RU2270037C1 - Method for recovering physical and psychoemotional comfort - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: method involves separately training patient in attention concentration and deconcentration skills. Then, the patient is trained in distributing attention with a part of attention being concentrated on anxiety objects and the other part being focused on bringing discomfort feelings in the body to consciousness. Next, skills are trained to associate the body to a wide spatial volume. Next step involves concurrently concentrating a part of attention on an anxiety object whereas the other part is deconcentrated in the body for making himself conscious of painful feelings and their evolution in simultaneously relaxing all muscle groups and applying acquired skills to associate the body to a wide spatial volume expanded to a size enough for visual image of anxiety source to be enclosed in the volume. While keeping a part of attention being concentrated inside of the body, the patient is stimulated to concentrate the other part of attention on all discomfort feelings amplifying them to maximum achievable level and retaining relaxed muscle state until warmth feeling spreading over the whole body or other comfort and peace feelings appear in combination with stable calm relation to events having caused stress.

EFFECT: wide range of functional applications.

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Description

The invention relates to psychophysiology and can be used to improve the health of people. The invention allows to restore peace of mind, get rid of psychological trauma, correct physical and mental discomfort, manage the psycho-emotional state.

A known method of healing the body by performing special exercises on the Hatha Yoga system with concentration on the organs shown during the performance of a particular posture and exposure to points (see "Yoga and Health: A Practical Guide", Ivanov Yu.M. M ., 1991). Exercises performed according to the Hatha Yoga system are aimed at regulating one or another organ by concentrating on it and / or at the location of the corresponding chakras associated with the work of this organ, the patient's attention. In the course of performing certain exercises, the patient achieves a meditative elimination of physical and psycho-mental discomfort by consciously transforming the energy of his feelings and emotions.

The disadvantage of the method of healing according to the Hatha Yoga system is the complexity and duration of mastering all the techniques. In addition, the doctrine itself includes the need to master a special philosophy to achieve the highest goal of merging with the Spirit of the Universe.

Attention is directly related to perception (see Psychological Dictionary. Rostov-on-Don, 2003, ed. "Phoenix", p.77, article "Perception"). Perception has three main modalities: visual, auditory, and associated with bodily sensations - tactile.

A known method of studying the parameters of concentration and / or attenuation of the patient's visual attention, including registration, analysis and image of bioenergy parameters converted into electrical signals (see patent RU No. 2099007, publ. 12/20/1997). A feature of the known method is the study of bioenergetic parameters of the patient’s conscious and unconscious visual information perceived by both peripheral and central vision.

A known method of restoring physical and psycho-emotional comfort, including recalling a disturbing incident and relieving emotional stress in it, followed by a similar recall and discharge of the entire set of disturbing incidents (see patent RU 2076745, M. Cl. 6: A 61 M 21/00, publ. 04/10/97, "Method of restoring peace of mind"), selected by the applicant as a prototype.

In the known method for relieving emotional stress, the patient is offered to mentally associate the incident with a volume spot. After the patient has presented the spot, they propose to set it in motion, lighten, then lighten the spot mentally associated with the plot image of the same incident. With a decrease in emotional stress at the time of its perception, the procedure is stopped.

The disadvantage of this method is the instability of the result of removing emotional stress due to the fact that the image of the problem, expressed as a spot, is subjected to an arbitrary volitional mental impact during artificial movement and lightening, leading to uncontrolled consequences, in particular, to the return of painful and uncomfortable conditions.

In addition, the mental choice of color and shape and the use of only a visual image of an object may not coincide with the association process that is natural for a given organism, which makes the procedure for restoring peace of mind unsuitable.

As a result, the effectiveness of relieving emotional stress and restoring physical and psycho-emotional comfort is reduced.

The technical result of the present invention is to increase the efficiency, perseverance of the result of removing emotional stress, providing the possibility of self-regulation, self-management for an independent solution of their own physical and psycho-mental problems.

