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UNITARY PATTERN APPRECIATION by W. RICHARD COWLING
A new approach to deeper understanding of underlying pattern and connections to experiences, perceptions, and expressions of life.
Two Types of Individual Sessions Available:
General Exploration
Living with Despair
Unitary Pattern Appreciation is a process that is based on a theory called the science of unitary human beings. This process is offered to those interested in exploring their own energy field pattern. This is accomplished through looking at one’s experiences, perceptions, and expressions of living. This theory was developed by Martha E. Rogers, PhD of New York University and has been studied and taught in Schools of Nursing throughout the USA as well as internationally. Pattern appreciation is a process, an approach, and an orientation developed by Dr. Richard Cowling to assist people in the deeper understanding and knowledge of one’s underlying energy pattern. The aim is to provide the possibility of a new context for knowing oneself more deeply and creating self-directed change related to health and well-being. Also, by participating in these sessions, individuals will be involved in ongoing research on unitary pattern appreciation if they so desire. Two types of individual, experiential sessions have been designed. The first type is to assist anyone who is experiencing or has experienced despair. The second type is to assist anyone who wishes to use the process for exploration of one’s life in general.
Unitary Pattern Appreciation available by appointment (will consider online sessions for special needs)
W. Richard Cowling, III, RN, PhD
Richmond, VA USA
Tel: 804-226-0562
E-mail: wcowling@hsc.vcu.edu |
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The Enigma of Energy |
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by Vidette Todaro-Franceschi |
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A UNITARY VIEW OF ENERGY
Energy is often defined as the ability to do work where it can be converted from one form to another and is used during processes of change; it is transferred or exchanged, gained or lost, as one thing acts on another. From the framework of a traditional view of energy, human beings are believed to react to things in the environment which cause them to be healthy or ill (cause & effect). We transfer, exchange, balance and use energy. Health is good, illness is bad; there is a health illness continuum/dichotomy. Death is the end/opposite of life and is often perceived as the enemy. Practitioners working within the framework of a traditional view of energy do things that they believe will be conducive to health & healing for the individual. This view of energy is not compatible with a unitary perspective.
Yet, there is another idea of energy, which is consistent with a unitary perspective. This is the notion that energy is a phenomenon, a thing, and it has the inherent ability to change. The phenomenon of energy is what everything is composed of; all that we can and can't see, along with all that we have yet to see. Change is an inherent characteristic of the phenomenon, energy; it is manifesting itself in different ways from moment to moment. Thus, change occurs by way of a communal, rather than causal, processes.
From the framework of a unitary view of energy, human beings are said to participate with the environment (they are inseparable from the environment) to actualize unique potentials. We do not use or exchange energy; we are unceasingly transforming energy along with the rest of the universe. Within this view there are no dichotomies, all is essentially one inseparable whole. There is no good, nor bad; labels are nonexistent - what is perceived as illness is still the actualizing of human potential. Human beings transform, we change, in unique purposeful ways along with the rest of the universe. Death is another (different) manifestation of energy, another way of being/becoming. Practitioners working within the framework of a unitary view of energy engage in communal process with the individual they hope will heal (acausal process of participation).
Todaro-Franceschi, V. (1999). The Enigma of Energy: Where Science & Religion Converge, New York: Crossroad Publishing Co.
Today there is scientific evidence to authenticate what the mystics and sages have known all along. We are but manifestations of a whole, a whole that by its very nature is both knowable and unknowable. All is essentially one. Every single thing is a manifestation of energy--one thing--that is continually transforming. It never stands still. Nothing is ever lost, just changed. And to know that is to know that it all couldn't possibly just happen to be here.
From Aristotle to Aquinas, Descartes to Teilhard de Chardin, Einstein to Hawking, Hippocrates to Dossey, Nightingale to Rogers—this history of ideas surrounding the concept of energy leads to the resounding conviction there must be a reason for it all.
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