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How to protect your sleep. Psychological defense: distortion of reality or preservation of one’s “I”? The Power of Church and Faith

Today we will talk about such a phenomenon of the human psyche as psychological defense.

What is psychological protection?

This is a system of mechanisms that protect us from negative experiences, mental pain, anxiety and many other negative factors that threaten the integrity of the individual. If it were not for psychological defenses, we would constantly be under severe stress, cry or scream for any reason, throw ourselves at others, commit impulsive acts, etc. - in a word, they would see life in black.

For the first time, the Austrian psychologist, psychiatrist and founder of psychoanalysis, S. Freud, began to study psychological defenses. He interpreted the work of the defense system as a way of resolving the confrontation between unconscious drives and social norms (demands, prohibitions, etc.).

Psychological defense mechanisms are universal: they are inherent in us by nature and represent patterns of behavior or response to a traumatic situation.

Psychological defense does not change reality, events, or people’s characters; in addition, it distorts the perception of reality. In this regard, many problems remain unresolved. What to do? Psychologists advise: to make fear go away, look into its eyes. Let's sort it out in order.

Three lines of psychological defenses

There are three lines of psychological defense:

conscious stereotypes (help us exist in society);
archetypal defenses (protect society, group, collective through the individual);
unconscious defenses (protect our psyche from wear and tear).

At the same time, these lines form a holistic system that maintains our spiritual balance and helps cope with stress. Let's look at each of the lines in more detail.

Perceived stereotypes

These stereotypes are formed in our minds from early childhood, when we internalize social norms and rules. At first, these are the norms of your family: wash your hands before eating; eat with utensils rather than with your hands; draw in an album, not on a table. After some time, the child learns the norms of other communities: how to behave on the street, at a party, in kindergarten, at school, etc. All this allows us to avoid ostracism, and as a result the society in which we exist accepts us. Thanks to the principles laid down in childhood, we save time on thinking and taking actions, and also increase the likelihood of a favorable resolution of the situation.

For example, we initially learn to respect subordination, speak respectfully with elders, show signs of attention towards them, take their opinions into account, etc. We also understand the boundaries of what is permitted (for example, we learn that in a store you cannot behave at home, etc.).

Archetypal protections

This is a series of behavioral models that help to overcome difficulties and not get confused in extreme situations that arise in the life of a group, community, colleagues, friends, loved ones, etc. It is believed that these protections have been formed over thousands of years, and since the person has remained an element of the community, the protections continue to function. They do not always manifest themselves in our behavior, but only in cases when society is in danger. A person may not even know about the resources of his psyche and the capabilities of his body, and in a stressful situation, in order to save his family, he may commit heroic actions that he would not dare to do in ordinary life. Disaster medicine knows of cases where children, finding themselves in an extreme situation, without hesitation, helped those who were weaker (for example, boys helped pull girls out, gave them their clothes; girls calmed adults who could not pull themselves together). They performed such actions automatically, on a subconscious level: “If your neighbor is feeling bad, you need to help him.”

You can observe subconscious behavior patterns in yourself. For example, your friend had a fight with his parents, and you automatically begin to help him - listen, console, give advice. Many are willing to make self-sacrifice for the well-being of others. And it’s all about the subconscious, which dictates to us a program for protecting a small or large society.

Unconscious defenses

Everyone hears what they want to hear.

The essence of unconscious defense is that our psyche, without distortion, perceives only information that cannot traumatize it. If any fact, event, actions or words of a person threaten our peace of mind, cause anxiety or tension, unconscious defense immediately turns on. As a result, we do not perceive incoming information at all or perceive it in a distorted form. For example, some wives defend their husbands: “He’s not an alcoholic, he just has a stressful job.” Or a sick person says: “I feel better today, I won’t go to the doctor. I’m not sick, why are you all bothering me?” This is how the denial mechanism works: “You are all wrong, everything is fine with me/we!” As a result, a person artificially restores his mental balance, protects himself from fears, and reduces internal tension. Unfortunately, this trick of consciousness helps only for a while. An alcoholic remains an alcoholic, and a sick person does not recover. After some time, mental balance needs to be restored.

Let's consider the forms of unconscious defenses.

■ Escape. In the Paleolithic era, in case of a threat to life, a person defended himself or fled. Today escape has been modified and taken on unconscious forms. For example, if a person has not been able to build trusting relationships with people since childhood, he increasingly withdraws into himself and, as a result, becomes an introvert. Or if a person is not confident in the favorable outcome of any complex matter, he will, under any pretext, refuse to go to organizations, call people or generally make any efforts.

Basic and painful consequence escape is the inability to communicate constructively, ask for help, make suggestions or make comments if something does not satisfy. For example, fear of offending, fear of putting oneself in an unfavorable light lead to vague wording or replacement of requests. As a result, the person does not resolve his issue, wastes time and experiences personal discomfort because “nothing worked out again.”

For example, an employee returns from vacation and sees a mountain of other people’s papers on her desk. She is ashamed to ask the culprit to clean up after himself, so she does it herself. As a result, the problem is not solved, and the situation repeats itself after each vacation.

Sometimes escape manifests itself in the form of withdrawal into a specific activity (not to be confused with a hobby). In a situation of escape, a person is so carried away by his favorite activity that he directs all his mental and mental strength only to it. This activity saves him from unrequited love, from self-doubt, helps him forget about problems and personal shortcomings. Of course, such a person can demonstrate outstanding results in his field, but he will not be able to make friends or friends, because his personality has developed disharmoniously all this time.

■ Negation characterized by selective attention: “My house is on the edge, I don’t know anything.”

