IAAP Newsletter:The Unified Field
2007 Third Issue
Jeannie Robinson
Mid-Life Divorce & the Patterns of Marriage
In our first class Chris (Jorgensen) told us that Attunement would change our lives. As time passed my experiences in Attunement put me in touch with my essential Self in a way I had never experienced, a way that felt like coming home. As I came home to my Self, it became apparent that I needed and wanted to make many changes in the way I had been living. My husband and I realized that our 34-year marriage was no longer a place where we could stay, and we divorced. This sounds relatively simple, but here is where I came face to face with the power of patterns, multi-layered and long-lived. These patterns ranged from complicatedÑwhat is now my role in relationship to friends and family?–to fairly simple–what side of the bed should I sleep on? Not only did these patterns affect which day I did laundry, they also showed up to complicate a new relationship. Each pattern needed examination. Did it add to who I was or did it need to be released? Imagine my surprise when patterns I thought had been dispatched showed up for return visits. Often, in spite of my hard work, there were days when the past seemed more real than the present. Always, being in the loving flow of the Attunement current was my saving grace and gave me peace. With prayer, meditation, self-attunement and rituals, I worked (and continue to work) to release old patterns. Daily I use Attunement to choose where I will put my energy to bless my new life and sanctify my surroundings. Just as Attunement allowed for my growth in consciousness, it also helps me on a daily basis to re-create my world and new life-affirming patterns.
After re-reading the words I just wrote, it occurs to me that if I struggle with changing patterns of 34-years, how much harder it might be to change patterns centuries long between countries or groups of peoples. Patterns such as using aggression to settle disputes or acquire what is wanted, or demeaning the humanity of another group of people to become more important or powerful. As human consciousness is raised and more people desire to live authentically, nations will have to follow, letting go of destructive patterns of behavior. It becomes imperative to begin work now on releasing world patterns in much the same way one would after a divorce because they are larger, of longer duration and more destructive.
–JR
Colleen Nilson
How Attunement has Helped Me as a Parent
The greatest learning experience and opportunity for spiritual growth in my life has been my role as a single parent. Being a parent is not easy even if you have a good partner.
My sons are 17 years apart in age. All of the time I was raising my oldest son, I was unaware of Attunement. Even so, I always relied on my relationship with the Creator for guidance and support. I find that even now that he is an adult, my role as a parent continues.
Attunement has proven to be a very effective tool in my parenting. I am very aware of the difference Attunement has made. Two of the most diffi cult aspects for me personally as a parent are letting go and not reacting with frustration, fear and anger but with calm, steady love and understanding. Attunement is a great tool for both of these aspects.
During Attunement classes, Chris (Jorgensen) spoke often of using energy to create a container. It took me a while to understand this concept. I use distance Attunement with the boys. I think I create containers for myself as well as for them. Attunement becomes a place where I can go to calm down and center. It is a place for me to express love and faith instead of fear and anxiety, an energy fl ow I can feel to assure myself that whatever they need, the Universe is supplying. Both of my sons have been very challenging, fearless, adventurous and rebellious. As they choose to do things the hard way, I can observe and let them experience life on lifeÕs terms without my mediation.
On the nights when my youngest son (now 18) is out late or traveling, instead of worrying for his safety, I have learned to "tune in" to his energy and know that he is safe. I fi gured this out when I was doing distance Attunement for my neighborÕs teenage daughter. After a frantic call from my neighbor late one Friday night, I started distance Attunement for her daughter and knew immediately she was in trouble; there was no energy. We were able to get her help.
Attunement reduces the arguments. I can set limits and consequences without emotional attachment for the outcome. It keeps me calm and unemotional so I can let the consequences of their actions manifest without interference, without feeling personally responsible. Being a parent is not easy but it has been easier with Attunement.
—CN
Megan Brownlee
Ben's Journey
The pattern of death in the world is an energy pattern that we each will work with some day. We are all born into and we will all pass from human form. I recently heard a Roman Catholic priest say that 99% of people in the general population are afraid to die. For me Attunement is one way to address and release this fear. Over the 21 years that I have been in the nursing profession I have assisted many individuals as they moved through the dying process. I have worked with the elderly and death. I often use some light touch Attunement with the elderly because many are not physically touched any more and touch is so nurturing. Similarly, I have worked with infants whose life-patterns are half on the earth plane and half elsewhere. Light-touch Attunement nurtures and encourages the physical form to receive the radiation of love so that Being can stay in form or release as the divine design requires.
My recent experience of working with the death pattern was with Ben. Ben was an eight year-old boy dying from rhabdomyosarcoma (a rare cancer). I worked with him and his family for approximately three months on a daily and sometimes twice daily basis. Over time the Attunement current permeated BenÕs family and home. Attunement brought pain relief to him from the numerous headaches and the pressure stemming from the rapid growth of his tumor. In one conversation with BenÕs mother about six weeks into our time together, she remarked that Ben was having noticeably less pain and experiencing a sense of relaxation, peace and a letting go. This change was combined with spurts of energy which allowed him to visit places that he loved. He journeyed to the pet store, the book store, the marble factory, the movie theater and to friends and family memberÕs homes. In my experience with Ben I found that Attunement created a connection Being to Being. My words and thoughts in this communication were love and thanksgiving for all that his presence had brought on Earth.
The final stages of the dying process are often fi lled with the evidence of the physical form shutting down. Attunement can help sooth skin that has become sensitive to the touch of a sheet, relax hands and feet that have swollen due to organ failure, and ease rapid and irregular breathing patterns. There is a shift of awareness as the dying process unfolds. Instead of having an awareness of who is in the room, the individual will likely become more inwardly focusedÑloud sounds such as voices and the noises of a home that were once irritating may no longer bother them. There may be a change in the intensity of the energy in the upper and lower portions of the body. It is vitally important to remember that even to the last breath, the Being can hear what is being said to them. Attunement surrounds it all. Attunement lifts us from the human concerns of how the physical form looks and smells or is breaking down, to the place of peace and understanding, where Love and Being eternally abides.
—MB
