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#2062 -
The next couple of issues I edit will
feature selections from a new book, Healing with
Qualities, by Manuel Schoch.
From the website: Manuel
Schoch is a gifted Swiss mystic, healer, therapist, and teacher,
and the creator of Time Therapy. He has drawn on 30 years of
careful observation of the human energy system to give us a
holistic way to transform our habitual patterns. Combining
awareness and natural energy processes, Time Therapy is a
stunningly direct and practical way to consciously realize the
potential of your individual strengths and qualities. Rather than
focusing on the past as a tool for dealing with the present, as
does traditional psychotherapy, Time Therapy works on the premise
that you can change your patterns in the present through specific
meditation techniques.
Schoch was the co-founder of the Analytic Centre in
Manuel Schoch will be giving a workshop
entitled The Feeling Revolution at Omega
Institute on the weekend of May 20-22. The schedule for the
event is:
· Friday
· Saturday
·
more info here: http://www.sentientpublications.com/catalog/healing.php
HEALING WITH QUALITIES: The Essence
of Time Therapy
by Manuel Schoch
Chapter 11
Creating the Atmosphere of the
Qualities
(Editor's note: The
"Qualities" are "the real essence of your
being.")
To sum up so far, we have seen that
psychological problems represent symptoms of repressed and
overshadowed qualities. The essence of your being is the energy
body or the soul, which, although we cannot observe it, can be
felt as an atmosphere, and the qualities are a part of this
essence that we can perceive directly. This essence gets
overshadowed over time by our second birth, or the birth
of thoughts, so that we are constantly concealing our strengths.
We saw how the future without perspective is
fear, and fear is thought. We need to learn how to distinguish
between the different thought processes, and this can only be
done from the level of the qualities. There is a distinction
between the motivative thought process, which is a communion, and
the associative thought process, which is a constant description
of what should be the communication. Through the associative
process, or the ego, thinking becomes its own tool. We do not
love, we think love and we do not act, we just think of action.
In this way, the qualities become increasingly overshadowed. So
we have to learn to observe thinking if we want to blend the
qualities, the atmosphere of the qualities and thinking. The
result of this blending would mean that the inner intelligence
would leave behind time-space duality and the ego. We can see
from this how the associative thought process hinders us from
direct perception. It is the process of constant description that
not only overshadows the qualities but also creates a resistance
toward slow feelings.
Slow feelings and our qualities
Fast feelings stem from aggression and its
different manifestations such as jealousy and greed, all of which
are a symptom of fear, and fear itself also belongs to the fast
feelings. Remember that when we experience fast feelings there is
an input of energy because of a situation. For example, say you
feel betrayed by a friend. You feel a surge of jealousy; there is
a minute or two when you experience an input of adrenaline, and
then it is gone. It then requires the associative thought process
to keep the whole process alive. In a case like this the body's
hormonal system, the flight-or-fight refelx, is over very
quickly.
The associative process eventually renders
us unable to distinguish between the act of actual doing and
thinking about doing, and this creates a hindrance not only for
our qualities but also for the manifestation of slow feelings,
which is the vehicle in which the qualities are carried. The slow
feelings such as love, joy, inner peace, ecstasty, happiness and
compassion are feelings that cannot be affected by this kind of
hormonal activity, which means that most of the time the
qualities are thought about but not really lived.
You may have observed by now how
tremendously difficult it is to really be in touch with our
potential. When we try to be in touch with our qualities, the
mind immediately jumps back into negativity and claims that
staying with the atmosphere of the qualities is too difficult to
do; you may feel that you still do not have sufficient contact
with your qualities or that there are still too many blockages
within you, for example. The reason the mind does this has very
simply to do with the principle of evolution in that we do not
need our qualities for survival. The first level of our awareness
is the form or body. When we come into form, the essence of a
baby is its qualities; however, the qualities are structured
within the body, and the baby does not have an awareness of its
quality. It is not aware of it because it is the
quality. The baby is only aware of the body: is it cold or too
warm, is it hungry or not, in a pleasant position or not? The
first thing that the mind learns to do with awareness is to be
alert to the problems of the body. It watches for any hint of
unease in the body. If there is an uneasiness in the body, even
if it is only hunger, it acts accordingly to relieve the unease.
In the process of growing up the mind learns
to focus on the negative, simply because survival is based on
being watchful for anything that may be wrong. The mind is
trained to be constantly aware of something going wrong and
becomes totally fixed on the idea that as long as there is
nothing wrong within the body, and as long as there is no
imminent danger, there is no need for action. It is not focused
on what is good, and so it learns through the associative thought
process to do exactly the same thing on the psychospiritual
level.
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Like this book? I'll print more in the
next issue. The author, Manuel Schoch, is appearing at the Omega
Institute in May. details and further info about this book are
here: http://www.sentientpublications.com/catalog/healing.php
Reprinted with implied permission by the
publisher.