Psychologist of the Russian national swimming teams and figure skating Gennady Gorbunov: I work as a roofer - I put the roofs in place

“Treat the boy’s head,” said Tatyana Tarasova after the failure at the last Russian Grand Prix to the skater’s coach Konstantin Menshov. A couple of months later, Menshov became the champion of the country. Professor of psychology Gennady Gorbunov had a hand in this and many other sports wonders.

SPORTS PSYCHOLOGY
TALK ABOUT THE MAIN

“Treat the boy’s head,” said Tatyana Tarasova after the failure at the last Russian Grand Prix to the skater’s coach Konstantin Menshov. A couple of months later, Menshov became the champion of the country. Professor of psychology Gennady Gorbunov had a hand in this and many other sports miracles.

In a month it will be 40 years since Gennady Gorbunov has been working with athletes: for the first time he went to the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR in 1971. And since 1975 he has been working with the national teams. I started with swimming, all our champions and winners of the Moscow Olympics went through it. Then he worked with cyclists, athletes, football players. With the skaters, by his own admission, he began to cooperate because the St. Petersburg Academy of Figure Skating is a few minutes walk from home. Age tells.

"GET GOOD FROM RENTAL"

At the World Championships in Moscow, I worked with Ksyusha Makarova and Alena Leonova- says Gennady Dmitrievich. - After the short program, Alena came up to me and asked me to have a session in the evening. I came to the hotel, the session was not long. I told her: "You will fall asleep, but fight sleep, be drowsy, swim." Had a 30 minute recovery session in a trance state.

- installation on free program gave?

Which almost brought Alena a bronze medal? But how! The meaning of the session was that she equally successfully performed in both programs. It happens all the time: in the short skater the first, in the free skate - the tenth. Or vice versa. It is clear that this is not a problem of preparation, but of mental control.

- Will you reveal the secret of what exactly you are talking about?

- How long have you been working with Leonova?

We started working with Alena three years ago. I told her about the ritual of pre-competitive behavior, explained the basic techniques. I started with a soft immersion, relaxation, then I began to deepen it, put me into a trance state. Eventually I switched to hypnosis. In deep immersion, she perceives everything differently.

World and European champion in swimming Stanislav Donets told me that you set the goal not to win medals, but to good performance his work.

That's right, I say the same thing to skaters. There are, of course, nuances. In swimming, there is no need to be distracted by the aesthetic component, which has to be done in figure skating. Therefore, I direct the skaters to one thing: “Get high from the skate. If you enjoy it, then everyone will enjoy it: the audience, the judges, dad and mom.”

When skaters come to me, they write their last name, first name, year of birth, who they train with, I immediately provoke them: “Describe the start at which you got greatest pleasure". Regardless of the result. Delight is remembered not so much by the head as by the body. If you remember it, then you will properly prepare your body for another start.

I have an approach that I use everywhere, especially with skaters. No worries, I say. There is not even such a word. Removed anxiety. We have inspiration, enthusiasm and delight. Thus, instead of one "in" we get three others.

- As an eyewitness, I can say that delight is exactly what Leonova experienced after the skates.

Of course! The main thing is to evoke an appropriate reaction from her. But it is important that emotions do not overwhelm her, otherwise she may lose control, especially in jumping. Delight is an energy boost. She managed to make sure that she nourished herself from beginning to end.

"SERIOUSLY WRONG WITH MAKAROVA"

- At Makarova short program also succeeded. What happened in the free program?

We discussed this in detail with her coach. Evgeny Rukavitsyn. But I can't voice it. I think that in one place I was seriously mistaken. Ksenia had to be restored in the evening after a short one, but she showed no desire. I talked on the phone with my mother for a long time. I waited, did not insist. In vain. Of course, I have less contact with Ksyusha, she has only been living in Russia for a few months. I did not take risks, because I did not know where my intervention would lead.

There was, however, another option to help her: if I could talk to her right before going out on the ice. After all, 55 minutes between the warm-up and the start is a lot. But I could not get into the zone where the skaters are before the skate. Therefore, my task for the near future is to create a record with instructions for the skaters so that they can listen to it before the performance.

- What is the secret of Leonova's success?

