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In the calibration process, Whole Health has discovered that, on average, the personalized mantra protocol increases one's personal vibration millions of times more than the average traditional mantra. This is in no way intended to diminish any sacred mantra. Traditional mantras have a great history, and are often aligned with sacred traditions. The Whole Health personalized mantra protocol is intended to assist in elevating the energy of one's vibration, and will surely do so.

PERSONALIZED VISUAL MANTRAS

This very powerful exercise is designed to energetically balance the spirit by establishing a subject's receptive sensory dominance, as well as their visual nature mantra. We all have our own unique sensory affinities. The concept of receptive sensory dominance suggests that we each resonate energetically with one or more of the specific five senses. Whole Health says that once we establish the dominant innate sensory nature of a person, we can help them cue into those specific sensory images to balance the spirit. For example, if we wanted to help someone with stress-induced hypertension, and their dominant senses were sight and smell, we could have them visualize a beautiful beach and imagine smelling the fresh salt air.

Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) is a truly remarkable school of thought that has developed numerous effective protocols for the
positive reformatting of the negative unconscious mind. NLP's implementation of submodalities, or sensory images, has been shown to produce incredibly powerful, positive shifts in unconscious thought and learning. The more graphically and energetically you engage the mind, the easier it is to gain access to fertile areas where new seeds of thought can be planted so as to replace negative old self-limiting thought patterns.

The Five Sensory Submodalities

1. Visual (Seeing)
   
2. Auditory (Hearing)
   
3. Kinesthetic (Touch)
   
4. Olfactory (Smell)
   
5. Gustatory (Taste)
   

This spirit-balancing exercise begins with the practitioner EMT muscle testing the subject for their receptive sensory dominance. Interface, assume pass/fail posture, test for reliability, and tune. Then, the practitioner simply calls out each of the five senses one at a time as they pass/fail test the subject. Next, the practitioner must pulse test the subject from one to ten. The subject's strongest response (with the highest pulse number) represents their receptor sensory dominance.

Next, the practitioner must test the subject for their visual nature mantra. Along with the Five Sensory Submodalities, Whole Health lists Seven Visual Mantras.

Seven Visual Mantras

1. Ocean/Beach
   
2. Lake
   
3. River/Stream
   
4. Waterfall
   
5. Desert
   
6. Forest
   
7. Mountain
   

Next, the practitioner must pass/fail and pulse test (from one to ten) the subject for their most energetically responsive visual nature mantra. The visual mantra that pulse tests the strongest will offer them the most powerful energy access to spirit balancing.

Then the subject must take two minutes to engage in a combined sensory nature visualization. For example, I muscle test them for their sensory kinesthetic response to the visual imagery of a forest. So my spirit balancing is easily attained when needed by simply imagining myself touching the dewy ferns, pine needles, maple leaves, and rocks in one of my favorite wooded areas. Following two minutes of this sensory nature visualization, the subject should be tested for the degree of improvement of their spirit balancing. Do so in percentages. Example: “As a result of this spirit-balancing exercise, the subject's spirit energy balance has improved by [then pulse test for 10 to 100 percent].”

Our many spirits reside within our mind. As with our body, we must cultivate balance within our mind in order to attain and maintain a state of true wholeness. Like the body, the mind requires daily feeding and exercising to be healthy and whole. Every mind is but a reflection of what thoughts it is fed and the manner in which its energies are directed. State of mind is the result of choice and development.

BALANCING THE MIND AT THE ROOT SPIRIT

As we have previously discussed, the prefrontal lobes are the parts of the human brain primarily involved with long-term planning, personal evolution, and the attainment of internal goals. With the
aid of positron emission tomography (PET) scans and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), neuroscientists have in recent years made further discoveries about how the left prefrontal cortex is centrally involved in the implementation of positive goal-oriented behavior, while the right prefrontal cortex processes signals that convey a sense of threat—often resulting in inhibition, fear, and anxiety. There are also ongoing experiments in transcranial magnetic stimulation of the left prefrontal cortex that continue to consistently demonstrate mood improvements.

