One area of Private Speaking that is useless inner dialogue is misery. Suffering is inevitable but our inner and outer reactions make it so much more miserable.
For the child it may begin with food and the division of the world into like and don't like. That very concept may be the thought forms that put together the world of consciousness, governed by the opposites and rules of Karma.
The concept of fixed immutable laws is challenged on a daily basis by meditators, quantum physic's, and free attention advocates.
A child may create limits and rules from how they were supported based on their food choice.
Is food important? YEA!
There is a huge difference in the child who screams about not eating the oatmeal and the child who suffers through the oats. Think of the difference in physiology, screaming, adrenalin, fixed attention, contortions even possible convulsions all because of likes, dislikes and a poor approach to the food game on behalf of all involved.
As toilet training may affect how a person 'efforts' throughout their life, how the child learns to handle the suffering of foods may affect how the react to the inevitable suffering we all experiencing learning, disciplining and evolve as human beings.
Remember, suffering is real, misery, an option.
My bout with the flu had some very interesting identities emerge to convince me that my pillow or blanket had switches for a drop down menu of storytelling. I was so convinced I got up in a fever, to write down my revelation so I could share this unique apparatus with others. After the third day I realized that as real as it seemed, no story tellers appeared and the button, levers or toggles didn't exist but those fevered identities did exist, probably dormant waiting for the next heat wave to grab my consciousness.
The overall of feeling, and I've run into these before' were an entire city of beings going their separate ways within my being. Schizophrenia, possibly, but not in the least miserable.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
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