STRUCTURE OF THE METHOD "AFFECTIVE RESTRUCTURING"

Orlin Baev

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Above, I described the key approach, the core of the therapy, which is applied in all and next units. This approach is also the first part of the whole therapy - the prime module. The restructuring as it is described above, works mainly on the symptoms of the treated disorder. This is a necessary and irreplaceable stage. For example, if a man comes to the dentist with severe pain, the doctor will firstly anaesthetize the inflammation, and after that he/she will undertake to investigate the reasons for its occurrence and the ways for its more profound treatment. In the same way, the first step of the affective restructuring is the direct intervention and influence on the phobia, depression, obssessiveness, etc.

The next therapeutic modules of the psychotherapy "affective restructuring" are:

1. Cognitive monitoring and restructuring of the set in the systematic relations cognitive schemes

The monitoring here includes examination of the family, professional, friendly and other social systems. The so called circular thinking, where a permanent link exists between the members of the system, is used, and the symptom of a certain unit (person) of this link is only a consequence of the satisfaction of the impulses of the entire system. The subsystems: parental one, of the siblings (brothers and sisters), hierarchical one, etc. are examined; the degree of rigidity or flexibility of the rules in the systems is established. The therapist finds the set desadaptive cognitive schemes in the patient/s and facilitates their grafting. At the level of the systematic relations, the real behavioral actions and changes with respect to subsystems, rules, hierarchy and behaviors, satisfying the circular symptoms laying process, play also a big role.

2. Cognitive monitoring and restructuring of the engraved during the life cycle, early childhood years, prenatal period and in the genogram affective psycho-emotional matrices

The monitoring of the life cycle and childhood, except by direct gathering of information from the patient and his/her relatives, is based on his/her dreams, language and behavioral mistakes, and regressive visualization. The genealogical tree is extremely important, because all current basic predispositions of the individual are set in it. The mental, sensual and behavioral life of our ancestors is set in us at a genetic level, and mentally it is manifested as unconscious cognitive schemes, models of behavior and emotional reactions, preferences and other mental characteristics.

The prenatal process - the attitude and the experiences of the mother towards him/her - is of extreme importance for the whole next life of the individual.

After being analyzed and realized, the illuminated by the gaze of consciousness maladaptive cognitive schemes are "grafted" to the cognition of the Entire Personality.

3. Self-Actualization. Will and Motivation for Achievements. Emotional Intelligence

Self actualization

Remark: It is passed on to each next therapeutic module, only at the presence of motivation on behalf of the patient.

Self actualization is the forming of a stable, internal-mental and socially integrated personality, of an individual, living in harmony with him-/herself and the others, happy, strong-willed and strong person.

When somebody, who has lived with a certain problem for long years and at a given moment, with the help of the therapist, liberates from it, the joy of life and its immense possibilities come back. If someone has been depressed by his/her neurosis for months, years, and sometimes decades, its removal opens in front of him/her the doors of that spontaneous fabulous joy that he/she has forgotten long ago.

Practical methods:

1. Development of the Will and Motivation for achievements - the development of one bright and joyful will is an obligatory attribute on the road of self-actualization.

Will becomes resilient in difficulties - but it is not violence. Will is qualitatively developed consciousness, which raises the basic mental dichotomy passion-aggression at a higher level of manifestation as love-creativeness.

Chastity: practical test for the establishment of the higher human cognition in our psycho-physiological organism. For the purposes of this stage of the therapy "Affective restructuring", the patient is directed in the control over his/her mental processes and the oppressing power of the will during the period of chastity, prescribed by the therapist. The duration of this period varies in accordance with the goal and the actual abilities of the individual for psycho-sublimation.

Therapeutic diet: no matter how trivial it sounds, but even 3 or 5 days on a fruit diet activate powerful perturbations in the mental apparatus of the man. The direct provocation of the pleasure rewarding, obtained during feeding, on which each person is unconsciously dependent, requires powerful inclusion of the will, the emotional intelligence and the ability for emotional sublimation (grafting).

2. Emotional intelligence

Training in the awareness, the correct directing and attitude towards the own emotions.

3. Training in "Sacred sexuality"

Libido and the way of its usage is a central factor for the healthy or neurotic mental functioning.

4. Training from memory and visualization

The memory and the related abilities for concentrated attention and bright imagination are needed in each sphere of our everyday life.

© Orlin Baev
© Galina Markina - translated from bulgarian
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© E-publisher LiterNet, 29.12.2010
Orlin Baev. Transpersonal psychology. Sacred sexuality. Varna: LiterNet, 2010.