Metamorphosis Therapy -

Alternative Healing Therapy from the Inside Out

(Note:  All information supplied in this website is provided courtesy of Metamorphosis SA)

What we call the beginning is often the end, And to make an end is to make a beginning T.S. Eliot

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What we call the beginning is often the end, And to make an end is to make a beginning T.S. Eliot

When we fall ill and go to a doctor or therapist we are probably hoping for immediate results, for change to take place that is observable physically (if the illness is a physical one), for someone who will release our tension so we can get some sleep, or for someone to soothe our distraught emotions.  Because of this “results syndrome”, we look for outside help and want it to work instantly; we want results.  Over the years, we have largely lost the ability to be responsible for our own state of health, and have put that responsibility onto people we do not even know.  We are relieved if it works but are frustrated and go elsewhere if it does not.  Most of the time we are out of contact with our inner self.  We prefer to remain so rather than re-establish contact, preventing the purpose of the illness from becoming clear.  We may be temporarily cured but after a time the energy block will reappear, perhaps in some other form.

The person involved, however, can make a deliberate choice to free himself.  He can act in order to seek help in the knowledge of what is taking place.  When we begin to take responsibility for ourselves, we see results in a very different light.  As changes begin to manifest, we recognize what the bodymind is saying, we understand why we are ill and why the energy blocks are there and we stop suppressing them, as a surfer rides the waves instead of battling against them.  With Metamorphosis we find that all forms of dis-ease are highlighting a blocking of energy, and when the energy flow is freed the dis-ease is resolved.  The healing may take time to become apparent; changes may not be immediate, but they tend to be of a permanent nature.

Inner changes are usually recognized as a subtle reorientation, a growing sense of purpose, a new direction, a sense of “getting on course”, a feeling of rightness.  A client has written to us, “I feel a dropping away of old patterns.  When confronted with familiar situations, I find I’m just about to respond in my normal manner when something stops me.  A voice inside says, wait a minute, that’s the old pattern, what’s the new one?  Then I find I’m responding in a different way; a new pattern is emerging.”  Sometimes there are very definite changes one can see or feel, as with a four-year-old who walked for the first time in her life after only a few sessions, but often the changes are intangible, the energy is moving on so subtle a level that we are almost unaware of it.  It is like trying to watch a plant grow – we know it is growing but we cannot actually see it happening.  We may not be able to relate, for instance, to the fact that we are having our feet worked on every week.  Friends say they see the difference in us but we find it hard to believe them.  We are not aware of the changes because they come from within and we are those changes.  We cannot measure them against something that is fixed as everything in us is in a state of flux.  Furthermore, we sometimes even lose the memory of how we used to be and the problems that we battled against.

It is never possible to define the nature of the change, the time it will take, or the manner in which it will happen.  Can the ways of life ever be defined?  The impetus, the movement of change, comes from the life force, and so it may contrive circumstances or “co-incidences” that cannot be explained in order to effect a release.  Anything, from a chance encounter, a bad fall, a sudden fever, or a different therapy may be used when and if they are needed, to bring about a state of wholeness.  The life force will engineer this so that the inner healing will take place.  One client had a bad back had seen many different osteopaths before coming regularly for sessions of Metamorphosis.  He then met a new osteopath, and after manipulation the pain in his back was relieved.  The life force used the help of this osteopath to release the energy, but the back did not get better solely because of the manipulation.  It improved because the pain was no longer necessary; as the patient was expressing a commitment to transforming himself through the Metamorphosis sessions, the life force had begun to activate the learning and healing process.  The new osteopath came at the moment when the pain was ready to be released.

Although momentous changes may take place, we have noticed that at no time is the client unable to cope with the changes; a state of balance is always maintained.  The life force is regulating the inner movement and it ensures that nothing detrimental will happen.  Of course we cannot say specifically what the life force will or will not do, but the mechanics at work appear to sustain an equilibrium even when deep hidden patterns come to the surface and are released.  A state of inner rightness and stability underlies the movement of change.

This applies when what is known as the Regressive Pattern occurs, where we appear to get worse, or may even experience past illnesses or difficulties.  With Meta we are working on loosening a time structure, the past is being brought into focus and the holds in time let go.  It is not, however, always necessary for the past to come into full consciousness, as the release is in the abstract; it is the energy that was diverted by the events of the past that is being dealt with, rather than events themselves.  It may be that we do actually experience these events but they will be of much shorter duration, with greater or lesser intensity.  It is the life force that is effecting the regression and however difficult the changes may be, they always take place at the right time and with sufficient energy.

