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

60 / You Are Not
personal “I am.” (Mishra, Textbook of Yoga Psychology,
p. 406)
EXERCISE #3
Look at an object in the room; then withdraw your
attention from it, prior to any thoughts, ideas, knowledge,
information you have about the object. (Singh,
Vijnanabhairava)
(Notice the Non-verbal I AM prior to Inferences)
EXERCISE #4
Notice a sensation, withdraw your attention from
it, prior to the sensation any thoughts, ideas, knowledge
or, information “you” have about the sensation.
(Notice the Non-verbal I AM prior to any thoughts, memory,
emotions, association, perceptions, attention or intentions.)
WHEn THE MinD TURnS On iTSElf (UpOn iTSElf),
YOU GO BACk THE WAY YOU CAME.
Question: What about the techniques of diagnosis in the
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
(DSM-IV), the enneagram, etc?
Wolinsky: All of this only reinforces the abstracting process,
basically categorization represents an undifferentiated
nervous system. Psychology begins with
a client who has an undifferentiated nervous
system. They see all men as Dad, all women as
Mom, etc. Now a differentiated nervous system
sees differences, not only similarities. Diagnoses