Healing and Dealing: Essays on Becoming Wholed
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When our lives are imbalanced at any level of our Self, i.e. physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, or relationally, we can experience stress, discomfort, unhappiness and illness. In his book Healing and Dealing: Essays on Becoming Wholed, Peter Cloud Panjoyah offers a roadmap toward an elusive balance point, outlining possibilities for healing inwardly and outwardly. Utilizing humor, poetry, sensitivity, and the fruits of thirty years of personal process, Panjoyah's is a rare voice in the self-help arena. This book lays out the nuts and bolts of how to heal the emotional denial that has plagued humanity, impacted our health and created dangerous dramas on the world stage.
Cutting edge, practically applicable healing strategies explored at all levels of being, including interpersonally.
Personal stories and other peer input offer the potential for real, lasting healing on an individual and collective level.
Emphasizing self-care, the power of the human voice, the release of limiting beliefs, and common sense outcomes, the seeds of transformation lying within the pages of this book could change your life.
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Healing and Dealing - Peter Cloud Panjoyah
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Essays On Becoming Wholed
Peter Cloud Panjoyah
© 2020 Peter Cloud Panjoyah
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-9990631-1-5 (Audiobook)
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Greenview Publishing
Hornby Island, BC
V0R 1Z0 CANADA
All poems and songs in this book were penned by the author unless otherwise noted.
Newborough font courtesy of Roger White
Cover art by Bee Wolf-Ray
http://instagram.com/beewolfray
Dedicated To
All Humanity
May We
Find Balance Now
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part I The Physical Body
Chapter 1: Tips For Long-Term Body Health
A Great Mixed Drink
Cooling Off Injuries
Breathe, Breathe In The Air
Oxygen
Breaking Down A Deep Breath
Diet
Stretching
Exercise, Movement and Inner Listening
Body Sovereignty
Sleep Support
Immune System Support
Western Medicine vs. Self-Care
Ode To My Body
Chapter 2: Bodywork
The Logistics Of Booking A Massage
S l o w i n g Down
Suggestions for Receiving Massage
Emotional or Sexual Responses During Massage
Massage Aftercare
Rotating Bodyworkers
Chapter 3: Habit Your Way
Habits Versus Addictions
What Does Body Want Now?
Chapter 4: Fasting Down
fffffFast
Chapter 5: Balancing Bodies and Computers
Other Office Detriments to Body
For The Men
Chapter 6: Body Meditations
Somatics
Continuum Movement
Dreamwalking
What Is The Physical Body?
Part II The Emotional Body
Chapter 7: Emotional Expression and Denial
Expression Is the Key
Among Our Earliest Messages: Shut Up
Expression, Then Understanding
Suggestions for Safe Expression, Alone or With Others
Tips for Getting To Ignition
Letting Go Versus Expression
Emotional Projection
From Misunderstanding to Responsibility
Many Roads
Men Need To Heal and Deal
Emotions Can Grow Up Too
Chapter 8: Sound and Safety
The Importance of Safe Release Space
Free
Will?
Earth Changes and Emotional Expression
Chapter 9: The Backlog of Emotional Charge
Eliminate The Kneejerk Reaction?
Thar Be Treasure Below!
How I Broke The Ice, And What Happened Next
from A to U
Chapter 10: Whose Emotions Are These Anyway?
Practical Assumption: If I Feel It, It Is Mine
Fear of Rage
True Rage Release
Verbal Versus Primal
Cycling
Chapter 11: Fear of Fear Itself
The Universal Judgment on Fear
Fear or
Love
Handling Fear in a New Way
Fear -> Love -> Trust
The Faces of Fear
Ways to Release Fear
Taking Action Can Be Acting Out
Judgments on Expression
And It Has Come To Pass......
Chapter 12: The Downside of (Held) Anger
Individuals’ Collective Rage Projected On the World Stage
Releasing Anger Safely and Effectively
Feared Repercussions
Chapter 13: Proactive Vs. Reactive Healing
A Safe
Trigger: Allowing Fantasy To Trigger Proactively
Reactive or Unsafe
Triggers
What is the Payoff?
