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Broadening: Spreading Out 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:
This is the most basic element of DEPTH Dialogue. It is absolutely
necessary, because true change and transformation happens only in the
neuro-physiology of the deep, primitive emotional system, and this
element guides you into that area of experience.
This is a line of questioning and focusing that takes you into you
direct inner bodily experiencing. You are asked to focus on the inner
bodily sensations of the feeling or emotion you are having in the
experience you are presently having. By going into details of this
experience, both in its location in your body and in its sensate
qualities, you bring out subtle nuances of the feeling or emotion that
you were not aware of. Just by doing this, the whole tone of the
experience changes. The experience itself can open up and change into
something completely new and different. It often does.
You are asked to not just describe but to also give expression to what
you are experiencing in your body. In this you are guided one little
step at a time, so there is fine articulation in this aspect of the
experiencing as well. At each small step of feeling into the sensation
and then bringing it out into expression there can be, and often is, a
real feeling shift in the tone of the experience. Again, through this
the entire experience can open up and seem to change into something
entirely new.
This bodily felt-experiencing is woven intimately with the other
components of the dynamic repatterning, so that the overall effect is
that you are feeling and sensing into various articulated and nuanced
aspects of your outward expressed experiences and actions that are
brought out through other components of the repatterning process. So,
there is a sort of zig-zag back and forth action going on.
The back and forth zig-zag is a major aspect of the inner dialogue that
takes place as you go deep into you self-exploration. This is what most
distinguishes DEPTH dialogue from any other practice of self-inquiry or
interior dialogue. You are going directly into the felt sense of your
inner bodily sensations. Images, thoughts, feelings and emotions may be
the starting points, but these are opened up and spread out, and then
deepened into inner bodily experiencing. You finally get to the
immediacy of direct bodily sensing, without any images, thoughts,
feelings or emotions. This is the fertile ground from which something
new may emerge in your experiencing and actions. It always does emerge,
because your inner bodily felt sense is a moving dynamic aware process
within you, not a static state. That movement carries forth in a
spontaneous way into expression when you touch into it and let it flow.
So this component of DEPTH Dialogue repatterning into newness takes you
deeper and deeper into the very basis of your neuro-physiology where
experience forms, and from there brings you outward into clear,
precise, finely articulated new expression and action from there.
Newness of experience and action from your inner depths is built in to
this movement.
This component is called "Speaking Truth." It is the only way to really
speak, express, act and manifest your inner truth, because you can only
bring forth the truth of who you are, what you feel and everything else
that is inside of you when you truly and deeply sense and feel into it.
Before you actually sense and feel into it, everything that you do,
say, show and express is a kind of lie - a lie to yourself and to
whoever you present yourself to. It is a lie because it comes from a
place where you are disconnected from your inner source of knowing your
real truth. Your inner knowingness is sure and precise, but if you do
not directly feel and sense it, it is not available to you. When you do
feel and sense it, it has a natural push toward expression. When you
know your truth you cannot really help but bring it out and show it.
So, this phase of the practice is central to the whole process of your
deep self-exploration. It is directly related to the main question and
the unfolding questions referred to in the section on Lengthening.
These questions put your focus of
attention in the most fruitful direction of inquiry. Speaking Truth
then takes you deep into the place where these questions find sure and
true responses from your inner knowingness. What emerges are answers
from the source of all knowingness, to the most pressing and urgent
questions in life - questions about how you are living and how you are
doing (acting.)
When you truthfully answer these questions from your inner knowingness,
they are never dry intellectual or conceptual answers. They are always
sensate-based and feeling-based actions and expressions. They are
movements of your whole being, from your deepest inner knowing, out
into your most authentic and genuine expression and action. You not
only tell your truth, you live your truth. This is the real meaning of
Socrates' saying that "to know the good is the same as to do the good."
What you discover in yourself is what you then spontaneously live, by
an inner necessity that comes from the dynamics of that inner knowing,
that inner sensing/feeling place.
So, Broadening really means spreading out the scope of your
experiencing, going deep into the inwardness of that experiencing, and
the letting the force of Life in you emerge with something entirely new
that only could happen as a result of going to that broad and deep
inner place. Broadening is the essence of true dynamic experiencing,
and that is the essence of true dynamic repatterning into newness.
(As
with the previous
components, 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, Articulating.
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