Paradoxical Breathing in Reflex Yoga

Reflex Yoga is based on the observation that the unconscious mind has far greater control of behavior, posture and breathing than the conscious mind. There is an immense amount of unconscious activity involved in standing, sitting and breathing. With perseverance we can "stand up straight" and "breathe deeply and evenly," and these instructions can be internalized and habitualized. But we must ask if this is the purpose and goal of yoga, even when backed by scientific research and traditional authority.

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Psycho-analysis and its Developments

Journal of Mental Science ◽

10.1192/bjp.72.299.542 ◽

1926 ◽

Vol 72 (299) ◽

pp. 542-573

Author(s):

W. A. Potts

Keyword(s):

Free Association ◽

Mental Processes ◽

The Unconscious ◽

Conscious Mind ◽

Royal Road ◽

Personal Consciousness ◽

The Individual ◽

Past Experiences ◽

The Mind ◽

Unconscious Mind

There is in the mind a mass of past experiences which cannot be readily remembered. We also know that while the individual is aware of some of the processes of elaboration going on in his mind, there are other mental processes which elude his observation. Both forgotten experiences and unrealized mental processes constitute material of which the individual was said to be “not personally conscious.” The modern psychologist says the forgotten memories and the hidden mental processes are in the unconscious or subconscious mind, a stratum of the mind below the threshold of personal consciousness. He bases this statement on the conception that while the mind is a complete entity, it is so disposed that while the contents of one portion can be at once investigated by the individual, the rest is not so easily explored. The accessible portion is called the conscious mind, the rest the unconscious. Dr. G. Stanley Hall compared the mind to an iceberg, floating in the ocean with one-ninth visible above the water and eight-ninths below, the visible ninth corresponding to the conscious mind, and the larger submerged portion to the unconscious mind. Before the time of Freud there was no satisfactory method of exploring the unconscious. Freud, when dealing with neurotic and mental patients, was dissatisfied with the results obtained by hypnotism. But he noticed that some experienced relief, and also improved, when encouraged to talk frankly about their anxieties and difficulties. He worked out a method of exploring the unconscious mind, called psycho-analysis, founded on the theory that dreams are not accidental or meaningless; interpreted by the method of free association, they constitute the royal road to the unconscious mind. Free association means that when the analysand is asked of what a particular item in the dream makes him think, he gives the idea that first occurs to him, however far-fetched or absurd it may seem, and then allows one idea to call up others without let or hindrance.

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Introduction: The Unconscious Mind

The Right Brain and the Unconscious ◽

10.1007/978-1-4899-5996-6_1 ◽

1992 ◽

pp. 1-7

Author(s):

R. Joseph

Keyword(s):

The Unconscious ◽

Unconscious Mind

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Observed Effects of the Unconscious Mind and the Unknown World. 4: Acoustic and Other Physical Effects

Why Are We Conscious? ◽

10.1201/9781315166889-11 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 135-152

Author(s):

David E. H. Jones

Keyword(s):

The Unconscious ◽

Physical Effects ◽

Unconscious Mind

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Dissociation and the Unconscious Mind: Nineteenth-Century Perspectives on Mediumship

Journal of Scientific Exploration ◽

10.31275/20201735 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 34 (3) ◽

pp. 537-596

Author(s):

Carlos S. Alvarado

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Twentieth Century ◽

William James ◽

General Interest ◽

The Unconscious ◽

History Of ◽

Memory States ◽

Hippolyte Taine ◽

Unconscious Mind

There is a long history of discussions of mediumship as related to dissociation and the unconscious mind during the Nineteenth Century. After an overview of relevant ideas and observations from the mesmeric, hypnosis, and spiritualistic literatures, I focus on the writings of Jules Baillarger, Alfred Binet, Paul Blocq, Théodore Flournoy, Jules Héricourt, William James, Pierre Janet, Ambroise August Liébeault, Frederic W.H. Myers, Julian Ochorowicz, Charles Richet, Hippolyte Taine, Paul Tascher, and Edouard von Hartmann. While some of their ideas reduced mediumship solely to intra-psychic processes, others considered as well veridical phenomena. The speculations of these individuals, involving personation, and different memory states, were part of a general interest in the unconscious mind, and in automatisms, hysteria, and hypnosis during the period in question. Similar ideas continued into the Twentieth Century.

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Social Constructionism and the Role of the Unconscious in Hypnotic Responding: A Single Case Experiment

Behaviour Change ◽

10.1375/bech.28.3.156 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 28 (3) ◽

pp. 156-163

Author(s):

David P. Fourie

Keyword(s):

Social Constructionism ◽

Cognitive Process ◽

Single Case ◽

Alternative View ◽

The Unconscious ◽

Socially Constructed ◽

Wide Acceptance ◽

The Subject ◽

Unconscious Mind

AbstractThere seems to be wide acceptance by both professionals and lay people that hypnotic and especially hypnotherapeutic responding is based on the long-standing but still hypothetical dichotomy between the conscious and unconscious minds. In this simplistic view, hypnotic suggestions are considered to bypass consciousness to reach the unconscious mind, there to have the intended effect. This article reports on a single-case experiment investigating the involvement of the unconscious in hypnotherapeutic responding. In this case the subject responded positively to suggestions that could not have reached the unconscious, indicating that the unconscious was not involved in such responding. An alternative view is proposed, namely that hypnotherapeutic responding involves a cognitive process in which a socially constructed new understanding of the problem behaviour and of hypnosis, based on the client's existing attribution of meaning, is followed by action considered appropriate to the new understanding and which then confirms this understanding, leading to behaviour change.

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