"By directly reversing a sense of downward gravity in a feeling of depression, I became cheerful in a matter of seconds. No working with beliefs, no attention to somatic sensation, no processing traumatic memories, nothing of the sort. A shift in something that should have been irrelevant directly altered my mood."
This sounds exciting and immediately awakens my interest. I am curious to learn more about this event. What happened? What did you actually do? How did the shift come about?
It would help me understand better the theory with this practical example.
Many years ago I've come across 'fieldwork' by Philip Golabuk (not sure whether he still uses this term?) I am assuming your use of 'fieldwork' is separate from that?
Bottom line is that feeling experience can be engaged through a kind of perceptual translation into virtual material properties like hardness, weight, temperature and many more. In that first moment, I became aware of a kind of downward pull, or gravitational force, that was integral to my experience of the depression. I didn't know this for sure at that time, but had a suspicion that when we become aware of such a property, we gain the capacity to interact directly with it. I gave it a try, reversing the direction of the downward force, and my mood shifted.
I'll definitely be getting into more of the details of what exactly happened that afternoon thirty years ago, and where that led both in the pursuit of understanding and in the development of the fieldwork method that made it possible to thoroughly investigate such experiences. Plus, I'll be providing very thorough instructions in the fieldwork method so that you can do it yourself.
The best way into it at this point is probably for you to take a bit of a dive into the Give Fieldwork a Try post and the audio facilitation posts it links to: https://frontiers.psychotopology.com/p/give-fieldwork-a-try If you do, let me know how it works out for you.
Looking up Philip Golabuk, I cannot find anything that describes a method called fieldwork, but listening to a bit of him talking on YouTube, I'm guessing that what he does is far, far different from psychotopology fieldwork. Sounds very mental, rational, based on western philosophy, which psychotopology fieldwork very definitely is not.
And yes, constellations are fascinating as hell. Not something we would expect to find in ourselves, but once revealed, they help make so much sense of everything.
"By directly reversing a sense of downward gravity in a feeling of depression, I became cheerful in a matter of seconds. No working with beliefs, no attention to somatic sensation, no processing traumatic memories, nothing of the sort. A shift in something that should have been irrelevant directly altered my mood."
This sounds exciting and immediately awakens my interest. I am curious to learn more about this event. What happened? What did you actually do? How did the shift come about?
It would help me understand better the theory with this practical example.
Many years ago I've come across 'fieldwork' by Philip Golabuk (not sure whether he still uses this term?) I am assuming your use of 'fieldwork' is separate from that?
The 'constellations' sound intriguing.
Look forward to learning more...
Great questions, Veronika.
Bottom line is that feeling experience can be engaged through a kind of perceptual translation into virtual material properties like hardness, weight, temperature and many more. In that first moment, I became aware of a kind of downward pull, or gravitational force, that was integral to my experience of the depression. I didn't know this for sure at that time, but had a suspicion that when we become aware of such a property, we gain the capacity to interact directly with it. I gave it a try, reversing the direction of the downward force, and my mood shifted.
I'll definitely be getting into more of the details of what exactly happened that afternoon thirty years ago, and where that led both in the pursuit of understanding and in the development of the fieldwork method that made it possible to thoroughly investigate such experiences. Plus, I'll be providing very thorough instructions in the fieldwork method so that you can do it yourself.
The best way into it at this point is probably for you to take a bit of a dive into the Give Fieldwork a Try post and the audio facilitation posts it links to: https://frontiers.psychotopology.com/p/give-fieldwork-a-try If you do, let me know how it works out for you.
Looking up Philip Golabuk, I cannot find anything that describes a method called fieldwork, but listening to a bit of him talking on YouTube, I'm guessing that what he does is far, far different from psychotopology fieldwork. Sounds very mental, rational, based on western philosophy, which psychotopology fieldwork very definitely is not.
And yes, constellations are fascinating as hell. Not something we would expect to find in ourselves, but once revealed, they help make so much sense of everything.
Looking forward to sharing more!