Everything is built on several basic positions. The first is that any person, when you work with him, must be ready for changes. You can not force an athlete to go to a psychologist. He doesn’t want to - don’t, anyway, such work will be useless. The second is a continuation of the first: the task of a specialist in the psychology of influence is to create faith in his ward, a sense of a miracle. If so, any further action would be helpful.

Even the language barrier does not matter: in the Philippines, the coach brought a guy to me with the words: “He is completely untrained, do something.” I spent only one session of suggestion with him, and he became the champion of Asia. The coach was shocked: “What did you do to him?” “Nothing,” I answer. “He just believed in me.”

"FEAR IS IN THE SUBCONSCIOUSNESS"

- Does your method of work change depending on the sport?

When I started working with cyclists, I did not know the specifics of the species, I did not understand what to say to them. Collected information from coaches, athletes. Wrote the necessary words, then went to Alexander Kuznetsov(head coach of the USSR national team. - Note. ed.) and checked with him. Only after that did he begin to write "influence tool". Work on 5-7 lines lasts a week, sometimes two. Moreover, in this phrase there should be words that athletes use. When the tool is developed, you can begin to influence.

I did the same in figure skating: I painted the condition of an athlete who is preparing to jump. Then Tamara Nikolaevna Moskvina, Evgeny Rukavitsyn made adjustments. Asked and Mishina. But we were never able to meet with him and discuss everything. Showed the skaters - Sasha Smirnov, Kostya Menshov. When the "tool" was ready, he began to hone it under hypnosis. This does not mean, of course, that everyone will jump without error. The technique is aimed at reducing the likelihood of a fall or a bad landing.

- Why do you need to put a person into a state of trance, hypnotize?

Very often in the psychology of influence they are guided by rational intellect, by consciousness. But, if a person experiences anxiety, fear, especially before competitions, you can tell him a hundred times “Finish, don’t worry!”. What's the point? Anxiety sits in the subconscious.

My work is based on the fact that I first tell something - but this is only a quarter of the story. Then I immerse it in the appropriate state and repeat the same. Sometimes improvisationally, sometimes I say prepared phrases. Like poetry - one and the same, one and the same. I am laying down a deep installation that will pop up when needed. It can be either calmness and confidence, or composure and mobilization - in different types sports in different ways.

"GACHINSKY IS NOT READY FOR CHANGE"

- What other skaters do you work with?

We met with Sasha Smirnov several times. I gave him a book and a record autogenic training. And he said that was enough for him. He listens to the recording before performances. With Yuko (Kawaguchi. - Note. ed.) I do more: she calls, I come to the skating rink, and we communicate with her.

I had a year ago Artur Gachinsky. But this is the case when a person has not yet been ready for change. He didn't feel me. Mishin makes people self-sufficient. Artur can come to me only if Alexei Nikolaevich says that something needs to be corrected. But now, after his success, he is unlikely to come. After all, there is such a misconception that if an athlete needs a psychologist, then this is a weak athlete.

- As far as we know, this phrase belongs to the famous swimming coach Sergei Vaitsekhovsky.

We have known Vaitsekhovsky since the 1960s, when he was still involved in pentathlon. And he told me: “Gena, I had all sorts of psychologists. I don't believe you charlatans." But as time passed, he saw the results of my work and changed his point of view. “Why are you scolding psychologists,” he was told, “but Gorbunov has been working for you for how many years.” “Do not confuse,” he replied, “Gorbunov is a completely different matter.”

- Is it true that the state of the Olympic champion Salnikov during a long swim was close to sleep?

No, he didn't sleep. It was a trance state, that is, extreme looseness and emancipation, combined with maximum composure and mobilization. This is a variant of somnambulism, when a person becomes dexterous, like a monkey. But God forbid to wake him up, fear immediately arises. Often, deep positive things - inspiration, creativity - arise precisely in a state of trance. At a distance, when a person enters this state, especially in cyclic types sports, muscles work extremely economically and amazing coordination of movements appears.

They say that 14 times Olympic champion Does Michael Phelps listen to the same recordings before swimming that you gave Alexander Smirnov?

Nobody can tell you for sure. Americans, and many others, hide not only the methods, but often the people who work. There were times when I saw a person at competitions, knew him on other matters, knew that he was a psychologist. I asked the Americans what he was doing, and they said that he was a coach. I have no facts, but if we proceed from the principles by which the Americans work, then there is definitely a psychologist there. Because when a person reaches such a level, it is impossible for him to do without special training.

