STUDY - Technical - New Dacian's Medicine
The
Language of the Whole (2).
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Let's continue yesterday's post! So, let's move on to Johannes H. Schultz's autogenous training! Émile Coué's method, which for skeptics is a hiding of the ostrich's head in the sand represented by self-suggestions, was followed by many other therapists, who resorted to all sorts of methods to increase the effectiveness of the suggestions administered (visualization, affirmation, anchoring in now and here). Johannes H. Schultz, the German psychiatrist who developed the Autogenic Training method, first published in 1932, has taken another step towards understanding the creative capacity of the mind of the human being, discovered by Émile Coué: the effects (feelings and symptoms) felt by patients in a hypnotic trance can be used to trigger deliberate entry into a similar state, if these sensations and symptoms are rendered or displayed in consciousness by repeated suggestive verbal formulas (implanted), like those used by Émile Coué but directed at a certain sensation and place: "my foot is getting harder".
The Autogenous Training Technique requires daily sessions or sessions, which last around 15 minutes, usually in the morning, at noon, and in the evening. During each session, the practitioner (ego; ahamkara; ego-centered mind) repeats a set of suggestions that evoke a sensation (of weight, of warmth), accompanied by visualization, which induces a state of relaxation. Each session can be practiced in a position chosen from a set of recommended positions, for example, lying on the back (dorsal decubitus), seated on a chair or armchair, like a rag doll (the position of the cabman), placed on the ground in the traditional positions of meditation in the perfect position (siddhasana), in the kneeling position (Vajrasana; known as the "lightning position", diamond or Zen Posture), like that of the Christian prayer.
This technique is useful to alleviate many stress-induced psychosomatic disorders and can be used to reduce acute anxiety in people suffering from schizophrenia. Although Johannes H. Schultz emphasized the similarity of his method to the meditation techniques of yoga and Buddhism, it nevertheless remains a prisoner method of the mind (ego) and is limited to the mental influence (autohypnosis) of its autonomous nervous system. But, evaluatively, Abbe Faria and Émile Coué are the forerunners of Johannes H. Schultz's method of self-administration of suggestions, and there are some parallels to Edmund Jacobson's method of progressive relaxation in 1920.
Let's see what's up with Edmund Jacobson's method of progressive relaxation! A step towards awareness has been achieved within the method of progressive relaxation, a technique of reducing anxiety by straining and alternating relaxation of muscles, developed by the American doctor Edmund Jacobson. The disadvantage of this method is that it keeps the anchoring of consciousness outside (on the sensations displayed on the mental screen), both in the somatic component (muscle relaxation) and in the mental component (psycho-affective).
The physical or somatic component involves the straining and relaxation of muscle groups in the arms, legs, face, abdomen, and chest. With eyes closed and following a sequential pattern, a tension or tension of a particular muscle is deliberately made and the sensation caused is followed for about 10 seconds and then released for 20 seconds, before moving to another muscle group.
The mental component consists of focusing attention on the difference between feelings of tension/ tension and relaxation. Because the eyes are closed, the subject is forced to focus on the sensations of tension and relaxation. In patients suffering from anxiety, the mind often wonders or has thoughts like "I don't know if this will work" or "I already feel this." If we encounter such a case, the patient is simply asked to turn his attention to the sensation caused by a strained muscle. Because a feeling of warmth and weight is felt in a relaxed muscle, after being relaxed, after straining, it feels like a muscle relaxation.
By repeatedly practicing this exercise to raise awareness of the difference between tension and relaxation, the patient learns how to effectively relax and how to discourage anxiety (anxiety; fear) when it reaches the unhealthy level from which uncontrolled amplification (panic attack) is otherwise triggered.
The difference between anguish (anxiety) and fear is that the former does not have a conscious object, while the latter has, the first is subconscious, delocalized, and the latter is conscious, localized. Jacobson has instructed (trained) his patients to consciously relax certain muscle groups in the body to reduce the symptoms caused by anxiety (an effect that can be achieved with the help of myorelaxants by the benzodiazepine group). On this occasion, he also discovered that the state of relaxation is effective against ulcers, insomnia, and hypertension.
This is the step in which the body as a whole has been made aware through practice. From this moment begin to "insert" among the practices of relaxation the ancient elements of massage, the participation of the whole in the conscious control processes to the subconscious ones, and the interrelationship between them. It is a therapy conceived in the 50s by the late T.A. Bowen, extremely profound which is based on the theory that the body in a state of total relaxation activates its ability to solve any problem of the body or mind, by bringing them back into balance and harmony. It is a non-invasive and very delicate healing method based mainly on a massage technique.
It is a relatively unique formula for neuromuscular rebalancing, working mainly through the nervous system. It is a new concept in body manipulation, does not derive nor is it similar to any other way of physical approach, preparatory to "free" processes at the mental, conscious, and/ or subconscious level. The benefits of this therapy are represented by: bone movements realign (although no manipulation of joints or bones is performed, as in chiropractic), muscle tensions are released and the normal lymphatic circuit is restored (although the muscles are not massaged as in therapeutic massage), the energetic meridians are immediately restored (although the practice is not based on meridians and does not resemble either acupuncture or acupressure) and the psychic balance normalizes (although it is not necessary to invoke an emotional response, as in the case of therapies that address the mind and body alike). It consists of a succession of delicate movements on the muscles and joint tissues through which messages are transmitted inside the body, reactivation of cellular memory, an ideal state of relaxation and balance.
To this technique of relaxation, approaching the resources of the human subconscious can be added/ "stitching" Bach therapy (launched in 1935) easy to use by "intermediation" performed by massage oils that, for this communion, will use the essential floral oils of Bach therapy. This surplus with which the human body is fed (in its entirety) is based on the call to emotional intelligence, psychosomatic healing emotions, neuro-psycho-immunological, and increasing the coefficient of awareness and harmonization between the emotional and mental (the relationship of the ego with the Self) reflected in the potential available for action.
Thus, the combined action reserves our comfort in all aspects of our daily life. It seems that Doctor Bach is the first to launch the "contemporary" concept that there are no diseases but disease and that the real cause of human suffering lies in the mental-emotional plane of each of us, the disease being a kind of consolidation of a mental attitude being necessary to treat only the patient's condition for the disease to disappear.
Another step in relaxation methods is the discovery of biofeedback that has been used to achieve the conscious achievement of a certain parameter or brain rhythm (alpha-biofeedback and theta-biofeedback). Then, with the understanding of the connection between the states of consciousness and the rhythms of brain waves (frequency), a new phase was also passed in the elaboration of energy and information pills (holosync technology, hemisync, which uses binaural beat technology).
But let's keep the "chronological rhythm" and talk a little bit about alpha therapy, the next one as a confirmed appearance among humanity's steps for the better. There are various correlations regarding this practice but it is structured and systematized "enough" by the scientist since 1944, to reach the end of the 60s a real explosion, with millions of practitioners. Since these times it has been accepted that man has the inherent ability to control his physiological processes to a greater degree than was thought possible: healing always involves both the mind and the body but also what many call spirit, negative emotions have adverse psychophysiological effects, positive emotions have beneficial psychophysiological effects because the "mind" has many ways of contact with the processes that take place in the body, and some of these may "tilt" the balance towards healing.
Researchers who have worked with biofeedback equipment (a technique to control involuntary bodily functions using devices that allow viewing information about the individual biological system) have observed that while the brain is at the alpha level, the body is going through beneficial states. Tired organs and systems recover and revitalize, blood pressure normalizes, pulse stabilizes, etc.
