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Reflection 5

Working on this project made me more aware of the therapeutic value of drawing and Neurographic Art in particular. Just the simple act of sitting down, slowing down, moving markers and pencils over the paper, leaving marks on paper – it all has a calming effect. Once you add in the power, depth, and insights of Neurographics on top of the magic of drawing, the benefits and impact of this process become far greater.

As soon as I started drawing for this project, things felt like they began to shift. At first, I even refused to believe it because it seemed so obvious and straightforward. But I could not deny that things in my brain felt like they were flowing a bit smoother. Valuable insights on anger, as well as other subjects, just seemed to appear out of nowhere as I worked through this project.

For my last drawing, instead of starting with a “problem” emotion, I decided to use visualization. I drew a series of random shapes, each shape representing an attribute I wished to possess. There were “calm,” “patient,” “deliberate,” “restrained,” and others; qualities that I wanted. Here is the start of my drawing.

In a while, my lines were flowing more smoothly, and my shapes started to unify.

I connected the figures to the background by running lines to the edge of the paper. I identified and emphasized a few large shapes that felt like they wanted to be on the page. Several large concentric circles almost blended one into another.

As I was drawing, I realized that anger could be beneficial. Thinking about a few situations in my past, I saw that anger was a catalyst for change. Anger got me off my butt and got me going when otherwise, I would be stuck in the status quo. Merely having that edgy energy of discomfort inside me allowed me to harness it and use it as an instrument of change. It did not happen in every case, and often anger was wasted in stewing over something instead of taking action. Becoming aware of this made me realize that in the future, I can use anger as an agent of change more often. Instead of treating anger as a trigger to go into a rumination, I can use it as a trigger to initiate action. Anger is a powerful energy, and consciously channeling it is a game-changer.

I also saw that anger is a force that can destroy existing structures so that new ones can grow. In a physical sense, one can use anger to demolish something to build anew. Likewise, inside the brain, anger can be used to destroy unhelpful beliefs and things where I am stuck.

Finally, I also saw that anger is something that brings clarity, something beneficial, and often lacking in our confused and cluttered state of consciousness. When anger arose, and I was paying attention, there was an incredible clarity about what to do and how to move forward. Granted, this was not the usual experience, as frequently, anger led to more anger in a toxic loop. But having an awareness of the clarity anger engenders creates an opening. I can use anger to move forward resolutely. I can fearlessly jump into a task that would typically seem too challenging, or I would not have enough motivation to get it accomplished. Anger is like a machete that can help me cut through the clutter. It can clear out the junk, and allow to fearlessly move forward, even when the jungle is full of obstacles, adversaries, and threats.

I don’t have to push anger aside or fight it. I can even harness it. But I must never have it control me. It’s where I got into trouble with my son, as anger took over me so entirely that I could not seemingly do anything but rage. However, thinking back to that situation, I recall some degree of awareness of what was happening. There was always some space of calm from which I saw the events unfold. I chose to ignore that space and jump into the emotion, become the emotion, and lose all control. It did not have to happen like that. I allowed it to happen because I liked the adrenalin, and I wanted the drama, even though the final cost of this was way too high.

It’s evident to me that there is a path of freedom that doesn’t involve the seemingly inevitable loss of control. I am always separate from any upsetting event, no matter how powerful, because I can see it unfold. My thoughts and feelings, even when they are angry, don’t define me. I can see anger arise within me, but it doesn’t mean that I have to become angry. I can remain the space of calm and let the emotion subside. Spinning out of control is a choice. I allow it. Or not.

As I wrapped up the drawing, I felt a deep peace within me, a space of calm from which I saw everything unfold. This sense of being, this center, is at the very core of my nature, it’s what I am – if I choose to accept it. No thought, emotion, or event can ever disturb my clarity and peace here. Why would I ever step away from my sanctuary, no matter how great is the storm raging on the outside?

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So You Think You Have a Problem

Neurographic drawing can take you from the belief in a specific problem, to the realization that problem-making is all mental and emotional. It is a way of rewiring and refining that tendency, toward the general capacity to see that all problems are constructed in the same way. There isn’t one particular problem, there is only a mental and emotional, reflexive, process that seems to present as a specific, time-dependent, conflict” out there”.

