The Secret Strategy Behind Healing & Awakening: How Sustainable Transformation Happens

What if real healing wasn’t a single breakthrough, but a developmental process that unfolds over time?

In this episode, we reveal the hidden structure behind deep transformation—what truly shifts beneath the surface when we heal, grow, and awaken. You’ll learn why sustainable change matters more than fleeting peak experiences, how energy healing interfaces with the subconscious, and what it really means to change your baseline.

We explore:

• The two directions of growth: vertical (awakening) and horizontal (healing)
• Why transformation is a process—not an event
• How energy healing accelerates deep change
• The .1% shift model: subtle, sustainable transformation
• A model explaining how incremental change can lead to peak experiences

This is a foundational episode for anyone on a path of conscious growth. Whether you're new to the healing journey or guiding others, you'll come away with a deeper understanding of how transformation really works.

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Welcome Back & New Season Preview

Speaker 1 0:01

Hello and welcome back to the future of wellness. Today we're talking about a topic close to our hearts, and that is what actually changes when we heal. This is a simple question that, in fact, changes everything.

Speaker 2 0:14

And we want to welcome you all back. We've been away for a few months, took a bit of a summer pause and now we're getting back to it with some great content, including this episode today.

Speaker 1 0:26

So we've been away integrating, listening, realigning, practicing a little of what we teach, in fact, letting things emerge in the right timing.

Speaker 2 0:35

We're going to be launching a new series or season of episodes this fall. We're going to switch things over to the video format I know many people really enjoy that and we're going to bring in some amazing guests about the topics that we specialize in.

Speaker 1 0:52

In the meantime, we're going to be sharing some short episodes direct from Keep it Myself. You could think of these as some personal, bite-sized transmissions on core themes that we care about, perfect for tuning in during your day or even returning to when needed.

Speaker 2 1:07

Today's theme is on the transformational process, which we're going to get to shortly. It's about how real healing happens over time in sustainable ways, not through just quick fixes or by chasing peak experiences. We're going to look at things like the vertical and horizontal paths of change and about shifting your operational baseline, which you'll learn about shortly.

Speaker 1 1:28

If this topic resonates with you, this is exactly what Keith and I teach and indeed live in our EHT 100. That's our foundational energy healing training. Our next cohort starts this September, first week of September. If you'd like to learn more about that, please do check out the website. We are currently enrolling a fantastic group and very much looking forward to getting started with this training. I believe that's coming into our sixth year of training people in this way.

Speaker 2 1:54

There is also a lead-in which some people may also be interested in taking a look at, which is a mother wound healing workshop, and that's this August. So please check out the website and maybe you'll be joining us soon.

Speaker 1 2:07

Looking forward to all those upcoming offerings. In the meantime, please do settle in and let's see where today's episode takes us. Let's dive in. Welcome to the Future of Wellness, exploring self-transformation and holistic healing to unlock your inner potential. Hosted by Christabel Armston and Keith Parker.

Speaker 2 2:35

I'm really excited to talk about this subject and that is how sustainable healing actually happens. We could call it the secret strategy behind awakening, behind healing, and how we can understand it through the lens of developmental directions, of growth, and why sustainable practices matter more, or at least equal to the peak experiences that tend to attract us to this whole process. You'll learn how shifting your operational baseline actually happens and what your operational baseline is, how energy healing fits into the mix with all of this. This is a bird's eye view and I think you're gonna love it. When you think of healing, what comes to mind? A sudden breakthrough, a miracle moment. We're diving into what we're calling the transformational process. This is something that we often do in the longer EHT training. We focus on this at the very beginning to give a sense of what does change really look like.

Speaker 2 3:40

Many people are interested in the prize, the carrot. The words that attract us are the goals, in a sense. Things like freedom, self-empowerment, embodied presence, empowered will and choice. Did these sound good? How about increased ability to be of service to others? Good? How about increased ability to be of service to others? Then we get into the realms of mystical experience, awakening experiences, extrasensory perceptual abilities. We get traditional enlightenment concepts like ending one's suffering, realizing one's true nature or something across really the human spectrum which is actualizing one's potential. Is there anybody walking around who doesn't want some of what I just described? These are the carrots. We should understand the carrots, we should lean into the desire of the carrot, but we have to understand the process of getting there and not go in in a naive way, not go in in an immature way, but understand what exactly is going to get us there in a sustainable way.

