Sudden loss of consciousness or so-called fainting is mainly caused by a short-term decrease in cerebral circulation. This state can be compared to deep sleep, when a person is not aware of anything and does not react to stimuli. Almost a third of the population experiences fainting at some point in their lives. Only sometimes loss of consciousness is a manifestation of a serious illness. The unconscious state can be characterized by several degrees of severity - from short-term fainting to long-term coma.
Main reasons
Loss of consciousness can be caused by many factors. But the main cause of short-term fainting is lack of blood supply to the brain. Typically, it can occur due to the following factors:
Types of loss of consciousness
Today, it is customary to distinguish four types of loss of consciousness, namely:
- Sudden and short-term loss of consciousness. Mostly lasts a few seconds.
- Sudden but prolonged loss of consciousness. May last from a few minutes to several days.
- Prolonged loss of consciousness with gradual onset. Lasts approximately several days.
- Loss of consciousness with unknown onset and duration. May last for several years.
Let's look at all four options in more detail:
- This may include simple fainting, also called “postural syncope.” The main cause of loss of consciousness in this case is a violation of cerebral blood supply. The distinctive signs of this type of fainting are the following: the person lost consciousness in an upright position and came to his senses after a few seconds.
The first type of loss of consciousness also includes fainting of cardinal origin, when blood circulation is disrupted due to heart disease, blockage and arrhythmia occur. In addition, the following factors may be the causes of sudden and short-term loss of consciousness: loss of consciousness during urination due to strong straining, occurs mainly in older people, fainting due to a prolonged coughing attack, orthostatic fainting, observed when standing up suddenly, “minor” attack epilepsy.
- The second type of sudden and prolonged loss of consciousness can be a manifestation of the following diseases, namely:
- major" epilepsy;
- hypoglycemia – decreased blood glucose concentration;
- hysteria;
- disorders of the blood supply to the brain.
- The third option includes comatose states, which are characterized by slow development:
- Stunning is the most common type of impairment of consciousness. It usually occurs with cranial injuries, poisoning, and also occurs when the patient comes out of a coma. Characterized by weakness, lethargy, decreased mental activity, unclear orientation in time and place.
- Doubt. This condition usually occurs due to poisoning with psychotropic substances, hypoxia and neuroinfection. The patient sleeps a lot, but when exposed to external stimuli, he awakens, can answer questions and adequately follow the doctor’s instructions. But as soon as the external stimuli stop, the person immediately falls asleep.
- Delirious syndrome. The patient loses orientation in time and place, sees visual and vocal hallucinations, and there is pronounced motor and speech excitation. This syndrome can appear due to poisoning with certain drugs, with renal or liver failure, with endogenous intoxication syndrome, and also occurs in patients who are in a shallow coma.
- Sopor. In this state, a person is not aware of anything. He only retains reactions to strong sound and light stimuli, as well as to pain. Spontaneous urination usually occurs. Pharyngeal, corneal and pupillary reflexes are usually preserved.
- The last type of loss of consciousness includes coma - this is the absence of mental activity, the patient experiences depression of consciousness, and the motor, somato-vegetative and sensory functions of the body are also impaired. In this state, the patient has no signs of conscious reactions to internal or external stimuli.
Coma is usually divided into four stages:
- Superficial coma. A person retains reactions to strong stimuli. The pupils react to light, although weakly. Muscle tone is reduced, but corneal reflexes and swallowing are preserved. There is no facial expression on the face, but sometimes a grimace of suffering appears. Urination is spontaneous.
- Severe coma. In this condition, the patient's pharyngeal reflexes are suppressed, the smooth muscles are relaxed, but a reaction to strong painful stimuli is possible.
- Deep coma. There are no reactions of the body to any irritants. The patient is unconscious and has muscle atony. The mechanics of breathing are impaired, reflexes are absent.
- Extreme coma. This condition is the most severe; the patient’s life is maintained with the help of medications and artificial ventilation.
Symptoms
Let's look at the symptoms of the most common fainting, that is, when a person loses consciousness suddenly and for a few seconds. Before losing consciousness, a person becomes ill, has an attack of lightheadedness, nausea appears, there is a veil before the eyes, there is a noise in the ears, and sudden weakness is felt. Some people begin to yawn, their legs give way, and the person begins to realize that he is about to faint.
When you lose consciousness, the skin turns pale and takes on a gray tint, and blood pressure drops. Muscle tone is weakened, the pupils react slowly to light. The pulse is usually weak and may not be palpable at all.
Typically, this type of fainting lasts a few seconds, but if the loss of consciousness lasts longer than 5 minutes, the person may experience convulsions or involuntary urination. As soon as he comes to his senses, his general weakness remains. If he tries to stand up suddenly, another attack may occur.
First aid
If a person has lost consciousness, then he needs to provide the correct first aid, it consists of the following:
- First of all, it is necessary to eliminate the factors that caused the loss of consciousness. For example, you should take a person out of a stuffy room, or take him out of the water, or take him to a cool place if the fainting was caused by overheating.
- If you are sure that the person does not have a head injury, then you should ensure that he is in a horizontal position. In this case, the head should be lower than the body, and the legs higher. Thus, blood supply to the brain improves.
- To eliminate the possibility of tongue retraction or to prevent a person from choking on vomit, it is better to turn him on his side. But if this is not possible, then the person should be seated and his head should be lowered between his knees.
- Then you need to try to irritate the skin receptors. For example, you can spray your face with water or wipe it with a cold wet towel; in addition, you can pat it on the cheeks and let it inhale ammonia or vinegar.
- A person who has fainted must be provided with access to air. You need to open the window, unfasten the collar, belt or corset. If he has a low body temperature, then it is necessary to wrap him in a blanket.
After the person comes to his senses, the following recommendations should be followed:
- You can’t give him food and drink right away.
- It is forbidden to immediately take a vertical position, otherwise fainting may recur.
- If a person has not regained consciousness within several minutes, then you should immediately call an ambulance.
- While the medical team is traveling, you need to listen to your breathing and check your pulse.
- If a person has no pulse and no breathing, then you need to start chest compressions and artificial respiration. Such assistance must be provided before doctors arrive.
Heart massage is done like this: you need to press with straightened arms on the lower third of the sternum with a frequency of approximately 120 times per minute. Artificial respiration is performed two inhalations and exhalations after every 30 massage movements. The person's head should be tilted back slightly.
If a child faints or old man, then you need to urgently call an ambulance, especially if the loss of consciousness is accompanied by convulsions, lack of breathing, or the fainting happened suddenly for no apparent reason. Even if a person quickly wakes up after fainting, he needs to visit a doctor to rule out injuries and concussion.
