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Idenics®: A Synopsis
For the past sixteen years, Survival Services'
highest priority has continued to be the individual betterment of our
clients. Even considerations involving expansion and financial success
have "taken a back seat" to our commitment to perform the best service
we can to the people who come to us for assistance. This commitment, to
a great degree, is what has enabled us to bring to you the methodology
of Idenics.
During the first six years of
operation, Survival Services continued to expand as a company by
delivering different forms of self-improvement technology to clients
from all over the world. The results people got with us were as good or
better than with others in our field, but we felt results could still
be much enhanced. Then, about ten years ago, John Galusha, who had been
with our company since its conception and who has worked in the field
of self-improvement for over forty years, made significant
breakthroughs that launched the development of what we now call
Idenics. This new system increased the quality and efficiency of our
work with people to a phenomenal degree, making previously used methods
obsolete. We have kept the company name, "Survival Services
International", but the only service we now deliver is "Idenics".
Our
highest priority continues to be the servicing of our individual
clients who come to us for assistance. We are NOT interested in making
our clients dependent upon us, even if such would better our financial
position. To do otherwise would compromise our personal integrity as
well as the integrity of the subject of Idenics. Even when clients
attempt to give us full credit for the gains they make while working
with us, we will do all in our power to get them to look at and take
proper credit for the making of those gains. The truth of the matter is
that we never actually "fixed" or "handled" anyone. At best we are a
facilitator in the process of self-discovery when individuals "fix" or
"handle" themselves.
We will
continue to commit ourselves to only providing as
much service to people as they actually need, and never to offer or
sell people services for purely the sake of our financial gain. An
integral part of the application of Idenics is that the only things a
person needs to work on are according to the "agenda" of that person,
not some "agenda" of ours. We therefore have no predetermined program
of actions, levels, or steps for people to do, or work with people on
preconceived ideas of ours of what they should
achieve.
Even though we now have an almost ten
year history of people making incredible accomplishments with Idenics,
our promotion of Idenics is quite unique compared to that of other
systems. Idenics is not something we tell people they need to do or
must do. If a person decides to come to us for services, it is fully
according to their self-determinism. Our job with those who contact us
about Idenics is to simply answer their questions and inform them about
what we do to the best of our ability.
Idenics:
ANOTHER LOOK
Over the past several years there
have been many articles written and tapes done on the subject of
Idenics. Yet, most people still have difficulty understanding what we
do, and how our clients get such dramatic results in a short period of
time when these results have eluded them in the numerous systems of
self-improvement previously tried.
In this
writing, I'll summarize other publications on Idenics and attempt to
clear up any confusions about this methodology.
UNWANTED
CONDITIONS
Idenics is a system that works with people on a
one-to-one basis addressing their unwanted conditions. A person may not
call what they are wanting to handle an "unwanted condition". They may
call it an "issue" or "limitation" or any number of other terms to
describe what they are struggling with. Basically, an unwanted
condition is something about a person they don't like - something their
attention goes to - something about themselves they want to handle,
resolve, or change. An individual may not even state what they want to
accomplish in "negative terms". They may say, "I just have something
about myself I want to improve". But if you ask them what is getting in
their way from just improving that area of their life, you'll come up
with an unwanted condition or conditions.
Something
that is very important in understanding Idenics and how it differs from
other systems is this: Unwanted conditions are always different from
person to person, even when they use the same words to describe what
they're suffering from. For example, two people stating they have an
issue of low self-esteem are using the same term to describe an
unwanted condition, but the specific condition that each is suffering
from is different.
WHAT WE
DON'T DO
The idea that people are different and
unique is not new. Perhaps the idea that unwanted conditions are
different from person to person also is not new. But how we put this
idea into practice is new. Additionally, if an individual is different
and unique, then the answers one seeks about oneself, the solutions to
the unwanted conditions he/she has are within him/her, not someplace
else or with someone else. This too is an idea that is not new. It has
been talked about for eons, but not much applied. This concept is fully
applied in the practice of Idenics.
But in
explaining what we do, I've found it sometimes easier to first explain
what we don't do. Therefore, in Idenics we do NOT:
* Base what we are doing on some successful actions
of one person such as a "founder" or "guru", who through his search
came up with something that worked for him and now thinks he knows how
it is for others.
* Work with people on any sort
of a "one shoe fits all" basis, attempting to categorize people in some
collection of preconceived ideas of "how people are or should be".
