STUDY - Technical - New Dacian's Medicine
How
it Works... Our "Whole" (2).
Translation Draft
From those presented in yesterday's post to detach the idea of energy management, of available resources. And, of course, there are only two basic states: a sympathetic one (sympathotone, "development" of kinetic energy, "fight or run", energy-consuming, in which we know and interact with the external environment) and a parasympathetic one (vagoton, "potential energy developer", "love and build", energy facilitator, in which we know and interact with the internal environment). Interesting is the correlation between these and the state of consciousness in the "normal" individual, unconcerned or unknowing of the whole represented by his body.
The sympathetic state is directly related to the state of consciousness and fully "supports" the potential accumulated by the parasympathetic state while the parasympathetic state, is completely autonomous from the sympathetic state and consciousness. In the individual who begins to perceive the importance of the ensemble and to undertake something in this regard, depending on his involvement (training, perception, etc.) consciousness begins to perceive the parasympathetic and collaborate with it (attention, this influence has only a raw character, suggestion, as we will see later).
And, at least at the present moment of human evolution, the only solution to collaboration with the parasympathetic is to control relaxation. For an individual "ordinary" the only "solution" is the realization of the energy management that I mentioned previously by seeking to benefit consciously or not from the state of relaxation (attention, not rest). So, a first step in our analysis is the analysis of the physiology of relaxation.
Of course, here too, we have two poles that enter the equation of relaxation: the psychic and the muscular. What from ancient times has been understood by intuition or other means, especially in the Orient, which has developed multiple techniques in this regard, has been very difficult to understand by the Western world and, above all, by its sciences. So it was discovered that there is a mutual relationship between the brain and the muscle, between the state of muscle tension and that of muscle contraction. The structure that connects the two poles is the reticulated formation: the cortex – the reticulated formation – the muscle.
A tense mental state also causes muscle contraction, mental strain assuming sympathetic activity and, consequently, an excess of catecholamines by putting into action the hypo-talamo-hypophysio-cortico-adrenal axis. Catecolamines have an activating action on the reticulated formation which in turn will facilitate muscle tone or, in other words, cause muscle contraction. Conversely, by relaxing the muscles under our voluntary control we achieve a relaxing effect on the psyche. Muscle relaxation, as well as isolation from external disruptive stimuli, decreases the volume of information that ends up in nonspecific pathways in the reticulated formation. The disaferencing of the reticulated formation results in a reduction in the discharge of impulses into the cortex and, therefore, a reduction in the tone of alertness to a level corresponding to the state of relaxation.
A paradox arises here in the sense that a "psychological effort" is required to eliminate or lose the connection with sensory demands in order to reach relaxation (both muscular and mental). All relaxation techniques involve this, self-inducing relaxation meaning a psychic focus. Apparently the effect is the opposite of the expected: stimulation instead of relaxation but, nevertheless, a relaxation is obtained. Essentially everything is simpler than we imagine. The sympathetic, "assigned" by specialists as the "fight or run" system demands to the fullest both the psyche and the physique. The psyche is required by both a concentration on sensory inputs and on "response" and by the basic function of the sympathetic the physical is in turn focused on "response". Imagine you're in the middle of the jungle surrounded by predators!
Your psyche will be focused on perception by constantly seeking answers regarding the positioning of predators that threaten your life or goals (e.g. the future hunted) and will keep the physique at maximum functionality in order to be able to "fight or run" to have an answer. When you arrive somewhere, safe, even if you do not feel the physical need to rest, you will "call" to it. Here comes relaxation that can have a kind of different "degrees". If there are (even the possibility) external stimuli with reference to the potential dangers "raised" by predators you will not be able to relax, even in sleep conditions that will be "rabbit", unrestful, non-regenerating.
But if you focus on removing the stimuli, you will make the effort to consider only the immediate purpose of relaxation, rest, regeneration. This effort becomes more and more effective as it is in practice, so a voluntary training or not. Obviously, here, the problem is concrete, limited only to the state of consciousness that selected and "fingerprinted" the dangers. She is the "keystone" in the whole equation, she is the one who educated our body (see the cat experiment in yesterday's post) to be more sympathetic or more parasympathetic.
