“Holding STATE” is something I
learned during my craniosacral training.
Although it is hard to describe, it can be learned and with practice it
becomes easy and you can “hold State” easily for yourself and for others.
A student of mind describes this as the “no nothing” state. However, it does not mean you do “no
nothing”. As the person holding the
state, we are mindful of being in a state of balance awareness, i.e. awareness
of our inner thoughts and the field of resources within us and around us. We learn to just be with whatever emerges
within us and our external interaction/relationship with our environment. We become a witness of our internal thoughts
as well as external stimulus.
Some say you become the "container" of state
between you and another person. A
craniosacral practitioner’s role is to create this ‘STATE’ (through visualisation and perceptual fields)
and thus allowing our client’s body/mind to resonate and process. The strategy is straightforward and most people
instinctively understand it the first time around, because it is the natural
thing to do if you love, respect and care for someone who needs support.
When you
meditate you are holding the STATE for yourself and when done in the Cranio
SelfCare4Health method, you begin to feel present, warm, safe and loved, and
your body starts to reorganise and self-regulate thus allowing healing to take
place. You can also hold the STATE for
another person too. When you hold the
STATE for another person, you are creating a safe, loving and ideal condition
for the other person to feel present, warm, safe and loved while they undergo a
process of emotional pain, intense anger and frustration and discovery of
self. We as the practitioner are
offering ourselves as the resource for any overwhelming thoughts or feelings
that our clients may be encountering on their healing journey to process and
release. We are not judging, giving
advice or offering a solution. We are
just there, in the present moment, holding their pain, their anguish, their joy
and their state. Everyone has and is
responsible for their own state. And
this does not mean that person cannot hold the STATE for another until they can
make it for themselves, like we do in Cranio SelfCare4Health.
It not difficult to hold STATE, just remember this easy rule, when you hold the STATE you create the
environment for being present, safe, non judgmental, love, respect, validating
and listening. The key is intention of
just being present.
Here are some key characteristics to holding of STATE:
1) Practitioner state of balance
awareness – grounding, your midline, your biosphere, 5 zones
- You are centred, present and
grounded
- Your heart is open and opening
- Your mind is awake, aware and alert.
- You are neutral, not trying to
influence the situation.
- You are not trying to fix it or
affect any kind of outcome
- You walk along with them without judgment, sharing
their journey to an unknown destination.
- You give your heart, let go of control, and offer
unconditional support.
2) Internal state and external state in a state of balance
3) Sutherland’s 5 phenomena
4) Shift to a wider perceptional
field of awareness
5) Orientation to Primary
Respiration and Stillness, where health
arises from
6) Orientation to Potency
7) Orient to our mid-line
8) Getting in touch with our
resources
9) Ability to connect to the
source - to RE-SOURCE
10) Ability to be present and aware
11) Ability to feel secure - safe -
12) Our inner strength, stamina,
endurance , patience
13) Becoming
to emotional relationship to fear, anxiety, anger (or pain) that
arises during session and having the ability to resource from a state of
comfort
14) Ability to
adapt to change and break state
and re-establish the State of Balance Awareness and resource
15) How much we identify with the
situation and how much state we can hold around our inner process
16) Contact with client and tuning from the EDGE boundary