"WORKING WITH WOMEN IS EASIER"

Have there been times when you were unable to help?

Of course. But, even if a person added half a point or half a second during our work, I think that the work was successful.

Are there people who can't be hypnotized?

As much as you want. Hypnable people in the world are about 15 percent. But everyone can go into a trance. When a person enters a trance five, seven, ten times during sessions, his suggestibility increases. And then I start using hypnosis.

- Who is easier to work with - women or men?

It's easier for me with women. My character of communication, personal features impress women more. Men, too, but of a special warehouse: if this is a tough guy, then he is unlikely to come to me, I work more with people of an intelligent warehouse.

Boris Spassky told Rudolf Zagainov that a psychologist is forced to be a spiritual prostitute: to constantly adapt to the personality of an athlete, a coach. Do you agree?

And why shouldn't journalists attach this label to, say, doctors and psychotherapists? Of course, whether you like it or not, sometimes you twist a person's brains just to relieve tension. We have to, let's say, to dissemble. Sometimes they ask me: “What do you do?”, I say: “I’m a roofer, I put the roofs in place.”

About Zagainov. Do you think the story of the death of Yulia Arustamova hit hard on the reputation of sports psychologists?

I have known Zagainov for over 40 years. He is a very good psychologist. But I don't answer questions about him.

- To what extent, in your opinion, are the Russian national teams now provided with psychologists?

If I give such an assessment, they will beat me, - Gorbunov laughs. - Specialization "Sports psychologist" has been preserved at the University of St. Petersburg. I don't know how many editions there were. Ten, fifteen... But these people are not seen in sports.

Recently, I was contacted by people from the Medical Department, who were given the task to prepare for the Games in London, and then for Sochi, each team in psychology. It was about the fact that I would train psychologists in sports. They asked how much I want to receive, but then everything calmed down. And there are no frames. More precisely, there are good psychologists, but such people immediately find themselves in business and receive a decent salary there. And average and especially weak psychologists are not needed in sports.

- That is, in the near future we will not reach the level of the United States or China in terms of psychological preparation?

You come to competitions, for example, in swimming. There, along the sides, along with doctors, masseurs, there are people with the inscription "Psychologist" on their backs. And here, try to find a place for a psychologist in the delegation. At one time I was offered the chair of a psychologist of the USSR Sports Committee. I said: “No way, because now the leader understands the meaning of psychology, but what will happen tomorrow?”

What to do is known: to introduce the position of a full-time psychologist in all national teams, to give people a good salary. But this is not even close!

PRIVATE BUSSINESS

Gennady GORBUNOV

Master of sports in swimming. Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, Academician of the International Academy of Psychological Sciences.

Worked with the national teams of the USSR and Russia in swimming, athletics, cycling, figure skating.

HOW ARE THEM?

WE ARE BEHIND EVEN THE NIGERIANS

With the Chinese team, 60 psychologists came to the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, and 30 from the United States team. The British brought eight specialists, the Germans - six, the French - five. Even the Nigerians had their own psychologist, however, an American. There was not a single psychologist in the Russian Olympic team.

AND THERE WAS ANOTHER CASE

MATCH KARPOV - KORCHNOI TURNED INTO A WAR OF HYPNOTISERS

Scandals often flare up around the work of a psychologist, and a chess match for the world title in 1978 between Anatoly Karpov and Viktor Korchnoi, held in Baguio, Philippines, turned into a real psychological war. In Karpov's team for psychological preparation Answered by Vladimir Zukhar. He constantly came to the games, sat in the same place in the front rows and, according to Korchnoi, hypnotized him.

First, people from Korchnoi's team sat down in front of Zukhar, trying to shield the chess player from the gaze of the "hypnotist", then Karpov's rival demanded that the psychologist be moved to the back rows. Nothing helped: in the match up to six victories, Karpov led 5:2, and Korchnoi blamed Zukhar for all his mistakes. And then two parapsychologists, graduates of Harvard, came to the aid of the dissident Korchnoi from America, who began to neutralize Zukhar.