The technical result is achieved by the fact that in the method of restoring physical and psycho-emotional comfort, including the transformation of the energy of stressful conditions by remembering an anxiety incident, subsequent sensory-visual association with the object of anxiety and relieving emotional stress, according to the invention of the patient, they are taught the skills of concentration and deconcentration of attention separately, after this he is taught the distribution of attention, in which the patient concentrates part of the attention on the object of anxiety, and the other Part of the attention is directed to the recognition of discomfort in the body, then they are trained to associate the body with an extended spatial volume, after which the patient simultaneously concentrates part of the attention on the anxiety object, deconcentrates the other part of the attention inside the body to realize all the painful sensations and their evolution while relaxing all muscle groups and applies the previously created skill to associate the body with a spatial volume expanded to a size at which the visual image of the anxiety object is inside this volume, then the patient is encouraged, while maintaining the deconcentration of part of the attention inside the body, to concentrate the other part of the attention on all uncomfortable sensations, while strengthening them to the maximum possible value and maintaining a state of muscle relaxation until a sensation of warmth or other sensations of comfort and peace due to the transformation of the negative etheric energy of the visual image of the object of emotional stress, uncomfortable sensations and experiences of the disease symptom and positive.

In addition, in the method of restoring physical and psycho-emotional comfort, attention concentration skills are taught using central attention and the ability to focus vision on an object when they look at the object with central vision and kinesthetically experience a visual orientational and associative reaction.

Moreover, in the method of restoring physical and psychoemotional comfort, each sensation is compared with a visual analogue associated with it through a mental image.

In addition, in the method of restoring physical and psycho-emotional comfort, attention-building skills are taught using defocused vision and peripheral attention, simultaneously examining two objects, not looking at any of them, but looking between them or around them, or through them.

In addition, in the method of restoring physical and psycho-emotional comfort when teaching a patient the skills of attention deconcentration, peripheral attention is trained by examining the patient with a variety of objects with maximum completeness and without clarity of perception.

The category of “perception” can be explained if we use the psychological categories of “figure-background” (see Psychological Dictionary. Rostov-on-Don, 2003, published by Phoenix, p. 550, article “Figure and Background”). Perception can be organized in such a way that the patient's attention is completely directed to the figure, in this case we can talk about concentration of attention, or it can be organized so that attention is directed to the background - then we can talk about deconcentration of attention or peripheral attention.

Speaking of the visual modality of perception, one can distinguish between central and peripheral vision. Then attention concentration can be understood as a type of perception when emphasis is placed on central vision, and attention deconcentration can be understood as a type of perception when emphasis is placed on peripheral vision.

The same thing happens in a modality associated with bodily sensations. When perceiving, in particular looking at an object, subtle bodily sensations always arise, they are in the whole body. But we can perceive these sensations in different ways. In one case, sensations can be perceived as if we were looking at them with peripheral vision, i.e. noticing subtle sensations in different parts of the body, none of them highlighting more than others. Peripheral vision can be compared with eye movement in the absence of an object of observation, while presenting an absent but familiar object. These movements can take place over a considerable time interval after the presentation of the object and are usually recorded after instructing the observer to imagine one or another object (see the book "Image and Activity", V.P. Zinchenko, M.-V., 1997, pp. .180).

Yu.B. Gippenreiter and A.N. Leontiev, who registered eye movements after tachistoscopic presentation of sets of numbers, consider them to be the external motor expression of some internal process that occurs over time in the visual system (see the book "Image and Activity", V.P. Zinchenko , M.-V., 1997, p. 181).

For the concentration of attention and the ability to influence what is happening in the outside world, the central attention of the individual is responsible.

Sensations can be perceived, highlighting for ourselves some of the most powerful part of them, as if we were looking at it with central vision, concentrating and focusing on them as central objects on objects. A strong concentration on one impression causes insensitivity to all other impressions.

An analysis of the functions of micromotion of the eyes studied by G. Barlow (see the book "Image and Activity", V.P. Zinchenko, M. - V., 1997, p.138), shows that when concentrating, when the subject is invited a new visual task or a new fixation point, an increase in the number of eye micromotion is observed as a necessary component of the visual orientation reaction to a new one.

Two components of a person’s personal strength are associated with concentration and deconcentration of attention. With concentration - will and activity, the ability to consciously transforming actions. Deconcentration of attention is associated with sensitivity and endurance, which give these actions adequacy and accuracy.

The ability to concentrate attention does not develop immediately, it is associated with human intelligence.

The ability to deconcentrate is common to all people and is an ancient property of man.