As they studied how humans could use greater brain capacity, the researchers found that alpha-level subjects gained control of previously uncontrollable functions, with faculties considered to be subconscious or unconscious, becoming relational to the conscious. The biggest gain is that habits come under conscious control and the so-called "automatic" functions of the body also become controllable. They can also be activated to order, on the alpha level, human faculties of the "genius" type, which generally give us only occasionally a glimpse of knowledge, so that problems begin to be solved in the manner of a supermind.
But contrary to expectations, this is not a magic solution. It's about effort, perseverance, and exercise. Everything is graduated as I did during the realization of this blog. First, controlled relaxation is practiced to correct some problems such as fatigue, insomnia, headaches such as tension and migraines (where appropriate) or simply practice relaxation (rapid entry into an alpha rhythm to use this state in the control of the body's vitality and energy as well as to solve problems without tension and stress).
The next step is to obtain more advanced control of psychological and physiological functions that are traditionally considered as subconscious and therefore uncontrollable consciously. Processes are taught to improve memory and concentration, first aid to eliminate chronic or acute pain, methods to control or eliminate unwanted habits, and ways to use the mind to solve problems. The third step is exercises of imagination to be able to move to the control of subjective functions. The left hemisphere of the brain is oriented towards the physical world, while the right hemisphere is oriented towards non-physical or, we might say, spiritually, being creative.
The new reference points give the right hemisphere the advantages of the left hemisphere, allowing it to operate under conscious control (actually in collaboration) to gain a higher state of consciousness, greater creativity, and control over health. This phase will allow practitioners to visualize their body, imagine the appearance of improvements and then feel the improvements. And, why not, it will allow them to visualize their plans and thus have a better chance of fulfilling their wishes. Finally, the ability to "feel" people who are not known develops, to identify their problems (the basic idea when using the term new medicine indicating, in particular, their health problems – but not only) and to make some possible corrections. But more details about this technique in future posts...
From here, after real, real workouts, you can get to theta therapy. Only after it is possible to easily switch from the state of consciousness to that of collaboration with the subconscious, the alpha state, can we move on. The theta state is that state touched by the functioning of our brain/consciousness that governs the "layer" between the subconscious and the unconscious. It is the "status" in which we have access to all the recordings and sensations present in the subconscious, which, as we have seen, underlies our attitudes, beliefs, and behavior.
But it's not just that, because this "stage" is characteristic of the majority of the alpha stage of "control". Teta, as a Greek symbol, not only expresses a letter but also has the meaning of "soul". Perhaps, unintentionally, he was chosen for this state which is always creative, inspirational, and characterized by as spiritual sensations as possible. Perhaps simply by the fact that it is the deepest stage of the connection between the conscious and the spirit. It is practically the point of rupture between matter and spirit, being the most powerful point of insertion of the soul into matter.
The method has its origins in 1928 when it was initiated as the "Wilson Technique" and developed over time by various researchers. Nowadays she has become quite famous under the "guardianship" of Vianna Stibal. What I've noticed in her books is a strange similarity to an older question of mine... "Why didn't I become a doctor, why did I give up?!?." When divine power asked Vianna to write her books, she humbly refused and asked the Creator (even a virtual voice in her mind) to tell her the reason for choosing her.
The creator (or voice in her mind) gave an answer that echoed in my mind (follows an adaptation of me): "OK if you want me to give this task to someone else, you think the most appropriate person is a doctor. I've tried but his beliefs in what he knows make him disobey me or, moreover, alter my message. How can I explain to him that he has clung to physiology, to matter, not understanding that I am a matter, but not only that? How can I explain to him that he can only be a guide or, at most, a witness to the healing of someone who, heals with the power I planted in each of you when I made you "in my image and likeness"? How can I explain to him that only the Word is all that matters?!? That the pills that they administer only hold what they call but do not accept as placebo, that is, the self-healing of the one who swallows that pill.
That he's not owed anything?!? How can I explain to him that you're actively altering your DNA?!? How can I explain that water is not just H2O but much more than that, that's why I made you this way?!? How can I tell him that all the atoms in your body would fit in a bottle of medicine?!? And even though I turned to doctors who are open to spirituality, they are too deformed by what they have planted as beliefs in the long years of study and then practice.
That's why I chose you (in my case because I noticed the inefficiency of the medical efforts of the first 2 – 3 years of study and practice). You're going to write the book no matter how hard it's going to be for you! You'll write it." And I'm having a hard time... Or, when I started writing (author of these posts)?!? By the time I had already mastered, even frugal alpha techniques and switched to theta techniques. When I made the connection to the "voice in my mind"... But let's move on!
So, theta therapy is a "fight" in which we will harmonize the material interests of the conscious with those "inscribed" / accumulated subconsciously with those of our true being, those that give us true purpose in everything we have to "feel" (see below a "deployment", an analysis of our goals). So the main "fight" will be given with what is called "our beliefs". In the practice of "theta" were identified four levels of all that you are: 1. Basic beliefs, 2. Genetic level (material beliefs, material memory), 3. Level of accumulation ("historical" beliefs, memory of beliefs) and 4. The level of the soul/spirit (true beliefs). All this gives rise to a certain balance in both material, ephemeral and spiritual, eternal manifestations. Without further "story" I would like to point out that we will detail everything in future posts. What needs to be understood here is that we have to go through all the stages to be able to understand, feel and act at this level.
Let's continue with further details about human efforts to discover the magic solution! Hypnosis and awakening are the most advanced control techniques in this "domain" (but depend on other people or our experience, exercise, and our involvement). "Until awakening, we dreamed in broad daylight, as if we were sleeping deep, in a deep trance"... "If you want to wake up use the same scale of hypnosis, but in the opposite direction" (Osho). Methods that use centrifugal trance (auto and hetero hypnosis) maintain duality (subject-object), eliminate or bypass conscious instances (remove the subject's consciousness), prevent awareness of the direct perception of reality (and direct action), events being perceived during regression or progression and subsequently become aware in the state of profane wakefulness, as recorded accounts) and prolong anchoring (prisoner in the mind and the outside world). The "method of relaxation by auditory piloting" uses the centripetal trance in which the impartial consciousness is present, and the events are immediately realized (synchronicity; simultaneity), and not consecutively (listening subsequently to the testimonies of the trance that have been recorded) or retroactively.
How human beings have fallen into captivity in the outside world of the mind and the senses (a world symbolized by the cave in Plato's allegory in Republic VII) is the centrifugal trance. The path of awakening and liberation is still trance, but the centripetal one. Osho said the same thing when referring to hypnosis: "We need to go through the same scale (hypnotic trance) that we descended on, becoming prisoners of identification with matter, but in reverse (climbing; returning to the center of our being)".
Then notice in the Yin-Yang diagram (Tai Ji Tu) the representation of the two main states between which we move horizontally (sleep watch). The same diagram, however, is also a representation of the two paradoxical or singular states of consciousness (wakefulness, sleep with dreams), in which we move vertically, outside horizontal dimensions (when we leave the cave).
In the paradoxical state of wakefulness, the black dot designates the rest (Yin) in the middle of the white area of wakefulness or activity (Yang), the brain waves theta and delta during deep sleep (black half) are manifested. Biofeedback methods, for the realization of officials in the area of alpha brain waves (Jose Silva) and theta (healing with theta waves – ThetaHealing– Vianna Stibal) train people to achieve a lower frequency cerebral rhythm (alpha, theta) concerning profane wakefulness (beta waves). Such low-frequency cerebral rhythm (alpha, theta) can be obtained in the laboratory by all animals in a very short time (a cat obtains the state of a great master in meditation in 15 minutes) if rewarded by pleasure (stimulation of the pleasure center in the brain at each accidental decrease in the rhythm of brain waves).
