Our Questions Frame Our Findings

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Our questions frame our findings. When the definition of the problem frames questions from false or partial presumptions, attention and energy is misdirected.

Hence a calm and 'disinterested' mind in the sense of not prejudiced and already on a crusade or vendetta, will uncover answer in the recognition of the problem as the way of uncovering answer, rather than as identified or associated with something 'bad' to be got rid of or struggled with or self-vindicated on.

Buteyko approach recognises that for most under 'modern living' the fight-flight response is permanently active as breathing patterns and a sense of threat and lack driving the attempt to get more (energy) but as a result getting rid of too much CO2 so as to limit supply of oxygen to primary cell and tissue needs (Bohr principle) and constrict arteries (CO2 is a vasodilator.

I see the info in The above Buteyko talk (it wasn't really an interview as such) offers a very good example of a misdefined problem answer leading to a negatively self-reinforcing condition. Another example is humanity under Murphy's Law; 'if it can go wrong it will go wrong' - where going wrong in this case is barking up the wrong tree.

One of my daughter's has developmental problems that includes not only poor bladder control but inability to find the toilet. She reliably took any and every direction away from the only one that led to the toilet. So it became obvious that beneath the dissociating disorientation, part of her knew exactly where not to go. While humanly problematic, I sense that we all embody strategic defences as part - not only of our personality structure - but physical symptoms.

A determination NOT to know or relive something intolerable, sets a pattern with its own unexpected or unintended results and maps out or blocks areas of our being - and our life as the expression of being by focussing ONLY in what doesn't activate or attract the more deeply feared 'threat' - which is also indicated by unconscious patterns of avoidance. In other words 'well hidden'. All very well in an immediate short term avoidance - but not for wholeness or peace in being and relationships as expression of being - and so 'unfinished business' prompts for coming back into health, but we see it as a threat to be denied and excluded instead of the opportunity to unfold a greater fulfilment or connected appreciation and gratitude for being. The strain of constant conflict is exhausting, dispiriting and isolating. Defeat under adversity is altogether different from yielding to our being for a fresh perspective.