There was a revealing moment regarding all relationships while doing an exercise in a Zero Balancing class that opened a window of potential, not only to right relationship with my clients in my private practice, but also in my marriage, my friendships, my motherhood, my grandmotherhood and even mother-in-law-hood, which respects and glories in the full co-creative sovereignty of both parties. How do we stand in full meeting, full presence, full individuality, and full unconditional love at the same time? In that moment, the mystery of practicing Love and Liberty which I had always sought, stood revealed. In the dance of relationship, there are many ways we connect. I hope David’s article about this principle of interface which our mentor, Dr Fritz Smith, who is a master of this mode BTW, coined is helpful to your personal as well as professional interactions. Clean, clear connection is life-giving. May we be encouraged to master the subtle art of interface.

Dr. Fritz Smith just passed away May 7th, 2024, only 4 days before his 95th birthday celebration of life. David and I are honored to have known and loved him.

INTERFACE EXPANDED   by David Laden, ZB Faculty Member

Twenty-eight years after being introduced to the concept of Interface in my first Zero Balancing class, I’m still growing into the possibilities. It is essentially a universal principle, rare in our times, not only for illuminating how people touch each other but how we can learn to relate to each other.

Interface rests on a principle of respect and impersonal love, impersonal in the sense that it is not possessive, has no personal agenda or needs associated with it and no judgement. It implies acceptance and high positive regard. In that sense it is an ideal, a potential to be cultivated throughout our lives in relation to how we see others and ourselves.

In ZB we practice touching and relating to persons (relating directly through touch) with no agenda to change them, correct them, fix them or solve their problems. In this sense it is non-analytical, non-directive, non-diagnostic and not a “therapy”. ZB is not in conflict with anything and not forceful, though it is powerfully engaging. So if ZB is NOT these things, what IS it? And why does it rest on the principle of Interface?

Here is a working definition of ZB (see quotes by Dr. Smith at the end of this paper):

It is the engagement with the inner essence of a person knowing it is forever present and can be evoked through bone level touch – this level of engagement being our means of direct attention to a person. This type of touch and attitude provides a person with a direct experience of expanding beyond the restless mind, chronic body tension and conditioned responses which impede happiness and restrict freedom of thought and action.

Streaming, blending and channeling do not serve this purpose because they have a personal agenda and judgement built into them. They are ways of asserting or abdicating power, therefore limited in their ability to convey mutual respect and elicit the potential within each person to learn and grow from their own inner voice. Only Interface does this, in ZB or in any mature relationship. This type of acknowledgement is what we are all needing and wanting, consciously or not. It is rare in the world. We, as ZBers have the ability to convey this acknowledgement easily through touch and how we relate generally to our clients. It requires mindfulness about who we are and what our role is. Being at Interface is a spiritual practice. When we practice being at Interface in doing ZB it begins to penetrate all the relationships in our lives, including the relationship with ourselves. We get healthier because we are not burdened with less healthy ways of being. It begins to eliminate co-dependency on others and strengthens our own core spiritual identity.

By receiving  ZB our clients feel empowered from within and we the ZBers are empowered by letting go of the need to  control and the responsibility for changing anyone – the root cause of burnout. We simply do our best to be fully engaged, do each fulcrum beautifully, guide the pace and rhythm of the session skillfully, be fully present on all levels and when appropriate, say something out loud that might reinforce the body-felt effect of a fulcrum.

This way of working is thoroughly enjoyable! We are made healthier by doing ZB, by the Healing Field of the ZB session. Interface is the skeleton key that unlocks that win/win potential.

“ With ZB we have the opportunity to introduce a person to a deeper level of who they are. ”   Dr. Fritz Smith

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