For the ignorant try to view some videos on youtube with children at the zoo who show no fear in front of a lion or tiger, even when it attacks and hits the protective glass of its cage. If the child's consciousness has not marked, "fingerprinted" that situation as a danger, the child's body does not feel the need to get out of the state of relaxation and proceed to sympathetic activity.
Another enlightening example of this was given to me by my very younger daughter. vaccination was "required" at the age of 4 years. She, who has never had any medical needs before, at the doctor's request lay down on the bed to get the vaccine. He had no idea what was to come. The doctor conversed with her, maintaining the idea of a "doctor's" game. Imagine the little girl lying on her back with her hands under her head (administration was done per bone at the thigh) looking curiously and in a state of complete relaxation as the needle of the syringe enters her thigh. It took a few seconds for her pain to be perceived and then to amplify it for her to get into the "fight or run" reaction by signaling to the doctor "Wow, it hurts! But it hurts a lot! Wow, I don't want to play like that anymore!" (with crying of pain after the completion of vaccination and subsequent crying to any explanation of us). The rest doesn't matter except that, since then, she has "fingerprinted", probably forever, that the doctor is a source of pain, something pointless, regardless of the subsequent explanations given by us, the parents or anyone else.
From that moment on, any idea of "doctor" represents for her the entrance into the sympathetic and the exit from the parasympathetic, stress and not relaxation... But to finish with the examples, broadly this is the lesson of antiquity that imagined relaxation techniques, the control of consciousness, implicitly of stimuli, for entering the state of relaxation. Electroencephalograms performed in these moments of induced relaxation revealed a stable alpha rhythm with clear teta -type "inserts" (especially in children).
As a conclusion to the above, regardless of the explanatory hypothesis, one thing remains certain: between the brain and the body there is a permanent two-way circuit of nerve impulses accompanied by the release of chemical mediators. Each state in our functionality corresponds to a certain type of "emissaries" different in case of illness from those during the state of health. As a result, our coupling for 20 to 30 minutes daily on the state of induced relaxation means as many minutes of bathing, daily brainwashing and our blood of the chemicals and biochemicals corresponding to states of mental and physical tension, irritation, fears, depressions, ruminations (kneading of obsessive ideas, impulse of endless meditation, tiring, on one theme, persistence of some ideas , obsessive plans) and overuse that assail us.
It means, therefore, protecting us from mental and physical exhaustion and all the diseases that flow from it. It means, at the same time, increasing the physical and intellectual efficiency to the optimum inscribed in our structure and which most of us do not know how to benefit from.
There are a lot of relaxation techniques known today. As I was saying, their diversity does not mean their inefficiency but their different origin and the need to respond to a range of different mental structures. For example, for a predominantly sympathetic individual (physically active) it will be impossible to conform to a static relaxation technique. For such individuals, preference to techniques called "active relaxation" represented by sports, hiking, or other active forms arises. Over time, this relaxation technique will be abandoned because it begins to show preferences towards slightly more static techniques (either only by advancing age and entering into the impossibility of supporting "old" techniques – or simply discovering relaxation during controlled massage, with music, musical environment but with the obligation of the technical statism). And so on... Each man, depending on the psychological and somatic peculiarities, must acquire his own, accepted, relaxation technique.
Restoring and amplifying our energy potential is an action whose chances of achievement are dependent on how it is directed by ourselves (on our state of consciousness, as I have pointed out above). Therefore, based on the general data, we need to develop a relaxation technique adapted to the physiological peculiarities of each of us, either assisted or self-refinanced (self-relaxation). The assisted one is the one who assists you who obviously specializes in this and relaxation is guaranteed. But the call for assisted relaxation requires longer time and the "presence" of resources necessary to pay the provider (resources that "increase" with the quality of the service) – rarely appear real friendships that attract free benefit. We're left with self-relaxation. This implies a phenomenon of biofeedback.
