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2.
Lengthening: Opening Up Your Experiencing
(This
section to be added soon. Principles of repatterning will be shown,
first in bodywork, as an example, and then extending into repatterning
the whole being through DEPTH Dialogue. All of this is based on the
understanding of how repatterning fits into the whole scheme of the
rediscovery of the inner dynamics of deep inner Socratic dialogue. This
was presented in the Introduction section.)
For now, a brief
synopsis of the
topic:
Lengthening is one of the primary means of repatterning technique. In
bodywork it means lengthening the spine, and by extension, the whole
body, both in structure and in movement.
In DEPTH Dialogue it means opening up your felt-experiencing from
opaque fixed perceptions of people, things, events, etc. into the more
fluid feeling perceptions that underly and form those outward opaque
perceptions.
This is done first of all through DEPTH Dialogue's main question, which
is the main thrust of the entire practice, and especially of the
lengthening/opening part of it. This question has to do with whether
your outer actions and experiences correspond to your true inner
feelings. And, do you really know what your true inner feelings are?
And if not, could we explore into them, starting from whatever might be
there now for you?
From there, we go into more specific opening-up questions, first of all
getting into what you love, desire, feel attracted to, etc. in your
experience - and searching into this even when this kind of feeling is
not immediately evident, such as in seemingly repulsive experiences. We
are looking for the "juice" in your experience that holds it in place
for you, the emotional charge that makes it a something rather than a
nothing for you.
Then we take this deeper and more inward, like opening up boxes within
boxes. This happens through specific questions for this purpose.
All of this inevitably results in your experience, whatever it is,
opening up well
beyond what it started out as being or seeming. This always happens,
because, like lengthening the spine and body in bodywork repatterning,
the contracted state is unatural, and the natural forces in you seek a
more relaxed, freer, more open state, and will go there spontaneously
if given the opportunity. The specific focus of attention that you are
guided into through the opening questions gives you just that
opportunity.
To end up a round of deep self-exploration you go back to the main
question about whether what you are experiencing and doing outwardly
corresponds to what you are feeling deeply inside. You now have a
deeper, clearer feeling for what is truly inside you, and so, when you
are now asked what you want to do, say, show and express from that
clear inner knowing place, all of this will certainly be different. It
will have a deeper, freer, clearer base for new action and experience.
What comes out of you will spontaneously be more open and free, in both
feeling and expression. You
will be more
open and free. (Without directly having focused on it, even you spine
may have lengthened, in the broader, freer expression that you now
embody and enact.)
(This always takes place in combination with other elements of the
practice, for a deep and more thorough result, but here we are
isolating
each element for the purpose of describing it.)
To continue, go to
the next section, Broadening.
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