another reason to meditate or dissociate

[Guest guest]

" When the ego becomes too concerned with daily matters, with worry in

other words, then the works of the tool become clogged. It becomes

ineffective. Dissociation, and I will give you many ways of achieving

it, unclogs the tool and is absolutely necessary. "

- Seth/Jane Roberts, Session 17, p.108 , The Early Sessions, Book

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[Guest guest]

Hmm.

 

I realize that dissociate is the word Seth used, but it has such a negative

psychological implication and meaning

that I think a change of terminology is in order for the technique of

meditation... dissociation is usually seen

as a numbness, a separation from awareness of the full experience of the body;

it happens in times of shock or

when a person is uncomfortable with something and the mind pulls a curtain in

front of them. In extreme cases it

causes personality fragmentation (as in Dissociative Identity Disorder, DID,

formerly known as multiple

personality disorder).

 

In bodywork, we try to avoid a person dissociating on the table, preferring that

they stay in their bodies so that

we can get appropriate feedback from them. For many people who are

uncomfortable with their bodies due to low

self esteem, abuse or the like, somatotization is a necessary part of

psychological recovery... they have to, in

other words, be in their bodies, not floating around in the ether while someone

does something to their bodies.

You can see how this might have been a useful defense mechanism for an abused

child, but why it ceases to be

useful as the person matures and strives towards wholeness.

 

I believe what Seth is reaching at here is clarity, objectivity, which is not

the same as dissociation, but more

like unconditionality. I really don't believe we want to reach a state where we

don't feel, but one in which we

can approach everything in a state of love, even the things or actions we don't

like. I think, somehow, that

dissociation and decision making might lack compassion, and we don't live in a

black and white world.

 

The letting go of worry is a big ego project... worrying is a sign that the ego

feels responsible for/in charge of

whatever is being worried about... and in many cases, that's a pretty egocentric

perspective ;-) Worry (in

retrospect) has been one of the biggest things in my own personality I can laugh

at, because it seems that my

imagination can confabulate some amazingly horrible scenarios from only a seed

of reality.

 

Blessings,

Crow

 

Michelle Hughes wrote:

 

> " When the ego becomes too concerned with daily matters, with worry in other

words, then the works of the tool

> become clogged. It becomes ineffective. Dissociation, and I will give you many

ways of achieving it, unclogs the

> tool and is absolutely necessary. "

> - Seth/Jane Roberts, Session 17, p.108 , The Early Sessions, Book

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