Self-Help Psychotherapy (Meditatively via my In-Home Relaxations or Tech Tools)

Self-Help Psychotherapy

(Meditatively via my In-Home Relaxations

 or Tech Tools)

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Copyright 2014 Stuart R Rolls

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DISCLAIMER

This series of books is advisory. Any health problems that could be affected by high tech. in meditational or dreamwork should be the responsibility of the individual; related choices should be made in consultation with one’s own medical advisers.

WARNING

The CES devices mentioned in this book could, I’m told, possibly cause side-effects when used long-term.

Goggles may be safely worn, I’m told, but preferably Psychonaut, as shown on the front cover (see addresses) because overseas orders attract approximately 26% customs duties and sales taxes.

The audio tapes I supply remain the safest and cheapest option, incurring no extra postage charges, customs/sales/government taxes or impositions.

NOTE

With regard to mention of cassette tapes in Dr Rolls’ books, please note his recordings are being transferred to CD and MP3 and will soon be available for purchase via the internet.

INTRODUCTION

High tech will be shown as a modern pathway to our own inner psychospiritual retreats, despite our non-monastic 21st Century upcoming tumultuous lives.

This is the second book of a trilogy or more covering the psychospiritual range, the first being Ghosts E.S.P. & Psychology—my true life experiences, UK, NZ, and Australia; this one being a self-help guide for utilising high technology in meditative psychotherapy. The third book will also be a self-help guide, in researching and developing the psychic and paranormal, also meditationally. Books might follow on transcendent spirituality/enlightenment; others on dream growth etc. All my books testify to the abilities we all have and can learn from and master on our way to self-healing, realisation and enlightenment. Altered states of consciousness are the key. If Gurus or Masters etc. can use them, as keys to understanding and knowing (all that at our general level of perceiving seems supernatural and paranormal) then so can we. All that is infinite of possibility and eternal of being, we too can live out in our multi-dimensionality. The alternative is to remain stuck in illusory, three dimensional finite thinking.

Nowadays, high technology, in home or elsewhere, can in a sense, give us quantum lift off and arrival. However, before we rush to try and immaturely transcend, as so many do with delusion or ‘holier than thou’ conceit, let me, as a specialist in these subjects, caution and advise, stay novice or apprentice long enough to empty the mind’s negative conditioning first. Without its illusory hold there’s no limit in how eternally we’ll cognise. Please don’t skip the unwanted mental/ emotional mind-stuff baggage that, by degrees, we all should off before we psychospiritually journey on. Don’t cop-out or leave it on hold; allow some healing and re-scripting. Then your own Mastership will soar more—take eternal wing, beyond all the ego stuff.

Those who read this book will certainly know more about the benefits of healthier, happier, more relaxed living. They’ll know more too about mental hygiene, as in orthodox psychiatry and as in self-help, self-realisation techniques. Essentially I’ll be giving you, dear reader, an East-West synthesis or approach, though in our modern World where we’re more globally attuned to one another, much of the traditional Eastern psychology, (or for those who are purist about the word ‘psychology’, then say psychospiritual awareness), has moved over to the West already. The ‘New Age’ movement is witness to this World centering of beliefs and practices. Enlightenment or higher consciousness, or more accurately the keys to them, await the reader, plus concomitant spirituality, moral strength, intuitive and various transformational shifts, even the development of paranormal, psychic or spiritual gifts (examined more fully in my next book).

In short, readers should find in this book pathways to peace of mind, emotions, body and spirit, via meditational altered states of consciousness, naturally occurring or high tech induced. Even if one seldom reaches natural states of healing or transformative relaxation, or does not use the modern sophisticated ‘mind tools’ now available to the masses, this psychospiritual exposition sets out to teach how the mind works and how to let it be free, without too much meditation.

‘Knowing thine own self’, ‘being true to oneself’, ‘physician healing thyself’, are all deeply helpful and meaningful paraphrasings, along with others, from holy, esoteric or philosophical books or treatises that accord with this book’s purpose. Self-knowledge and self-realisation also self-actualisation (a term used by Maslow, a transpersonal psychology pioneer) are freedom ideas we’ll be exploring throughout this book.

Accelerated psychospiritual freedoms via high tech meditation will, of course, spare people from lifetimes or much of lifetimes spent miseries, whatever their hang-ups or not being at peace or ‘actualised’. This will help them be reborn, regenerated, ‘made over’, harmonised, or made whole, or in essence, psychospiritually healed. Words more heartening perhaps than analysed, probed, drugged, shocked (as in ECT, electroconvulsive shock treatment) though these orthodox psychiatric treatments have their uses as we shall continually see, in part, along with so many other allied therapies and fringe therapies. Freud and psychiatry in general, as well as clinical psychology, were and still are monumentally pioneer. This I will show when I come to discuss catharses or emotional release etc., as well as the formation of our character traits, through to neuroses, psychoses, and other mind-to-body crippling states (and of course crippling to the entrapped soul as well).

I will make the writing free and easy and not too heady, illustrating here and there from others case histories as well as my own, autobiographically. I’m not too proud to share my own ‘growth’ through the psychotherapies to, finally, meditation. I swear if I’d taken to meditation (not any old meditation but psychospiritual) first, I could have done largely, if not completely, without those other therapies. No regrets! However the largely physical techniques in Hatha yoga relaxation which still the mind, sustained me in my early years of ongoing research.