Selectivity helps us ignore the things that make us anxious and increase the intensity of the conflict. Denial is often the first reaction to irreversible events - illness, death. Denial can also be seen in family relationships: for many it is easier to close their eyes to a problem than to solve it. For example, a wife does not notice her husband’s alienation and, instead of talking, pretends that everything is fine. As a result, the husband leaves for someone else. Or the parents don’t notice that their son is addicted to drugs. Result: my son has a severe drug addiction. Why is this happening? People simply do not allow themselves to think that this could happen in their family.

In addition, the form of denial can take on the appearance of self-praise. For example, a child performed poorly at a competition, returns home and tells everyone about his victory, and he himself fully believes in this victory, or a lazy worker who creates the appearance of work: he litters his desk with papers (supposedly there is no time to clean), walks along the corridor with documents, stands idle in the reception area, answers the phone in an irritated voice, as if hinting: “I’m so busy, and here you are.” Moreover, he sincerely hopes that he will not be found out.

■ Rationalization. Sometimes it seems to us that it is easier to eat a toad than to admit that we are wrong. And in order not to recognize it, nature came up with a wonderful mechanism - rationalization. This mechanism helps to find explanations for one’s own unseemly behavior. Thanks to rationalization, you can isolate yourself from the “evil world” and feel like a king against the background of people who do not understand anything.

For example, a person who does not want to look for a job makes an excuse that there are no worthy offers; a child who eats all the sweets in the house believes that he is still small and can do anything; a boss who bullies his subordinates proves to himself that he is accomplishing a great mission by not allowing his employees to relax.

By the way, the hero of the story “Sakhalin” A.P. Chekhov, having killed his victim, justified his behavior by saying that he was slurping loudly at the table, violating general etiquette.

■ Suppression is expressed in the fact that we can forget some feelings, facts, events and people who brought us pain, suffering or simply any unpleasant emotions at one time. For example, the name of the person who once offended us, or the opening hours of the office where we need to go to resolve an unpleasant issue. In this way, the psyche protects itself, tries to save us from communicating with unpleasant people, protect us from going to unpleasant places, etc.

■ Repression is also associated with a special mechanism of memory. Repression is similar to suppression, except that the event is not completely forgotten. The most traumatic part is erased from memory.

For example, a friend constantly complains to you that her mother-in-law is cruel to her. When you ask her to give examples, she can't really tell you anything. He remembers that there was a conflict, but for what reason and what served as the starting point, he doesn’t remember.

Remembering more good things than bad is a natural function of the psyche. But especially sensitive people, on the contrary, remember only the bad. This leads to a depressing state, depression, painful memories of traumatic situations: “But he told me this, but he did this. How could he?

■ Substitution is expressed in the form of satisfying an unacceptable desire in another way allowed by society. It can also occur in the form of transfer from one reaction to another. On the one hand, this transfer allows us to solve the problem, and on the other hand, to avoid social censure.

For example, one person is angry with another for something and wants to take revenge on him. Since revenge is condemned by society, a person takes revenge on his enemy with offensive jokes. If he is offended, he immediately asks for an apology, saying that he did not want to offend anyone, it was just a joke.

Therefore, if they constantly make fun of you, you should not blame yourself for being too touchy. Perhaps these people hold a grudge against you, but don't know how to say it.

In office life, hidden hostility can manifest itself in the form of hypercontrol over subordinates. For example, the boss does not like an employee who is very similar to his daughter’s negligent boyfriend. He understands that if he tries to tell someone around him about the reason for his hostility, he will be laughed at. Therefore, the boss finds an artificial reason to throw out his aggression on his subordinate - he begins to control him excessively, finds fault with him, accuses him of not doing anything, etc.

■ Projection. Let’s remember the folklore: “There’s no point in blaming the mirror if your face is crooked,” “Whoever calls you names is called that himself,” “You look at your neighbor with all your eyes, but at yourself with drooping eyelids” (Vietnamese proverb).

The truth of these expressions is undeniable: before you evaluate someone, look at yourself. It’s painful to criticize yourself – it’s easier to take it out on someone else. In psychology, this behavior is called projection. With projection, a person, seeing his own shortcomings, does not want to admit them, but notices them in others. Thus, a person projects his vices and weaknesses onto other people. Agree, how difficult it is to admit to ourselves that we envy someone, and how easy it is to see this envy in another person!

You can project feelings, thoughts and even behavior. Thus, a deceiver thinks that everyone around him is a cheater and wants to deceive him, a greedy person sees those around him as stingy, and someone who needs money will hate people with low incomes.

By the way, projection has not only negative, but also positive manifestations. For example, if it seems to you that everything around you is wonderful and wonderful, this means that you are in harmony with yourself; If you see only friends in your colleagues, this means that you are a kind and sociable person. No wonder they say: “Smile at the world, and the world will smile at you.”

■ Identification is expressed in identifying oneself with a person, in appropriating his personal qualities to oneself, in elevating oneself to his image. Identification can also be expressed in the desire to be like not only one person, but also a group of people. Identification protection is also called social mimicry. Most often, social mimicry manifests itself in adolescents. For example, a schoolboy strives to be like everyone else, tries to merge with his company. If everyone in the company wears expensive jeans, he will beg his parents for them; If it’s common to smoke in a group, he will definitely become addicted to this harmful habit. The desire to be like others creates the illusion of security in a teenager.

Social mimicry also manifests itself in the desire to be like people we fear or depend on. Very often, people who are offended begin to copy the behavior of their offenders. Some people need this identification in order to become as “strong-willed” and “strong,” while others need it in order to take it out on the weaker ones. In psychology, this mechanism is called “identification with aggression.”