Our conscious censorship turns on itself, surprising itself in the position of a moment when, through concentration, it seeks to orient it towards the state of relaxation. With our eyes closed, comfortably placed, without any clothing constraint or disturbance by external stimuli, we eliminate muscle tightness by mentally and rapidly crossing all areas of the body. "We look" inside ourselves, trying to realize the feeling we have in the mental field. We're going to have a feeling that's right with the state we're in. This can be fatigue, discomfort, irritation, anxiety, mental tension, restlessness, somatically projected pain, weight perceived as a pressure on the brain or lack of mental clarity. Here are several solutions possible, from which we will choose the one that we find most appropriate.
The main action is, as I was saying, that of mental concentration. The object of the concentration is either the feeling of discomfort, or breathing, or a fixed point such as that located on a midline between the eyebrows, or imagining two screens, left right, etc. As for the feeling of discomfort that we focus on, we can adopt one of two procedures: either we try mentally to dispel it, or we just keep it in the field of attention, without imagining anything. One can also focus on the feeling of mental "empty", of "zero", seeking not to think of anything, not to experience anything psychic.
Or, for those really "stressed", for super-sympathetics, to imagine something of nature, a landscape full of vegetation, without other forms that can give extra movement, "hearing" only water, wind, rustle of foliage... etc... After a few minutes of effort to keep attention focused on a point, or on a sensation, we notice the automatic, involuntary transition to a slow breathing deep. With each exhalation we have the impression that something from the state of discomfort, fatigue, etc. is eliminated, being replaced by a pleasant state of relaxation. The interval between respiratory and inspiring time is the most relaxing for the body and an increase will be noticed. Now we have to try to stay as long as possible during this time. Involuntary entry into another respiratory rhythm demonstrates that the body is switching to a new energy consumption regime and adopting an appropriate respiratory rhythm as a result.
It should be noted that the respiratory rhythm of induced relaxation is totally different from that we have at regular rest. Simply switching attention to our inner world requires almost instantly a different respiratory rhythm than the one we have if, standing in the same position, we leave our attention free. We'll notice that. at first, it is very difficult to keep the attention focused on a single point or idea. We will always be assailed by other thoughts and we will always have to go back to what we set out to do, until, through practice, we come to master the technique. It is undoubtedly easier to experience than to express what we feel. But if the general scheme is understood, the details are taken by practice, each finally reaching its own technique.
In practical terms, a comfortable position is adopted, sitting in the armchair, on the bed or on the carpet, face up and head supported, we close our eyes and begin the exercise of focusing on the inner sensation that we have at that moment or we try not to think about anything, experiencing the feeling of mental vacuum. Expression is, however, vulnerable, the very idea of a vacuum representing "something", but in concrete terms we can surprise ourselves at times when we think of nothing or create such moments. Psychologically, we notice a state of intermediate, between the vigour and sleep, a few minutes after the beginning of the exercise.
It is strange that although we have a diminished sensor we realize at the same time that we do not sleep and drive our own conscious relaxation action. if we take into account the probability of ambient noises, such as the voices of those around us, accepting them as undisturbing, they will really not be able to disturb us. In this way we solve the quiet condition that we all think we should have.
When we need to relax, there are several situations in which the induced relaxation process can be applied. Related to the main theme of the topic in question, it is necessary to apply daily 15-20 minutes in order to expand the field of knowledge to our universe. In situations of nervous exhaustion, malaise, restlessness, anxiety, etc., or when we want to mobilize for an intellectual effort, induced relaxation can lead to our energy potentiation. It is preferable that the daily workout moments are fixed in the morning, after waking up, and at noon, after returning from work. The body will learn to mobilize its energy availability at certain times. The exercise has immediately noticeable energy comfort effects and is therefore indicated to be carried out before the start of an intellectual activity and to avoid in the evening, in the moments preceding sleep (these moments being reserved for "efforts" of self-programming – you will have details about all this in the future).
The method can also be practiced for therapeutic purposes, in this case the object of mental concentration being oriented to pain, dizziness, etc. and can be used whenever necessary, over the course of a day. Let's stop the thought machine for a moment. One area that seemed to us to be particularly important was that of achieving a state conducive to creation, elaboration, learning, for intellectual activity in general. Work fatigue can be removed within minutes of mental focus. The ability to develop ideas, logical coherence, affective state are noticeably improved after a relaxation session.
