draw the pain ken never wrote about this method but he often demonstrated it in workshops let us say you have a physical pain somewhere in your body you draw the pain in the air with your finger about NUMBER cm NUMBER foot high take about NUMBER seconds to trace around the perimeter of the pain carefully listening to the pain to find the precise boundary between where it hurts and where it does not repeat you will find that after about NUMBER minutes of this the pain will shift shrink or disappear a variant of this is to imagine making a NUMBERd model the pain in coloured clay works there s this coworker a real pain in my ass i used my middle finger to trace his outline for about NUMBER seconds i listened to him found the boundary and repeated the motion he left my office original message from fork admin URL mailto fork admin URL on behalf of stephen d williams sent thursday october NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER pm to fork URL subject living love another legacy of the NUMBER s normally i disdain any kind of mysticism even when it is associated with fairly good ideas just a big turnoff a good example would be the difference between yoga tm and the more scientifically pure but related relaxation techniques including betagenics hypnosis auto hypnosis etc this was one of the many topics i obsessively absorbed as a teenager or tai chi etc vs tai bo g force dyno staff i have to say however that having found this while looking for something completely unrelated it has some cute truisms i particularly like their addiction to non addiction additionally the mindprod treehugger site has some interesting quotes etc to my internal ear nearly all of these NUMBER s based new age vernacular seem to assume that you are a simple child of the NUMBER s who needs some religion like couching of ideas to relate and internalize very irritating but taken in small doses it s interesting to compare and contrast with our my modern mental models i found that a few of the principles could be used to explain and justify us un foreign policy and actions URL URL URL apologies for the embedded html we create the world we live in a loving person lives in a loving world a hostile person lives in a hostile world everyone you meet is your mirror you make yourself and others suffer just as much when you take offence as when you give offence to be upset over what you don t have is to waste what you do have the past is dead the future is imaginary happiness can only be in the eternal now moment how soon will you realize that the only thing you don t have is the direct experience that there s nothing you need that you don t have love a person because he or she is there this is the only reason happiness happens when your consciousness is not dominated by addictions and demands and you experience life as a parade of preferences the purpose of our lives is to be free of all addictive traps and thus become one with the ocean of living love sdw sdw URL URL stephen d williams NUMBER wayside cir ashburn va NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBERw NUMBER NUMBER NUMBERfax decNUMBER 