Vertical vs Horizontal Development

Speaker 2 4:53

There are two primary directions in which we need to grow and field dynamics, and the EHT program really focuses on both of these simultaneously. It's really important and I'd like to make a nod here to Ken Wilber's Integral Psychology. We can look at things as two developmental directions, one being vertical, the other being horizontal. Vertical development is what is sometimes referred to as state development, meaning how do we access the present moment? Think verticality, think central channel, think spine, think where the chakras go as you move up them. You're leaning into that verticality and in a sense, verticality is about not being horizontal. Verticality is about not being horizontal. Verticality is about interfacing with the infinite, the present moment, the eternal, the stillness.

Speaker 2 5:52

Practices that develop this are pretty much stemming from the meditation traditions. What is it like to actually break through to the profound, eternal present moment? This is vertical development. This is a really important component to the development and it's essentially moving us out of time, out of the narrative. In contrast, there's horizontal development where we need to engage with the narrative. In contrast, there's horizontal development where we need to engage with the narrative, we need to engage with the story and, as opposed to state development, this is often known as stage development, the stages of life, the stages of maturation, and horizontal development.

Sustainable vs Unsustainable Practices

Speaker 2 6:37

Temporal, time-based, narrative-based development is when we work through the issues, the identities that do pertain to our sense of time, resolving the past and the future. Practices here can be extremely varied. Whatever really floats your boat Psychotherapy, hypnosis, energy work, body work, journaling, shamanic journaling, nature immersion whatever it is that resonates with you, that enables you to engage with and ultimately dismantle, disentangle the narrative that our egos attach to and get fixated on regarding our story. It means processing all that stuff. Vertical and horizontal development are not entirely separate. Just working with stillness and meditation will induce an engagement with the things that you are stuck in in time. Working horizontally, working with your narrative in order to get deeper into the narrative. And in order to access deeper into the narrative and in order to access and actually heal and transform the stories that we tell ourself and the identity fixation connected to that, we have to actually become a better observer, a more neutral and stable witness. So they go hand in hand in a sense, but they are two things that are very helpful to demarcate and we feel it's very important to understand this map at the same time. One is the personal, one is the transpersonal, one is the horizontal, one is the vertical, one is in time, one is out of time. Now, an amazing, amazing revelation on my journey was that the most profound, the most important, the deepest work that I was doing shared one commonality, and that was whatever I did that enabled me to access my subconscious, was the key, and when I realized that pattern, I always tried to find a way to deep dive into that subconscious terrain.

Speaker 2 8:50

There is a certain term depth healing or depth psychology works with the subconscious mind. Probably the most famous psychologist in history related to this is Jung. Fundamentally, depth healing is defined as methodologies which work with the subconscious mind. So I'm going to give you some examples of some unsustainable and some sustainable versions of this, because if you're going to go and access depth, sometimes things are not sustainable. For example, going on a retreat is a wonderful thing, regardless of the structure of the retreat, the idea of immersion, the idea of leaving what's familiar, but you can't be on retreat forever. Psychedelics and working with power plants and shamanic traditions is another way to access depth fast, but it's not sustainable. Fasting is yet another unsustainable practice which does engage the subconscious mind. Many spiritual traditions have used fasting as a way to access the emotions and the psyche by simplifying what the body is having to metabolize, and this is an unsustainable, effective way to get at depth. And yet another is intense experience. So really, anything that pushes the envelope and brings up significant intensity potentially starts to push us into accessing components of the system of the subconscious mind which are not readily available in other circumstances. So those are all unsustainable. They're great, they're specific to each individual If there is resonance with you. Of course, it's not a complete list and those are a way of getting at depth.

Speaker 2 10:32

Now, sustainable practices are different. Sustainable means you could be doing this every single day, and this we suggest, strongly suggest, is a baseline is a thing to figure out what's your technique, what's your way, what's your path that enables you to have your inner laboratory accessible to you every day, that you go into that inner space, that you do some work, that you make headway, that you make advances, and then you're able to integrate that work the next day. Unsustainable practices don't do that. The nature of the unsustainable ones is that whatever depth they reveal usually takes a long time to integrate. Sustainable practices are short-term integration, so you can step forward with them every single day. So this is what you want to equip yourself with as a primary.

Speaker 2 11:26

Meditation is a wonderful, sustainable practice that does eventually lead to depth. Sustainable practice that does eventually lead to depth. Initially, meditation may not come across that way, but if you have a sustained meditation practice, it will very slowly go from the shallow end to the deep end. Energy healing is a wonderful, sustainable, depth healing practice. This is what we specialize in. I highly recommend energy healing. Energy healing the way we do it at Field Dynamics is like taking meditation and adding an accelerant, adding a component of catalysis that really brings another level of engagement. This is why energy healing is so accelerated.

