As it was said above, asanas are not an end in itself of yoga, but an instrument of work with one\u2019s psyche. The clue to such work is a system of psychosomatic correspondence, i.e. the projection of psychological problems on certain parts of the body in the form of muscle contractions, strains, in extreme case of diseases in respective organs. However unlike our psyche, our physical body can be seen. Looking at it and analysing certain parameters, we come to conclusion about the general and current psychic state of a person. There is one more aspect: it\u2019s difficult to see and become aware of one\u2019s own psychological problems, because of the \u00abdefensive mechanisms\u00bb \u2014 special psychological obstacles, keeping a person from adequately evaluating his own state. A physical body can always be seen. It can\u2019t be hidden, so looking in the mirror, applying certain schemes, we can conclude about our real psychological state. And vice versa, activating certain parts of our body, working out our muscle contractions, we stimulate respective psychic functions and as a result \u2014 stimulate the development and opening of chakras.<\/p>\n
From the esoteric point of view unconsciousness is a whole of experience that a soul received during all its existence, which influence a person in the form of needs and aspirations. Besides unconsciously we are keeping a pseudoexperience \u2014 memories about some situations, we didn\u2019t pass the right way, which as emotions and attachments continue influencing on our life, actually representing our Carma. Main characters of pseudoexperience are an emotional pomposity and its ability to \u00abhitch up\u00bb people\u2019s attention. Indeed emotional reaction inhere animals, not people, but a layerlike structure of experience results in the fact that, if a person doesn\u2019t have his own experience of behaviour in some situation, he reacts according to his experience from previous levels; i.e. the violent reaction proves that he has no human\u2019s experience in similar situations and that he\u2019s accumulated a pseudoexperience of behaviour in these situations.<\/p>\n
But from all the above said we mustn\u2019t conclude that people should suppress their emotions. On the contrary, suppressed emotions are a typical mistake done by people under the influence of superconscious directives. As a result, emotional energies excreted from the body don\u2019t come out of the aura, are not realized in a reaction, causing discomfort and stress in this situation and in future ones.<\/p>\n
The fact that human consciousness \u00absticks\u00bb in the situations that we didn\u2019t work out, is also explained from the point of view of evolution, representing so to say an instinctive wish to \u00abcome back\u00bb and \u00abreplay\u00bb the situation, to get from it all needed experience, but, if this wish isn\u2019t actualised and is not consciously realised, what this chapter is dedicated to, such touching leads only to energy loss and its blocking in the past.<\/p>\n
At first glance it may seem that the problem of cleansing our sub-conscious appeared with psychoanalysis and has nothing to do with the classical yoga, but to prove the contrary, we can just open \u00abYoga Sutra Patanjali\u00bb and read its first lines.<\/p>\n
\u00abYoga is liberation of Chitta from Vritti.\u00bb<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n What is that \u00abvritti\u00bb, preventing a Seeing person from \u00abcontemplating true images\u00bb? Psychologists perfectly know the effect of distorted perception under the influence of directives, emotional reactions and subconscious complexes. That is why there are enough reasons to claim that the process of \u00abliberation of Chitta from Vritti\u00bb has a lot in common with what nowadays is called \u00abthe cleansing of consciousness\u00bb. <\/span><\/p>\n Before speaking about precise methods of studying the subconsciousness, let\u2019s study the objects we can meet there.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n 1. Non-reacted situations. Non-reacted situations<\/strong> is a memory about situations, feelings and emotions that were not reacted as needed, i.e. for some reasons were suppressed and are hidden in the subconsciousness. In everyone\u2019s life such situations are numerous: starting from parents\u2019 inhibits like \u00abdon\u2019t you dare to laugh\u00bb, \u00abstop crying\u00bb (while a child needs it!), up to tragic life events we preferred to forget. From the energy point of view non-reacted situations can be imagined as some clots of energy, stuck in the inner part of aura.<\/strong> When we relieve the non-reacted situations, we unblock these clots and release the energy, they contained.<\/p>\n Complexes<\/strong> are a form of reacting, realized or not, on an external stimulus (restimulator) well defined in advance. Such a stimulus can be a person, an object or an event. The reason why complexes appear, usually has to do with the existence of non-reacted situations. An object, which becomes a restimulator could be presented or related to such situation; facing it, a person partly remembers some unpleasant experience, related to this situation, energetically comes back to it. It becomes the vice circle: an object provokes again unpleasant feelings, proving even more the negative reaction on it.<\/p>\n Neuroses<\/strong> are a constantly presented psychological trauma, related to contradictions between person\u2019s wishes and his superconscious directives, which he can\u2019t destroy consciously.<\/p>\n The biggest damage from them is that they keep a certain part of our psychical energy \u00abfrozen\u00bb, in addition to that a certain amount of energy is used by our inner censorship to keep these objects in our subconsciousness. Naturally it lower the energy potential of our consciousness. Besides occasional breakthroughs of unconscious complexes to the conscious level cause neuroses, symptomatically becoming apparent on our health.<\/p>\n The contaminated mind is especially dangerous for those, who do spiritual practices, because for such work you must change your worldview, which in its turn destroys our mechanism of censorship. Besides new directives can overlap the old ones, being in our unconsciousness, and cause additional inner conflicts. Without proper knowledge and critical attitude to one\u2019s experience a person risks to get some severe neuroses and even mental disorders. The most common is a situation where unconscious complexes of the practitioner are percept by his consciousness in a form of images and symbols, which he mistakenly interprets as a result of his \u00abentering to astral plane\u00bb (of his Forces, God, opening channels and so on)…<\/p>\n All the said considered, I will emphasize again, that a work over cleansing of the subconsciousness must precede more complicated spiritual practices<\/strong>.<\/p>\n To work out the described physical constrains, we\u2019ll use certain meditations, which are given below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As it was said above, asanas are not an end in itself of yoga, but an instrument of work with one\u2019s psyche. 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\n2. Complexes.
\n3. Neuroses.<\/p>\n