This positive feedback, which is the pleasure obtained by stimulating the pleasure center (implanted electrode) through a pulse, has been used to trigger not only a decrease in the frequency of brain waves but also to trigger a decrease in somatic agitation (instillment or immobility) and a reduction in respiratory or cardiac rhythm to achieve the state of artificial hibernation of laboratory animals. Positive feedback has also been used in people trained by special services to accelerate the acquisition of supernatural capacities of knowledge or action (ESP, extrasensory perception, remote viewing, super memory).
This way of using feedback uses confirmation of expectations (expectations) and takes into account Nazi experiments in which simulating the confirmation of the expected effect (cutting veins, poisoning) caused the subjects to die without really severing their veins and without receiving any poison.
Access to points of singularity (paradoxical states) is also possible during the hetero or hypnotic trance (it opens access to time travel: regression, progression), but the alignment (oneness) and awakening are lost (two people remain: the pilot and the piloted; the ideogram or Chinese character for shaman or wizard indicates the presence of two people in one. Only the saint is one with one. Awakening is accessible only to beings who have achieved impartial presence/consciousness (witness status; release from the mind; wu-wei state; vairagya; abandonment; surrender; abandonment of effort, control).
It's like learning to walk, to get to a certain place, but we don't go through the gate, beyond identifying with the mind and body, because we lack presence, awareness. Thus we remain prisoners of automatism and continue to look at the shadows on the cave wall (prisoners in the second reality of the projections on the mental screen) in Plato's Allegory in Republic VII. It's like learning a new foreign language, without using it, like getting into a vehicle to get beyond identifying with the body and the mind, but we're not going down because we're identified/attached to the vehicle we're using.
Let's continue yesterday's post! So, let's move on to Johannes H. Schultz's autogenous training! Émile Coué's method, which for skeptics is a hiding of the ostrich's head in the sand represented by self-suggestions, was followed by many other therapists, who resorted to all sorts of methods to increase the effectiveness of the suggestions administered (visualization, affirmation, anchoring in now and here). Johannes H. Schultz, the German psychiatrist who developed the Autogenic Training method, first published in 1932, has taken another step towards understanding the creative capacity of the mind of the human being, discovered by Émile Coué: the effects (feelings and symptoms) felt by patients in a hypnotic trance can be used to trigger deliberate entry into a similar state, if these sensations and symptoms are rendered or displayed in consciousness by repeated suggestive verbal formulas (implanted), like those used by Émile Coué but directed at a certain sensation and place: "my foot is getting harder".
The Autogenous Training Technique requires daily sessions or sessions, which last around 15 minutes, usually in the morning, at noon, and in the evening. During each session, the practitioner (ego; ahamkara; ego-centered mind) repeats a set of suggestions that evoke a sensation (of weight, of warmth), accompanied by visualization, which induces a state of relaxation. Each session can be practiced in a position chosen from a set of recommended positions, for example, lying on the back (dorsal decubitus), seated on a chair or armchair, like a rag doll (the position of the cabman), placed on the ground in the traditional positions of meditation in the perfect position (siddhasana), in the kneeling position (Vajrasana; known as the "lightning position", diamond or Zen Posture), like that of the Christian prayer.
This technique is useful to alleviate many stress-induced psychosomatic disorders and can be used to reduce acute anxiety in people suffering from schizophrenia. Although Johannes H. Schultz emphasized the similarity of his method to the meditation techniques of yoga and Buddhism, it nevertheless remains a prisoner method of the mind (ego) and is limited to the mental influence (autohypnosis) of its autonomous nervous system. But, evaluatively, Abbe Faria and Émile Coué are the forerunners of Johannes H. Schultz's method of self-administration of suggestions, and there are some parallels to Edmund Jacobson's method of progressive relaxation in 1920.
Let's see what's up with Edmund Jacobson's method of progressive relaxation! A step towards awareness has been achieved within the method of progressive relaxation, a technique of reducing anxiety by straining and alternating relaxation of muscles, developed by the American doctor Edmund Jacobson. The disadvantage of this method is that it keeps the anchoring of consciousness outside (on the sensations displayed on the mental screen), both in the somatic component (muscle relaxation) and in the mental component (psycho-affective).
The physical or somatic component involves the straining and relaxation of muscle groups in the arms, legs, face, abdomen, and chest. With eyes closed and following a sequential pattern, a tension or tension of a particular muscle is deliberately made and the sensation caused is followed for about 10 seconds and then released for 20 seconds, before moving to another muscle group.
The mental component consists of focusing attention on the difference between feelings of tension/ tension and relaxation. Because the eyes are closed, the subject is forced to focus on the sensations of tension and relaxation. In patients suffering from anxiety, the mind often wonders or has thoughts like "I don't know if this will work" or "I already feel this." If we encounter such a case, the patient is simply asked to turn his attention to the sensation caused by a strained muscle. Because a feeling of warmth and weight is felt in a relaxed muscle, after being relaxed, after straining, it feels like a muscle relaxation.
By repeatedly practicing this exercise to raise awareness of the difference between tension and relaxation, the patient learns how to effectively relax and how to discourage anxiety (anxiety; fear) when it reaches the unhealthy level from which uncontrolled amplification (panic attack) is otherwise triggered.
The difference between anguish (anxiety) and fear is that the former does not have a conscious object, while the latter has, the first is subconscious, delocalized, and the latter is conscious, localized. Jacobson has instructed (trained) his patients to consciously relax certain muscle groups in the body to reduce the symptoms caused by anxiety (an effect that can be achieved with the help of myorelaxants by the benzodiazepine group). On this occasion, he also discovered that the state of relaxation is effective against ulcers, insomnia, and hypertension.
This is the step in which the body as a whole has been made aware through practice. From this moment begin to "insert" among the practices of relaxation the ancient elements of massage, the participation of the whole in the conscious control processes to the subconscious ones, and the interrelationship between them. It is a therapy conceived in the 50s by the late T.A. Bowen, extremely profound which is based on the theory that the body in a state of total relaxation activates its ability to solve any problem of the body or mind, by bringing them back into balance and harmony. It is a non-invasive and very delicate healing method based mainly on a massage technique.
It is a relatively unique formula for neuromuscular rebalancing, working mainly through the nervous system. It is a new concept in body manipulation, does not derive nor is it similar to any other way of physical approach, preparatory to "free" processes at the mental, conscious, and/ or subconscious level. The benefits of this therapy are represented by: bone movements realign (although no manipulation of joints or bones is performed, as in chiropractic), muscle tensions are released and the normal lymphatic circuit is restored (although the muscles are not massaged as in therapeutic massage), the energetic meridians are immediately restored (although the practice is not based on meridians and does not resemble either acupuncture or acupressure) and the psychic balance normalizes (although it is not necessary to invoke an emotional response, as in the case of therapies that address the mind and body alike). It consists of a succession of delicate movements on the muscles and joint tissues through which messages are transmitted inside the body, reactivation of cellular memory, an ideal state of relaxation and balance.
To this technique of relaxation, approaching the resources of the human subconscious can be added/ "stitching" Bach therapy (launched in 1935) easy to use by "intermediation" performed by massage oils that, for this communion, will use the essential floral oils of Bach therapy. This surplus with which the human body is fed (in its entirety) is based on the call to emotional intelligence, psychosomatic healing emotions, neuro-psycho-immunological, and increasing the coefficient of awareness and harmonization between the emotional and mental (the relationship of the ego with the Self) reflected in the potential available for action.
