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Hi Colleen It's good to hear that you are still working with TROM and getting wins.
I agree with you that reading and re-reading the material is important to getting a full understanding. Well Done! Pete Mclaughlin Sent from my iPad > On Aug 13, 2015, at 8:21 AM, The Resolution of Mind list > <trom@lists.newciv.org> wrote: > > ************* > The following message is relayed to you by trom@lists.newciv.org > ************ > 11August15 Toward Vanishing the Mind > > Have established a routine of creative visualization for self and others - in > the a.m. and sometimes during the daily break if I feel wanting-ness. > > Partner coming along with his life repair work and I do notice major > improvements in his attitude towards life. > > We are focusing in on Idenics as a gradient undercut or aid for Dennis' > practices. Both practices get the person to look at the past and break it off > from being stuck in the present. Both practices get the person to look at > their goal sets and resolve them, further discreating the mind. [email me for > complete Idenics material] > > Idenics does not get the being to re-view his original goal sets (the "To > Know" matrix) thus Dennis' work and practices still need to be run to > accomplish the complete discreation of the mind. > > In my last Idenics session a few days ago and since then I notice a calmer > attitude toward my partner. This session made me take another look at how I > was before an incident as a toddler and how I chose to be after the incident, > and I saw how I got unconsciously stuck in that "after-overwhelm" postulated > identity as a way to handle certain interactions. I saw the dwindling spiral > of self-limitation from my prior postulated identity. Now that that is > unfixed I find I have not around me the same circumstances that were in that > incident and so I don't feel a need to reactively respond to similarities > because now I can see what is different now from what was then, and in fact > the "then" incident does not even seem to come up in that respect. > > Towards the end of the session I saw some original games being played whereby > the childhood incident was simply a continuation and really not that > important at all compared with the larger importances I held even before > bodies existed, and in that original incident I simply had to return to a > complementary interaction - such as demonstrated in an animated Tao symbol. > Seeing the larger and earlier scene helped me to currently feel more > complementary with life. > > In Idenics one is also asked to do creative work so as to fill the remaining > mind's hunger for importances. Knowing now how wonky I can get if I don't do > enough creation of self-generated importances after a discreation of > mindstuff, I make sure I do the "Repair of Importance" as instructed by > Dennis as a morning routine. I always get big yawns doing it and then > brighten up and the world around me brightens too. > > I'm also still honoring the body-mind connection and staying close to a > frugivore diet which I believe aligns with the "Saatvic" diet anciently > recommended for meditators. > > So, to sum, instead of continuing into a tighter and tighter spiral or > fractal of increasingly limited options I am moving backwards through the > created spiral, discreating the fixed mental limitations and feeling more "my > old self" which is still mind stuff - no delusions about that. > > And so the goal this lifetime is to continue until I have reached a certainty > of "No Mind" and wiser for the experience, fully realizing the nature of (and > futility of) everything I've been striving for all this lifetime and these > eons of existence. > > I am gaining confidence that I can DIY my Idenics sessions although they run > better when my clearing partner is present to keep me from swimming and keep > me on track. > > Using the self-enquiry of Idenics is an aid to Dennis' Level Three which > would mean I am a graduate of Level Two with which I struggled for quite a > time and finally found my peace with it after re-reading and re-reading > Dennis instructs. > > If while running Idenics on myself I get stuck in an incident I have the > resource to run some Level Two on it. I also have the resource of the > Six-Directions command when scenes get stuck or too vague. > > I'm very very appreciative Dennis brought home to me the importance of > viewing the past with my eyes open to present environment: that right there > is Level Two. Even with eyes open, if I start swimming in the importances of > an incident the present environment starts to fade away which is why it is > necessary to have these tools and guidances. I lived briefly with someone who > was psychotic and I would notice that they were almost continually not > looking at the present environment but rather looking at something from the > past. For example if there was a door here and now they were not seeing that > door but perhaps a prison door from a past incident and that is why one might > wish to cultivate compassion for the neurotic and insane, not to mention good > practices to help bring them into seeing and responding to their present > environment. > > Colleen > > _______________________________________________ > TROM mailing list > TROM@lists.newciv.org > http://lists.newciv.org/mailman/listinfo/trom
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