In this way Langs discovered there were secret boundaries in therapy—hidden to the conscious mind—which had a great effect one way or other in meeting a patient’s basic deep down needs. He was able to identify three basic “blink” needs everyone consistently had—all based on principles of healthy boundary management or modeling in therapy (see next section). His patients showed him that these needs and therefore principles existed in human development in everyday life.
In this way, he learned all about the deeper intelligence which the “blink mind” secretly possessed.
As an explorer, he took us to the deepest regions of the mind in a brand new way, far deeper than ever before. In the process, he uncovered new knowledge about people. He saw that the conscious mind—suffering terribly from “boundary blindness”—was too often in massive denial about the importance of boundaries.