Meeting The Don

It's funny how someone you bearly know can lead you to another who opens your eyes up to a completely different way of thinking which ultimately changes your whole perspective entirely. Fleur did exactly that. When I met her at the Yoga Cafe she'd just spent a couple of hours chatting with a guy called Don. She described him as a modern day guru who gives you a really interesting insight to how your mind works, how your thoughts affect others and ultimately the world. I was intrigued so I called him up and arranged to go and see him the following morning.

Don is American and NLP expert who, along with Tjokorda Gede Rai, I attribute to the massive change in my perspective. In a nutshell Don and Tjokorda Gede Rai 'turned on the light switch' for me. Meeting them both was incredible and the 'work' Don and I did definitely changed my life. For the better I hasten to add.

Don introduced me to two fascinating approaches: the wonders of PEAT - Primordial Energy Activation and Transcendence and also emotional energy and how it affects you physically.

Basically there are two fundamental possibilities for us as conscious human beings: dualistic and unified consciousness. Most human beings live predominantly on the dualistic plane, in which they see, perceive, and experience everything in opposites. It is always either/or, good or bad, destroying or creating, advancing or retreating, freedom or slavery, love or freedom, life or death, I or you… endlessly…

Connected with this dualistic consciousness is this strange fact: all of us have one single most fundamental problem in life. Mystic masters say that if we do not resolve this fundamental problem in this lifetime we will have to return to work further on it in future lifetimes. Now, using the PEAT process, it is possible to solve that problem across all your lifetimes.

In 1999, Zivorad Slavinski created Primordial Energy Activation and Transcendence (PEAT) from roots in various systems of Energy Psychology. Shortly after its creation, he made an essential creative breakthrough which allows you to transcend dualistic consciousness and to effectively solve hard-core problems – most importantly, your core, fundamental life problem. His presentations of PEAT were very well received at the Toronto Energy Psychology Conference in November 2000 and at the European Energy Psychology Conference in Switzerland in July 2001.

At its basic level, which is called Shallow Processing, PEAT is similar to other energy psychology systems, involving the acupressure and the heart chakra systems.

In PEAT Deep Processing you start with a problem and you uncover deeper and quite different contents in the chain of links leading to the deepest cause of the problem you started with. Each session lasts from 15 minutes to two hours (on average 40 minutes). When you reach the deepest cause, the problem vanishes for good.

Most importantly, in one to three sessions of PEAT Deep Processing, you are able to uncover, make conscious and Neutralize your Primordial Polarities ("Primes" for short). Neutralization of your Primes solves your most fundamental problem forever. You can’t avoid this resolution, even if you wanted to. This process liberates each human being from the deadly grasp of the fundamental forces of duality. At the moment when you discover your own Primes (Primordial Polarities) there is a Neutralization of opposites. You see one Primordial Polarity in another and vice versa. You become ONE. You are one with the Cosmos. And I actually experienced this.

Like I said before, I'm always slightly disappointed when I read other peoples accounts of their spiritual experience - hopefully by explaining in detail you'll get a good idea of what I experienced. It was pretty incredible. Basically once I'd discovered my primes (wrong v right in my case) I was surrounded by this bright, white light which has a hint of green to it. It felt really good or rather I felt really good. Not like 'oh my god, I feel good, this is wonderful'. I felt complete, peaceful, calm and very loved. They call this nirvana - it was amazing. Short lived but truly mind blowing nevertheless!

Still with me? Good.....I promise you I haven't gone mad...

So as well as introducing me to the wonders of PEAT, Don also introduced me to emotional energy, how it causes blockages in your body and ultimately this can
result in disease. He also taught me how to remove it using a magnet of all things.

Again this was fascinating - by focusing on an individual problem and 'feeling' it in your body (you can feel a problem if you relax and focus on the feeling it conjours up) you can eliminate it using a magnet to draw out the energy.

I had to imagine the negative emotion, what it looked like, its colour and where it was also lying in my body (in my case solar plexus - area just below the centre of your rib cage). Then using the magnet I had to envisage the energy moving out of my body. In my case up through my throat, into and out of my mouth. It was unbelievable - I could actually feel and taste the energy. It took ages to removed too which meant it was an emotion which had been lying dormant for a very long time. And afterwards how did I feel? Lighter - in fact when I went to recall the emotion I felt nothing. No anger, no resentment.

I saw Don twice and what we uncovered was pretty mind blowing for me. Explained a lot. Put so much in perspective and totally made sense. In fact the last 35 years of my life made complete sense. I won't go in to the details cause that my friend is way too personal, and I'm not sure you'd find it particularly interesting anyway! What I will say though is it completely changed my perspective.