Sublime

the aim of psychoanalysis and most forms of conventional psychotherapy is to heal the radical split between the conscious and unconscious aspects of the psyche so that a person is put in touch with “all of his mind.”

Becoming aware of how our self-story changes according to different situations helps us stay better connected with our transcendent self, and therefore with our ability to choose among possibilities about how we will be.

It concerns a different kind of inward attention to what is at first sensed unclearly. Then it comes into focus and, through the specific internal movements I am about to present, it changes in a bodily way.

What is it, about this whole problem, that makes this quality (which you have just named or pictured)?

Meditative practice reveals that we are most fundamentally the opening of consciousness that watches thoughts coming and going, rather than the center of thought and intention with which we normally identify.

We accomplish this task by asking ourselves the following question each time we are emotionally triggered: “How does this triggering event impact me on the level of felt-perception?”

disorientation: keeping us from appreciating the full range of our life choices that are here, right in front of us.