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Андрей Ермошин. Learn Languages Easily. Methods of self-regulation for successful learning
To the English-speaking Readers
INTRODUCTION
How did this method appear?
What usually happens to our knowledge?
Basic problems one encounters when learning a foreign language
New facts
“I would learn English simply because…”
Obstacles mean nothing
Inherited qualities: pros and cons
Learning under pressure
First unpleasant emotions
Tensions and complexes acquired in the early stages of learning
Student-time traumas
Background tensions and traumas remotely connected with the learning process
Nerve cells can regenerate!
Test “A constructive drawing of a person’
Cerebral ischemia
Influence of upbringing
Influence of historical associations
A primordial instinct
Organic lesion of the central nervous system
Depressants
Workload
Learning for adults
A test: “An ideal student’
Objectives and ways to achieve them. Initiation
Psychocatalysis is a way to help the self-regulation of the body
Access via sensations
Concentrations and discharges, rises and falls
Meditation-based practices
The light of knowledge versus the darkness of ignorance
“Mission control centre’
Unexpected answers to strange questions
Question attack using a three-step method
Conscious choice
LET’S FREE OUR ATTENTION
If you feel surrounded by problems
Exercise 1: Total immediate reinvention of the mind
Exercise 2: Getting rid of pipe dreams
Exercise 3: Spend some time in a happy place and then return
Exercise 4: Paying attention to the problems and sorting them out: if they are dead-end, go away from them, and find the solutions to the problems that have something promising!
Streams flow into your head
Putting the bone back into the joint again
If there are any complications
PEACE OF MIND AND INTEGRITY OF THE SOUL
Tensions and traumas
The soil and the seed
One needs peace of mind
Two sources of stress
Atlas of emotional experience
One needs systematic work
Setting oneself free from stress and trauma when working with languages
Stress of the first encounter
What do we do to update the state we are in?
Exercise 5: Working through internal tensions and traumas received during the learning process
Edgy upbringing
A lump in the throat
What to do when something is smothering you, and you feel screens in the throat and a noose around the neck
Exercise 6: If there is something squeezing your neck
There is more than one cause
Working with the initial state
Bold 90-s
Working with negative influence of the ancestral and national experience
Inherited ancestral memory
A sugar kiss melon made of granite in my stomach
STRIVING FOR. SELF-FULFILLMENT
The level of vitality
Explore your commitment to life
Sé and Antisé
Exercise 7: Working with the striving for “proper’ self-fulfillment
Sensations are unique, but tendencies are common
FORMING A DETERMINATION. TO SET OFF ON A JOURNEY OF LEARNING A LANGUAGE AND ACHIEVING RESULTS
Multilevel motivation
Four vectors
Positive motivation
Disincentives
Neutral realizations
Maintaining the level
What sensations do we experience when it comes to motivation?
Motivation 1: “I understand that it’s useful and necessary”
Reasons
Exercise 8. Guiding understanding of the necessity to study into the body
Motivation 2: “Even if I didn’t want to, but I have to”
Unbacked horses
Pythagoras
Commuter train
Interiorization of control
Every day is not Sunday
You will study, if you want to have a good life
Turning around
From the back to the chest
Exercise 9. Accepting reasonable responsibility – Where is the energy of reality demands?
Exercise 10. Reject those unhealthy demands!
Motivation 3: “I want to learn the language!”
Eager beaver
Exercise 11. Strong connecting with the expected result
Exercise 12. Getting your motivation out
Motivation 4: “It would be impossible not to learn it”
Correspond to the level of the achievements in the family
A big soul
Exercise 13. To be in the flow and to be the successor to the traditions
Putting motivating vectors together: determination
Exercise 14. Determination in the soul
WHAT HAPPENS TO KNOWLEDGE IN OUR BODY
Introduction: Soaking up information like a sponge
A Rock or a Vacuum Unit?
Will you drink the nectar of knowledge or grind your way into studies?
A child absorbs like a sponge
An adult just cannot “take it in’
A big head in the drawing
A dangerous syndrome
The risk of getting a stroke
“Autonomic memory’
“Career of knowledge’
Disc C and disc D
Examination and adjustment of the mother-tongue
Stage 1. Diagnostics of the initial state
Getting reference
Exercise 15. Experiencing one’s mother-tongue: its location and features
Fragments from the seminars
Stage 2. Upgrading one’s attitude
Getting rid of toxins
Exercise 16. Sensations connected with the mother tongue: completeness and clarity
Exercise 17. Sensation of a mother-tongue: optimizing its location
Exercise 18. Enriching your mother tongue
How does native speech flow?
Exercise 19. The way out
Sensations connected with one more language and with new information
Competence leads to the peace of mind
Looking for a place
Exercise 20. Does your body have ‘a container’ for new information?
How many languages can it fit in?
Exercise 21. Taking in another language of the body
Double benefit
Exercise 22. Guiding knowledge to the body, continuation
Options for this stage of work
The flow turns into a test
Entering the knowledge is like stepping into a city
Exercise 23. Entering the realm of the language
“Impregnation’ on the curve and “embryo’ formation
Exercise 24. Final algorithm for guiding the knowledge into the body
Enriching the language
Look after it like it’s a puppy or a kitten
Exercise 25. Enriching of the language you are learning
Exercise 26. Knowledge finds an even more comfortable place in the body
Correcting of the errors, removing the husk
Consolidation of the languages that have been brought back to use
THE “MYSTIC” DIMENSION
The adoption of information from the outer space
Filling from Above
A moment of calmness
Recommendations to a pupil
Exercise 27. Pulling up additional knowledge from the outer space
Direct learning from another person
Import of a scroll
A knife thrower
Placing “an embryo of knowledge’ and its incubation
Three reservoirs
Immersion into the right atmosphere without moving in space
To show the “spirit of language’ in the specific language forms
Exercise 28. The formation of the embryo and its incubation
Access to knowledge through the works of art and through staying in the places, where knowledge has been accumulated
Directions of feeding
Memory areas and experience space
Is the past behind or below?
