Whenever we try to define and explain the functional organisation our biological system there usually emerge a multilayered framework which fits both what we observe in our inner world (physical and mental) and in the outer world. Such multilayered models are represented in most traditional health systems as well as modern medical and psychological theoretical depictions. Bio-analysis uses a similar five layered framework to discuss the dynamic organization of our system. It is important though to understand that such a model is based upon a mental and symbolic image created for the sake of our conscious understanding but that our system functions as a dynamic whole all the time. It is also important to remember that terms or words used to name the layers or their qualities may not always convey the full context of the specific dimension and that there is always danger of contamination from the use of these terms in other fields such as alternative medicine, religion or philosophy.
FIRST DIMENSION
Bio-analytic principles – dynamic matrix
The first functional dimension is loosely equated with matter as the most concrete aspect of our system’s organization. In bio-analysis our biological body is seen as an intelligent and self-organizing matrix which is the source of all the other functional dimensions. Bio-analysis does not accept a division between body and mind or between body, mind and spirit.
- Quixotic ghost or modern matrix: We have an ‘inner world’ based upon an all-inclusive dynamic matrix, which adjusts naturally to various, preferred levels of functioning, whether physical, emotional, rational, psychological or spiritual. This inner world is not walled off from the outer world but engages in constant interaction with the outer world via a porous, interactive boundary.
- Circles and lines: Our body consists of dynamic and permeable matter, which forms a matrix of interwoven systems by creating reciprocal cycles and layered order
- Dynamic clockwork: Our dynamic matrix is a self-sustaining system which uses interconnecting feedback cycles to maintain a coherent identity.
Bio-analytic lifestyle -multifaceted wholes
The first dimension is represented in our everyday lifestyle as an ability to perceive and experience our dynamic structure and its essential organisation as an integrated whole. Bio-analysis therefore strengthens intuitive internal perception and ensures that we consciously apply ourselves with a sense of innate totality.
- Walls and mirrors: Bio-analysis develops a state of contemplative attention which channels sense perception and emotional disturbances via more integrated body processes. This induces thoughtful observation and discourages inflexible expectations
- More strings to the bow: In a bio-analytic lifestyle we enhance the structural organisation of our multidimensional system by consciously connecting more functional dimensions to our bodily experiences.
- An inner voice: To expand conscious observation of our inner organisation we have to use intuitive feeling to connect our conscious mind with our senses. This will signal the underlying state of our inner world as well as our interrelation with the outer world.
Mediated feedback- participating observance
Mediated feedback, when used in relation to the first dimension, is a technique that aims to increase our conscious ability to observe and maintain our inner organisation as a unified and dynamic matrix. It has to train our consciousness to be supple enough to coordinate our inner bodily experiences and the outer world into a multifaceted whole.
- Safe viewing: The first step towards contemplative attention to our body self is to create a safe enough environment for undisturbed observation.
- Quiet observation: With mediated feedback we develop a sense of introspective self-approval and confidence in our individual survival by observing the natural responses in our body.
- Alert relaxation: Mediated feedback creates a disciplined state of alert relaxation in the body which enhances connection with our unconscious and increases the conscious component of our coherent organization.
SECOND DIMENSION
Bio-analytic principle – rhythmic order
Rhythm can be seen as the ordering principle associated with the second dimension, which again can be equated with the basic concept of movement or energy. Rhythm, like matter, is a basic form of ordering. In any living system, rhythm accommodates change and reconciles opposing tendencies during the active organization of our system.
- Resonant purpose: Rhythm is a state of continual return to equilibrium brought on by natural movement towards the most beneficial state of being for a particular living system. It is not a linear process, but an oscillating balance between counteractive directions.
- Pulsating boundary: Rhythm is a direct and immediate inner ordering principle that modulates the constant adjustments inside our biological system and keeps them within the boundaries of our inherent capacity.
- Vibrant participation: Rhythm allows dynamic engagement in inner and outer adaptation, not with fixed control, but with a harmonious receptiveness that promotes survival without exhausting energy resources.
Bio-analytic lifestyle – measured adaptation
Rhythm is the natural ordering strategy of our biological organisation and we have to allow our system to follow and adjust according to its inherent rhythms during everyday change and adaptation.
