Obviously (though it became obvious only in the middle of the XXth century due to works of Reich and Lowen) the system of psychosomatic correspondences describes the essence of the person\u2019s chakral system.<\/p>\n
But now I would like to speak about an effect known well to psychologists that refers to inadequacy of perception of one\u2019s body subject to existence of emotional problems. Most probably the reader could have faced this effect when performing a projective test called \u201cself-portrait\u201d. The idea of the test is that the one tested is proposed to draw his self-portrait. The main point is that distortion of body proportions on the portrait, the rate of details in drawing different parts of the body reflect the existence of problems projected onto \u201cdistorted\u201d zones.
\nFor instance, a person who walks after his brains (abides in mental schemes yet is very weak in sensing his emotions and his body) will have his body drawn with less details than his face and head. A person suffering from non-concurrence of chakral needs will depict himself as the one consisting of several conditionally-linked parts, and so on. You can find more details about the test in the Internet or in my guidelines on \u201cChakral Psycho-Diagnostics\u201d.<\/p>\n
However there is another effect that is less known. Let us say, we have proposed a person to close his eyes and we simultaneously touch two parts of his body suggesting that he should evaluate the distance between the points of contact. For instance, they often use the trick of touching with fingers that are open wide evenly, so that the real distances between the two points of contact are the same. And the person is asked to correlate his subjective perceptions of these distances. Or one can also draw different figures on another person\u2019s body so that the latter characterizes them. As practice shows, the less a person is subject to neurosis the more precise he is in estimating the distances and characterizing figures. That is, actually, he has a more adequate perception of himself \u201cfrom inside\u201d. In scope of proper working with such technique one can show that distortions in self-sentiment don\u2019t occur in every place but exactly in the projective zones associated with problematic experiences or, if we say it in the language of people with extrasensory skills, in breached chakras.<\/p>\n
The same way, a person with distorted inner self-sentiment is not quite exact in appraising the character of his performed movement (of course here we mean some complicated and \u201cunnatural\u201d movements). For instance, one may think that his dancing pas is graceful, but to onlookers it will appear clumsy, awkward and jerky. Moreover, if you make even simple movements, for instance, hip circles, and film them with your camera you will easily see that jerks and awkward moments occur approximately in all the same zones. These are the zones that one has difficulties in concentrating one\u2019s attention at. The research studies that involve spirograph have also shown that the same very problem is observed in breathing. A person who makes rhythmic yoga breathing may feel \u201cfrom inside\u201d that his breathing is smooth, yet the spirograph will evidence the jerking steps of single type (in different breathing cycles) that occur while \u201cbreathing through\u201d the problematic chakras.<\/p>\n
Another important observation is that most people are not able to actualize on their own the distortion of their self-sentiment. This becomes possible subject to applying the procedures described above. This can be simply confirmed just by the fact that most people are not able to tell on their own (without a mirror) whether they sit with their spine straight or whether they stoop in some of its segment. This is all caused by the person\u2019s identity with his somatic and emotional shell, his being resolved in habitual states. They are usually rather bad distortions that are noticed, the ones correlated to psychosomatic pains, like the dragging pain in the chest, clenched fists or quivering lips, etc. However with help of particular techniques one can work out the skill of actualizing such king of \u201cetheric\u201d self-sentiment when the presence of emotional problem is sensed \u201cby the body\u201d in the bud. And of course it makes sense only subject to having an efficient system of methods for resolution of such problems.<\/p>\n
Yet coming back to the subject of chitta <\/i>and vritti<\/i> we can say that such \u201cpsychosomatic image\u201d of the self sensed from inside comes as the most obvious manifestation of chitta<\/i>, while the distortion of this image is the vritti<\/i>. I\u2019ve made a provision that it is \u201cthe most obvious\u201d because I think that there are also other aspects of inner self-sentiment no longer related to physical body.<\/p>\n
While reflecting upon this article I went to see the exhibition of primeval psychedelic art held in Paris and I saw a number of samples showing visualization of distorted self-sentiment induced by psychedelic substances (or, probably, they became visible under their effect).<\/p>\n
However this wasn\u2019t quite the end of my adventures. The modern art exhibition has added some \u201cvrittious\u201d images.<\/p>\n Following the logic I should have inserted this article after those dedicated to vritti and nirodha, but since it has occurred now I shall break the linear succession in developing the ideas and place it here. There\u2019s nothing you can do \u2013 thinking and reasoning are non-linear processes, so that when getting deep to the… Continue reading Chitta, Vritti and Psychosomatics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[649,226],"class_list":["post-32534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yoga-sutra-en","tag-vritti-en","tag-hitta","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-BHqIJsRgvYo\/UhXQnyxez2I\/AAAAAAAAAcg\/PMODxoRN1yw\/s400\/blogger-image-1076488197.jpg\")
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