*
In any way judge, analyze, evaluate, or have opinions about the people
we work with.
* Have any set program, levels, or
any agenda whatsoever for people to work on. In other words, do
anything other than work from the agenda of the individual, on what
he/she wants to accomplish.
* Work with people
using any predetermined notions of "common" responses or reactions that
people have, or "common" types of confusions or incidents that cause
people to act in an aberrant manner later in life. These would be
generalizations that don't apply to the uniqueness of the individual.
ADDITIVES
Perhaps an easier way of
stating what we don't do in Idenics is to say we don't provide any
"additives" in the work we do with people. In other words, were not
teaching people anything about themselves or educating them in any way
about how they should think or be.
If one wishes
to learn a skill, like how to drive a tractor or fix a dishwasher, it
would be appropriate to get educated in that specific area. One would
receive some added knowledge to help them perform that skill. When it
comes to the person finding answers about him/her self or solutions to
his/her personal unwanted conditions, education or additives are NOT
needed, just access to what is already there.
ACCESSING
If the answers one seeks about self, or the
solutions to his/her unwanted conditions are within his/her self, then
it is only a matter of accessing these answers or solutions.
People
at certain times of confusion in their lives pass "rules and laws" of
how to be. At the time these "rules or laws" were passed, they probably
solved something. But many times people live up to these "rules and
laws" continually in life on an automatic basis, even at times when
these "rules or laws" are no longer appropriate. The person then has
what we call "unwanted conditions". But what is a confusion for one is
not necessarily a confusion for another. And how people respond, the
"rules and laws" they pass, are different.
Only
the individual can "repeal" the "rules and laws" he/she passes and does
this by accessing what he/she needs to look at and fully inspecting
what is there.
Therefore, in Idenics we simply
assist the individual to access what previously has been inaccessible.
WHAT
WE DO
I have previously explained the philosophy
or application of Idenics as nonjudgmental, nonevaluative, without
suggestion, advice, or opinion. From this you can probably come up with
numerous examples of one-on-one procedures that exist that we don't do.
But obviously, the Idenics technology must be based on some mechanics.
And if these mechanics are not dealing with categorizations, or
preconceived "standard" or "common" responses, confusions, or incidents
causing aberration, then what are these mechanics based on?
Above
I mention that we assist a person to access what has previously been
inaccessible. The mechanics of Idenics deal with the subject of
accessing.
If the "answers" one seeks are within
him/her and it's just a matter of accessing these
answers, then why doesn't one just access? When a person has some
personal realization (which, by the way, usually happens spontaneously
and not when the person is trying to do it), what
are the mechanics that occur at such times? The answers to these
questions provide a good base to the mechanics with which we operate.
We have formulated questions to assist a person to access what they
need to access in order to resolve the unwanted conditions from which
they suffer.
VIEWPOINTS & IDENTITIES
A person does not
view life from just one point of view, or viewpoint. By viewpoint I
simply mean a point from which one perceives. An individual perceives
life from many different viewpoints.
A person does
not operate in life from just one identity. By identity I simply mean a
way of being in order to accomplish something. An individual operates
from many different identities, moving in and out of them pretty
automatically, without much thought. A person at work may be in a
different identity than when at home with the family. He's a different
way on a date than the way he is with his buddies. "When I go home for
the holidays I'm like a ten year old around my family". Different
identities, different ways of being.
The subject of
viewpoints and identities is not new; such has been talked about for
hundreds, perhaps thousands of years. But much about their generation,
make up, and importance in one-on-one work was not known or applied
until Idenics.
Most of the time, there is no
liability to having viewpoints and identities. The only real liability
is getting stuck in one. But why is this a
liability? Because the one thing you can say about viewpoints and
identities, the one common denominator, is that every viewpoint and
identity is limited. People are not limited, but
the viewpoints and identities they assume in life are, and if they get
stuck, then they are limited to that degree. For example, imagine you
and I are sitting in chairs facing one another. From my viewpoint I can
see the wall behind you but you can't. You can see the wall behind me
and I can't. Why? Because the viewpoints we are occupying are limited
and the walls behind can't be seen. But we aren't limited permanently
as we can switch chairs, thus moving into different viewpoints.
