I’m going to answer a question Viviane posted a couple of days ago. She wrote:<\/p>\n
I just did my first trial of exercise #15, revising my memories, and instead of reaching any connection between past and present that could make them intaract more, I felt a strange feeling that my linear past is too much in my present. Not as a reference and construction of present but as a constrain of freedom to be. It is like a persistent line of ideas grasping my moves\/ideas\/opinions… even when I am trying to make different, to be fresh, this conceptual line of perspective is there in some forceful way.<\/p>\n
And it reminded me of a situation that happened to me some months ago, when I was meditating… Without any reason I remembered a situation I had lived many years ago, which was too strong for me. But the scene came different from the one I have being repeatedly had as the memory… It was as another perspective, one I had never thought about, as filming from another direction the same situation, with the same actors…and it was quite clear to me I could access different views and feelings related to that situation seeing it from this diverse angle.<\/p>\n
My question is: Could I had opened the “filter” of my memory of this situation when it came to me from another point of view I had never thought about, although I had talked much about this situation, even in terapy? Would it be a way to experience my past moment, free of some ideas, memories and pre-concepts attached to the memory of the moment? Or would it be another construction of memory?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It sounds to me as though perhaps you did Exercise 13 instead of Exercise 15. But as to this sense of “the linear past being too much present,” I wonder what that felt like for you. In my practice of being aware of the past, it has a certain weight to it. Was it something like that?<\/p>\n
Yes, I think you could experience a past moment from a new perspective. But to do this, time can’t be linear. It has to have many dimensions. Look at the diagram in LOK Ex. 16 to get a sense of this.<\/p>\n
More than that, to gain a new perspective that is not just another construction, you have to live the experience and then re-live it. In other words, the new perspective has to be a lived story and not just a told story.<\/p>\n
Jack<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’m going to answer a question Viviane posted a couple of days ago. She wrote: I just did my first trial of exercise #15, revising my memories, and instead of reaching any connection between past and present that could make … Continue reading