It assumes that from the moment we decided to perform this Psychical Harmonization (to correct our own errors of judgment which already exist in the psyche), we have to choose some periods during a day (for performing the inner analysis) in which to analyze one or another from these wrong judgments specific to the concrete mental (like the pride, the pride, the fear, the sadness, the greed and the debauchery), to the philosophic-existential mental (of different beliefs and doctrines, of the non-ideals) or to the intuitive or volitive mental.
We recommend to begin with those specific to the concrete mental. Thus, for a certain period of time, (let’s say of seven days) we have as a purpose the studying of those seven ways of thinking mentioned above, one by one. Every day, in our moments of meditation and peace, we’ll focus upon this Psychical Harmonization and we’ll study one of them (let’s say that in the first day is the pride, in the second one is the anger, etc.).
So, we’ll write down all our observations regarding the four stages mentioned before. For instance, we can write down that at a certain moment during a day, we felt the state of anger.
We realize that this state is one of specific suffering and that it shows us the presence of a wrong judgment in the psyche.
Then we write down (or describe) in the notebook the circumstances in which that state appeared (for e.g. we received a reprimand or our car broke, etc.).
After that we try to remember and to write down in the notebook exactly the way we thought in those moments or what kind of judgments we sustained in the psyche (for example “damn fool, he can’t see he makes mistakes” or “damn it, that car brakes all the time”).
In the last stage of our analysis, starting from the judgments identified in the third stage, we try to identify the mistake and the specific false expectation a specific to them.
In the above case we can see that, behind of what we thought then, there is a deeper implicit judgment like:
“he should always realize when he makes mistakes”.
This is an obvious false expectation related with different psychical mechanisms, among which we have to mention those specific to the mental automatic process or to the copying of some social behaviors from the instinct of herd, or from different other reasons.
So, we can commit mistakes without even realizing this... To pretend that we are always aware (we or the others) that we err, is an absurd claim with no applicability into practice.
Being aware of this, we can identify the error of judgment and correct it.
We’ll also realize that the state of anger won’t appear anymore in similar circumstances (with the condition to continue to repeat the process which made us aware of the wrong judgment, as many times as possible and thus to transform it in an automatic process).
So, we can notice that due to the mechanisms specific to the psyche, the simple awareness of an error of judgment is not enough. If we want it completely destroyed, we must repeat this awareness as many times as possible; after 7 to 15 counscious repetitions, the new judgment (the correct one) starts to become more and more stable and then, by using it in the circumstances which previously produced the wrong way of thinking (the anger), it strengthens and becomes an automatic process, a reflex (but whose manifestation is in our favor this time).
In the situation with the car, the wrong judgment is obvious: the car doesn’t break all the time but only from time to time.
It’s advisable to begin with this Static Psychical Harmonization because we make it “objectively”, at cold, and thus we can easily detach of it and analyze it more objectively.
After we’ll assimilate very well all the steps implied by the Psychical Harmonization process and after we will learn to detach ourselves by the circumstances using different mental techniques-in order to have a more objective attitude towards them-we’ll be able to pass at the Dynamic Psychical Harmonization.
5/22/08
The Static Individual Psychical Harmonization
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