What doctors are doing
If a person faints for several minutes, the cause may be serious. That is why doctors monitor the patient’s pulse and breathing, measure his blood pressure and temperature. If there are symptoms of dehydration, intravenous fluid is given.
An electrocardiogram may be done to rule out heart problems that could cause fainting. A blood test is also taken and a study is performed; if a salt imbalance is detected, it is eliminated with special medications. If the doctor determines that the fainting occurred due to taking certain medications, they can be replaced with others.
Which doctor treats
Note that medicine has never dealt with health, it only works with diseases. Medicine says that healthy people does not happen at all, thereby putting an end to human health. Doctors have not yet helped a single person become healthy. All they do is eliminate the symptoms of diseases, but they are not able to get to the cause of the disease.
The human body can be compared to a house; diseases are cracks in the house, leaks, breaks. A doctor is a plasterer who simply skillfully covers up holes, without thinking about why they appeared. Moreover, he covers these holes with a very unreliable solution, which is washed off at the first rain.
Therefore, the intervention of the plasterer is required again and again until the building collapses and there is nothing left to plaster. At the same time, a good master will first of all find out why these cracks appeared. Most likely, he will point out the unreliable foundation on which the house itself was built. If you strengthen the foundation well, cementing it with a reliable mortar, then holes in the walls will not appear at all. But the plasterer will not think of this, because his own house also suffers from ill health, and the plasterer even acts short-sightedly with his own house, just covering up the holes.
Therefore, I do not believe in medicine, which merely patches up holes in the human body while leaving disease to flourish inside the body. There the disease is not visible to anyone, which means it can be said that it has been cured. In the future, when people understand the causes of disease, doctors will not be needed. However, the future is still far away; we live in the present. What should a person do if he suddenly gets sick? Of course, get treatment! Only it is necessary to eliminate not the symptoms, but the cause of the disease itself. Now we’ll talk about how to do this.
To eliminate the cause, you must first find it. In the case of the house, the cause of the holes was an unreliable foundation. And the reason for the unreliable foundation is woe to the builders who used cheap analogues instead of high-quality building materials. Therefore, the cause of holes is poor building materials from which the foundation is made. We have already talked about which building materials for the human body are good and which are bad.
Body cells are born and die regularly, thanks to this human body has the ability to renew itself. In about three years, the human body is completely renewed. During this time, old, exhausted construction material is thrown out of the body, and it is built from new material. If a person continues to give his body unreliable building material, then the body will continue to suffer from cracks and breaks (diseases). If a person decides to provide his body with high-quality building materials, then in three years a strong and reliable structure will be built from this building material, not exposed to the elements (drafts, cold, bacteria, viruses, etc.). And this is what we call health.
However, if we don’t have three years to build a solid foundation for our health. We are sick now and we need urgent help. What to do? In this case, you need to force events, speed up the process of renewal of the body. First of all, you need to remove all slag from it (remnants of bad building materials supplied earlier). To do this quickly and effectively, there is a special method called FASTING.
Many books have been written about fasting, the most popular of which is Paul Bragg's book "The Miracle of Fasting." In addition to books, there are clinics in which patients are treated with fasting and a natural diet. These clinics employ real doctors, doctors with a capital D, because they do not stuff their patients with poisonous drugs, do not patch up the holes in their body, but take on the task of eliminating the very cause of the disease.
A person who has undergone a course of treatment in such a clinic comes out truly healthy, cheerful and several years younger. I feel a little sorry for these clinics. This is due to the high demands placed on doctors working there. Such a doctor must himself be in good health before he can begin to treat a patient. Every doctor at such a clinic has undergone full course fasting, got rid of all diseases, and only then took up helping other people. What can we say about our ordinary doctors, who themselves suffer from many diseases and at the same time try to treat other people...
Fasting as a method of treating diseases invented by Nature itself. All animals instinctively follow this method. If an animal gets sick, the first thing it does is stop eating. Even humans have this instinct; during illness, the desire to eat disappears, and this is not without reason. The ignorant forcefully stuff food into a sick person, while claiming that they care about his health.
Why is fasting so beneficial? Digestion of food is a fairly energy-intensive process; it takes a lot of the body’s energy to digest food. During fasting, these forces are released, which means the body can spend it on fighting diseases. If during a normal (fed) life the body absorbs substances, then during fasting it begins reverse process- removal of substances from the body. All slags that were stored up to this point begin to move and are removed using excretory system along with urine, sweat and even breathing.
During fasting, the body still needs energy to survive. Since he does not receive this energy from the outside along with food, he begins to look for internal reserves. Fat mass is burned, dead cells of the body are used up (and a lot of them accumulate), when the dead matter runs out, the weakest living cells are used. Thus, during fasting, the body gets rid of toxins, excess fat, dead and painful cells. And this is the CAUSE of our diseases, which means that fasting eliminates the very cause.
Meanwhile, pathogenic viruses and bacteria are not only not pests, but rather our helpers. Having settled in the human body, they do not touch the healthy cells of the body; they are too tough for them. The disease feeds primarily on dead biomass and weak cells, thus accelerating the process of removing this excess cargo from the body. Disease is a kind of scavenger who comes only when he notices a lot of garbage. When all the biological waste is eaten, and there is nothing left for the disease to feed on, it leaves the body. This is natural, this is how Nature itself intended it. If a person does not stop eating during illness, he thereby introduces new food to viruses and bacteria, and they continue their sweet life, which leads to a protracted form of the disease.
Doctors, using powerful chemicals, try to kill pathogenic viruses and bacteria that have settled in the body. They succeed, but the garbage that feeds the disease remains untouched, which means that the disease will come again and will continue to come as long as the body is full of food for bacteria and viruses. The waste of our body is like a luxuriously laid table for infectious microorganisms, the smell of food from which dissipates everywhere.
Bacteria and viruses living in the external environment sense this smell, and therefore strive to profit from a lot of food. It is not surprising that a person gets sick from the slightest breath of wind. Then the doctors come again and kill the bacteria that are dining at this time with a powerful poison called medicine. Only this poison poisons not only bacteria, but also the human body, which further undermines his health. This continues again and again, bacteria try to eat toxins, and doctors kill them with poison. But what are infectious microorganisms to blame for, just because they want to eat? Let them eat all the food that is intended for them, and they will go away on their own, leaving the body clean of toxins. This is exactly what naturopaths do when they advise a sick person to fast during illness.
