Releasing Blocks to Action – Ann Weiser Cornell
Summary
Tuning provides powerful tools to release blocks in action. “Stuck in action” is an experience that can be described as “I want to do it, but I don’t do it”. Here are some examples of bottlenecks to act: procrastination, writer’s block, inability to organize.
By working with the action block with Concentration, we assume the existence of two parts: the part that wants to take action and the part that doesn’t want to take action. We instruct the Concentrator to listen with compassion to the party who does not want to take action. Three typical patterns may appear, although a specific session may not follow any pattern. They are: the guard model, the rebel model and the model wants something else. There may also be an inner critic who must be listened to with compassion.
Characteristics of action blocks
A block of action is the experience of being unable to act. It might be named “I want to do it, but I don’t do it”. The action can be a single action, like a phone call to the editor, but often it’s a common type of action or activity, like “making a phone call” or “s” If a person has experience that all or many types of actions are difficult to initiate or take, then this is called a “delay” or “being stuck”.
When working with Focusers, it will be helpful to determine if the situation they are facing is an action block. For example, a young man told me that he was frustrated and lonely because he lacked a relationship with women. When we discuss, it is clear that he is aware of certain actions he can take to meet more women and get better acquainted with the women he meets, but he is not really does these things act. We can therefore approach this problem as an action block. On the other hand, another man said that he did everything he could and nothing worked. No action seems to be blocked in this regard. So for him we will need another approach. [In Treasure Maps to the Soul, the second man will work with the summit (longing for not being satisfied) rather than with the swamp (action block). Additional note 2005.]
When we describe a problem as an action block, we can assume the existence of two parts (or “aspects of inner experience”): the part that wants to take action and the part that doesn’t want to. Not. As a general rule, Concentrators are identified with the desired party and separated from the unwanted party. Let us discuss the terms in more detail.
Identify, dissociate and average route
We can describe three types of relationships with inner experience. The first, called “identifying with a party”, is a person’s emotional experience. He said: “I am sad”, “I am angry”, “I am afraid”. When someone says “I am …”, they sympathize with the experience they are talking about. When a person says “I am sad”, they experience a sadness just like themselves.
The truth is that part of her is sad and part of her is more than that. But she was determined with the sad part. Instead of being aware of its integrity, it is only partially aware.
Identified with a part that can look like the inside Take inside. This person sided with: “I have to get rid of that part so angry.” A person is identified with a part if he cannot be compassionate to someone or something, especially with another part of himself. “I’m impatient with my fears” should become “My part is fear and my part is impatient with that.”
The second type of relationship with inner experience is called “dissociation from a part.” If “identification” is “me,” “dissociation” is “not-me.” “I am not sad.” “I am not angry.”
One might, of course, truly not be sad. Then “I am not sad” is simply true. But if one is sad, somewhere – if something in there is sad – and one does not know it, then one has dissociated from one’s sadness.
A dissociated part is something which belongs to you, which is yours, yet you do not recognize it. You are not aware of it. You do not feel it. Or, if you feel it a little, you may be feeling much more strongly that you reject, deny, judge, or despise it.
Identification and dissociation often go together. If you feel both fear and excitement, and you become identified with the fear (“I am afraid”) then you are almost certainly going to be dissociated from the excitement. Only after you disidentify from the fear (“Part of me is afraid”) do you have the inner space to feel the excitement (“And another part of me is excited”). Or you may be identified with the Critic, taking sides to judge and criticize some other part of you which has been dissociated.
The middle position, neither “me” nor “not-me,” is technically called disidentification and association, but we can call it, more simply, “being with.” In the middle position, I am with something that I feel. A part of
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