The community of people engaged in the development of psychological techniques (psychotechnics) consists of those who develop new procedures and approaches, those who are responsible for training students and graduates in the field of working with them, as well as those who use them in research. But in order to qualitatively develop this topic, you need to understand the terminology and list the main types of these techniques.
Psychological techniques and techniques
Psychotechnics are special techniques and methods that allow you to change a person’s psychological state, achieve personal changes and solve psychological problems. There are several main types (directions) of psychological techniques:
- Processing (auditing, PEAT, etc.).
- Neuro-linguistic programming.
- Trans techniques (hypnosis, autogenic training, meditation).
- Jungian techniques of working with the unconscious.
In most cases, psychotechnics means processing, and it is it (or rather, its various forms) that is most often used in counseling.
Sedona Method
The Sedona Method is a unique, simple, powerful, easy-to-learn psychological technique that shows you how to identify your natural abilities and release any painful or unwanted feeling at the moment.
What makes the Sedona Method a powerful tool? First of all, this is a process that you can use anytime, anywhere to improve any area of your life.
Subtleties of Sedona
There are three ways to get closer to the process of liberation, and all of them lead to the same result: releasing your natural ability to release any unwanted emotions in place and allow some suppressed energy in your subconscious to dissipate.
The first way is to let go of the unwanted feeling. The second way is to welcome that feeling, to let the emotions just be. The third way is to plunge into the very heart of emotions.
You will find that when you work with the Sedon method, it will give you much more than you expected or even dreamed of.
Benefits
As you continue to use the Sedona method, you will become more adept at using it, and the results will greatly accelerate over time. You will quickly reach the point where release becomes your second nature.
Regardless of the circumstances, the Sedona Method will show you how you can achieve wealth and success, improve relationships, find peace and happiness, health and well-being.
This will help you create the life that you yourself choose at the moment. This means that you will be literally free to have, be and do whatever you wish or desire. This process is based on a lot of scientific research, the approval of celebrities and the success of hundreds of thousands of people who have achieved amazing results in every area of their lives.
Link to New Age
The Sedona method is, according to some, independent psychotherapy from the New Age category, which can free you from emotional baggage and bring you prosperity. Whether it is true or not, only you can verify it yourself.
Method History
It was created by a psychologist named Leicester Levenson after a heart attack in 1952. The doctor sent him home, telling Levenson that he would die at the age of about 42. After checking if he had pills to end this and take his own life, Levenson sat down and thought about the deep philosophy of all the ideas that he had learned in his life, and came to the conclusion that they are all powerless at the moment. He noticed that he felt happy when he recalled the times in his life associated with love for other people. He focused on this and began to feel better, physically and emotionally. After a few months, he felt very well and finally came up with a system of views on negative feelings, and allowed them, at least some, to pass. Later, this psychological technique for working with memories began to be called the Sedona method. Levenson lived for another forty-two years, never visiting a doctor, as he told a group of his students in 1990. Lester became ill with abdominal cancer and died in 1994.
After Levenson's death, his movement to “release stress through the release of negative feelings” was divided into two branches, which are controlled by his students Larry Crane and Gale Dvoskin.
Crane is a former Hollywood star agent Joan Collins, a very self-confident person. He founded his graduation school in Southern California, focused mainly on developing a mindset of prosperity, and called the Sedon Method “Release Technique”, effectively changing the original name.
Dvoskin is more of a consultant than a guru. He continues the work of his teacher Levenson in Phoenix. Dvoskin later moved his school to Sedona and is now teaching psychologists. He is the CEO of Sedona Training Associates.
Processing
The main idea of processing as a psychological technique is that memory is exactly what appears as a result of information processing. Memory is only a by-product of the depth of information processing, and there is no clear distinction between short-term and long-term memory.
Therefore, instead of concentrating on the involved stores / structures (i.e., short-term and long-term memory), this theory focuses on processes related to memory.
General processing scheme:
- Remembering a traumatic event and / or unpleasant emotion.
- Focusing on this event and / or emotions, their meticulous reproduction.
- Maximum amplification of unpleasant sensations, feelings and emotions associated with a traumatic event.
- Letting go of all the negative feelings and sensations that were artificially strengthened before that.
All techniques and methods of psychological counseling within the framework of processing are built on this scheme, and the reader can apply it to himself or develop on his basis some of his own working methods (if he is a practicing psychologist). The auditing described below is also built on it - the notorious technique of the even more scandalous Church of Scientology.
Auditing
In the Church of Scientology, auditing is a process (processing) during which the auditor receives a person known as the “preclear,” who, under his leadership, gets rid of any negative situations associated with the memories. Auditing at one time arose as an integral part of the Dianetics movement and since then, when paired with an E-meter, it has become the main practice in Scientology. Auditing is defined by the Scientology Sect as the application of the processes and procedures of Dianetics or Scientology to improve a person’s life and abilities. One formal definition of auditing is an action in which a person is asked questions that he can understand and answer. Auditing is considered a technical operation that, according to the Church, raises an encumbered person, the “preclear,” from the level of spiritual distress to the level of understanding and inner self-realization. This process is designed so that an individual can purify his soul.
Stages of the psychological technique of auditing:
- The preclear assumes a comfortable position and recalls the traumatic event at the auditor's command.
- The auditor asks the preclear leading questions that help to completely “reshape” the event with the help of the memory and find charged traumatic elements of memory (i.e. engrams) in it.
- The preclear reaches the end of the event, after which he either becomes easier and frees himself from engrams, or the process is repeated again until the preclear feels obvious relief.
Other details
According to scientist Eric Roo, auditing is one of Scientology's main practices. The main goal of this psychotechnology in the doctrine of Scientology is to rediscover man's natural abilities, realizing that he is a spiritual being.
In the context of Dianetics or Scientology, auditing is an activity in which an auditor trained in communication listens and gives audit commands to an entity that is referred to as a “preclear” or more often as a “computer”. Although the auditing sessions are confidential, notes made by the auditor during the sessions are kept in the sect's archive. Some people believe that auditing is a technique of psychological influence and a peculiar form of directive hypnosis. One way or another, its various modifications are quite successfully used by some practical psychologists.
Scientology makes a distinction between auditors - those who practice auditing, and the public (public) - those who receive teaching, but do not receive training, to practice on others. In Scientology, auditors are considered to be the highest ecclesiastical persons, as they are seen as more oriented toward the attainment of the goals of religion or “cleansing the planet” in Scientology terminology.
Be set free fast - psychological assistance technique
With this technique, you can learn to train your subconscious to unlock any emotional chains that connect you to the inner world. This technique is very similar to auditing, both technically and practically. Among the modern alternative techniques of psychological counseling, it is one of the most popular.