Vivation: The Skill of Happiness

If your mind is overly active, you simply continues noticing what that feels like in your body. Because of Vivation's emphasis on feeling your feelings, there is no mental or cognitive component to Vivation.

Vivation--The Skill of Happiness

By connecting directly to the physical feelings in your body, negative thoughts about those feelings are bypassed, resulting in a much more honest and pleasurable experience. From the perspective of Vivation, there is no such thing as negative feelings, only negative thoughts about those feelings. Feelings once experienced openly and honestly, are inherently positive and blissful. By relaxing the mind and body and paying attention to the feelings already present, any "make wrong" about those feelings is relaxed too. This results in a relaxation or "melting" of body armor. When a feeling integrates for you, the physiological energy keeping that emotion suppressed is now released, resulting in a feeling of bliss.

Every feeling that comes up in a Vivation session integrates. Every integration is permanent and represents a step forward in your emotional autonomy, freedom and liberation. Vivation works directly at the feeling level in your body.

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These feelings are your most direct access to the present moment and the infinite varieties of bliss available there. The way to tap into this infinite source is learning how to experience the feelings in your body more openly and honestly. Everyone knows how to do this to some extent, but the real skill is knowing how to do it all the time in the face of all of your emotions in the most efficient and pleasurable way possible. There have been many methods past and present for helping people attain true happiness and spiritual enlightenment , but ultimately it comes down to just five elementary skills.

These skills are the Five Elements of Vivation:. The first is that your inhales and exhales are connected together, with no pauses in between them. The second is your exhale is completely relaxed. By relaxed, this means yout exhale comes out all on its own and not forced or controlled in any way. This differs from many other forms of breathwork which have you do a forced exhale. Also, because the exhale is completely relaxed, there is no hyperventilation in Vivation. If hyperventilation does occur, it is because the exhale is not relaxed and is likely being forced out or inhibited in some way.

Hyperventilation ceases the moment your exhale is relaxed again. In Vivation, breathing rhythms occur along a continuum of three quadrants: Slow and shallow breathing takes you out of your body, and so is not used in Vivation. For those who are familiar with Kriya Yoga , Sudarshan Kriya SKY also uses three different rates of breathing, however in Vivation these breathing rhythms are adjusted continuously in real-time to resonate with the feelings in the body in the most enjoyable way possible. In this way, it is the experience of the feelings in the body that instructs and leads each session.

One doesn't do Vivation, so much as relaxes into the experience for what it already there. In Vivation, feelings integrate when one relaxes into accepting those feeling for what they already are. In Vivation, integration is a relaxation of effort. Feelings are not analyzed or sought after, only experienced for what they are in that moment. Since each moment is unique, this is the only element that practitioners must remain conscious of, as all other elements become automatic and natural supports of Third Element awareness.

The basic idea is being open and receptive to whatever positive feelings are already present. According to Vivation practitioners, feelings are only experienced negatively because of mental judgments made about them. After a series of tragedie, a friend of mine gave me this book. It didn't take long to realize that what this book teaches is so fundamental to the human condition, that implementing the techniques will result in powerful change.

After spending a few weeks practicing the basic skills I realized that it would be even more beneficial to learn the process in detail from a Vivation Professional.

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This turned out to be the best decision I ever made. I learned what my Vive Pro called the 7 basic lessons to Vivational Autonomy. Each lesson is about 2 hours long, 1 hour lecture and 1 hour Vivation Session. I experienced what Vivation calls "integrations", positive shifts in ones context about oneself and ones relationship to the world. This happened continuously and throughout the Vivation Sessions. I felt totally renewed after these sessions, as if something very permanent had resulted.

And that is exactly what actually happens.

When one relates positively to a previously suppressed negatively judged emotion, it results in a permanent integration or resolution. This is not only liberating, like a huge load being lifted of, but is extremely pleasurable.

Because doing Vivation is so blissful and pleasurable I can't imagine not doing it anymore. The really nice part about it is that once you learn it you have it for life. Since that time, I have incorporated Vivation into all areas of my life. I Vive on my way to work, at work, with friends, everywhere!

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