This means that during grief and joy, during irritations and troubles, during illnesses, as well as during good mood and pleasure unconsciously, brain nerve impulses contract and relax various muscle groups of the face. It was possible to notice that in the brain apparatus these functions are reversible. It is enough, when something is unpleasant for you, to make a benevolent, cheerful face, as a group of biocurrents reflexively in the brain neurons will cause a change in mood. It is not for nothing that we say to an offended child: “Well, stop crying, smile, and all your grief will pass.”

That is why, in my opinion, it would be nice if every person tries to keep a young, pleasant expression on his face for life. It's good for yourself and for those around you.

Flexibility, mobility, massage

Significant contribution to science physiological education the modern mental worker was made by V. E. Nagorny, who created in the Moscow state university research laboratory for the study of the regime of people of mental labor. About ten years ago, in the publishing house " Soviet Russia” his book “Thought and Movement” was published, which deals, in particular, with the issues of flexibility, body mobility, as well as massage. I was directly involved in the development of a number of techniques proposed by the author.

In this book, V. E. Nagorny wrote that in work and in everyday life a person performs movements with an amplitude that is much less than that which the joints and ligaments are capable of. As a result, the ligaments become less elastic, the muscles that control the movement of the joints lose their ability to significantly stretch and contract. The "working angle" of the joints is reduced. Having become accustomed to movements with a small amplitude, a person loses flexibility, performing deep bends, squats, wide, sweeping movements begins to cause pain, and sometimes leads to injuries. All this is aggravated by the fact that in the non-working areas of the joints with age are deposited harmful substances- salt.

How to prevent such occurrences? With the help of special exercises. In the mode of motor activity, it is necessary to provide special exercises for the articular-ligamentous apparatus, which must be performed systematically throughout life. These exercises include: rotational movements arms, head, torso, waving arms and legs, tilting forward, sideways, backwards, squats, lunges, etc. You need to perform them with the greatest possible amplitude for you.

At each lesson, try to "work out" maximum amount joints: shoulder, hip, knee, ankle, as well as a complex system of the spine. If this cannot be done in one lesson, then the exercises should be distributed over several days.

Each exercise should be repeated 6-10 times. If pain occurs during exercises with a large amplitude, you should not be afraid of this. You can not allow only severe pain, so that there are no injuries. You need to start the exercises, having previously warmed up the body, do them with a small amplitude, gradually bringing them to the maximum.

In sports, to relieve fatigue or increase efficiency, massage is used. But after all, a person gets tired not only after playing sports, but also in the process of work. Could massage help here too?

The origin of massage dates back to ancient times. Historians have found that it was used in almost every country in the world. It was used by Greek warriors and Roman gladiators, ancient Chinese doctors and the peoples of Africa. Massage has become widespread in the south and north of our country.

Claudius Galen (131-201 BC)

Fullness to despise the body, fullness to joke with it! It will crush our cheerful mind with a callus and, to the laughter of your proud spirit, will prove its dependence on a narrow boot.

A. HERZEN

I once happened to hear such a complaint about science: “They say science can do anything ... But scientists still haven’t come up with such pills so that you can drink, smoke, stay awake and stay young. And everyone keeps saying from morning to evening: run, walk, do physical education - just think, science ... "

There are no such pills and there cannot be. The advice to engage in physical education - that neither is scientific. To think otherwise means to be in captivity of narrow-minded sentiments.

Fundamental studies of biologists, physiologists, physicians, psychologists, hygienists, supported by practice, the life itself and the way of life of many peoples, have proved, as they say, finally and irrevocably: work, a reasonable physical load on the body is the best way keeping it in a normal, painless state and in constant readiness for activity. There are no other such effective and reliable ways to preserve the health and performance of a person yet, they have not been created, and they are unlikely to appear. Even all the tricks of restorative medicine, genetic engineering and "overhaul" of a person are unlikely to lead to success.

The fact that every person should engage in physical education, sports, physical labor, everyone knows.

From childhood we hear about it, we read it in books and newspapers, we are told about it both at school and at home. But does everyone, becoming adults, fulfill the holy commandment?

Alas... But it is necessary that from childhood a person develops not a consumerist, but a respectful view of his health.

For some reason, people in a number of other cultures put the physical much lower. Knowing languages, literature, understanding music is considered a sign of intelligence. But to be physically developed - it seems to be desirable, but not necessary. It’s like by the way: if there is, it’s good, if not, it’s not scary.

For some reason, the mind, knowledge, and education have long been valued immeasurably higher than physical development, the harmony of the body. But even Plato, the great philosopher, called "lame" both the one who could not write, and the one who could not run and swim.

I understand perfectly - one more call: "Go in for physical education and sports!" - will not improve the situation. However, in our "age of science" there is one kind of argument that sometimes significant influence. These are the arguments of science, the opinions of scientists. Their authoritative word is often taken as a rigorous guide to action.

“To maintain health, and especially to prevent general diseases, there is nothing better exercise bodily or movements,” wrote Professor M. Ya. Mudrov, one of the founders of the Russian therapeutic school. Doctors today unanimously declare: how often we do not value health when we have it. Wasting our strength irrationally, not attaching importance to the importance of alternating work and rest, good sleep, regular nutrition, physical education, we finally experience the first signs of various disorders in the body. Gradually, they begin to manifest themselves more and more sharply: fatigue develops faster, working capacity decreases, and the heart more and more often makes itself felt. And begins going to the doctors, the absorption of various drugs. It is good if a person catches on in time, when painful disorders have just begun to develop. Then timely therapeutic measures, adherence to the regimen and regular physical education can successfully prevent further violation of the basic systems of the body.

Nowadays, more and more often you can hear the expression: "active loafer." It's about not only about people of intellectual labor. By this they mean great physical inactivity associated with the improvement of working conditions, living conditions, the use of transport, etc.

It is estimated that a hundred years ago, 96 percent of all work on Earth was done by man himself with the help of only his muscles. And now? Per short term Scientific and technological progress has made it possible to remove from a person a significant proportion of his usual burdens. Cars and automation everywhere. Instead of walking, we rush to use the car, subway or other means of transport. The elevator takes us to the appropriate floor. In the refrigerator - a supply of food for a week. To prepare dinner, one has only to turn the knob of a gas or electric stove. In the service - a calculating machine, automation, in the shop, the desire for complete mechanization of labor-intensive processes.

And rest is increasingly sedentary: with a book in hand in an armchair or on a sofa in front of a TV screen. We sit in the cinema, we sit in the theater, we sit at the table when we make something. We sit a lot and very often. Immobility follows us everywhere. As a result, there are fewer and fewer movements - the total volume motor activity decreases. And comfortable conditions begin to undermine the body, begin to shorten life.

"Hypodynamia" - lack of movement - is a very fashionable word today. With all the apparent dynamism, modern man is actually very motionless. Beecham modern man there was a lack of motor activity, deprivation of his “muscular joy”. Add to the “active inactivity” also the overeating we talked about.

People who exercise regularly get sick and go to the doctor much less often than those who exercise irregularly. So, for example, athletes, on average, apply 4 times less often than non-athletes. People who exercise regularly seek medical care 2 times less than those who engage in them irregularly, and 3 times less than those who neglect them at all.

The famous French physician of the 18th century Tissot wrote: “Movement as such can replace any medicine in its action, but all the medical remedies of the world are not able to replace the action of movement.”

Physical exercise has a dual effect on mental functions. On the one hand, they contribute to their development, and on the other hand, they ensure the stability of mental performance.

Aristotle spent his lessons walking with his students. “The thought becomes more alive when the body is warmed up by a walk,” he said. Rousseau also recognized this, arguing that walking and movement contribute to the work of thought. Many great scientists, artists, writers liked to ponder their thoughts while walking.

“... In his (Marx. - V.P.) office, - writes F. Mehring in the book "Karl Marx", - on the carpet, which lay from door to window, a strip was preserved, worn by walking, like a path in a meadow.

“Near the table, Volodya very soon trodden a path of 10-15 steps, along which he often walked, thinking over what he had read,” we read in the memoirs of D. I. Ulyanov about V. I. Lenin.

Korney Chukovsky said that Mayakovsky, creating the poem "A Cloud in Pants", walked 10-20 kilometers along the seashore every day, and sometimes jumped from stone to stone, but more often he walked like a lunatic.

Prominent people have repeatedly noted the beneficial effect of movements on the activation of thought. Many such examples could be cited.

