FORCEFIELDS: REGRESSION’S YOUNGER BROTHER, STRONGER BROTHER

 

Hans TenDam

 

               “Forcefields” is an inner exploration modality. 

 

More than 90% of the sensory modalities we use in regressions is visual. Visual impressions provide the story. We use them to elicit thoughts and emotions and working through them elicits hopefully cathartic experiences, often life changing. After all, if the client’s life doesn’t change, what are we doing?

Logically, sounds, auditive impressions, could fulfill a similar function. In practice they don’t. After a few weak tries, I rarely ask for sounds. It may be to hear a voice. Even more rarely, we ask for noises in the situation, or music.

I found a new entry, a new dimension, a new world if you like.

What are we doing now as regressionists? Reliving the beginning of problems, discovering what really happened and how it affected us and why it remained unsolved, unhealed. Encountering and confronting and dealing with external presences and influences through personification and energy work. Finding and recapturing lost part of ourselves, through personification and energy work.

The proposed forcefield therapy can be considered as a kind of energy work, but it refrains from visualization. And from regression: as there is no rediscovering and reliving the past.

Like my approach to regression, it is weak on theory. It is strictly empirical: based on experiences, procuring experiences, leading to new experiences.

For what kind of problems is it indicated? Addictions, depressions, in general slow and resistant conditions. It seems to reach areas that regular regression hardly reaches.

For many it led to experiences that can only be described as consciousness-expanding. Without drugs, without mantras, without diminishing clear-mindedness. So personal growth is also a field of application. A huge field.

The kind of regression work most similar to what I propose here are core issue sessions. Also, constellation work could be used to explore forcefields. Compared to what happens when using ‘forcefields’, regression work seems superficial.

FORCEFIELDS is a new chapter to our work: between the emotional and the physical.

More than 90% of the sensory modalities we use in regressions is visual.

Visual impressions provide the story. We use them to elicit thoughts and emotions and working through them elicits cathartic experiences, essentially life changing. After all, if the client’s life doesn’t change, what are we doing?

Logically, sounds, auditive impressions, could fulfil a similar function. In practice they don’t. After a few weak tries, I rarely ask for sounds. It may be to hear a voice. More rarely, we ask for noises in the situation, or music.

I found a new entry. I experimented with it several years and last December a whole 3-day program, here in Goa, was dedicated to it. In a later Zoom-meeting with the participants they evaluated. I summarize:

• Can be used as an alternative induction, when other inductions fail.
• Gives a new dimension to energy work; gives enduring energy shifts.
• Not only as a postgraduate topic. It should be part of the graduate program.
• Generally, strengthens the will, encourages, energizes. The client discovers inner powers. As one of us said “I was finding my other self.”
• This is specifically indicated, when the client’s problem has a relation with a larger, impersonal external forcefield like the corporate world.
• Newly experiencing forcefields is like learning to ride a wild horse.

Compared to what happens when using ‘forcefields’, much regression work seems superficial.

This seems to me the essence: Gives a new dimension to energy work; gives enduring energy shifts; strengthens the will, encourages, energizes.

In our work we use four experience levels – but there is a fifth.

• Thoughts (verbal bridge)
• Memories and visualisations (imaginative bridge)
• Emotions (emotional bridge)
• “The will”: motivation, desires, etc.
• Somatics (somatic bridge)

What are we? Mind, soul and body. But there is a fourth, between soul and physical body. Occultists talk about four vehicles

• Mental body (ideas, thoughts, memories, perceptions)
• Astral body (emotions)
• Energetic body (etheric body or vehicle of vitality)
• Physical body (somatics)

Our soul is also a vessel of forces:

• needs
• urges
• influences
• benevolence and malevolence
• vectors
• self-confidence
• expectations, etc., etc.

Energetic experiences in therapy are usually hidden, ‘dissolved’ in talking about emotions or body feelings. When we say we feel weak or strong, that might be both a mental feeling and a bodily experience. It is an energetic experience.

Chronic energetic problems are addictions, compulsions, obsessions, depression, persistent psychosomatic problems.

The direct approach to the energy body is experiencing forces. Forces have power – and they have direction. All forces have direction: forces are vectors.  Forces may be linear, circular, spiralling. They may be pushing or pulling. Or sucking. They may go outward or inward, they may accelerate or slow down. We may feel them inside or from the outside.

Instead of asking for images or emotions or body feelings: we ask for “naked” forces.

Enter a world without light, without sound, a lightless, soundless world, without thought or emotion. A world of just sensing. Sensing forces, movements, directions, density or heaviness, dispersion or lightness.

In regressions, we do not only ask for images, but always we ask also for thoughts, feelings and body sensations. We speak about four levels: verbal, perceptual, emotional and somatic. There seems to be a fifth aspect, between emotion and somatics. By lack of a better word, I talk about forces or forcefields.

In it, we enter into a lightless and soundless world of tactile experiences. Experiences of pressure and suction, heaviness and lightness, centripetal and centrifugal forces, density, acceleration and deceleration, direction. These experiences seem related to what we call instinct—and to what we call our will. Particularly unemotional, unthinking will.

This is also related to issues like responsibility and decisiveness.

If we think of the mental, astral, etheric and physical worlds, this is clearly direct work on the etheric, the purely energetic level. Being and doing without emotion or thought is related to the plant world. Compare this with the mental and emotional aspects of regular regression work.