Another symptom of the disease is high fever. Doctors are trying to bring down this temperature by any means. But there is no need to do this, temperature is not a reason, but a way to heal the body. At high temperatures, the body gets rid of toxins and diseases in the shortest possible time. Lowering the temperature only interferes with this process and slows down the healing.
The most sensible advice that can be given to a sick person is not to take any medicine, not to eat anything at all, to drink only plain water and to let the body rest. When placed in such conditions, the body begins to fight the disease itself, or rather not to fight, but to cooperate. As a result of such cooperation, the body is cleansed of toxins, the disease goes away, and the person becomes healthier. Doctors only interfere with this process, passing off their actions as caring for the patient’s health.
Thunder will not strike, the man will not cross himself. Why wait until the disease begins to attack your body, if you can worry about removing toxins from it in advance. A clean body is not interesting to pathogenic viruses and bacteria, because there is no food for them. A person with a cleansed body will not get sick, even if he is among people seriously ill with infectious diseases.
Regular preventive hunger strikes are the way to protect yourself from infection. If you make it a norm to regularly go on a one-day hunger strike once a week, then this will be a good help on the way to healthy image life. Longer fasts of 3, 7, 10, 40 days very effectively remove toxins from the body, heal and rejuvenate it. Of course, long hunger strikes need to be approached gradually.
As soon as a person begins to fast, the process of removing toxins from the body immediately begins. The more he starves, the stronger and stronger the removal of toxins occurs. Therefore, if you suddenly go on a long hunger strike, you can become poisoned by the waste that the body is trying to remove from the cells through blood, urine and sweat outside the body. Fasting requires gradualness. There are a lot of toxins, it is not possible to remove them all at once; regular procedures are needed to remove them.
It is best to start with one-day fasts once a week. For those who have never done this, of course, it will be difficult to endure even one day. To alleviate discomfort, drink more clean water (preferably distilled, but you can simply purify it using filters or spring water).
The day before fasting, it is advisable to exclude meat, fish and dairy products from your diet, and not drink alcohol. It’s even better if the diet is made up of fresh natural products. First of all, your well-being during the day of fasting depends on this. The exit from fasting should also be gradual. You shouldn’t overeat right away, although it’s very difficult to resist. For breakfast you can eat fresh vegetables or fruits. After this, you will want to eat a lot, but you cannot overeat. It is better to suppress your appetite with water, as if you are continuing to fast on the second day. For lunch and dinner you can eat as usual.
The first fasts are the most difficult. Then they will be much easier to tolerate. When you have some experience in one-day fasting, you can increase the duration to one and a half, two and three days (gradually). Three-day fasting can be done once a month. In between there will be several weekly one-dayers. Later, when you feel stronger, you can move on to longer abstinence from food. Each such procedure will make your body healthier and healthier.
I can say about myself that I have been doing weekly one-day fasting since my school years. I didn’t have to fast for a long time; the maximum I could withstand was seven days, but I plan to increase this period in the very near future. I would like to note that the first fast, which I did as a child, was much more difficult than the seven-day fast that I completed recently.
Why is that? First of all, because the first day is always the most difficult, even in a seven-day fast. On this day you really want to eat, and on all subsequent days your appetite gradually disappears. On the eighth day, when it was time to break the fast, I debated for a long time whether to go out or go on another fast. I didn’t feel like eating at all, I felt good, I wasn’t dizzy, I wasn’t tired, there were no signs at all that I had been living without food for seven days, except that I had lost a little weight. But towards lunchtime I ate a couple of apples, and in the evening a few more, plus I enjoyed some honey. This was enough for me, but I still didn’t want to eat it. Therefore, after seven days of fasting, I felt much more comfortable than after one day, when I really wanted to eat.
One more observation. On the second day after a one-day fast, a person becomes tired, his mouth becomes dry, and he feels very unwell. But these signs are present only in the first attempts at fasting. This is due to the active removal of toxins from the body. In the future, this condition goes away, fasting becomes easy. During fasting, at first it is recommended to maintain bed rest, but when you get used to weekly fasting, fasting day will be a normal day for you, on which you do not need to lie in bed, but you can freely go about your normal activities. During the seven-day fast, I went to work every day, met with friends, did my usual things, and did not feel any discomfort. Of course, I didn’t tell anyone that I was starving, only when they treated me to food, I said that today was my fasting day, so I didn’t want to eat anything. I didn’t mention seven days of abstinence from food so that people wouldn’t be horrified and try to dissuade me. Discussing your fasting with people who are far from it is unnecessary.
Now my fasts are calm and easy, which cannot be said about the first attempts at such cleansing. Of course, it was difficult, I was dizzy, there was a state of discomfort and desire There is. Often after fasting I overeated, for which I constantly reproached myself. The fact that now fasting is quite easy, not even noticeable, is primarily due to my commitment to natural nutrition, which does not pollute the body with toxins. Due to the fact that I do not introduce new toxins into the body, during fasting they do not leave the body so actively and do not disturb my comfortable state.
For those who have decided to switch to natural nutrition, I will say that after fasting it is always easier to switch to natural food than on ordinary days. After a one-day fast, you can do another day of a raw diet, which will be an additional plus. I myself, before and after a long fast, spend several days exclusively on a raw diet, so the fast itself goes without complications. Of course, on other days I allow myself to eat something unnatural, but before and after fasting I never do, because this can worsen the condition during the cleansing procedure itself and make it unbearable.
Paul Bragg recommends carrying out long fasts only under the supervision of a person experienced in this matter, but admits that if you do not force things and increase periods of abstinence from food gradually, you can do without any outside help. Thus, our health is in our own hands. We are constantly being told that for good health we need a lot of money for doctors, medicines, clinics, holidays in sanatoriums, etc. But it turns out that money cannot help us at all in matters of health. The method of getting rid of diseases is completely free and requires only a conscious attitude towards health from the person himself and a little willpower (which, by the way, gradually develops in the process of abstaining from food).
Fasting has a healing effect not only on the body, but also on the mind and mental abilities. Consciousness becomes sober, memory improves, an optimistic mood appears, sorrows cease to bother the person, and they are replaced by a joyful good mood.
Cheerfulness and optimism are the basis of happiness, but happiness itself cannot be bought for any money. Happiness acquired with money turns out to be illusory and soon fades or even disappears altogether, causing a person unbearable suffering. Such happiness requires constant replenishment from a person in the form of acquiring new things, delicacy of luxurious dishes, addiction to drugs, permanent shift sexual partners. Happiness based on positive emotions, emitted by healthy nerve cells of a healthy body, never fades, because it comes from within the human soul and does not need external recharge. Such a person is happy himself and selflessly gives happiness to others. But the prerogative of such happiness belongs only to a healthy body, and health, as you understand, cannot be bought with money.