Chapter 14: Recognizing and Releasing Guilt
Recognizing Guilt 's Voice
Awareness of Guilt Leads to Healing and Dealing
Guilt’s Other Face: Blame
Chapter 15: Emotions and Functionality
Judgments on Free Expression of Emotions
Not Everyone Releases At Once
Releasing In The Midst of a Busy Day
Walking The Fog
Part III The Mental Body
Chapter 16: Proactive Thinking and The Great God of Logic
The Mental Body’s Disconnected State
Getting Physical Helps The Mental
Getting Emotional Helps The Mental
Heart As the Balance Point
Chapter 17: Judgment Release
Right Rather Than Happy
Verbal Judgment Release
Internal Judgment Release
Judgment Nests
Truth vs. FLATs
The Inverted Pyramid
Judgments Vs. Affirmations
Acceptance
Chapter 18: Heal The Past to Change The Future
When The Moment For Decision Comes, The Choice Will Be Obvious.
The Past As Part of the Present
Chapter 19: Asses Out of You and Me
Hidden Fear Driving Assumptions
Death is Inevitable (And Other Judgments)
Chapter 20: Honestly!
The Hiding-Spilling Continuum
Truth Begets Trust
Chapter 21: Extreme Self-Love
Part IV The Spiritual Body
Chapter 22: The Embodied Spirit
The Resistance To Embodiment Within Spirit
A Body In Pain’s Need For Spirit
Meditation on Your Pain
Medication
Do Not Go
To Heaven – Bring It Here!
Chapter 23: Not So Hasty
Fear of Death
Options for Slowing Down
Chapter 24: The Three Mo's
Groups vs. DIY
The Positive Feedback Loop
Chapter 25: Desiring Spirit and Cultivating Faith
Desire Matters
Expressing Emotions Magnetizes Spirit
Dare To Burn
Prayer and Desire
Desire Cards
Desire and Faith
Chapter 26: Personal Empowerment
Power Flower
Consensus Judgments
Chakras, Karmic Bonds & Cording
Releasing Karmic Cords
The Dark Before Dawn
True Love Power
Our Lost Spiritual Powers
Part V The Relational Body Love, Family, Friends & Others
Chapter 27: Relationships
The Gap
A Key: Seeking My Responsibility
Letting Go
Chapter 28: Interactive Process
I Need To Spew
Virtual Process
Acceptance, A Key to Safe Expression
Chapter 29: Reflections and Personal Responsibility
No Accidents: Our ElectroMagnetic Nature
Human Magnets
The Parts We Left Behind
Chapter 30: Competition - A Dog Eat God World
Judgments Driving Competition
Chapter 31: Strong Emotions Around Children
Children Learn 24/7
Mechanics of Expressing Around Kids
Allowing Children To Feel Afraid
Chapter 32: Children Expressing Emotions
Emotional Sponges
Our Feelings, Their Feelings
Children Expressing In Public
True Versus Artificial Peace
Worse Before It's Better
The Family Lightning Rod
Bestowing The Blessing of Free Expressing
Encouraging Children’s Emotional Understanding
Layers of Seriously Repressed Emotion Surfacing
Emotional Piggybacking
Parental Choices for Handling Their Child’s Emotionality
Timeouts for Parents
Releasing Beliefs About Parental Emotional Responses
Chapter 33: Sacrifice and Selfishness
Judgments on Putting The Self First
The Cycle of Giving and Receiving
A Free Society?
Chapter 34: The Family Contract
Hallmarks of The Family Contract
Family Contract Roles
Free Will And Obligation
Family Types
Free Will Within Families
The Rebel Disowned
Psychic Effects of the Contract
Voiding The Contract
The Global Family Contract: Government As Executor
The Universal Family Contract
The Healed Family
Chapter 35: The Art of Loving Touch
Touch or Violence
Non Sexual Touch, for Self and Other
Safe Touch for Young Children
Chapter 36: Sexual Wounding
Two Patterns of Wounding
Staying Present and Moving Slowly
Sex for Pleasure and Healing
Sex with a Survivor
The Various Forms of ‘No’
Mutual Responsibility
Undoing Rape Culture
Resisting and Receiving Female Outrage
Stand
Chapter 37: You Can’t Always Get What You Want
Releasing the Attachment to Outcome
Chapter 38: The Fulfillment Path
Working to Change
Getting the Help We Need
The Coffin Zone
Visions for Our New Life
Conclusion: Changing the World
How To Make A Difference
The Impact of Personal Healing
Accepting The Journey
Welcome To The Revolution*
Acknowledgements
Related Reading
About The Author
Preface
In 2001, living 4000 miles from New England where I grew up, I found myself talking across several months in email with my mother and sister about my take on the healing process, particularly my emotional healing journey. After many long backings and forthings, in which I would share a little about my process and they would ask questions about how I got there and what I got out of it, leading to more explication, I received feedback particularly from my sister Alison that I did a really good job explaining something that was in many cases quite esoteric and nonverbal, and that I should consider writing a book about it.