Something else is also known. Quite often, the passion for physical culture led to the achievement of great success not only in their profession, in their activities, but also in sports. Here are examples related to people of art. The outstanding singer I. Petrov in the 30s was one of the strongest volleyball players in the country. You can name a representative team consisting of folk artists who have achieved high results in sports. Singer E. Raikov is a master of sports in wrestling, 3. Sotkilava was a member of the Georgian youth football team, G. Ots was the champion of Estonia in swimming. Conductors F. Mansurov and I. Soloduev had badges of masters of sports in mountaineering. Laureate Lenin Prize M. Liepa in his youth was the champion of Latvia in swimming. By the way, these people's passion for sports can be explained. Sport is called a model of life. It reflects life, prepares for it, teaches and educates.

At the Department of Physical Education of Moscow State University, special experiments were carried out: the subjects had to perform simple arithmetic operations, pick up words by association with the given ones, and check the correctness of mathematical calculations.

The work was performed in one case at the table, in the other - during a quiet walk or in combination with a leisurely rotation of the bicycle pedals (on a bicycle ergometer). And in most cases, moderate, habitual physical activity increased efficiency.

But do all physical exercises have the same stimulating effect on the effectiveness of creativity? It turns out not. Complex morning exercises, in which calm running and walking prevail, is more effective than a complex composed of exercises that require static stresses and postures.

Experience and practice show that mental activity is most successfully combined with walking, skiing, and light physical labor. I. P. Pavlov wrote: “For the active state of the higher department hemispheres a known minimum sum of irritations is necessary. Walking or other motor activity creates this " the minimum amount irritation." And Jean-Jacques Rousseau said: “Walking enlivens and inspires my thoughts. Left alone, I can hardly think; it is necessary that the body be in motion, then the mind also begins to move.

For a healthy middle-aged person engaged in mental work, it is necessary to devote at least 8 to 10 hours a week to physical exercises. It is advisable to distribute physical activity like this: on Sunday - 2 - 3 hours (skiing or hiking), in the middle of the week - 1 - 2 hours (skating, rowing, cycling), daily for 10 - 15 minutes - morning exercises and 30 - 40 minutes walking (to and from work). This distribution physical activity in conjunction with right mode work, rest, nutrition will improve well-being and make mental work more productive.

Very useful and running. Running gives both joy and health.

It is no coincidence that even in Ancient Hellas the aphorism was popular: "If you want to be strong - run, if you want to be beautiful - run, if you want to be smart - run."

In older people, over the years (we have already mentioned this), oxygen consumption per kilogram of weight is systematically reduced. With the help of physical exercises, this can be successfully combated. A trained person can consume three times more oxygen per kilogram of body weight. This once again confirms that with the help of physical exercises, you can force the body's reserves to serve health.

Some people consider physical fatigue to be a harmful condition that adversely affects the body. Doctors find this view profoundly erroneous. Fatigue and fatigue accompanying it is a natural state of health of people leading a normal lifestyle. “Fatigue is the best pillow,” the famous scientist and political figure Franklin. Moreover, without fatigue, the improvement and development of the body is impossible. The working capacity that decreases with fatigue during rest is not only restored, but, having reached baseline continues to rise for some time.

“The source of the feeling of fatigue is usually placed in the working muscles,” wrote Sechenov. “I place it exclusively in the central nervous system.” Therefore, do physical education, sports, do not be afraid to get tired. But overwork is really dangerous. It occurs when a person does not have time during the rest (for example, due to lack of time) to fully restore their strength.

Everyone wants to be healthy. Maintaining the necessary level of health throughout life is difficult, it requires work, will, perseverance. It is bad who gives in to difficulties, who has not yet been imbued with an understanding of the need to improve his body, prevent his body, strengthen his body. I would like to remind you once again that there are thousands of diseases, but there is only one health!

And further. According to the academic surgeon N. Amosov, “not a single chronic illness, except for heart diseases, is not a ban on physical education, only care and gradualness must be observed. Yes, and for most heart patients, he believes, physical education is also necessary, you just need to consult a doctor.

Studies have shown that exercise lowers high blood pressure and increases low blood pressure, normalizes cholesterol levels in the blood, and normalizes salt metabolism.

In the process of physical training, resistance to adverse external factors arises - radiation, infections, temperature fluctuations.

Regular physical training causes profound positive changes in the hematopoietic system: the amount of hemoglobin increases, the white blood formula becomes more stable, and the activity of enzyme systems increases.

Physically trained people tolerate a lack of oxygen better than untrained people.

Special experiments were done to study the effect of static forces on people different levels physical fitness. And it turned out: a four-hour forced posture that affects cardiovascular system, has much less of an impact on those who exercise regularly.

It is known that physical movements contribute to even faster and proper formation speech apparatus in children.

Special experiments carried out in last years, showed that some functions of our psyche significantly depend on the level of versatile physical fitness: attention, memory, mental calculation. For example, the best indicators of the accuracy of estimating time intervals were various kinds sports. For people not involved in sports, the error was maximum.

Studies of the influence of sports training on the development of professional skills are indicative. 80 percent of those with excellent physical training, and had excellent performance in mastering the technique of piloting aircraft. And those whose physical fitness was defined as satisfactory, made up only 47 percent.

In conclusion of the chapter, it would be useful to recall that a person is not required to passively contemplate and languidly wait for the improvement of his health according to the recipes of the most prominent representatives of medicine, but an active struggle for his youth. And in this one of the main places is occupied by movement. This is probably why people from century to century, from generation to generation, like a baton, carry the unceasing joy of movement.

RHYTHMS OF LIFE

A person only ... achieves something there, where he believes in himself.

L. FEUERBACH

Rhythm pervades everything. Rhythm is everywhere. And the life of the universe, and any physical, and any social phenomenon rhythmic. Rhythms - in technology, rhythms - in nature, rhythms - inside the body.

Life is a cyclical process. The longest cycle is from birth to death.

There are also seasonal cycles. And daily allowances.

During the day, the rhythm of the work of the human body is replaced twice: the first - work during the day, the second - the time of the night. As you know, a person is a daytime creature, your daily rhythm prevails.

The daily rhythm caused by the rotation of the Earth around its axis, experts called the circadian (near-daily), that is, with a cycle of one day. It manifests itself in a change in cardiac activity, activity of the kidneys, endocrine glands, a change in pressure.

Studies have shown that 40 to 50 physiological processes We are subject to daily fluctuations. For example, the highest amount of cortisone in the blood is found at 8 o'clock in the morning. It is assumed that there are hours of the day, namely 11, 17, 22, when decisions should be made, taken on any serious business. At the same time, the first hours of the day, when a person has not yet acquired the sharpness of reflexes, are the least suitable for serious decisions.

So, everything in the world is subject to rhythms. However, only quite recently, scientists noticed that the mysterious regulators of rhythms operate on the principle of ... a pendulum. In other words: the intensity of rhythmic processes gradually increases, reaches a maximum, then weakens to a minimum, begins to increase again, etc. Almost our entire body, down to every cell, works according to the principle of a pendulum. This seemingly simple phenomenon has one very interesting feature: the more the pendulum deviates in one direction, the stronger will be the subsequent deviation in the other. If, say, the heart beat rapidly for some time, then a phase with contractions that are rarer than the average norm will surely follow.

But most importantly, this principle is preserved in the realm of emotional processes, which, as it is now established, are associated with the physiology of our body.

If the area of ​​the brain responsible for so-called negative emotions is irritated appropriately, the cat will be in a state of fear and rage for several minutes. But some time after the cessation of external influence, when the wave of negative emotions subsides, the animal becomes “abnormally” affectionate (positive emotions are triggered).

In humans, similar phenomena can be observed. Artificial alcoholic whipping up of emotions inevitably causes a "go-ahead" most often not immediately, but somewhat later. There is tension, anxiety, anxiety, depression, poor health.

Any addiction to stimulants of the nervous system is associated with such artificial “swinging” of physiological pendulums.

However, the influence of physiological rhythms is not limited to the sphere of the simplest emotions. After all, our internal "pendulums" affect all facets of higher mental activity. Understanding the essence of these processes, and most importantly, the ability to use them, conceals huge reserves for intensifying creative possibilities.

The expressions are well-known: "today he is in good shape" or "now he is in shape." Here we are actually talking about the optimal state of the body and the human psyche. Perfect health, self-confidence, maximum productivity, maximum success - this is what these states bring with them, no matter who, when and in what they manifest themselves.

Every person, and especially people involved in creative work, should know: a period of emotional upsurge may be followed by a recession - and not get lost before that. Moreover, the rational disclosure of the mechanics of the emotional will allow you to plan work taking into account ups and downs.

How, for example, to manage the mental and physical ups of your body? Apparently, to work at the limit, at the maximum of possibilities. What about during a downturn? Don't be discouraged. But also do not force nature, do not whip the brain artificially with the help of various means.

A few years ago, the problem of biorhythms of the human body was again in the center of attention of world science.

