Posted by 64bowtie on February 13, 2006, at 2:53:41
In reply to Re: Habits and Vision, posted by James K on February 9, 2006, at 3:27:06
James,
<<< I suppose what's so confusing is that I operate from the premise that faulty beliefs are based on false and distorted information, and thus are at the roots of most bad feelings, bad behavior, and bad motives... False and distorted information can be most quickly updated by vision, in concert with the other foreground and background senses, and thereby extinguishing the faulty beliefs, one by one, as we begin to perceive accurately...
I've stumbled unto an unfortunate barricade to the updating process, that extinguishing faulty beliefs means a "loss" to the client who is attempting to change... I suspect that vanity, and indeed arrogance, tends to block change, spurred on by the history of the clients own peculiar dysfunction being multigenerational and multilayered... The principal of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" seems more authentic to the client since all of the ancestors appeared to get along without this change being required of them... What should I call this, "ancestoral arrogance" syndrome???
I've also discovered by my own efforts that, the more we perceive, the more we (indeed) perceive... Extrapolated, the more TIME we devote to perception, in contrast to acting only on judgement and belief, the more (QUANTITY) we perceive, and so on, and so on... I am targeting those who are terribly twisted emotionally, such that they perform 95% of the time operating from only their feelings, allowing their opinions and beliefs to (totally) run their lives... By being curious about the world around us, perceiving more and believing less, we tend to emerge, eventually, from our troubles and strife...
Rod
PS: I've been looking around alot, and the only surefire EVIL I ever see is DYSFUNCTION, time and time again... And we do it to ourselves...
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