LESSON 3:
Course Learning Objectives:
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To be able to appreciate how human reality is created and appreciate that unconscious understanding exists within these realities
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To be able to identify when a reality is healthy and accurate or unhealthy and distorted
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To recognise that healthy realities do contain belief in any form
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To appreciate that to restore healthy understanding, the belief in an unhealthy reality has to be completely undermined
Improving Sensitivity to Healthy and Unhealthy Understanding
How do we know when a person's understanding is healthy and helpful?
Feelings let you know. If there are experiences of feeling peaceful, relieved, content and loving, then beliefs aren't part of the reality that the brain is generating. Life will feel like it has slowed down and you will feel very present.
Unhealthy
Understanding
How can we tell if our understanding is harmful?
You'll feel serious, negative, angry, insecure, anxious and stressed. Life will feel busy and the world will seem threatening.
It can be very helpful to take 5 mins to close our eyes and sit quietly from time to time, especially first thing in the day. This will give us a very clear picture of what understanding our thought-made reality is using. And if it feels unpleasant or uncomfortable to sit quietly for 5 minutes, that's a very strong indicator that our reality is being made from harmful thinking.
If you notice that your reality has an unhealthy understanding, just be grateful that you've seen it. Then consider if your unhealthy understanding can be placed in a bucket. You'll see that it can't, so it's just thought content that never really existed.