Thus, the combined action reserves our comfort in all aspects of our daily life. It seems that Doctor Bach is the first to launch the "contemporary" concept that there are no diseases but disease and that the real cause of human suffering lies in the mental-emotional plane of each of us, the disease being a kind of consolidation of a mental attitude being necessary to treat only the patient's condition for the disease to disappear.
Another step in relaxation methods is the discovery of biofeedback that has been used to achieve the conscious achievement of a certain parameter or brain rhythm (alpha-biofeedback and theta-biofeedback). Then, with the understanding of the connection between the states of consciousness and the rhythms of brain waves (frequency), a new phase was also passed in the elaboration of energy and information pills (holosync technology, hemisync, which uses binaural beat technology).
But let's keep the "chronological rhythm" and talk a little bit about alpha therapy, the next one as a confirmed appearance among humanity's steps for the better. There are various correlations regarding this practice but it is structured and systematized "enough" by the scientist since 1944, to reach the end of the 60s a real explosion, with millions of practitioners. Since these times it has been accepted that man has the inherent ability to control his physiological processes to a greater degree than was thought possible: healing always involves both the mind and the body but also what many call spirit, negative emotions have adverse psychophysiological effects, positive emotions have beneficial psychophysiological effects because the "mind" has many ways of contact with the processes that take place in the body, and some of these may "tilt" the balance towards healing.
Researchers who have worked with biofeedback equipment (a technique to control involuntary bodily functions using devices that allow viewing information about the individual biological system) have observed that while the brain is at the alpha level, the body is going through beneficial states. Tired organs and systems recover and revitalize, blood pressure normalizes, pulse stabilizes, etc.
As they studied how humans could use greater brain capacity, the researchers found that alpha-level subjects gained control of previously uncontrollable functions, with faculties considered to be subconscious or unconscious, becoming relational to the conscious. The biggest gain is that habits come under conscious control and the so-called "automatic" functions of the body also become controllable. They can also be activated to order, on the alpha level, human faculties of the "genius" type, which generally give us only occasionally a glimpse of knowledge, so that problems begin to be solved in the manner of a supermind.
But contrary to expectations, this is not a magic solution. It's about effort, perseverance, and exercise. Everything is graduated as I did during the realization of this blog. First, controlled relaxation is practiced to correct some problems such as fatigue, insomnia, headaches such as tension and migraines (where appropriate) or simply practice relaxation (rapid entry into an alpha rhythm to use this state in the control of the body's vitality and energy as well as to solve problems without tension and stress).
The next step is to obtain more advanced control of psychological and physiological functions that are traditionally considered as subconscious and therefore uncontrollable consciously. Processes are taught to improve memory and concentration, first aid to eliminate chronic or acute pain, methods to control or eliminate unwanted habits, and ways to use the mind to solve problems. The third step is exercises of imagination to be able to move to the control of subjective functions. The left hemisphere of the brain is oriented towards the physical world, while the right hemisphere is oriented towards non-physical or, we might say, spiritually, being creative.
The new reference points give the right hemisphere the advantages of the left hemisphere, allowing it to operate under conscious control (actually in collaboration) to gain a higher state of consciousness, greater creativity, and control over health. This phase will allow practitioners to visualize their body, imagine the appearance of improvements and then feel the improvements. And, why not, it will allow them to visualize their plans and thus have a better chance of fulfilling their wishes. Finally, the ability to "feel" people who are not known develops, to identify their problems (the basic idea when using the term new medicine indicating, in particular, their health problems – but not only) and to make some possible corrections. But more details about this technique in future posts...
From here, after real, real workouts, you can get to theta therapy. Only after it is possible to easily switch from the state of consciousness to that of collaboration with the subconscious, the alpha state, can we move on. The theta state is that state touched by the functioning of our brain/consciousness that governs the "layer" between the subconscious and the unconscious. It is the "status" in which we have access to all the recordings and sensations present in the subconscious, which, as we have seen, underlies our attitudes, beliefs, and behavior.
But it's not just that, because this "stage" is characteristic of the majority of the alpha stage of "control". Teta, as a Greek symbol, not only expresses a letter but also has the meaning of "soul". Perhaps, unintentionally, he was chosen for this state which is always creative, inspirational, and characterized by as spiritual sensations as possible. Perhaps simply by the fact that it is the deepest stage of the connection between the conscious and the spirit. It is practically the point of rupture between matter and spirit, being the most powerful point of insertion of the soul into matter.
The method has its origins in 1928 when it was initiated as the "Wilson Technique" and developed over time by various researchers. Nowadays she has become quite famous under the "guardianship" of Vianna Stibal. What I've noticed in her books is a strange similarity to an older question of mine... "Why didn't I become a doctor, why did I give up?!?." When divine power asked Vianna to write her books, she humbly refused and asked the Creator (even a virtual voice in her mind) to tell her the reason for choosing her.
The creator (or voice in her mind) gave an answer that echoed in my mind (follows an adaptation of me): "OK if you want me to give this task to someone else, you think the most appropriate person is a doctor. I've tried but his beliefs in what he knows make him disobey me or, moreover, alter my message. How can I explain to him that he has clung to physiology, to matter, not understanding that I am a matter, but not only that? How can I explain to him that he can only be a guide or, at most, a witness to the healing of someone who, heals with the power I planted in each of you when I made you "in my image and likeness"? How can I explain to him that only the Word is all that matters?!? That the pills that they administer only hold what they call but do not accept as placebo, that is, the self-healing of the one who swallows that pill.
That he's not owed anything?!? How can I explain to him that you're actively altering your DNA?!? How can I explain that water is not just H2O but much more than that, that's why I made you this way?!? How can I tell him that all the atoms in your body would fit in a bottle of medicine?!? And even though I turned to doctors who are open to spirituality, they are too deformed by what they have planted as beliefs in the long years of study and then practice.
That's why I chose you (in my case because I noticed the inefficiency of the medical efforts of the first 2 – 3 years of study and practice). You're going to write the book no matter how hard it's going to be for you! You'll write it." And I'm having a hard time... Or, when I started writing (author of these posts)?!? By the time I had already mastered, even frugal alpha techniques and switched to theta techniques. When I made the connection to the "voice in my mind"... But let's move on!
So, theta therapy is a "fight" in which we will harmonize the material interests of the conscious with those "inscribed" / accumulated subconsciously with those of our true being, those that give us true purpose in everything we have to "feel" (see below a "deployment", an analysis of our goals). So the main "fight" will be given with what is called "our beliefs". In the practice of "theta" were identified four levels of all that you are: 1. Basic beliefs, 2. Genetic level (material beliefs, material memory), 3. Level of accumulation ("historical" beliefs, memory of beliefs) and 4. The level of the soul/spirit (true beliefs). All this gives rise to a certain balance in both material, ephemeral and spiritual, eternal manifestations. Without further "story" I would like to point out that we will detail everything in future posts. What needs to be understood here is that we have to go through all the stages to be able to understand, feel and act at this level.
Let's continue with further details about human efforts to discover the magic solution! Hypnosis and awakening are the most advanced control techniques in this "domain" (but depend on other people or our experience, exercise, and our involvement). "Until awakening, we dreamed in broad daylight, as if we were sleeping deep, in a deep trance"... "If you want to wake up use the same scale of hypnosis, but in the opposite direction" (Osho). Methods that use centrifugal trance (auto and hetero hypnosis) maintain duality (subject-object), eliminate or bypass conscious instances (remove the subject's consciousness), prevent awareness of the direct perception of reality (and direct action), events being perceived during regression or progression and subsequently become aware in the state of profane wakefulness, as recorded accounts) and prolong anchoring (prisoner in the mind and the outside world). The "method of relaxation by auditory piloting" uses the centripetal trance in which the impartial consciousness is present, and the events are immediately realized (synchronicity; simultaneity), and not consecutively (listening subsequently to the testimonies of the trance that have been recorded) or retroactively.