We all know that reasoned or unmotivated malaise, exhaustion, stress-induced tension sometimes make us unfit for an elaboration activity, and our working day is thus compromised. To change our state in terms of our energy potency, many of us resort to coffee and tobacco. That is, when the body is flogging, because, to clarify, when we are tired we need an increased, external intake of energy and not to remove it from the body's already exhausted reserves, through the use of coffee and tobacco. It is as if, from a bank where we have no capital left but for the bare necessities of vital expenses, instead of adding, we continue to take on the vital possibility of maintenance.
So from the poor we will become poorer and, easily, easily unsaved, because the energy reserves fall below the minimum necessary for the maintenance of health (for whose return new energy reserves will be needed). Or, the only way to bring us capital into the bank of our own vital energy, beyond food or spiritual connection, is to control our breathing and thinking. The brain is a thought-making machine, a drunken monkey (if you remember from previous posts). Each thought, depending on its affective load, consumes a higher or lower rate of energy. The solution to recharge our exhausted "battery" is not to accelerate the speed of "fabricated" thoughts but to slow it down or even to stop it for a moment through mental concentration. The solution is, after all, the exit from the sympathetic, connected directly with the consciousness and the entrance into the parasympathetic, with its own state of relaxation.
So relaxation remains the only solution to physiologically restore our energy potential. Coffee and tobacco (or other stimulants) do not give us energy but take us, they do not charge us, but they unload us. This is also why we need to learn a relaxation technique. There is no faster and more efficient way to restore energy. And it can be not only self-induced but also heteroind by some external means such as massage, piloting techniques, etc. In conclusion, the techniques of relaxation, with roots deeply inserted into the spiritual traditions of the milenary, turn out to be for modern man, subjected to incalculable stress compared to previous times, a solution with many valences, from the extension of the field of knowledge in the depth of the essential self to the preservation of health and its functional optimization.
And since we're talking about stress, tomorrow we're going to talk a little bit about him. In other words, that's enough for today!
From those presented in yesterday's post to detach the idea of energy management, of available resources. And, of course, there are only two basic states: a sympathetic one (sympathotone, "development" of kinetic energy, "fight or run", energy-consuming, in which we know and interact with the external environment) and a parasympathetic one (vagoton, "potential energy developer", "love and build", energy facilitator, in which we know and interact with the internal environment). Interesting is the correlation between these and the state of consciousness in the "normal" individual, unconcerned or unknowing of the whole represented by his body.
The sympathetic state is directly related to the state of consciousness and fully "supports" the potential accumulated by the parasympathetic state while the parasympathetic state, is completely autonomous from the sympathetic state and consciousness. In the individual who begins to perceive the importance of the ensemble and to undertake something in this regard, depending on his involvement (training, perception, etc.) consciousness begins to perceive the parasympathetic and collaborate with it (attention, this influence has only a raw character, suggestion, as we will see later).
And, at least at the present moment of human evolution, the only solution to collaboration with the parasympathetic is to control relaxation. For an individual "ordinary" the only "solution" is the realization of the energy management that I mentioned previously by seeking to benefit consciously or not from the state of relaxation (attention, not rest). So, a first step in our analysis is the analysis of the physiology of relaxation.
Of course, here too, we have two poles that enter the equation of relaxation: the psychic and the muscular. What from ancient times has been understood by intuition or other means, especially in the Orient, which has developed multiple techniques in this regard, has been very difficult to understand by the Western world and, above all, by its sciences. So it was discovered that there is a mutual relationship between the brain and the muscle, between the state of muscle tension and that of muscle contraction. The structure that connects the two poles is the reticulated formation: the cortex – the reticulated formation – the muscle.
