It's been a couple of days since I posted about Igor Ledochowski's ground-breaking program, Beyond Self Hypnosis. Now, if you're anything like me you think psychology is a soft science and any sort of 'mental journey' type of woo-woo-let's-all-wave-our-hands-and-summon-a-delusion ideology is laughably silly.
However, I think it's important to maintain an open mind and try new things despite this, given:
The promised benefit is worth looking silly or wasting a little time.
The program or ideology has concrete steps with observable results that can be measured in one's life.
It doesn't hurt anyone.
Now these aren't strenuous conditions granted, but that sort of fits in with my way of seeing things. Anyway, Igor's promise was, unsurprisingly, complete life transformation. He's apparently beta-tested the program with pretty huge success, and based on what I've experienced so far I'm cautiously optimistic that that might actually be the case.
As of now I'm about two thirds through the audio tapes (basically just a taping of his program). The idea behind the program is that by practicing simplified mindfulness exercises found in Buddhist meditation circles combined with dancing the line between your subconscious and conscious minds you can resolve buried issues that your conscious mind alone might not only be unable to resolve, but totally unaware of.
Mindfulness exercises include breathing up to ten times in a row, focusing on some part of your body that's effected by your breath while you count. Often there's mindful movement, like standing and sitting very, very slowly to create an awareness of your entire body.
This is usually followed by some imagination exercise. You imagine a landscape based on a theme, but you don't imagine it first. Instead you come up with the theme (say, nature) and allow your subconscious mind to surprise you with a scene. Within the scene you follow any movement (anything that's moving) and you sit with anything uncomfortable instead of running. After a while you ask the moving object/person/being for a gift. Then you ask if it wants anything in return.
I was dubious about these exercises and others, but upon experiencing them I have to give his program a glowing recommendation so far. His precepts seem to follow closely with a book that I'm very into, The Master Key System by Charles F. Haanel. This book basically changed my life.
But The Master Key was written 100 years ago. The exercises included are a bit dated, you could argue. Igor's exercises and ideologies are reminiscent of The Master Key's, but they're much easier to follow through with on a regular basis and produce much sharper results in a shorter time.
So, you should definitely check out Igor's program if you're looking to improve you life to an appreciable extent in a permanent way. Pick up The Master Key System while you're at it. It's still a solid book.
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