The ability to transform the negative etheric energy of stressful conditions of a patient is interconnected with the skills of concentration and deconcentration of his attention.

Attention concentration skills are taught using central attention and the ability to focus vision on an object when they look at the object with central vision and kinesthetically feel a visual orientational and associative reaction. Each sensation can be associated with an image associated with it, for example, a color spot. Despite the fact that the process of such a comparison is always subjective, the image obtained in this way, called the visual analogue of sensation, allows you to visualize uncomfortable or painful sensations.

The concentration of attention, in addition to focusing the patient’s visual attention on a specific object or object of anxiety, or discomfort, pain in the body, and focusing volitional effort, includes, in the author’s opinion, the period of subsequent observation of visual and associative reactions manifested in the form of mental and physical sensations . In this case, the patient extracts information about sensations and thinks kinesthetically, uses a kinesthetic analyzer (see "The relationship of the sensitivity of the kinesthetic analyzer and human psychomotor", e-mail on the Internet:

www.voppsyl.ru/4y/ISSSUES/1990/902/902132.php(155KB).

The mental images felt by the patient in this case are an effective way of communicating with physiological processes in terms of diagnosis and treatment, since the disease itself is visualized, especially in symbolic images.

To visualize bodily sensations, they suggest that the patient associate his body with the spatial volume, figuratively feel the expansion of the body volume so that the anxiety object is subjectively felt inside the expanded body volume, and hold these sensations for a certain time.

The patient performs deconcentration of attention in the event that it is necessary to increase sensitivity and perceive at the same time everything that happens: shades of mood and the sound of voices of those present, to be aware of all bodily sensations and their evolution over a certain period of time.

Attention deconcentration skills are taught using defocused vision when looking at two objects at the same time, not looking at any of them, but looking between them or around them, or through them. Objects perceived by peripheral attention, the patient sees clearly, but then all at once in maximum completeness.

Mastering the skills of concentration and deconcentration of attention separately allows the patient to associate the physiological processes of the body associated with emotional experiences, discomfort and experience of the symptom of the disease with symbolic images, visualize the disease in symbolic images, transform the negative etheric energy of the visual image of the object of emotional stress, physical or psycho-mental discomfort into positive energy. As a rule, the transformation of negative energy in a patient is associated with the appearance of a sensation of warmth or other sensations of comfort and peace.

Teaching the patient the distribution of attention, in which the patient concentrates part of the attention on the anxiety object, and deconcentrates the other part of attention on the discomfort in the body, allows the patient to figuratively extract information about himself deeply hidden in the subconscious. C. Jung showed that images compensate for the limited possibilities of awareness.

The skill of the distribution of attention between the central and peripheral allows in the future to cope with rather complex problems, including acute and chronic diseases.

Teaching the patient the ability to associate the body with an expanded spatial volume allows using visual images to detect information stored in the memory about the anxiety object or pain.

The concentration of the patient’s attention on the object of anxiety and the deconcentration of the other part of the attention on painful bodily sensations when all muscle groups are relaxed and the association of the body with a spatial volume expanded to a size at which the visual image of the anxiety object is inside this volume provides the possibility of thought-like observation changes that occur with the object of anxiety or with painful bodily sensations and their evolutions. Then peripheral attention helps the patient to catch the instant, most subtle changes, and his concentration of attention is immediately directed towards the changes, supporting them.

The patient’s motivation, when deconcentrating a part of attention inside the body, to concentrate another part of attention on all uncomfortable sensations, at the same time enhancing them to the maximum possible value while relaxing all muscle groups, provides the transformation of emotional tension, uncomfortable feelings and experiences of a disease symptom into a feeling of warmth or other feelings of comfort and peace . In this case, the evolution of sensations occurs: discomfort, as it were, changes its shape in the body, it creates a feeling of discomfort moving in the body in different directions, dissolving it or turning it into pleasant heat or heat.

The experiments conducted in 1998-2004 involved about 500 patients, aged 17 to 60 years, including students, pupils, scientists. We studied the restoration of physical and psycho-emotional comfort both in sick patients and in practically healthy people (control groups).

The inventive method is widely applicable in psychophysiology and can be used to improve people's health. Therefore, the method meets the criterion of "industrial applicability".