Long-term abstinence from food (up to 40 days) makes a person wise, because it releases all the hidden potential of his body, soul, psyche and allows a person to independently manage these riches. Therefore, great people often resorted to long-term fasting: Christ, Buddha, Moses. Pythagoras required his disciples to fast for forty days before initiating them into the secrets of his teaching. He believed that only forty days of abstinence from food could cleanse and enlighten the mind to such an extent that it would be able to perceive the depths of the teaching about the mysteries of life. The first Christians practiced long-term abstinence from food; they called it fasting. It is a pity that in modern times fasting is interpreted simply as abstaining from meat.
Yes, fasting is not an easy task. It requires patience and willpower from a person. Here is what Paul Bragg writes about this: “Fasting, abstinence, a proper diet are the price for health,” and also: “When you fast from ten to ten days or more, you are on the operating table of Nature. Nature relieves you of everything excess: from mucus, toxins and other foreign substances in your body." So relax and understand what the good health you need to pay something. The difficulties and discomfort that you experience during fasting are just a price to pay for your health. If you refuse to pay this modest "in kind" fee, you will still have to pay for your health sooner or later. Only in this case, the payment will be “monetary” and you will have to pay not to Nature, but to doctors, who are essentially ignorant and for your money will still not be able to provide you with real health. The question is, what is better: to pay a “natural” payment for health “from Nature”, or to pay a “cash” payment for health “from doctors”? Let's take into account the fact that you still need to earn money before you can pay for it in the hospital, and earning money is not an easy task. In addition, in the workplace, in addition to money, we also earn illnesses, which we then have to treat by giving away what we earned. This is the vicious circle from which you can only break out by trusting Nature.
Let's compare two types of medicine: medicinal and natural, and find out which one we would like to give preference to in the future.
1. According to official reports, drug medicine has “achieved great success,” but nevertheless continues to progress, improve, and promises to reach great heights in the future. Natural medicine does not progress, does not improve and does not improve, because it is already perfect, ideal, impeccable and even divine.
2. Doctors treat with medicine, but medicine is poison. Therefore, drug treatment involves infusion into the human body large quantity poison. This poison accumulates over the years, and many other disorders appear that require even more intensive drug intervention. Natural cleansing fasting acts in completely the opposite direction, it removes all poisons from the body, makes the body clean, healthy and able to independently cope with all diseases.
3. Medicines are not cheap. Especially modern ones, which are often beyond our means. to an ordinary person. In case of illness, paying for medicines can eat up all the money a person has accumulated through many years of hard work. The fee for natural cleansing fasting is symbolic. It is expressed in the efforts that we spend to abstain from food. In monetary terms, fasting will not only not take a penny out of your pocket, but on the contrary, it will save money. One day a week you won’t have to spend money on food, that’s the savings.
4. When you go to the hospital, you entrust your health to a complete stranger. Are you sure that he is really a good specialist and will not make a mistake in choosing the right course of treatment? I completely lost confidence in doctors back in childhood, when I got sick... I don’t even know what I got sick with, because every doctor made his own diagnosis and wrote new chapters in my medical record. I was treated at first in my provincial town, but the treatment reached the point where a month later my condition turned out to be critical, and I was sent to the capital’s children’s hospital in Kyiv. There I spent a couple of months under a drip, but this did not help and I was transferred to a cool Kyiv hospital for adults (named after Shalimov). There they finally somehow dealt with the disease and, upon discharge, congratulated me, saying that my disease was incurable and would remain hidden for the rest of my life, and at the end of my life (by the age of 40, is this the end of life? But that’s what the doctors said) I might have cancer liver. Therefore, I was advised to stick to a strict diet for the rest of my life (thank you for that, for once I put you on the right path), not to exercise, not to lift weights, to visit the hospital regularly, to undergo procedures, to take medications (the list of which was simply terrifying) and to come to terms with the idea that that I was a sick person, sick for life (and I was only 14 years old at the time). Not to mention the fact that going to hospitals ruined my parents. The question is, who is to blame? Do you know what the answer is? ME MYSELF! He is guilty of entrusting the most precious thing in his life - health, and entrusting it to someone (?) - amateurs in this matter, who are not able to get rid of even their own illnesses.
In the case of natural medicine, you don’t need to trust your health to anyone. You only need to trust Nature and its fair laws. If you get sick, this is a signal from Nature that your body is unhealthy and full of toxins. Scavengers (infections), whom Nature sent to cleanse your body of garbage, are knocking on your house. Stop eating and fast for a few days, just until you feel better. And then don’t forget to say thank you to Nature for giving you such a simple means of getting rid of internal pollution, and now you won’t have to resort to the services of amateurs in white coats. For those who have even a modicum of sense in their heads, I advise you not to wait for Nature’s signal, but to start cleansing your body in advance. Isn't it wonderful when you can proudly say: “My health is in my hands!”
5. Each medicine has its own side effects. When starting to be treated with medications, a person heals one organ and cripples another, thereby becoming dependent on hospitals, doctors and medications. Natural medicine has no side effects. Although it is worth admitting that one by-effect may still occur. If a person is careless with fasting and immediately begins a long-term cleansing, this will lead to a strong release of toxins from the cells into the blood, which can result in severe poisoning and even death. Remember this! Nothing will happen from a one- or three-day fast, but if you immediately aim for 10 days, the consequences can be disastrous.
Here's my advice. When you fast for one day for the first time, remember the state that will appear on the second. On the second day you will feel unwell, your breath will dry out, you will experience dizziness, body itching and other unpleasant sensations. This condition is due to the fact that waste and toxins have filled your blood and then leave the body along with urine. Remember this feeling! This is a signal that there is too much poison in your body, and you should not risk prolonging the fast.
Fast one day a week until you begin to feel lightness and freedom from discomfort on the second day. This means that the first layer of toxins has left your body, and you can begin to deepen your hunger strike. Now you can fast for two days, on the third you will again feel that toxins have filled your blood. Fast for one day for one week, and two for the second. In this mode, fast until on the third day lightness in the body begins to appear again. Now you will already know that another layer of toxins has safely left your body, and you can begin a three-day fast. Continue to act in this manner in the future, and this will guarantee your success. I also advise you to definitely purchase literature on fasting. She will not only give you the necessary knowledge, but also prepare you mentally. During a long fast, you should periodically re-read this literature to be more confident that you are doing everything correctly.
