Calling All Learn Buteyko Advanced Students for a Free Follow-up.

Remember and Remember Again.

Greetings Friends and Students.

I promised throughout several Advanced Workshops, that we would be providing some ongoing follow-up and here it is…at last.

This Advanced Follow-up is going to focus upon the importance around retraining a mind that has already been trained and programmed, often over many decades.

For many students, the experience tends to run and follows:

1.) Agreeing with self evident reality from an intellectual perspective.

2.) Directing one’s mind through self inquiry.

3.) Deliberately and persistently practicing the above, which is often a precursor to various relaxing mental experiences (albeit temporary) and particular realisations that comport with equanimity.

4.) All seems to be more or less moving along in the right direction, until as if one suddenly awakes to experiencing the very same overpowering emotions, aversions, compulsions and sense of irritation, that we may have assumed had already been discharged.

5.) Sometimes, we are able to cleave back to our source and sometimes for one reason or another we just plain forget the way - and the next thing you know, it’s as though we are right back to where we started. Boring but necessary.

The above 5 stages are a generalisation to make a particular point which is that :

The mind/brain is nothing if not complex. The way in which thoughts and their infinite permutations are subconsciously generated in reaction to outside stimulus has been programmed repetitiously, greatly influenced by the prevailing philosophical architecture we have experienced. It’s not that the programming is so sophisticated or powerful, but that through repetition it gains strength beyond its logic. A good analogy is that of a weak strand of cotton thread that can be easily broken - but when repetitiously woven involving hundreds of threads, it becomes a rope of immense strength.

The above 5 stages to various degrees are a precursor for a very particular realisation. That the way to untangle a complex knot is exactly the same process by which the knot was made, except in reverse. Fortunately, not much effort is required, but to more or less a degree the effort needs to have enough frequency to displace old thought habits and unhelpful learned tendencies. This is a fairly straight forward job of deliberate brain washing, except you are the one washing your own brain and not someone else.

It all distills into remembering certain things. But how can you remember if one forgets ?

The purpose and theme of this Advanced Follow-Up is to emphasise the practical realities of how our brains operate from an accumulative perspective (memory) and what practical and concrete steps we can take to augment our rightful state of being.

I look forward to seeing you there.

Warm regards,

Christopher