What you should ask someone with AO is:
"Are you still able to cry?"
If you can no longer cry, you have a problem.
If you cry, it’s gone.

Can you point to everything in your body?

Not from a book, but everything—all the organs, how they feel, how it all works together.
Everything—you, how you are, how you react to every situation,
When it happens, at what time of day—it doesn’t matter to me.
No, you, with your nose, you alone with those thoughts—
It was always perfect.
You have no idea how perfect.

Leef vanuit je hele lichaam

Je bent perfect, en alles werkt perfect;

Je bent eerst naakt;

Probeer je zo slecht mogelijk te voelen;

Het spel is een dans, soms neem je afstand van je gedachten en je gevoel, soms doe je er een stap naartoe. Soms doe je een stiekeme snelle knuffel, zeker bij de grootste angst;

Connectie is de sleutel die altijd werkt.

 

Probeer je nou eens voor te stellen dat alles nu perfect werkt. Alles in je lichaam. Soms over-identificeer je je misschien met een gedachte. Of met een gevoel;

Maar soms onder-identificeer je je ook, en staat dat gevoel of die gedachte voor alles dat je niet wil zijn - maar ben je dat wel.

 

The greatest.

 

Consiousness is a dance

Sometimes you distance yourself from your thoughts (I am not my though)

Sometimes you over identify with your thoughts

 

You both take a step backwards, and a step forwards

 

This is how you establish a healthy relationship with your thoughts and feelings. And therefore, with the your body and the world around you.

 

The brain is a connection device. Those connections are stored in the brain.

 

Therefore, a lot of brain diseases are not diseases but disturbances in the relationship between you and yourself, and the world around you.

 

For example: some forms of depression are disconnects from sadness, of a lack of social connection.

 

Why this is important

Because our brains are not sick.

Our brains work perfect, they show us the disturbed relationships.

The brain itself works perfectly fine. The problem is that when you do a brain scan, you will find those disturbed relationship. But the brain itself works perfect.

 

How the Brain Works

You can build your own ranking.

The brain works based on relative importance. I can best explain this with a practical example.

When you’re young, how you look may seem important—maybe it’s even in your top 10 priorities.

As you get older and wiser, how you feel—whether good or bad—becomes the most important.

Why? Because if you feel bad, looking good is meaningless. And when you feel good, there’s a good chance you’ll look good, too.

So, your ranking changes over time because you adjust the relative importance of things. As a result, you shrug off what you consider unimportant.

But be careful: sometimes you might overlook beautiful things that actually matter.

Example: You have an unhealthy relationship with food and consider losing weight your top priority. Every time you eat, you count the calories. The problem is, you forget about the healthy nutrients food provides.

From a weight-loss perspective, you may think you’re right—you might even believe you should starve yourself. But you overlook the fact that food keeps you healthy, and even “unhealthy” foods contain important nutrients.

Another example: for you, religion is the most important thing in the world. The problem is, you don’t recognize all the other aspects of life that are also important. By placing religion too high, you interpret everything that happens as an act of a greater power.

 

Speaking out

Speaking out proves that you find something important.

You put yourself on the line, and only the toughest do that—because you’re willing to take the hit.