■ Alienation is expressed in dividing our “I” into several parts and using them consistently. This process occurs at moments when a person experiences severe physical or mental pain. Let's give the simplest example. A person who has lived in his native land almost all his life suddenly leaves for a foreign land. Undoubtedly, it will be very difficult for him to leave his native land, especially if people dear to him remain there. In a new place, it will seem to him that a piece of his soul remains in his native land.

■ Fear of new things. Have you ever noticed that your loved ones, family and friends seem to be asking for your advice, but in fact they don’t need it? Such people are generally afraid to learn something new, because they need to rebuild, reconsider their views on life, doubt previously acquired knowledge, theories and opinions. Therefore, such people subconsciously protect themselves from advice - they talk a lot themselves and don’t let you speak, they complain and don’t listen to you (vest search syndrome), they are capricious, they protest (they say that you are coming up with inappropriate advice), they accuse you of incompetence, they promise to follow the advice then, but do not fulfill their promises.

■ Artificial psychostimulants. Alcohol, tobacco, and drugs not only reduce your health to nothing, but also create the illusion of “control” of your psycho-emotional state. They, of course, do not solve the problem that has arisen.

Other unconscious defenses

These include:

psychosomatic diseases (the occurrence of somatic diseases due to mental trauma);
passive aggression (tendency to be late everywhere and everywhere, reluctance to do certain work);
reaction or aggression towards innocent people (sharp jumping up, screaming, hitting the table, aggressive attacks on people for imaginary reasons);
dissociation (after traumatic situations, the tendency to pretend that nothing happened, reluctance to solve problems, self-withdrawal);
internalization (refusal to get what you want: “Yes, it hurts me. I’ll get by”);
regression (return to childhood behavior patterns - whims, hysterics, throwing things, etc.).

The benefits and harms of unconscious defenses

Let's look at the benefits first.

Psychological defenses:

help preserve the integrity of the individual and protect it from disintegration, especially when there are conflicting desires. It is known that there are many different “I”s in a person (one “I” wants one thing, another – another, a third – a third). Psychological defenses are needed to bring all these “I” together and allow them to “agree”;
help to resist diseases, believe in one’s strength, reassure that everything will be fine, everything will be restored;
prevent disorganization of mental activity and behavior. For example, in a moment of sudden stress, disbelief in everything that is happening saves consciousness from destruction;
protect against negative qualities that a person does not possess, but mistakenly admits to himself. For example, it seems to a person that he is overly demanding of others, although in reality he is not. For the purpose of protection, he may begin to convince himself that overly demanding people are more successful in business, have excellent insight and are demanding of themselves. Thus, defenses save a person from mythical shortcomings and reduce self-blame;
restore self-esteem, help to accept a painful situation without lowering self-esteem: “Well, so be it. I’m still better than them,” “These people are unworthy of me,” etc.;
help maintain social approval. For example, a person did something wrong and, knowing this, turns the situation around: “It’s not me who is to blame, but other people/fate/circumstances”, “I’m not like that - life is like that”;
preserve relationships between people. For example, an employee does not like that his colleague gossips all the time and tries to involve him in conversation. He prefers not to bring the situation to a conflict and, instead of expressing everything, pretends to be uncommunicative.

If we talk about the dangers of psychological defenses, they are:

do not change the order of things, but only relieve anxiety and inconvenience for a while;
They distort reality and do not allow us to evaluate it normally. This is especially true when evaluating loved ones. For example, they say that “love is blind.” If a loved one suddenly commits a terrible act, we refuse to believe it, blame ourselves for not immediately understanding what kind of person he is, or rush to defend the offender;
facts and events are crowded out of consciousness. This temporarily calms, but the fear remains driven into the subconscious and from there affects the person for a long time;
people are confused. For example, instead of admitting to themselves a hostile attitude towards their child, understanding the causes of this problem and working through it, a parent hides behind overprotection and intrusiveness towards their child, which further complicates the relationship.

Mature unconscious defenses

There are natural unconscious defenses that are harmless and help cope with stress. They are called mature unconscious defenses. These include:

■ cry– a natural and natural protective reaction of a person to stress. Everyone knows that after crying, your soul becomes relatively lighter. It's all about the physiological processes occurring at this moment in the body.

Scientists believe that tears reduce pain, heal small wounds on the skin, and protect the skin from aging. In addition, crying normalizes blood pressure and has an anti-stress effect;

■ dream. Many people need long-term sleep after severe stress to restore mental and physical strength. This is how the compensation mechanism works. So if your loved one is a sleeper, don’t wake him up for no apparent reason; perhaps his body is currently busy processing stress;

■ dreams. In the last issue, we talked about how dreams help us cope with the stress accumulated during the day, that dreams simulate situations in which you can prove yourself strong, courageous and decisive, which means you can work through all your stress and overcome your fears. Only this mechanism is connected not in the real, but in the imaginary world. Consequently, the person suffers less and does not have a negative impact on others, unlike, for example, projection or rationalization;

■ sweets, as you know, raise blood glucose levels, and this promotes the production of the joy hormone - endorphin. Therefore, moderate consumption of sweets leads to stress processing. The main thing is not to get carried away and follow the rules of a healthy diet;

■ sublimation– transformation of unwanted, traumatic and negative experiences into various types of constructive and popular activities (sports, creativity, favorite work). The more success a person achieves in his favorite activity, the more stable his psyche becomes;

■ altruism. No wonder they say: “If you feel bad, help someone who is even worse.” In fact, all misfortunes are known by comparison. When we see that another person has it much worse, our own problems seem petty. In addition, any help to someone in need helps us feel needed, and this is the best way to save us from stress;

■ kind and harmless humor . As you know, a joke told at the right time defuses the situation and improves relations between interlocutors. Learn to laugh at yourself and your problems. Try to associate your problem with a joke, turn it into a funny story, Look at funny photos, download a good movie. And most importantly, smile more often, because laughter prolongs life.

