Why practice silence? Personal experience. Boris monosov big book of magical power development of intuition and clairvoyance

Anyone who has begun to learn a skill inner silence encounters the same problem that stems from our rationalistic thinking. We are accustomed to setting a goal, identifying possible courses of action, and then following a clear plan. But to achieve inner silence, a completely different approach is needed, because what should be the action for the cessation of thoughts? It seems that one must think in order not to think. But the very thought of it is already thinking - nothing can be achieved in this way.

In other areas of our lives, the standard approach always works, but not in this case. Based on the foregoing, first of all, you need to give up the desire not to think about anything, to divert your mind from this goal by any means. Any physical action can be used for this. In my opinion and experience, it can be not only meaningless, as some doctrines suggest, but also with a purpose. Moreover, we live in complex world and not everyone has it a large number of time to be wasted.

If you can afford action for the sake of action, I can offer several options. You just need to remember: the more energy-consuming the action, the easier it will be to achieve the goal. All of these techniques are only samples and can be freely changed, the main thing is that the essence remains. You can take any heavy object and carry it a long distance, and then return it back; you can drag matches one by one from one room to another and repeat this several times; you can just saw boards, etc. If you are not interested in this kind of activity, then you can add more meaning to the action. Then this technique ceases to outwardly stand out from the usual routine. You can knit, wash the floor, cook dinner or wash. In general, you can do anything, as long as it does not require too much mental effort, but at the same time requires the subconscious mind to be as busy as possible, in which all evaluating and guiding processes should take place.

Only after mastering these elementary techniques, when the first acquaintance with silence has occurred, can one proceed to the next step, which consists in the ability to achieve the cessation of the internal dialogue without the help of any distracting actions. For example, to be able to do this during meditation with eyes closed sitting or even standing at any convenient time. You probably have a question about the meaning of such actions. However, I can assure you that the sensations that arise at the same time can hardly be compared with anything. After all, the brain falls into an ideal mode of operation for it, and this affects not only its functionality, but also the self-awareness of a person as a whole. In this state, you can experience a real buzz, which is not only pleasant to experience, but generally has a beneficial effect on everything in life, from internal processes to the perception of the world around. The next step is already the pinnacle of mastering inner silence. It must be strived for, but it is extremely difficult to achieve it. I personally envy those who have reached this level and for this I treat them very respectfully, because I know how difficult it is to achieve. This step consists in the constant practice of silence for every minute, every hour and every day without interruption. One can only guess what benefits in life can be obtained through this.

THE POWER OF THE MIND

To truly appreciate the true meaning of the technique of inner silence, one must try to compare our real everyday possibilities with what we could ideally have. It’s even hard for me to believe now, but most people consider their existence to be the crowning achievement of nature’s creation. Moreover, they think so without knowing about the superpowers of a person, that is, an ordinary individual with all his internal problems and shortcomings can be considered the crown of creation. But everything, absolutely all our actions are motivated by an internal program. In addition, all our actions and the smallest flashes of thought do not come from nowhere - they are all nothing more than a reaction to the environment. This means that we, in principle, do not have thinking. But it is precisely this, supposedly, that elevates us above all nature. We think we've made a lot of progress, but then why is half the world starving and will never see this book just because they don't buy books at all because they don't have money? Many, in proof of our origin not from monkeys, cite the example of our technical development, but then it turns out that a few centuries ago there were not people, but monkeys, because the majority of the population of those times did not use devices more complicated than an ax and a hoe. The debate on this topic is only because most people consider such a pedigree shameful. But after all, this is the same as denying the origin of an adult conscious person from an undeveloped and stupid inexperienced child. How can we be considered developed if we have a much greater potential for thinking, but simply do not know how to use it? It is this potential that could serve as proof of a different origin of mankind. Most people can't even imagine what they are capable of. However, there are many examples that speak of the extraordinary possibilities of our consciousness. To do this, you just need to think about some elementary things. Take, for example, simple everyday sleep. You can be anywhere in it, in any environment, but have you ever thought about the fact that all this environment is created in great detail by our brain for shortest time? More brighter example with experiences in a phase when everything, plus everything, also looks completely real. Could you also easily and quickly recreate, at least in your mind, a space with thousands of little things in a split second when you are awake? It's hard to believe, but somewhere in us there are such reserves. In the everyday world, to solve some complex example, we, in the best case, resort to the help of a pen and a piece of paper, but in most cases we just take a calculator, because we are sure that we will not be able to solve this example in our minds. However, I did experiments in phase with the same calculator. For example, he typed numbers on it and multiplied them. As a result, he displayed the result at the usual speed for this device. Surprisingly, under certain conditions, the result is correct, regardless of the complexity. But multiplication is not performed by a real calculator, but by the brain itself. It's just a deceitful way to his resources, because even in the phase I can't solve an overly complicated example in my head. There is another manifestation of the great possibilities of our mind, which is familiar to most people. Since early childhood we are accustomed to the schedule of life and in order to keep up with it, in the morning we must be awakened by an alarm clock so as not to be late for work or study. Now remember how almost every time you wake up a few moments before the clock chimes, unless, of course, you get up at the same time for a long time. It may not be for everyone, but for most it is. We are all always interested in the reason for such accuracy of waking up. Do we really have such internal reserves that can, with an accuracy of a second of real time, wake up at the right moment? These three examples show our true reserves. They are three windows out of hundreds into the manifestation of our resources. They show what to strive for in the future.

