[:dialoguing:] • A practice for connecting with the subconscious. • The basic idea is that discomfort/pain is a message from parts of our subconscious that something is wrong, and so we should go and take care of these suffering parts. • The practice: • Bring all the care, love, compassion that you would with another person to your subconscioius. Open to yourself with love; open a field of loving awareness. • Breathe deeply. Ask for support from your higher self (superconscious?). • Identify the parts of you (mentally, physically) which house discomfort. Love every part of you, but these in particular. • Turn to the sensation of discomfort, and to step aside from it so that you may best support the part of you. Retain total love as you move back from the sensation into your own space. Pull back into the pure self, disidentified. • Like trying to help a child which is all up in your face: you have to push them back first. • Ask gentle prodding questions of the sensation; learn about it, learn about why it is hurting; do not try to solve anything yet. Just listen. • When you feel you understand the subconscious part, take care of its concerns, and the pain will subside. • Write the dialogue down! • See an example [here](https://quelklef.notion.site/9fd4e3e5723e41d49879d737abbd4436), starting at the section marked 15:28.