# Jack Painter The creator of Postural Integral and Energetic Integration ##### Diagrams These diagrams were created by Dirk Marivoet, a teacher and practitioner of Painter’s approach. ###### Jack Painter's Stages in the Natural Cycle of Energy As you study this diagram, imagine, and feel yourself traveling through this energetic journey. You might even try each breathing pattern for a minute or so to experience what happens. ![[Jack Painter Breath.png]] Start to notice how these stages spontaneously unfold in your breathwork sessions. You will observe more of these stages with both longer sessions and with clients with fewer energetic blockages. In fact, with a relatively unarmored client, they might move through all these stages in 15-20 minutes (or less). This means that they can move through this full cycle of stages 2 or 3 times in a 60-minute breathwork session, often going deeper in more profound ways each cycle. These stages will unfold naturally, as expressions of Letting Be / Letting Unfold, if the client is doing the practice in a way that restores the natural cycle of surfacing and deepening. There is no need for you to shift the client’s breathing to move from one stage to the next. Instead, help the client practice [[Aletheia Breathwork]]. Help them come back to the practice when they wander off or stop. ###### Blockages in the Natural Cycle of Energy This diagram corresponds to the previous one and names the various blockages in the natural cycle of energy at each stage (source: [[👤 Jack Painter]]/Dirk Marivoet). As you study this diagram, once again, imagine and feel what it is like to be blocked in these ways. You might even try each breathing pattern for a minute to notice what happens. ![[Jack Painter Breath 2.png]] Notice that in each case, these blockages are a way of stopping [[Integral Unfoldment]] from occurring. This stoppage comes from one or more Protectors trying to prevent the client from feeling hurt. At any time we have the option to shift from breathwork back into [[conversational unfolding]] and practice Parts Work. Remember that when you breath you feel. Therefore, the best way not to feel is to disturb the natural breathing cycle of charging and discharging. In the diagram above you will see various ways of over-charging or under-charging or dissipating charge instead of containing it in a way that restores the natural cycle of surfacing and deepening.