Sunday, July 09, 2006

Themes for June 25th - July 24th

Welcome to the 'bridge'! This blog will represent my virtual 'flare' to the entire community of free thinkers that have crossed my path at some point and want to really 'get' the latest ripple in my work. What I'm offering here, in this post, is two-fold. First, I'll give an overview of the lunar cycle we're currently reaching the summit of late MON night. Then I'll give you a way to connect that to what will be unfolding over the next five lunar cycles that follow, which deliver us to the Winter...

These essays are meant to introduce concepts that influence how I work with my private consulting clients while at the same time give you ways to apply them personally. One of the cornerstones we need to get to right away is the notion of The 4 Domains, which has become somewhat of an 'inhouse' lingo at The YES Center for the newer clients who have been part of this latest evolution in The Extended Self Program's design and delivery. Let me fill in some blanks here.

When I encounter a client, I see them in 6 distinct, yet interconnected ways. These "interfaces" are learned or noticed in sequence, but we experience them simultaneously. The best example I can give you is when you watch TV, all the other channels are still broadcasting, while you're 'tuned in' to just one of them in this moment. As these "interfaces" become sharper and more precise for you, your capacity for what I call 'harmomic awareness' will increase in it's intensity, frequency and duration.

That means a more open and defense-less life is rooted in your biology, not your social conditioning.

Let's take a run across a spectrum that comprises those six interfaces...

1) Soma to Soma
2) Human to Human
3) Individual to Individual
4) Gender to Gender
5) Whole Person to Whole Person
6) Co-Creator to Co-Creator

Since they're all interconnected, I tend to call them *somatic interfaces*. The idea is NOT to think about any of this, but to make it all 2nd nature. In order to do that, we need to study and deeply acknowledge the inherent bias we all cultivate during early development. This is where The 4 Domains enter the scene.

As I write in the new Soma Made Simpler protocol, these 4-fold maps are plentiful, whether you chase archetypes, personalities or other metaphysical labels. WHAT we are, since we're all somas - as far as the cosmos is concerned - boils down to knowing our primary domain. They are subsets of our fully integrated 'extended self', which unifies us at the social level.


What you see below are the 4 distinct somatic orientations we get exposed to as we develop...

PHYLO's -Bonding, Temporal, Receptive – Social Regulators {Relatives, Citizens, Neighbors}
ONTO's - Binding, Figurative, Conceptive - Social Couplers {Leaders, Philosophers, Visionaries}
ECO's-- Bounded, Spatial, Deceptive - Social Isolaters {Mavericks, Savants, Revolutionaries}
EXO's - Blended, Literal, Perceptive - Social Profilers {Futurists, Translators, Judiciaries}


I'll be sharing much more on them in future posts.
If you want a little more to go on, go print out my one-page overview I posted in the YES library last year -- The 4 Domains

Each year we go through 12 lunar cycles that take us through 4 seasons. If we clean all the messy extra days and the slight dissimilarities between what the moon says and we the calendar tells us, we can effective USE time to tranform our lives. Each lunar cycle has a theme, an undercurrent that is begging us to re-connect. The 'bridge' we're crossing takes us to that realm. We'll be learning that how we live is governed more by the laws of nature as they express themselves through us than the events of our personal past, present or future. While the protocol offers you resources to employ day to day, my aim on the blog is to give you a target for each lunar cycle. I want you to see how you are wired for harmony and that every life change you experience, on every scale, has a 'reflective rhythm' you can align with in the moment and carry with you for the rest of your lifetime.

The lunar cycle we're in now is the 7th of the 12 we'll have this year. The biological year actually begins with the first new moon after the Winter Solstice, so now we're in the midst of the first lunar cycle of the Summer. Lucky #7 gives us a 2nd chance to work on what we started around last Christmas. The theme for both of these lunar cycles is SECURITY. We are focused on cultivating a greater sense of overall well-being - a more desirable 'status quo' that we can then mobilize as the succeeding months wind us down from Summer to Fall and into the introspective Winter ahead...

Each lunar cycle offers us 4 lunar phases to attune our mood and somatic orientation so we get the most of these biological 'givens'. The protocol details these, so I'll just mention that here to drive home the point that your identity is NOT fixed within you, but freely roams the environment. Your job is to call that signal home, since you alone possess the receptors for it within you. If you can do this for 6 lunar cycles in a row, you'll have re-connected to all six interfaces and you'll have the basic foundation of harmonic awareness to help you develop a more coherent relationship with the world.

I know, this is all Soma Boy jargon now...so I'll finish here with one question to ponder until July 24th

*If you say, write or hear the word HOME,
where does it take you?*
Your answer is your guiding image.

If you get a rolodex of images, you need to focus on your breathing rhythm until you get just one. I'll post here again next week as we begin to play the hand the full moon dealt us.

To get a free copy of the 11-page Soma Made Simpler protocol, just drop me an e-mail me at
addchiro@mindsping.com and I'll send it over. This whole thing is organizing rapidly, so write soon!

Tacitly, Dr. Mark

PS: Be sure and join us for the inaugural WOOWOOPALOOZA, September 8th & 9th...
Visit www.woowoopalooza.com for all the latest news and notes about the WOO!

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