Along with the therapeutic effect associated with the prevention of diseases, the use of the proposed method will save significant funds on the purchase of expensive equipment.

The method is as follows.

The student is invited to first master the skills of concentration during the execution of exercises and meditative techniques for concentration, using central attention and focusing on the object. In this case, it is suggested to look at the object with central vision, to focus visual attention and volitional effort on a specific subject or object of anxiety, or uncomfortable, painful sensation in the body. Then they propose to observe visual and associative reactions manifested in the form of thought-like and bodily sensations.

The student is then invited to master the skills of attention deconcentration during the execution of exercises on attention deconcentration. To do this, they offer to defocus the vision and look at two objects simultaneously, looking as though through them. Emphasize on the ability to see peripheral attention as fully as possible.

Then the student is invited to master the skills of attention distribution, concentrating one part on the object of anxiety, and the other part on the uncomfortable sensations in the body.

They teach the skill to associate a body with a spatial volume expanded to a size at which the visual image of the anxiety object is inside this volume. They teach how to concentrate part of attention on the object of anxiety and to deconcentrate another part of attention inside the body while relaxing all muscle groups and associating the body with spatial volume.

Then they concentrate part of the attention on all the uncomfortable sensations, while relaxing the muscles in the area of uncomfortable sensations, which enhances these sensations to the maximum possible value and, with continued relaxation of the muscles in the problem area, as well as throughout the body, transforms the negative etheric energy of emotional tension, uncomfortable sensations and experiences of a symptom of the disease in a feeling of warmth or other sensations of comfort and peace.

Example 1 specific implementation

An example includes meditation practices on concentration, deconcentration of attention, distribution of attention, association of the body with spatial expanded volume, concentration of one part of attention on the object of anxiety and deconcentration of the other part of attention inside the body while relaxing all muscle groups and associating the body with spatial volume, transformation of negative ether energy of emotional stress, uncomfortable sensations and experiences of a symptom of the disease into a feeling of warmth or other sensations of comfort and comfort oops.

Practice of concentration

The practice of performing an attention concentration exercise involves focusing visual attention and volitional effort, for example, on a point in the middle of the chest, for this you need to feel it without touching it with anything other than a “ray” of attention. You should peer at this point, as if from the inside, kinesthetically.

Attention deconcentration practice

The practice of performing an attention deconcentration exercise involves defocusing attention, in which the patient should feel two points in the body at the same time: one point at the level of the throat, the other at the level of the abdomen. If you concentrate on the upper point, the lower one will be lost sight of, and vice versa. If you set yourself the goal of feeling two points at the same time, attention, accustomed to concentration, focus, at first will move from point to point with increasing speed. You can feel them at the same time only by defocusing your attention. With peripheral attention, it is much easier to capture all changes in the environment. It is with peripheral attention that the hunter grasps knowledge of the movements of prey.

The practice of teaching the patient the distribution of attention

The practice of performing an attention distribution exercise includes an exercise to relax the muscles of the body in the area between the two points of the body that the defocused attention is directed to. The relaxation of all muscle groups of the body is carried out until the very end of the work. As they relax, they draw the patient's attention to the sensation of an apparent reduction in the distance between the points of defocused attention and to their perception as a whole.

The patient's attention is drawn to the fact that the more he manages to defocus his attention and relax his muscles, the more he intensifies the feeling of an apparent union of points.

This exercise is aimed at teaching the mental redistribution of energies in the body, including the negative etheric energy of emotional stress, the uncomfortable feelings and experiences of a symptom of the disease, the mental movement of energy from one part of the body to another.

The skill to transfer energy in the body is one of the foundations of the healing practice on which acupuncture is based on, when the acupuncturist encourages the energy in the body to move, balancing the yin and yang energies. The patient, mastering the free transitions from central to peripheral attention, learns to independently interact with his yin and yang energies, because the Yang energy is in the center of attention, and the yin energy in the peripheral.