Is it not for nothing that we have known the proverb since childhood "silence is golden". Few people fully realize the depth of this ancient proverb. In general, the wisdom of our ancestors is difficult to overestimate. God bless them all!

I I don't pretend to the full knowledge and understanding of this proverb, but this is what I managed to understand about inner silence as a result of quite a long practice.

So, What is the state of inner silence? This is a state of inner peace. State Here and now without a single thought in my head. It is a state of pure contemplation, pure awareness. It is at this moment that you are truly here and now. This is a state when you are not even aware of yourself, but only what is happening around, or rather it will be, not “not aware of yourself”, but realize yourself as one with everything that surrounds you. One and indivisible.

What gives this state. I'm not very strong in theory, but this state is purely practical fills me with an incredibly sharp taste for life. I begin to smell, to see what I have not just seen, to notice various little things around, to feel and hear my body and many, many things. Probably this is what is sung in the wise old song "There is only a moment between the past and the future, it is he who is called - life!".

If anyone reading these lines wants to try to find out what life really is, then I'll give you some recommendations what is the easiest way to achieve this state.

The most important thing is to calm down, you can not even breathe deeply, but simply decide for yourself that you are not in a hurry. You can do this everywhere, sitting down or lying down is not necessary at all. Where you are caught by the desire to live, there you can practice

So calm down

stop internal dialogue

first step focus on vision. We just look around, carefully, consider everything that we see, but in the head at this time, thoughts stop everything, all attention is on the object that you now see. For example, a closet in front of you. We carefully look at it, notice scuffs, roughness, wood texture, color, but do not let the thought “Damn, what an old one, when will I buy a new one” or something else along the same lines. No judgments, only contemplation. When you feel that it is already difficult for you to keep your attention on one subject, we transfer your attention to something else, and so on. No need to puff and try exactly for a minute or two to try to look at one point and not think about anything. No, this is a different practice. Here our task is simply to remove thoughts, and for this we must focus on what surrounds us. I dare to say that, contrary to numerous assurances, thoughts are much easier to remove, not sitting in the lotus position in complete silence with eyes closed, but being in the active phase, with open eyes, you can even walk, run, etc.

So, we turned on our vision and calmly examine the space, we simply remove thoughts, without straining, as soon as they climb, we simply shift our gaze to another object and look at it. And in general, straining is harmful, have you heard about it? Then, after tension, you need to relax, and this is again a waste of time, but let's get back to the topic.

The practice of silence. step two

We connect hearing. Here, my dears, a real surprise awaits you. You could not even imagine how many sounds surround you! Without removing attention from sight, we connect hearing. What begins here, I do not undertake to describe. Listen for yourself. I guarantee you will hear at least five new sounds wherever you are, even in absolute silence, at night, under the covers. When it seems to you that you have already caught all the external sounds, then start listening to what sounds your body makes. You will also discover a lot of interesting things!

The practice of silence. Step Three

Touch. Feel how the clothes touch you, what the butt feels, with which you have not gotten up for a couple of hours, feel the weight and touch of your hair to the body. You have no idea how much you can feel!

The practice of silence. Step four and five

Smell and taste. As a rule, these two senses do not bring me many new sensations, but who knows what trick the universe will play with you, therefore, do not neglect these feelings too.

Thus You pay all your attention to what is happening around you. Thoughts will disappear completely, the mind will simply be shocked by so much information being processed, and ...... you will quickly start thinking again"Wow! That's cool! Class!". Everything, as soon as you thought something, you immediately fell out of this state. But even those few seconds that you spent in this state will open up a lot of new impressions for you, give you the realization that the world is much more beautiful, unusual and diverse than we used to imagine it to be.

There is a lot of nonsense written on the Internet about what inner silence is. They say that it gives strength, fills with energy, and so on, and so on, and so on. I won't lie, I don't feel anything like that, but what the perception of the world is aggravated - this is a fact! Colors are brighter, sounds are clearer, tone is higher and life, in general, is much more interesting!

A This, in my opinion, there is real result t, for the sake of which it is worth something to practice!

Modern people are very much like clockwork toys that run in circles and make certain sounds. The toy stops when its winding mechanism spins, just like a person, having spent all his energy, stops before he has time to understand what has happened. Whether it was his life, or not his, or not life at all. Don't have time to talk about it?

Questions about the meaning of life and its main goals arise in almost everyone, but many people discard them without getting to the bottom. Those who have decided to still get answers to the questions posed are invited to use such a tool as the practice of silence. It is used in many systems of self-improvement of various teachings and religious movements, including yoga, a deep and powerful system of self-knowledge.