There is a distinct difference between these two vital brain centers. In order for our long-term planning to reach full fruition, there must be a balance between the two lobes. Research is revealing that dominance in the right prefrontal lobe is typically associated with limiting blockages of emotional thought that keep one from moving forward with their life goals, breeding further fear and anxiety. In short, an imbalance between the lobes, especially one that results in right prefrontal dominance, represents a greater likelihood of your getting stuck in your own mind. There is no debate over which comes first. Depressing, self-limiting thoughts create brain imbalances, and brain imbalances create depressing, self-limiting thoughts. It works both ways. Therefore, the cycle of being broken spirited and stuck in life can be rewired with the aid of positive thinking and positive inner dialogue. Over the years I've gotten remarkable results with a number of personally developed positive dialogue protocols, but I've also had great success with some specific Chinese energy healing techniques. One of these is called Balancing the Root Spirit.

In Chinese medicine, the acupuncture points for the right and left prefrontal lobes of the brain are the Gallbladder (GB 13) points (bilateral). They are referred to as the “root spirit points,” and are located right in front of each prefrontal lobe at the edge of the hairline on each side of the forehead (see Figure 7.1)

Whole Health's Balancing the Root Spirit exercise is very
simple. It begins with EMT muscle testing, so it is recommended that you work with a partner. As always, you must interface, assume EMT pass/fail posture, establish reliability, and energetically tune. Assuming your prep work has been completed, you are ready to begin.

First, practitioners must pass/fail test the subject's right and left GB 13 points by lightly touching each area or by simply calling out, “Left gallbladder 13,” followed by “Right gallbladder 13,” one at a time, and testing the subject's arm strength. Test their muscle strength simultaneously as you call out the respective points. Next, practitioners must pulse test the points in plus/minus numbers. Now record your results. These results represent the subject's energetic prefrontal lobe dominance. Remember, if they are weak while being tested on the right side, it means there is excess emotion blocking the spirit's desire to flow. If they are weak while their left side is being tested, it means there is a deficiency of emotion resulting in a lack of passion needed to propel and inspire spirit flow. Next, it's time for balancing the spirit root with Wenchiech'u.

FIGURE 7.1
GB 13

While interfacing, practitioners should simply spin counterclockwise spirals with their index finger or their thoughts and
intentions over the deficient areas for two minutes. Next they should spin clockwise spirals over any lobe area that may have tested with excess energy for two minutes. You have now balanced the root spirit. Encourage the subject to repeat this exercise on themselves twice daily, every day, for two minutes. After a few months, subjects will experience dramatic positive changes in their thinking, confidence, and personal growth. Once balanced at the spirit root, the brain and mind are also in balance.

WHOLE HEALTH SPIRIT BALANCING

THE SPIRIT QUEST

We of the modern West are at a distinct disadvantage in matters of the spirit. Our material culture struggles with concepts that elude the five material senses. Nonetheless, our pain has always been at the ready to teach us more about our deeper nature.

I have counseled many in search of solutions to help shut off their “pain switch.” I am quick to remind them that physical symptoms are, in fact, the language of the body, and that it's important for them to trace back their inner pain dialogue from their body back to their mind—and even further back, to their emotions and spirit. Pain represents the surfacing of our deepest communication with ourselves. I advise them to tap into what their outer pain is trying to tell them about the innermost nature of their imbalances. Physical pain isn't the end of the discussion among our body, mind, and spirit—it's only the beginning. Our physical pain
initiates a dialogue that ultimately leads to the root source of our spirit's dis-ease.

I ask them to take one giant step—a quantum leap—beyond where the present pain manifests. I advise them to resist the temptation of numbing their pain. I remind them that it's essential to follow the voice of our pain to where it leads us. Our “pain voice” has designs on leading us on a journey deep within ourselves to the roots of our present suffering. The very pain that forces us back to the roots of our dis-ease is the catalyst for our spirit quest. It is part of “the way of things” for pain's destructive nature to inspire us back to our creational source. The natural dis-ease process is initiated at the very instant of our separation from spirit. The further we drift away from our spirit essence, the louder our pain voice gets. You might say that dis-ease and pain are a spiritual fail-safe. Just as spiritual separation lies at the root cause of dis-ease, our physical pain is the alarm that awakens us and directs us back to our core spirit identity.

A dying patient once requested my presence at her home on the evening she passed. I shall never forget how she went in and out of physiological consciousness, and as she did she rambled in a most peculiar manner. Then after quite some time out of consciousness, she suddenly opened her eyes, looked up at me, and said, “You know, Mark, I feel as though I'm at last discovering who I truly am.” She took her last breath soon after, but her words will forever remain with me.