During the study using microelectrodes of the brain structure of rats, scientists unexpectedly discovered areas of the brain with directly opposite properties. When current was applied to the areas that the researchers conditionally called "zones of hell", the animals experienced pain and displeasure. When current was applied to the "paradise zones", the rats got great pleasure and calmed down. When a circuit was developed that allowed the rat, if desired, to send electrical impulses to its brain, the animal, as if in ecstasy, pressed the “pleasure pedal” for 20 to 25 hours in a row, and then fell, exhausted.

Scientists were amazed that the desire for "artificial pleasure" turned out to be much stronger than the sexual and food instincts - the most powerful vital stimuli in the animal world. When animals that tasted "electric pleasure" were given the choice between satisfying food hunger or electropleasure, they invariably chose the latter.

The rats overcame obstacles, found their way through a maze, and even ran across the floor it was skipped over. electricity, - just to be able to press the lever.

But, as expected, after the stimulation from the structures of the pleasure system was transferred to the structures of the punishment system, the rat pressed the lever only once and did not touch it again.

Later, the "hell" and "heaven" zones were found in the brains of dogs, monkeys and humans.

Studies of patients using implanted electrodes have shown that electrical stimulation of the deep structures of the brain can cause a feeling of pleasure, which is confirmed by the words of the patients themselves, their facial expressions, their behavior and the desire to repeat the stimulation.

It was seen how the patients were completely transformed while in good mood feeling complete well-being, pleasure. Some relaxed and smiled all the time, others laughed out loud and had fun. Everyone definitely liked the annoyance, and they asked to continue it.

Irritation of other areas of the brain, on the contrary, caused unpleasant sensations, including anxiety, sadness, depression, fear and emotional outbursts.

What is the connection between this discovery of neurophysiologists and the pendulum principle of the functioning of the human body?

The discovery in the human brain of two dynamically connected centers - pleasure and displeasure - helped psychiatrists understand the causes of some mental illness and also find out biological nature one of the most mysterious and destructive phenomena of our psyche - drug addiction.

What happens to the chemistry of the mind? Confusion and thought disturbances can be caused by overstimulation of the poranephrine and dopamine pathways. Hallucinations can be caused by dopamine alone. Being a close relative of most hallucinatory substances, it can transform into one of them. Attacks of rage are largely associated with the action of norepinephrine. Just as adrenaline is released into the blood when we are in danger, norepinephrine is released into the brain when we are in a state of emotional stress. Excessive secretion of norepinephrine can cause "hyper vigilance", fits of rage, or flushes of frenetic activity.

Gradually, certain drugs appeared, called psychopharmacological, or psychotropic, drugs. They all operate on the same principle. Their molecules mimic the shape of norepinephrine and block enough receptors in the pathways with dopamine to reduce the overactivity of these chemicals.

While this beneficent revolution brought hope, the other evil revolution brought despair. It began after, having discovered the hallucinatory properties of LSD, they began to use it for non-medical purposes, that is, as a drug. Like LSD, many psychotropic drugs can cause a kind of "self-made" psychosis, giving a false sense of well-being, which is fraught with serious consequences. The most common drugs other than LSD include marijuana, hashish, barbiturates, phenamine, heroin, and alcohol.

Psychiatrists understand by drug addiction not only an irresistible desire for strong drugs, but also cravings for medium and weak drugs: alcohol, tobacco, coffee.

Now the development of the process of drug addiction in the human body is drawn approximately as follows. With a healthy psyche inside the brain, a balance is maintained between the structures of "hell" and "heaven" with the help of signals. If a person experiences hunger, physical pain and other similar external disturbances, "hell" amplifies these signals. They enter special parts of the brain that control effectors - working organs, and the body neutralizes the source of "displeasure" (a child pulls his hand away from the fire, a person gets food, etc.).

If the body, on the contrary, receives “pleasure” (the animal is petted, given a lot of delicious food), the “paradise zone” amplifies the signals, stimulating the body to increase the level of pleasure (the dog wants to eat as much as possible).

But such a process of gratification, if continued without limitation, could be fatal. Therefore, wise nature connected the structures of "heaven" and "hell" with each other by negative feedback. When the “volume of pleasure” received by the body begins to exceed the permissible limits, a danger signal enters the “hell zone”, pleasure becomes displeasure and the process stops.

But this only happens in healthy body, where the pendulum "hell" - "paradise" is quite difficult to swing.

In a person with a sick or easily excitable psyche, this connection between the zones of "hell" and "heaven" is broken. The equilibrium of the two systems is unstable. Moreover, both "hell" and "heaven" are in a state of excitation above the norm. It is known how painfully vulnerable people with a sick psyche are, their nerves seem to be exposed.

On the other hand, one can often observe an increased, unbridled desire for pleasure. Here we come to the problem of drug addiction, to the problem of artificially swinging the "pendulum of life."

The causative agent of "heaven" and the neutralizer of "hell", in addition to external physical influences (for example, a burn, caress) and other well-known sources of pleasure and displeasure (food, pain, pleasant music, noise, etc., etc.), can be both a very strong artificial stimulant of "heaven" and a depressant ("suppressor") of "hell" - a drug. This substance, contained in tobacco, coffee, morphine, alcohol, is capable of either suppressing “displeasure”, pain, or, conversely, causing “pleasure” with extraordinary power.

People with violations of the mechanisms of "hell" - "heaven", and such violations most often occur as a result of mental breakdowns and traumas, which, alas, our nervous, dynamic age is rich in, have a constant hunger for fuel for "paradise". Having tasted the "charm" of the drug - even in a small dose - "paradise" begins to demand: "More! More!" And since the connection with "hell" is broken, the growing desire is not extinguished, the narcotic hunger grows. A person begins to consume larger and larger doses - and becomes a drug addict (an alcoholic, an opium or tobacco smoker, and the like).

In other words, the body's pendulum "pleasure - displeasure" swings sharply in the direction of pleasure. The body gets used to artificial "feeding" and protests with pain when trying to reduce doses. Moreover, the nervous system quickly gets used to the portions of the drug received. In order to maintain artificial pleasure at the "normal level", the addict has to take ever larger doses. As a result, catastrophic disturbances occur in the body, which has been under the “current” of continuous excitation for a long time.

Knowledge of the principle of the mechanics of "hell" and "heaven" is necessary for every person. You can't joke with the body. Any attempt to artificially whip up one's consciousness due to the nature of the pendulum biological processes can lead to irreversible negative consequences.

An example is the "minor drug addiction" - smoking.

Tobacco, it would seem, is a weak drug, but it has a certain stimulating effect on "paradise", causing a false feeling of cheerfulness, increased efficiency. But, like any drug, tobacco slowly and steadily drags the smoker into the maelstrom of drug addiction. The more a smoker smokes, the stronger he swings the pendulum of "hell" - "heaven" towards "heaven" - and the higher the level of suffering that "hell" will cause him when trying to quit smoking. Therefore, it is so difficult for heavy smokers to immediately, abruptly get rid of addiction. Psychiatrists, taking into account the "pendulum" nature of drug addiction, have developed the principle of a gradual (but rigorous!) Decrease in the number of cigarettes smoked per day, which gives positive results.

Here figurative comparison. Imagine a high room. A heavy load is suspended from the ceiling on a long cable. This is a pendulum. He is in motion - he oscillates. Your task is to stop him. There are two possible strategies here.

The first is to try immediately, abruptly cut off the oscillations. Say try to hold up the load in mid-position. It seems that every sane person understands what such an attempt will lead to - after all, in the middle position, the energy of the pendulum is maximum.

The second strategy is to create limiters - ouv!ry, located in extreme points oscillations where the energy is minimal. Gradually shifting the stops, we will soon succeed.

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Introduction

Telepathy is one of the unique abilities of a person, which is usually attributed to the supernatural. When confronted with it, most people experience conflicting feelings - from awe and admiration to anxiety and fear. There are those who wish to master telepathy. There are many such people, and they are ready to make efforts to achieve this goal.

AT recent times there has been a significant increase in interest in paranormal abilities. Everything began to appear more people with some special gift. Some have clairvoyance, others can influence different aspects of life, others can read information about a person from a photograph, etc. Moreover, many of them admit that they have developed these abilities on their own.

According to astrologers, people's increased craving for the supernatural is associated with the onset of the Age of Aquarius. In some sources, its beginning refers to the first decade of the 20th century, in others - to the middle of the 21st. But most astrologers agree that the Age of Aquarius has already arrived, and this is evidenced by the changes taking place in the world. Development of information technologies, space flights, scientific discoveries, equality in relations between men and women, the desire for freedom - all these are its signs. The Age of Aquarius is the time of the thirst for knowledge, growing spirituality, the disclosure of internal reserves in a person.