Psychoenergetic protection against attacks in a dream

Since a dream represents the exit of a person’s subtle body from the physical into another, the astral world, where it is much more difficult for an untrained being to control himself, there is always a risk of being subjected to a psychic attack or an attempt at energy theft, and the thief in this case has higher chances than in ordinary life. Energy can be stolen both through an energy strike from dark forces (larvae, astral entities, night demons and “demons”, from which a person is separated by the shell of his physical body during daytime wakefulness), and through a soft connection to the subtle structures of the listed forces ( so-called soft vampirism).

Protection sometimes comes in dreams in the form of hints or advice given by one person, most often a sage or saint, to another who is in trouble or in danger. Thus, the life of Saint Ambrose of Optina describes a real case when the saint, by his appearance, saved a priest from death:

“Three times the monk appeared to the sleeping mother and persistently convinced her to get up and hurry to save her husband. The priest remained alive thanks to the holy elder. Imminent death was then upon the sleeping old man. Out of a feeling of vengeance and bitterness, his cook, instigated by an evil spirit, approached him with a knife. Only the sudden arrival of mother saved the priest from murder. Mother soon identified the mysterious monk, benefactor and savior of her husband, after accidentally seeing a photograph of Elder Ambrose in her sister’s house. In joy and spiritual awe, she began to kiss this card, apply it to her and her husband’s heads, talking about the monk as an angel sent from heaven to save from murder.”

Another case of protecting one person through the dream of another was described by priest Grigory Dyachenko at the end of the 19th century:

“The famous physiologist, professor at the University of Berlin Dubois-Reymond, giving his famous lectures on anthropology every three semesters, in which he. By the way, he sets out his theory of the limits of knowledge and considers it necessary to tell his listeners the following fact.

In a city in Pomerania, a doctor was treating a young woman for an internal disease that he could not pinpoint. He was a serious doctor, and the patient was his personal friend. However, the disease did not respond to his efforts, and the patient was slowly approaching death.

The doctor rummaged through all the medical literature, corresponded with many outstanding professors, convened consultations, did not leave the patient’s bedside for whole days, but neither he himself nor anyone else could do anything. Eight months passed like this. The doctor, exhausted and defeated, returned to his home one evening in the gloomiest mood: the patient was going to die today or tomorrow. After rummaging through some more books, the doctor went to bed.

In a dream, he sees that he is looking through a newly published brochure and comes across in it a description of a disease corresponding to the illness of his patient. Immediately he finds a recipe, which the author recommends as a very effective remedy. Amazed by the discovery, the doctor jumps up to write down a life-saving prescription, but then he wakes up, realizes that something happened to him in a dream, but cannot remember anything.

Then he falls asleep again and has the same dream again. This time he remembered the recipe well, as well as the paragraph and page, but in order not to forget, he jumped out of bed and hastily scribbled it all on the first piece of paper he found. Waking up in the morning, the doctor felt as if he had woken up from a nightmare. He got dressed and was about to go to his patient, but, glancing at the desk, he noticed some scribbles on one paper. He read them and remembered his dream.

Immediately going to the pharmacy, he ordered a mysterious medicine and came with it to his dying patient. After the first doses of the medicine, the patient began to come to life, and after a short time she completely recovered. About a year has passed. One day, a doctor receives a newly published brochure on medicine from his Berlin bookseller. Looking through this brochure, the doctor comes across a description of the very disease from which his patient suffered. Everything he reads here is so familiar to him, and yet he knows very well that he has never read it. He re-reads further and finds the same recipe that saved his patient from death last year. The doctor begins to remember, takes his book where he wrote down his dream, and compares: the same doses, pages, the same paragraph.

This incident caused a lot of noise at the time. Interested parties made precise inquiries: it turned out that both the entire brochure and, in particular, the description of the disease and the recipe first appeared exactly a year after the amazing dream; It also turned out that the author of the brochure, who lived in a completely different part of Germany, knew absolutely nothing about the Pomeranian doctor and his patient.”

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To protect yourself from these unpleasant influences in a dream, you need to:

– pray intensively before going to bed so that the subtle body rises to the high astral spheres, inaccessible to dark entities;

– master the practice of spiritual dreaming and sleep control, so that a person enters sleep consciously and crosses the boundary between wakefulness and sleep without losing the feeling of lucid wakefulness. Anyone who masters this art will learn to be aware of himself in a dream and at the same time will be able to effectively repel attacks and control his own psychoenergetic state;

– if you realize in a dream that you are under attack that you cannot cope with, try to wake up. This is not always easy, since the dark force in such cases usually tries to forcibly keep us in the astral world, falling on us with its weight (usually on the head, neck and chest). Sometimes it takes a lot of effort to free yourself. Often in such cases, it helps to perform some action that is of a spiritual nature and associated with the transition from the internal, astral plane to the external, earthly one.

For example, a very effective way to help you wake up and thus get out from under the dangerous and difficult-to-bear pressure of dark forces is to try to cross yourself and read a prayer, first mental and then real. In this case, people, as a rule, feel strong pressure on their right hand, as if physically preventing them from bringing their hand to the bridge of their nose. This pressure must be gradually overcome by an effort of will;

– learn to control the volatile and plastic matter of sleep. You need to realize that in a dream you can do whatever you want to defeat your opponent, as long as your goal is high and your thoughts are pure. Create beautiful images, destroy ugly ones and create sculptures of your own spirit from astral matter, then you will be protected from negative influences;

– at the moment of awakening, try to remember: a) your dreams, ideas, images that came into your consciousness at night; b) the image of the Teacher, or the Highest Principle, to which you always strive.

