Dualistic Thought

The way we perceive the world can have many pitfalls. One such pitfall is how we define the world around us and importantly the objects within it. Dualistic Thought is a common way of thinking; that this is one object and here, another, both clearly different, both clearly two different things. However, for the purposes of debate we imagine only one object to exist in the whole of our perception, for example a beer glass. How do we know its a beer glass? We define objects through comparison with other objects, if there is nothing to compare characteristics with, the beer glass cannot be defined. If we then imagine two objects, a beer glass and a football, we can now begin to define through comparison; one is round the other isn't, one can hold liquid the other can't etc. So we can see that each object cannot be defined without the other meaning that they are not, despite appearence, separate. If we scale this up into the real world which contains an infinite amount of objects, the theory holds true that their definitions are created by the facets of other objects they are not. The result is the dismissal of dualistic thinking.

Dualistic thought is damaging and fosters separation between ourselves and the world, of which in reality their is no difference. The results being a feeling of isolation from a chaotic world seemingly so different from ourselves. By realising that the world and everything in it is interdependent we begin a new way of not only healthy but true thinking. Believe it or not the computer or phone in front of you's very existence depends in part upon your existence! Hypnotherapy helps us to shed dualistic thinking by existing in the present, in this state we analyse less and pay less attention to the past or present which limits our powers of comparing and contrasting, thus rendering object separation redundant.

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