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5.
Dissolving: Decomposing Rigid Structures
(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:
In bodywork repatterning dissolving means loosening up so that
lengthening, broadening and articulating can happen more easily. An
example of this is that in Trager bodywork they use a gentle rocking
motion on the body that loosens up the entire structure. As they are
gently rocking they are also rocking the body into relaxing into
lengthening and spreading out. Other forms of bodywork repatterning
emphasize articulating more than Trager, so you might see in these
other forms, some kind of loosening action that allows articulation of
the joints to take place more easily.
This is a way of saying that dissolving or loosening is a facilitating
action in repatterning. It is the same in DEPTH Dialogue.
Loosening is facilitated in DEPTH Dialogue by a specific line of
questioning that opens up, spreads out and articulates fixed or rigid
thought patterns, beliefs or emotional patterns that may be getting in
the way of the direct experiencing process. In other words, it is used
when there are factors that keep a person from directly sensing or
feeling into their inner bodily sensations. It is used when a person
cannot even begin the process of finding and expressing his inner
truth. Or when he gets stuck along the way.
This is the component of deep inner Socratic dialogue that Socrates
called elenchos
(a classical Greek philosophical term.) This is mentioned because the
term is well-known but misunderstood. It is usually translated as
refutation, and refers to parts of Plato's Dialogues where Socrates
guides a person to examine basic beliefs and assumptions, and the find
that they are wrong, contradictory or unfounded. The misunderstanding
of this is to take the outward form as what is really happening. It is
not.
What is really happening is that Socrates is guiding the person into
dissolving or loosening those beliefs and assumptions so that he finds
that he must go deeper into himself. The outward form of how he guides
a person into this may take the form of a philosophical refutation or
it may take some other form.
In DEPTH Dialogue it is most useful most of the time for this to take a
more subtle, indirect form more in line with the methods of deep
repatterning. This is done by questioning into the subtle nuances of
the experience at hand, whether that be a belief, an assumption, or
whatever, and then lengthening and broadening that experience so that
it starts to loosen up into a felt
and sensed
experience rather than a rigid opaque experience. Once this is
accomplished, the normal exploration can continue.
This component is similar to what hypnotists call a "confusion
technique." Although it is not a technique it has something in common
with confusion techniques, and that is that the person is guided into a
sort of mental run-around where there is nowhere to go and no exit. The
only thing that can result is a sort of confusion. The difference here
is that we do not use this as a hypnotic induction into trance but as
an effective lead-in to deeper felt experiencing.
(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.)
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