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Lance Hauge discusses topics ranging from the sacred to the profane. The Dimension Approach is a conscious approach to awakening, healing, personal growth, and performance enhancement. Lance Hauge is a psychotherapist, intuitive healer, subtle energy worker, and structural bodyworker. He has been in private practice in Minneapolis, Minnesota for over 20 years. For more information on Lance and the Dimension Approach, please visit dimensionapproach.com.
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S3E14 - Identifying with Experience
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Much to Lance's chagrin, we're talking about identity again. But if it wasn't so confusing, it'd be easy to disidentify! When we're overwhelmed, what are we identified with? Our relationship to dimensions should be flexible and always shifting depending on the context. We want to be versatile in our mode and not so easily overwhelmed, and the dimen…
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Fighting against storms and currents, falling in the water, staring in the depths, floating, swimming, and becoming a fish - it's a wide-ranging metaphor of our relationship to water and what we allow in our conscious awareness. Becoming buoyant is an aspect of resilience - knowing the water you're in and holding the complexity of its depths withou…
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Confused? Good! We're normally averse to the state of being confused, but in order to learn, adapt, and re-orient, we have to be able to tolerate confusion. When you're confused you can either identify with it (quick trip to madness), or if you let go of it there's more of an existential nothingness that starts to arise. But in the face of that exi…
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S3E11 - Psychic Sheaths, Gurus, and Social Expectations
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Welcome back! This week's episode is a wide-ranging conversation touching on themes from the last few videos. Hope you enjoy! Please send any questions, comments, and insights to dimensionapproachmedia@gmail.com
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Welcome back! This week's episode is on Armoring, and Lance sees it as literally as important as explaining the concept of temperature. Sometimes we're more comfortable or less comfortable, and it's related to our difficulty in allowing the truth of something. Everything is exactly as it should be - a wonderful, magnificent joke/creation/farce that…
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Welcome back to the fourth entry in this series of the Dimension Approach podcast. This week's episode is a discussion of Metabolism. How and why do we transmute or not transmute the energies we experience? Thanks you for listening! Please post any questions or comments here or via email to dimensionapproachmedia@gmail.com…
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Welcome to the third episode of this multi-week series. This week's episode is a discussion of Hell. Lance discusses hell realms, our psyche's relation to hell, and hell and trauma. There's also a brief survey of some of the literature around hell and its role in culture. Thank you for listening! Please send questions or comments to dimensionapproa…
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Welcome to the second part of this multi-week series. This week's episode is a discussion of Transmutation - spiritual alchemy. It's a term Lance uses a lot, and he dives into the stages of transmutation and the cultural need for rituals around this process. Thank you for listening! Please send questions or comments to dimensionapproachmedia@gmail.…
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First in a multi-part series that gradually unfolds as a beautiful description of what brings each of us from origin to the present moment. What each of us is working against, unknowingly, is a culture that has put the conceptual mind on a pedestal, re-enforcing entanglement with the ego. But there are so many layers and energies operating from abo…
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S3E5 - Parenting ourselves, parenting each other
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We all have patterns of orientation, anchoring, and identifying in relationship to different energy centers. We have state experiences related to each, and we have a level of consciousness at each. There are so many different combinations that can lead to very good or mediocre karaoke performances (context in the episode). Everything seems to be on…
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Welcome back to the Dimension Approach! In this episode Lance dives into a topic he's sometimes hesitant to discuss - his experience of higher dimensions that inform his practice. There are some relatable principles than can help differentiate between dimensions conceptually and experientially. If you have any questions or comments, please reach ou…
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Happy New Year, and welcome back to the Dimension Approach! This week's episode focuses on what it's like to actually access a dimension and what we can begin to notice in that process. We are unconsciously dependent on the reflections of our projections and the connections we do and do not make to the dimensions within ourselves. What are we block…
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Welcome back! This week's episode is an in-depth look at our many self-imposed obstacles to waking up. What do we bring with us from the past? What do we not acknowledge about the present? What do we expect of ourselves that we don't expect from others, and vice versa? It's all more complicated than any of us seem to be able to acknowledge, and may…
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Welcome back to the Dimension Approach podcast! Season 3 kicks off with a discussion of receptivity vs presence and some experientials that highlight the differences between the two and between presence and what is often our default state. If you'd like to learn more about the Dimension Approach, please visit dimensionapproach.com…
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Welcome back to the Dimension Approach! This week's conversation is a dive into the nature of empathy - the different means by which we can empathize with ourselves and others. Lance goes into detail on the dynamics of beginning to empathize with physical parts of ourselves to begin to heal the splits in our psyche. Then the conversation turns to t…
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S2E35 - Physical Work - Orienting, Anchoring, Identifying
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Welcome back to the Dimension Approach! In this episode Lance gives some examples and details around the paradigm shifts necessary to do physical body work in the Dimension Approach. What we're orienting to, where we're anchoring, and how we're identifying impact our ability to recover from injuries and traumas. Hope you enjoy the discussion!…
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S2E34 - The imaginal becomes real for Geoff
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Happy holidays! This week's episode dives into interpersonal relationships and the imaginal realm. There's an interesting exercise towards the end that really brings home some aspects of the imaginal realm for Geoff. Thank you for listening! Please send any questions to dimensionsapproachmedia@gmail.com…
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Welcome back to the Dimension Approach! After a bit of a hiatus due to Geoff's work, the podcast is back. Hope you enjoy this discussion of ego mind vs conscious mind and some examples of Lance and Geoff's ego minds at work. Thank you for listening! Please send any questions to dimensionsapproachmedia@gmail.com…
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There's a shift that happens when you start to examine what you call self. One goal of the dimension approach is to help facilitate that shift. Thank you very much for listening! Please send any questions/comments to dimensionapproachmedia@gmail.com.