Meditative practice of teaching the patient the mental transformation of negative etheric energy of emotional stress, uncomfortable feelings and experiences of a pain symptom of a disease into a feeling of warmth or other sensations of comfort and peace

The practice of performing the exercise to transform the negative etheric energy of emotional stress, uncomfortable feelings and experiences of a pain symptom into a feeling of warmth, comfort and peace includes the following work:

- the patient, regardless of the diagnosis, should find a painful symptom in the body, it can be pain or an uncomfortable feeling of heaviness, numbness, itching, etc .;

- concentrate central attention on muscle relaxation in the discomfort zone, then you should mentally feel the painful block and the tendency to move it, help move the sensation, expand it, accompany the sensation with muscle relaxation along its expansion;

- kinesthetically monitor the evolution of a painful sensation: the movement, expansion or contraction of pain, with the possibility of concentrating one's thought-like attention on “pushing” the sensation in the direction of movement, directing peripheral attention to muscle relaxation along the movement of the sensation;

- track the sensations that accompany the completion of the energy transformation: moving the pain through the body, turning it into heat or cool, figurative release of pain from the body through the skin, breathing, goosebumps, sneezing, compressing the pain to a point until it disappears or explodes with the sensation not of pain, but heat;

- track the possible sensation of the flow passing through the entire body, while relaxing the muscles in the direction of flow movement, defocusing the energy that was compressed to a painful density, and focusing on strengthening any tendencies of its movement. You reinforce the sensation: it expands - and you expand it, and so on to the very end;

- if the pain sensation is gone, check: what sensation arose in its place? If a new sensation is even a little uncomfortable, repeat the entire cycle of work with a new sensation;

- the work is considered completed when only comfortable sensations remain in the whole body: lightness, warmth, coolness, pleasant fullness, etc.

The practice of doing exercises for simultaneous muscle relaxation and increased pain

At first glance, this seems like a paradox, because we have a useless skill - to cower towards pain and try not to notice it. This gives a short-term effect.

If you concentrate on pain, be aware of it and take it with relaxed muscles, then the pain will intensify, like the energy “cornered”.

A feature of the exercise performed in this case is the work of mentally strengthening the sensation of pain, which helps to transform the negative etheric energy of pain into a feeling of warmth and lightness.

Example 2 specific implementation of the proposed method

The patient is invited to find in his life experience several episodes that are close in feelings and emotional manifestations to a stressful situation. Then it is necessary to recall the stressful situation in an associative manner, to mentally realize the unpleasant sensations and emotions that are relevant to her.

They choose an unpleasant sensation at a specific point in the body, relax the muscles there, and in a thought-like way, bring energy out of the body. They continue to relax muscles, mentally monitor indicators and details of the energy flow: color, shape, smell, temperature. The revealed details of the energy flow are not interesting in themselves, but it is important that the patient observe his feelings associated with a mental change in the energy flow.

From time to time, the patient should mentally enter the selected stressful situation or episode and make sure that as soon as the emotional sensation intensifies, the energy flow changes its parameters: its color becomes stronger or darker.

You should work in this way until the mental energy flow changes color completely, for example, becomes transparent. As the mental energy flow brightens and becomes transparent, the patient’s emotional reaction to traumatic episodes decreases, and becomes more calm. The work should be continued until all emotions and all negative energy in the stream are transformed - both in the initial situation and in all the attendant ones. When the energy in the stream mentally becomes light, then transparent and ends completely, then the negative emotion ceases to exist, and the work to restore physical and psycho-emotional comfort will be completed.

Example 3

Patient K., 20 years old, from childhood suffered from an allergy to honey, manifested in severe difficulty breathing, intensifying within 5-10 minutes. 2 sessions were conducted.

In order to learn the skills of concentration and deconcentration of attention and the distribution of attention, the patient was offered to find several episodes in his life experience that were close in sensations and emotional manifestation to a stressful situation. They suggested that a part of attention be concentrated on the object of anxiety, and another part of attention should be directed to the awareness of uncomfortable sensations in the body. The patient recalled the traumatic events of an early age and a stressful situation. He presented the unpleasant sensations and emotions associated with her, associating the body with a spatial volume of expanded size. I chose an unpleasant sensation at a specific point in the body, relaxing muscles there and mentally tracking details: color, shape, smell, temperature. When he mentally entered the selected stressful situation or episode, he was convinced that as soon as the emotional sensation intensifies, the energy flow changes its parameters: its color becomes stronger or darker. Gradually, the patient acquired the skill of concentration of a part of attention on the object of anxiety and deconcentration of another part of attention inside the body and awareness of all painful sensations and their evolution. Putting several pre-prepared episodes from a personal history into the selected stressful situation and working until the mental energy flow changes color, for example, becomes transparent, the patient mentally observed the color change of the energy flow: it became lighter and became transparent, while its emotional reaction to episodes decreased, became more and more calm. The patient worked until all the emotions and all the negative energy of the initial situation mentally became bright, then transparent, and ended completely. He observed the simultaneous relaxation of all muscle groups and applied the skill to associate the body with a spatial volume expanded to a size at which the visual image of the anxiety object is inside this volume. Toward the end of the second session, negative emotion ceased to exist and work to restore physical and psycho-emotional comfort was completed. Shortness of breath disappeared, blood pressure and heart rate returned to normal, allergy symptoms disappeared. Tests confirmed the absence of allergies. The memory of the traumatic events of an early age revealed during the work no longer caused an emotional response.

