ABSTRACT
The final step towards improving consultations consists not of acquiring more information or additional skills, but rather of using the knowledge you already possess in a different way. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step; it also ends with one. This chapter aims to give practitioners a reliable approach which will apply in most cases, and particularly in the more complicated consultations. It helps them to understand what is meant by 'nowness'; to see how nowness helps resolve the distracting sensation of having two heads; and to understand why an instruction to put out of the mind things they have painstakingly learned in fact clears the way for new learning to express itself. In order to swim, you have to overcome the fear of drowning. In order to learn, you have to overcome the fear of forgetting.