6. When a person gets sick, he is taken to the hospital. Nobody wants to go there, because this establishment is a real incarnation of hell. Hospital patients feel severe discomfort from their stay there, which aggravates the healing process. There is a high probability of catching some other disease, through an infected syringe, and sometimes just through the air. The bad aura of the hospital, made up of the suffering of thousands of patients who have passed through it, invisibly affects the person who ends up in this institution.
In contrast, cleansing fasting is typically done in the comfort of your home. A person is not locked in four walls with a musty atmosphere that stinks of bleach and medicine. On the contrary, it is recommended to spend more time in the fresh air, go out into nature, bask in the sun. There are no restrictions, the main rule is that during fasting a person must do as he wishes.
7. A person who trusts in medicine grows old early and his old age is terrible, because it is full of diseases and makes him disabled. Such a person dies in agony, he approaches death in a hospital bed under a drip, and death is perceived by him as deliverance from suffering. A person who has trusted Nature and cleansed his body lives to a ripe old age, while maintaining such ideal health, which in our world is found only in newborns. He approaches death philosophically, he feels it approaching and understands that death is just a transition to another, more perfect world, which he rightfully deserves with his harmonious lifestyle.
These two completely opposite types of medicine exist in our time. And every person is given a choice which path to follow. More precisely, the choice exists only for those people who are conscious about their health. The same people who prefer not to think about health are deprived of this choice. Therefore, they are deprived of the right to further blame someone, be it for improper treatment, be it for the high cost of medicines, be it for the injustice of fate, be it for an untimely death. published
What mindfulness is is the topic of this article. By understanding the principle of mindfulness and implementing it in life, you can significantly improve your living conditions.
Mindfulness is the key to all doors. This has already been said more than once. In this article I would like to dwell in more detail on the topic of mindfulness.
From the great teachers of the past such as Jesus, Kabir, Nanak, Buddha, Muhammad to modern teachers such as Karl, Renz, Ethart Tolle, Dalai Lama, Osho, they all taught only one thing - mindfulness.
Everyone called mindfulness in their own way, Jesus called it awakening, so he said more than once, stay awake, be alert, but people did not understand him, they thought being awake meant not sleeping in bed, but they did not understand that even if They are not in bed - this does not mean that they are awake. You can sleep on the go.
Etkhart Tolle called awareness - the presence or power of the moment now.
Osho called awareness - witnessing. Whatever you call it, the essence does not change.
AWARENESS is a person’s ability to be here and now, to feel the world more and not think about it, the ability to see the illusions of the mind and not fall into them. Understand that thoughts are just thoughts and the thoughts in your head have nothing to do with real reality.
Mindfulness is the understanding that thoughts are illusory, and they carry only a shadow of the past or future, and the present
the reality is where the human body is, that is, the real reality surrounds the body here and now.
Mindfulness helps you see your inner world
Thanks to awareness, a person begins to get acquainted with his inner world; before this, only the outer world existed for him; now the inner dimension opens up.
A person who becomes aware becomes less and less reactive. It is more difficult to control him, he no longer reacts to the same stimuli in the same way, he has the opportunity to freely choose how to react to a particular stimulus. Such a person becomes more and more spontaneous and unpredictable.
Let's say, if not conscious person shout, then, depending on his habit, he can either shout back, or, fearing screams, avoid conflicts. An unconscious person always reacts, for example, to shouts in the same way, but a conscious person can choose to shout to him, that is, go into conflict, or avoid conflict, and this depends on the situation. A conscious person increases the effectiveness of communicating with people and increases resistance to stress.
It is important to understand that there are three main aspects of the inner world to be aware of:
- body;
- soul.
Body Awareness
The very initial stage of awareness begins with the body. At this stage, a person learns to feel his body, be able to direct his consciousness into the body, feel how energy flows in the body. Listening skill emerges internal organs, heartbeat.
A person begins to care better and , that is, your body. At first, it is difficult for a person to meditate on the body, thoughts are often carried away, a person constantly jumps from awareness to unconsciousness, and often falls asleep during meditation.
Over time, a new level appears when a person realizes that he is not falling asleep, thoughts still come to his head, but do not carry him away, and consciousness remains in the body more and more often and longer. Then the person begins to direct consciousness into the body already on the street, wherever he is. When communicating with people.
The hardest thing, perhaps, is to be aware of your body, move and talk at the same time.
Thought Awareness
Awareness of thoughts or after them, this is, perhaps, the second level of awareness - this is when a person already sees his thoughts and understands that thoughts are just thoughts and they have nothing to do with reality.
A person can even laugh at the thoughts that come into his head, since he has the understanding that he is not a thought and that thoughts often come from outside, and are not always born in his head.
Life is not as serious as the mind makes it out to be!!!
A person who is aware of his thoughts lives by this principle. Such a person does not get lost in his thoughts, does not follow them, this person is already the master of his mind, and does not allow thoughts to lead him into illusions, but consciously directs his attention to the moment now that surrounds his body.
Soul Awareness
Soul awareness is the third level and can be dealt with only after the first two stages of awareness have been completed.
In fact, all three stages of awareness three parts man - body, mind, and soul are very interconnected and complement each other, and they were separated for better understanding and assimilation of the material.
Awareness of the soul occurs due to the awareness of emotions and feelings, moods; at this stage, a person can clearly distinguish emotions from feelings and be aware of his mood and manage it.
Emotions come after thoughts, no matter what thoughts they are positive or negative.
And feelings come from the soul, not from thoughts. Thoughts can come to mind after feelings, that is, emotions are a consequence of thoughts, and feelings are always their source.
Feelings at a deeper level most often come from the chest. And emotions are felt in the abdominal area, but this should not be taken as truth, each person is different and all this is individual.
It is important to understand that this article about mindfulness is not awareness - it is just a direction towards it, but if you are reading it, then you are closer to awareness or awakening than ever before.
Awareness is directed towards awareness or perception
This is the fourth stage, which already happens to a person on his own, after he has already gone through the three previous stages. At this stage, awareness is directed to perception, the person already asks himself the question, who perceives all this, who am I, at this stage the person remembers Who He Really Is.
All the work of the seeker, down to its smallest details, is done by the Divine. And this seems impossible, since a person must realize something, apply willpower somewhere, form his intention, which must be realized in the future, be aware of various states in himself and make decisions. Or does the Divine still do this too? Then why do we recognize ourselves as an individual who believes that all this is done by her?