My experiences with having clients experience pure forces indicate the possibility of deep and surprising interventions. It gives us an opening to issues that are difficult to solve by our current methods: perfectionism, addictions and obsessive-compulsive behaviour in general.

This is thus a new subject, a new dimension in our work. The approach is still in its infancy. But the experiences are promising.

In working with forcefields we do not explore feelings that come up, but purely “mechanical” sensations.” We focus on forces and what they do to us. There is no story. At least, not now. Maybe later. Only sensations. Often very powerful sensations, sensations that vitalize, expand and free us. Maneuvering is possible during the session, like turning a boat in the wind.

By the way, I discovered that doing this we are re-inventing Taoism. Compared to what we use to call the P.o.O., the Place of Overview, the state of mind that we use to evaluate a whole life, there is also a P.o.B., a Place of Balance; in Chinese philosophy called Tao. A state of mind without pushing or pulling, where al the forces that work in opposite directions neutralize each other. The ultimate peace of mind.

When working with forcefields is indicated? My first guess:

• Utter lack of calm, of peace.
• Existential insecurity
• Never being really present
• General non-satisfaction

When ‘normal’ regression methods fail to solve energetic problems: compulsions, obsessions, weaknesses, persistent psychosomatic problems

• Probably: sexual problems
• Very probably: addictions

In regressions, we do not only ask for images, but always we ask also for thoughts, feelings and body sensations. We speak about four levels: verbal, perceptual, emotional and somatic. There seems to be a fifth aspect, between emotion and somatics. By lack of a better word, I talk about forces or force fields.

In it, we enter into a lightless and soundless world of tactile experiences. Experiences of pressure and suction, heaviness and lightness, centripetal and centrifugal forces, density, acceleration and deceleration, direction. These experiences are probably related to what we call instinct, and in people will. Particularly, unemotional, unthinking will. This is related to responsibility and decisiveness.

In being and doing emotionally and unthinkingly we resemble animals. When we act without emotion and without thought we resemble the plant world. If we think of the mental, astral, etheric and physical levels, this is clearly direct work on the etheric level, the purely energetic level.

My experiences indicate the possibility of deep and surprising interventions. This might give us an opening to issues that are difficult to solve by our current methods: perfectionism, addictions and obsessive-compulsive behaviour in general. This is thus a whole new subject, a new dimension in our work. The approach is still young. But the experiences keep being promising.

We do not explore emotions that come up, but mechanical sensations: forces and what they do to us. There is no story. Only sensations. Often very powerful sensations, sensations that vitalize, expand and free us. Manoeuvring is possible during the session, like turning going against the wind into going with the wind.

This approach is still experimental.

Enter a lightless world, a soundless world in which you only experience forces, within you and around you.

Forces may be sensed within the body, just around the body (“the aura”) and in the world around us. The internal force fields and the external force field.

People may sense linear pulling and pushing forces, centrifugal and centripetal forces, rotating forces clockwise or counter-clockwise; rotating forces upwards and downwards (vortex).

Some forces affect us, some forces drive us, other forces hold us back.

Feeling surrounded by forces may make us feel stable or unstable. Forces may be massive or subtle. We may feel us massive or subtle. Experiences of stamina and durability, of speed or stagnation.

Clients report experiences of power and powerlessness, not abstract and general, but specific, localized, with direction and impact.

 

 

Examples of possible questions and suggestions:

• Everything visible and audible falls away. You only experience the forces that play within and outside of you. What forces are working right now? Sense them.
• Sense the slowest force that works here. The fastest.
• Is there a force that goes up? Down? Sideways? Forwards or backwards?
• In what direction is the strongest/oldest/most positive force working? Does it push or pull you?
• Where is the main force in this situation? Place? Direction?
• What is the dominant force right now? How does it impact you? Where? In what direction?
• Does a centrifugal force work? Does a concentric force work?
• Find the Place of Balance between pushing and pulling, between front and back, left and right, upward and downward.
• Sense the oldest force, the most experienced, the most ancient, the first, the primal.
• Sense the youngest force, the most fresh, the most innocent.
• Sense the most calming force; the most exciting force.
• Sense the most positive force; the most negative force.

As you may have noted, I use here sensing instead of feeling, to avoid the connotation of emotions. Comments from experienced therapists:

• Going along with the individual forces, after first sensing the main forces, I found very powerful. Two times I have already used it successfully in my practice. In one case, someone was ‘catapulted up’ by the force of his son coming straight from the front. After sometime he naturally felt pulled back to the earth, having gained an important overview.
• This experiment taught a lot. In my group we all regained strength in a short time. We elaborated on what we experienced in the group session. In short sessions energetic power was converted or recovered. Valuable to use during sessions.
• An interesting and super-inspiring experience. During the group session I received a substantial insight in my chronic fatigue and I will start working on it.
• In a later session with a client, I started working with these forcefields. Valuable!
• This experimental training was interesting and surprising. “The most disturbing power” turned out to be my own power that I had put far away from me. To have it back feels wonderful. I have now the tools to practice this.
• An interesting day with new opportunities for our clients. This type of work appeals to me, I feel at home with it. The day after, I resolved a persistent sadness in myself, using forcefields.

 

Maybe this gives you an idea. ‘Sin’ in Judeo-Christian beliefs: something to be warned against. If you do wrong, you have to pay for that. Not in the afterlife, but in your next life.