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Summer Reflections – Class #1 Notes

1) Quick introductions and class overview…(5 minutes)

2) Summer Daze – What’s in a season? a cycle? a phase?

Somatic Seasons – guided by lunar cycles (new moon/full moon)

Cognitive Seasons – guided by solar cycles (solstices/equinoxes)

Key Dates - reflect & review on each of the following days of the past Summer

                    Summer Solstice – JUN 20^th, Cross-Quarter (Lughnasad) - AUG 6^th

                   Solar Eclipse – July 22^nd Lunar Eclipse – AUG 6^th

                    New Moons – JUN 22^nd, JUL 21^st, AUG 20^th

                   Full Moons – JUL 7^th, AUG 5^th, SEPT 4^th
Somatic Strategies – Rip-A-Day Diary (events)/Crayon Meditation (emotions)

Rip-A-Day Diary - Buy yourself a spiral notebook with 90 - 120 pages. Each day, write the date at the top of the page Spend a fixed amount of time, {more than 5 minutes, less than 15}, writing down your thoughts. When your done, read it once, absorb the wisdom, rip it out and throw it away. You can accomplish the same benefit by calling your v-mail, listening back with you left ear to get the
emotional tone, then hold the phone off to your left and erase it. Some clients prefer to use the computer and type out their entry. That's OK too. Just erase it so the screen is off to the left of you, again to ensure that your brain places it your past.

Crayon Meditation - get a big box of Crayolas and go quiet, eyes closed for a full minute, which is 20 complete breath cycles - then with the eyes still closed, let yourself see the color of the clearest future path open to you that day. Open your eyes and find that crayon color in the box, break it, throw it away (always to the left). 64 days later, it's open.

To get prepared for the next session, ponder this self-inquiry as you consider the next lunar cycle...

1st Lunar Cycle of Fall: Regret (Loss In The Past)– Re-visit in class #2

Ask yourself, “What thoughts, feelings, and actions trigger an experience of separateness in my life? How can I transform these symbolic boundaries?”

3) Fall Back Questions/Summer Symptoms

Skin/Eye Sensitivity to Wind, Heat and Chemicals
Taut and Tender Muscles and Fascia and Postural Deviations
Insulin Resistance and Hypertension
To Take The Seasonal Transition Survey - Click Here

4) Seasonal Systems
   Spectrum Of Coherence - Positive Gains - 6 Basic Entrainments - Preview The Positive Gains Program here
    Summer - Inhalation (ONTO)/Fall - Impulse To Exhale (ECO) -- Review all the Seasonal Systems here
    Flutter Test -Inhale deeply, close your eyes, look up. Focus on the dates below (events) or the
    feelings associated with them (emotions). If there's incoherence in there, the eyelids will begin
    to flutter involuntarily. Notice the first color that you see or think of as you allow the impulse to
    exhale surface and let you release. Repeat the process to clear this out.
               Rejection (JUN 22nd-JUL 20th)
               Abandonment (JUL 21st -AUG 19th)
               Isolation (AUG 20th - SEPT 18th)

Note: William mentioned the book "Anything Can Cause Anything" by William David Harper - buy it here (ouch) gist here

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For William Wittman's related notes for all 3 teleclasses, click here