The experience of generations
Universal metaphors
Main directions of coming knowledge and its storage
Let it come out of nowhere
Exercise 29. Let the useful knowledge come from wherever it is
Exercise 30. Filling with the “spirit of language’
It is like the ancient practice, but there is some difference
Working through prejudices
Is it possible “to recall” language, assuming that you have already spoken it once?
Proto-language
Previous lives
To run roots down to the aquifer
THIRST FOR KNOWLEDGE
SPIRIT AND FLESH OF THE LANGUAGE
ACCESS AND APPLICATION
Exercise 31. The mystery of how speech is born: the flow goes out!
Let’s sum up
Working in waltz time: the three steps
TURNING INTO A NATIVE SPEAKER THROUGH IMPERSONATION
USING ALL CHANNELS TO SATURATE THE BODY
V. Raikov
The actor’s impersonation
Colourful vitamin pills
The essence of the role
Exercise 32. Impersonating like an actor
Extended algorithm of actor impersonation
Preliminary phase
Adjustment phase for a specific role
Suitable both for writers and for business people!
A Fairy Tale about Meeting a Tree
A Loaf
WHO CAN I PRACTICE WITH?
Types of interlocutors
Peculiarity of your type
Buffer phrases
DIAGNOSTIC PHRASES AND VISUALIZATIONS
Method of diagnostic phrases
Exercise 33. Diagnostic phrases
Diagnostic visualization of a situation you are preparing for
Exercise 34. Diagnostic visualizations
Fugue of images
Increased self-esteem of Russian people
reconciliation of “sub-identities” standpoints. Neopaganism
Archetypal Theatre
Exercise 35. Reconciliation of sub-identities’ standpoints
WAYS TO IMPROVE NUTRITION SUPPLY TO THE BRAIN
Heavy mind
Stretching
Exercise 36. Physical exercises for stretching muscles
Hip height
Pat-a-cake
Removing other causes in order to improve brain functioning
Extended list of ways to improve brain nutrition
USEFUL PRESCRIPTIONS IN CASE OF ORGANIC LESIONS OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM (CNS) AND ATTENTION DISORDER CAUSED BY IT
GUIDELINES FOR LANGUAGE ACQUISITION OFFERED BY ADVANCED USERS AND TEACHERS
New opportunities
Learning methods with the help of ted.com
A textbook that you like
Phonetics, vocabulary, and grammar
Cellophane, nail, and a pan
Learning and reciting poetry
Tongue twisters and jokes
The ‘plus one’ rule
If the textbook is frighteningly thick
One but very elaborated utterance
Build your dialogue and thus, fill in the gaps with words and expressions
The language you’re learning comes from the languages you already know
“A cheat sheet”
Begin with the topics that you can easily learn
Love the language you’re learning
Other little tricks
Grammar exercises
Back translation
The way to memorize
Memory: Repetitio est mater studiorum139
If you don’t want to lose it, use it!
Sleep and nutrition lay the foundation of physical education
Exercise 37. Taking in another portion of knowledge
Excerpts from the seminars
ACCEPTING THE TASK
A task within your scope of abilities
Exercise 38. Finding the right amount of work for the next step of the task
BUILDING A PROJECT AND CHANGING YOUR LIFESTYLE FOR THE PERIOD OF LEARNING A LANGUAGE
When, where, and how?
Exercise 39. Creating an educational program: when and how you will study
Do you have everything to climb it?
Established timing
Redistribute time
Silence, calm, readiness!
Exercise 40. “A self-fulfilling prophecy”
PSYCHOLOGICAL OCTAVE
CASES
Thirst for knowledge
What do I feel?
What could one feel?
You need to fill yourself!
Where is the knowledge?
How exactly are you going to learn the language?
Feeling offended…
Social phobia
WORKING WITH KNOWLEDGE IN APPLICATION TO SOLVING OTHER PROBLEMS
Overall use
Before exams and during the semester
Professionalization: “I want to keep my feet firmly on the ground”
Herbal tea doesn’t help
A teeny-tiny world
“I’ll fail the mission”
Could it be that you “freak out’ for a reason?
It was a slow entry
I want to stay in this business
Predictable unpredictability
Where is the knowledge?
Bobbins
The tape in the lower pelvis stacks in coils
Too much space
The Olympian calm
Influence on a kilometre
The list is torn
Helping athletes
Algorithm of ‘professional initiation’ and ‘maturity’
Corrective accentuation of personality traits
Asking a stand against addiction and changing life
Psychosomatic healing
Swollen legs
Higher chance of successful conception and carrying
Uterine myoma disappears
Healing a chronic gumboil
Calming dreams
My headache goes away
ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONS
“Can I practice it on my own?”
“Can we work with kids using this method?”
WORK AFTER WORK
Renewal of the effort
Unload new portions of knowledge into the body using the method you already know
Check your state through imagining yourself in a situation when you use this language
Strengthen your spirit with the help of the diagnostic phrases
From time to time, test yourself with the constructive drawing of a person using the algorithm presented in the appendix
AFTERWORD
Appendix
Appendix I. Brief algorithm of how to use the method of Psychocatalysis
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