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1.1.4.2
Precondition to Healing of the Inner Eye
- I Understand
Unresolved
emotions show up in almost every part of our
body as tensions, and many of them can be resolved.
Imagine
what would happen if the crippled ability to under-stand
would manifest as crippled legs. Then we would have a sad parade of limping people, many
with crutches and in wheelchairs. Why is the respect for the healing and recuperative
powers of the human body not also applied to defective
understanding, to the inner
eye?
It is
already generally assumed that damaged eyesight, let alone the capacity to understand,
cannot return to sufficient normalcy for
lifefulfillment through
improvement within the mind-body sphere. You yourself may unwittingly have
adopted this point of view, as do most people. Yet experiments have
established that even the act of seeing involves consciousness, and that in fact
our perceptions and our emotions are intrinsically linked. Therefore it is
not surprising that sadness, fear, discouragement and other negative
emotions affect your perception and even more so, almost instantly, your understanding.
On the
other hand you may have noticed how people’s eyes shine when they are happy and
even more so, when they get an insight. The fact is, no matter whether caused by
hidden inner tensions or outer challenges, tension in the eyes dulls
the vision and can be the beginning of organic as well as functional problems.
That is even more so in the mind’s eye; understanding. Prejudice, trauma
and phobias are the ultimate problems of the inner eye.
Here we
deal with the relationship between your perception and under-standing and the
emotions, as their distortion. Methods such as Dr. Callahan's
Thought Field
Therapy from which Gary Craig worked out emotional freedom techniques,
EFT,
have proven the capacity to deeply influence our emotions and change our entire
adjustment to life. That can, among others things, actually reverse the tendency of say, your eyes, to
withdraw from contact with the world around you and assume the point of view of
the zeitgeist instead...
Applying
APS®, and its hints, take you by
the mental hand, your I; allowing your being to respond, and that guides you through what we might ironically call an “eye opening
experience”. As you confront some of the inner blocks that have prevented
you so far, and if you do not chicken out, from having an experience in full vision,
then the understanding of yourself and the world
is in sight.
This, of course, requires you to be open to what will happen when the insights, exercises
and understanding
start working - when your substantiality responds, when your brain gets its
chance to adapt. You need to adopt the attitude of the post-poned prejudice;
take as non-judgmental an attitude as possible toward the exercises you will be
doing, adopting an open-minded "let's see” approach to foster understanding.
Then, within 2 days, make notes of what you want to keep, within 2
weeks make decisions about changes in your life, then be prepared to have
to make a conscious effort to be responsible for them for 2 months in
relating to
your fellows human beings, who will still assume you are your old self. Then
when your new
self is adjusted to by them, and your brain at peace with it...
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