovative approach to wellness, growth, and behavioral change that helps you create and sustain well being by bringing the structural, perceptual, and energetic elements of your life and body into an optimal relationship.
Unlike other medical and alternative health care approaches that seek to restore, alleviate, suppress, or control, the objective of ROH is to help you raise your baseline function, behavior, and energetic expression to create and sustain well being.
ROH focuses on helping you develop a new level of self and body-awareness, and a deeper understanding of your core nature so that you can cultivate a more fulfilling and resilient life.
ROH has three central components: The Seasons of Well-Being, The Triad of Change, and the Energetic Intelligences. These components work together to address the timing of change, the process of change, and the energetic aptitudes that change requires, ensuring that you are able to consciously grow, evolve, and experience well being throughout the your life.
On rare occasions, one can step back and say: ‘Wow, that is a really good idea.’ Now might be that time. Reorganizational Healing (ROH) presents a viable big-picture option for improving the health of individuals and addressing the current health care crisis in the United States and world wide…”
Robert Blanks, Ph.D.
The Triad of Change
The Triad of Change is the central focus of the map around which the other elements of reorganization occur. The premise of the triad is simple: All change includes structure, behavior, and perception. Plainly stated, for each structure, there is an accompanying behavior and perception; for each behavior, there is a structure and a perception; and, for each perception, there are certain structures and behaviors that define and support it.
Behavior is defined as an observable pattern of actions expressing or manifesting an internal state or meaning (the implicit becoming explicit) and purposeful movement toward a goal or objective. Behavior is the expression of a meaning and the outcome of the relationship between action and purpose=objective. All behavior is purposeful even if it is ‘‘unconscious’’ and not immediately apparent.
Perception is defined as a chosen perspective—a mode or style or manner of focus that defines meaning (the way one focuses one’s attention)—and the connections among body sensation, focus, and meaning. For example, pain is often associated with suffering. What causes the individual suffering is not always the experience of pain but the meaning attributed to it. Suffering is different from pain. Not everyone in pain experiences suffering. Suffering is a response to the perception of the pain added to a specific meaning associated with it. Perception is a consequence of focus and meaning.
Structure refers to any form serving as a carrier of information or energy. Structure relates to virtually every domain: consciousness; internal focus; body; posture; relationships; mutual understanding; business, organizations; and even schedules. As a resonant structure, the consciousness, perception, and behavior of the body is in relationship to the condition, tone, tension, and form of its structure. Structure defines the relationship between the physical and energetic systems of the body.
The real synergy that emerges with the congruence of the triad comes from understanding the power of two sides to entrain the third. Perception and Behavior entrain Structure and help to make new forms. Behavior and Structure entrain Perception, and help meaning to come from action and form. Structure and Perception inspire Behavior, which is an action born of meaning and form. The triad is not season-specific; an individual can work with the triad in any season. In fact, different sides of the individual’s triad could be in different seasons simultaneously. It is important to uncover what creates the greatest congruence for an individual and what that individual wishes to create or express in life.
The Five Energetic Intelligences
1. Remembering
2. Trust
3. Identity
4. Passion
5. Prosperity
Mystics, yogis, healers, and shamans have observed energies within the body and multiple levels of energies around the body for ages. Scientific evidence of energy within and around the body is extensive. Uniting subjective observation of the body’s energies with scientifically verifiable observation leads to at least one significant insight; energies related to the complex biologic form are associated with states of consciousness. Combining this insight with the research into subtle energies, years of empirical practice using ‘‘energetic applications’’ and, more recently, correlating these applications to a preliminary survey instrument (questionnaire) designed to explore individuals’ aptitudes for certain types of energies, Epstein developed the terminology for EI as one way to describe this unique domain of human experience.