Ideally, silence is the absence of both external (speech) and internal dialogues and monologues ( vigorous activity mind). Inner silence becomes achievable only at the fifth step of yoga 1 - pratyahara (distraction of the senses from external objects), which is inaccessible to most people, especially on initial stage. In addition, techniques for stopping the internal dialogue and thoughts are mainly transmitted personally from teacher to student and practiced under the supervision of this mentor, which limits the availability of such practices for a wide range of people. For these reasons, this article will discuss how to approach pratyahara and how to prepare for working with the mind. As you know: "the student is ready, the teacher is ready."

When practicing silence, you should not talk to anyone, even to yourself, without voicing thoughts aloud and without commenting on your actions (with prolonged silence, such desires may arise).

It is also useful to limit yourself in communication via the Internet, SMS and other communication means. The idea is that by remaining silent in speech but communicating in other ways, we receive the same energies, experience emotions, and experience various distractions of the mind. The result of such silence, of course, will tend to zero.

Try to stay away from modern technologies turning off all electronic equipment and gadgets. Exclusion from the usual daily activities of reading news on social networks, playing games on a computer or phone, watching films, even educational and educational ones, helps the mind stop concentrating on the outside world and turn attention inward. Know that the radiation of electronic devices knocks down the natural biorhythms of a person.

Determine the activity in which you will occupy your mind throughout the practice of silence. Make a plan in advance if you decide to practice silence for more than one day, trying to stick to it later. Even if you practice for several hours, then just as clearly decide what you will do.

If you cannot practice alone, explain to your family in advance what you will be doing, and during silence, try to minimize interaction with them through gestures. Avoid contact with pets. The practice of silence is the time to work on yourself and with your mind, and any object emotional or distracting, launches automatic programs responses to the situation formed by your mind. In addition, be prepared for the fact that your mind itself may begin to provoke your family to show attention to you, watch this.

Given that all people are very different, the practice of silence for one person can be very different from the practice for another. For someone, being silent for half an hour is already an austerity (there are people who talk so much that they continue to broadcast in their sleep), while someone spends almost the whole day in silence, without feeling any discomfort. Therefore, the description of the practice given in the article is an average option available to everyone. The degree of load should be adjusted depending on the individual characteristics of the individual, observing the rule of asceticism: discomfort is necessary, but it is not brought to the extreme limit of a person’s endurance. Great overstrain due to excessive efforts in the first experiences of the practitioner can lead to a blurring of awareness and a sense of the effect obtained from the practice of silence. At first, the changes are very subtle and barely perceptible, be careful and go the middle way.

Having decided to practice silence, determine your capabilities by the duration in time and the frequency of repetitions of this austerity. Practicing even once a week gives good results, provided it is regular. Mahatma Gandhi practiced daytime silence once a week.

Below are some options for practicing the mind for a few hours a day.

1. Analysis the past day (week). You can consider questions such as:

• what tasks and goals did you manage to achieve, and which did not, what was the reason for this?
• was there harmony and consistency between your actions and the inner world, what contradictions arose?
• what emotions did you experience in this or that situation, how much were you involved in emotional activity and lost your awareness?

This difficult task for beginners, because attachments to emotions are too strong, porridge in the mind, it is impossible to understand what is good and what is bad, to separate own desires acquired and imposed on us by society. All this makes practice very difficult.

Leave ten percent of the time at the end of the practice to be in a state of mind relaxation, try not to think about anything, contemplate the flow of thoughts in the mind without getting involved and not concentrating on anything in particular.

2. Reading educational or spiritual literature- the most accessible and effective method for beginners. If possible, try to analyze and comprehend what you read. If you practice for two hours, allocate the time so that one hour is spent reading, forty minutes are used for reflection, and the remaining twenty minutes are devoted to keeping the mind in silence. If literature is difficult to perceive and understand, then read for an hour and a half, for the last half hour your mind will be silent, contemplate the sluggish stream of thoughts. This will replace for you a state of complete silence of the mind, which is unattainable at the initial stage.

Why is it good to read? You teach your mind to work, directing it where you decide, uploading into it the information that you consider correct and necessary for your development, excluding the “information garbage” imposed by society, you change the firmware of your mind. This will become the foundation for your further development. Either you lay it yourself, or someone does it for you, there are no other options. Reading develops the imagination, which prepares you for the practice of visualization, promotes concentrated work of the mind. Try, after reading one scripture completely, repeatedly re-read it, each time comprehending what you read, the results of comprehension will be very different (in most cases). Thanks to this, you will be able to more successfully carry out the previous practice, by understanding your actions.

3. You can practice concentration on the breath. Watch the inhalation and exhalation, but do not control the breath. Then you can try to stretch the inhalations and exhalations to acceptable discomfort, keeping the concentration not only on the breath, but also controlling the length of the inhalation and exhalation. With these practices, the mind often slips away, you must try to follow it and return to concentration.