A tense mental state also causes muscle contraction, mental strain assuming sympathetic activity and, consequently, an excess of catecholamines by putting into action the hypo-talamo-hypophysio-cortico-adrenal axis. Catecolamines have an activating action on the reticulated formation which in turn will facilitate muscle tone or, in other words, cause muscle contraction. Conversely, by relaxing the muscles under our voluntary control we achieve a relaxing effect on the psyche. Muscle relaxation, as well as isolation from external disruptive stimuli, decreases the volume of information that ends up in nonspecific pathways in the reticulated formation. The disaferencing of the reticulated formation results in a reduction in the discharge of impulses into the cortex and, therefore, a reduction in the tone of alertness to a level corresponding to the state of relaxation.
A paradox arises here in the sense that a "psychological effort" is required to eliminate or lose the connection with sensory demands in order to reach relaxation (both muscular and mental). All relaxation techniques involve this, self-inducing relaxation meaning a psychic focus. Apparently the effect is the opposite of the expected: stimulation instead of relaxation but, nevertheless, a relaxation is obtained. Essentially everything is simpler than we imagine. The sympathetic, "assigned" by specialists as the "fight or run" system demands to the fullest both the psyche and the physique. The psyche is required by both a concentration on sensory inputs and on "response" and by the basic function of the sympathetic the physical is in turn focused on "response". Imagine you're in the middle of the jungle surrounded by predators!
Your psyche will be focused on perception by constantly seeking answers regarding the positioning of predators that threaten your life or goals (e.g. the future hunted) and will keep the physique at maximum functionality in order to be able to "fight or run" to have an answer. When you arrive somewhere, safe, even if you do not feel the physical need to rest, you will "call" to it. Here comes relaxation that can have a kind of different "degrees". If there are (even the possibility) external stimuli with reference to the potential dangers "raised" by predators you will not be able to relax, even in sleep conditions that will be "rabbit", unrestful, non-regenerating.
But if you focus on removing the stimuli, you will make the effort to consider only the immediate purpose of relaxation, rest, regeneration. This effort becomes more and more effective as it is in practice, so a voluntary training or not. Obviously, here, the problem is concrete, limited only to the state of consciousness that selected and "fingerprinted" the dangers. She is the "keystone" in the whole equation, she is the one who educated our body (see the cat experiment in yesterday's post) to be more sympathetic or more parasympathetic.
For the ignorant try to view some videos on youtube with children at the zoo who show no fear in front of a lion or tiger, even when it attacks and hits the protective glass of its cage. If the child's consciousness has not marked, "fingerprinted" that situation as a danger, the child's body does not feel the need to get out of the state of relaxation and proceed to sympathetic activity.
Another enlightening example of this was given to me by my very younger daughter. vaccination was "required" at the age of 4 years. She, who has never had any medical needs before, at the doctor's request lay down on the bed to get the vaccine. He had no idea what was to come. The doctor conversed with her, maintaining the idea of a "doctor's" game. Imagine the little girl lying on her back with her hands under her head (administration was done per bone at the thigh) looking curiously and in a state of complete relaxation as the needle of the syringe enters her thigh. It took a few seconds for her pain to be perceived and then to amplify it for her to get into the "fight or run" reaction by signaling to the doctor "Wow, it hurts! But it hurts a lot! Wow, I don't want to play like that anymore!" (with crying of pain after the completion of vaccination and subsequent crying to any explanation of us). The rest doesn't matter except that, since then, she has "fingerprinted", probably forever, that the doctor is a source of pain, something pointless, regardless of the subsequent explanations given by us, the parents or anyone else.
From that moment on, any idea of "doctor" represents for her the entrance into the sympathetic and the exit from the parasympathetic, stress and not relaxation... But to finish with the examples, broadly this is the lesson of antiquity that imagined relaxation techniques, the control of consciousness, implicitly of stimuli, for entering the state of relaxation. Electroencephalograms performed in these moments of induced relaxation revealed a stable alpha rhythm with clear teta -type "inserts" (especially in children).
As a conclusion to the above, regardless of the explanatory hypothesis, one thing remains certain: between the brain and the body there is a permanent two-way circuit of nerve impulses accompanied by the release of chemical mediators. Each state in our functionality corresponds to a certain type of "emissaries" different in case of illness from those during the state of health. As a result, our coupling for 20 to 30 minutes daily on the state of induced relaxation means as many minutes of bathing, daily brainwashing and our blood of the chemicals and biochemicals corresponding to states of mental and physical tension, irritation, fears, depressions, ruminations (kneading of obsessive ideas, impulse of endless meditation, tiring, on one theme, persistence of some ideas , obsessive plans) and overuse that assail us.