“Honestly,” Korchnoi later said, “I never believed in devilry, but there was something in it!” With psychological support, he won two games in a row, then there was a draw and another victory for Korchnoi. With a score of 5:5, the Soviet delegation succeeded in getting the American parapsychologists expelled from the Philippines, and in the very first game that followed, Karpov won a decisive victory.

OPINION OF THE COACH

Tamara MOSKVINA, coach of Yuko Kawaguchi and Alexandra Smirnova:

The role of a psychologist in sports is very important. While still a student at the Lesgaft Institute, I learned many psychological techniques that I still use in my work. Gennady Dmitrievich Gorbunov worked a lot and actively with Yuko and Sasha. While preparing for the World Championships in Moscow, I also turned to him for help. I wanted the tricks that I was going to convey to them to be said in a third person and, perhaps, in other words.

ATHLETE OPINION

Larisa ILCHENKO, Olympic champion for swimming:

– We met Gennady Dmitrievich in 2006. The team was preparing for the World Cup, and Gorbunov was supposed to help cope with the heaviest workloads. Honestly, like most, I reacted to the psychologist with distrust. Gennady Dmitrievich felt this and was the first to ask: "You don't believe me?" And then he told the story of how one athlete did not believe him either. And then he put him to sleep, led him out onto the stairs and woke him up at the very edge. It was the same with me: Gorbunov put me on the edge of the bed and put me to sleep. I woke up only when the alarm rang for the second workout. And then I immediately believed him.

Gorbunov Gennady Dmitrievich (1938) - Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, Academician of the International Academy of Psychological Sciences, Honorary Worker of Higher Education in Russia. For 12 years he was elected a member of the Directorate of the European Federation of Sports Psychologists. For more than 40 years she has been working as a practical psychologist in elite sports.

In 1960 he graduated from the Lviv State Institute physical culture, master of sports in swimming.

In 1966 he graduated from the postgraduate course of the Department of Psychology of the GDOIFK them. P.F. Lesgaft, defended his Ph.D. thesis in the psychology of sports.

From 1970 to 1995, he successfully combined the teaching of psychology with the work of a practical sports psychologist in the national teams of the USSR in swimming, athletics, and cycling. Developed the author's theory and methodology for psychoregulation of the states of highly qualified athletes using hypnosis and bioenergetics methods.

From 1992 to 1998, he headed the Department of Psychology at the St. P.F. Lesgaft.

In 1994 he successfully defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic: “Psychopedagogy physical education and sports."

In 1995 he was elected a corresponding member, in 2004 - a full member of the BPA in the section of intensive teaching methods (SIMO). From 1995 to 1999 he was the head of the psychopedagogy department of the Baltic Pedagogical Academy, established on his initiative.

In 1996, he was recognized as the best lecturer in his field at the professorial readings of one of the All-Russian interuniversity festivals and is the author of the book "Psychopedagogy of Sports", which received gold medal as the best research work in the field of sports.

For many years he represented our country in the European Federation of Sports Psychology (FEPSAK), successfully worked abroad as a sports psychologist national teams many countries. For fifteen years he was a member of the Scientific and Methodological Council of the Knowledge Society. For a long time took part as a consultant in the television program "Musical Ring".

Books (2)

Psychopedagogy of sports

The book is a didactically processed experience of a specialist who has worked for half a lifetime as a practical psychologist in elite sports, and for half a lifetime in a university audience.

It is devoted to practical issues of the psychology of influence from the standpoint of the educational tasks of sports pedagogy. It reveals the content of the psychological support for the preparation of an athlete according to the scheme: study - recommend - train - help. The features of a sports character and ways of its improvement are considered.

The variants of relaxation, suggested relaxation, auto-training, trance, hypnosis, verbal-musical and other types of psychoregulation, proven in sports practice, are given.

Numerous methods of self-regulation are described, texts of recommendations, suggestions and self-suggestions are offered in the form of specific practical guidelines.

Rejoice in fair victory

The harm and danger of drug use, as well as doping, is a well-known fact. But, as experience shows, some people still resort to such behavior, even knowing full well about its negative consequences.

Why is this happening? What vulnerable sides of our psyche are affected when a person begins to act to his own detriment, what causes the samples of such drugs, why do they cause an addiction that is difficult to overcome, what can be countered with this? Understanding these mechanisms important condition, allowing you to protect yourself and others from the risk of addictive behavior.

