Why Be Mindful of Mental Imagery?
Equanimous monitoring of mental images can be a powerful and productive experience. Here are some reasons why. Knowing Oneself Conscious and unconscious body images are a major component in the perception of self. Clarifying and unblocking their natural flow leads to… • Freedom from personal identification • Freedom of personal expression Knowing the World The vast subconscious storehouse of one’s remembered images is subject to incessant and inappropriate fixation. This is one cause of the rock-solid perception that we live in a world of separate material objects – “ten thousand things” as opposed to “one spirit essence.” As we work with conscious and semiconscious images, some “photons” of clarity and equanimity seep down into that utterly unconscious “world storehouse.” Its contents begin to melt as soon as they move. This leads to a new perceptual paradigm. Particulate objects can also be experienced as interactive undulations. The aggregate of these undulations is the “world as
