Dissolving Pain and Other Experience

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“Dissolving Pain and Other Experience” (29:22 minutes) – This program is
designed to facilitate the management of all types of conscious experience through control of attention. This tape may be used specifically to dissolve or diffuse unpleasant mental or physical experiences. The approach to physical pain presented on this tape is based on the finding that attentional alternation between a narrow focus upon an objectified experience and melting into and merging with that experience, and then bringing it into an on-going OPEN FOCUS, often leads to the reduction or dissolution of the experience. Integrating a focal physical or emotional pain into the flow of on-going OPEN FOCUS results in the diffusion of its intensity and judged
importance or affect. Here, and on the exercise, the word “pain” is used in its most general sense and is meant to include experiences of all kinds. In addition to sharp and dull pain, other forms of experience may be dissolved, such as fatigue, depression, anxiety, guilt, tension, anger or other emotions, body feelings, obsessive thought patterns, compulsions, and mental attitudes or states of mind. The basic notion here is that pain and other forms of “disease” and tension are maintained because of a fixation or rigidity of focal attention either upon or directed away from
the experience. This “Dissolving Pain” exercise is designed to provide an opportunity to practice attentional flexibility and to dissolve an existing fixation or focal attention, thus, reestablishing the flow of on-going experience, called OPEN FOCUS. In fact, the techniques used to dissolve pain may be used to dissolve all experience including space and time. This state of unselfconsciousness is often readily achieved during practice. It may be observed retrospectively only as an awareness that the practice period had passed in what seemed like less time than was actually expended. Thus, this sense of rapid expenditure of time, or absence of a sense of time, may be used as an index of the quality of one’s practice. The efficacy of Tape #5 or CD #5 improves as facility and depth of OPEN FOCUS (as guided by Tape #’s 2, 3, 4, 5 or
CD’s #’s 2, 3, 4, 5) is developed.

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