Let's take a closer look at how forces influence and control a person. We already know that everything in the Universe is a manifestation of God, who “Became all this.” We, people, are also parts of it, and through us all the necessary processes are manifested for the existence of the reality that it has become. But even this phrase, which talks about the processes necessary for the existence of God, is not correct. For one who is eternal, no processes are necessary. And for the Eternal, neither death nor life matter, because He Himself is not life, but consciousness, originally inherent in the endless ocean of energy of the Absolute. Initially, the energy of the Absolute is neutral, qualityless and structureless. Therefore, for its existence, the eternity of the Divine does not need anything. Reading the words of Sri Aurobindo that “God did not create anything, but He Himself became all this,” one might think that God all became all this. Then He is not eternal, not infinite, not omnipotent and not omniscient. And this can be understood, since in the phrase spoken by Sri Aurobindo there is a beginning, therefore there will be an end. True, no one knows when He became all this. Ancient Vedic knowledge claims that we live in the next day of Brahma, and that there were previously countless of them. Our day of Brahma is only one of the links in the countless chain of reality of the Absolute.
Since we, people, are one of the manifested parts of the eternal and infinite Divine, we cannot be indifferent to this manifested world and ourselves in it. We want to know why God “became all these things.” It can be assumed with a high degree of probability that this manifested world exists for a specific purpose and not at all so that the Infinite and Eternal Divine can look at itself. He "became all this" in order to transfer the conscious substance of eternity to more high level vibrations, which, accordingly, will lead to a change in the level of consciousness of the Absolute, and at the same time to an increase in its capabilities. It may seem that this kind of assumption is heresy, since the Divine is originally omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent. Yes, this is indeed so, but then one might think that he is limited in the possibilities of growth of power and his other manifestations. The power of the Divine should not be understood as the power with which he can resist someone. Nobody opposes him, because he is infinite, and we cannot talk about the presence of anyone else in this infinity. And what religion instills in us about the Devil’s opposition to God is only a human illusion generated by ignorance. The devil is a manifestation of the lower part of the spectrum of the Divine, which has its purpose in the evolution of the consciousness of the Universe.
Thus, the Divine is a self-aware boundless ocean of energy, and our multidimensional universe, in one of the manifested worlds of which we live, is his creative workshop in which he transforms the original conscious energy substance of the Absolute into a substance that has higher vibrations. This does not mean that the substance of the Absolute originally had low vibrations of consciousness and the Divine one day decided to raise them. The substance of the Absolute has its own spectrum of vibrations of consciousness, in which there is that part of it in which there are no vibrations at all, and those of its levels, the frequency of vibrations of which exceeds all imaginable frequencies, and can be perceived by a person as unshakable absolute peace. This again can be compared to the spectrum of sunlight, which has both the lowest part, which can be associated with darkness, and the highest, extending beyond its ultraviolet part.
The capabilities of the conscious substance of the Absolute become completely different when its vibrations increase. And the universe that he created from himself is a manifestation of his conscious will, his sacrifice and one of the stages of his endless ascent. Transforming the lower parts of the spectrum of the substance of the Absolute, he gives it a new state corresponding to a higher perfection, thereby demonstrating new possibilities of his power.
In order to determine the vector of evolution, the Divine divided the previously neutral conscious substance of the Absolute into space and time, and then space itself into many stages, each of which is a relatively isolated plane of consciousness. And each of these plans fulfills its tasks in His endless work, inaccessible to full understanding by the mortal mind. And over the reality of the worlds he placed the ruler of time - the Divine Mother - Mahashakti, whose dynamic energy embraces all facets of the worlds and all forms of life in them, and controls all the processes of the universe.
All manifestations of life on their planes of mind are aware of their reality as the manifested world, while at the same time all other worlds remain transcendental, unmanifested for them. For us, people, only our plane of reality is manifested, while at the same time other planes remain beyond the limits of our perception. Another feature of the reality of a multidimensional Universe is the transparency of its plans, simultaneously occupying the same space. And one more important feature - the planes of higher consciousness (mind) are not available to the inhabitants of lower planes. This is a very important feature, since without it, no evolution of consciousness would be possible.
At the center of the evolutionary process on the earthly plane of reality, the Divine placed man, who reflects in himself the structure of the entire multidimensional universe, which allows the forces of all planes of consciousness to influence man in consonance with him, thereby participating in the general evolutionary process. But, as we have already said, the forces of the lower planes of existence cannot influence those parts of the human being that have higher vibrations, but only those that are in tune with them. And at the same time, the forces belonging to the high planes of reality are able to recognize in a person not only those levels of consciousness that are consonant with them, but also lower ones, characteristic of the dark lower worlds. Why the ratios of lower and higher forces are so unequal in their influence on a person can be understood from the following comparison. Let's imagine high vibrations in the form of a sieve with small cells, and low vibrations in the form of a sieve with large cells. High influences are in the form of small shot, and low influences are in the form of large buckshot. It is obvious that small shot will easily pass through the small cells of a higher sieve, and even more so through large cells, the dimensions of which are such that buckshot can pass through them. And if we imagine that there are such obstacles between the planes of consciousness, then the influences of the highest plane will freely pass through all the obstacles of the lower planes of consciousness. True, the human mind has an unpleasant feature - it is never calm and transparent, it constantly rushes about, and thereby does not let in all the influences coming from above. He could be called the guardian of the manifested earthly plane of reality. This is one of the important reasons why Sri Aurobindo insisted on stopping the mind at the very beginning of the spiritual path, without which the work of the spiritual seeker cannot be done.
You probably noticed that man was placed at the center of the evolutionary process on Earth. It was he who contained the entire universe in miniature with its plans of the mind. Of course, the work of the Divine could not be uncontrollably given to a person who was simultaneously under the influence of many forces, and knew nothing of his true destiny on Earth. In order to be a sincere collaborator of the Divine on the paths of the evolution of consciousness, a person had to know that part of the work that the Divine entrusted to him, and he had to know how to do this work. And, moreover, which is very important, he must agree to devote his entire life without reserve to the service of the Divine. For man this became possible only after the titanic work that Sri Aurobindo did.
As we have already said, many forces manifest themselves in every person - some of them are representatives of the lower worlds, others of the high and bright worlds. They can only manifest themselves to the extent that a person matches them. The peculiarity of the influence of these forces is their secrecy, since human senses are intended only to perceive the reality of the manifested world that surrounds him, and are not at all intended to perceive parallel worlds. Another important feature of these forces is that a person is a source of nutrition for them. These forces require human energy, the frequency of vibrations of which must correspond to their frequency. A person recognizes the influence of these forces in himself as various emotional states, desires and impulses, which he recognizes as belonging to him. And, in addition, these forces are aware of the reality of the manifested human world through its senses, which greatly facilitates their task of controlling man. Through emotional states, desires and impulses, they change relationships not only between individuals, but also between a person and the events occurring in the world.
