You Are Not Book.indb - Stephen H. Wolinsky Ph. D.

CHApTER 6
Questions & Answers
and exercises
Question: When the nervous system organizes to defend
or organizes around the wound, by just allowing
the experience does it disappear?
Wolinsky: Anything can trigger separation. If there is Identification
and “you” could stop, and just be in or
with it, as energy, and notice what occurs.
Neurophysiologically, if “I” move from sensations
to cortical pictures and focus our attention on
the story, then it never gets resolved. If I turn
my attention the other way, and go back the way
we came to sensation, or if “you” sit in the I AM
of sensation and then to the Life Force prior to
sensation, there can be a shift. Sensation is prior
to belief (and belief is condensed sensation).
Question: As “you” “go back the way you came,” is there a
reorganization of the nervous system?
Wolinsky: Over time, yes; but if “I” go cortical into story
it is impossible to work it out with yourself or
another, because it reinforces abstractions, which
have nothing to do with anything, and are con-
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