Speaker 2 12:06

Dreamwork is a great way to get at depth because you're working explicitly with the subconscious mind, the realm of symbols and imagery. Journaling can be a really good, sustainable practice, kind of expressing ourselves, reflecting ourselves and then reading that back and being able to extract or understand some of the deeper patterns General expression, art. So general expression, art, creativity can be a great way to look at the subconscious mind. And yet another is diet. Now, in opposition to fasting, which is extreme, modifications to the diet are ways of having a sustainable practice which, in the long run, reveals more of the subconscious mind. A simple example of that is the yogic tradition, in which they recommend you might say it's through Ayurveda or the yogis in general a sattvic diet. Now, in the long run, balance wins the race. This word I can't emphasize enough balance, balance, balance, balance over extremes.

How Gradual Change Creates Transformation

Speaker 2 13:10

Sustainable practices that I'm describing are all about balance, and balance seems bland. Think of it as a tightrope walking life on a tightrope. Balance is the most important skill there. With a balanced, sustainable practice, you can take a step forward every day. You can appropriately integrate what changes at a rate of transformation that is digestible. So let's look at this in terms of what does change look like over time? This is a great way of understanding rates of change. So we start with an operational baseline. An operational baseline is like what is your norm today? How does your system function mind, body, emotions and we have a baseline.

Speaker 2 13:59

Gradual change can be hard to see because it works in incremental shifts. So when we think of change and we have this allure to the extremes. But how can we see that a lot is happening when we go to these more incremental shifts? So let's just say you had a sustainable practice that makes a 0.1% change in your system right. Let's just think of it in statistics a 0.1% change. Do you think you can notice what 0.1% change differences in you in a given day? The answer is no, not so perceptible.

Speaker 2 14:38

But let's just say your meditation practice, your energy healing practice, changes at 0.1% per day. Now if you do that for 100 days, for a bit over three months, you'll have changed 10%. 10% in three and a half months. Do you think you can notice 10%? The answer is yes, you will notice 10%. And when it comes to extrasensory perception and sensing energy, one of the things that we notice working with people is that day-to-day in an energy healing practice, people's sensing doesn't necessarily sharpen on a day-to-day basis to the degree that they can notice. But when we check in three months into a training and we say, how is your sensing now compared to when we started, people really notice the difference. And that's because it is this 10, 20, 30% change. So just at a rate of 0.1%. In 100 days it's 10%. That means in a year it's about 30-something percent. That's a big difference. You want 100%. Try 1,000 days. 0.1% every day for 1,000 days, which is just under three years, is 100%.

Speaker 2 15:54

Think about that over time. This is really a mature way of understanding what change actually looks like. And I think a three-year umbrella is a great timeline to consider. Yes, you have weekly. Yes, you have monthly and seasonally and annually. When you stretch into a year, two years, three years and you make this kind of change, what is it like to look back at yourself and say I barely recognize my former self? This is what happens when people undergo real sustainable inner work. They don't recognize their former selves. They change so much. They keep regenerating themselves in a different way that at a certain point you go who was that former self? What were those behaviors? What was that way of thinking? What was that state of health? What was that way of relating to the world that I no longer recognize? I'm not that person anymore. This is a wonderful map to understand how change happens.

Full Circle: Commitment to Daily Practice

Speaker 2 16:58

Let's bring things full circle. We do want the carrot. It's exciting, we need a carrot. Let's use an analogy of chopping down a tree. You have your sustainable practice. You meditate every day. You practice energy, meditate every day. You practice energy, work every day. You create abstract art or journal or reflect on yourself every day, and you keep going deeper into yourself in one way or another. You take the axe, you try and chop down the tree. You swing the axe it looks the same every day. It's a big tree and after a thousand days of swinging the axe the same way and having incremental change all along the way, what happens? You swing the axe, it's the same as the 999 times before it and boom, the tree starts to fall down.

Episode Closing & Call to Action

Speaker 2 17:48

The peak experience is induced, and this is very often what happens with peak experiences, with mystical experience, with major transformational events. We maintain a commitment, a dedication and a determination, a perseverance towards a particular goal, and iteration brings us into that transformational experience. We don't know when that's going to happen. There is no set rule or map for any individual, but what we can do is invest in ourselves in a sustainable way. So, in a sense, real healing isn't about chasing moments. It's about dedicating ourselves to what's ordinary, to the day, to something that makes a difference here and now, that I can take with me tomorrow and when your baseline shifts, your life is shifting. That's the heart of the transformational process. Sustainable practices are ways to anchor yourself in something that becomes your primary inner laboratory. There's nothing more inspiring to us than the feedback we get on reviews, on people reaching out to us, on telling us what they're interested in hearing about. So subscribe, comment, contact us. We'd love to hear what you're doing and how these topics resonate and apply to you in your life. Thanks for listening.

Speaker 1 19:28

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