Introduction

For a number of years, the author has been developing an approach (method) to emotional self-regulation and self-therapy of bodily illnesses, currently called «Recoding», and previously called «Stress-Aikido» [1-6]. This paper is devoted to the development of the methodology of Recoding. The author considered it appropriate to divide it into sections, the sequence of which describes both the logic and the sequence of this development. The titles of the sections are in bold. For ease of reading, the main sections of the article are in turn divided into subsections numbered (and sometimes titled) in bold, and particularly important parts of the text are italicized. Subsections may consist of separate abstracts, also numbered, but not in bold and using semicircular brackets. The section on the modern concept of Recoding is at the same time also a methodological material on the professional course of teaching the method. The author's Evolutionary Concept of Psychosomatogenesis, names of methods, names of Recoding practices, terms introduced in this paper: Basic Actions, Internal Situation, Parameters (of the Internal Situation), Optimum, Optimal Matching, Indirect Effects, as well as various Basic Actions are capitalized (both nouns and corresponding adjectives and adverbs).

Context, in which Recoding was originally formed

1. The process of psychological treatment of bodily diseases is usually realized in three different directions of work [7-9]. These directions are divided, first of all, by the goals achieved in each of them, but also by the set of methods used in them. The best known direction can be called psychosomatic treatment. During this process, the psychological causes of somatic diseases are sought and worked through. The second equally important direction is the search and realization of psychological methods for activating physiological mechanisms of counteraction to pathogenic factors and body healing processes. The work to ensure the very possibility of realizing the first two directions is also important: working through the beliefs that hinder healing work, access to necessary resources, etc.

2. In the author's view, all psychotherapeutic and regulatory methods can be placed between two poles. On one pole are methods in which the therapist knows in advance where and how to move in solving the problem. Based on some theory of personality health and personality pathology or other «map», in these methods, therapists "fight" (with the problem), "fix" or deliberately transform whatever is needed. At the other pole we can place methods in which, in the language of metaphors, the therapist initially does not know where to go, but follows the unfolding «Ariadne's clew» in their work. But importantly, the therapist knows where to find this «clew» and how to facilitate its unfolding. Such methods, according to the author, constitute a group of «process» methods [10,11]. All of them are based on the idea that the source of overcoming a problem lies in the problem itself or is somehow related to it. It is in the experiences, energy, and tendencies of the problem that the «core» of the «healing process» can be found. The right accompaniment can be used to develop this core into the process itself and prevent it from «fading away» before the work is completed [10]. It is clear that in helping this process unfold and following it, the therapist, of course, does not try to plan how exactly the client's problem will be resolved in such work.

In the context of our presentation, the question of what is the nature of «healing» processes, how the processes unfolding here from the problem become healing, is very important. The point is that some process methods assume that the (psychic or bodily) problem itself is a consequence of the stoppage of some important psychic process, such as transformation. And so, finding the conditions for its continuation is precisely what leads to the resolution of the problem, bodily or psychic healing. In A. Mindell's «Process Work» [12,13] we find conditions for overcoming the «edge» (barrier) of the field of conscious identity by those psychic «parts», those new qualities, which, seem to strive to get there, and the necessity of their appearance in the conscious self is long overdue. R. Kurtz's «Hakomi» [14] helps to realize those «experiences that want to happen» - that necessary (usually occurring in childhood) «missing experience» without which a child, as a rule, forms limiting beliefs and strategies of life, which then work in adulthood. In "Epistemological Metaphor" by D. Grove [10,11] a therapist facilitates a positive completion of the aspirations for self-defense and escape that arose in childhood psychotraumatic episodes and which, not having received the opportunity to be completed, usually continue to work as destructive strategies or bodily symptoms and diseases. In "Somatic Experience" by P. Levine [15] a therapist promotes the normal realization of the innate biological mechanism of exit from psychotraumatic stupor, which is often interrupted in people by the power of their neocortex.

In other process methods, however, the work of mechanisms is supported, which by their nature are aimed at preventing the appearance of problems and at their resolution. In E. Gendlin's Focusing [16,17], we facilitate the process of opening the «felt sense» - the vague feelings that reflect the client's whole situation into a sense that is understood. This «felt sense» is a message from the unconscious to the conscious mind in body language and is most often found in experiences that are precisely related to the problem. Receipt of this message by the conscious mind facilitates a change of perspective on the situation and transformation of experiences. In E. Rossi's post-Ericksonian hypnotherapeutic approach [18], the energy of problematic experiences activates and nourishes the work of those «higher» floors of the unconscious, which are the mechanism for realizing creative and other processes necessary for solving psychic problems and bodily healing. It is clear that the difference between the nature of the processes in both groups is rather relative, and P. Levine's «Somatic Experience» can be attributed to both groups at once.

