Materials required: pen or pencil
Lots of paper.
Preface to methodology:
So day to day our brains encounter nonstop stimulus. Whether it's domestic or work place stress, recreational television programs, or simply listening to music and advertisements on the radio. Sounds, sights, touch, smells, tastes, are in a constant procession that is never ending. While our conscious perception is taking all of this in and letting it go just as quickly our subconscious is keeping a never ending ledger down to the minutiae of each and every moment. Even when we sleep it's at play seemingly twisting feelings, sensations, sights, in a way that can leave us happy or baffled when we wake up.
In my opinion and experience to much emphasis is placed on this one single form of subconscious expression. It's a misconception that a dream state is the only time the subC is dominant. It's underlying influence is present in everything we do when awake, and just on rules of influence that makes it just as dominant when awake. It can express itself in a flinch response to aggression, send a signal in the form of smell or audio when confronted with the faintest of memory which then can lead to your dominant mood in a waking state. When the subconscious pulls these moves it can disorient, cause elation, depression, irritability, and by and large you have no clue as to why. It's speaking a language that you can't understand because you never learned it.
Language of subC:
From childhood direct emphasis has been put on learning conscious response to stimuli. While we are learning to say please and thank you, ABC, 123, stay on the right side of the road, etc. Our subC is documenting everything. All data. To begin to access this doesn't require a substance, hypnotic state, or saying ommm on a yoga mat. The most direct and overt expression of a subC impulse is physical. It's the translator in the language of your subC that you never learned. Like with any language it takes a bit of patience and perseverance to do so. You're not just going to learn German tomorrow or in a month. It takes years for mastery of a language and the data your subC holds is no different.
Before learning a language understanding the basic numbers and colors is a must. 123, ABC, red or yellow. Usually from there we build our understanding. This was how you learned English. This is how we are going to approach your internal data base. I'm going to frame these steps around something mundane like test taking or studying for an exam. However, the applications of this methodology are extremely broad and in many ways can be applied to any occasion you need to access your internal database.
Step 1. Methodology and the power of the ideograms:
To start each session you will take out a piece of paper and in the top right corner write your name, time, time zone, date. In the left top corner you will label your mood. Stressed, tired, etc. After doing this in that order you will raise your pen above the paper 8 inches and stare forward briefly. Do not focus on anything and for no more than ten seconds let your mind wonder then drop the pen. Take a deep breath and pick up the pen. On the paper in front of you you will write the word water. Underneath it you will draw the minimal representation of water without focusing to hard on the paper. Simply hold the image of water in your mind and if your hand articulates water by drawing a squiggly line or waves line let it do so. Try not to overthink it. Next label a new sheet and write land. Repeat the process assigning the minimal representation for land. I.e. A straight line. Next do mountain, tree, stone, etc. Start with a basic set of six topological features and repeat each one over and over. Not overly thinking it and letting your hand and mind do the work making each ideogram the minimal written representation of each feature. Allow your hand to wonder and don't try to order it to much.
This is the beginnings of allowing your subC to colour with crayons. Don't force it. I can't stress this enough. To anyone watching it will appear your blindly scribbling. But keep the parameters loose as possible. I.e. Water says visual mind squiggly line says hand, land says visual mind, straight line says hand. This must be done over and over until you are incredibly bored, when that occurs keep going. Literally. A state of bored repetition is what you're aiming for with each individual ideogram. If you're tired or awake, stressed or happy, the key is persistence with your initial ideographic start set until brain bleeding boredom. Do not switch symbols to remedy boredom or fatigue. Boredom and your hand mindlessly drawing the ideograms for one single word representing a feature is the goal. If you struggle to hold the visual in your mind you can stare at a picture or write the word on a piece of paper and stare at that. I.e. Water or land, hill or mountain.
Every day you should have practiced each ideographic representation 500 times minimal. You can even do speed sessions. It's not meditation. You can devote 5 to ten minute snaps through your day to this or entire 1 hour sessions. Even if you are in a chaotic or stressful state. In fact as you progress practice in all states is encouraged. The key is consistency.
Step 2. Keeping it simple:
Right, so in step one I laid down a start exercise which if practiced daily for a couple weeks can prepare you for moving forward in effectively interviewing your subC. I can't stress consistency enough here just like I can't stress keeping it simple enough. Minimal lines for representation of your fixed descriptions. No one else needs to understand what they mean, just you. It was the first symbol that came to your mind and it's a conversation between your subconscious and you so order or over complexity isn't really required and in fact becomes clutter in the dialogue. Don't be to harsh and don't think to much about the exercise or over rationalise what you're doing. As long as you're holding your objective in your forward mind and your loosely allowing your hand to work motion your fine. The space between those two actions can and will fill with the standard digressions and intrusive clutter we all experience. That's fine. It's supposed to so let it. It's not ADHD but rather drift. Drift is good as you will find sometimes you forget about your hand and it takes a life of its own.
