All healing comes from above-down, inside-out.
 

OPEN WIDE AND SAY AHHHHHHH !
By Jan Henrikson

When Barbara Streisand belts out the title song from the movie, "On A Clear Day You Can See Forever," she could very well be singing about the Clear Day that took place on November 4th at the Viscount Hotel.

In this Clear Day you may sing or honk or laugh or cry as you clear out old patterns, emotions, memories, joys, traumas, anything that is held in the body and no longer serves you. You don't release these blocks alone, but in a room filled with other people engaged in the same process. Presented by Dr.'s. Joan Norton and Nicholas Tivoli, co-founders of at-ease Wellness Center; a Clear Day is an intense magnification of their daily work using Classic Network protocol. A day buoyed by the spirit of --- yes, geese.

Geese show devotion and harmony in their group flights. Clear Day's group participants follow their example. "As each goose flaps its wings, it creates an uplift for the bird following," says a Clear Day Handout, 'Lesson from the Geese.' "By following a V-formation, the whole flock adds 71% more flying range than if each bird flew alone."

In a sense, Clear Day is a group flight. These participants, however, take flight on adjusting tables to higher levels of consciousness, rather than the far off skies of the geese flight

As Dr. Tivoli explains, "For the entire day, you are with a group of people committed to your healing process. As you stay in that supportive environment, your nervous system becomes clearer and clearer. Energy from the group builds during the day and you are riding on the uplift of energy created by the group. Many new friendships and very strong bonds are created that day. That makes healing easier and a lot more fun."

Just as in their regular practice, Norton and Tivoli move from table to table, guiding each person in his or her own process of transformation. Lightly, they tap and touch the body, locating and adjusting the subluxation complex. These touches catalyze releases of energy.

As Dr. Norton says, "The nervous system facilitates the innate ability of the body to self-repair. When the nervous system is cleared from interference the body will heal itself. It is always the body that does the healing. The power that made the body can heal the body."

Interference may appear as emotional, physical, or chemical stresses. The stresses may be released through sound, movement, or breath. One participant may scream and then fall into silent breathing. Someone else may cry and move with the grace of a mythic mermaid. Another may laugh, darting her hands and feet in the air, until she too cries and then laughs again.

Clearing is not a competitive sport. "Our goal is never to judge another's process. You have not lived their life in their bodies."

Yet each person's process impacts the group.

According to Dr. Norton, "If you play a certain note on a violin while standing near a piano, the piano string corresponding to the violin note will start to vibrate. This is called resonance. If the piano did not have the corresponding string, it could not resonate. It's the same with emotions. Another person can't make you angry. What happens is, the other plays the emotion of anger, and any corresponding anger that is already in you resonates. That is what happens on the table when one person laughs or cries and then others join in."

She adds, "You don't have to spend the rest of your life vibrating to your own or others' negative emotions. Stresses you long ago forgot on the conscious level are still sending out signals making you anxious, tense, fatigued, apprehensive, resentful, doubtful, disappointed. Practice members of at-ease have made the choice to release old patterns of blocked energies stored in their physical body. Releasing these blockages changes your vibration and allows you to more fully express the life force within."

"Adjustments give the person the freedom to write the symphony of his or her choice. Rather than being limited to one or two notes or tones, they can choose from a full range of tones or vibrations and create whatever symphony they desire. That is self-empowerment and freedom. AHHHHHHH !"

Speech therapist Carole Wothe was among those creating AHHHHHHH ! at the November 4th Clear Day. In addition to multiple Classic Network adjustments, this Clear Day offered The Power of the Breath, facilitated by Jim Parker, a guided meditation led by Patrick Daugherty, and Golden Age Tai Chi taught by Robert Firestine. All activities offered during the day were carefully selected to help integrate the adjustments.

"It was a phenomenal day," says Wothe. "I was dealing with a nagging ache in my back which is now gone. Old grieving issues just exploded away. I've made huge strides. I'm so grateful. Dr.'s. Norton and Tivoli never push you too hard. They know just how far to take you."

Wothe is a regular practice member at at-ease, which means she receives adjustments on a regular basis. Why would anyone receiving regular adjustments need a Clear Day?

"Healing is a process, not an event," says Dr. Tivoli. "After a Clear Day, those who are receiving regular adjustments, are even more encouraging and accepting of theirs and others' healing processes. The day is a way to accelerate their process."

Network has certainly accelerated Kim Dailey's entire life. Dailey moved to Tucson from Chicago in August. Her back was literally locked up during the drive. For the next two months, "my energy was low, motivation was even lower, and I was quite depressed. I was beginning to think the move was a mistake. The job search was taking its toll on my confidence."

She began seeing Dr.'s. Tivoli and Norton in October. Within a couple of weeks, she'd found a job. She started running again. "Network eases the tensions of being in a new city and not knowing anyone." Although Dailey received five years of Network adjustments in Chicago, she witnessed more releases in her first appointment at at-ease than she had in all those years. She believes that is due to the accepting, nonjudgmental atmosphere Norton and Tivoli provide.

Norton and Tivoli receive as much as they give. Dr. Norton says they "feel unending joy watching people unfold. A Clear Day is like watching flowers in a tight little bud unfold in a brilliant display of beauty. Like time-lapsed photography. The day is a great spiritual gift to us."

That day and every day involved in this process is a gift to them. " A nervous system in a state of ease is more in touch with True Self. It goes beyond wellness. Ease allows you more freedom, abundance, and the ability to express your full potential. Ease allows you to experience a connection with your spiritual source. Norton says. "From our consciousness, the social ills, the psychological disturbances, and our spiritual alienation cannot be separated from the physical state we experience today. The adjustment process is like removing the petals from the artichoke and arriving at the heart."

Once at the heart, people experience a profound sense of connection with everything and everyone. That connection can manifest in surprising ways. On this Clear Day of deep renewal and rebirth at the Viscount, a group of people in a nearby banquet room suddenly burst out with a rousing, "Happy Birthday!"

Barbara Streisand, the day couldn't be any clearer.

HEALTHY LIFESTYLES
November, 2000