Conscious choice
With the help of methodology of psychocatalysis, we will find a solution to a series of questions:
– Is there a reason to learn a new foreign language? If there is, what channel should be used for this purpose? Will you make it look like you’re learning it or will you invest yourself in the process so that you could understand the language, speak it, and taste the fruits of your effort?
– What should one do to make way for this knowledge to your body and have easy access to it?
– How can I feel free and relaxed when I use this language?
– Are there some useful tips and tricks to learn efficiently? Is there a better way to learn?
There will be three levels of our work:
– reason and intellect (head);
– feelings and soul (chest);
– willpower and self-actualization (stomach and solar plexus).
We will strive to keep our mind clear, our soul firm, and our willpower strong. Let’s start with focusing our attention.
There are two phases: the first one is preparatory, and it is similar to preparing the ground for sowing; then comes the main phase of sowing the seeds that will bring the harvest. Yet, we will begin with some general work that is not directly connected directly with the learning process.
LET’S FREE OUR ATTENTION
There is a Chinese saying that the one who has a lot of chi (energy) is rich. This is how we are going to rephrase this saying: “The one whose attention is free can learn a lot and do a lot.” Our attention can be called the currency of our mind, its “gold reserve.” Paying attention wisely defines the success and fate of a person, and when attention is wasted, it brings problems along. Our freedom is in the way we manage our attention, and rational use of it is the key to success.
What usually happens to our attention? Its existence is far from being trouble-free. Unfinished tasks, unresolved issues, failed exams, unrealistic dreams, meaningless attachments, and unhealthy worries hold our attention hostage. It is high time we said goodbye to many of these elements that gobble the energy of our mind and soul and keep going solely due to inertia. However, we never find time for that. When such elements pile up, normal functioning of the mind becomes impossible.
There are two ways to resolve this issue: either you work through each episode, which “casts shadow’ in our mind, or you try to get rid of them in one go. I prefer the second option and then additionally work through anything that is left. This strategy I choose for my everyday psychotherapeutic practice, and it works.
Whatever holds our attention can be perceived as something remote, or it can be close to you, but in the majority of cases, this information manages to “creep into our mind’ and sometimes even “fall into our stomach.” From my experience, I would recommend beginning with setting free deeper layers, which are at the level of our stomach and solar plexus; however, one can also start with more superficial layers of our mind, that is the head, and then make his/her way to the depth.
The body can recognise such “retractions’ causing tension as greyness, darkness, blackness. Even if the topic is worthy of attention, it should not be in the stomach. There is an optimal distance for it.
If you feel surrounded by problems
Exercise 1: Total immediate reinvention of the mind
In order to maintain better concentration, close your eyes. You can open and close them anytime you wish. Your concentration is much more important than the fact whether your eyes are open or closed.
Stage 1
– Your problems can find themselves in your head as if they are in a saucepan with a lid on it. Then it makes sense removing the lid and let the tissues of the brain smooth. Everything unnecessary will fly away as darkness and trash out of your head.
– It can be dust, smoke, or soot. It may leave your body as plumes of smoke from the chimney; it can be a whirlpool or a tornado. Sometimes, it leaves as smoke rings: the shape is not important, what really matters is the direction of the movement.
– Let this flow work. Let it carry out everything superfluous and unnecessary.
– As a powerful vacuum cleaner, it will drain everything grey and dark out of your head, and then from every corner of your body.
– It includes the zone of solar plexus, which often stores the consequences of frights.
6. It often happens that everything that used to cause worry, tension, and even fear leaves the body as black or slate-grey smoke.
7. Your body is being cleansed. Intuitively, you can feel how much of this process has been complete.
8. Stay there. Observe the process as long as you need to bring it to 100% completion. Your attention is the catalyst of this process.
9. When you feel your body cleansed, you will feel it closing; and that is the time
to open your eyes.
To make sure that everything is “clean,” have another go.
If unpleasant signals “managed to reach’ your solar plexus, guide your attention to the extreme point when they settled, and then say: “Stop! Go back!” – and then observe the way that substance, which may look like black smoke or something similar to it, leaves your body in the reverse trajectory (it will leave the same way it came in).
It usually leaves the body through the top of the head. The “lid,” or the “hatch’ opens up for a short period of time, and everything that wounded us at a moment of temporary instability will go away. Signals, which caused the tension, leave the body as dark energy and some fine suspended matter. Sometimes, it can even look like trash or stones. Sometimes, it can be some abstract objects like red and yellow triangles, for example. Not all these associations are that important as they are not our goal. What matters here is the process of letting go of everything that we do not really need in life.
Sometimes, darkness goes away through our eyes, ears, or our mouth.
It happens so that once one has restored his or her peace, a black dot or something similar to it moves away from the stomach through the feet. This can mean that some ancestral fright brought by the family has left the body.
That black dot which went out through the feet
Tatiana is a successful businesswoman. The tension she feels in her stomach, sometimes, brings her physical pain. As she calms down, the tension drops, and she feels how some black dot leaves her body through her feet. Her stomach feels liberated, then her legs gain strength, they seem to come to life again, and she is rubbing her hands. Then she remembers that she is a granddaughter of former political prisoners both on mother’s and on father’s side of the family. She has become an entrepreneur. The understanding of the fact that the risk of danger is not as high as it used to be for her ancestors gives her pleasant feeling. The day after the session during our seminar, she discovers some residue feeling in her chest in the form of red worms, and this sensation quickly disappeared. Tatiana felt peaceful, and her attention was free20.
If you feel that this process is completed, you can move on to the second stage of the reinvention.
Stage 2
1. When you feel that your internal space has