Before practice, it is advisable to perform physical exercises, hatha yoga asanas or articular gymnastics are best suited. This will relieve muscle tension and help you to be more relaxed in silence. try most time to spend in sitting postures for meditation, they will help you achieve best results for a shorter period.

Silence all day long is the first step in a long practice and can have a very tangible effect.

Possible practice plan for the day:

• 5:00 am wake up, morning routine;
• 5:30 pranayama practice or simple concentration on the breath;
• 7:00 practice of hatha yoga asanas;
• 9:00 breakfast;
• 10:00 walk alone in the park or forest;
• 11:30 reading developmental or spiritual literature;
• 12:30 reading comprehension;
• 13:00 rest, but not sleep;
• 13:30 practice of hatha yoga asanas;
• 15:00 concentration on breathing;
• 16:00 lunch;
• 17:00 walk alone in the park or forest;
• 18:30 reading developmental or spiritual literature;
• 20:00 reading comprehension;
• 20:30 preparation for bed;
• 21:00 sleep.

Of course it is perfect option, implying the possibility of complete privacy and the availability of free time for the whole day. The described plan can and should be changed, adjusting it for yourself. If you do not practice yoga and adhere to some other system of self-development, are a follower of some religious teaching or an atheist at all, draw up your own action plan based on the methods of self-development and ways to control mental activity that are in your arsenal. Your day should be completely occupied so that the mind cannot find a loophole and make you leave the practice earlier than you planned. A bored mind will start tossing you a bunch different ideas on the topic of what is interesting to do right now, and distract you from practice, starting with the offer to arrange an unplanned snack and going to global options, such as going to visit.

It is also very good to conduct cleansing practices on the days of silence. In yoga they are called shatkarmas. If you are just starting to master them, then on the day of mauna (silence) the determination to start them will be added.

It is advisable to practice the Day of Silence regularly, start with once a month and then try to practice one or more times a week. The effect of the practice is enhanced if you spend this day in nature, outside the city. Admiring the beauty of the nature around you, do not forget about the action plan drawn up. Use contemplation as another method of working with the mind.

The practice of silence can intensify austerity on the days of Uposatha, Ekadashi and other fasts. This will help to keep the concentration on the austerities performed and deeply understand their meaning.

Staying silent for more than one day can already be called the practice of seclusion or retreat. To plan for several days, you can use the one-day chart above. The effect of such practice is much higher, and the process itself is much more interesting and varied (you climb into the deeper layers of your consciousness). Those who decide to try the practice of long silence, but doubt their firmness, should try a group form of staying in mauna, for example, vipassana. The general energy of the practitioners will add strength and self-confidence to you, which will help you to hold out until the end of the penance. Such practices are conducted by experienced teachers, they give special techniques and can help you in many ways, explain or suggest something. Try at least once such a practice (long silence), it can give a serious impetus to the path of self-development.

What ultimately gives a person silence, how to apply it in life? Logical question. Without understanding the meaning of such austerity, the practice will become uninteresting and even impossible.

Oddly enough, silence enhances speech. Note that many developed and well-known (adequate) people are laconic. Powerful speech brings great benefits and saves a lot of energy. People will begin to understand you from the very first phrase, so it won’t take thirty minutes to explain or prove something to someone. The energy accumulated in the Vishuddha chakra due to silence will help you easily and clearly express your thoughts and convey their meaning to the person or group you are speaking to. This energy is produced through your mental work during the practice. Due to the increase in energy in the Vishuddha chakra and the overall energy, the ability to push through (change) reality for oneself may appear. Do not be afraid of such a phenomenon, but be sure to be careful. Always remember the law of karma and, when using these opportunities, check your actions for compliance with high moral and ethical standards (for yogis, these are the prescriptions of YAMA and NIYAMA), try to bring good to all living beings.

Silence will help reveal the nature of your desires. With regular practice, you will be able to distinguish between what has been imposed on you and what is not your true desire. Also, those desires that you forgot about, but they left some kind of imprint on your personality, will begin to surface on the surface of the mind. Gradually you will be able to work with them.

Outer silence sooner or later leads to inner silence. Mind control is one of the main tasks of yogis. At first the mind will be very restless and will do whatever it pleases, but over time you will either befriend him and convince him to do something that will be useful to both of you, or submit him to your will.

The regular practice of silence makes it possible to live more consciously and meaningfully, and this allows us to take control of our emotions. After silence, the effect of inner silence remains, you observe the people around you and the events taking place with a certain degree of detachment, without emotional involvement. It happens that after silence this effect is absent, on the contrary, you start chatting without interruption, fussing. Perhaps the energy accumulated from practice (tapas) was not transformed, and your passions (habits) absorbed it. Or you made excessive efforts to complete the practice and wasted energy on the process itself, without getting "energy surplus" in the end. Do not get attached to the fruits of the practice, both positive and negative, always remember your main (highest) goal in life, which everyone has their own. The fruits of practice are just one of the beads on your rosary of self-development. We do not practice for the sake of moving the links, they only help us reach the goal.

