Learning To Recreate Health

From Edward de Bono's Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by [NonHierarchical] Step

Summary

The emphasis in education has always been on logical sequential thinking which is 
by [deductively analytical academic] tradition 
the only proper [true, good] use of information.

Creativity is vaguely encouraged 
as some [healthy yet] mysterious[ly deep artistic] talent. 

This book has been about [bi]lateral thinking. 

Lateral thinking is not a substitute for the traditional 
[hierarchical, either-or choice-making, verbal] logical thinking 
but a necessary [bilateral Left-Right both-and] complement. 

Logical thinking is quite incomplete without lateral [verbal-thinking/nonverbal feeling] thinking.

Lateral [intuitive resonant/dissonant feeling] thinking makes quite a different use of [both resonant and dissonant] information from logical (vertical) [positive health or negative pathology] thinking. 
For instance the need to be right at every step is absolutely essential to logical thinking but quite unnecessary in lateral [dialectical bipolar/dipolar] thinking. [with heuristic "truth/trust" resonance and appositional "false/mistrust" dissonance thought/feelings]
It may sometimes be necessary to be [heuristically, imaginatively, appositionally] wrong in order to dislocate [dissociate and heuristically reassociate, curiously readjust] a [thoroughly orthodox] pattern sufficiently for it to re-form in a new way.
With logical thinking one makes immediate [either always true/resonant or always false/dissonant] judgments,
with lateral thinking one may [must?] delay judgments in order to allow information to interact and generate new [re-associative, re-generative, re-connecting thought/feeling, re-ligious, re-volutionary, re-formative] ideas.

The twin aspects of [bi]lateral thinking are first the provocative use of [potentially re-integrative] information
and second the [cognitive dissonance] challenge to accepted [positively resonant thought/felt exegetical truth/trust] concepts.
Underlining [dialectically contextualizing] both these [hypothetical thought/exegetical feeling] aspects is the main purpose of [bi]lateral thinking[with pre-verbal feeling] which provides a means to restructure [ecological/neurological exterior perception and interior reception] patterns.
This restructuring of patterns is necessary to make better [cooperative win/win] use of [cobinary dipolar Left/Right co-arising] information that is already [re-creatively] available [to mind-thought/body-felt co-relational consciousness].
It [polypathic/polyvagal win/win resiliently co-passionate "truth"/resonantly trusting pleasure (pronoia)] is an insight [wealthy-mind/healthy-body] restructuring.

The mind[body] is a [neuro/ecological] pattern making [passion/pleasure regenerative] system. The [apposition both/and cobinary stretching heuristic] mind creates [mind-cause/body-affect reiterative communication] patterns out of the environment and then recognizes and uses [re-cognizes, re-passions, re-pleasures, re-connects, re-leases, re-ligions, re-juvenates, re-generates, re-creates] such [neuro/ecological win/win] patterns.
This is the basis of its [pronoia panentheistic belonging] effectiveness.
Because the sequence of arrival of [oppositional positive-health v negative-pathology] information determines how it is to be [re]arranged into a [appositional passion-mind/pleasure-body cobinary thought/felt] pattern, 
such patterns are always less than the best possible [universally resonant Anthromind/integrally resilient Earthbody] arrangement of information.
In order to bring such [neuro/eco-logical] patterns up to date
and so make better use of the contained [potentially more integrally win/win] information
one needs a mechanism for [polypathically-thought/polyvagally-felt pronoia cobinary] insight restructuring.
This can never be provided by [decontextualized] logical thinking which works to relate accepted [exegetical, orthodox win/lose 0-sum power analysis] concepts not to [optimally win/win neuro/ecologically re-balance] restructure them.
[Bi]Lateral [taoist bilateral bicameral binomial bipartisan bisexual bi-hemispheric cobinary LeftPassion-RightPleasure re-ligious] thinking is demanded by the [organic-syncretic-empathic] behaviour of this [deductive-only] type of [suboptimizing] information processing system in order to bring about [more optimal] insight [of richer win/win pronoia-panentheistic] restructuring [of poorer win/lose paranoia-monotheistic anthropocentric dissociation from nondualistic indigenous wisdom].
The [basic co-empathic trust stretching] provocative function of lateral thinking and the [either-or] challenging [both-and] function are both directed towards this end.
In both cases information is used in a [health-holistic-positive deviance] manner that goes beyond reason for [eco]lateral [metaphoric] thinking works outside of [ecologically restrained] reason.
Yet the need for lateral thinking is based quite [eco]logically on the [healthy compassion] deficiencies of a self-maximizing [gain/lose power trauma-informed] memory system which is the type of system that makes the mind capable of humour [healthy pronoia association and toxic paranoia dissociation].

Lateral thinking[feeling] works at an earlier [more primal interrelational] stage than [deep-etched] vertical thinking. Lateral thinking is used to [invites syncretic] restructure the [linear anthropocentric cause v effect] perceptual pattern which is the way a situation is looked at [gain/lose neurological survival contained and not win/win ecological thrival reframed]. 
Vertical thinking then accepts that perceptual [anthropocentric] pattern and [metaphysically LeftBrain verbally dominant EitherCause/OrEffect bipolarity] develops it.
Lateral thinking[bicamerally co-intelligent thinking/feeling] is [dipolar pronoia heuristically re]generative, vertical [bipolar competitive either physical feeling or metaphysical] thinking [and acting] is [decontextualized, LeftBrain verbally dominant] selective.
[Regenerative, re-creative, re-ligious bicamerally co-intelligent win/win passion-mind/pleasure-body]  Effectiveness is the aim of both.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2016



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