It means, therefore, protecting us from mental and physical exhaustion and all the diseases that flow from it. It means, at the same time, increasing the physical and intellectual efficiency to the optimum inscribed in our structure and which most of us do not know how to benefit from.
There are a lot of relaxation techniques known today. As I was saying, their diversity does not mean their inefficiency but their different origin and the need to respond to a range of different mental structures. For example, for a predominantly sympathetic individual (physically active) it will be impossible to conform to a static relaxation technique. For such individuals, preference to techniques called "active relaxation" represented by sports, hiking, or other active forms arises. Over time, this relaxation technique will be abandoned because it begins to show preferences towards slightly more static techniques (either only by advancing age and entering into the impossibility of supporting "old" techniques – or simply discovering relaxation during controlled massage, with music, musical environment but with the obligation of the technical statism). And so on... Each man, depending on the psychological and somatic peculiarities, must acquire his own, accepted, relaxation technique.
Restoring and amplifying our energy potential is an action whose chances of achievement are dependent on how it is directed by ourselves (on our state of consciousness, as I have pointed out above). Therefore, based on the general data, we need to develop a relaxation technique adapted to the physiological peculiarities of each of us, either assisted or self-refinanced (self-relaxation). The assisted one is the one who assists you who obviously specializes in this and relaxation is guaranteed. But the call for assisted relaxation requires longer time and the "presence" of resources necessary to pay the provider (resources that "increase" with the quality of the service) – rarely appear real friendships that attract free benefit. We're left with self-relaxation. This implies a phenomenon of biofeedback.
Our conscious censorship turns on itself, surprising itself in the position of a moment when, through concentration, it seeks to orient it towards the state of relaxation. With our eyes closed, comfortably placed, without any clothing constraint or disturbance by external stimuli, we eliminate muscle tightness by mentally and rapidly crossing all areas of the body. "We look" inside ourselves, trying to realize the feeling we have in the mental field. We're going to have a feeling that's right with the state we're in. This can be fatigue, discomfort, irritation, anxiety, mental tension, restlessness, somatically projected pain, weight perceived as a pressure on the brain or lack of mental clarity. Here are several solutions possible, from which we will choose the one that we find most appropriate.
The main action is, as I was saying, that of mental concentration. The object of the concentration is either the feeling of discomfort, or breathing, or a fixed point such as that located on a midline between the eyebrows, or imagining two screens, left right, etc. As for the feeling of discomfort that we focus on, we can adopt one of two procedures: either we try mentally to dispel it, or we just keep it in the field of attention, without imagining anything. One can also focus on the feeling of mental "empty", of "zero", seeking not to think of anything, not to experience anything psychic.
Or, for those really "stressed", for super-sympathetics, to imagine something of nature, a landscape full of vegetation, without other forms that can give extra movement, "hearing" only water, wind, rustle of foliage... etc... After a few minutes of effort to keep attention focused on a point, or on a sensation, we notice the automatic, involuntary transition to a slow breathing deep. With each exhalation we have the impression that something from the state of discomfort, fatigue, etc. is eliminated, being replaced by a pleasant state of relaxation. The interval between respiratory and inspiring time is the most relaxing for the body and an increase will be noticed. Now we have to try to stay as long as possible during this time. Involuntary entry into another respiratory rhythm demonstrates that the body is switching to a new energy consumption regime and adopting an appropriate respiratory rhythm as a result.
It should be noted that the respiratory rhythm of induced relaxation is totally different from that we have at regular rest. Simply switching attention to our inner world requires almost instantly a different respiratory rhythm than the one we have if, standing in the same position, we leave our attention free. We'll notice that. at first, it is very difficult to keep the attention focused on a single point or idea. We will always be assailed by other thoughts and we will always have to go back to what we set out to do, until, through practice, we come to master the technique. It is undoubtedly easier to experience than to express what we feel. But if the general scheme is understood, the details are taken by practice, each finally reaching its own technique.