- Sensible sequence: In a bio-analytic lifestyle we observe and consider our natural rhythm and its ongoing ordering of everyday changes and adjustment by creating a healthy balance between our conscious intervention and the inherent organisation of our system.
- Finding the beat: In a bio-analytic lifestyle we interpret and follow the energy flow of our natural inner processes in a playful and receptive state of mind.
- Following an inner partner: Because a rhythmic pattern is also a form of inner prediction, we can use rhythm to coordinate outer reality with inner needs.
Mediated feedback – connecting mobility.
We can use mediated feedback to influence the natural rhythms in all aspects of our system’s organisation.
- Inner footwork: Mediated feedback uses the harmonious receptiveness of our body rather than fixed control to save energy and balance our system during large alterations.
- Time to tango: Mediated feedback uses the fact that rhythm normally assumes its own boundaries to develop a sense of trust in our systems ability to make compensatory changes.
- Swing wide, swing smoothly: Mediated feedback uses the harmonious receptiveness of our body rather than fixed control to save energy and to adjust to large alterations.
THIRD DIMENSION
Bio-analytic principles – intelligent nature
Bio-analysis regards the dynamic interactivity of matter as inherently intelligent processes. Along with our conscious mind, we have an ‘intelligent inner mind’ based upon a body intelligence that is able to define and organize our inclusive identity in a coherent way.
- Hidden logic: In our system’s self-referring organization, our inner mind has an inclusive, decision-making logic, which forms a bridge between physical and rhythmic bodily ordering processes and the shaping of an individual coherent identity.
- Divine power: The activity of the inner mind is essentially unconscious, and only a small amount is allowed through to the awareness of our conscious ego. We therefore experience the all-inclusive quality of the unconscious inner mind as if it originates either from an inner being or from a transcendental outer being.
- Poetic sense: Consciousness increases the scope with which our inner self communicates with itself and with the outer world by creating coherent symbolic interpretations about our inner biological organisation.
Bio-analytic lifestyle – authentic script
Living a bio-analytic lifestyle in terms of the dimension of intelligent organisation means to increase conscious communication with our inner organisation by defining the personal symbolic and self-fulfilling script that underwrites and coordinate the organisation of our inherent identity.
- Between body and self: Because the mind, in its full context, is active throughout all the organising aspects of our system, any increase in conscious awareness will enhance coordination between body and coherent identity.
- Unconditional authenticity: In a bio-analytic lifestyle we enhance the coherence between our body’s messages and our symbolic interpretation in order to bring consensus between different levels of inner organisation and between the inner and outer worlds.
- Mythical mind: A conscious ‘mythological’ interpretation of our inner world’s intelligent organisation has a potent effect on our well-being and health.
Mediated feedback – comprehensive understanding
With mediated feedback we learn to interact with our body’s comprehensive organisation by exploring the indirect, subjective and symbolic interpretations that our conscious mind creates.
- The body never lies: Mediated feedback teaches us to determine our reality, not by the outer world, but by our inner adaptation through the use of more inclusive and personal inner functions such as intuition and feeling.
- Symbols in the flesh: Mediated feedback consciously links the body and its responses to the symbolic models according to which we organise our coherent identity and interpret our response to the unknown.
- A dedicated mind: With mediated feedback we expand our consciousness throughout our whole system to experience an immediate and dynamic sense of coherent reality.
FOURTH DIMENSION
Bio-analytic principle – integral identity
Bio-analysis accepts that we have an integral identity that is the source of motivation and self-preservation. As living biological systems, our unconscious intentions are all about the survival, expression and continuation of our particular biological system and its individual identity. This identity is revealed in the symbolic representations of our individual survival strategies our system makes, in the form of body language, dreams, art, behaviour and illness
- Bodily archetypes: A sense of individual identity depends upon the personal and transpersonal symbolic representations that we make.
- Layered portrait: The subjective levels of inner organisation are as important as the body-centred processes in order to create a self-definition that is flexible enough to accommodate continual change, but secure enough to incorporate the unknown.