Man is a universal being and much of what man appropriates never belonged to him. Although in Divine reality there is nothing superfluous and everything has a specific purpose. For example, the ego is necessary for the formation of human individuality, and later, during the period of spiritual work, it becomes necessary for the formation of the “Witness”. Indeed, by being aware of ego reactions and not indulging them, a person rises above his lower nature. Various drives, desires and impulses are also necessary in the formation of a multifaceted human personality, but by being aware of them and not allowing them to control oneself, a person becomes independent of the influences of the reality of the world and gradually rises to higher parts of the spectrum of planes of the mind.
What has been said here may lead a person to think that his interaction with the outside world is not determined by himself, but by all kinds of forces that control him. Of course this is not true. Firstly, a person can be aware of all kinds of states that arise in him under the influence of various forces of other planes of reality. Secondly, he may prefer one influence to another. For example, the influence of a Psychic being may be preferable to him than the influence of some lower force. True, usually a person prefers the influence that is more intense, and therefore the choice that the average person makes is not really a choice. But if a person follows the inner path, then he may prefer the weak influence of his true “I” to the strong influence that some vital entity has on him. And thirdly, a person is given the opportunity to maintain his attention for quite a long time on those objects that are of particular importance on his inner path. And finally, a person, based on what he received life experience and awareness of his true purpose on Earth, can form his own worldview, which will determine not only the true meaning outside world, but also his relationship with him.
But in reality, all the work of a person walking the inner path and the work of an ordinary person attached to the values of the outer world and under the control of the lower nature is done by the Divine. This is truly so, because everything is He. And a person only appropriates what he is not and what does not belong to him. In spiritual practice, as a person rises higher and higher through the levels of the planes of mind, he increasingly realizes that he is only a conductor of the Divine will on Earth. And then he begins to understand the words of Christ, who once said about a person that not even a hair from his head will fall without the will of God.
True, there may be many objectors here, for whom the events taking place in modern world, seem anti-divine. But let us remember that the lower dark planes of consciousness also belong to a single spectrum of consciousness of the Divine, which uses them for its own purposes in the evolution of the consciousness of the Universe.
In the modern world there are two streams of reality. One of them is ascending, in which the true part of a person leads him in the direction of infinite perfection, the other is descending, in which the true part of a person receives the experience necessary for its maturation. When the state of maturity of a person’s true “I” reaches a certain value, the person will change the direction of his movement. And, in addition, everything in a person must manifest itself, without which it cannot be transformed by the Divine Mother.
Currently, literature about the spiritual world is quite popular. person. Awareness- one of the most relevant and discussed topics today. Meanwhile, its exact definition does not exist. Let's try to deal with processes of awareness in the article.
Definitions
According to Vladimir Khoroshin, being is the foundation of human consciousness. The author believes that wise people always looking for meaning in everything. The goal of the aspiring individual is awareness. Khoroshin believes that when a person realizes the knowledge he has received, he can pass it on to others. Knowledge that comes without experience cannot be applied in practice.
According to Anthony de Mello, awareness and awareness are not the same thing. In his reasoning, the author comes to the conclusion that a person who lives consciously cannot commit a crime. In turn, an individual who is only informed about the differences between evil and good, who knows what action is called bad, may well commit it.
From the above information we can say that awareness is:
- Vision of what is happening in the external and internal world. This means simple observation of sensations and thoughts. Awareness is non-judgmental seeing. You cannot say anything about it, you can only enter it and observe everything.
- Direct experience, but not thinking about what is happening. It is neither a thought, nor a feeling, nor feeling. Awareness can be considered something that unites it all.
Key Feature
Awareness is a state that involves action. Thinking is not awareness. It can rather be called reflection, which involves judgment, evaluation, thinking, searching for answers, motives, determining why something happens this way and not otherwise. In this case, the person makes a choice.
With awareness, the situation is somewhat different. No choice is made, since the only correct decision for the individual immediately appears. If there awareness of activity, for example, the questions “how to do?”, “what to do?” do not arise.
If a person does not have the necessary experience of awareness, explain in simple words its content is not allowed. Realization comes like a flash. A person has the ability to deeply see what is happening to him.
Mental level
Pondering, contemplation, or mental awareness allows one to understand something in fragments. An individual may be aware of thoughts but not be aware of actions or feelings.
In such a situation, there is a mismatch between what a person says, feels and does. He can say that he understands something, but at the same time he cannot explain what he feels, what reaction these sensations cause, what actions they imply.
For example, a person understands that during a conflict one should not raise one’s voice, as this will lead to negative consequences. However, when a quarrel arises, he automatically starts shouting. This is the main one. With a complete, non-judgmental vision of what is happening, words, actions, and feelings will be focused on resolving the conflict.
It is important to understand here that thinking, building logical chains and other mental actions cannot lead a person to awareness. Their result is an increase in the volume of knowledge. Developing Awareness involves going beyond awareness and intelligence.
Consistency of external and internal factors
It is considered another important sign of awareness. The consistency of actions, feelings, thoughts leads to the fact that the individual becomes a witness to his own actions, his
At the same time, a person is able to trace the emergence of thoughts, feelings, and actions. He is aware of his behavior patterns and stereotypical responses at all levels - emotional, physical, mental. A person, as if from the outside, observes what is happening in the inner world and can follow the ideas that form in the mind.
Awareness goals
The ability to be aware of what is happening allows you to see the personality in its original state, as it really is. It changes inner world, human understanding. When an individual observes, he can change what he sees.
We can say that awareness is a kind of “turning inward.” The individual begins to see that he is talking about one thing, but in fact something completely different is happening. Moreover, a person begins to realize that his stereotypes and templates stop working, lose their effectiveness, and do not lead to the desired result.
All this leads to overestimation values. Awareness allows you to change your life without making any additional efforts. The task is one - to learn to observe impartially.
A person actually does not need any philosophical conversations, he does not need to explain whether something is right or wrong, he needs something or he can do without something. Various courses on building confidence, increasing self-esteem, etc. are a waste time. Awareness contributes to the development of the ability to distinguish between what is right and what is wrong.
A person seems to come into contact with reality, while remaining an outside observer. He perceives phenomena detachedly, without mixing with them, without commenting or evaluating them, without even trying to change anything. If a person can observe events in this way, he will see how the process of disintegration takes place within him.
