THOUGHT FIELDS AND THE COLLECTIVE
UNCONSCIOUS
In my live workshops, I’ve noticed that generally people seem to be effortless
masters of one aspect of life. We work with five life areas:
Work (including career and retirement)
Love (including all close relationships)
Money
Health (including weight, diet, and exercise)
Spirituality
Typically, people have no problem at all with at least one of these areas.
Some, for instance, are career masters, enjoying fast-track success from their
teenage years. Others effortlessly maintain a deep and abiding spiritual practice,
woven into the fabric of their lives. Some, like my wife, automatically create
great marriages and wonderful relationships with family and children.
One of my friends, Phil Town, is a money master. He’s one of the most
successful hedge fund managers in the business. He’s written two best-selling
books on taking charge of your own money. Money is his medium, and he talks,
thinks, and acts effortlessly in this sphere of influence.
Another of my friends, Andrew Vidich, is a spiritual master. He has meditated
every day of his life since his teen years. He spends over an hour in meditation
every morning, and kindness and joy sparkle out of his eyes and his being. He is
in the energy field of spirituality, and people feel transformed in his presence
without a word being spoken. When you read his books,
Light upon Light
and
Love Is a Secret,
you share the energy field he inhabits, and you feel uplifted.
While we may be effortless masters of one of the five life areas, we may
struggle with another. A friend of mine who started a hugely successful personal
growth company in the late 1980s became a multimillionaire in his 20s. He’s
healthy and has enjoyed all the trappings of success. Yet after two glasses of
wine at a mastermind group meeting, he confided in me how desperately
unhappy he was in his love life. “I just got divorced from my third wife,” he said
disconsolately. “I had to sell my executive jet to get the money to pay her off. I
understand why she divorced me . . . I’m a jerk, and I’ve screwed up every
relationship in my life.” Being a master in one life area is no guarantee of
success in another.
One of the pioneers in the use of acupressure for healing was a clinical
psychologist named Roger Callahan. He developed a method called thought field
therapy. The term
thought field
is striking. Callahan believed that we have
habitual patterns of consciousness, which he called thought fields. When we
participate in a thought field, we inhabit the energy of that field, and we perceive
the material world through the lens of that field.
Thought fields can also be large scale, akin to Jung’s collective unconscious.
Jung believed that most of our behavior is driven by the unconscious. The part of
the mind we’re aware of is like the tip of an iceberg protruding from the top of
the sea. We think that’s all there is. In reality, our behavior is being shaped by
the collective thought fields below the surface, even though we’re not conscious
of them.
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