Wisdom Strategy Research Institute

An index in a book allows you to find any topic the book covers really quickly. You can turn right to it. Similarly, with computer databases, an index is a pointer, or a shortcut that enables the database to dramatically accelerate how quickly it can access data.

Humans have some sort of mental - physiological mechanism that allows us to rapidly make sense of thousands and thousands ( more accurately billions) of pieces of data and information.

Some of this data come to us from our own internal representations of our experience of the world, and the rest from our direct experience of the world.

Another way to think of it is as a giant filing cabinet in our minds.

Some of the indexes, or filing mechanisms include:

Time
location
space
identity
form
submodalities - or the qualities of our experience such as brightness, color, volume
emotion
physiology - such as posture, gesture, breathing patterns, eye movements, etc
words
values
meaning
relationship
point of view

Indexes are shortcuts. Our mental / perceptual indexes can also be called our "maps of reality".

The meaning of our experience is held in place by our indexes.

Our specific indexes are unique for each individual.

Awareness, by itself is causative. Once we start to examine our indexes, we cause a re-indexing or re-filing process to occur in our neurology, often marked by a yawn, or sigh.

This is a central concept to the work we do. Almost everything in the packages is based around explicitly or implicitly altering our indexes.