AT modern world extrasensory abilities, and in particular telepathy, are needed in order to better understand other people, which means less conflict and faster to achieve what you want. Work, love, family, friendships - in each of these areas, the presence of such opportunities will only benefit.

There is an opinion that every person has the ability to telepathy, but it can be expressed to a greater or lesser extent. This can be seen in the simplest real life examples. Have you ever felt from a distance that your loved one needs help? Did you say the same phrase at the same time with someone? Or maybe you wanted to say: “You read my mind!”. All these are manifestations of telepathy. To maximize your natural abilities, use this book as a textbook, and you will succeed!

What is telepathy

Telepathy and parapsychology in historical interpretations

There is hardly a subject in which interest has not abated for thousands of years. Telepathy belongs precisely to this category, although, of course, in primitive culture the phenomenon of thought transmission over a distance was not called that word. But even then, myths, magic, religious beliefs were filled with the belief that this is quite real, moreover, it exists.

Probably, the origins of telepathy are associated with the peculiarities of mental activity. primitive man, which everything that surrounded him in everyday reality, in nature regardless of whether the object was a living or inanimate object, endowed with a soul.

At the same time, the soul of the person himself seemed to him to be something like a double, which can leave the body either for a while or forever.

The origins of ideas about how the soul becomes accessible to concrete sensory perception lie in the characteristic human thinking features of understanding how exactly the transmission of thoughts over a distance occurs. Hence the idea of ​​the presence of an intermediary, a certain carrier, without which the mechanism of this process is simply unthinkable.

Understanding the need for a carrier of mental influence at a distance led to the search for a "visible image of the soul." The affinity of such words as “soul”, “blow”, “spirit” makes it possible to imagine breathing as an image of the soul. Remember the expressions “God breathed a soul into Adam”, “the soul soared”, indicating that the soul is a kind of ephemeral substance that can dissolve in space.

Gradually, the idea was formed that something luminous could come from the human body, which is the visible image of the soul. This was known in the ancient world - the Egyptians, Hindus, Chaldeans, whose knowledge eventually became the property of the peoples who lived in a later time.

Science knows a doctrine called “hylozoism”, i.e. the doctrine of universal spirituality, according to which “a single material principle penetrating all bodies of the Universe forms its “soul”. The soul of every living person is a part of this universal “soul” ...”, that the soul is material, that with the death of a person it joins this whole.

The position of universal spirituality (in whole or in part) was accepted by many, in particular W. Gilbert, J.-B. Robinet, G. T. Fechner; Among domestic scientists, one can name A. Ya. Danilevsky, V. I. Vernadsky, P. A. Florensky, who respectively belong to the hypothesis of biogenic ether, the doctrine of the noosphere, and the concept of the pneumatosphere.

The idea of ​​universal spirituality was especially popular in the 15th–16th centuries, when the idea of ​​an “animated world fluid” (from Latin fluidus – “flowing”) arose again, according to which a person can influence other people regardless of the distance between them. The roots of this concept go to the depths of civilizations that have developed and developed in the East even before our era. In China, India, Tibet and other regions, the provisions have reached the present that " driving force of all higher principles are special subtle vibrations, vibrations, sounds or rhythms of a not physical, but spiritual nature: "They cannot be heard with the ear, but only with the heart, they cannot be pronounced with the lips, but only with the brain."

Here it is appropriate to recall the most ancient philosophical doctrine, which was discussed above - yoga, which gives an idea of ​​prana. Its analogue in more later times was the concept of pneuma. Prana (in China - qi energy) is not breathing, not nerve energy, not life force, etc., it is something more high level. All of the above are modifications.

At present, it is almost impossible to find out how the ancient teaching became known in Europe, but nevertheless it is known that Pythagoras (VI century BC) in the treatise "Harmony of the Spheres" wrote that "every celestial and under-celestial body, all living and existing produce special sounds when moving. These include both rhythms and vibrations, which together add up to a certain harmony, while each individual element of such a system is integral part a single whole.

Empedocles (490-430 BC) believed that mental activity is the result of the mechanical interaction of "animated material principles", i.e., in the basis mental manifestations lies the movement physical elements. Empedocles owns a hypothesis according to which objects, making continuous movement, "emit waves of thin" outflows "that can reach other objects and penetrate into their" pores ". If it turned out that the "pores" belong to the sense organs, then sensations appear.

Democritus (c. 460-370 BC) also adhered to the last position of Empedocles. This philosopher believed that for the emergence of sensations, physical contact of the stimulus with certain sense organs is required. Democritus explained physical, bodily and mental manifestations from the point of view of the atomistic theory, according to which atoms move in infinite space. The most mobile of them are the spherical atoms of fire that make up the soul. When atoms come into contact with the sense organs, it is experienced as sensations. Democritus went further than Empedocles, since he dealt with the issue not only of the formation of sensations, but also of the origin of images. In his opinion, they resemble a source in their form, have a prototype in outside world. In particular, Democritus was sure of the presence of prototypes in dreams, etc.

Epicurus (341-270 BC), like Democritus, in an attempt to explain the origin of knowledge about things, suggested the presence of atomic "outflows". At the same time, the image (according to the terminology of Epicurus - eidol) breaks away from its carrier and enters the senses, and thinking is the processing of these images inside the subtle matter of the soul, which includes 4 elements in its composition - fire, pneuma, wind and some nameless element, which intended for the manifestation of the psychic.

The follower of Epicurus Titus Lucretius Car (99-55 BC) called this unnamed element spirit, distinguishing it from such a concept as the soul. Lucretius owns the poem "On the Nature of Things", in which he substantiates his point of view on the soul as a kind of matter, endows it with such properties as lightness, mobility. main function soul Lucretius considers its ability to cause sensations due to the perception of "outflows" by the senses. On this basis, he defines visual, auditory (distant) sensations as a kind of touch. For example, Lucretius imagined visual sensations as follows: “objects continuously emit images that, flying out from high speed, push in front of them air atoms that come into contact with the eye, penetrate through the pupil and cause visual sensations.

For the disciples of Aristotle, the soul was a substance and movement, and as its material carrier, they soon called pneuma, or quintessence (from Latin quinta essential - “fifth essence”).

Zeno founded the Stoic school (VI century BC). In accordance with their views, the cosmos was something of a single whole, which included varieties of fiery air - pneuma, and one of them was the soul. Between the world pneuma and the world soul (“divine fire”), the Stoics put an equal sign. When a person is born, he receives external pneuma in the process of breathing, under the influence of which his internal pneuma becomes psychic. With the discovery of nerves (III century BC), they began to be considered channels through which pneuma is carried out. The honor of discovering the nerves belongs to Herophilus and Erasistratus. Pneuma has long been considered the matter and instrument of the soul.

Galen (129-199) classified pneuma into vital and mental, the latter, he believed, being produced and contained in the posterior ventricle of the brain. He considered the nerves as a channel intended for the flow of pneuma. But Galen went further than his predecessors and endowed pneuma with the ability to fly out of the body and contact with external air, in order to “similarize it to itself and create an“ external-pneumatic ”appendage, through which the sense organs, for example, the eyes,“ touch ”one or another distant object, then there is, as it were, touching it.” It follows that each sense organ has a special pneuma, in particular, "visual - light-like, auditory - air-like."

In subsequent centuries, philosophers and scientists have repeatedly attempted to establish the nature of the carrier, whether it is material or spiritual. Philo (25–54), Plotinus (204–269), Avicenna (980–1037) and others argued about this. The latter did not exclude the possibility of influencing one individual on another at a distance.

Thus, everything that has been said is the basis from which all subsequent ideas “about the essence of the mental and possible nature its extra-cerebral substrate (carrier)."

Scientific thought practically froze for one and a half thousand years, which confirms the fact that even after 16 centuries, W. Gilbert (1544–1603) still operates with “outflows”, explaining electrical phenomena, and magnetism considers it to be a kind of force similar to the force of an “animate being”.

They returned to research in the Renaissance, trying to understand the essence of the mental. Knowledge proceeded in three directions:

1) the first is connected with the formation of ideas, which eventually took shape in an idealistic idea of ​​the nature of the mental;

2) thanks to the second, a theory about the material essence of the nervous process appeared;

3) the third developed the idea of possible exit mental act beyond the boundaries of the organism from which it emanates.

The Italian philosopher B. Telesio (1509–1588) turned to the doctrine of pneuma. He believed that the basis of nature is heat and cold, that the first is the material carrier of mental phenomena that are formed in the body. Divine pneuma is the material of the soul, which is a subtle substance and was named spirit after Lucretius.

