
Riding the Horse Backwards

If you do not work on yourself, then you operate in what Charles Tart would call a consensus hypnosis, unconsciously fulfilling impersonal cultural tasks and goals.
Amy Mindell, Arnold Mindell • Riding the Horse Backwards
feelings and states that are outside your normal identity. You feel “stoned,” “euphoric” or “tranced out.”
Amy Mindell, Arnold Mindell • Riding the Horse Backwards
Frequently you are dreamed up, that is, you pick up experiences which the other person dreams about but has an edge against.
Amy Mindell, Arnold Mindell • Riding the Horse Backwards
I processed the information.
Amy Mindell, Arnold Mindell • Riding the Horse Backwards
If you don’t amplify and work with little pains, then they reappear in other areas of your body or in other channels, like relationship.
Amy Mindell, Arnold Mindell • Riding the Horse Backwards
At that point, where a secondary process appears, the client can choose, of course, whether she wants to become aware of it or not.
Amy Mindell, Arnold Mindell • Riding the Horse Backwards
Everyone can choose what should stop in their own way. But certainly the vast majority of us need to “stop” our attachment to being who we think we are: sweet or nasty, ambitious or religious, cosmopolitan or materialistic! We need to be real in the sense of temporarily identifying with what we are doing and feeling at a given moment. And then we
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All sides are weak in relationship work. All of us lose our awareness as we fall into the altered states created by strong emotions.
Amy Mindell, Arnold Mindell • Riding the Horse Backwards
Her embarrassment to wriggle in front of the group indicates that the group now carries the projection of the movement inhibitor, the quiet side of her.