This will help you better tune in to solving the tasks of the day, set the right emotional tone for your wakefulness and protect you from the astral trail that has been following you since the night.

19. PROTECTION AGAINST ATTACKS IN YOUR SLEEP

Unlike conscious access to the astral plane, sleep is precisely an uncontrolled state. In sleep, an ordinary person is completely centered in his vital sheath and is unable to observe it uninvolved, even from a mental point of view. This is what is meant when it is said that in a dream a person is “not protected.” A person who “falls” into a dream initially lacks any critical attitude towards his emotional state; he is completely involved in it, like a piece of newspaper caught by the wind.

However, this is not what is important. If it all boiled down to the fact that in a dream a person experiences much stronger emotions than in reality, then this could only be welcomed: he entered the astral plane - just like he went to the movies. The important thing is that it is sometimes very difficult for him to disidentify with the negative states into which a person is immersed in a dream upon awakening. Sometimes, for one reason or another, he may regard them as a “psychic attack.”

This is especially difficult for people who suffer from occult belief systems. Attaching enormous importance to the information received through the “astral channel,” they are often completely unable to disidentify (The author has the impression that they simply do not want to disidentify with such a state, which is something like a fetish for them. These are vital people and this is their game, which allows feel “life” more acutely, feel that something is happening in this life. That life is not empty.) with the states created by such information and panic: “I was open, what a horror, I was open - they attacked, they infiltrated. Lord, what will happen now, what to do... “The mysterious “they” appear, and with them the inexhaustible depths of human fantasy reveal themselves.

There is, however, an opinion that you should always be open, not only in your dreams. Unfortunately, people for the most part find that it is easier to close themselves off, to “protect themselves” from what is happening to them than to open up to it, accept it, try to understand it. Therefore, a number of methods of protection against “attacks” in a dream have emerged. There are three main types of such protection, applied, respectively, before sleep, during sleep and after sleep.

1. The task of any “preventative” methods of protection before bedtime - will it be visualization of the “magic circle” (“in order to protect yourself with the Circle of Fire, you will not need to move the furniture…”) or the usual self-hypnosis formula (“I am strong… I am no one I’m not afraid...") - is to instill faith in a person: an attack will not happen, cannot happen.

The author believes that “preventive protection” is the worst of all possible protections. After all, the very fact that you used defense even before you were attacked indicates that you are AFRAID of being attacked. (The confidence that they are going to attack him is based solely on the wild imagination of the recipient himself. It is impossible to intend to attack, since an attack, no matter how unusual it may sound, is precisely a spontaneous act of will.) And this, in turn, suggests that You don’t even need to be attacked - you have already attacked yourself. Because the purpose of the attack is precisely to plunge a person into a state of fear. For a person who does not know how to be afraid (which is accessible to few), fear is the most destructive of states.

2. Sometimes, in order to repel attacks, it is advised to develop your awareness in sleep, that is, to learn to remain awake in the dream world, bringing here a center of active consciousness, differentiated from the “events” taking place here, and not just passively dissolved in them. Since such consciousness in the world of dreams is equivalent to entering the astral plane, protection in this case is no different from astral protection.

The main objection raised against the fascination with self-awareness in a dream is the following: before learning to “continue” to be awake in a dream, it is necessary to first learn to stay awake in reality.

Learning to stay awake in reality is much more difficult than learning to stay awake in a dream, since we are accustomed to taking our usual supposedly awake state for wakefulness as such. The boring situation of the “familiar” physical world depresses the waking function, while the unusual situation of realizing oneself in a dream, that is, realizing oneself is in some “other” place, exacerbates it to the limit. Therefore, of course, in order to find out what wakefulness is, it will be useful to become aware of yourself in a dream a couple of times.

K. Castaneda, for example, offers the following technique. When a person realizes that he is sleeping and dreaming, he should try (in a dream, of course) to bring his hands to his face and see them. Thus, a person acquires a body in a dream (the so-called “dream body”) and becomes fully conscious: now he is no longer just “having a dream,” but is actually in another world - the “dream world.” (See: Castaneda K. Tales of Power.)

We should not forget, however, that in reality we spend, after all, two-thirds of our lives, and in dreams - only one-third. Often people plunge into experiments with sleep, with “astrals”, etc. only in order to have the “full moral right” (“work” is underway!) to be consigned to oblivion and let “this” world take its course. most of our lives.

Another disadvantage of this type of protection is that it cannot be used immediately. The development of stable self-awareness in a dream is a complex, long-term process, and therefore such awareness can be used as a defense only by a few people - professional psychonauts. Considering everything said above, it seems obvious that non-professionals should consider a dream as a trip to a wonderful country, and should protect themselves from all possible pathogenic accidents in this country, if they happen, in reality.

3. Eliminating the results of a psychic attack that took place in a dream is, in principle, NOTHING different from eliminating the results of a psychic attack that took place in reality, since the structure and nature of the conditions caused by an attack in a dream are NOTHING different from the structure and nature of the conditions caused by the attack in reality: general weakness, negative emotional background, racing thoughts around the topic of “defenselessness against the powerful forces of darkness,” as well as imagination, imagination and once again imagination - a lot of imagination.

The specificity of attacks in a dream is that, upon waking up, a person finds himself already in an extremely negative state. To combat it, a method called “displacement” is proposed. According to the traditional occult interpretation, this requires: 1. “breaking contact with hostile forces,” 2. “cleansing the atmosphere of the environment,” and 3. “restoring the aura.” (See: Dion Fortune, op. cit., p. 176.) In fact, these three stages correspond to working with three “shells.” The task is to push negative mental information from the “deeper” shells to the more “superficial” ones.

