Nonviolent Communication, Undertainty (WAS: WOW update)

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Kimberly Dawkins

Monday, July 24, 2006 8:45 AM

Re: [Rawschool] Re: WOW update

 

By late Sunday afternoon, I was not sure I wanted anymore watermelon, but

persevered anyway

since there was still half of a very good one left and I didn't want it to go to

waste. I also

was thinking that I should finish the weekend because I said I would, but that

made me realize

that agreeing to do this sort of challenge or any other artificial, mental

construct of what,

how much and when to eat is not necessarily a good thing for me because it takes

me away from

listening to my body.

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Greetings Kim

I love all that you wrote, and particularly this excerpt! Some on this list may

find it of

interest to explore the work of Dr. Marshall Rosenberg, originator of Nonviolent

Communication.

Upon completing his doctoral work in psychology decades ago, Marshall came to

realize that the

entire model of " therapy " is flawed. Why? It is predicated upon the idea of

detachment, that the

therapist maintains a " safe " distance from the " patient " to avoid " excessive

transference " and

other such, well, nonsense in my opinion.

 

Instead, Marshall felt that the most effective " therapy " would be a process

during which the

'therapist " endeavored to establish a genuine connection with the " patient " or

" client " .

Absolutely wonderful material, for those who may be interested.

 

I mention al this, because one point Marshall makes is that no future commitment

can ever be

held as absolutely binding. This is so, simply because one cannot predict with

certainty what

conditions may exist in the future.

 

Interestingly, though he does not come from this place at all, what Marshall

teaches WRT this

point matches perfectly with some of the originating work in quantum physics,

originally

published during the 1920s by Werner Heisenberg and others. These physicists

formulated

mathematical proofs that there can never be certainty, only uncertainty. The

Universe is

probabilistic in nature. Unfortunately, most of modern science, and including

biology, medicine,

and Natural Hygiene, by the way, have not internalized this absolutely

fundamental paradigm

shift. For the most part, scientists and teachers of health still operate,

unknowingly for the

most part, in the older Newtonian paradigm of determinism, that cause-and-effect

is static in

nature. But this belief is just plain incorrect, and its continued widespread

acceptance and

application help to explain at least of portion of the erroneous thinking in the

world today

about many, many things.

 

Best to all,

Elchanan

 

 

 

 

 

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