- A soul self: The most important aspect of self-definition lies in the inherent sense of self that is associated with a deeply felt inner connection between the known and unknown.
Bio-analytic lifestyle – intrinsic feeling
In a bio-analytic lifestyle we stay in contact with our integral identity through intrinsic feeling, which again is represented in the symbolic signals that appear in consciousness. Ongoing conscious communication with our integral identity is a necessity to secure a comprehensive sense of identity.
- The full house: A bio-analytic lifestyle ensures that each dimension of our inner organisation is handled by its appropriate ‘inner self’ and its symbolic representative. We create meaningful structures in our everyday lives to confirm our identity and negotiate conciliation amongst our inner selves. We also prevent unhealthy alliances between our ego and only one aspect of our inner organisation.
- I see myself… in myself… in myself: In a bio-analytic lifestyle our self-referral uses all the levels of our existence to amplify and confirm our true nature. We no longer confuse one-dimensional emotional responses with more inclusive, multidimensional feelings.
- Through the looking glass: A bio-analytic lifestyle accepts that strong inner feeling never happens without meaningful symbolic interpretations of our world. This includes the cultural metaphors that we share with our social group and time as well as the archetypal images we share with all humans and with all living matter.
Mediated feedback – expressive flexibility
Mediated feedback utilises what we observe and know about our inner identity to develop and expand our self-image by consciously incorporating our system’s natural defence processes to re-circle our history with similar, but healthier alternatives.
- Longing for repetition: Mediated feedback finds and restructures habitual self-defence patterns with conscious integrated self-expansion.
- Re-circling history: Mediated feedback finds the source of habitual defences and breaks erosive feedback cycles without destroying the whole network.
- Completing the circle: Mediated feedback re-circle erosions in our coherent identity by integrating habitual activities that developed as result of ‘what did not happen’ as well as those that stem from ‘what did happen’.
FIFTH DIMENSION
Bio-analytic principle – coherent interaction
In the fifth functional dimension our system has to create a safe, yet flexible network to interact with what is new or foreign to its own identity. This network stretches from a virus, to a different kind of pollen to our ideas about the cosmic unknown or possible future lives.
- Applied endorsement: To endorse an independent self during interaction with the outer world and the unknown, our system amplifies the integrated representation of our coherent identity with aspects from those dimensions that we are normally less aware of.
- Persuasive participation: Bio-analytic interaction advocates flexible but coordinated use of all the dimensions of our coherent identity in order to participate with tolerance during inner-outer interaction.
- Compelling tendency: A bio-analytic viewpoint never ignores the underlying ‘compelling tendencies’ inherent to the symbolic and archetypal patterns that underlie conscious responses to the outer world and its unpredictability.
Bio-analytic lifestyle –agile acceptance
A healthy lifestyle, as represented in the fifth dimension, depends on our ability to endow ourselves constantly with a sense of innate meaning. We need to interact with the unknown and outer world as a coherent network to ensure that our system always finds a connection back to its own identity when faced with uncertainty
- Expressive conciliation: When we are able to apply ourselves in more dimensions at the same time, we can moderate inconsistency, handle opposing needs and interact with creative flexibility.
- Inclusive adaptation: Living according to a bio-analytic viewpoint enhances our ability to consciously adopt a state of composed tolerance.
- Flexible interface: Bio-analysis accepts that we all have some degree of spontaneous insight into the best means of interaction between our integral identity and the unknown.
Mediated feedback – negotiated reform
Mediated feedback, in terms of the fifth functional dimension, improves our ability to deal with the unknown and interact with the outer world as an independent coordinated whole. It trains us to use participating tolerance in order to creatively mediate those feedback cycles which incorporate independent processes from the outer world.
- Executive assistant: Mediated feedback uses our ego’s role as the inner mind’s executive assistant to interact with creative intent when faced with the outer world and the unknown.
- Conscious democracy: Mediated feedback prevents conflict between different fields of action and coordinates multiple trends by integrating physical awareness with imaginative potential
- Creative intent: With mediated feedback, we base our interaction on the creative intent that is inherent in our system’s need to maintain a coherent identity, rather than on a focussed objective founded upon outer convention.
