Review Technique: Description of Practice

A practice called "re-viewing" is one of the types of work with energy - the one that a person has lost in the past, as well as the one that forcibly "stuck" in his biofield from other people. The main objective of this technique is to switch to the present and turn your back on your past - in other words, stop making important life decisions based on past negative experiences.

The Technique of Carlos Castaneda

One of the most important components of the recap technique is breathing. With it, a practitioner consciously redirects the work of his own body from destruction to self-healing and healing. Past experience no longer dominates him. The mystic and author of a series of books, Carlos Castaneda, the pioneer who tested this technique, adopted this technique from the magician named Don Juan. For the first time, the term “review” is found in Castaneda’s book, The Power of Silence, written in 1987.

Benefits of Practice

The constant interchange of emotional and spiritual energy leads to the fact that a person gains some opinion about himself, which over the years is very difficult to change. He becomes a hostage of those ideas about himself that were imposed on him from the outside. And in this case, it is proposed to use an unusual technique called re-viewing. Why do you need a re-look technique? What exactly does she give?

• Liberty. This magical technique allows you to destroy the self-image that was imposed on a person in society. It helps to free oneself from the restrictions imposed on him, the lack of freedom in the actions that led to self-restraint. According to mystics, the fullness of various styles of behavior becomes accessible to a person - from long-standing and half-forgotten, which could be used only a few times in a lifetime, to completely new ones. Thus, a person gets a chance to build his interaction with people differently than it was before. He is freed from old behavioral patterns.
• Lucid dreams. The technique allows you to free the unconscious from too intense emotional experiences. She cleanses of accumulated fears, hopes for the future. The space of the unconscious becomes cleaner. This allows you to see yourself in dreams, to control your behavior in them.
• Obtaining a “pass” to the rebirth of the most important traumatic event in life. Many people wonder whether a person changes if his behavior, as psychoanalysts claim, is hard-coded by society in childhood. It is often difficult for an adult to establish the true root causes of his current psychological problems. But this allows you to do a re-look technique. Esotericists argue that after reaching a certain point in development, personal growth is possible only after a colossal shock - an event that once became terrifying for the person, shaking the foundations of his being. This event is called the “pass”. There is no way to intentionally find this pass. But every person who will perform the technique of re-examination, sooner or later come across him.

Preparation for the execution of the methodology: compiling a list

Before embarking on this esoteric technique, you need to make a list of all the people with whom you have communicated in life. This is a very long and painstaking work. It may take a lot of time. The first on this list should be sexual partners, since it is on them that the lion's share of human energy is spent. During the re-look technique, they are subject to recall first. The list should end with father and mother. After all, it is their figures that are key in shaping a person’s worldview.

How to make a list

A description of the re-viewing technique was first introduced to the world by Carlos Castaneda. According to the mystic, in order to remember as many people as possible, it is first useful to refresh your memory through the memory of the most striking events that have occurred in life. These can be those events that taught something important, or, on the contrary, became traumatic. It is also worth recalling those incidents that caused serious changes in life.

Based on the events recovered in memory, they go directly to people, putting them on the list. It is recommended to start compiling it from the present to the past, since recent memories are fresh and with their help you can activate the ability to remember.

Highlighting areas

Another way to make a detailed list to remember your life is to select certain areas or types of activities that are an important part of everyday reality. Most typical examples may include:

• houses in which you had to live;
• love affairs;
• family-kinship relationships;
• Work;
• school, university;
• friends.

It is necessary to focus on your own experience. If a person is a closed introvert, he should not try to make a list of friends. A person who has never moved in his entire life is unlikely to help remember anything in the “Home” category. The most effective will be those lists that are directly related to real life.

Setting up

Usually, the technique of re-examination is carried out in a sitting position in a large cardboard or wooden box. It should have a ventilated top. Castaneda writes the following:

"... Stalkers use crates or earthen coffins to lock themselves in them while they relive, and not just review every moment of their lives."

If there is no box, then you should perform the technique in any enclosed space, in the dark. For example, closing in the pantry. Or you can cover the bathroom with something warm and turn off the lights.

The venue for the practice must be quiet and comfortable. Preferably, no one distracts at this time. This is especially important at the first stage, while the practitioner has not yet developed energy sensitivity. Some esotericists recommend performing the technique on condition of full sensory deprivation: in a room where it is dark, quiet, and also a bit crowded. For this purpose, a specially prepared box is suitable.

But if the practitioner or his close ones is a bit shocking, then you can completely do without a cramped box. The complete absence of external stimuli is necessary for a more complete immersion in the past during the recollection of a certain situation. A small tightness will further enhance this effect.

Execution technique

The Castaneda review technique includes the following steps:

1. Initially, you need to sit in a special box or a dark room.
2. Then you need to redirect attention to the experiences of your body during a particular life situation, fully concentrating on them. In other words, you need to remember what happened and how, what the stop was. It is necessary, as it were, to be in that situation again, at the same time experiencing the whole range of sensations.
3. Holding the picture in your imagination, you need to turn your head from the right shoulder to the left, touching his chin. At the same time as the turn, a slow, deep breath is performed with the intention of taking away all your energy left in that situation. In other words, taking a breath, the practitioner again draws in his psychological powers, takes them into his body.
4. Then comes a short pause.
5. After it, the head is turned slowly to the right shoulder, accompanied by an exhalation and the intention to give someone else's energy to those people who brought it.
6. The process is performed anew.