Repression should begin with the memory of the dream, realizing that memory in this case is a tool for the invasion of the past into the present. Nothing that you saw in your dream is NO LONGER at the moment. Realize the damn fact. At the moment, you are simply in a certain negative state, and it is precisely the memories of what you saw and experienced that contribute to the preservation and strengthening of this state.

Next, you should calm your imagination, realizing that in this case it is a tool that projects your present state into the future, that is, prolonging this negative state. Recollection of the materials in this text can help calm the imagination.

Now, with the help of a mind freed from the slavery of memory and imagination, you can analyze what causes your current negative emotional state. You will find that it was caused by the same memory and imagination!

Perhaps there is also a negative “energy” state left: although attacks in a dream are, as a rule, vital in nature, the general negative emotional state often “detonates” on the energy. In this case, three options are possible. With a sufficiently developed level of concentration, you can use concentration protection. You can dance the “Victory Dance”, take a cold shower, do exercises, etc. Or you can take this opportunity to observe the subtle energy processes of increasing tone, influx of strength and other restorative sensations.

The advantages of “protection after sleep” are also evidenced by the fact that an ordinary person is unconscious in a dream and, in any case, is aware of the attack only upon awakening. You can only talk about an attack when you are aware of it. If some negative “event” took place in the dream, which you regard not as an attack, but as a nightmare, then this “event” cannot take over your imagination and thus cause you any harm. The imagination, which establishes a negative dominant in the psyche, is activated only at the moment of realizing that this was “not just a nightmare.”

Therefore, if at the moment of awakening or after it you decide for any reason that it was “not just a nightmare”, but that you were attacked, then you should use the defense as if the attack was not committed in a dream , but in reality. Remember once and for all: only the moment in which the awareness of the attack occurs is significant. It is at this moment that the attack occurs. Only awareness allows the attack to be carried out; awareness is a kind of “anti-defense”.

And at the same time it constitutes a necessary condition for any protection. It is awareness that determines both “defense” and “attack”; all this becomes possible solely thanks to awareness. It creates conditions for both, observes both, or one or the other, or does not observe at all. It may be involved in both, or in one of them, or not at all. Awareness is the Master, the Master, who is often unaware of his mastery. The mastery of awareness makes all defense meaningless. Awareness is precisely anti-defense.

From the book Development of Superpowers. You can do more than you think! author Penzak Christopher

Protection If you feel danger, enter a light meditative state and ask the Goddess and God to protect you. Call on your protective spirits. You don't have to know who they are to ask them to intervene for your highest good. You will learn more defensive techniques and

From the book Book of Secrets. The Incredibly Obvious on Earth and Beyond author Vyatkin Arkady Dmitrievich

Some of the history of attacks by the forces of darkness In the winter of 1606 in Basel there was a trial of a certain Françoise Beauce, who was accused of conspiring with the devil who had bewitched her husband. Françoise swore that she did not summon the devil, but he himself came and paralyzed her husband, who was somewhat

From the book Aspects of Orthodox Esotericism - “Demons”! author Smirnov Terenty Leonidovich

OTHER TECHNIQUES OF SHADOW ATTACKS Demons are unsurpassed masters of creating various illusions, psychic projections, provocations and generally all sorts of exciting obsessions in that person or other people, whose perceptions they skillfully manipulate,

From the book Aura at Home author Fad Roman Alekseevich

Chapter 10 Colors in the interior, arrangement of furniture, decorative details, use of amulets in accordance with certain zones. Talismans and protection of the office, bedroom, bathroom, corridor. Protection of the house and surrounding area. Office Tips for buying an apartment, house,

From the book Book of Theorems 2 author Lensky Vasily Vasilievich

Defense The interlocutor tones up the defensive reaction if: 1. The matrix of the type of mind that he uses does not find itself in relations (statements).2. The interlocutor is obviously critical or skeptical towards you.3. When information is compared to already existing concepts

From the book Magic for Every Day from A to Z. A detailed and inspiring guide to the world of natural magic by Blake Deborah

Protection Perhaps protective spells are the most practical and useful magic performed by witches. No, I'm not talking about conjuring a condom before the Great Ritual (although that's not a bad idea, if you think about it). We live in a scary world. There are many dangers in it -

From the book Modern Combat Tantric Magic author Darol Alexey

Protection Exercise 1. “Nourishment of feminine energy” 1) Sexual contact is preceded by concentration on a white-blue pearl (in the center of the forehead or in the area between the eyebrows, whichever is more convenient for you); 2) Mastery of the penile canal (preceded by TAU). Cleansing his channel. A member is an energy channel,

From the book A Textbook of Magic author Estrin Anatoly Mikhailovich

Protection Any magical work begins with your own protection! A magician without protection is vulnerable to opponents and enemies. Achieving his personal goals or helping people, the magician constantly violates someone's interests and plans, destroys someone's dreams and hopes. People are jealous of each other

From the book Act or Wait? Questions and answers by Carroll Lee

Protection Question: Dear Kryon, I read that all Lightworkers are provided with additional protection these days. Can we say that we are completely protected from those invisible forces that would like to lead us astray? Jesus spoke of having legions of angels behind him, ready to

From the book Mental Self-Defense by Fortune Dion

Part IV. Methods of defense against psychic attacks Chapter 15. Physical aspects of psychic attack and defense B

From the book Secret Knowledge. Theory and practice of Agni Yoga author Roerich Elena Ivanovna