Sometimes it will stray and write a letter while you drift and this is actually progress. If it just aimlessly scribbles let it. Effective interviewing and interfacing starts here really. This unfailingly happens when your hands still moving, your loosely focused but still present, and you're not frantically trying to manage direction of everything including stressful thoughts. The image/word of water and your ideogram are the two goal post and drift is what should happen between them. After a couple weeks of consistency you may begin to notice that you will get correlating physical responses to your sketches. I used to get wet earth for land and sharp brine for water for instance. This is actually a normal psychological occurrence as it's your subC and conscious mind drawing correlations. You may also notice while drifting you're musings are accompanied at random with a smell that correlates to them or sound, vivid sensation, etc. This is called a gestalt. This is also a huge positive as then you're starting to correlate other senses to the expressions of your subconscious mind. This is your subC saying it's first words and you actually beginning to hear/understand them. At the end of two weeks review your pages. They will appear like incoherent scribble to anyone else but you and should flip through each labelled set from land to water or hill.
Try to understand that it's about minimal here in your ideogram. It's also fluid. If a straight line for land is the first thing that comes to mind but later you begin working on an ideogram for door or a sign and straight line presents itself resembling your previous ideogram, go with it. You will be able to tell over time even if it's not labelled and almost appears identical to other ideographic representations of other objects, features, or data points. Interestingly the smallest details you're subC picks up and identifies it for you. In fact you'll find that at this point you will know the meaning of similar ideographic representations you have drawn without even trying. Even if they are seemingly identical.
Step 3:
This is all easy to work up to. After two weeks of these exercises you move forward to broadening your ideograms to represent things like cars, trucks, and even people. My ideogram for people used to just be a circle for a line through it for instance. This also can be accompanied with gestalt moments. The key is to practice daily to a massive boredom part with the exercise and once boredom is hit allow drift between your goal posts. No matter your mood or how frantic you are just let it flow or fly. Hell, even absent minded obsessive is ok. Just don't try to control it and keep your loose focus on your subject allowing your hand to stay in motion.
Believe it or not this exercise reduces stress after a couple weeks though it's not it's aim. After a month into this exercise you should have broadened and become comfortable with allowing free writing/ideographic writing for people, places and things. If done daily for thirty minutes you will and by then it won't seem absurd. It is important you do all of this in the order I'm laying out and not skip to the next step I'm about to lay out. If you do it will be like shaking a baby that can't speak because it's not able to. You're learning to communicate effectively with your subC and that takes work and is well worth the reward. Don't get frustrated or look for a short cut. One doesn't exist. We all have this capability and it's worth the work to explore.
Step 4:
So after a month of practicing ideographic representations of people, places, and things you now move onto states of being. Not just anger or happiness or stressed or anxious. Start with ideographic representations in the same way as your first month and move forward into things like not understanding or understanding, annoyance and satisfaction, tired or awake. The protocols for this are all laid down in the previous steps so stick to them. From that move to color representations and concepts. What you're doing is building a language for your subconscious to utilize when you're trying to access it. The interviewing can't be one sided and most of us go through life trying the one sided approach with no success. After two weeks of broadening your vocabulary move forward to the next step.
Step 5. Data sets:
When we are studying a particular subject that is mind numbing or difficult it can be extremely difficult to understand or retain it. Interestingly if you executed everything in the order I just laid out doing both becomes downright easy. This part of the interviewing process is where you learn to communicate and exchange suggestions and information with your subC via ideographic representations. After 6 weeks you actually become more fluid than you ever could have imagined and already your focus is sharper and your memory performing better. I found sometimes I could be in a conversation and if I wanted to remember a specific detail later my hand would draw, my mind would wander, and boom. I'd have it all down to the minutiae.
Well, when approaching studying or test taking you have a two sided approach here. You want ease in understanding the material and you want to retain it. This means you have to both suggest and ask. We'll start with suggestion first. Start the exercise like any other. Name, date, time, mood written in their respective corners. Raise and drop your pen. Pick it back up. Title your paper "understanding" and write the topic to follow it. What ever brief representation symbol flashes to mind begin to allow your hand to work it out and hold your two key concepts loosely while letting drift occur. Do this until boredom overtakes and persist. Once you have forgotten about making excuses as to why you should quit the exercise and are effectively daydreaming with your hand still moving stop the exercise and return to your academic material. If you have followed everything else to the letter you will be completely blown away when you begin to study again. It does help.
When it comes to storing information and retrieving it you start the exercise in the same and by now well practiced order. This time you write memorize and the topic name. The topic can be a page number and topic by the way. You do store it. You then allow for the ideographic symbol for this to come to mind and execute again. After the exercise read the content or data. This repeated is amazingly successful and if all has been followed will amaze you.
On your exam day you will need to have command or recall. If you have done as I instructed here you'll find it easy to do so. Simply hold the desired data or subject and request loosely and let the non writing part of your pen move absently on the desk for a second and what you want does pop up. The sky is the limit here as long as you practice constantly. You can broaden the vocabulary and interviewing process as far as you want. After all it's your mind and it is truly limitless in its capabilities. I framed the methodology around test taking as this is where I have gotten the most use from it. But it can be applied everywhere and to anything. I would like to thank you all for reading. Many blessings and Steem on.