Because I’ve bridged Eastern and Western philosophies and therapies, psychospiritually over a lifetime, I can now help pioneer an amalgamation of what is best in both, and help lead the way to the psychology of the future, along the cutting edge, avant-garde experiences and researches of mine and others.

As stated in my earlier book Ghosts E.S.P & Psychology, quoting my personal experiences is not meant to sound egotistical (usually one wishes to hide one’s hang-ups, pains, sillinesses, etc.) but to truthfully back up with the compelling evidence of self struggle and learning, the claims for healing and growth made herein about high tech meditation. Good luck to those I hope will adventure through this book endeavouring to free themselves to more poised and happy living, as I and countless others have done and are still doing.

In many ways the 20th Century was so heavily unkind to our psyches, but in the scientific order that it had to manifest, it helped us to streamline the lasting truths of earlier millennium’s old knowledge, at the bridgehead I for one have been interfacing with.

Now we have to glean from out the not inconsiderable nonsense’s of our so-called Aquarian or ‘New Age’, wisdom for our new psychology, fashioned (what isn’t?) by so much that earlier planetary humans experienced in their psyches, now bequeathed to us.

Relaxation techniques, ancient and modern, are legion but require, according to one’s choice of method, different degrees of not always easy practice. Further, they might only psychosomatically and/ or psychospiritually de-stress us temporarily. Monks have used some of them over millenniums during their constant self-disciplines but, be it noted, as reclusives, in retreats. Now what about these ‘in-home’ methods?

High tech meditation via sophisticated apparatus, as I’ve already indicated, speeds things up at such a rapid pace that we don’t need difficult disciplines or lifetimes in monastic retreats to attain the bliss, the happiness, the more fulfilling spirituality and moral purpose that seems to flow on from releasing our minds. By ‘releasing’ I mean first using the technology to decondition our minds from all the ‘stuff’ that haunts, limits or demeans us, searching for our true potential. My various chapters will make all clear. High tech will be shown as modern pathway to our own inner psychospiritual retreats, despite our non-monastic, 21st Century up-coming tumultuous lives.

It has been a custom to place single quote marks around words like ‘hang-ups’, ‘stuff’, ‘mind-tools’, ‘highs’ and ‘states’ etc., within the disciplines in which I write. Other disciplines have their words used in unfamiliar or new ways too, indicated by such marks. However, unless I come up on words during the chapters that have not by then become familiar jargon, I’ll drop the single quotes, letting the context reveal meanings and I’ll drop a lot of hyphens as linked words become familiar.

I may repeat this occasionally, but just as a thing of beauty is a joy forever, so too are the gems of Eternal truth written into this book, gathered over millenniums by Masters and which I do my best to convey. They’ve taken scholars and all, whole lifetimes to absorb, so I will myself, repeat them here and there, in different contexts and ways. This helped readers of my first psychospiritual book, so I’ll continue that guidance here. I’m addressing profound concerns for all us humans, so please experts or purists, patience, if you’re more scholarly in one discipline than I, whilst I try to tackle all holistically, herein. (I do lead readers to other books/material in bibliography).

CHAPTER I

Naturally occurring meditative states

The heart is light that scents at night, Hued gardens fragrant flowers, Where busy man and bee have stilled, And merry noted birds have trilled,

Away the sun kissed hours. (The Author & Anon)

In my introduction I referred to accelerated states via high tech mind tool apparatus for musing or meditating. Also I mentioned relaxation techniques, mainly physically disciplined, that aren’t so accelerated. We will come to these in the appropriate chapters.

Basically, what is meditation we might ask? Sometimes it is engaging purposefully in continuous and contemplative thought, thinking about doing, planning, pondering in general. At other times it can be trying to distract the busy mind and let it rest from its burdensome thought (but that takes countering thought). More subtly perhaps but certainly more therapeutically as we shall see, we can be just passive observers to our thought processes, not engaging, not distracting, but allowing passage to their eventual demise, if negative. Again, high tech speeds up this process. Yet there wouldn’t be a reader who has not, in some way or another, slipped naturally into these methods or observances.

Think of words and phrases in general like reverie, musing, daydreaming, reflection, twilight states (experienced most often whilst falling asleep or waking up) blissful states, at rest, equipoise, harmony, peace, feeling far out. Haven’t we all been there and not necessarily on silly drugs? Who needs them when the methods in this book will heal and safely, not unpredictably, take you far more out to bliss?

Fishing at a tranquil pond, riverside, or lake, is the proverbial way of taking oneself out, so to speak. We can think of many, many more pursuits where the mind is stilled. It is not for nothing that we dub, name or style them as methods or ways of recreation/re creation (no hyphen, new sense!) of ourselves, letting up, relaxing, re-energising. We get worn down with all the stuff, conditioning, the data, the scripting we carry. Blue skies transport us. Green pastures soothe us. Tranquil waters ease us into temporary solitude. Nature is such a blessing. We escape into it from our busy lives. To lie in a corn field, to watch the skies, to hear the songs of the birds and the calls of nature, even of course some of our human made music (some!) lulls us into peace. What too, of a Mother’s gentle lullaby blissfully soothing a baby?

Everywhere abounding is some escape from life’s turmoil for all of us. Ever sat sleepily around a flickering campfire when the night cries sound mysteriously in the dark all around, no-one wishing to talk? Perhaps someone plays a haunting, echoing mouth organ (as I’d do) or, softly strums a soothing guitar, and their sleepy sounds drift downstream, valley, or reach mountain peaks. Even jogging or other exercise can bring about highs or ecstasy. Things