Change — We're all involved in it.
It seems so random, so crazy, sometimes, but is it?
Rhythmic Integration says human
change follows a pattern. The pattern, it argues, is not a theory; It's a fact
of our existence. It's all preprogrammed; part of our DNA.
We've heard, "If you
can dream it, you can do it," or "Start with a dream; end with an
achievement!" These statements carry an element of truth, but are too simple.There
seems to be more, and there is more.
Ends don't just happen by magic.
What goes on between a seed in our being, and a final accomplishment? What happens between a start and an achievement?
What goes on between a seed in our being, and a final accomplishment? What happens between a start and an achievement?
Rhythmic Integration spells out a series of way-stations that lay out the process. Together they spell out a Rhythmic Cycle of Change.
Each way-station is a world-in-itself. Rhythmic Integration considers their issues, pains, and rewards. It considers how any of them can be a troublesome stopping place, left simply undeveloped, or developed into a valued strength.
Rhythmic Integration considers what happens when a person gets stopped in a phase and fails to move on. It considers what it takes to move through a whole course of change to a place of meaningful fulfillment, and an experience of Wholeness.
Rhythmic Integration considers what happens when a person gets stopped in a phase and fails to move on. It considers what it takes to move through a whole course of change to a place of meaningful fulfillment, and an experience of Wholeness.
What make the Rhythmic Cycle of Change existential,
universal?
Outside of extreme anomalies, The
Rhythmic Cycle of Change is something each of us has lived through. The Cycle marked the course
of everyone's early development. It's a part of everyone's history.
From conception to around five years of age, life changes markedly. The process moves in steps. Each step
comes about with the maturation of a new physical capacity. Each of these is accompanied by a new psychological
capacity.
For example, there's a before to conception, a kind
of a nothingness of silence. Conception changes things radically. Suddenly there
is life and a new world. Immediately come needs: needs to attach to the womb, needs to be
safe, needs to be nourished.
With the process begun the normal body develops through the way-stations of the Rhythmic Cycle: Physical changes bring the psychological worlds of Dreaming, Creating,
Communicating, Inspiring, Analyzing, Solidifying, and Achieving. At the end there is a return to silence, the meaning of what has happened emerges. Then a new cycle begins.
More specific and detailed material about the Cycle of Change will be presented in the next Link, "The Rhythmic Cycle & Bioenergetic Analysis. There the body areas involved will be pointed out; and the nature of each of the strengths, the pathology that results when things go awry, and the work necessary to get things on course again will be introduced.