At the beginning of the journey, practice is separated from Everyday life, the contrast of sensations in practice and in ordinary life. Realizing the difference between “how it can be” and “how it really is” motivates you to continue regular practice. Gradually, the boundaries begin to blur, and the practice naturally flows into your life, becoming an integral part of it. You stop just talking about nothing, gossip, ask stupid questions, start analyzing what you are going to say out loud. You will be able to hear destructive noise human civilization and deeply feel the harmony of the whisper sounds of nature, the cosmos, the entire universe, when you yourself learn to be silent.

Remember, silence is sometimes the best answer to a question.

Dalai Lama

Probably, someone may disagree with what was said in the article, operating on the fact that there are too many tricks for the mind in the methods of silence practice and this will not lead to peace and quiet in the mind. To some extent he will be right, because modern man who does not yet know what his own mind is, most likely it will not be possible to tame or subdue it. It is necessary to make tireless efforts, to study the nature of one's own mind, and to practice regularly.

In defense of the practice of silence, I will quote one of the teachings of the Buddha:

The jug is filled gradually, drop by drop.

Be patient and start small.

Practice, try different methods and ways of self-knowledge, and noticing the result of some specific practices, try to go deeper and unleash their potential. I wish you all success on the path of self-improvement and development.

If you have the intention to test in your experience the effect of the practice of silence on inner world we invite you to attend the seminar

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The practice of silence

The practice of silence is a careful study and acceptance of one's state during the time of rest specially allotted for this. In the practice of silence, we allow ourselves to rest, recover.

Practice allows you to temporarily ease the internal emotional tension and free yourself from the tyranny of shoulds - cyclical thoughts that reflect our expectations in relation to ourselves, the people around us and the world as a whole.

“Genuine silence is something extremely intense, it has a “thickness”, density, it is real, it is truly alive.<...>

If we want to watch how birds wake up and come to life in a forest or in a field, we must, firstly, get up before them; we must be in a state of alert, alert attention, completely shaking off sleep before the first bird awakens and even before the birds know it is morning. Then you need to go into the field or into the forest and settle down there completely motionless, completely quiet - and at the same time without tension, so that no rustle will frighten the creatures that are sensitively sleeping around, otherwise they will scatter or scatter to where we cannot hear them. , nor see. Birdwatching implies, on the one hand, immobility, peace and quiet, and at the same time the utmost sensitivity, because if you sit in the field, filling up your dreams short night, then all the birds will fly away before you realize that the sun is baking your back. It is absolutely necessary to combine this intense sensitivity with immobility and the absence of tension; this is the contemplative preparation for contemplative silence. It is a very difficult balance between, on the one hand, vigilance, which allows us to respond to everything that comes across, a completely open mind, free from all prejudice and expectation, and, on the other hand, an unmoving stillness, which allows us to respond to what we meet, without projecting a reflection of our own presence onto it, which would be destructive."

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The health management system (HMS) is a scientifically based cognitive technology for restoring health and the ability for creative self-realization in all spheres of life - physical, mental, social, economic, spiritual.

KMS is based on the work of authoritative, outstanding Russian scientists: physiologist, founder of the physiological school, anthropologist, psychologist, founder of brain sciences Ivan Mikhailovich Sechenov, physiologist, psychologist, creator of the science of higher nervous activity, Laureate Nobel Prize in the field of medicine and physiology Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, physiologist, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, academician of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, Lenin Prize Laureate Petr Kuzmich Anokhin, physiologist, academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Konstantin Viktorovich Sudakov, as well as modern researchers in neurophysiology, biology and quantum physics.

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Married, father of four children, lives on about. Koh Phangan in Thailand. For more than 20 years he has been studying the possibilities of health management. He took part in the development of medical nanotechnologies, cellular technologies, led innovative research at the Central Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of Railways of the Russian Federation and the First Moscow State Medical University. THEM. Sechenov.

Member of the Expert Board and mentor of the Skolkovo Foundation
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Feedback from practitioners:

In the process, a sense of abandonment emerged. Feeling of loneliness. Such a strong feeling that once upon a time someone inside me is forgotten and abandoned. And as if this feeling is phoning and determines my state in everyday life.
There were tears, then a sob. Then just pain from suffering in the chest area. This state calls for attention. My facial expression in everyday life expresses it.
It feels like a deep resentment towards my mother somewhere a long time ago, and since then loneliness and lack of parental warmth. Which can never be replenished. I want to heal, live and let it go.

Kokovkina Oksana

Now I’m sharing it, it’s still a little scary, I’m afraid to lose it, I’m apparently clinging. I'll start with a big and conscious thank you to all of you (this does not mean that other thanks are not sincere), but this one is special :)
It seems that the quantity begins to turn into quality, somewhere from the middle to the end of January I do pm almost every day, if I succeed several times, they of course are different in strength or depth, sometimes out of a whole hour there is only 1 minute "real", and sometimes not one, it’s interesting that when I just started in the summer and didn’t do it regularly, the pms were almost always very bright, as if they were luring me with candy :)
Yesterday, in the evening joint PM with Zhanna, something came out with tears of joy and acceptance, hatred came out, which I was very afraid of and could not accept, or love entered. Now I wrote this and somehow it became funny, because of this one sentence, a whole post, or rather two, see the previous post :)
But it really was small miracle Well, that's exactly how I felt. And when I listened to Gulnaz's webinars, which were very responsive, struck me with openness, I understood and heard her words - if others could and I can, and how it all came out of her later, but still it sounded like something very, very far away, And now I think I know how it is!

