The psychical automatic processes

But what means, what is a psychical automatic process?

To clarify this, first let’s give some examples of automatic processes: writing, speaking, cycling, fastening the shoe laces, walking, driving, etc.; all these are psychic automatic processes linked by the psyche; and studying them we’ll be able to understand the mechanisms of some other psychical automatic processes regarding-let’s say - the behavior like: the pride and anger, the fear and sadness, the laziness and greed, the debauchery.

Thus, we can see that in the case of the writing and speaking, the massive intervention of the conscious is necessary only when we create them in ourselves.

When we learn each letter or word, we must be careful how are they drawn or pronounced; then its necessary an aware attention to repeat them as many times is possible, until we memorize them (they strengthen in themselves).
But after this process is realized the intervention of the conscience is necessary only for breaking them out (and sometimes not even then).

After that they can take place automatically without being necessary for us to be careful to each letter or word we pronounce.

For instance if you start to write something, you’ll see that your pen “goes on its own”, that you don’t have to be aware how to write but only what you write (and sometimes not even this).

The writing becomes an automatic process.

The same thing happens with the learning of cycling or driving.
Up to the moment in which these automatic processes are not formed yet, the conscience’s attention is necessary to learn what to do and then to repeat them as many times as possible, until they become some automatic processes ; with each conscious or semiconscious repetition, these psychic automatic processes become stronger and stronger (each automatic process has its own judgment).

As we have mentioned before, the activation of a psychic automatic process can be made by the conscience or by different circumstances with which that automatic process is assimilated (in this case we talk about an automatic activation).

The same happens with the man who assimilates continuously such psychical automatic processes (first through the conscious attention and repetition); so that at a certain moment he manages to form his own psychical automatic process (automatic answers) for the majority of the stimuli which repeat themselves in his perceptive field; and as long as he is maintained in his “familial” environment (with whose stimuli he’s familiarized) he arrives to function on “automatic pilot” (the automatic processes activate themselves automatically, depending on the circumstances).

About this man it can be said that he’s not careful anymore at what he does, letting himself “taken by the wave”.

The psychical automatic processes linked with behavior (like those specific to the anger, the sadness or the pride) have the same mechanism of formation.

Some specific automatic processes are assimilated by the circumstances in which they appeared and they become automatic processes through repetition.

Let’s suppose that in the circumstances in which somebody calumniates us as children (by imitating and copying the judgments characteristic to the society in which we grew up) we assimilate a judgment specific to the anger and the pride, which says that the other one is an idiot and that someone should give him a slap in order to shut up his mouth.

Repeating this judgment and the circumstances in which it appeared, little by little it will turn into a psychic automatic process. If it is well-rooted in the subconscious, it will manifest itself automatically when the circumstances which created it, shows up (the slander).

By copying from the society some specific automatic processes, we create, for example, the automatic process of “love” (we love only those persons who praise us (or of sadness (if someone dies, we get sad) etc.

Thus, at a given moment we might have such formed automatic processes for the majority of the circumstances we are faced with; when we meet them we function on “automatic pilot”; we let ourselves guided by the circumstances like a boat without a captain.

When someone slanders us, the automatic process of pride and anger activates and manifests itself in a specific way; then someone comes and tells us that we are right and the other one is an idiot; then the automatic process of “love” activates; after that we are suddenly announced that someone close to us died; immediately the psychical automatic process of sadness is activated.

So the circumstances will control our life in an absolute way; they produce inside of us some automatic processes without being necessary the intervention of the conscience.

Thus we live in the past: we give old answers learnt by heart to some new stimuli; we don’t adapt ourselves to the present and that’s why we suffer.

It is necessary a more obvious presence of the conscious at the confrontation with a circumstance and a more deeply analysis - and only then to decide if it’s necessary to let another automatic process to manifest.

The conscience has this power but unfortunately it doesn’t use it too often.

It must intervene in force and not to let the automatic processes to begin automatically; it has to analyze the new circumstances carefully and only then to decide if it lets an automatic process to manifest itself partially or totally through it.
So, it is necessary a permanent state of alert perception of the conscience; this state develops and becomes an automatic process if it’s often used (only then, when it becomes a reflex, we can say that we’re aware of what’s around us in that moment and in that place).

Developing this state of alert perception of the conscience, it’s also necessary to analyze very sharply the psychical automatic processes (its judgments) which are in our psyche, in order to see if they produce us happiness or suffering through their manifestation.

At a careful analyze of some judgments like those characteristic to the pride and anger, to the fear and sadness, etc which manifest in our psyche under the form of some psychical automatic processes, we’ll see that, in fact, these judgments are wrong (through their manifestation they destroy our harmony) and that it’s not advisable at all to let them to manifest in the future anymore (no matter of the circumstances).

Identifying through a constant analyze the mistake of judgment which characterizes them, we eliminate and replace them with some correct ones.
After that, these correct judgments must be practiced as often as possible regarding the judgments which previously produced the wrong judgments. So, through repetition, they become automatic processes which, this time, are favorable to us (they keep us away of suffering).

This process of repetition of the correct judgment is vital in the process of creation of a new automatic process.
But of course, for this repetition it’s necessary a conscious attention able to identify those circumstances which usually produced the wrong automatic process and not to let them anymore to manifest. We also have to support the manifestation of the correct judgments in those circumstances.

So it’s necessary a sustained and conscious effort to go to an end with this process of correcting the wrong judgments presented in the psyche.

One single awareness of the mistakes of judgment is not enough; anyway it must be repeated over and over again until the wrong automatic process is completely eliminated from the psyche and it’s replaced with a correct one.

As an example, let’s suppose that after the demarche included in the 4th chapter of the book, the reader will identify which exactly is the mistake of thinking specific to the anger; but, in order to throw it away completely from his psyche, it’s necessary a conscious repetition of the correct judgment, starting exactly from the moment when the exterior circumstances assimilated in the past begin to manifest themselves.

The repetition is “mater studiorum”: without this conscious repetition of the right judgment, the Psychical Harmonization won’t have a too great effect.

This process is not a game - it supposes a conscious action which requires a lot of effort.

Only those willing to make this effort (of constant analysis of the entire automatic processes from their psyche in order to eliminate the wrong ones) will be able to enjoy themselves of the results: the disappearance of the wrong judgments which produced suffering (like those specific to the pride and anger); and thus it will be obtained a state of psychical harmony characterized by the presence of some correct judgments similar with those specific to the obedience and calmness, to the tranquility and courage, to the detachment and temperance or to the hard-working and sincerity.