The famous anatomist Vesalius (1514-1564) wrote a treatise in which he outlined his view of the nature of the mental. In principle, he adhered to the views of Galen, since his "animal spirits" are nothing but psychic pneuma.

R. Descartes (1596-1650) was one of the first who connected "animal spirits" not with the mental, but with the nervous principle. In his opinion, these are the smallest, rapidly moving bodies that have only one property - to be reflected from the surface of the brain in the same way as a beam of light. Their movement creates sensations.

The German astronomer I. Kepler (1571–1630) is also known for his work on the psychophysiology of vision. He considered it as the sensory activity of the retina, which is activated and filled with the "visual spirit". By the latter, he meant the finest substance, which is decomposed by water under the influence of light focused by the lens. I. Newton (1642-1727) recognized and supported the assumption about the "ethereal" nature of the nervous process.

The first concept of identity nerve force electric was outlined in the works of L. Galvani (1737-1798), when he observed the contraction of the neuromuscular apparatus of the frog's foot when it touched the metal. He owns the concept of "electric fluid", with which he replaced the "nervous fluid" that existed before. In addition, he also has the expression "nerve-electric fluid."

The identity of the nervous and electrical was finally recognized by the scientific community and became firmly established in everyday life thanks to the works of C. Matteucci and E. Dubois-Reymond. The latter owns the two-volume "Research on Animal Electricity".

In 1862, the great Russian physiologist I. M. Sechenov (1829–1905) published the work “On Animal Electricity”, which he defined as “the electrodynamic activity of nerves and muscles (the study of animal electricity in the strict sense) and the phenomena of electrical stimulation of these organs” . In fact, this is the subject studied by modern electrophysiology.

The history of parapsychology would be incomplete if left unaddressed whole period associated with the name of F. A. Mesmer (1734–1815). Mesmerism was based on the "idea of ​​an animated world fluid", known since ancient times. Interest in it revived in the XV-XVI centuries. and became the starting point from which comes the third direction of scientific thought, which saw as its task "the knowledge of the nature of the mental in the mainstream of the search for its extracerebral structures."

The fluid was understood as the middle between the body and the soul, something semi-material, which can take the form of steam, particles, animal spirit and has the property to leave the body and continue some kind of independent existence. The fluid was considered the finest liquid, which, penetrating into the body, binds them, causes communication, promotes universal harmony.

Just as magnets can attract and repel, living beings can experience likes and dislikes, which are also supposed to be magnetic in nature. This was first stated by M. Fitsin (1433-1499), arguing that a magnetic connection is established between people with the help of a certain spirit or steam. This idea was developed by P. Pomponazzi (1462-1525) in the sense that he believed that the strength of the magnetic influence is not the same for individual individuals, that it can vary from practically total absence to a very significant one, that it depends on a number of factors - desire, will, the nature of the imagination, etc.

The views of the ancients on the essence of the distant influence of living beings on each other seemed rather naive to Paracelsus (1493-1541), so he tried to bring more specifics to them and explained the nature of this influence from the point of view of natural phenomena- electrical and magnetic.

According to Paracelsus, man is a microcosm containing something that is given to him. celestial bodies, namely a thin substance characterized by a magnetic property. Each part of the body is associated with a certain planet, capable of influencing it with the help of the all-penetrating ether.

Metals are also endowed with certain properties that depend on the planet that correlate with them. Due to the double current of good and bad fluid directed from the planet to the metal, the latter can cause disease and cure it.

Paracelsus likened a man to a magnet, considering the head as a plus, and the legs as a minus; it is the same with the rest of the body parts and organs. In addition, he said that there are two independent parts in a person - material and spiritual. But there is also the astral part, which is the quintessence, which is filled with living material particles, embodying the "animal (or life) spirit." It is with the help of it that living beings remotely influence each other. This explains both sympathy and antipathy, involuntarily experienced by people.

Magnetic healing Paracelsus attributed to quite real, but little studied phenomena, and in his medical practice he himself used metals.

Mesmer's predecessors, J. B. van Helmont (1577–1644), R. Fludd (1554–1637), J. Maxwell (the latter's concept was the most developed), dealt with the issues of magnetism and magnetic influence.

Helmont argued that animal magnetism has physical nature, as a result of which it manifests itself everywhere. Magnetism, according to Helmont, is a hidden effect (repulsion or attraction) that bodies can exert on each other while at a distance. This is due to the "ethereal spirit". Main strength by means of which a person can influence bodies far removed is desire.

Fludd believed that man as a microcosm is characterized by two types of motion - centripetal and centrifugal. The first corresponds to sympathy, the second - antipathy. Following Paracelsus, Fludd believed that every body has its own star, that relations of sympathy and antipathy are possible both between people and between man and animal, man and plant, man and mineral.

Maxwell is an English doctor. His biography is unknown; it is only through the only book he published in 1679, Magnetic Medicine, that his name has been preserved in history.

Maxwell considered all souls to be tools controlled by providence, and each of them creates for itself a corresponding body, which is in a subordinate state relative to the soul. In the process of the formation of the body, a certain environment arises, which Maxwell called the "vital spirit." It fixes the body's needs for the organs. As long as the vital spirit is in symmetry, the organism is alive. In addition, Maxwell owns the idea that the soul is both inside a person and outside of him. The body emits rays to which the soul gives energy.

A few years before Maxwell's work saw the light of day, close theory, but with a distinct physical orientation was proposed by I. Newton. He suggested that “the Universe is filled with a universal all-penetrating medium – ether. One of the forms of the latter, namely the one associated with gravity (that is, with gravity, attraction), fills our "vital spirit", and therefore controls the movement and reproduction of all living things. This position, about 60 years later, was presented in the work of R. Mad "Treatise on the influence of the Sun and Moon on human bodies and on the diseases caused by this reason."

By the second half of the XVIII century. similar hypotheses and statements were concentrated in France and, thanks to the efforts of Mesmer, were enriched by theoretical research and practical experiments. Probably the first person to express a concept based on fluid was Leck, professor of physiology, in A Treatise on Sensations (1767). In accordance with his theory, a certain fluid binds the spirit and body, which "excites the muscles and transmits sensations to the brain." Under the influence of the will, the fluid can radiate outward and affect the nerves of other people. Fluid, in modern terms, is a carrier of mental information. Leka called his fluid an animal and argued that it can "radiate and cause emotions in the fluid of other people, a change in properties, a significant upheaval depending on consonance or dissonance." But, it must be said that this concept did not cause any resonance and did not become a phenomenon in scientific life that time.

7 years have passed since the publication of Lek's work, and a man appeared about whom they talked and argued a lot. It was Franz Anton Mesmer.

Little has been written about Mesmer and his theory in Russian, since his works educated people in Russia of that time they read in the original, and the uneducated did not doubt at all that a person could both inflict damage and remove it. Surprisingly, such ideas are still alive today.

Some assumptions from Mesmer's theory were made long before his birth. Mesmer's merit lies in the fact that he structured the views of the ancients, introduced concepts close to his contemporaries (and not only to them, but also to us), and practically proved the effectiveness of his method, its applied significance, although he generated a lot of controversy about what healing takes place.

In Mesmer's time, there were separate assumptions, and quite the opposite. Mesmer's opponents, like his followers and supporters, admitted that healing effect available, but only under the influence of the patient's imagination. Only 60 years have passed since the words “suggestion” and “self-hypnosis” supplemented the scientific terminology.

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Chapter III
ABOUT THE ROLE OF BIOTOCKS

Biocurrents and metabolism

No matter how severe the injury to the limb, any surgeon is primarily concerned about whether the nerve is intact. First of all, the doctor tries to save him at any cost. If this succeeds, the limb, albeit slowly, but still returns to normal activity, and if the nerve is cut, then she hangs like a whip. It would seem that arterial and venous circulation is not disturbed. The bone is intact. Why don't the limbs remain healthy after the healing of the brine long years? But that doesn't happen. Muscles gradually lose weight, as they say, dry up. The fact is that due to the violation of biocurrents, the metabolism in the tissues stops.

But here's another example. A young man with weak, undeveloped muscles begins to systematically engage in dumbbells, then a barbell. After some time, his strength increases and the muscles increase significantly in weight and size.

Modern physiology explains all this in the following way. In order to maintain the normal structure and performance of a muscle or any other organ, it must act. And in order for it to act, nerve impulses from the central nervous system must approach it.

In the first example, nerve impulses could not reach the muscles they were intended for, because the path was cut. In the second case, nervous muscular activity was caused by increased nerve impulses. This is what increased the metabolism in the muscles and increased their size. The man got stronger.