Meanwhile, I was four years into a new relationship with Bee Wolf-Ray, a woman who I've come to consider one of the clearest channels of spiritual information that I've ever heard. Bee would often Be-Earth
, a term she coined that she preferred to the notion or concept of channeling, holding forth on many aspects of healing from a deeper or greater aspect of her Self. We recorded many of these sessions, and I often transcribed them. Year after year since that time, she has brought forth many very helpful understandings and concepts that aided our own healing, information which comprised a significant portion of the raw material for this book, for which I am enormously grateful. We are still in partnership after twenty-three years and Bee is still BeEarthing helpful and impactful information to this day.
I absorbed and integrated much awareness along the way in receiving these BeEarthings from Bee that I felt could help others besides just the two of us in their own healing from trauma or simply life in western culture. In addition, I was heavily influenced by a series called Right Use of Will
by Ceanne DeRohan, as well as, ultimately, what I grounded and integrated from my own source as a result of my personal growth process.
So in 2003 I decided to take the plunge and started penning monthly articles for my local newspaper which consisted of my take on aspects of the healing process. Bee was my editor and greatly assisted me each month in both illuminating and clarifying my points, helping prune my rough drafts down below the paper's word limit. I published some fifty articles across five years which were well received by my community. Somewhere during those five years I began expanding the articles' base material, fleshing out my topics and adding new ones, with the idea of taking up my sister's suggestion. You now hold the result in your hands (or have on your screen, as the case may be), after many delays, editing passes and self-publishing.
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Introduction
For nearly thirty years I have been actively engaged in healing my own patterns and past. This process has consumed me, and I have been dedicated to and enchanted with it and all of its workings, both on the inner and the outer. During this time I have also studied the workings of energy at all levels and how that energy flow affects healing, taking years of classes and practicum, soon maintaining a private energy healing practice. In 1996, when I felt an inner urging to have this practice be more grounded in the physical, I began private study with various individual bodyworkers, and took several massage courses, revamping my healership into a massage practice that focused more on the physical and emotional aspects of healing, as opposed to the mental/spiritual aspects that occupied my time as an energy healer in the early to mid-90’s.
Within these pages I offer some signposts outside conventional approaches to healing. I welcome disagreement, debate, and strong emotional response to what is said. My words are my opinions and my personal truth, not necessarily Truth, although opinions can sometimes be experienced as Truth if there is enough trust in their validity and practical applicability. What I offer has been time-tested in my own life, and in the lives of many of those in my healing community.
The recommendations and conclusions drawn in this book are off the beaten track and reflect a life currently being lived largely off the grid
. They are not intended to reinforce what you already know, but perhaps what you have suspected or conjectured. For example, many people have not realized that expressing emotions in sound could possibly be healing or a good thing; after all, won’t we just create more of the same if we do that? Or could it be, like a pressure cooker being relieved of pent-up steam, that the dynamic, evolutionary creations we are become more functional and balanced if we hold less emotional charge?
This book is written in the hopes that it will help people think, feel and act upon changing and releasing old habits. It is divided into four parts across what I consider to be the four layers of the self: our bottom line
, the physical body; our inner feminine, the emotional body; our halfway house
the mental body, and our eternal, timeless light of consciousness, the spiritual body, all of which comprise the Self as a whole. I include a fifth section which follows the first four, The Relational Body: Love, Family, Friends and Others
, for it is in this realm of life that the four bodies of our Self touch and interact with another’s four.