Protection from negative psychoenergetic influences and astral attacks 07/12/38 ...I would advise, in a moment of acute need, to focus on only one formula relating to a given case, so as not to break the energy. So, if you need to repel a dark attack, then

From the book Teaching of Life author Roerich Elena Ivanovna

[Protection from astral attacks] ...I would advise, in a moment of urgent need, to concentrate on only one formula relating to a given case, so as not to break the energy. So, if you need to repel a dark attack, then you should focus only on repelling it, choosing

From the book Psychic Show. How it was author Zateev Andrey Alexandrovich

From the book Principles of Modern Mental Self-Defense author Danchenko Vladimir

19. PROTECTION AGAINST ATTACKS IN YOUR SLEEP Unlike conscious access to the astral plane, sleep is precisely an uncontrollable state. In a dream, an ordinary person is completely centered in his vital shell and is unable to observe it uninvolved, at least from the mental

From the book Vaccination against stress [How to become the master of your life] author Sinelnikov Valery

PROTECTION Recently, a lot of books and other types of information about so-called energetic and psychological protection have appeared on the shelves. Some advise surrounding yourself with a reflective cap or energy cocoon. Others wear some kind of modules, and even

There are many different opinions about how much sleep a person needs to feel alert and full of energy.

But you will probably agree that after waking up, each of us wants to be in a good mood and have enough energy to face a new day.
But what to do when your mood is at zero, and you wake up inexplicably anxious and even more tired than before going to bed?

Moreover, this is facilitated by the collective energy of thousands, even millions of people...

Where do you “walk” during sleep?

When you go to bed, only your body sleeps, and your consciousness is awake and at the same time moves through different parallel realities - your consciousness goes where it wants to go. And this direction does not always coincide with where you yourself would like.

It often happens that you feel anxiety, worry, doubt or fear... No matter how much you try to tune in to the positive during the day, subconsciously this thought does not give you peace.

You fall asleep, your mind turns off, and your spiritual part goes for a walk.
Where do you think, in such a state, under the guidance of anxious thoughts and doubts, your consciousness can go?

Of course, to where there are corresponding vibrations - to the epicenter of the event that worries you. As a result, instead of relaxing, being filled with strength and serenity, and waking up refreshed, you not only wake up tired, as if you had been working all night, you wake up in a disgusting mood.

Moreover, after active meditative, spiritual and energy practices, your sensitivity is many times higher than that of other people. It's time to take care of your protection tools.

How to protect yourself while you sleep

1. Surround yourself before bed with a dense cocoon of white light.

This is the simplest method that should work automatically for you.

Before you fall asleep, surround yourself with dense white light, or imagine that you are in a luminous white cocoon through which low vibrational thoughts and emotions do not pass.

How to get it to turn on automatically

If you suddenly have anxious thoughts, imagine that you press the “Start” button and you are immediately surrounded by a white cocoon of light.

In order for automaticity to appear in actions, you need to imagine it several times in a relaxed state. So clearly that you will even feel that the space around you becomes thick, begins to shine, and nothing passes through this white light from the outside to you.

You will feel protected and safe, then later this will happen automatically at your very thought.

2.Create a safe haven for yourself

Before you go to bed, express your intention of where you will go in your dream. One of the great masters advised to build a secret shelter for sleeping, something like a house or place of your dreams, build something that in reality you do not have, but that you would like to have.

The subconscious mind itself will tell you the form, the main thing is that you feel safe there and can relax there.

Several times, consciously build the landscape surrounding your dream with all the details: a mountain stream, just mountains, on the shore of a lake, on the seashore, a pine forest, whatever is closer to you. The atmosphere of the space can be anything. This is a virtual space that you create yourself.

Imagine your quiet refuge, and when you go to bed, say to yourself:

“I'm going to my favorite secret place to sleep.”.

And then you can be sure that everything will be fine with you during sleep, and you will not pick up extraneous energies and emotions.

3. Call on your Guardian Angel to protect your sleep

You can always call upon the protection of your Guardian Angel. That's why they are called Guardian Angels.

For those who have advanced far along the path of spiritual development, it is already funny to turn to angels - we ourselves are creators. But sometimes it is necessary.

You know that you are worried about something, no matter how consciously you try to cope with it, in any case, part of these energies will be suppressed by you.

This means that in a dream, when the control of the mind subsides, you can directly open up to all these energies. In the morning you will wake up broken, with a feeling of anxiety.

Summon protection. There is a beloved great Master - call them. Guardian Angels - call upon him.

4. Protect the space you live in

In the evening, as you begin to fall asleep, you enter a natural meditative state.

Take a few deep breaths, close your eyes, imagine that you are a great artist who is painting: take a brush and paint the walls, the ceiling, or the floor with purple stripes.

If you want, add some creativity to it: white specks, gold threads - whatever your imagination has enough for.

The main thing is that at this moment you create a defense, a defense through which no other people’s influence on the energetic and spiritual level will pass to you.

Draw purple threads along all the walls, along all window openings, which is important, in all the doors so that when you enter the house, all the negativity remains behind the doors...

How does violet light work? It cleanses all emotions, all negativity, everything that you picked up somewhere outside, so that it doesn’t come into the house. This will benefit both you and all your relatives who live in this place.

For those who do not live alone in an apartment/house, ask for the permission of the Higher Self of all those involved: husband - husband, grandmother - that means grandmothers, child - that means child.

So that they don’t have withdrawal symptoms later, especially the older generation.

5. Take a purple shower in the morning

If you suddenly wake up in an anxious state, do not forget to cleanse yourself.

If you have a habit of doing energy exercises, before sending energy flows up and down, bathe yourself in a purple shower. If you take a shower in the morning, imagine that you are bathing in waves of violet light. Those. Encode the daily ritual of taking a shower in the morning with an action, with your intention, that at this moment all unbalanced emotions drain from you, if there are obsessive thoughts, then they drain.