SPIRIT “I”DENTITY

Many years ago, I was inadvertently inspired to decipher the deeper meaning of the biblical phrase “I am that I am.” Of course, I'd read and heard this reference countless times, but never considered that there might be hidden meaning in it. On this particular occasion I was guided to intensify my concentration on the phrase, and I
arrived at a very different understanding than ever before. I was inspired to place the emphasis on the word
that
instead of the words
I am
. It was as if the divine voice was awakening me to the fact that it was
that
I am—the one that no one is paying attention to. I could suddenly see that the words
I am
had been distracting me from the power of the word
that
.

This epiphany inspired me to contemplate the concept of universal duality more deeply. In this case we're all represented by both a human “I am” and a divine “I am.” I began to realize that this simple biblical riddle may have been intended to liberate us from the nightmare of our guilt, shame, and self-contempt, and invite us to a better understanding of our own true spirit, or “I”dentity. It brought me right to the razor's edge of my own duality. I have a divine “I am” within me, living side by side with my mortal “I am.” I tend to get lost in the illusion that I am purely mortal, and that the concept of divine refers to something other than me. There is no “other”—“other” is an illusion. There is only oneness. Together, my divine self and my mortal self make up my wholeness.

Personal “I” misperception is the distortion that evokes the destruction that results in dis-ease. Discovering our immortal “I” and integrating it with our mortal “I” represents the quantum leap to transformational wholeness.

I recently spoke with a patient during a phone appointment who seemed to unconsciously slip into a trance as she repeated an endless loop of self-limiting phrases, “I am sick,” “I am overwhelmed,” “I am afraid,” and so forth. After a few minutes of this, I decided to interject. I asked her to take the time to consciously identify her core “I.” I wanted to challenge her to reexamine that place from within her that generated her true “being-ness,” versus her thoughts, images, words, and beliefs. I suggested that as she searched out the source of her “I,” she consider choosing between a creative power and a destructive force—as we all have an ego and spirit self. I further explained that she might consider thinking of her destructive
“I” not as a conscious manifestation of evil, but as an unconscious misidentification.

I reminded her that we can choose to live our lives consciously, or unconsciously, from our higher or our lower self, and in an integrated or a dis-integrated way. Spiritual exceptionalism is always an option.

Quantum mechanics theorizes that between any two divergent domains there's a wave function collapse—a place in between two contrasting realities where everything stops. Similarly, between the zones of our mortal and our immortal consciousness, there lies the peace and stillness of unconditional self-acceptance. We can either perceive our dual nature as torment or we can take a quantum leap into the void of peace between our divergent selves.

CREATION/DESTRUCTION

On any given day our spirits can be high or low, depending on what we encounter and how we translate it. Our spirit's perception of the vicissitudes of life traces back to our core belief system. If we've been programmed to think of everything as either being good or bad, then we're likely prone to react to life's highs and lows conditionally. Succeed, and our spirits are high—fail, and they're low. Unfortunately this dualistic perception leads to a dead end, as the multiverse in which we live is dualistic and therefore infinitely tension-bearing.

Creation and destruction represent the eternal dance between power and force in the multiverse. Power is energy that both creates and results from order. Force is energy that creates and results from chaos. Every conscious and unconscious thought is an act either of creation or of destruction.

Our thoughts, dreams, wishes, visions, interpretations, actions, and non-actions are all either creative or destructive. We are forever producing ease, or dis-ease with all our creating and destroying.
The powers of creation and the forces of destruction are reflected in all our life choices as well—the foods we eat, the music we listen to, the books we read, the movies and television programs we view, and the company we keep. We are constantly cultivating either creative power or destructive force.

Being the sensitive receiver that it is, our spirit remains attuned and open to the constant formatting of our reality. But our spirits are often vexed by the highs and lows of mortal life. It is therefore important that we develop a higher understanding of the mutual compatibility of opposition. It's a matter of conscious choice whether we dwell on the extremes, or on the balance point between the two. We might think of ourselves as spiritual surfers catching a ride between perilous waves. To balance artfully on our board, we learn to benefit from the propulsion of the waves' power. Losing concentration, however, will likely result in disaster.

The great Chinese philosopher Chuang Tzu reminds us that together, creation and destruction make up one whole. He points to the visual exemplification of this in the T'ai Chi Circle, which graphically reveals the balance produced from the opposition between all universal extremes. The light is perpetually flowing into the darkness just as the darkness is perpetually flowing into the light. It's all about perspective. The Western mind is generally drawn to the illusion of separateness between the light of creation and the darkness of destruction. By separating the two, and perceiving one as good and the other as bad, we create a reality of dis-integration.

