Hexagrams, Counterparts and Rhythmic Behaviour

Trajectories of the Tao...by Janice Brown

Counterparts: Energetic Relationships of the Tao

Let’s take a brief look at counterpart relationships in terms of the Tao and then I’ll walk you through some simple understandings to build a framework so you can start to see where resilience is bound to happen, how things seem to fall apart and then suddenly come back together, and how when you want it most, it may be the farthest thing from your natural experience.

The Tao is an energetic science that is not nearly understood in terms of its mainstream and daily expression through every aspect of your life. I teach this, I live it and it has been part of my constitutional makeup for longer than I can remember.

When I thought I’d been broken beyond repair, it’s the Tao that has given me faith to let the energy run its course, to hold off at times and let the rhythm find itself again, and to disconnect with sudden force to ensure the integrity of the core can stabilize.

Key Understanding

In behaviour, counterpart energies are powerfully together and comfortably apart.

This is fundamental to the nature of the Tao. In the Tao, these energetic pairings, or Counterparts are known as Hexagrams, they are independent and interdependent. They require the conglomerate energy of the pairing to bring the most powerful stability and they function independently within the whole to maintain a symbiotic balance. This is the dynamic energetic known as flow.

There are 4 essential pairings, in the Tao we call them Hexagrams, in life we can consider them Counterparts. The Counterparts are: Thunder and Lake; Mountain and Wind; Water and Fire; and Earth and Heaven.

Each individual energetic, or trigram, has its own unique rhythm and movement, its independent nature, and also its supported nature which is enhanced and stabilized by its partner; its Counterpart.

These pairings have distinct behavioural anomalies that we can consider a rhythm or patterning and patterns are very important in relationship dynamics. Dynamics refers to a sense of movement and we call this a natural rhythm that is truly magnificent to behold.

Under normal circumstances a natural rhythm is almost imperceptible because it has such a steady and constant rhythm that it moves about without much notice. It’s when things have become fatigued and the rhythm skips a beat or misses a step that it becomes glaring and this is where most rhythmic behaviour becomes a pattern of distortion.

And distortion is the impact we all feel. In this scenario, a person would understand this as a feeling of insecurity. The stabilizer has shifted.

Feelings are important and they are more important in the landscape of your life, circumstances, and contemplations than you will ever know without really sitting down and examining them. 

Behavioural anomalies that signify distortion only exist because a natural rhythm has been knocked out of flow. Flow is essentially a non-resistant state, so you can simply consider all distortion to be an amplification of resistance. When the resistance becomes a pattern of its own, it becomes a condition or situation that seems to exist without a clear and positive explanation.

This is the place that reasoning becomes your form and you are just as likely to begin counterbalancing the situation with an attachment methodology as opposed to a systemic calibration adjustment.

The adjustment is simple, more powerful and dynamically fulfilling.

The rhythm break can come across as a far greater distortion than the reason for the rhythm distortion in the first place and these are important examinations; within the mind, within the body, within a life.

As emotional relevancy adjusters are more clearly understood, distortion patterns will simply self-resolve. And as this occurs the reality of your situation or experience will come clearly into view. And this becomes a righting of off-angles all throughout the field, and the field is of primary importance in all the work we are undertaking.

In terms of distortion, the field is a propaganda agenda; it keeps setting unnecessary and volatile information into play. Once the distortion is understood, the propaganda falls away and you are left with a clean, clear and sure footing to stand upon. 

Okay, so we’ve talked about energetics, distortion, rhythm and flow. These are terms we are going to look at in considerable depth, so a simple explanation is warranted for each, and remember we are using these definitions in terms of dynamic relationships known as counterparts. 

To begin with, the very idea that the one consideration we’ve never brought forward into our own thinking, is a simple unawareness, is a powerful understanding and this then becomes your pivot point. 

As you become aware, there is room for radical behavioural adjustments, and this is a good thing; not an opportunity for self harm. The reasoning and rationale of the common mind is to begin to articulate in a particular manner and this articulating is where distortion either resolves or amplifies.

We can talk about this in terms of preferred or not preferred outcome, but if you’re really getting down to the nitty gritty, the most important takeaways you have are the ability to resurrect an old distortion or let a new rhythm naturally unfold. The natural rhythm will bring you peace and healing on every level possible.  

What begins as a simple awarenesses, sets in motion lifetimes of disapproval, protraction and reaction. Where does one begin to recognize a simple distortion that leads to lifetimes of convoluted posturing?

A Story

Let’s look at a simple story, probably one we can all relate to. In some way, manner or form, you have a belief that there is something inappropriate about your body or form and this is the first place we begin to see anomalies and distortions known as illness but could be looked at as rhythm pattern distortion.

I’m going to lay it all on the line here, when you know your rhythm pattern distortion, you will begin to have unusual symptoms. This is the natural experience of release and it occurs as if by magic for some and can be quite perplexing and taxing for others.

Where do you sit on that scale?

You never really know until you’re in it. And so you need to decide you’re going to take it on the chin when it comes your way and not amplify and distort it in to a new way of being in experience. Let it ride over you or wash on through. Think of it like a wave passing over, if you get caught in the turmoil of the wave you’ll just keep fumbling around inside it. If you steady your self and allow the wave to move through and pass over you, you’ll be wet but you won’t be washed out to sea. 

Ok. Let’s talk about pragmatic steps and realistic goals. This isn’t a facelift, it’s not a cosmetic procedure. It’s a deep and enduring way of being of expression and experience with your life. Your rhythm is unique to you and someone else’s rhythm is unique to them. And so for each person there are going to be different rhythm pattern adjusters. That’s a simple fact so don’t get all exciting thinking you have found the cure for A+B+C because it’s not like that. Not even a little.

What you have done is broken the distortion pattern that has held your own rhythm in check. Now the natural reaction with a rhythm buster is to want to quickly crawl back to the familiar feeling of where you have been, EVEN if it is a situation of distortion.

Familiarity breeds its power in this simple organizational process called, 'I’ve seen it before, I know I can make it work again'. 

You probably don’t realize you have been doing this, have been doing this your whole life long. So let’s look at all the ways this can occur naturally and then we’ll start to see the more common outcome with rhythm pattern distortion and how that triplicates itself in some forms and amplifies itself in others. 

Boy! We sure have a lot to talk about.

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Trajectories of the Tao

by Rev. Janice Brown DTCM, sp.M (master), CS.p

Janice is both a doctor of Chinese medicine and a Reverend with a metaphysical practice that specializes in the Tao. This includes exploring the 'Me', the independent or the individual. The individual benefit of understanding the wisdom of the Tao and the application of these understandings in your own life experience. This also includes the 'We', the collective whole. The collective benefit is to begin to see that we have an interdependence that is so intrinsic to the framework of living that we can not go a single day without the collective experience being enfolded into our personal life experience.

Recommended Reading:

• Tributes to the Tao by Janice

• Daily Pulse, rhythm of the Tao by Dr. Debra Ford Msc.D

• Book I: The SolePath Book of Wisdom, The Essential SolePath Academic Reference by Dr. Debra Ford Msc.D