How human beings have fallen into captivity in the outside world of the mind and the senses (a world symbolized by the cave in Plato's allegory in Republic VII) is the centrifugal trance. The path of awakening and liberation is still trance, but the centripetal one. Osho said the same thing when referring to hypnosis: "We need to go through the same scale (hypnotic trance) that we descended on, becoming prisoners of identification with matter, but in reverse (climbing; returning to the center of our being)".
Then notice in the Yin-Yang diagram (Tai Ji Tu) the representation of the two main states between which we move horizontally (sleep watch). The same diagram, however, is also a representation of the two paradoxical or singular states of consciousness (wakefulness, sleep with dreams), in which we move vertically, outside horizontal dimensions (when we leave the cave).
In the paradoxical state of wakefulness, the black dot designates the rest (Yin) in the middle of the white area of wakefulness or activity (Yang), the brain waves theta and delta during deep sleep (black half) are manifested. Biofeedback methods, for the realization of officials in the area of alpha brain waves (Jose Silva) and theta (healing with theta waves – ThetaHealing– Vianna Stibal) train people to achieve a lower frequency cerebral rhythm (alpha, theta) concerning profane wakefulness (beta waves). Such low-frequency cerebral rhythm (alpha, theta) can be obtained in the laboratory by all animals in a very short time (a cat obtains the state of a great master in meditation in 15 minutes) if rewarded by pleasure (stimulation of the pleasure center in the brain at each accidental decrease in the rhythm of brain waves).
This positive feedback, which is the pleasure obtained by stimulating the pleasure center (implanted electrode) through a pulse, has been used to trigger not only a decrease in the frequency of brain waves but also to trigger a decrease in somatic agitation (instillment or immobility) and a reduction in respiratory or cardiac rhythm to achieve the state of artificial hibernation of laboratory animals. Positive feedback has also been used in people trained by special services to accelerate the acquisition of supernatural capacities of knowledge or action (ESP, extrasensory perception, remote viewing, super memory).
This way of using feedback uses confirmation of expectations (expectations) and takes into account Nazi experiments in which simulating the confirmation of the expected effect (cutting veins, poisoning) caused the subjects to die without really severing their veins and without receiving any poison.
Access to points of singularity (paradoxical states) is also possible during the hetero or hypnotic trance (it opens access to time travel: regression, progression), but the alignment (oneness) and awakening are lost (two people remain: the pilot and the piloted; the ideogram or Chinese character for shaman or wizard indicates the presence of two people in one. Only the saint is one with one. Awakening is accessible only to beings who have achieved impartial presence/consciousness (witness status; release from the mind; wu-wei state; vairagya; abandonment; surrender; abandonment of effort, control).
It's like learning to walk, to get to a certain place, but we don't go through the gate, beyond identifying with the mind and body, because we lack presence, awareness. Thus we remain prisoners of automatism and continue to look at the shadows on the cave wall (prisoners in the second reality of the projections on the mental screen) in Plato's Allegory in Republic VII. It's like learning a new foreign language, without using it, like getting into a vehicle to get beyond identifying with the body and the mind, but we're not going down because we're identified/attached to the vehicle we're using.
The
attention that remains anchored to the surface in the harbor
does not allow us to go out to sea. Because attention is not
anchored at present, in consciousness in Now and Here are not
noticed and used the other aspects derived from the
realization of the extinguishment of agitation: awakening
(boddhi), liberation (moksha) from the second reality (Plato's
cave), the transition from the mediated knowledge to direct or
direct knowledge. About the conscious localization in Now we
find an introduction to Eckhart Tolle's book: "The Power of
Now/The Power of Now" that can be found in a new translation
to Mr. Mirahorian: "Notice in the highest symbol of Hindu
spirituality (Man; Aum; known in other traditions as: Amen,
Amen, Aman) the four states of consciousness: 1. the state of
wakefulness (bottom loop: vaisvanara); 2 states of deep sleep
(prajna; nidra); 3. the state of paradoxical sleep or with
dreams (taijasa) and 4. the paradoxical state of wakefulness
(turiya) symbolized by the black spot located in the upper
crescent (half-moon plus the point, which designates the
absolute, unconditional state, replaced by a star, have also
been preserved in the Islamic tradition).
The paradoxical state of wakefulness consists of obtaining the theta and delta waves during a deep sleep with the preservation of presence/ consciousness/ (centripetal mystical trance). The methods of biofeedback, alpha (Silva), and theta wave healing (theta healing) do not notice the other aspects derived from the extinguishing of the agitation and the conscious localization in Now: awakening (boddhi), liberation (moksha), from the second reality (Plato's cave), the transition to direct knowledge (prajna instead of jnana).
Don't forget the addictions! Stimulants such as caffeine suppress theta and delta waves and promote beta waves, which leads to increased stress, anxiety, insomnia, and immune system depression. And we could go on with many, many other details that, without experimentation, are mere words typed by who knows what strange, for who knows of reason or frustration...
The fact is that Mr. Mirahorian is right. Yes, he's right. But to get to that level... Piloted relaxation is an ancient path for awakening, for self-knowledge (remembering our true identity), for healing, for slimming (weight loss), for increasing performance (artistic, mental, sports), for rapid learning (super-learning; suggestopedia), and access to the Data Bank of the Universe... We don't need exercise, understanding. Get to work! Leave the justifications! Off, I still have to type (a lot) and something "closing" (promised earlier)...
What is missing is consciousness, the finding, of the existence of a purpose of yours about your life...
Let us not forget that there are only three ways to live, by which man can find meaning in life! The first is called "active life", lived through work, through which man "creates values" or "commits a particular deed", the second is "passive life", contemplative, in which man does not create but receives in gift something that he can enjoy such as the good, the beautiful, the truth or love of another person and the last way is dominated by suffering "non-life" in which the meaning is to endure with dignity and courage the suffering imposed on him and cannot remove it ("life", and so on) or can "give in" returning to animality ("non-life", and both – by accepting/ allowing the weakening of consistency towards their moral and spiritual selves with the fall of "prey" under degenerative influences, tinged towards the zoo, towards "provisional existence").
It must be understood that this is the specificity of man, that he can live only by looking to the future (under species aeternitatis), and thus, the man who has lost confidence in his future is condemned. Spinoza, in his "Ethics", says: "Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and accurate picture of it." From what you will find here on this blog, you can do this without any problems. Nietzsche said, "He who has a "why" to live for can endure almost anything." So no matter what you live in the form of resuming life, the thing you need is just a fundamental change in your attitude towards life understanding that what matters is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
Life is not something vague, but something very real and concrete, just as the tasks of life are just as real and concrete. They make up the destiny of man, which is different and unique to each individual. No man or destiny can be compared to another man and another destiny. No circumstance is repeated, and each situation requires a different answer. Sometimes, situations in which man finds himself can ask him to shape his fate through action. Other times, it is more advantageous for him to make use of the chance to contemplate and thus realize inner values. Other times, the man may be asked to simply accept his fate and carry his cross.
Each situation is distinguished by its uniqueness and there is always only one correct answer to the problem that raises the situation. When a man discovers that he must suffer, he will have to accept his suffering as his mission, his only and only mission. He will have to reconsider the fact that even in this suffering of his, he is unique and alone throughout the universe. No one can spare him his suffering or suffer for him. The only chance is how he carries his burden. We must not be ashamed of our tears because they are proof of the greatest human courage: the courage to suffer.