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Hello, and welcome back! Re-releasing Geoff's story of his spiritual experience and subsequent work with Lance. Initially released in installments, the full story is here now. Thank you very much for listening! Please send any questions/comments to dimensionapproachmedia@gmail.com.
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Apologies for the delay, we've had some technical issues this week! We continue discussing the dynamics of monads, dyads, and triads in relation to trauma. Lance uses this example to dive into how the Dimension Approach works and what some of the key aspects of the healing work are. Thank you for listening! Please send any questions or comments to …
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We start by discussing containers for experience which leads to tantrums. Tantrums takes us to developmental psychology, and that brings up monads and dyads. It's a fascinating dive into relationships and some interesting theories. Thank you for listening! Please send any questions or comments to dimensionapproachmedia@gmail.com.…
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Thanks for listening! This week's episode is about personality, ego, and character structure. We've talked a bit about these topics before, but we focus more on how our relationship to each one within ourselves can impact our interactions and relationships with others. Please send any questions or comments to dimensionapproachmedia@gmail.com.…
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S2E27 - Child and Dragon Conclusion (Love wins)
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Spoilers in the title. We wrap our discussion on the child and dragon analogy. Lance goes into detail on the balance between love and hate in the psyche and the fear we have that love doesn't win, that the hate, the darkness, the evil will win in the end. Lance shares a deeply personal experience of grace in his life that revealed some truth about …
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Fun thoughts from this episode: When we orient to a duality, we're using our ego mind. Just because the light is turned on doesn't mean the darkness has gone away. Also, with our first in-person podcast we did our first in-person experiential exercise around consciousness and ego. Thanks for listening!…
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For our first in-person podcast ever, we dive into one of Lance's favorite metaphors - the child and the dragon. This one has been especially helpful to Geoff in his own journey and we'll get into that in future episodes. Part 1, though, will lay out how the child and the dragon exemplify two sides of a dialectic within ourselves that we may consci…
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As we dive deeper into the foundational assumptions of the Dimension Approach, Lance sheds some light on his understanding of consciousness. Consciousness, just like sunlight, has these powers. It doesn't just light our way; it effects the very thing it's looking at. Thank you for listening! If you have any questions or comments, please contact us …
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Throughout our time working on the podcast, Lance has been working to create written descriptions of the approach for the website. That ongoing work has been part of the conversations this season, and this week's episode focuses on some foundational assumptions about consciousness. They're not specific to the Dimension Approach, but they are essent…
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This episode is a conversation that's a bit wide-ranging; we discuss dialectics, specifically love and hate. And then we get into a discussion of the concept of ideal blueprint on the Dimension Approach and somehow end at artificial intelligence. Hope you enjoy, and thanks for listening! If you have any questions or comments, please contact us at d…
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Our final episode on the 0 chakra - we do an interesting experiential exercise around 0 chakra and the connection to ground. We also go into a bit more detail on what the individual experience was for each of us. Thanks for listening! If you have any questions or comments, please contact us at dimensionapproachmedia@gmail.com.…
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Thanks for listening! If you have any questions or comments, please contact us at dimensionapproachmedia@gmail.com.
