07-18-2018, 02:55 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-18-2018, 03:13 PM by rva_jeremy.)
(07-18-2018, 01:50 PM)Agua Wrote: However there could be a temptation to say "the mind created the blockage so i will solve the blockage mentally".
This is not possible.
The blockage was put in place in order to not experience a certain energy or emotion. So the blockage will persist until one experiences the blocked energy or emotion.
Yeah, these are very nuanced and delicate matters we're discussing; thanks for the refinements.
I hear you saying that, while the mind is the prime mover here, it's not as simple as "unthinking" it. This portrays the task as a totally intellectual one, and it is not. Couldn't agree more.
I wonder how our preexisting biases play into this, too. Like if we have had fifty lifetimes of not looking at an emotion, on what level is the mind as we usually think of it really "deciding" anything? I suppose you could say it's a matter of the deeper mind, but then that places the matter outside the conscious self's purview absent more exotic means!
Perhaps this is the whole utility of catalyst: to give the conscious mind a chance to reconfigure the deeper biases with the powerful tools of incarnate experience. We are, in other words, approaching the blocking thinking from the other side. And I think it's precisely for that reason that your advice, Agua, to not consider it an intellectual task is important. If we can feel the emotion in spite of our deep mind's bias, we can possibly provide sufficient experience to undo the bias, as it is no longer needed in order to deliver balancing experience.
Does that make any sense? I know I'm probably making this too rigid and formulaic; I don't consider the model described above as authoritative, it's just a tool for thinking about the relationship between thought, emotion, and blockage.