The inner exploration process | Functional Psychology

“Man’s real nature is happiness…happiness is inborn in the true self. Man’s search for happiness is an unconscious search for his true self. The true self is imperishable; therefore, when a man finds it, he finds a happiness which does not come to an end.”

Bhagavan Sri Raman Maharshi 

The inner exploration process is a method for expanding self-awareness by going inside your mind to unlock its secrets and obtain knowledge about past events you may have forgotten that may be limiting your life now. It will enable you to gain access to the information stored in your subconscious so that you can clear out old emotions and self-defeating beliefs. This is the main technique I use for my own healing, and it is the one my therapy clients found the most helpful. People have used similar techniques for centuries to attain inner peace and enlightenment.

This process is effective because it allows you to focus on any problem, pain, feeling, or belief that troubles you and quickly discover and resolve the underlying cause by simply asking your own mind for an answer. You can also ask your mind to tell you what you need to know right now for your recovery. The process can help reveal the truth about you, who you really are, rather than the lies you believe about yourself. After you use this process for a while, you will find that your mind has all the answers you need to heal any situation.

I strongly urge you to read through all the chapters in part I about the inner exploration process at least once before you try it. When you first start using the process.

The process.

Most people use the inner exploration process when they have a specific problem or condition they want or resolve, such as an unsatisfactory relationship, unexplained anxiety, or uncontrollable anger. There is no limit to the types of issues like why you had a fight with your partner this morning or why you have had a fight with your partner this morning or why you have tension in your neck, to more general problems such as recurring patterns of betrayal or feelings of depression. Any uncomfortable feeling, harmful behavior, or physical symptom is grist for the mill and can be used to find out more about yourself and how you think. The purpose of selecting an issue is so that you can ask your mind for a memory or information that will explain why you feel or act a certain way, or have a particular problem, pain, or disease.

You may find it difficult to believe that events that occurred so long ago could still affect you now. However, when you use the inner exploration process to focus on a particular issue, you will see that the memory you recover is directly related to the problem or feelings you have now. After you actually experience the connection between past and present events, you will fully comprehend how great the past affects your life now and why it is crucial to clear it out.

Pick the issue that is foremost in your mind right now. You may not think in the overall scheme of things that this issue is the most important but if it is the focal point of your thoughts at the moment, your mind is highlighting it for you because it is the best one for you to deal with now you can use the process as many times as you want, so there is no need to feel anxious about whether the issue you choose is the right one. If you continue to have anxiety about selecting the “right” or “perfect” issue, you might use that anxiety as the issue for your session. Why do you have to do everything perfectly? What has made you so afraid of making a mistake?

I have been amazed by how many different problems the process can resolve and how precise it can be in pinpointing the underlying causes. A year ago, I used the process almost exclusively for psychological problems and patterns, until one day a client I will call Laura, who had come to therapy to resolve the effects of childhood sexual abuse, complained about her inability to lose weight. Laura weighed over two hundred pounds and the doctors she had consulted were unable to find any physical reason for her obesity. She had tried many diets over the years but lost very little weight, and whatever weight she lost she gained back in a couple of months. Laura wanted to use the process to discover why she couldn’t lose weight. I was skeptical but asked her mind to take her to memory or information that would explain why she was overweight.