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Wait, wait, we forgot one! It turns out chakras are more like integers than whole numbers, and there's a 0 chakra. Geoff gives Lance a hard time for leaving it out as it turns out it's pretty important to development. Thanks for listening! If you have any questions or comments, please contact us at dimensionapproachmedia@gmail.com.…
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The discussion of psychotherapy in the Dimension Approach continues, and we touch on some classic themes like anxiety and reprogramming vs deprogramming. Lance explains how anxiety is a system overwhelm when facing energy that can’t be metabolized. Thanks for listening! If you have any questions or comments, please contact us at dimensionapproachme…
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S2E17 - Psychotherapy in Practice, Part 1
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In this episode Lance discusses general theory about psychotherapy and how awareness of subtle energy is a key part of psychotherapy in the Dimension Approach. By bringing awareness to the energetic dynamics between client and practitioner, there is greater opportunity for change in existing patterns and structures. Thanks for listening! If you hav…
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Unconsciousness is the result of nonacceptance, and ego mind wants to destroy the thing that's not been accepted. But if you want to eradicate it, accept it via consciousness. Conscious contact is a celebration after the success of the process - an acknowledgement or a reunion. It's a kind of validation for the work put in. Thanks for listening! If…
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Welcome back! We talk a bit about the dynamic between conscious mind and ego mind in the dimension approach before we discuss conscious mirroring in detail. Transference is a big part of mirroring - whatever is there is getting mirrored, however great or awful. But once it's mirrored we can begin to disidentify with it. Thanks for listening! If you…
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S2E14 - So, what's conscious containment?
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We talk conscious containment, and it gets a bit vulnerable at times. Conscious containment allows for the energy that's being allowed to move via conscious holding to begin to cohere. But that coherence can go in unexpected directions. Thanks for listening! If you have any questions or comments, please contact us at dimensionapproachmedia@gmail.co…
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Thanks for listening! If you have any questions or comments, please contact us at dimensionapproachmedia@gmail.com.
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The methodology for the Dimension Approach, as we've discussed before, is 5 different ways of consciously attending to a dimension of experience. This week's conversation dives into conscious witnessing and differentiating being aware of something vs being conscious of it and the state shifts associated with that differentiation. Thanks for listeni…
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S2E11 - So, What's the Dimension Approach?
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We continue our discussion of structures with some practical examples of The Dimension Approach at work in bringing conscious attention to the structures we live by. And we get a little more insight into the golf example Lance goes back to time and time again. It was consciousness all along. (Part 5) Thanks for listening! Please send any questions …
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S2E10 - So, What's the Dimension Approach?
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As we continue defining the Dimension Approach we spend a little more time discussing structures - ego structures and conscious structures. One tag line for describing the Dimension Approach is "Conscious attention to the structures we live by." We are all operating out of structures, if we recognize it or not, and bringing conscious attention to t…
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S2E9 - So, what's the Dimension Approach?
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We continue our conversations defining the Dimension Approach, in the context of its aims (awakening, healing, development, and performance). This episode focuses on development especially in the context of ego and conscious structures. That leads, as it often does, to a lot more questions about structures, so the next couple episodes will dive int…
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S2E8 - So, what's the Dimension Approach?
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Lance goes into further detail on the development of the Dimension Approach's aims and methodology as the conversation shifts from awakening to healing (Part 2). Thanks for listening! Please send any questions or comments to dimensionapproachmedia@gmail.com
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S2E7 - So, what's the Dimension Approach?
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We're diving into a multi-part discussion defining the dimension approach. After a year's worth of conversations, we try to lay out the key tenets of the approach - its aims (awakening, healing, development, and performance) and methodology (conscious witnessing, holding, containment, mirroring, and contact). (Part 1) Thanks for listening! Please s…
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Our deep dive into subtle energy concludes with a discussion of the 5th, 6th, and 7th chakras (Part 5 of 5). Thanks for listening! Please send any questions or comments to dimensionapproachmedia@gmail.com
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We continue our discussion of "waking up" vs "growing up" in relation to the chakras and development. That requires clarifying nonpersonal vs transpersonal - concepts that can sometimes get conflated. In the context of personal vs transpersonal, we get back to discussing the "higher" 5th-7th chakras as well. (Part 4 of 5). Thanks for listening! Ple…
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The shift from 3rd to 4th chakra merits a deeper discussion, so we revisit the idea of 4th dimension vs 3rd dimension (4th chakra vs 3rd chakra). Lance describes some of his own 4th chakra experiences and the ways in which his visual field shifts. He also discusses how the approach shifts when working with clients' different chakras. (Part 3 of 5).…
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Lance and Geoff continue their discussion of subtle energy and the chakras. This episode touches on the 4th and 5th chakras, states vs stages, blocks in subtle energy, and waking up vs growing up (Part 2 of 4). Thanks for listening! Please send any questions or comments to dimensionapproachmedia@gmail.com…
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Welcome back to the Dimension Approach Podcast! The season begins with a deep dive into subtle energy and the role it plays in psychotherapy and healing. Geoff and Lance start with a discussion of the imaginal realm in pop culture before beginning an extended discussion of the subtle realm (Part 1 of 4). Thanks for listening! Please send any questi…
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Welcome to Season 2 of the Dimension Approach Podcast - new episodes will begin airing January 29th. This season will look a little different; Lance and Geoff lay out some of the changes in format in this introductory episode. If you have any questions/comments about the podcast or recommendations for future discussions, please email: dimensionappr…
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