Thus, and this was proved by physiologists, from the point of view of the influence of nerve impulses on a healthy human life constant movement, physical culture play a decisive role, because they require constant muscle tension, which is possible only due to enhanced nerve impulses. Hence, the inextricable link between electrical exchange and metabolism in cells is clear.

Children are constantly moving around. This manifests their unconscious desire to enhance the metabolism of biocurrents. An active child is always stronger and healthier. Therefore, the order: “Stop spinning, sit still for a minute” - parents need to use it carefully. This is an interference with the growth of the child's cells.

Volitional gymnastics

Every morning I do the volitional gymnastics I developed for about three minutes right in bed. I repeat it two or three times a day, sitting in an armchair at the desk. In my opinion, this gymnastics is useful and even necessary to practice during illness, when bed rest is prescribed by a doctor.

First you need to relax all the muscles, and then gradually, with extremely strong volitional impulses, strain them ten times without moving.

First you need to strain the muscles of the toes, then the calf muscles, then sequentially strain the muscles of the abdomen, chest, neck, arms. With these exercises, the muscles should expand and “play”, like the strong men in the circus.

Such volitional gymnastics has a complex effect on the body: on the one hand, it excites bioelectric phenomena in cells, which enhances metabolism, and on the other hand, it helps muscles and veins get rid of toxins.

It should not be forgotten that during volitional gymnastics it is necessary to pay special attention to uniform and deep breathing. For every five muscle contractions, you need to take one breath and five - exhale.

Breathing exercises

Breath plays very big role in volitional gymnastics.

I share the opinion of many doctors, physiologists and physiotherapy specialists who are wary of yoga gymnastics. But the experience of ancient physical culture, apparently, should not be completely discarded. This applies to my system of some elements of breathing exercises. You just need to clearly imagine why these elements are useful and what happens in the body when you take a deep breath and exhale. By the way, the school of breathing is characteristic not only for the system of yoga exercises. Without the correct setting of breathing, neither sports nor physical culture in general are inconceivable.

When you wake up and stretch sweetly, you need to lie on your back and relax all the muscles as much as possible. Then you should take the deepest possible breath, sticking up chest, after which, by contraction of the abdominal muscles, pull the diaphragm separating the cavity of the intestines and stomach, to the limit down the abdomen (Fig. 11). In this case, the abdominal press will strongly press on intestinal cavity. The pressure will spread to all internal organs: kidneys, liver, spleen, pancreas, etc. This kind of press will squeeze out cells and intercellular space internal organs slag accumulated during the night. Pressing the diaphragm on the intestinal cavity should be accompanied by a protrusion of the abdomen, as it were: the more, the better. To fully master the art of volitional movement of the diaphragm up and down, you need to do this exercise many times, pronouncing the words out loud at the same time and without interrupting your breath (protrusion of the abdomen has nothing to do with breathing). I mastered this exercise within a few days.

Rice. 11. Abdominal obstruction in the raised position (I) and in the lowered position (II): 1 - diaphragm; 2 - heart; 3 - abdominal muscles.

But back to the practice of breathing exercises. Lying on your back, first you need to take a deep breath, then inflate your stomach with the force of the diaphragm. Now hold your breath for 3-5 seconds so that under pressure the slags have time to leave those places where they settled during the night. After a delay, exhale the air in ten small portions, pushing it with force through tightly clenched lips so that the whole abdomen vibrates ten times intensely. In this massage (shaking) of the internal motionless organs lies all the benefits of breathing exercises. By the way, the same massage occurs at the moment when we laugh. From this it becomes clear why since ancient times laughter has been considered beneficial.

The physiological meaning of breathing exercises, and in other words, massage of the abdominal organs with the help of the diaphragm, is that during this exercise the filling of the heart with blood improves, and the more the heart receives it, the more it will throw out during contraction into the aorta.

I repeat these exercises not only in the morning, but every day also in the evening before going to bed. In order not to overwork, it is enough to take 10 deep breaths and pulsating exhalations in the morning and evening.

I feel here is another benefit from regular breathing exercises. I used to have frequent heart attacks, palpitations. After analyzing the mechanics of breathing exercises and their consequences, I came to the conclusion that contraction of the abdominal muscles can help eliminate heart ailments. The line of reasoning was as follows. For our heart, nature allotted a space - the heart cavity - limited by the lungs and abdominal barrier. When the heart muscle contracts, the blood great pressure ejected into the aorta. But, expanding during relaxation, the heart muscle cannot exert any pressure on the walls of the heart cavity. If the volume of the cavity is small, then the heart will suck in a little blood. If the volume is large, then the portion of blood will be correspondingly larger. When constructing the diaphragm - the abdominal barrier - nature, unfortunately, endowed it with too much sensitivity. During emotional excitement, with fear, excitement, abrupt conversation, and as a person ages, the diaphragm rises and the heart cavity contracts.

In the medulla, nature has created an apparatus that regulates the minute volume of blood necessary for the life of human cells and for them to do their work. This adjustment can only be carried out by changing the rhythm and strength of cardiac impulses. If there is little blood, the heartbeat needs to be accelerated, strengthened, if there is a lot, it needs to be slowed down. Therefore, with each rise of the diaphragm and the corresponding decrease in the heart cavity, the pulse quickens. In nervous people, this causes fear. From fright, the diaphragm rises even higher, the volume of the heart cavity decreases even more, the pulse quickens. There comes a condition that patients call a heart attack. It often comes with serious consequences.

And so I thought: can a person without the help of a doctor quickly stop a heart attack? I think it can. To do this, immediately after the start of an accelerated heartbeat, for the next expansion of the heart, it is enough to provide it with the largest possible volume of the cardiac cavity. The mechanism of action of breathing exercises suggests: you need to take a deep breath, stick out your stomach and hold it with all your might in this position for 2-3 seconds. Then repeat this technique two or three more times. It is rarely necessary to resort to the fourth cycle, since three is quite enough to ensure such a pumping of blood, in which the heart will again work in a normal rhythm. This simplest method for thirty years helped me get rid of heart attacks, for the elimination of which I had to call an ambulance and be treated in a hospital.

Thanks to regular breathing exercises twice a day, exercises in stretching the diaphragm, the elasticity of the abdominal barrier is ensured, the volume of the heart cavity increases, and the risk of heart attacks decreases.

Once I saw documentary about how a woman who had a defect in the mitral valve and heart failure was cured of this ailment. At first, she tried to move as little as possible and led a half-bed lifestyle. But here she was persuaded to enroll in a group of therapeutic exercises for the elderly at the stadium. V. I. Lenin in Luzhniki. After some time, physical therapy, breathing exercises and running cured her, which was confirmed by comparing two x-rays - before and after the illness, before and after the start of physical education under the supervision of a doctor.

Nature itself did not fight this disease until external factors - physical culture and sports - at the will of man demanded that the heart work with a greater load. Immediately, the process of restructuring and adaptation began in the cells.

Any process of restructuring requires a certain amount of time, gradualness. Therefore, a person must carry out a conscious restructuring of any of his organs with the help of the internal reserves of the body extremely carefully and gradually so as not to cause a catastrophe. This fully applies to such seemingly calm exercises that do not require extraordinary efforts, such as volitional and breathing exercises, as well as morning exercises.

According to my observations, the exercises become more useful and effective, the more powerful biocurrents they are accompanied by. They cause an increase in nerve impulses if performed with the help of special devices. Therefore, I do morning exercises with dumbbells. Their weight should be chosen according to well-being. For me, for example, two-kilogram dumbbells are good. Again, from the standpoint of enhancing the action of biocurrents, exercises with rubber and springs are no less useful. Training should be limited to a reasonable load and in no case should you bring yourself to shortness of breath.

Volitional facial gymnastics

Why are the chewing muscles of the face, which move our jaw, so hard? Yes, because we often reduce them with strong volitional impulses of currents of action, that is, we train them while eating, talking.

In youth, the muscles on the cheeks are elastic and taut, because during growth and development strong, “unconscious” biocurrents circulate in them. But the stronger the biocurrent, whether it is caused consciously or unconsciously, the stiffer the muscle.

As we age, cheeks sag, muscles become more and more flabby, they experience more and more electronic starvation, and not only because we become less emotional with age. We do not care about the health of these muscles and do not train them systematically, daily, with strong, volitional nerve impulses and biocurrents, that is, volitional facial gymnastics.

So that my face is not flabby, I do the following exercise 8-10 times a day, which takes one to two minutes. With all my strength, so that my head trembles, I pull up eight times in turn either my cheeks to my eyes and ears, or the tips of my lips to my teeth, that is, I do everything possible to excite an effective metabolism in the muscles of the face.