Driven by these factors, EI has been furthered by utilizing the recent writings of philosopher Ken Wilber and collaboration with another one of the authors of the present article (Senzon). The concepts of these ‘‘energetic applications’’ extend to the research of Jonckheere about the coherent and soliton nature of the waves in the spine during NSA entrainments, to the current literature on the biofield as a dissipative structure and complex dynamic standing wave, the use of solitons by the connective tissues to transmit energy, nonclassical forms of energy, the role of electron excited states in biologic processes, and the soliton and acoustic nature of the action potential.
With further study and verification of the survey instrument, EI may represent a developmental stream along other multiple intelligences. For now, it stands as a useful heuristic device to assist individuals to access their inner resources in the easiest way possible to create the most dynamic change in their Triads of Change and to have greater success as reorganizers. Research is planned to explore this energetic application in detail. There is enough consistent empirical evidence for this third component of ROH that it too can be applied across many disciplines.
One of the ways the individual may suspect incongruence in his/her Triad of Change is through the feeling of a drop in available energy and resources. With greater congruence in the triad, greater energy and resources become instantly available. With these greater resources, the system evolves and a new level of congruence/consciousness emerges, providing for what feels like a new life. Associated with each type of energy, there is an energetic intelligence.
ROH combines the wisdom of the ages with objective science by acknowledging that each individual is comprised of at least five complex fields of energy and information associated with specific EI; bioenergetic intelligence, emotional energetic intelligence, thought EI, soul energetic intelligence, and universal-spirit EI. Based on the background described above, it has been observed that each individual has competencies around specific energetic intelligences and these competencies are a way to harness important resources for the process of reorganization. In this way, the individual can learn to utilize resources efficiently and gain the intelligence associated with each.
The Four Seasons of Wellbeing
The Four Seasons of Wellbeing—Discover, Transform, Awaken, and Integrate —refer to distinct rhythms or periods during one’s journey in life. As a metaphor for the journey, season is appropriate to ‘‘readiness’’ for reorganization just as seeds are planted or fruit ripens—all in their time. The seasons are different from developmental stages of life, although they may correspond at times to such stages. The seasons are used as part of the process of change by embracing the individual’s readiness for change in the context of the unique moment of his/her life. Thus, the seasons are not always sequential. They represent moments or periods in life. As higher baselines of reorganization emerge in the person’s life it becomes easier to live in certain seasons. After one has learned the gifts that each season presents, a new flexibility as a result of increased complexity, allows one to use each season to reorganize specific aspects of his/her life consciously.
The seasons appear to be universal in human experience as each encourages or influences unique perceptions, actions, thoughts, experiences, and energies. The seasons add timing to the self-assessment. This timing is distinct from other staged approaches to behavior change or any RET approaches. The influence of the season affects the type of intelligence one uses, the way a person goes about daily activities, and the resources available to that person. Each season represents the way a person receives and influences his/her environment and how this environment influences the person. Within each corresponding season, aspects of daily life are either encouraged or rendered difficult or impossible. The first three seasons, Discover, Transform, and Awaken, represent the stages individuals cycle through during stages of life and circumstances in life. The fourth season, Integrate, represents the ability to know and consciously choose the combination of seasons called for in various circumstances or life changes, and represents a high level of organizational integrity and communication across aspects of the individual’s life
The Four Sacred Seasons of Wellbeing —Discover, Transform, Awaken, and Integrate —refer to distinct rhythms or periods during one’s journey in life. As a metaphor for the journey, season is appropriate to ‘‘readiness’’ for reorganization just as seeds are planted or fruit ripens—all in their time. The seasons are different from developmental stages of life, although they may correspond at times to such stages. The seasons are used as part of the process of change by embracing the individual’s readiness for change in the context of the unique moment of his/her life. Thus, the seasons are not always sequential. They represent moments or periods in life. As higher baselines of reorganization emerge in the person’s life it becomes easier to live in certain seasons. After one has learned the gifts that each season presents, a new flexibility as a result of increased complexity, allows one to use each season to reorganize specific aspects of his/her life consciously.