The ancient Chinese myth of universal creation begins with total chaos. As the whirling tumult settled, it formed the cosmic egg of creation. A primeval giant named P'an-Ku was believed destined to become the architect of the universe, but could only be born after the cosmic egg of creation cracked in two. The key lesson in this legend is that creation could not result without destruction.

A young woman once asked me the secret of healing her broken
heart from a recent relationship breakup. I suggested that she envision her experience as being on hold. “It isn't complete yet,” I told her. “Your experience will remain incomplete until you're ready to welcome in what it cleared a space for.” I reminded her that the destruction of this breakup was merely clearing the way for the creation of her next experience. She was of course resistant at first, insisting on clinging to the force of her own destructive pain. I told her that she was clinging to destructive pain only to infuse emotional meaning into her life. Finally, I reminded her that she had the power to create positive meaning, if she would only come to understand the balance between her creative and destructive potential. Sure enough, she contacted me no more than a month later and thanked me, saying that she'd found her way into a new and more balanced relationship. “Ever onward,” I responded.

Dis-ease isn't about destruction, it's the result of imbalance, and healing isn't about creation, it's about cultivating life force from the tension between the two. Creation and destruction are like two hands forever pouring life in and out of us. Embracing this reality brings a lasting peace to our spirit.

EASE/DIS-EASE

Energy is either positive, negative, or balanced. When our spirits are balanced, there is ease. When our spirits are imbalanced, there is dis-ease. Though energetic, our spirit interacts with our material glands and organs. The lower kidney region is the energy zone where our need for safety, security, grounding, and confidence resides. We might think of this as our “ease center.” The adrenal glands (or upper kidney region) are the energy zones where our emotions of fear, fright, and panic reside. This represents our “dis-ease center.” Ease produces the energy of flow and disease produces resistance. When the spirits flow, there is a sense of peace that transmits a parasympathetic relaxation response to the nervous
system, which generates homeostasis and whole health. When the spirit is ill at ease and resistant, it transmits sympathetic fight-or-flight energy to the nervous system, producing dis-ease.

We all have both a mortal and an immortal will. Our spirit represents our immortal will. It has an affinity for non-action and unconditional peace. The mortal will of our ego produces conditional reaction and tension. Here, we can clearly see the exposed roots of ease and disease.

I was once scheduled to give a presentation at a karate school that was owned and operated by my good friend and three-time gold medalist, Chris Rappold. I felt it might help my presentation if I knew a little more about the origins of karate. It's a philosophy that believes in a higher force that can only take possession of the hand of the martial artist when they clear out a space and invite it to act through them. Belief in a higher universal order is essential to the ease of spirit. The multiverse is ordered. Creation and destruction are one. Without understanding “the way of things,” our spirits can't hope to attain a balanced state of “ease.”

THE T'AI CHI BALANCE

Classical Chinese medicine tells us there is but one true source, and two manifestations of all things. That's to say that everything comes from one unifying point of origin, but has a dual nature. Expansion and contraction, creation and destruction, and birth and death all serve as reminders of the ever-present duality that defines the multiverse.

We, too, are both rational and intuitive, temporary and infinite, ego and spirit—moreover, we are both human and divine, capable of anger and forbearance, jealousy and forgiveness, hatred and love. Our very duality is most often the cause of our greatest frustration. We often find ourselves
torn between our greater and lesser angels. But the greater our confusion, the greater the expansion of our consciousness must become, and the greater our consciousness, the more empowered we become. Great wisdom is born of the greatest confusion.

The ancient Chinese Taoists capture this concept in a symbol called the
T'ai Chi Tu
. This visual icon, often referred to as the yin/yang circle, reveals a symmetrically arranged interposing of two semicircles, one black and one white (see Figure 8.1). It signifies the natural order and renewal of a multiverse that is continually regenerated by the tension of opposing forces.

Creativity and destruction, life and death, health and disease appear to us to be absolute opposites, but the T'ai Chi Tu symbol reminds us otherwise. The great circle of wisdom teaches that in an integrally unified universe, separation is but an illusion. All opposition produces regenerative energy. Furthermore, these cycles are not linear, nor are they static, but rather they are circular and fluid. These multiversal cycles of energy are forever shifting from one polarity back to the other. December 21 may be the first day of winter and the shortest day of the year, but December 22 represents the first cyclical shift toward spring, as the first day of increasing daylight.