It's difficult to say what I do. That being said, here's an attempt, borrowed from an external source.
I remove distortions from a human organism.
In my experience, there is something like a 'divine' blueprint that each of us are endowed with, and when we get out of the way, the body begins to fall back into alignment with that blueprint, assuming that there is enough life force to sustain the shift.
Most of us do not get out of the way, physically or emotionally, and we run our most cherished 'possession', our body, into the ground.
For one thing, when we sustain a 'low vibration' way of living for long enough, that becomes our reality. We coerce and cajole until all fo the world around us fits into our personal paradigm.
We sabotage relationships for one, and we diligently choose partners that will recreate our childhood patterns again and again.
So a piece of my philosophy: we continually find ways back into a pattern until the pattern is complete.
So perhaps a 'distortion' is 'something that is incomplete.' This is tipping into Werner Erhard's language. Erhard, by the way, was and is a pivotal figure in the 'self help' movement, was relegated to guru status, and consequently attacked by the church of Scientology. Erhard was, in my opinion, a genius. Flawed mortal, of course! A genius when it came to the delicate art of transformation, and her performed miraculous psychic surgeries with such fine-tuned instruments that all anyone ever saw was the hammer coming down upon their head.
This brings me back to my origin story. I was crushed by the ocean. I had refused to welcome my body into the life equation, or even to see it as sacred, and so the ocean woke me up. I was slammed into the shallows, breaking my neck. Awake was I.
So that was one of my distortions. I wanted the purity of living in the headspace, without the inconvenience of the body. I had mistakenly thought that this was Buddhism, come down through Zen and the Chinese Chan. Later, I learned of another sort of Buddhism, Vipassana, where the primary practice was to scan the body, again and again, until all karma was dissolved. I learned this practice in a 10 day silent retreat in Kelseyville California some years ago. By 'learned', I mean I was thrust into it.
I went with a friend, and for her, the practice was so intense, he whole body broke out into a rash, and I could hear her sobbing through many of our meditation days.
So those aches and pains in the body, the Vipassana tradition would have you believe that those are 'sankaras' or the residue of karma. We could translate that here as 'that which is incomplete' or 'distortions.'
What happens to these 'distortions' if they go untreated by the way? They kill you, of course! If you're continually pissed off, for instance, pancreatic cancer. If you can't let go, colon cancer. Etc. Wilhelm Reich was onto this bio-emotional equation when it came to cancer. So the medical establishment imprisoned him and burned his books. Another genius without equal, in my opinion. Also flawed.
There could be more, if you consider the spiritual journey.
Gurdjieff continually spoke about how important it was to be able to 'sense the whole of oneself.' This is a mystical experience, to sense the whole of oneself. He did it through years of practice, willpower, etc with his pupils.
What I do is this... when I see that someone is not feeling their feet, I grab their foot, touch into the most tender point, and remind them that this, too, is a piece of their reality. There are, needless to say, patterns that arise. I can instantly tell how they've danced with pain in their lifetime: whether they've skirted their core issues: whether they are reckless and detached from the body.
People are generally full of distortions.
Here is the interesting thing: awareness clears them.
One client came to me complaining of relationship challenges. I visited her on a beautiful property, and she was astounded when I knelt down to touch her feet. Doing exactly what I just described above, she broke into a deep well of sorrow, and visions upon visions of her deceased mother came flooding into her awareness. This was her left foot, and the left side is often equated with the feminine.
Do you see how profound the cycle is? She carried this incomplete scenario with her, physically, in this 'missing' foot. Because she'd lost her mother around age 12, she had no ground to stand on, no feminine foundation, no example She was raised by her sister.
Later, to my astonishment, we did the same with the right foot. She'd lost her father a few years later.
So, relationship challenges? She'd had no foundation in either masculine or feminine. She was just getting by, somehow, by sheer will; by miracles.
Soon after our work together, she was able to break free of her narcissistic ex husband (by the way I think that that label, like most 'psychological labels', are ridiculously over-simplisitic and take nothing of the profundity of these equations into account, except some rare schools of 'transpersonal psychology'). My existing outside of traditions is my primary gift, really.
So where are you imcomplete? Natural question that arises. You know, and you don't know.
When I first felt my feet by the way, circa 2012, I cried tears of joy. The first time I'd felt 'complete' in my whole life. And I'd never thought to look there, at all. Traditions really do hide the truth, or it's in the 'inner' teachings. (The Gurdjieff work, by the way, purports to be contained in the Eastern Orthodox Christian church).
During this work, I've had to lay aside all assumptions, belief systems, judgements. Because I need to hold space for some of the most inhuman stories of trauma and abuse. And also, some otherworldly 'happenings'.
So how do I see that someone is not connected to their feet? Or their arm, leg, heart? Intuition, perhaps. I always see it as a distinct collapse of a bone or organ. For instance, many people live simmering in anger. They're a torrent of rage 'waiting to happen'. So they lean slightly to the right: collapse round the liver. And many people collapse around the solar plexus.
It's a world of dualities, of course. When one area is collapsed, the other, polar opposite area, is 'puffed up.' So I can go into either one, touch that place, and remind consciousness to flow there again. Usually I prefer the 'empty' area because it is more direct. Sometimes the void there is too great, and we need to find another way in... something clever.
Here's where we need to know the mechanisms that run a person, the code they live by, so that we can engage that code.
Most of us live our whole lives around our wounds... so as 'not to feel them.' We build castles around them in subtle ways. And yet, the whole life is still just that: a castle built around a wound. Instead, we need to pierce right into the center, into the heart of darkness (the Joseph Campbell work is profound here), and begin to live again. Even if from that place we're just a little curled up seed fetus creature.
There is so much power in a human being that is fully alive to the moment, and all it sometimes takes is a touch.
Love and rapture,
Steven Budden Jr.
PS. I call this the Philomela protocol. Essentially a process of being 'reborn' to your life. Find a way to reach me if this intrigues you, and I'll find a way to reach you.