Exercises are accompanied by strong facial grimaces. Nothing to do about! For the sake of health and freshness of the face, you can grimace for a few minutes. You need to understand that where nerve impulses and biocurrents do not reach at least several times a day, flabbiness and lethargy inevitably appear. The sagging, flabby face of a person who can be given many more years than it actually is is a consequence of life “by itself”, against which I resolutely fight. And so that your loved ones are not afraid of grimaces, exercise your facial muscles during your morning wash, when you are left alone with the mirror. He doesn't care anyway.

In addition to these exercises, I do thermal facial massage every morning and evening to speed up blood circulation in the capillaries. For this, I have adapted two thick napkins somewhat over size faces. They are sewn from two layers of terry towel.

I moisten one napkin in hot water such a temperature that one can hardly endure, and for half a minute I apply it to my face. Then for a minute I press a second napkin soaked in the most cold water(in summer even with melting ice). I repeat this method of thermal massage two or three times daily in the morning and in the evening. The entire procedure takes three to five minutes. The result is very good.

Concluding this section, I want to say about the huge role of facial biocurrents. Everyone knows that emotions are usually reflected on our face. This means that with grief and joy, with irritations and troubles, with illnesses, as well as with good mood and pleasure, various groups of facial muscles contract and relax unconsciously, with brain nerve impulses. It was possible to notice that in the brain apparatus these functions are reversible. It is enough, when something is unpleasant for you, to make a benevolent, cheerful face, as a group of biocurrents reflexively in the brain neurons will cause a change in mood. It is not for nothing that we say to an offended child: “Well, stop crying, smile, and all your grief will pass.”

That's why, in my opinion, it would be nice if everyone would try to keep young, pleasant facial expression for life. It's good for yourself and for those around you.

Flexibility, mobility, massage

V. E. Nagorny made a significant contribution to the science of the physiological education of the modern mental worker, who created a research laboratory at Moscow State University to study the regime of people of mental labor. About ten years ago, the publishing house "Soviet Russia" published his book "Thought and Movement", which deals, in particular, with the issues of flexibility, body mobility, as well as massage. I was directly involved in the development of a number of techniques proposed by the author.

In this book, V. E. Nagorny wrote that in work and in everyday life a person performs movements with an amplitude that is much less than that which the joints and ligaments are capable of. As a result, the ligaments become less elastic, the muscles that control the movement of the joints lose their ability to significantly stretch and contract. The "working angle" of the joints is reduced. Having become accustomed to movements with a small amplitude, a person loses flexibility, performing deep bends, squats, wide, sweeping movements begins to cause pain, and sometimes leads to injuries. All this is aggravated by the fact that harmful substances - salts - are deposited on non-working areas of the joints with age.

How to prevent such occurrences? With the help of special exercises. In the mode of motor activity, it is necessary to provide special exercises for the articular-ligamentous apparatus, which must be performed systematically throughout life. These exercises include: rotational movements of the arms, head, torso, waving arms and legs, tilting forward, sideways, backwards, squats, lunges, etc. You need to perform them with the greatest possible amplitude for you.

At each lesson, try to “work out” the maximum number of joints: shoulder, hip, knee, ankle, as well as the complex system of the spine. If this cannot be done in one lesson, then the exercises should be distributed over several days.

Each exercise should be repeated 6-10 times. If pain occurs during exercises with a large amplitude, you should not be afraid of this. You can not allow only severe pain, so that there are no injuries. You need to start the exercises, having previously warmed up the body, do them with a small amplitude, gradually bringing them to the maximum.

In sports, to relieve fatigue or increase efficiency, massage is used. But after all, a person gets tired not only after playing sports, but also in the process of work. Could massage help here too?

The origin of massage dates back to ancient times. Historians have found that it was used in almost every country in the world. It was used by Greek warriors and Roman gladiators, ancient Chinese doctors and the peoples of Africa. Massage has become widespread in the south and north of our country.

Claudius Galen (131-201), who healed gladiators in Pergamum, indicated nine types of massage, described the technique of stroking, rubbing and kneading the muscles. He developed in detail the methodology of "morning" and "evening" massage. The Romans, like the Greeks, introduced massage into the system of physical education of warriors. They resorted to massage before and after performing in the arena to relieve fatigue and tension. The massage was accompanied by anointing the body with oils, bathing and rubbing with sand.

The massage among the peoples of the countries was very original. South Africa,Mid East,Islands Pacific Ocean. In his diary, the famous Russian traveler N. N. Miklukho-Maclay described the massage of the natives of New Guinea, which he experienced for himself:

“... the girl came up to me and, grabbing my head with both hands, began to squeeze it periodically with all her might. I put my head at her full disposal. The pressure turned into rubbing the scalp with two fingers, with the masseuse squeezing out the rubbed area as far as she could. When her right hand got tired, she began to do it with her left, and I noticed that the strength of the fingers of her left hand was not inferior to the strength of her right ... The sensation was pleasant: at the same time, I somehow stopped feeling pain and did not even think about coconut oil and ocher, which her hands were greased.

Massage at Slavic peoples practiced since ancient times in the form of whipping your body with a broom during or after washing in the bath to improve general blood circulation. This form of massage, which the ancient Slavs called “tailing”, is mentioned in the annals of Nestor: “How they wash, they tail ... they saw the baths of the Drevyans and burn them with velms, and they will be dragged, and they will be Nazis, and they will douse themselves with soap, and they will take branches and the beatings will begin ... and they will douse themselves with icy water and live like that.

The centuries-old history of massage testifies to its beneficial effect on people's health. Massage counts whole line techniques: stroking, rubbing, kneading, tapping, patting and chopping, with the help of which the whole body or its individual parts are consistently worked out.

Massage performed in the direction of movement of venous blood and lymph helps to accelerate their outflow from the working organs, reduce congestion, and dissolve edema. Due to the massage, which causes a moderate expansion of the peripheral vessels, the work of the heart is facilitated. Properly performed massage has a beneficial effect on the activity of the nervous and other body systems.

Depending on the tasks solved with the help of massage, several of its types are distinguished: hygienic, restorative, massage for traumatic injuries, training and others.

Hygienic massage is applied after gymnastics in the morning. Its main task is to raise the general tone of the body. It usually has the character of self-massage and includes stroking, kneading, shaking, active-passive movements.

Evening massage performed just before going to bed has a beneficial effect. It is performed while lying in bed. Produce such techniques as stroking, light kneading and slight shaking of the muscles. Evening massage relieves nervous tension accumulated during the day, promotes general relaxation and improves sleep.

Below are some guidelines for self-massage.

Self-massage is good to combine with morning or evening exercises. Massage is best in the nude. In some cases, if, for example, the air in the room is cool, massage can be done through knitted or even woolen underwear.

When massaging, it is important to give the body a position in which the muscles of the massaged parts of the body would be in a relaxed state. As a rule, the movement of the massaging hand during self-massage should be made along the lymphatic tract, towards the nearest lymph nodes. Hands are massaged towards the elbow and axillary nodes; legs - to the popliteal and inguinal nodes; chest - from the middle to the sides, to the muscle cavities; back - from the spine to the sides; neck - down, to the subclavian nodes.

Massage lymph nodes should not be produced. It is permissible only in exceptional cases, when there is complete confidence that there are no pathogenic microbes in the nodes that can enter the bloodstream.

Massage cannot be done inflammatory processes, abscesses, skin diseases, inflammation of the veins, thrombosis and severe varicose veins. To find out if massage is contraindicated for you, you need to consult a doctor.

Very pleasant face and forehead massage. It is performed along the facial branches of the trigeminal nerve. Light rubbing of the face, reminiscent of the movement of hands when washing, is performed in the direction from the center of the face to the temples: first along the lower contours of the eyeballs, then along the line of the eyebrows and, finally, along the surface of the forehead. The movements should be gentle, slightly shifting the skin, especially when the fingers reach the temples. Strong pressure in this area can cause discomfort.

The surface of the head is massaged in the direction of hair growth simultaneously with both hands. Fingers tend to pinch or pull the skin.

Then follows a gentle stroking of the head. In the morning and afternoon hours, the technique of lightly tapping the fingers on the surface of the skull can be successfully used. The total duration of the head massage is about five minutes. It should have a pleasant and calming effect.

The intensity and duration of the massage should not always be the same. With severe fatigue and nervous excitement, massaging movements should be lighter and longer. On the contrary, in a cheerful state, for example, after morning exercises, the massage is performed more energetically.

Self-massage of the legs usually begins with a consistent study of the muscles of the foot, Achilles tendon, calf and tibia muscles, thigh muscles. It is best to massage the foot and the Achilles tendon while sitting on the couch: the massaged leg is bent at the knee, the other is straightened and lies freely on the couch.