One example of this regression is when a child of 5 or 6 years old, will regress to a stage of 3 or 4 months old.  When this happens, the parents should respond accordingly.  A child of a few months old needs a great deal of loving physical contact, so if the parents understand, and respond as though he were actually a baby, he will feel the security he needs and will be able to move forward again.

As we change our environment changes and this affects those around us.  This can be seen clearly in the case of Mary, a woman in her early forties who had suffered from severe depression for many years.  Separated from her husband, with three children, she was living with a friend who was in a similar situation with two children.  Mary had reached the point of being referred to a psychiatrist, becoming totally isolated and agoraphobic.  She began to receive Meta and then she decided that what she really wanted to do was to go to bed, to opt out and spend some time completely alone.  In her own words, it was the hardest thing she had ever done.  There was tremendous resistance because of responsibilities but to her surprise the whole household rallied round to support her.  She eventually spent five weeks in bed and like a baby alternately cried a great deal or lay and did nothing.  Vivid dreams followed, mostly indicating a conflict in finding her own identity, especially as a woman.  Throughout her time in bed she continued with regular sessions.  When she eventually got up she felt renewed and released.  She took up painting and got a job as an assistant physiotherapist in a psychiatric ward.  It had been a time of “coming back to a state of non-struggle, a coming into a knowledge of self.”

Mary’s story shows a regression taking place to allow for a movement forward, but it also shows how the environment came to accommodate the changes happening in her.  Where Mary had responsibility, others stepped in, and in so doing discovered new areas in themselves.

Transformation is not an easy process.  As we let go of our old pattern, our fears and inferiorities, we open the way to move on – forwards and upwards – to new patterns, new understanding and expansion.  But there can be a tremendous resistance to letting go; memories from the past hold us back as much as fear of the future.  A person who has suffered an acute disability for many years will have grown accustomed to it, it will have become a normal condition.  Unconsciously there may be the feeling of fear of being free of the disability.  People who undertake to use the Meta, and are beginning to change, may suddenly stop for a while.  This can be due to a deeply rooted unconscious fear of change, of losing control, of letting go of what is familiar, and having to move into unknown ground.

There are also times when a person seems, consciously or not, actually to prevent himself from allowing anything to happen.  When this occurs the feet that are being touched can feel heavy, lifeless, physical extensions that do not seem to belong to the body above.  It is a paradoxical situation, as if the door to the patient’s life force had been opened and then slammed shut again.  Nevertheless the fact that he has come to receive a session means that there is an overall desire for change.

With this approach, the life force is healing from within us so any form of illness can be looked on as “curable”.  At times a serious degenerative condition may not alter directly, but the attitude of mind behind the condition can change and this is what can affect us physically.  Mental handicap and brain damage are both conditions that have been known to change considerably, especially with children, as their patterns are not yet fixed as those of adults.  Children are freer; it is easier for them to change.

Practitioners working with patients with such conditions as Down’s syndrome and autism say how they first notice a sparkle coming to the children’s eyes, and that this is followed by a greater awareness and mobility.  It would appear that a child suffering from Down’s Syndrome is in this condition because of his eagerness to incarnate, so he works his way out of the syndrome by going through the stages of development that he missed.  Conversely, an autistic child seems to be so because of a reluctance to come into matter and change, he will be effected by his coming more into contact with reality.

When we receive a Metamorphosis session we often have a feeling of energy flowing, a new vibration within the bodymind, a landscape, as it were, opening up within.  As we let go we gain far more than we lose.  As Mary once said:  “I felt that my awareness was being stretched, that I was both dislocated and delighted at the same time.”  But we may also experience a feeling of confusion as the energy shifts and begins to find a new expression.  It can take a day or two to settle down.  After spring cleaning a room that has been in the same condition for forty years, we need to re-orientate ourselves to our new environment.  Some of the objects will have been changed around and others discarded.  It takes a little time to feel at home again.  If we move furniture around too often, we have no chance to live in the room and appreciate it.  The client uses the time in between each session to re-orientate and get accustomed to the new inner environment.

Time is an indefinable concept.  With Meta the work seems to be done “out of time”, although the energy is released in time.  The life force of the client may take weeks or months to bring about a transformation.  So, when one is asked how long it will take for change to happen, the answer cannot be given.  By accepting responsibility for our own healing our life force can move as is appropriate.

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Last modified: July 15, 2004