Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Dharma Coach Training and The Power of Ritual


As I am doing the Dharma Coach training I am struck by the power of the script. In the training we are advised to use a very structured script in a carefully designed manner. As someone brought up to rely largely on the intellect I am tempted to rewire the script. There is an urge to readjust it to suit circumstances on a day to day basis. This is a reaction from the western world of thinking.


Shivani Singh--Dharma Express.com
In the Eastern world of thinking there is a greater trust in the power of ritual. Teachers recognize that sticking to a time tested outer format has an intangible, vibrational power. All the world’s major religions recognize this. Their major ceremonies follow a precise script. 

When they change these ritual for cerebral reasons as for example the Roman Catholic Church did in the sixties with the change from the Latin mass to a mass in the vernacular something of the mystery and the power of the ritual was lost.

Our human psyche is heavily tuned to the vibrational power of ceremony. Christenings, waddings and funeral for example follow a structured format.  Political ceremonies like the opening of Parliament he swearing in of a leader, the State of Union address are all done in a very precise way. So when we attend or participate in ceremonies our entire being is attuned to a set of intangible frequencies created by the format of the ceremony.

When I practiced my first Dharma training using the script I fell into the intangible vibrational frequency generated by the questions and their sequences. I was able to brush aside the temptation to vary or interfere with the format. With this mindset of acceptance I was able to easily flow with the experience. At the end I recognized the power of the script and the format. I could see why it was going to be successful. I also accepted that it was based on years of coaching experience.

In 2004 I read a book by Mona Lisa Schultz called “Awakening Intuition”. One idea she posited that applied to me was that analytical people find it difficult to access their intuition. She suggested training oneself to remember to write down dreams and to play around with interpreting them. Dreams tend to be figurative, absurd, nonlinear, full of images and time shifting. I found this advice useful and had a lot of fun working with dreams.

Since I was a literature teacher I found it easy to play with dreams. Images fascinated me and the seeming non sequiturs challenged a creative mind. Soon people were treating me as a “dream expert”. Later I experimented with treating real life experiences as if they were dreams. This allowed me to get more intuitive insights from the experience.

In my opinion Shivani Singh and Radha Singh have locked a powerful vibrational frequency into their Dharma Training format that makes it easy to implement successfully and to replicate efficiently. It is a delightful merging of ancient teaching techniques with modern engineering science.

Milton Drepaul
Dharma Coach Training


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