For our further presentation, it is important to emphasize three circumstances. First, the healing nature of the processes facilitated by the process methods is quite clear. Secondly, in those cases where we get the effect of healing a bodily illness by working in these methods, it is due to working through psychological causes of those illnesses. An exception may be the Rossi method, in which we can also directly activate healing physiological processes. Thirdly, only three of the six methods described are suitable for unassisted work (without the support of a specialist), but even in these three methods there is some loss of effectiveness compared to work with support. One of the problems that the practicing person needs to solve on his or her own is to ensure safety and self-control in contact with problematic, and therefore often uncomfortable and unsafe experiences [19].

3. Meditation practices are one of the most important tools for emotional and physical regulation. Meditation is understood in a variety of approaches as rather diverse, often opposing practices. In our presentation, we are referring to the «classical understanding» of the term - the attentive observation of some object or process, without in any way influencing the observed, allowing the latter to be as it is and to manifest its own dynamics. Nevertheless, if the objects of such observation are experiences related to some emotional or bodily problem, then in some cases meditation leads to a positive transformation of the emotional state or to bodily healing.

Meditation can be both an integral element of any process method and a separate practice that the practicing person can realize without external accompaniment (which, incidentally, it was originally for many centuries). However, when meditation is considered outside the framework of a holistic process method, the question of the nature of the healing effect of meditation practices must be raised. It is often attributed to the possibility of a problem to go through the «cycle of its life» and naturally come to an end, or to the fact that when what is observed is considered as a set of «raw» sensations rather than a holistic object, it breaks the chains of pathological stereotype [20]. Some authors associate this healing effect of meditations with the way the psychics and brain work, which occurs when (for) distancing and disidentifying with what is being observed, as well as when refusing to take any action in favor of allowing observation [21].

With regard to meditation, it is necessary to note an important circumstance: without sufficiently long-term training, it is extremely difficult to distantly observe excitation or other internal processes filled with «driving» energy

The initial concept of Recoding

1) Recoding (Stress-Aikido) arose as a set of practices aimed at emergency self-regulation of the emotional state and emergency self-healing of an acute bodily illness or its symptoms.

2) Recoding, as it was originally formed, clearly belonged to that branch of psychological treatment of bodily illnesses in which activation of somatic mechanisms of disease resistance and self-healing is carried out.

3) Recoding, first of all, was seen as a method based on the process-meditative paradigm. The author positioned his method as designed to solve the problems facing both process methods in the context of their use in independent (unaccompanied) work, and those facing meditative practiсes in working with arousal.

4) The healing process in Recoding was associated with both allowing the free dynamics of change to take place and observing these changes occurring: a) in the sensations of the experience associated with the problem itself (e.g., pain or negative emotion); b) in the sensations of the totality of all (including those in opposition to each other) experiences associated with the problem; and c) in the dynamic aspects (e.g., impulses of movement) of energetically charged experiences [1-3]. By the latter, we mean both those «aroused» experiences that try to guide the subject, prompting them to action, and those that are felt as occurring within the subject. Another thing to note is that in the case of working with arousal (as a dynamic aspect of the problematic experience), in order to realize this dynamic and manifest its nature as a whole, it is allowed to direct the imagined or actual movement of the practitioner.

5) Problematic experiences are often uncomfortable, unsafe, and, if freely contacted, can plunge the subject experiencing them into a state of loss of control. Therefore, involuntary and semi-voluntary defenses may prevent the subject from contacting such experiences and allowing them to freely manifest their dynamics. Therefore, the design of the practice must be such that allowing the problematic experiences to be as they are (which, recall, is a condition for unfolding a healing process from them) is safe, controlled, and relatively comfortable. Hence, the basic condition for the suitability of a newly created or already existing practice (the principle of selecting or creating a practice) for a particular case in Recoding was understood as the creation by that practice of a consensus between the free expression of the nature of the problematic experiences on the one hand, and the need for safety, control, and comfort on the other [1,2]. In earlier publications, the third side of the consensus was the habit of European man to act, rather than “meditate”, when dealing with even internal problems. The nature of negative experience was understood to be both how the experience is felt, how it changes in itself, and how it tries to guide the subject and what it tries to direct him or her toward.

The need to develop a conceptual model of Recoding.

