Higher Psychology. Maxim Vlasov

no matter what pillar a person prays to, what things he believes in, what picture of the world he has, the main thing is the scale. It should be the maximum. The highest is also the highest because it is all-encompassing. A person needs to be brought to it so that he thinks systematically, and not as narrowly as usual, focusing on his problem and not seeing anything around, not reasoning in the context of time, not thinking about the possible benefits that can be even in the most terrible situation. You need to push the limits of perception and evaluation, that’s what you can call it. And you need to push them apart at the expense of the higher, to which a person is already addicted or close. Well, then it may turn out to offer him something new, to interest him in something else, something higher, some ideas, concepts that even more scale his thinking. Then many of his problems will fall off of themselves, like dirt from shoes if you tap them.

      A person needs to be able to fight against themselves – against the part of themselves that opposes life, happiness, and activity; against what one might call the destructive forces within. You could also say that this is about confronting the “devil” inside, which suggests decisions that lead to weakness, pain, suffering, and destruction. We must choose to stand on the side of life, happiness, prosperity, and goodness when seeking the right perspective on what is breaking us, in order to survive and not succumb. We form a strong worldview that helps us navigate our life path with optimism and confidence. The psychologist, in this context, must radiate a powerful mindset. They must embody this vital energy, this scale of thinking, and optimism. There should be no weak points on their part; they should only embody what helps to act, fight, seek solutions – in a word, to live.

      5. Practice suggestion

      Any of our states, behaviors, or even trains of thought are partly innate – conditioned genetically (transmitted from parents) and instinctively (inherent to the entire species) – and partly acquired programs that are activated in a person as needed, when certain stimuli prompt them to remember something, feel something, or react to something. This is where natural reactions and learned behaviors come into play, whether they are shaped by experience, knowledge, or various habitual patterns of behavior. Now, we will discuss how you can activate certain thoughts and behaviors in people – and in yourself – by inspiring them with specific thoughts, attitudes, and ideas. This means embedding information in their minds that will influence their thoughts and actions, bypassing their critical thinking.

      Suggestions in higher psychology play an important, but not decisive role. The main thing that is needed here is, of course, beliefs, when a person masters new thoughts through the conscious sphere, gives birth to new thoughts, expanding his worldview, giving everything a higher meaning. Because the result achieved through consciousness is more stable. But the subconscious mind, when we introduce something with the help of suggestion, bypassing consciousness, it is less reliable. Something will penetrate deep into the mind, settle down somewhere, then somehow affect the person, be replaced by something, supplemented, mixed with some thoughts, forgotten, and then remembered again, in general, this is a difficult controlled process. Therefore, there is less hope for suggestions than for conscious perception of information. Well, actually, if it were different, people would learn with the help of hypnosis and suggestions, and not with the help of explanations, logic, reasoning, analysis. The whole educational process would have been built differently. But no, we learn as we should-only will, concentration, understanding, logic lead us to stable thoughts, good memory and stable skills. Therefore, this was and still is preferred. Including in higher psychology.

      Nevertheless, psychology is psychology, and not everything in it is based on logic and common sense. On the contrary, most of what we call the psyche is not at all logical, not reasonable, not something that is easy to explain and understand. This is exactly what unconscious processes are, when a huge number of thoughts interact with each other in an unknown way outside the field of our attention and then give us something in the form of feelings, intuitive insights, guesses, motives that we are already trying to logically justify, imagine, understand. So sometimes you just can’t do without suggestions. Sometimes it depends only on them whether a person accepts new thoughts or not. And, accordingly, they, suggestions, affect the emotional state and behavior of a person. Therefore, a psychologist, in order to master higher psychology, must be able to inspire. Reason, explain, and inspire. He should be an ideologue, a hypnotist, a preacher, as far as possible. So let’s take a look at important suggestion skills to know how to do it. And then we’ll see how this can be applied in higher psychology.

      Suggestion methodology

      Suggestion is a psychological process, that is, mostly unconscious for the person receiving information. It involves influencing the consciousness and will of a person through his sensory sphere to a greater extent than through the mind, in order to instill in him certain thoughts, beliefs or feelings. That is, we bypass the attention and critical understanding of a person, in fact, we introduce thoughts to him, through hints, emotions, gestures, ambiguous words, unsubstantiated, but firm, emotional statements, in order to fix them in his subconscious. That is, we make sure that he accepts our thoughts, which are sent to him mainly through words, without thinking about them.

      Basic aspects of suggestion

      1. Principles of suggestion:

      – Psychological attitude: Suggestion is effective when the subject is ready to receive information, and such readiness that he craves it. Therefore, in order to create a fertile ground fora person to accept our thoughts, we его предварительно preheat it. ПThrough, say, such conversations, in which we constantly repeat to himмthat now we will tell him something very important, which will directly completely change his worldview. To make him wait for it. Surely you have noticed this in some teachers and speakers, how they warm up the audience when they constantly repeat that now you will learn this, you will learn this. And people start to get a little euphoric with the anticipation of something special. They are just waiting for some sacred knowledge to be revealed to them right now. Someone ismore euphoric, someone is weaker, waiting for this special information, but this warm-up definitely works. And then, when such information is released, people automatically attach важноеimportance to it. They had been waiting for her, waiting for her. Therefore, it is easier for such information to get into the subconscious of people, bypassing critical thinking. The psychological attitude that you are about to be told something like this creates a need that suggestion can satisfy when it is expressed in a clear, firm and simple form, without a shadow of doubt, without hesitation or explanation. This is how it works! Period!

      – Conformity: People are more susceptible to suggestion in the context of emotional heating and imitation. Let me clarify. To effectively use conformity in the process of suggestion, it is important to understand that conformity is the tendency of people to adapt to the opinions and actions of the group. Suggestion, in turn, as we already know, implies uncritical perception of information, which allows you to change a person’s behavior and beliefs. When a person is in a group, their susceptibility to suggestion increases, especially if the group consists of a larger number of participants. This is because pressure from others can increase emotional responses and reduce critical thinking.

      To use conformity for suggestion, it is necessary to create an atmosphere of trust and agreement in the group. But this is if there is a group. And if it doesn’t exist? If a specialist communicates with a person alone? What then? Then we refer to authorities, to common truths, to the opinion of the crowd. For example, you can use authority figures that have weight for a person. Or you can make emotional appeals, linking them with the opinion of the majority, which will contribute to the formation of a positive perception of the suggested information. People think this way, people think that way. Put more emotions into it вложитьand the information will fly into the person’s head. It is also worth considering the individual characteristics of people: for those who are more susceptible to suggestion, it is better to use positive emotions, while for those who are less confident—, it is better to use a more persistent approach with elements of fear