But
what does this have to do with the mechanics of accessing, i.e. why
doesn't a person just access, etc? It's simple. If the answers are
perceivable from a particular viewpoint and your not in it, you can't
see those answers from where you're looking. It's like you're sitting
in a chair facing a wall with some answer you need to access on the
other side. From that point from which you're perceiving, "In the
chair", it is limited. As long as you sit in that
chair you won't see what's on the other side of the wall. Maybe people
will provide you with all sorts of additives about what was on the
other side of their walls, what the wall is made up of, etc., but all
this information is irrelevant compared to you just getting up out of
the chair and walking around to the other side, thereby shifting to a
viewpoint that is appropriate in order to inspect what is over there.
But if you were stuck in that chair and didn't even know you were
stuck, you could look from there forever and wouldn't see what was on
the other side. And all the additives from others, opinions, advice,
etc. wouldn't be of any real assistance if what is on the other side of
that wall is unique to you.
Even though the above
example is a physical viewpoint, it serves to help us understand more
about mental and emotional viewpoints, as mechanics are basically the
same. But let me give you an example which is a little closer to the
heart of the matter.
A person trying to handle or
resolve some unwanted condition is in a viewpoint from which he's
trying to accomplish this. And this viewpoint from which he's trying to
handle the unwanted condition is not the appropriate viewpoint needed.
If it were, he would handle the condition and it probably wouldn't even
be an issue any longer. I may not be able to say what the appropriate
viewpoint is for anyone at any given time, but I can tell you something
about it. The appropriate viewpoint, in other words, the viewpoint the
person needs to assume in order to resolve the unwanted condition, is
the viewpoint from which that condition was generated. And from that
viewpoint, that condition probably wasn't even unwanted; it probably
solved something. But that sure isn't the one he's in now, he's in one
that wants to get rid of that condition.
The
viewpoint that a person is in trying to handle or get rid of some
unwanted condition is like "being in the chair" in the other example.
This also is probably the viewpoint the person is in while going
through the gauntlet of self-improvement systems and getting no lasting
results.
SPECULATION VS DIRECT VIEWING
Giving a
person additives as described above is just speculation. Speculation is
what one has already done plenty of oneself, endlessly "figuring" and
"thinking" about their unwanted conditions, "from the chair", from an
inappropriate point of view. This activity never gets anyone anywhere.
The
only time the person ever gets anything done is when he/she directly
views something. And this is accomplished by assuming the appropriate
viewpoint. It's as simple as that.
SUMMARY
Idenics
is delivered on a one-to-one basis by an Idenics practitioner. The
practitioner basically assists the client to get unstuck from certain
viewpoints or identities and assume the appropriate viewpoint, keeping
the client's nose in it until he/she fully inspects what is there. If
fully done, a great personal freedom is attained by the client with
regard to the subject being addressed, as well as maybe other things
connected with that subject. This work is achieved by asking specific
questions having a great deal to do with the mechanics of viewpoints
and identities, under a completely nonjudgmental and non-opinionated
application.
But based on past experiences with
other systems or methodologies, most people find it hard to imagine
that just by viewing something it can be handled. They may think that
one has to then do something in life after viewing it, like using some
continued "exercises" or the like. Imagine that you're lying in bed at
night, and you hear a noise in the house and don't know what it is.
Maybe you start getting nervous, edgy, or fearful - start getting
mental pictures of burglars in the house. Maybe they're down the hall
and have guns as you read about in the paper. The adrenaline starts
flowing - and then, among all this confusion, you realize, "Wait a
minute, that's the screen door I forgot to fix". What happens when you
notice this? All the upset and junk just blows away and you probably
just go to sleep. You don't have to do anything
else. That's what it's like when you get to the bottom of some unwanted
condition, viewing and inspecting what is there from the appropriate
viewpoint. It's really that simple.
For the past
ten years since we've been doing Idenics we've had people come to us
from all over the world, with the vast majority getting the results
they have desired in a matter of hours.
So if you
envision some personal, specific results, then perhaps we can be of
assistance. I will be happy to answer your questions and provide you
with any additional information you may require. Feel free to call me
on our toll-free number 1-800-Idenics, anytime, day or night. (If
you're out of our calling area and cannot reach me on the toll-free
number, either call me collect at: (303) 695-4940 or fax me at (303)
369-3373 If you call and I'm not available, please leave a message with
your name and phone number, and I'll be sure to get back to you
quickly.
Idenics is not a rehash of some earlier
methodology. It is a new approach that I think you will find
refreshingly complementary to your own thinking.
Sincerely,
Mike
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