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concrete steps towards living life to the fullest
untangle your emotions and live life to the fullest
the art of conscious living
1. Why this book? 2. Basic Theory - A, 3. Basic Theory - B
4. Phase 1, 5. Phase 2, 6. Phase 3, 7. What can you expect from PRI?, 8. Good luck!
Now you moved to phase two...
and that's when your Inner Observer has been firmly installed.
During phase one, you have learned...
that you can recognize the moments the emotional brain is in command...
and when you have been taken over by a defence.
When you can do that, you can move to phase two...
because in phase two we will look at: how can we crack that emotional brain...
how can we get access to what's in the emotional brain? And you can do that...
by applying a very precise decoding procedure which I want to teach you now.
This decoding procedure consists of two steps.
Firstly, you look at, when you encounter a symbol...
and you know that when you have a defensive reaction...
you know that it's triggered by a symbol, just before my defence was activated...
what aspect of the symbol have I perceived, with my senses...
so for real, what have I heard, what have I seen, that has activated the defence.
So, for example, your girlfriend is a symbol. What exactly is it that she has done or said...
that, for example, triggered my irritation, so activated my False Power.
You go back to the moment when you were annoyed and what happened at that moment?
You zoom in on that moment.
Then you see what it is that comes at you first, the look on your partner's face.
So for example, a dark look, something you perceive as a dark look.
If the rest of the world sees it that way or not is not important, you perceive it as such.
So it's your sensory perception. You've seen it.
That sensory perception, it touches on the emotional brain...
it touches on what is stored in the Child Consciousness...
because it is identical to something that has previously happened...
and that you have repressed as a child. And the meaning it had in the past...
that meaning is transferred, so to speak, onto the present incident by your emotional brain.
So even though it has a very different meaning in the present, that doesn't matter...
the emotional brain recognizes the sensory perception...
and sticks the meaning to it that it had in the past.
That meaning is what you want to detect now...
because that is the second part of cracking the code. So this is how do you do that.
You zoom in on, in this case, your partner's dark look...
you let that look come to you and you ask yourself the question:
"what message do I actually perceive coming from the other, with this dark look?"
So what do I feel coming at me?
It is not about the partner, it's about what you feel comes at you through that dark look.
And then it can be something like: get out of here...
get out of my sight, what good are you, I hate you, you bother me.
Just some possibilities, it could be anything.
You're the only one who knows what the real meaning is associated to this sensory perception.
Because it is about your emotional brain. You're the only one who can access it.
The words, whether they are right or not...
you will feel that on the basis of the emotional reaction you get when you formulate the words.
If you feel a fairly vague discomfort, then you are not there yet.
Then you nearly cracked the code, but not exactly, so it won't open.
The exact right words, you will feel them because you will have a sudden, fairly sharp reaction.
That may not be a very big reaction, but it's a sudden, sharp response.
Like being stung by a bee. I also call it the Sting.
When you feel that you know, yes, that's the meaning...
and so it will open the lock and I get access to what is in the emotional brain.
That moment is very important. Because if you've got access to the emotional brain...
then the next step is possible, which I'm going to explain to you in phase three.
And that's about: how do I reprogramme what is stored in the emotional brain?