Do I need to be a sorcerer's apprentice to use the technique?

Taisha Abelard, one of the students of Carlos Castaneda, calls a re-view of one of the most ancient techniques that was inherited by the students of Don Juan. However, it was almost forgotten by the ancient magicians for the reason that they were more interested in power over other people.

To use this technique, you do not need to be a follower of a magician or any guru. It can be performed by absolutely any person who shows interest in her. This technique allows you to destroy the imposed ideas of a person about himself.

Optimal time

The period from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. is the best time to conduct a re-viewing technique. The return of energy to this interval occurs in the most complete way. Most people are already sleeping at this time and do not interfere with their attention. This applies not only to family members living under the same roof, but also to the entire society living in the city. People sleep, and magical technique is easier to do. But if there is no possibility to conduct practice in a given period, then it can be done at any other time.

If you can’t concentrate

Even if the focus of attention jumps, and focus does not go, it is necessary to continue the practice. Over time, a skill will develop that helps maintain focus for a long time. After about a week of daily execution of the technique in about an hour of time, the practitioner was surprised to note that it becomes much easier for him to concentrate.

If no energy is felt

In this case, it is necessary to continue the technique until the body learns to feel the energy flows. After a maximum of one month, the practitioner begins to distinguish his own energy from the energy of his partners, relatives or people from the list of friends. As a rule, this happens even earlier - for some practitioners already on the first or second exercise.

How to understand that it's time to end the practice?

Experienced esotericists recommend completing the re-examination, focusing on their feelings. If a person recalls a situation, and it becomes gray for him, empty - it means that there is no longer an emotional component in it. If there are emotions, you must continue to perform the technique until they disappear.

Another common question of practitioners is: what should be the total duration of a series of exercises in order to completely take away one's own energy and return someone else's? Ideally, it is necessary to reconsider all contacts with people in whom there was a serious exchange of energy, until there are no emotions left in the memory. After that, a person will have the feeling that he simply knows him as an ordinary acquaintance. For this reason, it is not recommended to carry out the technique with those relationships that a person would like to maintain at the moment.

Reviewing Parent Relationships

The significance of the past in the present is often underestimated by man. But it becomes possible to neutralize the accumulated negative consequences of socialization only if the person has already gained enough experience in conducting the practice of re-examination.

Despite the fact that the re-examination of relations with parents plays a crucial role, this does not mean that the practitioner will get the desired effect only when he starts the practice of re-reviewing the relationship with them.

Gradual practice, involving a systematic repetition of one's own personal history, quickly allows a person to understand that all his behavior is characterized by monotony, and in a number of situations he constantly shows the same reactions.

Difference from psychoanalysis

Castaneda has repeatedly emphasized that recapitulation is not psychoanalysis and cannot be equated with it. Even if psychologists use this technique, such a definition may not be correct. The fact is that rational analysis negatively affects memory. During the review, they don’t reflect on past experience and do not evaluate it. It is just once again experienced in memory. Thanks to this experience, a person gets the opportunity to gain true knowledge. Castaneda calls him “knowledge of the body,” which, in contrast to logical reasoning, instantly affects life, a person’s perception of his everyday world.

The importance of the technique for those associated with mysticism

Castaneda himself wrote that recapitulation is an integral step in the development of each follower of his teachings. If this practice is not passed, a person will not be able to move further in the direction of development assumed by his concept. Here is what he writes:

If stalkers have not passed this preparatory stage in order to return the threads left by them in the world, and in particular in order to discard the threads left by others, there is no way to practice controlled stupidity, because these other people's threads are the basis for unlimited growth of self-esteem.

Review Technique: reviews

As for the reviews on this technique, they can be divided into several categories.

• Those people for whom the technique didn’t work for some reason say that the practice helped them recall some moments from the past, but didn’t have a significant impact on perception.
• Those who have been helped by a review to adjust some areas of life, but these changes cannot be called global. Many of these practitioners write that if they continued to do the exercise, they could achieve better results.
• Practitioners who have made significant progress in this exercise. They were able to transform relationships with other people, take a different look at the world. This technique has become for them truly the key to success. If earlier they thought about whether a person is changing, now they themselves have become the answer to this question. After all, this practice has completely changed them.
• Some practitioners write that for them, the main factor in achieving a positive result was strict adherence to the rules of the technique. At first they did not compile lists of people in relation to whom a re-examination was carried out. But then, when they began to record the names of friends, the process went faster. Also, for them a key condition was the location during the practice. Being in an ordinary room, they did not get the desired effect. If it was possible to execute the technique in a confined space, the action was higher.
• There are those practitioners for whom the combination of this technique with other practices - meditation, yoga, and even psychotherapy - turned out to be important.

The technique of re-viewing is unusual, but for many it is truly effective. Therefore, it is worth trying to everyone who is interested in self-development. Ultimately, she will not be able to hurt, and the likelihood of gaining new experience and breaking free from old habits is quite high provided that practice is regular.