Though the text is divided neatly into these five discrete sections, there is an emphasis and focus throughout on the issues of the emotional body and how to effectively deal with emotional triggers. I focus on the emotional body because this part of self seems to be in direst need, collectively speaking, of more evolved understanding. It has become abundantly clear to me that a deep inquiry into one’s emotional backlog is not everybody’s journey. But it is the work of some, and the beauty of finding out if you or someone you love are among the some is that, ultimately, healing is do-it-yourself work and has a self-selecting quality to it. That is, you try it and it works and you feel good about the process having an encouraging effect, or you ditch it if it seems or feels wrong for you. Or, you do not even try it because it does not draw you. Hopefully discarding such an inquiry is not rooted in a belief that might read, I believe it works but it is just too hard and painful so I am going to give up and try a mental technique because it seems easier
.
There are many suggestions for healing and dealing
offered in this book. It may be tempting to believe a possible guilt message that if you don't apply all or most of the tips, healing and dealing is not for you, you have failed, or you are not a 'good' healer. Guilt, however, is not a truth teller. I encourage you to pick and choose what resonates for you to try on, and ditch the rest. Not every suggestion is meant for every person.
In addition, everyone has different pacing with their self-healing as unique individuals with unique right times, and cannot be compared lovingly to anyone else's healing path or arc of healing. Comparison energy is not in service to balancing and healing ourselves.
I have subtitled this book, Essays on Becoming Wholed
, because a dear friend said to me that, more than healing wounds, the impetus we all have towards maximizing our potential
and recovering from what we have endured in all of our painful history is to become whole people again, to have access to all of our power, all of that great potential becoming actualized or well on its way, so that life becomes an exciting adventure again, in every single nook and cranny of our existence.
Healing is a process, and the process molds us, happens to us, takes us over in the best way possible, becomes us. Adding the 'd' onto the word 'whole' somehow indicates to me a progression; motion. Motion generated via the increasing energy of rising vibration, which happens when we express emotions and receive resultant understandings. Some people think of emotion, or e-motion, as shorthand for energy in motion
. All this considered, it feels right to coin the term wholed
to more specifically reflect the ultimate outcome of the healing process.
I was not trying to reach every person with my columns, nor am I with this book. The kind of people I am hoping my words of encouragement might help are not those who have no apparent problems or ongoing issues in their lives. The kind of people I am trying to reach and perhaps help are the ones who are often having reversals in their fortunes, who cannot win
, who have seething cauldrons of old emotions in them that they are not sure how to deal with, or who may be having physical problems and wanting to reach for new ways of responding to them.
I feel it is important for people who read my words to know which category they fall into, by and large, so they know if the content is applicable to them or not. If it doesn’t resonate, it simply means the material, or that part of the material, is not right for you. It may help to carry an awareness that different people on different paths need different help.
In describing examples or anecdotal illustrations of various healing scenarios, I often use the third person feminine
convention of ‘her’, for several reasons. Firstly, it is too cumbersome to always use him or her
, secondly, third person masculine has gotten most of the airtime over the millennia and it is time for a balancing, and thirdly, especially when it comes to describing scenarios involving the emotional body, the feminine principle is what I most closely associate with emotionality.
At some point in the healing process many of us reach a point where we would like to have some sort of group or peer support. There are people all around us doing vulnerable, deep healing work. There are people doing this work that one can meet through the web, through various workshop communities, and through friends of friends. Intending to find them and staying open for opportunities to be with them will undoubtedly lead anyone who wants help from individuals and/or groups, to begin to develop the roots of a support system.
The words healing and dealing
are sprinkled throughout the book. This phrase indicates the work that we do to clear ourselves of backed-up emotional charge and old habits of thought (healing
), which in turn manifests an outward flow of action toward people and situations in our lives (dealing
) that reflect the dynamic balance we achieve, bit by bit, through consciously engaging in the process.
Healing and dealing is a reiterative process, like the fish that flops onto land only to slide back into the water twenty times before she grows legs and walks out for good. We make the same mistakes over and over again until we grow the legs of true depth of understanding and walk out of the sea of confusion and pattern. This is accomplished via the evolutionary process of the Wholing Selves We Are.
I wish you all good and strong healing and dealing. In so doing, may we reclaim ourselves in all our fullness and power, and bring balance back to life on Earth.
