The importance of the Interpretation of One’s Life Experiences
By Conrad Ho, Hong Kong, February 25, 2017
Recently a very successful businesswoman came to Conrad Ho for a balancing session. As soon as she sat down, she began by telling me that she had done a lot of healing works as well as classes and workshops in the areas of psychology and personal growth, and that she knew her body well. She also hinted in between the lines that she was a capable person with a high degree of self-awareness, and that she had her own company with her second one in the pipeline. Then, she talked about the challenges she was facing and what she believed to be the cause.
After hearing her story, I went along her logic: if she had already known and done a lot, why should she still experienced problems? Omission. What were the major possibilities of an omission?
“Width” – Her interpretation of the problems and their causes being too narrow. There were three aspects to it, in my interpretation: the conscious and the subconscious in the internal environment, as well as the personal ecology in the external environment. Most people were only aware of the conscious, unaware of the subconscious and could only see a little bit of their personal ecology.
“Depth” – the depth of her self-understanding. If she was unaware or unclear of her own internal divergences and even conflicts, so that she was eventually not using her whole being in handling her problems, some parts of the self had not participated and would not receive adjustment.
Interpretation of the phenomena in her own life experiences – when the definition was inaccurate or imprecise, the solution put forward would not address the core issues, and problems would become never-ending.
The client responded, after some thinking, that possible omissions might be from points 1 or 3. This answer was such a revelation! I gave her a smile and suggested: the area that was not thought of as where the problem had been lying was usually the area of omission; the area that was thought of as where the danger was and was not touched upon (and so, omitted) was the exit. A flash of realization shone from her eyes. She dug into her self to re-examine her reactions in the problem for quite some time. Suddenly, I saw tears in her eyes and I knew that she had found her goal for the balance.
After the balancing process, the client expressed surprise that although she had worked so many times on the problems before, she could still omit something there. Her tears still welled up (but held back) when she came to the realization. At the end, the client found the balancing process to be very effective, with satisfactory results.
From the real-life story above, I trust that readers can see the importance of the interpretation of one’s life experiences. All three major possibilities of omission are related to it. Misplaced interpretations would lead to never-ending problems, no matter how hard we try to solve them.