The algorithm of the Lifting of Inner Constraint (notice the use of the word “inner”), otherwise referred to here as the Removal of Limitations, takes the physical discharge of that mental/emotional discomfort out of the mind/body and onto the page. What is at first a nondescript, somewhat harsh, scribble is transformed into an aesthetically pleasing whole. The difficulty is effaced and, if not entirely, at least diminished in importance and intensity. The process addresses not just “problems,” but belief-generated limitations of possibility. Anything is possible, when the inner constraint is seen as a purely mentally-generated construct.

Yes, there is respect by the Neurographic facilitator for the suffering the problem seems to present. We do seem to have them. But as Pavel Piskarev describes, it is the “streaming state,” like meditation, that is continually entered into when drawing neurographically, that takes you from the specific to the general natural state of equilibrium that is your true nature. Which leads to an underlying “aesthetic intelligence” that can supersede the divided and divisive problem-and-limitation-creating mind, to a more holistic perspective. The inner representation becomes the outer experience. Until they are seen as one and the same.

Removal of Limitations

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The first algorithm of Neurographics is called the “Removal of Limitations” algo. (Algorithm is the term used for modality or method.) Limitations are created by the belief–thought/emotion–generated perceptual system.

Which shows us that what we think we are, these thoughts, these emotions, are the limitation, and act as the “me,” or selfing, that fundamentally creates the situations and/or problems. Removing those mental limitations, this mind/body conditioning, is what Neurographics is good for. The world changes as we draw ourselves out of conceptual limitations.

Which inevitably and happily leaves room for new ways of seeing and being. Boundaries are removed as we see and feel and draw through them. This is what happens. Imagine that–unless there is some belief that interferes with that possibility.

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Redraw The World

The thing about drawing Neurographic art is that it changes things. Changes the way you see, the way you feel, the way you respond. It is designed to do just that–alter your habitual thought patterns, your reflexive emotional responses. And it isn’t just you that changes, it is the world itself. Because now it is seen in a new way, as if remembering what is true.

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Pavel Piskarev on Neurography

The video below, loosely translated from Russian to English, gives a very brief perspective on Neurographica, from Pavel Piskarev.

“Connectivity is the ability to connect a variety of contradictory, sometimes contradictory in terms, sometimes contradictory in contexts judgments, thoughts. But a person is so arranged that he is not linear, he is not constant, sometimes when I sit at work I think about home, when I walk with children I sometimes remember about my work. How to tie it all up? How to link this so that there is no dissatisfaction with yourself inside? How to do it so that it becomes one continuous stream of consciousness? It is for this that the neurographic pattern was invented, which allows you to connect neural networks, weave wonderful knots that connect a variety of things that turn a fragmented, neurotic person into something whole, into something that is able to pass energy through itself, a person turns into a medium, just a filter of lifeflow, which directs this flow into the reality that his consciousness invents. And in this sense, the neurographic pattern is the second amazing asset.”

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Slip Into a Meditative State

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The first time Neurographics was brought to my attention, I was watching a man sitting in a corner, in a crowded room, and whatever he was doing–drawing?–he was clearly in some kind of Ohm-like state, off in his own world, pen and notebook in hand. As it turns out, he had learned Neurographics almost a year ago, and he had been drawing like this ever since. Continue reading “Slip Into a Meditative State”

What is Neurographica?

Neurographics (or Neurographica) is a way of drawing that recreates the outer from the inner. The world is a reflection of the beliefs we hold. Beliefs are arbitrary limits on what is possible, and therefore frame the limited way in which the world is experienced.

Neurographic Art was developed by Pavel Piskarev, a Russian psychologist and creativity entrepreneur. Here is a descriptive quote, translated from Russian to English, from his website:

Creative method of transforming the world. Author’s method. Interdisciplinary practice that allows you to make the necessary personal changes, reliably remove restrictions and successfully simulate a new, desired reality. ~ Pavel Piskarev

The outer world and the experience it engenders are projected from within. There is no one who does not judge and interpret that world, most often from a bound and binding perspective. Almost always from the perspective of separation, believing that the perceiver and the perceived are separate rather than one and the same.