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Swadyaya (Chakrapsychology)

Who is this workshop likely to benefit?

 

  1. Understand your weaknesses, recognize your strengths: Learn to use the Anya Chakra (known in Indian tradition as the Third Eye), which looks inward. Discover yourself instead of relying on others’ judgments, regardless if these people have good intent or not.

  2. Balance your emotional imbalances and chakras: The chakras influence one another, in a positive or negative manner. When used correctly, Swadhyaya (self-study) helps restore the chakras, hence emotional and psychological balance.

  3. If you're honest, Swadhyaya reveals everything and all illusions vanish: Neither those ones with ill intent nor your own unconscious patterns can continue to harm you. A clear, objective view of your personality emerges.

  4. If you're honest, Swadhyaya reveals your true potential: Through Swadhyaya, we realize that many of our inner abilities aren’t just imagination. It becomes much easier to trust in our own possibilities.

  5. Heal your deepest fears without having to share them with anyone: Swadhyaya encourages us to do the therapeutic work ourselves, something often seen as a burden or challenge (though it isn’t!). The advantage is that there is no need to share painful, embarrassing, difficult, or shameful experiences with anybody.

  6. You become the therapist who truly listens to your needs: Swadhyaya is a process we apply to ourselves. By doing so, we become the therapist who knows our deepest wounds, desires, and pain and handles us with care and genuine self-interest.

  7. After overcoming trauma, learn to use the experience you have gained through it: Those who’ve overcome trauma often hold tremendous experience compared to people who never have gone through such hardship. Learn how to use it!

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Swadyaya is an ancient form of psychology. It's important to consider that working with Swadaya involves entirely different approaches than what one is accustomed to in modern times. With Swadaya, it's the individual, the patient, who must do most of the work on their psyche according to certain guidelines and rules. The person familiar with Swadyaya merely explains how to carry out the next step of the process. Typically, they instruct a large group of people simultaneously, which is not surprising in a country like India with a large population. What's beneficial is that the participants help each other, which is often more efficient because the "Swadyaya therapist" has limited knowledge and experience in comparison to a group of people and can only offer his own perspective.

 

This approach may not be well-received by many individuals in our modern, dependency-based society. They expect guidance and understanding in their personal concerns and assume that the therapist will focus on them and their issues. For those who lack the will to step out of their comfort zone and make changes, Swadyaya is entirely unsuitable. It can even be perceived as very uncomfortable. Therefore, for these people, please stay away.

 

For those who do not want to consciously or unconsciously deceive themselves or others, Swadyaya is a blessing and a freeway toward truth and authenticity. Embracing the truth reveals so much new, positive, and beautiful experiences that the pain, anger, and disappointment often become secondary. If these negative emotions still prevail, it means that you have not yet fully or not at all arrived at the truth. Therefore, Swadyaya is for those who are not afraid to independently and WITHOUT EXCUSES, but with the help of the group, confront (resolve) their fears, traumas, and difficulties.

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