Psychotherapy
As part of this medical direction awareness reflects the patient’s achievement of a complete understanding of his own “I”, his mental life, and relationships with people around him. It contributes to the formation of adequate self-perception. This is achieved by combining with the consciousness material that was previously not recognized by the patient.
In a broad sense, awareness in psychotherapy involves the formation of an adequate understanding of the world around us.
In almost all currently existing psychotherapeutic directions, awareness takes a certain position. But its specific weight and significance, the focusing of ideas about material previously not recognized by the patient, the techniques and methods used to achieve an adequate understanding of what is happening are fully determined by the basic theory.
Basics of psychoanalysis
Questions of awareness of “one’s self” were studied in some detail by S. Freud. Psychoanalysis uses techniques and a special understanding of the functioning of the psyche. A specific approach ensures the choice of therapy and the scheme for its use.
The desired effect is achieved through special technical methods:
- Free association.
- Dream analysis.
- High frequency of sessions.
- Interpretations of defenses and transference, etc.
These techniques allow the patient to become aware of the defense mechanisms activated by his psyche.
The purpose of psychoanalysis is also to determine the nature of traumatic experiences, personal conflicts and liberation from them.
One of the most important skills of a psychoanalyst is his ability to compare the patient’s conscious actions, thoughts, impulses, fantasies, and feelings with their unconscious predecessors.
Cognitive psychotherapy
Understanding, along with listening to the patient, responding, and then returning to listening is considered one of the 4 stages of implementing the technique of expressing the patient’s feelings and thoughts during the therapy process.
The patient always resists awareness in the initial stages. Successful overcoming of this resistance during psychotherapy ends with awareness of the mechanisms of psychological defense.
The key goal of cognitive psychotherapy is to lead the patient to an adequate perception of irrational attitudes (“automatic thoughts”) or the main mechanisms that provoke a discrepancy between perception and its assessment.
The main idea comes down to the fact that a person becomes unhappy not because of the phenomena that occur, but because of how he perceives them. When confronted with an event that provokes problems in different conditions, the patient begins to come to an awareness of how irrational attitudes can change his perception.
Features of psychotherapeutic effects
To describe the phenomenon that provoked the consequences that forced him to consult a specialist, no special conditions would be required if the patient did not confuse the event itself, his perception and assessment.
In subsequent encounters with the phenomenon, the patient learns to change his vision of what is happening. As a result, he develops a strategy of rational, multivariate behavior. The patient's range of options for solving the problem expands.
It should be noted here that turning to a psychotherapist is caused by a problem caused, as a rule, by several irrational attitudes. At the same time, there are certain connections between them (parallel, hierarchical, articulatory, etc.). The main task of the patient and the doctor is precisely to achieve awareness of these connections.
Development of tactics
At the initial stage, the question of the course of action is usually decided together with the patient. One of the main techniques of cognitive psychotherapy is changing the perspective of perceiving an event. This method allows the patient to realize the irrationality of attitudes.
The patient begins to concentrate not on the phenomenon that causes negative emotions in him, but on the process of their occurrence. As therapy progresses, the patient begins to realize the excessive breadth of use of irrational attitudes and their excessive personalization. As a result, he develops the ability to replace them with more flexible and accurate, realistic and adaptive models.
The psychotherapist needs to consistently structure the processes, helping the patient develop several alternative rules that he could use.
Humanistic psychotherapy
Within this movement, the meaning of awareness and its key mechanisms is revealed by concepts of personality, such as those described by Rogers. In his opinion, certain aspects of the experience acquired by an individual in the course of development acquire a character expressed in the awareness of his being and existence. This is what Rogers calls “I-experience.”
In the process of interaction with the surrounding world, especially with its part that is significant for the individual, “I-experience” is gradually transformed into “I-concept”. A person develops a real idea of himself.
Ideal "I"
This is another important link in personality development. The ideal “I” is formed mainly under the influence of values and norms that are imposed on the individual by the environment. They are not always consistent with his personal needs and aspirations, that is, with his actual, real “I”.
As a person becomes aware of these circumstances, he develops a need to receive a positive assessment. Rogers believes that this need is key for all people.
In order to maintain a positive assessment from others, a person resorts to falsifying some of his ideas, perceiving them only by the criteria of value for other people. This attitude hinders the development of psychological maturity. As a result, neurotic behavior begins to form.
Anxiety
It arises due to frustration (dissatisfaction) of the need to receive a positive assessment. will depend on the level of threat to the “I-structure”.
If the defense mechanism is ineffective, the experience will be completely symbolized in awareness. The integrity of the “I-structure,” in turn, is destroyed by anxiety, resulting in a state of disorganization.
Reconstructive psychotherapy
The main methods were developed by domestic specialists Tashlykov, Isurina, Karvasarsky at the Psychoneurological Institute named after. Bekhterev.
Awareness within the framework of this psychotherapeutic direction is usually studied in three aspects: behavioral, emotional and intellectual.
In the latter case, the specialist’s tasks are reduced to bringing the patient to the realization:
- relationships “personality-phenomenon-disease”;
- genetic plan;
- interpersonal level of personality.
Awareness of the relationships between a person, an event and an illness does not have a decisive influence directly on the effectiveness of psychotherapy. It contributes to a greater extent to the formation of sustainable motivation for the patient’s active, conscious participation in the treatment process.
In the emotional sphere, with awareness, the patient begins to understand his feelings. As a result, he can test himself, reveal the problems that bother him, with corresponding experiences. In addition, working with the emotional background helps the patient self-correct their relationships and reactions. He acquires the ability to change the way he experiences and perceives interactions with others.
conclusions
The patient’s ability to correct maladaptive responses and models of his actions, taking into account their role, meaning, and functions in the structure of psychopathological disorders, is the main result of the process of awareness in the behavioral sphere.
When using reconstructive (person-oriented) psychotherapy by Tashlykov, Karvasarsky, Isurina, especially in group forms, it is not only awareness that matters, but also the formation of adequate self-awareness, as well as a significant expansion of its limits.
In almost all currently used psychotherapeutic systems, the process of awareness is given great importance and is given Special attention. With development technical progress, it became possible to introduce video technology into practice. This, in turn, allows us to have a more targeted impact on the process of forming awareness in the patient in different areas. This certainly helps speed up recovery and provides high efficiency psychotherapeutic techniques. However, of course, work is currently underway to improve the techniques of individual and group psychotherapy, and new concepts about personality are being developed.