ABSTRACT
The earliest language used to describe this duality was that of religious allegory and myth: Original Sin, the fall from grace in the Garden of Eden, the Olympian heights to which all may aspire and the Underworld which claims so many. Various philosophical traditions, including the Taoist notions of Yin and Yang, have conceived of man's predicament as oscillation between two extreme opposites in his nature. The distinction between conscious and unconscious processes is now widely accepted in everyday speech. It has become commonplace to distinguish reason from emotion, logic from intuition, intellect from instinct, prose from poetry, science from art, the head's decisions from the promptings of the heart. The Inner Consultation techniques are intended to be ways of reducing the mental workload, not adding to it. This chapter suggests how and when to direct the attention to various minimal cues when internal dialogue intrudes into the consultation.
