Karl R. Wolfe

Self-realization, self inquiry & in-line skating as movement therapy

This groundbreaking transformational tool is a refinement of many forms of movement therapy, the outcome of over 30 years of working with individuals and groups. There is nothing like this diagnostic and therapeutic tool anywhere. This approach to personal transformation is radical and innovative, the breakthrough many search for a lifetime. It quickly cuts through to the core of every fixation in that it faithfully mirrors back to the individual clearly in a real-time every survival strategy of the superego. In a few minutes it is clear the strategy utilized to block forward movement in your life.

With this process there is then an opportunity to slow down the tape in one’s mind, view the superegos strategy in real-time and see how these strategies impact moving forward in one’s life, at the same time initiating and developing one’s objective observer state. It’s a way to create distance between you and your own personal drama. It’s a bit like going to the movies and watching the film on the screen, you can learn from the characters in the film without personally getting involved or drawn into the drama of their story.

It allows you to see your problem solving strategies, what you do in the face of danger or the unknown, how you feel about your relationship with your past, the present moment and your future vision. You see clearly the survival strategies you utilized as a child when you first began to walk and interface with the world around you. We are often invisibly bound to this strategy for a lifetime. You see why these strategies may no longer serve you and may actually be getting your way. You see clearly how you operate in relationship to fear or frightening situations. You see how you operate when you have to put your complete trust for your life and safety in someone else’s hands. We see how you operate when you are responsible completely for someone else’s life and safety. You see how you function one-on-one and in teams, under pressure and in scenarios of worst-case conditions. Once these strategies are seen the invisible bound is broken and the hold of these survival strategies begins to dissolve. This is an invaluable communications, relationship and team building tool for individuals and organizations.

You see how you internalized both your mother and father as images, as objects, and how your superego mimics their behavior and interfaces through a projection of these parental constructions to solve problems and create and sustain your limited worldview. You see how we love and honor our parents by mimicking their behavior, using their same strategies to solve problems, even though those strategies may never work and actually end up holding us back. You see why it is so hard to stop the same self-destructive pattern that your parents utilized, in an effort to be approved of and loved and validated by your parent, even though they may no longer be living. You see clearly the strategy that has gotten you successfully to where you are in your life right now, even if where you are doesn’t work. You also see how this same strategy can be the limiting factor in moving forward. You see your relationship with your emotions, body, mind, and spirit, and how that extends out energetically informing every other relationship you have, including with your creativity, money, your relationships, business and your financial success.

This is one of the most state of the art and innovative techniques to objectively facilitate the observation of your inner stories, and your worldview, available today. You see the stories that are so tightly wrapped that they are invisible to you. You see how these stories perpetuate the addiction to pain and suffering and how we avoid and ignore our true innate condition, which is happiness, love, wisdom and peace. You learn to face and penetrate behaviors that have bound and limited you for a lifetime.

Because this is an experiential process it short-circuits and bypasses all of the survival strategies, denial, dishonesty, and the self-deception inherent in the mimicry of the superego and the intellect. You cannot fake this process from the intellect. There is no way to do this process in your head. This is the end of self-deception, denial, all doing and the beginning of being. The processes is innovative and radical in the sense that it gives your intellect an opportunity to idle in the background. It is like taking a truth serum. You bypass the intellect and go directly to your innate physical, spiritual and emotional intelligence, trusting and developing an intuitive aspect of yourself rarely honored within our culture.

There is a distinction between intellect and intelligence. Our culture and educational system binds individuals to their intellect at the expense of intelligence. After years and years of education, people end up with little or no common sense, they have a lot of data in their head, however, they know how to do nothing. They live in a world of black and white and very little access to anything that is gray This is what happens when you take spirituality out of culture and replace it with secularism, giving more power to the rational mind, than to spirit. People lose the sense of who they are and end up with no grounding, moral compass or rudder. They are adrift in a sea of knowledge.

One can have high intellect and low intelligence. A computer can have a memory greater than that of a man, and yet a computer has no intelligence. I noticed this with the valedictorian of our high school class. She could ace every test with an A+, she held an amazing database in her head, and yet it was always a question whether or not she would find air, food and water. Spirit is the source of intelligence and wisdom.

Intellect is of the mind and is about ego, knowledge, rational memory, gathering and defending personal power. Intelligence is of spirit and is about experience, intuition and knowing, living in the truth and experiencing true spiritual personal power.

The process of In-Line skating is one of many tools that I utilize, within the context of movement therapy that facilitates change in and individuals life, in ways that otherwise might require years of traditional therapy to achieve the same result, if ever. You can understand the roots of every story intellectually, however, if you do not clear the story from your emotional and physical body and rewire your brain, you are certain to return to the same old addictive patterns of behavior.

My experience and current medical research has shown that it takes 90 days to rewire new pathways in the brain. It’s like going to the gym and building new muscles while allowing the old muscles atrophy. The process requires a heightened sense of objective observation, showing up, telling the truth without blame or judgment, and a high degree of discipline.