The Five Elements of the Gate

Five essentials for getting the most out of a Transformational Gate (and your NSA Experience).

What do You Really, Really Want?
Harmony (ie. Entrainment )
The Network Wave
Acceptance
Moving Beyond

The founder of NSA, Dr. Donny Epstein’s opening talk for the 140^th Transformational Gate, February 18- 20, 2011, discussed five essentials which would be involved in our gate experience. A gate is a healing retreat where people under Network Spinal Analysis (NSA) care spend a weekend with a few hundred others learning to really know who they are, why they’re here and what they’re made of. Three days are spent discovering how they’ve protected themselves, transforming defence into fuel for growth and awakening to the brilliance of their souls.

Engaging in the gate process starts with knowing what you really, really want. Donny spent most of the opening talk reading why people were here from the forms people sent in to register for the gate. He stressed the importance of our linguistic patterning in healing. Many people concentrate on what they do not want, which keeps their attention, energy and actions focused on exactly that. As a result, they are always finding what they wish to avoid in their lives. Instead, if we focus on what we do wish to have, or create, our subconscious will attract what we need to get it.

Throughout the gate, the attendees receive six entrainments. Entrainments create harmony in the nervous system, the body and the person, and between the people at the gate. This harmony happens through the oscillation that occurs in systems. Donny defines oscillation as the movement that naturally occurs between two extremes, in cycles. For example, a pendulum swings from one extreme of its motion to the other in a rhythmic way. The organs and tissues of the body oscillate at a specific rhythm related to the person and his or her life. When groups of people come together in community, there is oscillation between all their rhythms.

All of us have had traumas in our lives which have influenced the way we live. We want to make sure we never encounter traumas again so we protect and armour ourselves. Our awareness at the time we first experienced the situation or circumstance we found traumatic impacts the way we remember it. This memory, or more accurately this perception of memory, sustains the protection and defence we created within us and our body. As a result, our whole physiology becomes entrained to our defence against the trauma, rather than being open to the harmony of a life full of possibilities.

We can develop elaborate stories about how life works so that we feel safe and secure. When life is going according to our story, we feel certain that we are okay. However, we all know that life does not often follow our rules and this creates uncertainty, anxiety and distrust. We may develop pain or symptoms which help us create a new perceived certainty, assurance and story within us because at least if we focus on the problem, we are distracted from our lives.

The Network Wave, as described by Donny, is postulated to move through the body and nervous system and disrupt the tension and bound energy that supports our stories about safety and defence. It basically hits “re-set” within us, so we have the opportunity to redefine our current experience, including the way we remember our past traumas. We can/now remember them from a higher level of consciousness which effectively changes our insight into the meaning of our past. The staff entraining attendees at the gate create and direct this wave through the body using NSA strategies to support us through discovering our defences, and transforming ourselves to our awakening.

Acceptance comes as we realize that our experience of ourselves, including our traumas, issues, pains and symptoms, can and must be fully embraced. We could try to push them away, or we could construct our whole being around trying to overcome our problems, but inevitably, we’d find them continuously coming back with a vengeance. However, with acceptance, we fully embrace the situation or circumstance. Then, it simply exists without the need to be removed or changed. It is; we are; and it no longer has any hold on us. We are free, even in its presence.

Finally, we move beyond our traumas, our stories and ourselves. Life takes on a flavour where our behaviours and actions make what we were experiencing before insignificant. Our life becomes about what we are creating and how we are sharing this with others. Our harmony, fulfillment and joy comes from how we can give what we thought we always needed.

While these five essentials were the focus of the Transformational Gate, they are very applicable to your experience with NSA care. Observe how these five elements fit into your healing process and life.