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 Focused Thinking Technology can be used to improve communication in any relationship. It can also help us change - at the deepest level - to be who we want to be. How does it work? Here is a guide.
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Brief and Straightforward Guide: What is Focused Thinking Technology?
Focused Thinking Technology consists of a set of skills used to enhance
our natural ability to communicate and tools to build (customize)
relationships so that they are stronger, healthier, and more resilient.
Relationship specialists, communication specialists and educators all
use this technology to inform people about how communication works and
how healthy relationships work; how to bring about change and resolve
conflicts in a way that is always constructive for the relationship.
Focused Thinking Technology relies heavily on theory developed by
Stanley Posthumus. The theory offers a drastic new understanding of
communication, relationships and conflict resolution. The paradigm
shift is as dramatic as the discovery that the world is round – not
flat.
The theory behind Focused Thinking asserts that good communication
works between two people exactly as communication works within an
individual. An individual understands reality by the three dimensional
experience of seeing, hearing, feeling, and balancing – those
experiences happen through natural communication between our two eyes,
ears, hands and feet. (In the same way) An understanding, a good
relationship between two people, is achieved when they communicate in a
way that combines their (always different) experiences into a shared
(three-dimensional) experience of one and the same reality – one that
neither individual can experience alone.
The theory behind the Technology of Focused Thinking holds that the
brain mediates (communicates) different experiences from the sensors
(eyes, ears, hands, feet) in order to create an understanding of
reality, in the same way the brain mediates the different experiences
communicated with language (symbols and signs) to create understanding
– the relationship two people experience – that neither individual can
experience alone. Language that creates understanding, good
communication – as opposed to poor communication that does not – is
thus best for building relationships – that language which specifically
combines people’s (always different) experiences into a shared
(three-dimensional) experience of one and the same reality.
Focused Thinking Technology involves learning a discipline of
communication that uses particular language to bring understanding.
This language brings understanding as naturally and simply as seeing
brings three-dimensional understanding. We can only truly understand,
see in three dimensions, with two eyes – when the left eye communicates
naturally with the right eye.
The Implications: A Relationship Revolution
We know that every aspect of our lives relies on relationships. Focused
Thinking theory brings the ability to understand and the technology to
enhance communication. This has wonderful implications.
Think what it means to be able to bring peace happiness and success to
intimate and personal family relationships. It means we can do the same
with extended family relationships, with business relationships, and
with international relationships. Imagine the implications of guiding
all human relationships to their natural potential – there is potential
for peace on our planet.
Support for the Theory : Universal Experience
Focused Thinking compared to Mathematics and Computer programming languages.
Once learned, Focused Thinking, exactly like mathematics, empowers
people to resolve simple and complex problems that could otherwise not
be (re)solved. Unlike the rigorous and difficult task of learning a
language to program a computer to solve problems, Focused Thinking is
simple – we all use language – all we need to do is to learn to focus
on the language we use. Focused Thinking has identified and uses
language to program our brain to solve relationship problems by
combining people’s (always) different points of view into one shared
experience (their relationship) – in the same way that we see in three
dimensions when our right eye communicates with our left eye.
Mathematics revolutionized our world. Today people use the symbols and
signs and ideas (language) of mathematics to solve math problems that
would previously have been impossible. The technology comprises as set
of symbols and signs, tools and skills to use them – a discipline that
once mastered empowers us to solve complex math problems, and solve
simple calculations in our head.
Focused thinking will resolutionize our world. Today people can learn
the symbols and signs and ideas (the language) of focused thinking to
solve relationship problems that would previously have been impossible.
The technology comprises specific human language, (symbols and signs),
tools and skills to use them – a discipline that once mastered empowers
us to solve simple and complex relationship problems, a discipline as
simple as doing a little math in our head.
The Fractal Phenomenon and Focused Thinking
A relationship is a three-dimensional experience created – in the same
pattern (a fractal*) of all other three-dimensional experiences – by
two experiences that, once communicated, vanish and are immediately
replaced by a persistent new understanding.
For example, each eye has a different experience (sees something
different and can never see the same picture), yet together they let us
see in three dimensions. Once we see in three dimensions, we no longer
see in two dimensions.
The earth once was flat and now is round.
We can create the relationships we want – peaceful, happy and
successful. That power lies in language (symbols and signs) that
communicates (mutually recognizes) different (even conflicting)
experiences (points of view) and allows them to vanish and be replaced
immediately by a persistent new understanding.
Stanley Posthumus
*fractal: Definition: In colloquial usage, a fractal is a simple
geometric form that is recursive – almost self-similar – and can be
subdivided into parts of different scale or levels of magnification,
each of which is approximately a reduced-size copy of the whole. As a
geometric object a fractal usually has a Hausdorff dimension which is
greater than its topographic dimension and is too irregular to be
readily described in Euclidean geometric language.
Simple examples in nature: a fern leaf, a snowflake, and a lightning
bolt. Think about a large flea that has medium fleas that has small
fleas that has tiny fleas, ad infinitum and you will experience an
example.
The term first used by Benoît Mandelbrot in 1975 has its derivation in
the Latin fractus meaning “broken” or “fractured.”
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