FIML is primarily a technique that helps partners achieve crystal clear communication.

Once crystal clear communication is achieved, partners will be able to use their skills to access deeper communicative semiotics that are always present when we are speaking.

This allows partners to avoid neurotic misinterpretations that are normally always present when we are speaking.

And this allows partners to remove neurotic thoughts and interpretations from their relationship.

And this allows individual members of a FIML partnership to remove neurotic thoughts and interpretations from their minds.

Additionally, when partners have access to deeper semiotics while they are speaking, a much broader and deeper range of subject matter becomes available to them. Talking becomes more interesting and more relevant to the lives partners are actually living.

For Buddhists, FIML practice will provide a complimentary activity to most other Buddhist practices. Partners may find that FIML works better and more quickly than some traditional practices because the shared dynamism of two (or more) people allows partners to check their work while seeing themselves from more than one point of view. FIML practice is based on real data agreed upon by both partners. This data and the agreements made by partners provide a sort of “scientific tool” for mutual self-exploration.

FIML can do these things because:

• our personalities are dynamic and always changing
• we are social beings
• we learn from each other; we co-form each other
• we talk to each other

When speaking with our partner happens without fear, mistaken interpretations, or serious ambiguity, we will have achieved successful FIML practice. In Buddhist terms, we will have removed many kleshas from our mind streams.

Notice that nowhere does FIML tell you how to be or what to believe or what to say to each other. FIML is a tool that allows you to access your own mind and your partner’s through truthful and accurate speech that takes into full account the semiotic cloud that is always present during all speech acts.