Julia Baer-Bader

Morning PM always puts a smile on my face. I feel so light and comfortable afterwards. I feel a surge of strength, energy, a desire to be active and productive. The desire to move mountains. I sit at work and smile. The weather outside is pleasing. I love those moments of simple joy. All bright day.

Dmitry Shamenkov

Friends, during the week I did two morning 6-hour practices. I have already written about the first and its gifts. I want to write about the second since yesterday. The purpose of this report for me is not only to draw attention to the possibility of participating in a free regular group PM, but also to integrate, realize the experience gained. Danka and I took the car for repairs, and I conducted the practice from the Toyota service center on Koh Samui. Not the best and quietest place. But my practice did not suffer from this in any way, but only benefited. Within an hour, I learned to see and accept technogenic cyclic noises, and, lo and behold, I first saw the noise of a TV broadcasting an artificial record of a fake past woven from casts of real experiences, and then I realized that the cyclic programs of my mind, images born in the PM extremely similar to the automatic playback of the TV! Against this background, technogenic noises from the actual present, produced by the junction of man and machine, seemed to me the music of Nature!) I haven’t watched TV for a VERY long time, and even more so I haven’t meditated with it))... And then such a magical opportunity presented itself! Such a magical experience!

I have been practicing for two years, when I practiced by myself, there were different moments, sometimes regularly, then I flew out for a couple of months, the need for practice again came, returned. But only with the advent of collective practices I was able to track and understand what was happening to me. There's been a breakthrough! Trips to doctors for all the time (13 years) did not give any result, they were prescriptions for medicines according to templates that did not help at all, and it does not matter whether you were with a professor or with an ordinary doctor. None of them wanted to figure it out, with a habitual gesture, money for a visit was whisked away into a desk drawer, you were given a prescription with a bunch of medicines for all occasions that did not help at all. When my card became the thickness of two volumes of "War and Peace", thoughts of damage and evil eye also not confirmed, I thought, is it time to stop. I began to search, understand, read, and ended up in the CPS.
PM is always different, but for me it is the most important tool for healing. Sometimes it is a rest, sometimes tears of purification from those events that pop up in memory, sometimes without any experiences and emotions, just silence. Before starting, I do not say any goals, just close my eyes and direct my attention to the center of the chest, then slowly the work in the body begins. With the advent of collective practices, I understood more and more what was happening to me. My work is connected with sitting at the computer for a very long time, and I was sitting, to put it mildly, not correctly. And in practice, everything began to unwind. They began to show me the places of clamps and blocks. I realized that I can’t lower my left shoulder, it is always raised up and as soon as it tries to lower it, it pulls it up on an elastic band, the neck muscles on the left are tense and tightened and this goes to the sternum, the diaphragm is clamped on the left side. In the evening practice with Tatyana Samo to the music, in general, there were amazing sensations. Three hours before the practice, I felt strong pain in the neck in those places with which work began in the evening in the practice itself. There was a feeling that every centimeter of the neck was worked very gently, deeply and slowly, the vertebrae were stretched, the pinched parts were released, the sensations even transferred to the shoulders and shoulder blades, there was an inner lightness and calmness as if you were in reliable, skillful, caring hands. I could probably sit for another hour or more, it was so healing ...
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Natalia Garipova

on Saturday at 10 am I had the experience of silence in the same room with my daughter 3.9 years old :) Before that, she and her eldest daughter usually played in one room, and I was silent in another. And here we were left without the eldest, and it was useless to leave for some rooms - anyway, my daughter would come to me :) Of course, Sofia tried to climb on my neck as soon as I sat down and closed my eyes :) agreed that I fulfilled her desire, fed me breakfast, and now I ask you to fulfill my request - do not climb on me while I am silent :) And we succeeded! :)) She drew, played role-playing games with drawings and toys, I even tried to speak in a whisper :)) I am very glad that I again went beyond my ideas about reality :) And just now, after listening to Zhenya Shchepin’s webinar with her, my girl is sitting on the couch, opened the first book she came across and began to imitate reading. At first I didn't pay attention until I heard the words:
".... the practice of silence, mommy, I love you, shut up, mommy, please, I'm not distracting you, I'm not climbing on your neck, please study mommy" - and all this in a gentle sweet voice ... I laughed out loud :))) )) and from tenderness, and from her creativity, and from the joy that children absorb the way of life and vocabulary in which they grow up - and reproduce :))

