Alexey Budza Art therapy yoga inner artist

FOREWORD

To see the miraculous in the miraculous
here is the key to all the mysteries of the world.
Laozi [one, p. 5J
This book is a practical guide to a new method from the arsenal of art therapy - meditative drawing.
Art therapy is a modern trend in psychotherapy, informational medicine and bioenergetic healing, which uses as the main therapeutic means both the creative process in which the patient is, and its results: paintings, poems, music, etc.
Meditative drawing differs from spontaneous drawing used in psychotherapy in that it is carried out in an altered state of consciousness - meditation, into which a person is immersed with the help of relaxation, bioenergetic and breathing exercises.
The ability to draw is not required to apply this method, although as a result of the practice of the method, this ability

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ability can open up in a person along with other creative abilities.
What problems can be solved using the described method?
Clear the subconscious of painful experiences: fears, negative memories from the past, negative emotions, etc.; learn to stop the process of chaotic thinking and thereby direct the energy of the thought process to solve urgent creative problems.
The method helps a person to know himself, to reveal the depths of his subconscious and free them from the problems accumulated over the years of life, and not only in this incarnation, to learn the psychological methods of painlessly overcoming crises and to establish contact with the superconsciousness, which comes to the rescue of those who are ready to hear and accept his help.
The tasks are interesting and relevant, solving them with the help of non-traditional approaches given below, it turns out that at the same time it is possible to get rid of a number of bad habits - smoking, addiction to alcohol, gluttony. The psycho-energetic reserves released as a result of personality harmonization can be directed by a person to radically change his life at all levels: in health, in communication, in creativity, etc.
Many years ago I began to practice meditation. Then there were classes in martial arts, the study of philosophy and psychology, knowledge of the foundations of the physical existence of the world at an academic institute, as a research physicist, expeditions in search of secret knowledge to Egypt, India, Altai, acquaintance with modern trends in psychology in Germany, Sweden, Italy and Hungary, where at conferences and seminars I introduced

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experts with the results of research, which I present to your attention on the pages of this book.
In it, you will get acquainted with a practical method that will help you better understand yourself, learn to control your emotions, intuition, gain confidence in the space of the inner psycho-cosmos and harmonize your relationships with the outside world.
The first successes along this path are usually perceived as a miracle, but in the future you get used to these miracles very quickly as you understand their nature.
The biggest miracle is the ability of a person to self-transformation.
“There was no desire for spirituality in me, I developed spirituality. I was not inclined towards metaphysics - I developed into a philosopher. I did not have the ability to draw - I developed them through yoga. I transformed my nature from what it was to what it was not. I did it in some very specific way, and not with the help of a miracle, and I did it in order to show what can be done and how it can be done [2, p. 273].
This statement of the Indian spiritual teacher Sri Aurobindo, describing the process of human self-transformation, can also be attributed to those who practice the method of meditative drawing. I hope that in the process of practicing this method you will join their number and be able to supplement Sri Aurobindo's statement with a list of your amazing creative abilities and talents. I wish you, first of all, to acquire and confidently develop the most important human talent - the art of joy in life and the inseparable feelings of compassion and help for those who are deprived of this joy.
By picking up this book, you have done one of the many random things we do every day.

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Life has taught me to treat such “accidents” very attentively and responsibly, because behind their routine lies the secret of our life path and they are pointers-tips of the right direction of movement.
The method proposed to you can be compared with a large tree that has grown from a small grain of "random" clue events, to which I paid close attention, thus creating the necessary conditions for its growth. You have a chance to treat this grain book with the same care and grow your own Tree of Knowledge.
My "accident" visited me in one990 during a regular Zen meditation. Many excellent books have been written about Zen meditation, and yet there has never been and never will be a book that gives a complete and definitive definition of Zen, because its essence is inexpressible. For a brief description of this meditation, i.e., an altered state of consciousness, I will use the statement of the famous medieval Christian mystic Meister Eckhart: “The best and ultimate achievement in this life is to remain still and allow God to act and speak in you. When forces are abstracted from their bodily forms and functions, then this word is spoken. In the midst of silence, a secret word was spoken to me" [6, p. fourfour].
Zen directs the consciousness of man to this ultimate attainment. By the moment described, I already had the experience of such meditations, the beginning of which was laid by the Japanese judo wrestling as a child. My first teacher was not just a master of sports, but a Master for whom sport is just a tool that reveals the true essence of a person and overcomes the resistance of his ego.
Meditation went on as usual until I felt some volitional impulse,

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who was able to pick up a pen and start a spontaneous drawing, drawing various lines on a sheet of paper. About an hour later, before me was a portrait of a stranger in the robes of a clergyman of a cult unknown to me. The hour flew by unnoticed. In the process of drawing, I felt that meditation was getting deeper, although my eyes were open, and my attention was focused on the tip of the pen. Then, for the first time in my meditative practice, I experienced the infinity of the depth of consciousness, from which an unspeakably beautiful bliss contemplated the outer world through my eyes. Once upon a time, in my youth, doing mountain tourism, I experienced similar states of mind, climbing high into the mountains. Usually, after a long exhausting climb with a heavy backpack on your shoulders, with a constant sense of danger - a deep crevice hidden under the snow, a snow avalanche or a rockfall - the beauty of the mountain opened up at the top. landscape, the freshness of the wind filled the body with lightness, and the soul with inexpressible delight. It was an understandable, natural reaction of a person who achieved the desired goal after incredible obstacles. But how to achieve such a state due to the spontaneous movement of the hand during meditative drawing? For me, it turned out to be a mystery and a shock. In the following days, meditations also took place while painting. After them came a feeling of great surprise and childish delight before such a fantastic situation that had become a reality. I am even more surprised now, after ten years, when I know how much my subsequent life has changed due to this “accident”. Although now the surprise is complemented by an understanding of the phenomenon of meditative graphics and ways to use it in the process of harmonization and self-knowledge of a person. Now you can answer the question: "Who was depicted on my

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the first drawing, and also where do the characters and plots appear in similar drawings of other people?
The reader will find the answer to this question in the following chapters. The search for explanations of the phenomenon of meditative drawing required a long meditative and analytical work both by me and by specialists from the International Organization for the Transformation and Development of Consciousness, who invited me in one99one to a conference in Hungary. This trip opened a series of "chance meetings" with spiritual Masters of various religious traditions. Each new meeting was preceded by trials, similar to the mystery initiations of antiquity, which were passed by adherents of esoteric (secret) schools. So, in order to get to the Hungarian conference, I collected the necessary amount of money for an air ticket, but at the same time I exhausted my financial possibilities. By coincidence, I flew to Budapest