PCP
British Columbia
Spring 2020
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Part I
The Physical Body
Chapter 1: Tips For Long-Term Body Health
A Great Mixed Drink
I've been hearing about this great mixed drink. Unlike most mixed drinks, I hear the more you drink, the clearer you get. Heavy indulgence doesn't result in getting tanked or a crippling headache the next day. You don't have to wait in line at the liquor store to get some, and even minors can indulge freely. How do you make it? Two fingers hydrogen, one oxygen. Hey, barkeep, set my friends up over here...it's on me.
Make sure the glass stays full...as soon as you knock it back, top it off, as a visual cue for the next time you pass by your tankard, that there's more to be had. Guys, it's okay to chug-a-lug it like a triple shot. Drink and pee, drink and pee, all day long.
Feeling hungry a lot? Down a big glass, wait 15 minutes, and then see if you're really still hungry. We've grown so chronically thirsty for so long, we sometimes mistake our body's signal for more water as a call for food. For best results, drink a lot at room temperature on an empty stomach to give your body the highest high, and don’t mix it with anything else—juice is not the same thing. They don't call it a watering hole for nothing! Especially if you've just received bodywork, had a big cry, or have done a lot of physical activity. Flush those toxins!
Cooling Off Injuries
Then there's the frozen form of this elixir of life. Be cool. In fact, be cold. Get yourself one of those soft packs, wrap it in a hand towel, and put it on anything that hurts. Strap it on if it's going on a hard-to-balance place. Yeah, I know it feels better short-term if it's hot, but nothing brings that curative, long-term, deep secondary blood flow like ice. 10-15 minutes on...then take it off for another 10-15 minutes. Then on again, then off again. A total of three rounds, twice a day. Just chill those aches right out. Alternating cold with hot can be another successful experiment for your body, who speaks to you in a voice only you can hear. My body doesn’t have the same needs as your body, which doesn’t have the same needs as your friend's body, ad infinitum. This book isn’t meant to be a bunch of one-size-fits-all techniques, it’s more like a store – take what you need and leave the rest for someone else.
Breathe, Breathe In The Air
We live in a culture of shallow breathers. Shallow breathing starves the cells of our body and leads to all sorts of long-term nasties. You can go a few days without water, weeks without food, years without exercise but go a few minutes without oxygen and you will die. As far back as 1947 studies showed that normal cells can easily convert to cancer cells when chronically starved for oxygen. Lack of oxygen resulting from an overly rapid and shallow breath rate can contribute to heart disease, strokes, depression, sleep issues, fatigue, premature aging and nearly every malady known to humankind.
Corporate industry and the style of modern life, as well as its conveniences, have in many of us led to decreased outdoor activity and increased work indoors, coinciding with an increase in exposure to pollutants. Restrictive clothing such as tight waistbands, belts and bras compromises the ability to breathe fully and effortlessly and can contribute to digestive, elimination or lymphatic issues. These factors, combined with the subconscious fear of triggering the emotions stored in our body, help create shallow/rapid breathing patterns.
Cultivating an intent to face the emotions that can be stirred by continuous proper breathing allows one to begin the journey toward clearing the impediments to greater oxygen intake and resultant cellular health. When we intentionally breathe deeply, we stir the held fear, grief or anger in the rib cage and internal organs such as the lungs, heart, stomach, spleen and liver. This is a good thing if we have acceptance for the possible emotions that intentional deep breathing might surface.
Moving the lungs more fully with deeper breathing also assists in lymphatic fluid moving through the body. Only physical movement, including but not limited to deep breathing, can move lymphatic fluid through the glands and thereby eliminate wastes and toxins much more easily from the body. Besides physical movement, there is no other pump to keep your lymphatic fluid moving, as, for example, the heart is for the blood.
Oxygen
Oxygen is the key component in the production of ATP, the chemical basis of energy production in the body. Deeper, slower breathing increases production of ATP. Increased oxygenation also improves blood quality, aiding in the elimination of toxins. It especially improves overall brain function and pineal/pituitary gland rejuvenation. Skin becomes smoother and stress load on the heart is decreased (thanks in part to greater lung efficiency), resulting in lower blood pressure. Increased diaphragmatic range of motion massages
the heart, liver, pancreas, stomach and small intestine, stimulating blood circulation in these organs.
Breaking Down A Deep Breath
The website http://holisticonline.com describes the complete breath
in good detail. It starts with a lower
breath inhalation