The will of meaning, the search for meaning is the primary motivation of man in life and not a "secondary rationalization" of his instinctual impulses. It can also lead to frustration, existential, regarding existence itself, to the meaning of existence, or to the effort to find a concrete purpose in personal life, that is, the will of meaning, as it is called in the biology of "homeostasis", i.e. a state devoid of any tension.
Man doesn't need such a state without tension, in "balance", but rather the effort and struggle to achieve a valuable goal, a freely assumed task, he needs the call that addresses him a certain potential meaning that is to be achieved. In the specialized language this state is called "noo-dynamic" and represents the existential dynamics in a polar voltage field, where one of the poles is represented by the meaning to be fulfilled, and the second pole, by the man himself, who must fulfill it.
Man's advance from the animality stage first led to the loss of animal instincts, or their diminution to the inability to identify, culminating in his obligation to make choices. In addition, man has suffered another loss in the relatively recent process of his development, because the traditions that supported his behavior are rapidly losing weight today. No instinct tells him what to do, and no tradition tells him how he should do it. Often he doesn't even know what he wants to do. And, this state is called an "existential vacuum." It is manifested mainly by a state of boredom (it is signaled by the feeling of boredom).
Thus we can understand Schopenhauer when he said that, "humanity is doomed to oscillate endlessly between two extremes: between trouble and boredom." This existential vacuum is presented under different masks and appearances. Sometimes, when the will of meaning is blocked, it is compensated and replaced by the will of power, including its most primitive form, the will of money. In other situations, her place is taken by the will of pleasure, which is also why existential frustration often ends up in sexual compensation.
But let us see, further, what is with the three "existential" meanings of man: the meaning of life, the meaning of love, and the meaning of death or suffering (each as he wants or believes)!
The meaning of life is quite different from what most of us would have thought. What matters is not the meaning of life in general, but rather the meaning of human life at a given time. The abstract meaning of life should not be sought. Each of us has his vocation, his mission in life to carry out a certain task that is required to be fulfilled. Therefore, none of us can be replaced and his life is unrepeatable. So the task of each of us is as unique as its opportunity to fulfill it. In a word, every man is questioned about life and he can answer life only by answering for his own life (life can only answer him by being responsible).
The focus on responsibility is reflected in "Live as if you were living a second time, and the first time you would have acted as wrong as you are now about to do." This seems to be the essence of existence. Nothing can stimulate a sense of responsibility more than asking a man to first imagine the present being already past and then that the past can still be changed and straightened out. Thus, the more man looks at himself by giving himself to a cause he serves or to a person he loves, the more human he is and the more he updates himself (as a side effect of self-transcendence).
Hence the meaning of love, the only way we can embrace another human being in the innermost core of personality. No one can become fully aware of the essence of another person if they don't love them. Love makes us able to see the essential traits and characteristics of the loved one, even more, we see the potential of the loved one that is not yet updated. Moreover, through his love, the one who loves allows the loved one to update his potential. Making your loved one aware of what can be and become, makes these potentialities come true.
Love is as fundamental a phenomenon as sex. Sex is justified, even sanctified, as soon as there is a vehicle for love and only as long as it remains so. Therefore, love is not a side effect of sex but, on the contrary, sex is a way of expressing the experience of that supreme intimacy that is called love.
We've come to the end, the meaning of "death" or suffering. As far as I'm concerned, suffering and sacrifice are nothing but choices made now or before. In a kind of compensatory sense comes the idea that suffering ceases to be suffering from the moment it finds meaning, even that of sacrifice. That's because man's main concern is not to satisfy his pleasure and avoid pain, but rather to see that his life makes sense.
Therefore, man is ready to suffer on the condition, unmistakably, to be sure that his suffering makes sense. But obviously, the meaning is possible despite suffering if, of course, suffering is inevitable. In other words, the meaning of life is unconditional, because it includes even the potential meaning of suffering that cannot be avoided.
And, there is also something to be said about the supreme meaning, the ultimate meaning that goes beyond the finite intellectual capacities of man (for which it is also called super direction). What is required of man is not, as some existentialist philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear their inability to understand in rational terms the unconditional meaning of life. And just like that, we get to the ephemerality of life.
Among the things that seem to make sense of human life is not only suffering but also death. As previously pointed out, the only aspects of truly ephemeral life are potentialities, but as soon as they are updated, they become reality at that very moment, they are saved and delivered to the past, where they are safe and free from ephemerality. That's because in the past nothing is permanently lost, but everything is irrevocably stored. Thus, the ephemerality of our existence with no face makes it meaningless.
On the contrary, it builds our responsibility, because everything pivots around becoming aware that the possibilities are essentially transitional. Man chooses permanently from the multitude of existing, present potentialities. Which of these will condemn them to non-being and which one will they update? What choice will come true once and for all, an immortal "follow in the sand of time"?
So, every moment, man must decide, either for better or for worse, what the moment of his existence will be like.
So it is precisely this ephemerality that drives us to choose. We could say that the pessimist resembles a man who looks with fear and sadness as his wall calendar, from which he breaks everyday pages, becomes thinner every day. On the other hand, the person who actively attacks the problems of life is like a man who throws away the next tab of the calendar and places it nicely, carefully, along with those broken before, after he has laid on its back some notes about that day. He can reflect full of pride and satisfaction to all the wealth contained in these notes, to his entire life, which he lived to the fullest possible.
What's going to matter to him if he gets old? Does he have any reason to envy the young people he sees or to think nostalgically about his lost youth? Why envy the possibilities that a young person has as long as he has at his disposal the past reality, of the past (not only the reality of the work done and the loves lived but also the sufferings borne with courage).
There remains the fear of death, so-called anticipatory anxiety. The characteristic of any type of fear is that it produces exactly what the patient fears. "The desire is the mother of thought" whereas, or, "Fear is the mother of the event". As an irony of fate, in the same way that the theme makes the exact thing that man fears the most happen, so the forced intention makes impossible precisely the thing that man wants with all his will. This excessive intention is referred to as 'hyperintent'. In general, this hyperintention, if it is "poorly implemented", does nothing but attract failure, directly proportional to the efforts made. The result, pleasure, happiness, is and must remain a side effect or a by-product, being destroyed and destroyed all the more as it becomes an end in itself.
Therefore, there is something left to say about the "nothingness" of man that results from the considerations that man is nothing but the result of biological, psychological, and social conditions and/ or the product of heredity or the environment. In other words that man is a mere pawn and a victim of external influences or inherent conditions. There is no doubt that the human being is finite, and his freedom is limited. It is precisely the definition of the individual that can only be limited to be considered the individual.
But here we are not talking about freedom from conditions, but about man's freedom to resist conditions. Man is not fully conditioned and determined, but rather determines himself, either by capitulating in the face of conditions or by resisting them. In other words, man, fundamentally, determines himself.
Man does not simply exist, but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment. Therefore, every human being has the freedom to change at every moment. Man can change the world for the better, if possible, and is also able to change himself for the better if necessary. However, freedom has no last word, it is only one side of the coin, one half of the truth. Moreover, freedom is only the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon, the positive aspect of which is responsibility. Freedom is in constant danger of degenerating into a mere whim if it is not lived in terms of responsibility.
And finally, of this long weekend-ending post, we must understand that man is not a being in search of happiness, but rather a reason to be happy, by updating the potential meaning that is inherent in a given situation and that persists in it. That's why once we've reached that situation and how long it persists we're happy, but no more than that. I haven't met anyone who stays permanently happy after going through an achievement. This need to find a reason is also found in another phenomenon, laughter.