I just finished my first practice as a co-host. Very strong feelings now in the moment. The most powerful thing is a huge gratitude. Thanks to everything and everyone. Feeling now strong love. This love is for me and from me. This is a mutual energy exchange with life. And now I feel it so strongly that I cry. There is tension in the body, my hands are shaking, but this is all from the fact that I allowed this to be everything, allowed myself to be, live, breathe the way I am now. And it comes out thus my past. The past, which is so pressing, often controls my emotions, my behavior, my reactions, the past, which is no longer there. And there is real. And this present is so beautiful that I feel awe now, delight from the perfection of this moment, reverence that everything is now like this with me and with me. That everything is perfect.
I felt grateful to myself, and this is a lot for me, because. usually, I thank everyone, but not myself, not wanting to see my results, habitually sliding into pain, into my unworthiness, into my wounded part, which takes my vitality, tearing me away from the present, disconnecting me from my real goal, not allowing me to be healthy, to see life as real, and not in illusions of distortion and self-flagellation.
I saw myself from the outside, how much I had already done for my healing. What a path has already been traveled and tears rolled down my cheeks ... And at that moment, music began to play on the radio, to which I once, very long ago, 23 years ago, lived a very strong process in one training. Then he turned my life around, changed the vector to health. And now I hear it again. And I saw all this way from that point, when I was sitting in the hall and crying, seeing the real myself for the first time, without constant self-destruction, throwing off the false image of myself, connecting with myself, and now. And this melody is like the closure of some system quantum. Here's where I've been, what I've been, and the moment is now. And in this moment - all the harmony of life, all the love of the Universe, all the perfection of the Idea. Admiration and joy that there is so much love around me ...
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Irina Tron

Today, during a joint PM, I lost sound, I opened my eyes and saw that I was thrown out of the webinar room. I entered again, turned on the PM and felt offended. It's strange, I can't be offended by a bad connection, although I understand that nothing just happens. This has never happened before Lately- often, yesterday at the evening PM it was thrown out and now too. I listened to my feeling - what the offense could be connected with. The phrase came to mind - I'm doing everything right. Remembered my own big disappointment and a grudge 13 years ago related to my son, when I did everything right, and the result turned out contrary to common sense. I realized that this is not it, those feelings are no longer relevant for me, I have already worked through this many times. What is relevant? I thought - this is my financial situation now, after retirement. Yes, it hurts. Not the worst option, but there is a resentment that I deserve more, because I did everything right. I recalled Mitya's post “Live by the rules or by the concepts”, which made a huge impression on me with the power of sincerity, and that. how everything that happens to us turns out to be unpredictably right in the end. A person acts “incorrectly”, reaches some kind of low point (a huge energy potential for growth) and takes off. And I did everything “correctly”, got a “wrong” result, realized that the world does not work the way we were taught, that it is right not to change the world, but to change myself, and I began to continue to live according to the new rules, i.e. again correctly. And I am happy with the changes that have taken place in me over these 13 years, and the world around is changing, but somehow very slowly. Or maybe, in order to "fly up" you need to do something not according to the rules? From this thought, a strong unusual feeling arose in me, it is difficult for me to describe it in words. This is both protest and indignation and rejection. Moreover, the thought of a wrong deed was without intention, as if for fun. And the feeling is strong. I thought, it's good that I'm in practice now and I can live this feeling. And I realized that I did not need to do wrong things, all I needed now was to discover this feeling in myself and live it. And this happened thanks to a strange chain of nothing significant event(thrown out of the room), feelings of resentment, thoughts that arose incoherently. I noticed how I thought them out a little, trying to catch the connection and the logic I was used to. But I didn't get lost in thought. I realized that I was in practice, I noticed when a thought arises, when a feeling appears, and how it is all interconnected. Even thoughts in themselves are not important, the chain is important, how one gives rise to another. It was a new experience for me. Finished the practice with a sense of satisfaction and lightness in the body. I was thrown out of the webinar room again, but it didn't matter anymore))
It was hard in practice. I experienced tons of obligations: a mountain of dishes, a mess in the house (to put it mildly), we agreed with the girls to make a landing page, with Natasha and Sveta to decipher the video, Guzeli promised to record webinars from the screen, she and her husband agreed that I would collect important information about our company... everything is interesting! But it's so scary not to cope! So scared that I will receive disapproval .. how uncomfortable it was!

Perhaps, it may seem strange to someone - to write about silence at a time when the world around us insistently requires communication: business, friendly, creative, domestic, after all. Most people are interested in how to communicate more effectively, not how to be more effectively silent. And in vain. For the practice of silence is exactly what can, paradoxically, give our lives a completely different sound.

Silence as a spiritual practice has existed since time immemorial - in the religions of India, in Buddhism, Christianity (smart doing). In its extreme, ascetic form, of course, it has always been the lot of monks - these are vows of silence, and leaving for a long time somewhere in the mountains or in the forest to fast and pray alone.