Example 4

N., 40 years old, suffered from severe psycho-emotional discomfort in a number of situations, including before the upcoming job interview. Before the job interview, she complained of a headache, drowsiness, palpitations, poor mood and memory, and a sense of fear. Conducted one session (2 hours).

In order to learn the skills of concentration and deconcentration of attention and the distribution of attention, the patient was asked to find in her life experience several episodes that are similar in feelings and emotional manifestation to a stressful situation: to concentrate part of the attention on the object of anxiety, and the other part of the attention to focus on recognizing uncomfortable sensations in the body. The patient remembered the stressful situation. She presented unpleasant sensations and emotions, associating the body with a spatial volume of expanded size. I chose an unpleasant sensation at a specific point in the body, relaxing muscles there and mentally tracking details: color, shape, smell, temperature. When the patient mentally entered the selected stressful situation, the emotional sensation intensified, the energy flow changed its parameters: its color becomes stronger or darker. Concentrating part of her attention on the object of anxiety and deconcentrating another part of her attention inside the body, she was aware of all the painful sensations and their evolution. Putting a pre-prepared episode from a personal story into the selected stressful situation and working until the mental energy flow changes color, for example, becomes transparent, the patient mentally observed a change in the color of the energy flow: it became lighter and became transparent, while her emotional reaction decreased by episodes, became more and more calm. She worked until all the emotions and all the negative energy of the initial situation mentally brightened, became transparent and ended completely. The patient observed the simultaneous relaxation of all muscle groups and applied the skill to associate the body with a spatial volume expanded to a size at which the visual image of the anxiety object appeared inside this volume. By the end of the first session, the negative emotion ceased, physical and psycho-emotional comfort were restored. Emotional tension disappeared, blood pressure and heart rate returned to normal. After the interview, N. said that for the first time in her life she went for an interview as a pleasant walk, during the interview she felt at ease, showed her competence and was hired.

Example 5

L., 31, complained of an unfair attitude on the part of the leadership. She was offended by the leader due to underestimation of her professional qualities. 2 sessions were held for many small episodes and several serious cases of confrontation.

To learn the skills of concentration and deconcentration of attention separately and the distribution of attention, the patient was offered to find in their life experience an episode that is close in sensations and emotional manifestation to a stressful situation and to concentrate part of attention on the object of anxiety, and devote another part of attention to awareness of uncomfortable sensations in the body. The patient remembered the stressful situation. She presented unpleasant sensations and emotions, associating the body with a spatial volume of expanded size. I chose an unpleasant sensation at a specific point in the body, relaxing muscles there and mentally tracking details: color, shape, smell, temperature. When the patient mentally entered the selected stressful situation, the emotional sensation intensified, the energy flow changed its parameters: its color becomes stronger or darker. Concentrating part of her attention on the object of anxiety and deconcentrating another part of her attention inside the body, she was aware of all the painful sensations and their evolution. Putting a pre-prepared episode from a personal story into the selected stressful situation and working until the mental energy flow changes color, for example, becomes transparent, the patient mentally observed the color change of the energy flow: it became lighter and became transparent, while her emotional reaction decreased by episodes, became more and more calm. She worked until all the emotions and all the negative energy of the initial situation mentally brightened, became transparent, then ended completely. The patient observed the simultaneous relaxation of all muscle groups and applied the skill to associate the body with a spatial volume expanded to a size at which the visual image of the anxiety object appeared inside this volume. By the end of the second session, the negative emotion ceased, and physical and psycho-emotional comfort were restored. Feelings of resentment and irritation were eliminated and relations with management were restored. Emotional tension disappeared, blood pressure and heart rate returned to normal.