The book is addressed to adolescents and youth, and will also be of interest to specialists dealing with issues of anti-drug and anti-doping prevention.

Probably, only an athlete is fully aware of the range of feelings that a swimmer overcomes before the start and immediately after the finish. But it turns out that this complex mixture of anxious expectation, doubts and delights lends itself to study and analysis. Before you is a letter from a psychologist, doctor of pedagogical sciences Gennady Dmitrievich Gorbunov to the captain of our national swimming team Evgeny Korotyshkin. We think it will be interesting for the readers of the Swimming magazine as well.

Girl, hello!

We have not seen each other for a long time, and I did not have the opportunity to fulfill my promise - to give you again my book "Psychopedagogy of Sports", which you left in a hotel in a hurry after the European Championships. That is why I am writing you a letter. True, you were upset that not only the book is important to you, but also what I wrote. So I remember everything well. And now I have the opportunity not only to reproduce that text, but also to try to comment on it in detail. Moreover, I will never forget the storm of emotions that accompanied my pen.

So, I signed you the book “Thank you very much for the holiday! You managed to implement in the best possible way the basic principle of the psychopedagogy of sports: from inspiration and enthusiasm to delight.”

Indeed, starting on the 8th track and becoming the champion and record holder of Europe, you showed such enthusiasm that it was repeated many times in all television programs. This moment does not require translation into any languages, it was broadcast as an example of great sports happiness. But this feeling was not born out of the blue - it was preceded by no less forces of inspiration and inspiration.

Do you remember how you came to me 3-4 hours before the final and said: “Gennady Dmitrievich, I have nothing to lose. Do what you want with me, motivate me by any means, but I have to give out everything I have on the track, every drop!” I understood that you need to jump out of a losing streak and regain the image of an iron fighter, a person who knows no doubts. And we both took the risk. Instead of letting you just sleep, in a trance state you received a flurry of suggestions, turned into self-suggestions, which are given only in the second session before the swim itself. But main point theirs was precisely the inspiration and enthusiasm aimed at opening the pantries of the fighting spirit. There are many different descriptions of pre-start and competition states. As well as methods of dealing with anxiety. But removing the prelaunch tension is not only difficult, but often undesirable. It must be replaced.

I will not remind you of specific texts of suggestions. Moreover, in a trance state they are more focused on muscle and emotional memory. But their essence is as follows.

Inspiration and inspiration are closely related concepts.

Breath and soul. A soul that breathed into itself the energy of joy and calm fighting confidence. This is a state of a kind of freedom, looseness, in which our deepest resources are simply and naturally realized. This is a powerful, as if by itself, mobilization against the backdrop of a free flight of thought or complex and finely coordinated movements in sports. The obligation is supplemented by desire as a prophecy, that is, absolute faith in its implementation. This is a special state of mind of flight, obsession, inspiration, uplifting spirit, impulse, enthusiasm, a surge of enthusiasm, creative influx in understanding the possibilities of a liberated body. This is a kind of music of the body and soul, voicing our joy when the clamps that bind them are removed. In general, all the best in the world is most often created in a state of inspiration and inspiration. It is the same in sports, when these feelings come in time to replace the sinister, fettering excitement (often referred to as jitters), they determine the true skill of the athlete. Therefore, we remove the word "excitement" and try to forget its content. Instead, we are imbued with three other "in" that carry positive: inspiration, enthusiasm, delight. Having entered this peculiar courage, the athlete becomes liberated, uninhibited, the work of the antagonist muscles comes into harmony. Movements, choosing an ideally efficient and economical mode, allow you to make such a finishing effort that it amazes even experienced specialists. An athlete in this state can not only achieve unprecedented success himself, but often infect other team members with his enthusiasm. That's why examples like yours are so important to the team.

I think that in your particular case, not only the content of the formulations played a role, but also the trance in which you perceived them. In a way, it was transferred to your state on the eve of the start and at the distance. Well, your exemplary enthusiasm gave you unshakable confidence in future starts. This is your powerful resource. Success breeds success, as you were able to see. You made yourself a gift for the rest of your life, and not only in sports. After all, delight is remembered not only by the head, but by the whole body. And this is your most valuable prize, which means even more than a gold medal. This holiday remains inside you, hopefully for the rest of your life.

