3.1.11 mindfulness based breathing, meditation, self hypnosis helping healing process.
Be alert and aware, feel good, know more, help self and other, using right effort.
This is all about energy and connections, in yourself and as it effects others.
Mindfulness based breathing will be used as the corner stone, the foundation, the life line, the life preserver, the safety net, the place of rest, respite and recharging for all activities.
Re fuel, recharge your mental batteries, burn up unhelpful energy, as you establish helpful and healing connections with your self and others and all activities, giving your self positive suggestions along the way.
Burn up the bad energy that is fueling your problems. You don’t have to turn this bad energy into more bad energy or transfer it to thoughts, emotions, body parts and sensations and relationships work, play people. Also Learn new things, and re establish helpful connections, and give your self helpful suggestions, but first you must quiet , center, balance and stabilize the mind
But first you must be able to hold this energy in awareness without reacting to it with emotions, thoughts, channeling it into body parts like pains, head aches, stomach bowel problems, rashes, sleep difficulties too much to little, fragmented, or doing not helpful things, to your self or others, including getting involved in hurtful mindless activities recreationally like tv, video games, too much of the wrong kind or friend relationships, or too much work.
Stabilize your mind state with mindfulness based breathing then experience and burn up the thoughts-feelings-body sensations fueling your problems.
As you stabilize your mind and burn up the energy fueling your problems you when you are relaxed, calm and concentrated enough you can begin to give yourself helpful suggestions.
An outline of the phases are below, they are presented as separate but actually this is continuous inter related process.
Mindfulness Phase:
1. get out of auto pilot and become consciously and intentionally aware and alert of what is happening in present here and now , accepting and allowing what is, and the connections to self and others
Meditative Concentration Phase:
2. by sustaining mindfulness you increasing levels of concentration with calm and stabilize the mind and relax the body
Meditative Mindfulness Stabilization Phase:
3. dealing with distractions as you try to sustain mindfulness you become less reactive that is pushed and pulled by emotions, sensations and thoughts developing equanimity - once centered, balanced and stabilized you will be able to use this mind state just rest relax and develop higher and higher levels of alertness, awareness, calmness and relaxation, and use this in itself and/or as the base mental state to help self and others
Insight New Information Phase:
4 wisdom . to allow spontaneous feelings, moods, instincts and intuitions to filter in to help yourself and others, primarily experience the transient changing nature and inter connectedness of all things and others
Therapeutic “burning up the fuel” phase
5 work specifically on good, bad and neutral things to help self and others as they spontaneously come up making them the new object of focus, or specifically choose to focus on the specifics
6. mindfully exploring the neutral opens up previously unaware sources of helpful feelings, thoughts and body sensations/perceptions
7. independently explore specific thoughts, feelings and body sensations, to burn up the fuel that is keeping them going
Therapeutic exploring connections and re establishing helpful connections phase:
8. explore the connections between thoughts, feelings, sensations and how they connect to others, and all activities, eg, home, school work play, relationships to self, others, friends, family others.
9. compassion - reestablish healthy connections between thoughts, feelings, and body sensations/perceptions, as related to self and others
Therapeutic “self suggestion” the self hypnosis phase:
10..use the centered, balanced, stabilized mind state to give your self helpful suggestions, as you learn to become a participant observer