Topic: | Re:Re:Re:ReReRe:note-able quotes |
Posted by: | Caefu |
Date/Time: | 12/11/2002 19:40:09 |
Dr. Grinder, You said: >My personal observation is that westerners spend the vast majority of their life spinning in tight little circles of internal dialogue and obsessive cyclic repetitions of images and feelings that have little or nothing to do with their present circumstances - they are rarely present and in those flashs where actual present experience brings through to shake into the present, they nearly reflexly scramble to escape present experience (FA) and seek again the masking oblivion of repetitive thoughts (that is, non-experienctial activity) to reassure themselves that what they thought the world was like before this violent interruption of their cacooned existence still is what the world is like. They spend significant energy and time constructing and defending maps that are nearly entirely detached from experience. < I've met a significant number of non-westerners who behave like that as well, though many other cultures at least have developed standardized ways of dealing with it. I've experimented with a number of methods of managing my internal dialog, etc., and have had mixed results. You mentioned a method in Turtles, using reframing. Could you elaborate on that a little bit, unless it is in Whispering, for which I'm presently awaiting the delivery. best C |