What is Natural State Restoration?

We are born with profound healing abilities and the ability to live in a comfortable state of loving acceptance: that blissful state that infants are in when they are fed, loved, and comfortable. As adults we can choose to live in that state even when we are in stressful situations. And no, we don’t have to meditate for decades to find it. It’s already here.

Great religious and spiritual teachers tell us to love, but rarely tell us how to love. Modern, rational thinking cuts us off from the idea of the infinite. We make mistakes when we think of love as a finite commodity.

Cultures that believe in the presence of ancestors in our daily lives live in the assurance that they are loved unconditionally. Our grandparents are less invested in what we do in life and our great-grandparents even less so–they just love us. How powerful a force when we believe all those that loved over countless generations are connected in a living web of love?  We can find that same deep connection by allowing for love as an infinite. If we have only felt truly loved once in our lifetime, we have experienced all the love that ever was and ever will be.

But what about healing?

In our natural, loving state, we are able to go where healing exists. After 50 years I can do some on my own but I still need a guide familiar with the method.

I have no explanation for what occurs during these healing sessions.

I can offer sessions where I can help you find healing. I absolutely believe in Western medicine so I ask anyone I work with to have a doctor. In my New York practice, I had doctors send me people with chronic illnesses such as auto-immune and post-Lyme’s as well as various cancers.

Natural State Restoration, a method I’ve been developing since 2001, emerged from my 1973 initiation into an ancient Shamanic healing, my study into other aboriginal healing, and my research into the ideas of philosophers of the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries. They come together, oddly enough, in the absolute primacy of love and trust. The other core element is the ability to enter safe and loving states of being at will and without the uses of psychoactive drugs: I use the term Inside Space or Inner Space (see coming blog post.)

NSR has a lot of moving parts so I go into detail in blog posts. I encourage people to read as much as they need and to practice the breath.

Our first moment on earth nature teaches us how to breathe, eat, sleep, wake, explore and trust. We are able, as infants to experience a blissful, secure and loving state. That state is never gone. We just need to find it (see blog post.)

We find that loving state by restoring our natural signals. Breath is the key to that. The two genuine shamans I’ve known all breathed in a noticeably different way. When I asked I got the answer what do you mean? It just comes naturally, or words to that effect. It took me two decades to find it in myself. I will be adding audiophiles teaching it. It’s just a matter of finding the signal. Once the breath is restored all the other signals return.

Modern life sweeps away those signals. We tell each other to breathe deeply, but that serves only to light a fire in our brains. Our thoughts are perpetually out of control.

Likewise, we sweep aside food choices that are based on biological need in favour of choices dictated by corporations. We eat food that is nutrition free. I’m not saying never eat for fun; only do so relatively rarely. (I myself have a weight problem all my life and have lost over 100 pounds in the 20 years practicing this breath.)

Love, as the late bell hooks proposes, has been missing in our thinking and philosophy. Without using the word “love” Jurgen Habermas proposes that our emotional bonds to others  constitutes the strongest social force.

When we consider love to be finite we make myriads of mistake in love’s name. If we think there is only a limited supply we cast others out of our lives as unworthy. We might even make love conditional. We think that love makes us vulnerable to being hurt (see blog post.)

In fact, being loving toward everyone helps us stay safe. If we act from love it becomes easy to determine who is safe and who is unsafe.

NSR gives us access to deep healing abilities that are deep within us. We are used to listening to only a few signals in our body. We ignore many signals to the point that we get sick or get pain. (See blog post on healing.)

You will learn to find states of safety in order to fully feel all feeling.

NSR shows that all feelings, as soon as they are detached from our overactive brains, serve a valid purpose. They are all our best friends and allies and can help us live a full life.

Raising Children to be Aware of Inner States

We usually ignore or even put down our inner lives – who has heard a teacher tell a kid to quit daydreaming?

We can raise our children to be aware of and be able to discuss their inner lives. We can teach them how use the infinite resource inside of all of us. We can soothe when we are upset, but we can also visualize a better world and find ways to make the world better.

By demonstrating our own ability to self-soothe and by naming the various states we can go to our children will be infinitely more resourceful. My own son knows how to achieve various states of calm and bliss that an older yogi would envy.