--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't think in words unless there is some > intention to communicate what I'm thinking, > whether in reality or fantasy. But I've known > this since I was a child--it was never a > function of the witnessing experience. > > It's a bit odd, because I'm so verbally > oriented and don't have any artistic-type > talents. (Also, my nonverbal thinking isn't > at all visual--I have tremendous difficulty > visualizing. All the various spiritual and > healing exercises that involve visualizing > light or whatever are utterly useless to me. > They seem to take for granted that anybody > can visualize.) > Irmeli:Irmeli: I also find visualization difficult, quite useless for me.However on some however visualizing light in the heart area has helped me to connect to suppressed heavy emotions. I'm not even verbally oriented. Writing has been awkward and difficult for me. > > Yup. On the other hand, I find that sometimes > an initially nonverbal idea becomes clearer and > more useful if I put it in words, if I use verbal > communication mode to express the idea to myself, > as it were. Other times, though, it loses > something in the translation! > Irmeli: I have lately observed this too. This may be one of the reasons I have started to enjoy writing in spite of the difficulty to find words. On the other hand I quite fast forget what I have found words to and written. My mind apparently wants to remain empty. Somehow the insights that come through nonverbal thinking get more readily imprinted in the deep, long lasting memory. If I read something that contradicts those insights, I often perceive first just an emotional discord. Intellectually I don't immediately know why. I have to let my attention rest on the topic for a while to get clear ideas why I disagree. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
