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I always cycle to work in the morning. For years, my left eye has always started to water in the same place for about 10 minutes, then it suddenly stops again. For a long time I blamed it on the wind.

Since I learned about the 5BN, I do believe in wind, but not that it is responsible for the watery eye. I thought about what could have happened to me at that point and then it came to me:

About 10 years ago, my son, then aged 7, had a cycling accident at this spot. He was out on his bike with his friend, wanted to go home to get something and fell. A neighbor called me immediately and I went straight to the scene of the accident.
Moritz was sitting on the neighbor's lap and was doing well under the circumstances (he had broken his arm). After a brief moment, I remembered Moritz's friend - he was nowhere to be seen! I panicked as Moritz told me his 6-year-old friend was playing by the railroad tracks in the woods. I immediately set off and found him unharmed.

The stress, from noticing that my friend wasn't there to finding him, lasted about 10 minutes. To resolve it, I reminded myself that the situation was over and that everything had ended well.

Since the solution, I drive to work in the morning without a watery eye. I think I saw something I didn't want to see! What do you think?
Best regards, Ulrike

Note by Björn Eybl:
I look it up in my book under tear glands: “Brocken conflict: Not getting to see something (right eye) or not getting rid of an unpleasant visual impression (left eye). Simply: Not being able to see something that you would like to see, or not wanting to see something unpleasant.”
Your son's accident and the fact that his friend was not there (danger) started an SBS of the left tear gland (not wanting to see the unpleasant). Every time you drove past there, your subconscious remembered the stress track) - until the day you realized the connection.
“... Oh how good it is that nobody knows that my name is Rumpelstiltskin ...” Rumpelstiltskin has power over the queen until she learns the male's name. The “spell” of a rail/conflict is sometimes broken simply by recognizing it. Sometimes, however, conflicts are only resolved through meditation, prayer or simply time ...
Thank you for the beautiful case study, Ulrike!

Note by Ingmar Marquardt:
Another way of describing the content of the conflict on the left-wing tearjerker side is that you “have to see something but can't in order to avoid the danger”. She had to know where the other boy was and whether he was in danger, but she couldn't see him. A great everyday example with resolution through awareness.