To regain awareness of each lived moment of being, "wake up in reality"! This is the task that both spiritual teachers-gurus of the past and psychotherapists of today set for themselves and their students.
Technique 1. "Confuse yourself"
Challenge yourself to take food for one day while holding the main appliance (fork or spoon) with the wrong hand. That is, say, right-handers eat all day, holding a spoon with their left hand, and left-handers, accordingly, with their right.
Take a different route to work (or home from work) during the week. Get off at least one stop earlier or later and get there on foot, but not on a straight road. (As for women, here you need to worry about comfortable shoes in advance. And of course, this exercise does not imply walking on a dark evening along dubious gateways in high-heeled shoes. These practices call to remember reality, and not completely forget about it!
Do any work you are used to slowly, solemnly and carefully. It is as if you are carrying (in a parking lot in the desert) a bowl with precious drops of living water.
Technique 2. "Control over speech"
Promotional video:
Exclude the word “no” and his deputy “not” from your speech for exactly one day. Try to use other language aids to clarify your thoughts, even at work.
Do the same with the word "me" and "me", but within a week.
Try to consciously carry the statement "I am." After a while, connect the second statement "I can" to it.
(These mantra statements are pronounced consciously, and not in a tongue twister, and only after you have achieved some success in self-awareness through the exercises listed at the beginning of our list)
Technique 3. "Conscious reading"
Take any text (later you yourself will choose NOT ANY texts). Read it three times.
The first time - the way you usually read "to yourself".
The second time read the text as if you were reading it aloud to another person so that he understood it.
For the third time, read the text as if it were an encrypted message written personally for you in order to solve your problems.
Technique 4 "Conscious breathing"
That's what - and we very rarely concentrate on breathing, but it is with it that our rhythm of life begins! Our heart rate and the health of our body depend on it.
Pay attention to how we breathe for five minutes a day:
what is the duration of inhalation and exhalation, which of them lasts longer?
- if you inhale, we take in more than we give
- if you exhale, we give more
- if we pause between inhalation and exhalation - a manifestation of distrust
- Shallow or deep breathing?
breathing occurs evenly without pauses, deep breath and full exhalation
(why, only when we fall asleep does the breath flow evenly and deeply?)
Here are some other activities that can help increase your awareness:
- to look at dawn - at the rising Sun - its light - clears our consciousness.
Or see off the sunset (many people do it intuitively)
- sing! And listen to music! A pleasant melody tunes us into a harmonious mood.
and with our voice we tune our "instrument" - and thoughts come into order.
- to draw abstractions (without thinking about anything) - this is how we show our hidden moods, this is how we can get rid of inner tension, which we often do not notice.
All these techniques lead us to awareness of ourselves in this world, paying attention to true values. Being in the moment “Here and now” gives the most effective state for reacting to external events. The lack of internal dialogues and the like creates additional energy for the impulse of action.
