Step Seven: Working in - How to maintain space, stay on the Path of Truth, and make progress Every Single Day
If what you are facing is one of the more nebulous, complex dis-ease processes that often goes along with bouncing from doctor to doctor, its often key to any recovery story you’ll find of people who have found their freedom from it. And yet, most doctors and healers don’t even have a grasp of this concept as a possibility for treatment. The importance of taking your own initiative here cannot be understated.
These types of illnesses include everything from mold poisoning, chronic lyme, chronic fatigue, MAST cell activation, and cell danger response to more well labeled and profitable conditions like cancers, chronic pain, and GI disorders. It is something, more than anything else, that you really have to practice yourself in order to be convinced. You have to be adamant enough with its inclusion as a core facet of healing in order to experience it personally, and most people are not willing to do that. But when you do, you will be rediscovering what has in many cultures around the world been a part of daily life in one way or another since the advent of civilization. From the very start of city states and centralized living in high populations, we have developed coping mechanisms that allow our bodies and minds to counteract the added stressors of an unnatural way of living. It is with a great deal of irony and has resulted in a great deal of unnecessary suffering that we have begun to forget these practices only recently, as our lifestyles have become all the more alien.
Very few practitioners in the western world outside of those exposed to Paul Chek’s work know the power of these practices as part of an organized healing or training program. Many health influencers discuss the importance of modalities which would be considered an act of working-in, but no one I have encountered so far that hasn’t benefited from Chek’s influences really makes the connection between this type of practice and the full benefit it provides, let alone includes it as a core modality of a healing program.
What does working out do? It breaks down tissues and expends life-force energy. Rest allows a healthy system to rebuild what was broken and restore reserves of what was spent. What is working-in? These modalities literally build reserves of life-force back into the body, no matter how burnt out the system is. They restore energy, balance energy, and build energy where there was none. Furthermore, they can invest energy in the system as a whole or be focused on specific centers of energy -think chakras or danteans- for a variety of targeted approaches.
Even eastern, integrative, and holistic practitioners overlook this often, with recommendations that are costly, time consuming, and lend your power to external sources like acupuncture, massage, laser therapy, thermogenesis, PEMF, colon hydrotherapy, hyperbaric oxygen, and the list goes on. I love and value many of these modalities, but they are not daily rituals. They do not change the way you live. They do not offer life long lessons, growth, or health benefit that is accessible to you as a free breath of air.
Once we learn to walk, Lord willing, we have that gift for life. You will cherish working in just the same. Why rely on expensive twigs thrown on the flame once a week or once a month when you could have an inexhaustible fuel source that is inexorably linked to your inner Fire wherever you go?
Working in gives us the option for projection to higher levels of consciousness, or to press an automatic ‘save me’ button that returns us to baseline in any waking moment. To walk this oft overlooked avenue that lies in wait between exertion and rest is to always be chipping away at the root cause of your Dis-ease, no matter the ailment. What more praise can I possibly give than that? And don’t forget, it should be a core component of your healing process, not an accessory item.