If you want to make someone laugh, you have to give them a reason, like tell them a joke. With no face, you can't provoke someone to laugh, not even yourself, on command. There's no need to get to the meaninglessness of life. We have three main ways to avoid all this, just three. The first is to create something or do a good deed. The second is to experience something or to be in a relationship with someone. In other words, meaning can be found not only in work but also in love.
And yet the most important is the third path that leads to meaning in life, "passing over suffering" and, last but not least, death: even the most helpless victim in the most despondent situation, faced with a fate that can no longer change, can rise above himself, can rise beyond himself and thus, it can change itself. Such a man can turn a personal tragedy into a victory. We don't choose to have the event that attracts our suffering, but we choose to suffer.
Man cannot change the situation that causes him suffering, but he, however, can choose his attitude. We must not consider ourselves guilty that we are not happy but only if we have no purpose. As for death, let us not forget that this term also refers to life, because at any time, all the moments of life are made up of means to die, for the moment never comes back (as I often "express" myself, "the smile of yesterday's beloved being is no longer found today", especially when you refer to the children who grow up). No doubt people tend to see only the stubble of ephemerality, to overlook and forget about the rich grain of the past in which they have collected their lifetime harvest, the deeds done, the loves lived and, not as a last resort, the sufferings they have gone through full of courage and dignity.
Today's society is characterized by the fact that it is oriented towards achievements and therefore adores those who are successful and happy, and in particular, they adore young people. Virtually ignores the value of those who are otherwise and, in doing so, blurs the categorical difference between having value, in the sense of dignity, and being valuable in the sense of utility. If one is not aware of this difference and claims that the value of the individual lies only in its present usefulness, then only because of its inconsistency, such a man does not advocate for euthanasia, the mercy killing of all those who have lost their usefulness.
Interesting how many things we have "to remember", to consider. But we always forget something that comes from our age, from the Creator's very gesture of making his equals, that: "Anything great is as hard to accomplish as it is rare" – The Ethics of Spinoza.
Remember, "Live like you're living a second time, and the first time you acted as wrong as you are now."
And that's enough for today! From tomorrow we'll jump on the alpha!
The paradoxical state of wakefulness consists of obtaining the theta and delta waves during a deep sleep with the preservation of presence/ consciousness/ (centripetal mystical trance). The methods of biofeedback, alpha (Silva), and theta wave healing (theta healing) do not notice the other aspects derived from the extinguishing of the agitation and the conscious localization in Now: awakening (boddhi), liberation (moksha), from the second reality (Plato's cave), the transition to direct knowledge (prajna instead of jnana).
Don't forget the addictions! Stimulants such as caffeine suppress theta and delta waves and promote beta waves, which leads to increased stress, anxiety, insomnia, and immune system depression. And we could go on with many, many other details that, without experimentation, are mere words typed by who knows what strange, for who knows of reason or frustration...
The fact is that Mr. Mirahorian is right. Yes, he's right. But to get to that level... Piloted relaxation is an ancient path for awakening, for self-knowledge (remembering our true identity), for healing, for slimming (weight loss), for increasing performance (artistic, mental, sports), for rapid learning (super-learning; suggestopedia), and access to the Data Bank of the Universe... We don't need exercise, understanding. Get to work! Leave the justifications! Off, I still have to type (a lot) and something "closing" (promised earlier)...
What is missing is consciousness, the finding, of the existence of a purpose of yours about your life...
Let us not forget that there are only three ways to live, by which man can find meaning in life! The first is called "active life", lived through work, through which man "creates values" or "commits a particular deed", the second is "passive life", contemplative, in which man does not create but receives in gift something that he can enjoy such as the good, the beautiful, the truth or love of another person and the last way is dominated by suffering "non-life" in which the meaning is to endure with dignity and courage the suffering imposed on him and cannot remove it ("life", and so on) or can "give in" returning to animality ("non-life", and both – by accepting/ allowing the weakening of consistency towards their moral and spiritual selves with the fall of "prey" under degenerative influences, tinged towards the zoo, towards "provisional existence").
It must be understood that this is the specificity of man, that he can live only by looking to the future (under species aeternitatis), and thus, the man who has lost confidence in his future is condemned. Spinoza, in his "Ethics", says: "Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and accurate picture of it." From what you will find here on this blog, you can do this without any problems. Nietzsche said, "He who has a "why" to live for can endure almost anything." So no matter what you live in the form of resuming life, the thing you need is just a fundamental change in your attitude towards life understanding that what matters is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.
Life is not something vague, but something very real and concrete, just as the tasks of life are just as real and concrete. They make up the destiny of man, which is different and unique to each individual. No man or destiny can be compared to another man and another destiny. No circumstance is repeated, and each situation requires a different answer. Sometimes, situations in which man finds himself can ask him to shape his fate through action. Other times, it is more advantageous for him to make use of the chance to contemplate and thus realize inner values. Other times, the man may be asked to simply accept his fate and carry his cross.
Each situation is distinguished by its uniqueness and there is always only one correct answer to the problem that raises the situation. When a man discovers that he must suffer, he will have to accept his suffering as his mission, his only and only mission. He will have to reconsider the fact that even in this suffering of his, he is unique and alone throughout the universe. No one can spare him his suffering or suffer for him. The only chance is how he carries his burden. We must not be ashamed of our tears because they are proof of the greatest human courage: the courage to suffer.
The will of meaning, the search for meaning is the primary motivation of man in life and not a "secondary rationalization" of his instinctual impulses. It can also lead to frustration, existential, regarding existence itself, to the meaning of existence, or to the effort to find a concrete purpose in personal life, that is, the will of meaning, as it is called in the biology of "homeostasis", i.e. a state devoid of any tension.
Man doesn't need such a state without tension, in "balance", but rather the effort and struggle to achieve a valuable goal, a freely assumed task, he needs the call that addresses him a certain potential meaning that is to be achieved. In the specialized language this state is called "noo-dynamic" and represents the existential dynamics in a polar voltage field, where one of the poles is represented by the meaning to be fulfilled, and the second pole, by the man himself, who must fulfill it.
Man's advance from the animality stage first led to the loss of animal instincts, or their diminution to the inability to identify, culminating in his obligation to make choices. In addition, man has suffered another loss in the relatively recent process of his development, because the traditions that supported his behavior are rapidly losing weight today. No instinct tells him what to do, and no tradition tells him how he should do it. Often he doesn't even know what he wants to do. And, this state is called an "existential vacuum." It is manifested mainly by a state of boredom (it is signaled by the feeling of boredom).
Thus we can understand Schopenhauer when he said that, "humanity is doomed to oscillate endlessly between two extremes: between trouble and boredom." This existential vacuum is presented under different masks and appearances. Sometimes, when the will of meaning is blocked, it is compensated and replaced by the will of power, including its most primitive form, the will of money. In other situations, her place is taken by the will of pleasure, which is also why existential frustration often ends up in sexual compensation.
But let us see, further, what is with the three "existential" meanings of man: the meaning of life, the meaning of love, and the meaning of death or suffering (each as he wants or believes)!
The meaning of life is quite different from what most of us would have thought. What matters is not the meaning of life in general, but rather the meaning of human life at a given time. The abstract meaning of life should not be sought. Each of us has his vocation, his mission in life to carry out a certain task that is required to be fulfilled. Therefore, none of us can be replaced and his life is unrepeatable. So the task of each of us is as unique as its opportunity to fulfill it. In a word, every man is questioned about life and he can answer life only by answering for his own life (life can only answer him by being responsible).