The calf muscle is massaged while sitting with the legs bent at approximately a right angle. At the same time, in order to more fully relax the calf muscle, the foot rests on a roller from a blanket, pillow, or on the foot of the other leg. It is also convenient to massage while sitting on a chair or on the edge of the couch, lowering one leg to the floor, lifting the other, being massaged. During the evening massage, this muscle can be massaged while lying on your back, raising the corresponding leg.

Massage of the thigh muscles is carried out in different positions, depending on which muscle bundles are being massaged: 1) the massager sits on the couch, one leg is lowered, and the other, being massaged, lies along the couch; 2) the massager sits on the edge of the couch with one buttock, the massaged leg is set aside a little and rests on the toe; 3) the masseur sits on a chair, the massaged leg is bent and the heel rests on some object located above the chair, while the back must have a stable support. In all cases, those muscles are massaged, which in these poses are in a relaxed, relaxed state.

After the legs, the gluteal muscles and the lumbar region are massaged. The gluteal muscles are worked out by kneading and vigorous shaking. The lumbar region is rubbed simultaneously with both hands - fingers or the back of the hand, bent into a fist. Rubbing the lower back is convenient to combine with gymnastic exercises - torso forward and in a circular motion pelvis.

It is better to massage the chest muscles while lying on your back and apply stroking, shaking and rubbing.

Self-massage of hands can be carried out in a standing, sitting or lying position. First, the fingers, the back of the hand, the wrist joint are massaged. The main technique is rubbing. With self-massage of the forearm, stroking, squeezing, kneading, patting and chopping are used.

Having finished massaging the forearm, rub the elbow joint. On the shoulder joint, the biceps and triceps are massaged separately. Here, stroking and kneading are most often used.

When self-massaging the head and neck area, it is better to lie on your back. If you have to perform it while sitting on a chair, then it is recommended to put your elbows on the edge of the table in order to prevent fatigue of the muscles of the hands and excessive tension in the shoulder mice.

First, the surface of the back of the head, the muscles of the back of the neck and shoulders are massaged. Basically, they stroke and knead the muscles with the middle and ring fingers of both hands in the direction from the back of the head to the shoulders. The mastoid processes (tubercles behind the ears) are massaged with circular movements of the thumbs.

The area of ​​the collarbone and shoulders is massaged alternately: first the left side, then the right. Here you need to be careful and avoid strong pressure on the muscles, since this area is located a large number of pain points.

Of particular note is the massage of the anterior surface of the neck, where the main main vessels of the brain pass: the carotid artery and jugular veins. This massage is especially effective for mental fatigue, when, as a result of a long stay in a sedentary state with a bent back and a tilted head, the outflow of venous blood from the brain worsens.

In this case, the massage is carried out by slightly tilting the head and calmly, slightly stroking the anterolateral surface of the neck from top to bottom, along the jugular veins.

I also recommend from time to time (1-2 times a month) to massage the lymph nodes located between the left nipple of the breast and the collarbone. To do this, you need to hard, squeezed together by three fingers right hand by circular pressure on the muscles to drive the lymph from the nipple to the collarbone and even further, penetrating the fingers under the collarbone. This massage relieves my rare sensations of nagging light pain in my shoulder, which comes from slagging of the lymphatic vessels.

All the massage techniques listed in this chapter are useful for any person and lead to purification from salts and toxins and cell longevity.

Natalia Nagornaya

Mind Reading: Theory and Practice

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Introduction

Telepathy is one of the unique abilities of a person, which is usually attributed to the supernatural. When confronted with it, most people experience conflicting feelings - from awe and admiration to anxiety and fear. There are those who wish to master telepathy. There are many such people, and they are ready to make efforts to achieve this goal.

Recently, interest in paranormal abilities has increased significantly. More and more people with some special gift began to appear. Some have clairvoyance, others can influence different aspects of life, others can read information about a person from a photograph, etc. Moreover, many of them admit that they have developed these abilities on their own.

According to astrologers, people's increased craving for the supernatural is associated with the onset of the Age of Aquarius. In some sources, its beginning refers to the first decade of the 20th century, in others - to the middle of the 21st. But most astrologers agree that the Age of Aquarius has already arrived, and this is evidenced by the changes taking place in the world. The development of information technologies, flights into space, scientific discoveries, equality in relations between men and women, the desire for freedom - all these are its signs. The Age of Aquarius is the time of the thirst for knowledge, growing spirituality, the disclosure of internal reserves in a person.

In the modern world, psychic abilities, and in particular telepathy, are needed in order to better understand other people, which means less conflict and faster to achieve what you want. Work, love, family, friendships - in each of these areas, the presence of such opportunities will only benefit.

There is an opinion that every person has the ability to telepathy, but it can be expressed to a greater or lesser extent. This can be seen in the simplest real life examples. Have you ever felt from a distance that your loved one needs help? Did you say the same phrase at the same time with someone? Or maybe you wanted to say: “You read my mind!”. All these are manifestations of telepathy. To maximize your natural abilities, use this book as a textbook, and you will succeed!

What is telepathy

Telepathy and parapsychology in historical interpretations

There is hardly a subject in which interest has not abated for thousands of years. Telepathy belongs precisely to this category, although, of course, in primitive culture the phenomenon of transmitting thoughts over a distance was not called that word. But even then, myths, magic, religious beliefs were filled with the belief that this is quite real, moreover, it exists.

Probably, the origins of telepathy are connected with the peculiarities of the mental activity of primitive man, who endowed everything that surrounded him in everyday reality, in the surrounding nature, regardless of whether the object was a living or inanimate object, endowed with a soul. At the same time, the soul of the person himself seemed to him to be something like a double, which can leave the body either for a while or forever.

The origins of ideas about how the soul becomes accessible to concrete sensory perception lie in the characteristic features of human thinking of understanding how exactly thoughts are transmitted over a distance. Hence the idea of ​​the presence of an intermediary, a certain carrier, without which the mechanism of this process is simply unthinkable.

Understanding the need for a carrier of mental influence at a distance led to the search for a "visible image of the soul." The affinity of such words as “soul”, “blow”, “spirit” makes it possible to imagine breathing as an image of the soul. Remember the expressions “God breathed a soul into Adam”, “the soul soared”, indicating that the soul is a kind of ephemeral substance that can dissolve in space.

Gradually, the idea was formed that something luminous could come from the human body, which is the visible image of the soul. This was known in the ancient world - the Egyptians, Hindus, Chaldeans, whose knowledge eventually became the property of the peoples who lived in a later time.

Science knows a doctrine called “hylozoism”, i.e. the doctrine of universal spirituality, according to which “a single material principle penetrating all bodies of the Universe forms its “soul”. The soul of every living person is a part of this universal “soul” ...”, that the soul is material, that with the death of a person it joins this whole.

The position of universal spirituality (in whole or in part) was accepted by many, in particular W. Gilbert, J.-B. Robinet, G. T. Fechner; Among domestic scientists, one can name A. Ya. Danilevsky, V. I. Vernadsky, P. A. Florensky, who respectively belong to the hypothesis of biogenic ether, the doctrine of the noosphere, and the concept of the pneumatosphere.

The idea of ​​universal spirituality was especially popular in the 15th–16th centuries, when the idea of ​​an “animated world fluid” (from Latin fluidus – “flowing”) arose again, according to which a person can influence other people regardless of the distance between them. The roots of this concept go to the depths of civilizations that have developed and developed in the East even before our era. In China, India, Tibet and other regions, the provisions have reached the present time that “the driving force of all higher principles is special subtle vibrations, vibrations, sounds or rhythms of a not physical, but spiritual nature: “They cannot be heard with the ear, but only with the heart, they cannot be uttered with the lips, but only with the brain.

Here it is appropriate to recall the most ancient philosophical doctrine, which was discussed above - yoga, which gives an idea of ​​prana. Its analogue in later times was the concept of pneuma. Prana (in China - qi energy) is not breathing, not nerve energy, not life force, etc., it is something of a higher level. All of the above are modifications.

At present, it is almost impossible to find out how the ancient teaching became known in Europe, but nevertheless it is known that Pythagoras (VI century BC) in the treatise "Harmony of the Spheres" wrote that "every celestial and under-celestial body, all living and existing produce special sounds when moving. These include both rhythms and vibrations, which together form a kind of harmony, while each individual element of such a system is an integral part of a single whole.

Empedocles (490-430 BC) believed that mental activity is the result of the mechanical interaction of "animate material principles", that is, the movement of physical elements is the basis of mental manifestations. Empedocles owns a hypothesis according to which objects, making continuous movement, "emit waves of thin" outflows "that can reach other objects and penetrate into their" pores ". If it turned out that the "pores" belong to the sense organs, then sensations appear.