6. Cleaning your apartment with candles
If someone is drawn to religion, do not forget to periodically light a candle, by the way, not necessarily a church candle, and simply walk around the perimeter of the entire apartment with a lit candle, looking into all corners.

There are many different opinions about how much sleep a person needs to feel alert and full of energy.

But you will probably agree that after waking up, each of us wants be of good cheer And have enough energy to greet a new day.

But what to do when your mood is at zero, and you wake up inexplicably anxious and even more tired than before going to bed?

Do you want to get rid of fatigue and lack of energy? Do you want to be full of strength and greet the new day with joy? Then you should reconsider your habits! It's very easy to do...
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Moreover, this is facilitated by the collective energy of thousands, even millions of people...

Where do you “walk” during sleep?

When you go to bed, only your body sleeps, and consciousness is awake and at the same time moves across different parallel realities - your consciousness goes where it wants to go.

Dreams provide us with health, clues in life situations, connection with multidimensional space and alternative realities.

And this is not always the direction matches where you would like it to go.

It often happens that you feel anxiety, worry, doubt or fear... No matter how you try to tune in to the positive during the day, this thought subconsciously doesn't give you peace.

You fall asleep, your mind turns off, and your spiritual part goes for a walk.

Where do you think, in such a state, under the guidance of anxious thoughts and doubts, your consciousness can go?

Of course, to where there are corresponding vibrations - to the epicenter of the event that worries you.

As a result, instead of resting, being filled with strength and serenity, and waking up refreshed, you wake up not only tired As if you've been working all night, you wake up in a foul mood.

Moreover, after active meditative, spiritual and energy practices than other people.

It's time to take care of your protection tools.

How to protect yourself while you sleep

1. Surround yourself before bed with a dense cocoon of white light.

This is the simplest method that should work automatically for you.

Before you fall asleep, surround yourself with dense white light, or imagine that you are in a glowing white cocoon, through which low vibrational thoughts and emotions do not pass.

How to get it to turn on automatically

If you suddenly have anxious thoughts, imagine that you are pressing to the "Start" button, and you are immediately surrounded by a white cocoon of light.

In order for automaticity to appear in actions, you need to imagine it several times in a relaxed state. So clearly that you will even feel that the space around you becomes thick, begins to shine, and through this white light nothing does not pass from outside to you.

You will feel protected and safe, then later it will be happen automatically at one thought of yours.

Learn how to protect yourself when around people.

2. Create a safe haven for yourself

Before you go to bed, express your intention of where you will go in your dream.

One of the great masters advised build a secret hideout for sleep, something like your dream home or place, build something that you don’t have in reality, but that you would like to have.

The subconscious itself will tell you the form, the main thing is that you are there felt safe and could rest there.

Imagine your quiet refuge, and when you go to bed, say to yourself: “ I'm going to sleep in my favorite secret place».

And then you can be sure that everything will be fine with you during sleep, and you will not pick up extraneous energies and emotions.

3. Call on your Guardian Angel to protect your sleep

You can always call upon the protection of the Guardian Angel. That's why they are called Guardian Angels.

For those who have advanced far along the path of spiritual development, it is already funny to turn to angels - we ourselves are creators. But sometimes it is necessary.

You know that you are worried about something, no matter how consciously you try to cope with it, in any case, part of these energies will be suppressed by you.

This means that in a dream, when the control of the mind subsides, you can directly open up to all these energies. In the morning you will wake up broken, with a feeling of anxiety.

Summon protection. There is a beloved great Master - call them. Guardian Angels - call upon him.

4. Protect the space you live in

In the evening, as you begin to fall asleep, you enter a natural meditative state.

Take a few deep breaths, close your eyes, imagine that you are great artist who paints: take a brush and paint the walls, ceiling with purple stripes, you can decorate the floor.

If you want, add some creativity to it: white specks, gold threads - whatever you have enough imagination for.

The main thing is that at this moment you create protection, protection through which no other people’s influence on the energetic and spiritual level will pass to you.

Draw purple threads along all the walls, along all window openings, which is important, in all the doors so that when you enter the house, all the negativity remains behind the doors...

How does violet light work? It cleanses all emotions, all negativity, everything that you picked up somewhere outside, so that it doesn’t come into the house. This will benefit both you and all your relatives who live in this place.

For those who live in an apartment/house more than one, ask resolution of the Higher Self everyone involved: husband - husband, grandmother - that means grandmothers, child - that means child.

So that they don’t have withdrawal symptoms later, especially the older generation.

5. Take a “purple” shower in the morning

If you suddenly wake up in an anxious state, don't forget to cleanse yourself.

If you have a habit of doing energy exercises, before sending energy flows up and down, bathe yourself in a purple shower.

If you take a shower in the morning, imagine that you bathe in waves of violet light.

Those. Encode the daily ritual of taking a shower in the morning with an action, with your intention, that at this moment all unbalanced emotions drain from you, if there are obsessive thoughts, then they drain.

6. Cleaning the apartment with candles

If anyone is attracted to religion, do not forget light a candle periodically, by the way, not necessarily a church one, and just walk around the perimeter of the entire apartment with a lit candle, looking into all the corners.

If you add to this matter the intention that you burn out stagnant energies, - it will work.

Basically any tool can be used here as long as you know what you are using it for. But the most important thing that I direct your attention to is that both your mood and the state in which you wake up - everything depends on you.

Will you succumb to this state, or will you take control once again on yourself and make an effort, quite small, as you see, in order to change this. And after some time this will begin to happen automatically.