The focus on responsibility is reflected in "Live as if you were living a second time, and the first time you would have acted as wrong as you are now about to do." This seems to be the essence of existence. Nothing can stimulate a sense of responsibility more than asking a man to first imagine the present being already past and then that the past can still be changed and straightened out. Thus, the more man looks at himself by giving himself to a cause he serves or to a person he loves, the more human he is and the more he updates himself (as a side effect of self-transcendence).
Hence the meaning of love, the only way we can embrace another human being in the innermost core of personality. No one can become fully aware of the essence of another person if they don't love them. Love makes us able to see the essential traits and characteristics of the loved one, even more, we see the potential of the loved one that is not yet updated. Moreover, through his love, the one who loves allows the loved one to update his potential. Making your loved one aware of what can be and become, makes these potentialities come true.
Love is as fundamental a phenomenon as sex. Sex is justified, even sanctified, as soon as there is a vehicle for love and only as long as it remains so. Therefore, love is not a side effect of sex but, on the contrary, sex is a way of expressing the experience of that supreme intimacy that is called love.
We've come to the end, the meaning of "death" or suffering. As far as I'm concerned, suffering and sacrifice are nothing but choices made now or before. In a kind of compensatory sense comes the idea that suffering ceases to be suffering from the moment it finds meaning, even that of sacrifice. That's because man's main concern is not to satisfy his pleasure and avoid pain, but rather to see that his life makes sense.
Therefore, man is ready to suffer on the condition, unmistakably, to be sure that his suffering makes sense. But obviously, the meaning is possible despite suffering if, of course, suffering is inevitable. In other words, the meaning of life is unconditional, because it includes even the potential meaning of suffering that cannot be avoided.
And, there is also something to be said about the supreme meaning, the ultimate meaning that goes beyond the finite intellectual capacities of man (for which it is also called super direction). What is required of man is not, as some existentialist philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear their inability to understand in rational terms the unconditional meaning of life. And just like that, we get to the ephemerality of life.
Among the things that seem to make sense of human life is not only suffering but also death. As previously pointed out, the only aspects of truly ephemeral life are potentialities, but as soon as they are updated, they become reality at that very moment, they are saved and delivered to the past, where they are safe and free from ephemerality. That's because in the past nothing is permanently lost, but everything is irrevocably stored. Thus, the ephemerality of our existence with no face makes it meaningless.
On the contrary, it builds our responsibility, because everything pivots around becoming aware that the possibilities are essentially transitional. Man chooses permanently from the multitude of existing, present potentialities. Which of these will condemn them to non-being and which one will they update? What choice will come true once and for all, an immortal "follow in the sand of time"?
So, every moment, man must decide, either for better or for worse, what the moment of his existence will be like.
So it is precisely this ephemerality that drives us to choose. We could say that the pessimist resembles a man who looks with fear and sadness as his wall calendar, from which he breaks everyday pages, becomes thinner every day. On the other hand, the person who actively attacks the problems of life is like a man who throws away the next tab of the calendar and places it nicely, carefully, along with those broken before, after he has laid on its back some notes about that day. He can reflect full of pride and satisfaction to all the wealth contained in these notes, to his entire life, which he lived to the fullest possible.
What's going to matter to him if he gets old? Does he have any reason to envy the young people he sees or to think nostalgically about his lost youth? Why envy the possibilities that a young person has as long as he has at his disposal the past reality, of the past (not only the reality of the work done and the loves lived but also the sufferings borne with courage).
There remains the fear of death, so-called anticipatory anxiety. The characteristic of any type of fear is that it produces exactly what the patient fears. "The desire is the mother of thought" whereas, or, "Fear is the mother of the event". As an irony of fate, in the same way that the theme makes the exact thing that man fears the most happen, so the forced intention makes impossible precisely the thing that man wants with all his will. This excessive intention is referred to as 'hyperintent'. In general, this hyperintention, if it is "poorly implemented", does nothing but attract failure, directly proportional to the efforts made. The result, pleasure, happiness, is and must remain a side effect or a by-product, being destroyed and destroyed all the more as it becomes an end in itself.
Therefore, there is something left to say about the "nothingness" of man that results from the considerations that man is nothing but the result of biological, psychological, and social conditions and/ or the product of heredity or the environment. In other words that man is a mere pawn and a victim of external influences or inherent conditions. There is no doubt that the human being is finite, and his freedom is limited. It is precisely the definition of the individual that can only be limited to be considered the individual.
But here we are not talking about freedom from conditions, but about man's freedom to resist conditions. Man is not fully conditioned and determined, but rather determines himself, either by capitulating in the face of conditions or by resisting them. In other words, man, fundamentally, determines himself.
Man does not simply exist, but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment. Therefore, every human being has the freedom to change at every moment. Man can change the world for the better, if possible, and is also able to change himself for the better if necessary. However, freedom has no last word, it is only one side of the coin, one half of the truth. Moreover, freedom is only the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon, the positive aspect of which is responsibility. Freedom is in constant danger of degenerating into a mere whim if it is not lived in terms of responsibility.
And finally, of this long weekend-ending post, we must understand that man is not a being in search of happiness, but rather a reason to be happy, by updating the potential meaning that is inherent in a given situation and that persists in it. That's why once we've reached that situation and how long it persists we're happy, but no more than that. I haven't met anyone who stays permanently happy after going through an achievement. This need to find a reason is also found in another phenomenon, laughter.
If you want to make someone laugh, you have to give them a reason, like tell them a joke. With no face, you can't provoke someone to laugh, not even yourself, on command. There's no need to get to the meaninglessness of life. We have three main ways to avoid all this, just three. The first is to create something or do a good deed. The second is to experience something or to be in a relationship with someone. In other words, meaning can be found not only in work but also in love.
And yet the most important is the third path that leads to meaning in life, "passing over suffering" and, last but not least, death: even the most helpless victim in the most despondent situation, faced with a fate that can no longer change, can rise above himself, can rise beyond himself and thus, it can change itself. Such a man can turn a personal tragedy into a victory. We don't choose to have the event that attracts our suffering, but we choose to suffer.
Man cannot change the situation that causes him suffering, but he, however, can choose his attitude. We must not consider ourselves guilty that we are not happy but only if we have no purpose. As for death, let us not forget that this term also refers to life, because at any time, all the moments of life are made up of means to die, for the moment never comes back (as I often "express" myself, "the smile of yesterday's beloved being is no longer found today", especially when you refer to the children who grow up). No doubt people tend to see only the stubble of ephemerality, to overlook and forget about the rich grain of the past in which they have collected their lifetime harvest, the deeds done, the loves lived and, not as a last resort, the sufferings they have gone through full of courage and dignity.
Today's society is characterized by the fact that it is oriented towards achievements and therefore adores those who are successful and happy, and in particular, they adore young people. Virtually ignores the value of those who are otherwise and, in doing so, blurs the categorical difference between having value, in the sense of dignity, and being valuable in the sense of utility. If one is not aware of this difference and claims that the value of the individual lies only in its present usefulness, then only because of its inconsistency, such a man does not advocate for euthanasia, the mercy killing of all those who have lost their usefulness.
Interesting how many things we have "to remember", to consider. But we always forget something that comes from our age, from the Creator's very gesture of making his equals, that: "Anything great is as hard to accomplish as it is rare" – The Ethics of Spinoza.
Remember, "Live like you're living a second time, and the first time you acted as wrong as you are now."
And that's enough for today! From tomorrow we'll jump on the alpha!
Love,
Gratitude, and Understanding (Namaste)!!!
Dorin, Merticaru