In practical terms, a comfortable position is adopted, sitting in the armchair, on the bed or on the carpet, face up and head supported, we close our eyes and begin the exercise of focusing on the inner sensation that we have at that moment or we try not to think about anything, experiencing the feeling of mental vacuum. Expression is, however, vulnerable, the very idea of a vacuum representing "something", but in concrete terms we can surprise ourselves at times when we think of nothing or create such moments. Psychologically, we notice a state of intermediate, between the vigour and sleep, a few minutes after the beginning of the exercise.
It is strange that although we have a diminished sensor we realize at the same time that we do not sleep and drive our own conscious relaxation action. if we take into account the probability of ambient noises, such as the voices of those around us, accepting them as undisturbing, they will really not be able to disturb us. In this way we solve the quiet condition that we all think we should have.
When we need to relax, there are several situations in which the induced relaxation process can be applied. Related to the main theme of the topic in question, it is necessary to apply daily 15-20 minutes in order to expand the field of knowledge to our universe. In situations of nervous exhaustion, malaise, restlessness, anxiety, etc., or when we want to mobilize for an intellectual effort, induced relaxation can lead to our energy potentiation. It is preferable that the daily workout moments are fixed in the morning, after waking up, and at noon, after returning from work. The body will learn to mobilize its energy availability at certain times. The exercise has immediately noticeable energy comfort effects and is therefore indicated to be carried out before the start of an intellectual activity and to avoid in the evening, in the moments preceding sleep (these moments being reserved for "efforts" of self-programming – you will have details about all this in the future).
The method can also be practiced for therapeutic purposes, in this case the object of mental concentration being oriented to pain, dizziness, etc. and can be used whenever necessary, over the course of a day. Let's stop the thought machine for a moment. One area that seemed to us to be particularly important was that of achieving a state conducive to creation, elaboration, learning, for intellectual activity in general. Work fatigue can be removed within minutes of mental focus. The ability to develop ideas, logical coherence, affective state are noticeably improved after a relaxation session.
We all know that reasoned or unmotivated malaise, exhaustion, stress-induced tension sometimes make us unfit for an elaboration activity, and our working day is thus compromised. To change our state in terms of our energy potency, many of us resort to coffee and tobacco. That is, when the body is flogging, because, to clarify, when we are tired we need an increased, external intake of energy and not to remove it from the body's already exhausted reserves, through the use of coffee and tobacco. It is as if, from a bank where we have no capital left but for the bare necessities of vital expenses, instead of adding, we continue to take on the vital possibility of maintenance.
So from the poor we will become poorer and, easily, easily unsaved, because the energy reserves fall below the minimum necessary for the maintenance of health (for whose return new energy reserves will be needed). Or, the only way to bring us capital into the bank of our own vital energy, beyond food or spiritual connection, is to control our breathing and thinking. The brain is a thought-making machine, a drunken monkey (if you remember from previous posts). Each thought, depending on its affective load, consumes a higher or lower rate of energy. The solution to recharge our exhausted "battery" is not to accelerate the speed of "fabricated" thoughts but to slow it down or even to stop it for a moment through mental concentration. The solution is, after all, the exit from the sympathetic, connected directly with the consciousness and the entrance into the parasympathetic, with its own state of relaxation.
So relaxation remains the only solution to physiologically restore our energy potential. Coffee and tobacco (or other stimulants) do not give us energy but take us, they do not charge us, but they unload us. This is also why we need to learn a relaxation technique. There is no faster and more efficient way to restore energy. And it can be not only self-induced but also heteroind by some external means such as massage, piloting techniques, etc. In conclusion, the techniques of relaxation, with roots deeply inserted into the spiritual traditions of the milenary, turn out to be for modern man, subjected to incalculable stress compared to previous times, a solution with many valences, from the extension of the field of knowledge in the depth of the essential self to the preservation of health and its functional optimization.
And since we're talking about stress, tomorrow we're going to talk a little bit about him. In other words, that's enough for today!
Love,
Gratitude and Understanding!!!
Dorin, Merticaru