PSY336H1 Lecture Notes - Tao Te Ching, Wu Wei, Nonviolence
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When good things happen, child gets good emotional response from mom, vice versa for bad. For dad, when child acts positively, dad reacts positively and it feeds back. When child is negative, dad doesn"t react much child"s negativity runs up against a wall. Nurturing positive side and meeting negativity with affection and love. To sum that up: mom responds in kind to positive and negative, reactivity. So that enforces both positive and negative system of child. Dad reinforces positive system in similar way, but expression of negative emotion is absorbed into secure, stable, fundamentally accepting system. This child/parent system is a metaphor for consciousness. A skillful allocation of attention (attunement to outer world) should cultivate a more harmonious relationship between yourself and world. Most balanced and flexible state is one that"s open to everything. Inner system minimally perturbed by outer state balance. Meditation is essentially embodying stillness, conscious direction of attention.
