From Tinnitus to Dialogue

I started looking at some information about tinnitus and found myself looking at associated info about nutrition, acupuncture, cognitive therapy, family roles, and on to  self-help groups. Self help groups lead me to dialogue info.

Self-help groups have learned a lot about effective, non- adversarial dialogue in a democratic mode. Some hints on effective and pleasant dialogue I've gleaned from the tinnitus self-helps group info are listed below. Early in the process:

~ Take time to write out topics attendees think they'd like to hear discussed.

~ Facilitator shares here vision for the group dialogue.

~ Others share their vision for the group.

~ Encourage a 'buddy' system for communication outside group dialogue time.

~ Make the group easy to enter and easy to leave.

~ Raise the awareness of the value of sharing quality thoughts that are productive and useful.

~ Give some examples of unproductive sharing.

~ Consider inviting communication specialists to speak to the group.

~ Share leadership chores widely.

~ Consider that a dialogue my provide the best, almost free, help you are likely to get.

~ Many people want to attend meetings but wait for another to get the ball rolling.

Toothsome

Why do I see the cotton tail on my patio as a vulnerable little bunny heading for its first winter when see the fat quail outside my bedroom window as nicely browned  and toothsome on my platter?

There Are Secrets

There have been secret museums and collections. There have been secret galleries and secret knowledge. Mysteries have been guarded. Place have been forbidden. History has not only been edited, but also didactid. Mystery schools have been closed even to elites. There are still school for ruling elites.

I'll repeat an open secret here. For each learning you accomplish new secrets are opened to you.

When I am awake and my eyes are open, a vision is available to me that allows me to see good little doors. I can see a door that I can open and look through. Through those doors I see new perspectives, new worlds. It is possible to pass through such doors.

Learning renews.

Power

There is power.
You have some.
Take charge of it.
Get better at directing it.
Recognize it.


Power manifests as movement.
You can detect movement.
You have all you need to detect enough of it.
You can detect it.
You can recognize it.


Power is everywhere.
It is inside and outside.
It is above and below.


The power in you seems to vary.
You may feel a vibration within your body.
Or feel a movement finer than a vibration.
You may feel it in certain areas.
You may feel it along your spine.
You are aware of flexing your arm, of running.


You may have felt the power of your car as a kind of vibration.
The car may become mobile with power.
You can learn to drive.


There is a power with which you think.
That power worked before you thought about it.


You can learn to direct you thinking.
You may, for example, purposefully think rationally or logically.


You may note that your ability to detect power is less than perfect.
You may know that your ability to see, touch, smell power is less than perfect.
You may have heard talk of atom power without having heard the actual power.


Have you thought of tree power?
Have you detected the movement of that power? the process?
Have you seen the actual power?
You know something of the power of burning wood.


You may known that your vision of the tree is not a true vision of tree power. It may not be a true vision of treeness.
You understand that there is more to reality than your vision of tree.


Your ability to understand and use power can improve. You do not have to perfect it. It is likely to get a bit better on its own.


There are those who purposefully learn to better know and use the force with which the function.
There is an ongoing tendency to do so; something like growing up.
That ongoing tendency is a process with which one may learn to cooperate.


Not to fight against the process may be wise.
There is a functioning force with which a caterpillar becomes a butterfly.
The butterfly seems to go with the flow and so may we.


Cooperation is a human way of dealing with power.


What can you and I learn about cooperation,