Summary for Healing Fire - 2
Contents for the following members' article.
How can one understand this peculiar idea and process of intentional suffering?
Using the analogy of Gurdjieff’s burns treatments.
The practicality of inner attitude.
Attention, emotion and intention.
Directed attention to the injured part.
What inner and outer forces are at play?
The “internal physician.”
Energy from difficult emotions turned to the service of healing and renewal - part of their true role.
Attention engaging, supporting and accelerating healing processes.
Automatically drawn or withdrawn attention coupled with voluntarily added attention.
Placing attention on the body and the accumulation of the results of sensing and feeling.
Effect of attention on "voluntary" and "involuntary" muscles.
Attention and changing the tempo of the blood flow.
Psychological and physiological change as a result of attentional processes.
Passes as eliciting and guiding attention and awareness.
The active use of emotional energy in the healing of the body.
The potential power of emotion in the healing process; or conversely its inhibition when identified with.
Emotion is manifested in the body via the blood.
The ordinary "waking" consciousness has little connection with the physical body.
Essence as purely emotional; the feelings as the foundation of the subconsciousness.
The solar plexus or the chief agglomeration of the feeling centre, and reverberation of "I am."
Pain, emotion and the breath.
Waking hypnotic phenomena, e.g., identification with fear magnifying a symptom.
A current of emotion experienced in the body, without identification.
The drawing in and concentration of energy.
An ancient use of the word intention (or intension) - the increase of a property or a quality.
Intension and remission and animal magnetism.
Intentional contact, and Gurdjieff advising Kathryn Hulme on abstaining from cigarettes - increasing the longing.
"Illustrative inculcation” of Gurdjieff’s burns treatment.
Increasing the appetite for burning.
Some interdependent practices enabling the whole process of conscious labour and intentional suffering.
A current of emotion noticed in the body without identification.
The pot on the boil, all is contained and present, and cooking.
Incensive power is subjected to intensive power or the force of intension.
Intension of energy is suffered.
Intentional suffering by accumulating the “vibrations” from the intension of a strong and painful emotion.
"This current brings the force of love."