Examples of such states can be found in sports career every swimmer. You just need to fix them, imbue them, commemorate this state for as long as possible - in order to know what to strive for. And then remember and recreate them before each start. And then it, this stellar moment, will surely repeat itself.

And I only have three copies left. One of them, with the same inscription, is waiting for you. See you. I hug.

Today, a psychologist with many years of experience in providing "emergency psychological assistance" to the USSR national teams in swimming, athletics, cycling track, and athletes is visiting the newspaper "Express Real Estate" football club"Zenith", which for twelve years represented the USSR in the European Federation of Sports Psychologists. Among his wards are many champions and prize-winners. Olympic Games, World and European championships. Today he will share with our readers recipes for mental health, as well as some interesting cases from his extensive practice, accumulated over the years of work in various regions of the globe.
Meet Gennady Dmitrievich Gorbunov

"From the" dossier ":

Gorbunov Gennady Dmitrievich
Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, Academician of the International Academy of Psychological Sciences, Honorary Worker of Higher Education in Russia. Since 1971 combines teaching activities with the work of a practical psychologist in elite sports, and since the mid-90s with the work of a psychologist-consultant in business (Personal Coach). On the issues of self-knowledge, self-regulation, self-improvement and achieving the heights of professionalism, he conducted seminars and lectured in many cities of the USSR, Russia and more than 10 countries of the world. Head of the Department of Psychology of the Academy. Lesgaft (1991-1998). For fifteen years he has been a member of the Scientific and Methodological Council of the Knowledge Society. For a long time he took part as a consultant in the television program "Musical Ring".
In 1996, he was recognized as the best lecturer in his field at the professorial readings of one of the All-Russian interuniversity festivals and is the author of the book "Psychopedagogy of Sports", which received a gold medal as the best research work in the field of sports.
Now Gennady Dmitrievich leads a training course "Psychological foundations of the professionalism of a realtor" in "Advex".

About faith, past lives, Filipino healers and more

For three years, Gennady Dmitrievich was a psychologist for the Philippine Olympic Teams. While in the Philippines, he was not afraid to lie on the table with a local healer and undergo a treatment session with him, which was recorded on camera. It is noteworthy that during the shooting the camera worked properly, but after developing the film turned out to be overexposed. The ear disease, which was the reason for contacting the healer, disappeared after the session. Gennady Dmitrievich is convinced that the self-hypnosis mechanism, which often works in cases of sudden cures, as well as the patient’s belief that he will be cured, helped to cure her: “It is not the healer who heals, faith heals.” At the same time, he is convinced that the phenomenon of real healers exists in the same way as other healers using non-traditional methods of treatment. Another thing is that there are not many real professionals, people gifted from God. Just like in any other field of activity, there are charlatans here. But even in the case of turning to a false healer, the patient always has a chance to recover by turning on the mechanism of self-healing, based on a deep belief that he will be cured.
Gradually, the conversation moved into the mainstream of the “unknown and mystical” in the field of psychology. Gennady Dmitrievich adheres to the view that the more a scientist learns in his scientific field, the more real the existence of the Creator becomes for him. There is a certain limit in the study of the “unknown”, which is set by God himself. Going beyond this limit is dangerous for humans.
There were many surprising cases in his own practice. For example, a student of Gennady Dmitrievich, in a state of hypnosis (during the experiment, an audio recording of everything that happened), gradually went through different ages under his guidance; "on the school stage"- showed a handwriting identical to her notes in a notebook in the first grade (a comparison was made); in the "kindergarten period" - the voice has changed, and the used vocabulary became childish. But the most surprising was the "return" in the period of 2-3 weeks of age. It was at this stage that the subject, while in a state of hypnotic trance, showed signs of intense anxiety, began to cry and began to complain of pain in her arm. As it turned out later when communicating with the girl's parents, it was during this period that the child had a dislocation of the arm, which the doctors were forced to correct without the use of anesthesia due to the very young age of the patient. This fact serves as another confirmation that our nervous system "remembers" absolutely everything that happens and stores information somewhere "in the backyard" of consciousness throughout a person's life. An experienced specialist, using special practices, can help the patient to extract it, if necessary to normalize the mental state. Another unique episode of this experiment was that during the passage of the “before birth” stage, the girl suddenly spoke in a strange language. Subsequently, when listening to the audio recording, experts revealed that she spoke a mixture of Estonian and Old Finnish. The subject herself lived in Tallinn and knew the Estonian language, but the language she spoke in a state of hypnotic trance was unfamiliar to her! What is it, an inexplicable coincidence or a fact confirming the theory of the existence of past lives, as well as the possibility, under certain conditions, of "remembering" them? Gennady Dmitrievich suggests that in this case he witnessed how "the nervous system remembered past lives", i.e. genetic memory kicked in. As an example of other research in this area, he cites the work of C.G. Jung on the collective unconscious.
Subsequently, this case was studied and analyzed, and even formed the basis of a master's thesis, completed by a participant in this experiment.
Gennady Dmitrievich repeatedly conducted experiments of "immersion" in the state of "psycho-bioenergetic trance" not only in our country, but also in Spain, Finland and the Philippines. Due to the language barrier, they passed without the use of speech settings, and, nevertheless, the technique worked. A few energy passes with the hands are enough for a person to plunge into a special altered state. In some cases, being in a trance with closed eyes, a person can follow the movements of the hypnotist's hands, feeling them 2-3 meters away. To put the patient into a trance, Gennady Dmitrievich developed a special soundtrack, reminiscent of the meditative mantras of Buddhist monks.

