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Author Archives: Hayward
the time that allows past-present-future
When practicing time exercises a recognition occurs. Just as space allows objects and gives them form, time enables the past, present and future. Objects are forms of space and present, past and future are expressions of time. We saw something … Continue reading
A reflection on “positive think”
Unlike many pop psychology approaches telling us to think positive thoughts, TSK invites us to investigate the construction of thought and thereby be liberated from thought’s compelling perceptual patterns. Not positive thoughts….liberation from thoughts :@) Hayward.
models that have predictive value
It seems to me that models that have a predictive value appear to me to have more “validity”. If a model of airodynamics “works” and an airplane flies, it is more difficult to equate this model to some model that … Continue reading
Experience Knows Me
I know me through experience. You know me through experience. Therefore, clearly.experience knows me. However, if we posit experience without an “experiencer”, how does experience arise and how is it perceived? Hayward
thoughts without substance
I am finding the recognition that “thoughts have no substance” helpful in freeing me from the reactivity I experience around thoughts and their contents. It has been useful to consider “thoughts” as a space in which content appears. This helps … Continue reading
A “higher order space”
I had been perplexed as to why it was necessary to posit ( and then try to experience) a higher order space. It seemed that if we recognized that the space “around” objects also “pervades” objects (therefore objects were forms … Continue reading
languaging sub-personalities
I am finding it useful to speak to clients about “ways of knowing” or “vantage points”. Every way of knowing has a view of the world and a view of the self. Every way of knowing contains thoughts, feelings and … Continue reading
space within memory and memory within space
During the phone exercise today, I recalled a hike in the forest with my daughter. I could see the space in which the scenery existed. I then “zoomed out” of the memory and found that the content of the memory … Continue reading
Layers of mind
It is useful to consider thought as “content” and the other layers as “context”. Therefore the content of mind occurs in and is contoured (allowed and enabled) by the the context in which they occur. Prevailing bodily, affective and emotional … Continue reading
TSK and psychotherapy
I have found it best to draw from the TSK vision, rather than try to teach the vision. For example it can be clear to people that what they perceive about their “self and circumstance” is influenced by their state … Continue reading