"We weave a shelter around us with the fields of thought, emotion,
and desire we generate from within and project out onto the world.
These fields we are weaving create the “me” of our lives. They become
what we consider to be the personality. In a real sense they precede us
and are still around when we leave. If we fail to cut down an inappropriate
logismoi by returning to our practice, it enters the neural field of our
communications about prayer.
Think of the affect certain people have when they walk into a room:
some liven things up, while others shut down conversation. Some people
exude an atmosphere of love and union, while others exude an atmosphere
of distraction and chaos.
Scientists have discovered a whole “mirror” system within us. The
mirroring begins with the “mirror neuron” which assumes the behavior
and emotion in the immediate environment and then reflects it.
Individuals mirror “the other” as if it were themselves. It is how we pick
up feelings of conflict and dis-continuity. If someone is saying something
with their mouth that they are in conflict with in their heart, their
body language will relay that information to us and our mirror neurons
will pick up the disconnect. It is that feeling that something does not
ring true or is just a bit off.
If we are presenting ill-health and darkened logismoi, we are setting
the tone for the people around us. We are leading them into the
valley of the shadow of distraction and separation."
from my book: Cairn-Space, p. 35