Training. eyewitness impressions

Gennady Dmitrievich in the classroom likes to give examples of metaphors, easily and with pleasure quotes the wise men of the East and Michel Montaigne. His classes are perceived not as a study, but as a simple confidential conversation with a wise and empathetic interlocutor, as a result of which the hearts of the listeners become surprisingly easy and calm. And it becomes clear that behind this lightness is the art and work of a real Master. At the end of the session, there is a relaxation session. The lights are off, quiet music sounds from the tape recorder, and the words of Gennady Dmitrievich are also heard: “The muscles of the hands relax, you feel warm, etc.” During the session, to the music, for some reason, I “seemed” mountains and cherry blossoms. But then the “return” begins, the count “five, four, ... one” is heard ... everything - the alluring landscape with mountains and trees has melted, everyone returned to reality Despite the short “immersion time”, you feel rested and feel an extraordinary amount of energy and a surge performance. For those who have not yet attended classes, Gennady Dmitrievich offers tips on self-express control of stress and mood management, so:

stress and mood. Guru Tips:

“By and large, the modern theory of stress is nothing but the new clothes of old ideas about wisdom, meaning, strategy, tactics of life. How to optimally build the years of your life so that constant stress brings success, joy, happiness, and does not cripple your health at the same time? How to build your relationships with people so that they are joyful and do not cause excessive stress? How to spend your time, work and free? Endless efforts in stress can lead to success, but kill the joy of the worldview, and the constant escape from stress into sybaritism, entertainment is often a path to frustration: to the "stress of collapsed hopes", to deep feelings about aimlessly lived years. Lack of stress is just as bad as too much.
What can be done when, in a particular situation, it becomes clear that stress can develop into distress (i.e., excessive stress, translated from English, this term means unhappiness, malaise, exhaustion)? Here are some recommendations:
First of all, you need to take care of your physical condition and systematic muscle loads. They have the ability to return the distress that has begun to the level of positive stress, and give relief to mental stress. Try to rush and fuss as little as possible. Get organized. Don't plan too much a short time. Let go of all the little things. While waiting for a crucial moment of activity, switch to an extraneous, exciting business: humor, music, detective literature. Don't wait, even if you do.
If the pace of life begins to overwhelm you, slow down for a while. The "engines" of stress, having worked at idle, will cool down and then withstand an even greater load.
In a typical acute stressful situation, both before and after it, the following sequence of events can be recommended:
1. Discharge voltage: running, brisk walking, any other physical activity.
2. Reset the pace of movements and speech. Externally and internally, get rid of haste, at least for a short time.
3. Relax in the process of slow walking.
4. Sit in a chair so that your head rests comfortably on a support. Close your eyes and completely relax.
5. Clearly recreate some pleasant situation, get used to it.

Initially, these methods of self-regulation of stress require their conscious inclusion in activities. But with repeated use, they become more and more automatic. Remember: only the alternation of active work and outdoor activities brings happiness and success.