Of course, what is needed here is not just an external renunciation of speech, but silence of the mind - in India, those who were able to do this are called "munis", that is, "those who have reached the state of inner silence", perfect yogis. It is believed that conversations, especially unnecessary ones, take up a lot of energy that could be used in more lofty goals- for example, for contemplation, meditation, merging with being. The more words, the more unstable and chaotic the mind (and vice versa), and behind this whirlpool of thoughts we do not really hear either the world around us, or other people, or ourselves.

Only now, by force of will, we cannot stop this mental flow, but to start from the other end - to stop talking for a while - is very possible, even though at first it is not easy.

Silence saves energy, helps to control emotions, leads to inner peace and clarity of mind. Moreover, the silence literally, heals. It helps with neuropsychiatric diseases, hypertension, headaches, vegetovascular dystonia, magically calms the brain and nerves. It is not for nothing that people do not want to talk when they are sick.

So, we can say that silence practice It is a means to achieve a state of true inner silence. Practices that eliminate inner chatter have always been especially loved by yogis. The benefits of silence are talked about in yoga seminars and retreats; in almost all Indian ashrams, if not complete silence, then at least refraining from unnecessary words is one of the conditions for staying on the territory.

However, we are not in India. But everyone has a chance to plunge into silence. For example, you can go to a Vipassana retreat (they are held in many countries, including Russia). There you can keep silent to the fullest, because you will need to remain silent for 10 days in a row. For some, this, alas, is an unaffordable luxury, and one has to be silent, so to speak, without leaving the machine. It's not easy, but it's possible.

To be silent enough in a big city, you need:

1) Stay at home alone- the task itself is not an easy one. What to do with household members who do not always share our interests? And if they do, practice shows that even if two people (meaning beginners) both decide to keep quiet, old habits, as a rule, will still prevail. What can we say about children, especially small ones, - it is clear that it is unrealistic to make them silent all day or at least not contact you with questions. In this regard, a fertile time is summer, when you can send everyone to the country. However, at any time of the year, you can contrive and ask them to go on a visit for the whole day, to relatives, to nature, to a movie cafe ... And then - cheers! The main condition is met.

2) On this day, it is better not to leave the house at all.: you will definitely find yourself in a situation where you will be forced to answer some question - what time is it or how to get somewhere. Worst of all - your own entrance, in which you will certainly run into a neighbor with whom you need to say hello, or with old women on a bench, from whom you will not leave alive if you do not chat.

3) After getting rid of the need to communicate live, the next step is eliminate the possibility of telephone communication- put an answering machine or completely turn off all phones.

4) Do not let any words into your life from outside, that is, all media, the Internet, newspapers, magazines, movies, cartoons, TV and radio.

5) Having protected yourself from the possibility of any human communication, do not forget about animals, which are no less a threat - how, for example, not to communicate with an incredibly cozy ginger cat (you can’t even say “kit-kit”)? And the faithful dog that follows you around everywhere? Most likely, you won’t send them to visit, so you’ll have to be patient ...

6) Exclude virtual communication and correspondence. In principle, today there are a lot of people, especially freelancers, who are sitting at home, communicating exclusively by “soap”, “ICQ”, via SMS, etc. And although, perhaps, they have not uttered a word for the whole day, they do not keep silence at all - they communicate, after all, even if they are written, not spoken words.

7) And finally, when there is no one physically to talk to - don't talk to yourself! A huge number of people speak their thoughts out loud, and this is not at all a sign of insanity, but simply a habit. And you can get rid of it.

8) However the most difficult thing is not to talk about yourself, not to conduct that same notorious “internal dialogue”, that is, to get rid (or at least try to get rid of) of the constant chatter in the head. It happens, at first it seems that it is very easy - just think, be silent for a couple of days! Finally, to drive out all the annoying household members and enjoy the silence is a dream! I don’t feel like talking on the phone or watching TV ... And then ... Thoughts begin to overcome with terrible force- deprived of the opportunity to translate into words, they literally put pressure on the brain, and for the most part, some kind of nonsense gets into the head. Most likely, she was always there, before we simply did not notice her. Here you understand how much there, inside, any "trash". The main thing is not to give up (in this case, not to untie your tongue), continue the practice, and then it will become easier.

And what happens next? Nothing special. A certain detachment just comes, as if transparency - events, phenomena and people seem to pass through us without affecting us. There is an ability to keep your mouth closed and your ears open, to really listen and hear other people, to listen to the world and to yourself.

If you remain silent long enough, then there comes a moment when you no longer feel like talking - but why? And it is already physically difficult - just as difficult as it was at the very beginning to silence yourself.

And then the melody of life becomes heard, so dear and at the same time unfamiliar: although it always accompanied you, it was not possible to hear it before, it was only a background against which events took place. Now you understand that our life is like the surface of the earth - something that we know and measure well. square meters, hundreds or even hectares, has a depth of thousands of kilometers of mystery.

Silence is even better music . It fills you and everything around. You dissolve in it, swim in it, you are a part of it. Silence is a pleasure, at such moments you want to hold your breath and listen to the extraterrestrial music of the silence of the heavenly spheres.