Example 6

Patient R., 32 years old. Complaints of pain in the stomach. A ten-minute session completely relieved the aggravation, after which the patient was trained to work with attacks on his own.

In order to learn the skills of concentration and deconcentration of attention and distribution of attention, the patient was offered to find several episodes in his life experience that are close in sensations and emotional manifestations to a stressful situation. They suggested that a part of attention be concentrated on the object of anxiety, and another part of attention should be directed to the awareness of uncomfortable sensations in the body. The patient recalled the traumatic events and stressful situation. He presented the unpleasant sensations and emotions associated with her, associating the body with a spatial volume of expanded size. I chose an unpleasant sensation at a specific point in the body, relaxing muscles there and mentally tracking details: color, shape, smell, temperature. When he mentally entered into a stressful situation, he was convinced that as soon as the emotional sensation intensifies, the energy flow changes its parameters: its color becomes stronger or darker. Gradually, the patient acquired the skill of concentration of a part of attention on the object of anxiety and deconcentration of another part of attention inside the body and awareness of all painful sensations and their evolution. Putting several pre-prepared episodes from a personal history into the selected stressful situation and working until the mental energy flow changes color, for example, becomes transparent, the patient mentally observed the color change of the energy flow: it became lighter and became transparent, while its emotional reaction to episodes decreased, became more and more calm. The patient worked until all the emotions and all the negative energy of the initial situation mentally became bright, then transparent, and ended completely. He observed the simultaneous relaxation of all muscle groups and applied the skill to associate the body with a spatial volume expanded to a size at which the visual image of the anxiety object is inside this volume. By the end of the ten-minute session, the negative emotion ceased to exist, the pain in the stomach was not disturbed. A ten-minute session completely relieved the exacerbation, normalized blood pressure and heart rate, after which the patient was trained to work with attacks on his own. The memory of the traumatic episode revealed during the work no longer caused an emotional response.

The patient was observed for 4 months. During this period, he independently coped with seizures, which became less and less softer, and then completely disappeared.

Claims (5)

1. A method of restoring physical and psycho-emotional comfort, including recalling an alarming incident followed by sensory-visual association with an object of anxiety and relieving emotional stress, characterized in that the patient is taught the skills of concentration and deconcentration of attention separately, after which he is taught the distribution of attention, with In this, the patient concentrates part of the attention on the object of anxiety, and the other part of the attention is directed to the awareness of the uncomfortable sensations in the body, then the skill is taught associate the body with an expanded spatial volume, after which the patient simultaneously concentrates part of the attention on the anxiety object and deconcentrates the other part of the attention inside the body to recognize all painful sensations and their evolution while relaxing all muscle groups and applies the previously created skill to associate the body with spatial volume, expanded to a size at which the visual image of the anxiety object is inside this volume, then the patient is prompted while maintaining concentrating part of attention inside the body, concentrating another part of attention on all uncomfortable sensations, at the same time strengthening them to the maximum possible value and maintaining a state of muscle relaxation until the sensation of warmth or other sensations of comfort and peace throughout the body appears and spreads in combination with the emergence of a stable calm attitude to events causing stress. 2. The method of restoring physical and psycho-emotional comfort according to claim 1, characterized in that the skills of concentration are taught using central attention and the ability to focus on the object when they look at the object with central vision and kinesthetically experience a visual orientational and associative reaction. 3. A method of restoring physical and psycho-emotional comfort according to claims 1 and 2, characterized in that each sensation is compared with a visual analogue associated with it through a mental image. 4. The method of restoring physical and psycho-emotional comfort according to claim 1, characterized in that the skills of attention deconcentration are taught using defocused vision and peripheral attention, examining two objects at the same time, not looking at any of them, but looking between them, or around them , or through them. 5. A method of restoring physical and psycho-emotional comfort according to claims 1 and 4, characterized in that when teaching the patient the skills of attention deconcentration, peripheral attention is trained by examining the patient with a variety of objects with maximum completeness and without clarity of perception.