Talk is cheap...

Talk is cheap...Show me the code

- Linus Torvalds

"Dirty Dirties"

When I used to participate in EST-like self help workshops one of the things we did was to help keep each other "clear" - work through negative thoughts and emotions and mental hindrances.

Given the amount of crap in most people's heads and the length of time it took to process people to 'clean them' it became burdensome to have to spend a lot of time (20- 40 mins) clearing someone before they were allowed back into the training room.

I bring this up because one of my friends, a roshi in her own right, started the idea of 'super fast cleaning'

The idea was to quickly get to the bottom line where some one was stuck. their dirty dirties - their beliefs and judgment and mind talk and such that kept them stuck.

Experience showed that once those dirties were reached, aired and released people cleared up and could get back to doing whatever they were doing.

So, "Dirty Dirties" because the word for quick clearing. Bottom-lining it.

Recently, reading Chuck's post about The Coward in us all, made me think about dirty dirties.

What are yours? What are those little, niggly secrets that you keep hidden because you simply *cannot* tell anyone....

Those are what are keeping you stuck.

This recently happened to me. I had my own and didn't share and the other person kept theirs.

We were left with walls between us...not seeing what is really there.

Once we admitted the dirties, we we clear and could resume.

Annoyingly, per Chuck's post, I still gave in to my inner Coward.

All the things we feared would happen, didn't.

Funny how that works.