The seasons appear to be universal in human experience as each encourages or influences unique perceptions, actions, thoughts, experiences, and energies. The seasons add timing to the self-assessment. This timing is distinct from other staged approaches to behavior change or any RET approaches. The influence of the season affects the type of intelligence one uses, the way a person goes about daily activities, and the resources available to that person. Each season represents the way a person receives and influences his/her environment and how this environment influences the person. Within each corresponding season, aspects of daily life are either encouraged or rendered difficult or impossible. The first three seasons, Discover, Transform, and Awaken, represent the stages individuals cycle through during stages of life and circumstances in life. The fourth season, Integrate, represents the ability to know and consciously choose the combination of seasons called for in various circumstances or life changes, and represents a high level of organizational integrity and communication across aspects of the individual’s life
DISCOVER through Connection
- is about one’s connection to energy, breath, movement, touch, emotion and rhythm.
- is about being able to encounter the container of the body through safety, understanding and amazement for the possible changes in internal focus, state and the experiences possible in the next moment.
- defines one’s movement and limits as well as one’s anchors to tension/stress and to peace/ease.
- time is viewed as an adversary.
Questions in Discover:
Why me? Why not me? What is wrong with me? Why does this happen to me? How have I continued to run away from pain? Where are the places that I have not experienced connection? How can I have more connection/peace in the place that before was disconnected? Why does this not end? What is the cause of this? Who was wrong/right? Who can fix/get rid of this? What is the best or worst ____? Why did he/she do this to me? What is the pattern here? Why can’t I make the breakthrough? Why do I keep doing this? Why am I stuck? Why am I so blocked? Why can’t I solve this now?
DISCOVER LANGUAGE
it, circumstance, problem, fix it, make it go away, get rid of it, less of, break in, connect, release, you, externals, reactive
TRANSFORM through Conscious Action
- is about redefining one’s self through the structure of the body and changing one’s relationship to focused energy, breath, strength, courage, and motion
- is about defining one’s self through empowered actions
- is about dissolving the attachments to ideas, concepts, memories and stories which limit one’s future journey.
- time is a currency for measuring success, breakthroughs and achievements
Questions in Transform:
What can I do to further empower myself? How can I express more of my courage now? What else is going on? What is really happening here? How can I face this now? What is on the other side? What can I do to really be ready? How can I prepare myself? What must I do now? How can I resolve this? How can I conduct an inventory and get rid of that which no longer serves me? How can I dump the old stuff/energy/patterns?
TRANSFORM LANGUAGE
me, opportunity, resolve, break through, action, more of, know, authentic, internal, responsive, sustainable
AWAKEN through Expanded Awareness
- is about developing the power of gratitude, awe, amazement, love and benevolence through the experience of an unlimited source of spacious body, breath, energy and possibility.
- about the experience of the energy of human spirit and love.
- involves gaining wisdom through a transpersonal language that this energy has within/out our body and our senses.
- about claiming a new life and formulating new actions based upon an expanded and conscious awakened perspective of our interdependence and connection.
Questions that lead to Awaken:
Where is the rhythm? How can I hold the space? Where is the gratitude? How can I grow the gratitude? What is the energy/love telling me? Where is the connection within spirit? How can I express the love more? How can I feel the real energy behind the form? What gift has been given to me? How can I express my soul and the one love? How do I give my gifts in joy and gratitude? Where is the joy, love, gratitude, gift? How can I sponsor the sharing my abundance? How can I receive circumstances with gratitude as gifts? Where is the gift in this? How can we be each other’s wisdom/medicine?
AWAKEN LANGUAGE
us, relationship, blossoming open, not more of getting, more depth with what I’ve gotten, creative, grateful, serendipity, responsible, conscious, community, celebratory, diversity
INTEGRATE
The season of Integrate is a conscious selection of the marriage of more than one season. You are in one season with the observer of another to achieve a greater depth of reorganization.
Excerpt from “Reorganizational Healing: A Paradigm for the Advancement of Wellness, Behavior Change, Holistic Practice, and Healing” Epstein et al. The Journal of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Volume 15, Number 5, 2009, pg. 481 Reprinted with permission from authors. References available in full manuscript.
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