1) Despite the fact that Recoding has emerged as a tool for emergency work with acute conditions and diseases, it has no fundamental limitations in its application in more regular work with chronic diseases. And the need to develop tools for such work is still clearly relevant. There are also no fundamental limitations to using its practices not only in emotional self-regulation, but also in self-psychotherapy. And the practices of the latter are also still underdeveloped. However, such an expansion of the method's application requires an expansion of the arsenal of its practices (which the author encountered when conducting not emergency, but more "calm" and "planned" work in Recoding) and some development of the method as a whole.

2) Previously, the author conducted seminars on his method only within the framework of «client» self-help training. The preparation of a training course within the framework of professional education required both a more detailed elaboration of the Recoding methodology and the closing of several «white spots» in its description, the existence of which the author had previously had to put up with (more on this below).

3) Despite the author's initial positioning of his method as primarily a meditative-process method, some of his practices do not rely on enabling observation or on facilitating to unfold the tendencies related to the problem and its sensation, but on purposeful influence. Some other practices rely on both process and «influencing» origins at the same time. Moreover, the number and role of such practices is increasing with the direction of Recoding to the work with chronic diseases as well. Thus, some revision of the relationship between Recoding and the process paradigm is required. Or some clarification of how exactly Recoding is a process method.

4) The healing process in Recoding was originally associated with the unfolding of the spontaneous dynamics of the tendencies to change contained in and arising from the experiences associated with the problem. These tendencies were assumed to be the tendencies of the unfolding of the healing process. However, the author to date has no understanding of the healing nature of these tendencies, unlike the understanding that exists for similar tendencies in the process methods described above. And the further development of Recoding practices and the learning process require the formation of some general hypothesis explaining the nature of healing.

5) Taking into account the previous point and remembering that the treatment of bodily illnesses in Recoding is aimed not at eliminating their psychological causes, but at directly activating the healing processes, we must state that the original concept of the method lacks a real understanding of the mechanism of bodily healing taking place in it! Thus, the task of searching for an explanation of the mechanism of bodily healing in Recoding becomes very urgent.

6) The author's observations made during his use of Recoding practices have shown that participation in the «consensus of the parties» of the need for control is necessary not only to ensure the possibility of dynamics of manifestations of problematic experiences. The practitioner's manifestation and sense of his or her own agency and volition itself plays a role in the effectiveness of the practices. Recognizing this fact requires a change in the understanding of the nature of the effectiveness of Recoding practices.

7) The use of Recoding practices in cases where an emotional or bodily problem is such that it clearly requires an immediate solution, especially when it represents a real danger, and there is no help to be expected from anywhere, the question of motivation for using any practice, and most importantly, determination to risky contact with the flow of negative experiences in order to "defeat the problem" is resolved by itself (of course, subject to some positive experience of using such practices or initial trust in the method). In cases of using practices in a less acute situation, the question arises of what determines the "profile" of consensus itself [6], that is, what the problem situation is for it, what, in terms of agency and activity, it makes it, what the most urgent needs of the practitioner are at this moment (including how much he or she needs immediate (!) comfort or safety), what his/her resources are, etc. These parameters can be considered as external conditions for determining one or another "profile" of consensus [6]. However, it is natural to see the advisability of simplifying this scheme and considering these conditions as being on a par with the consensus sides during the creation or selection of the practice design.

Theoretical concepts that contributed to the author's modern understanding of the nature of the effectiveness of Recoding practices

1. Over the course of a number of years, the author has been developing the Evolutionary Concept of Psychosomatogenesis [5,6,22-28]. The main hypothesis connects the strengthening and weakening of the power of the systems of counteraction to pathogenic factors in an individual (it concerns not only people, but, at a minimum, all types of higher animals) with the quantity and quality of its (the individual's) psychic evolving during its own life.

Here, power is understood not only as the activity of these systems, but also the systemic conjugacy of their work, which can reach the level of the Intelligence of Somatic Processes [27].

And what is especially important for the context of the subsequent presentation, the author suggests that the mechanism of strengthening the power of self-healing forces that arose in the evolutionary process as an instrument of its psychic aspect can be further activated by other contexts and mechanisms [5,6]!

2. Traditionally, hypnotherapy was based on the idea that the solution of psychic and bodily problems that it solves occurs due to the activation of the work of unconscious mechanisms against the background of the weakening of the work of consciousness in a trance. Moreover, such views unite both directive hypnotherapists, who consider the unconscious as something of little use, as something that needs to be controlled, and Ericksonian hypnotherapists, who see the unconscious as a source of creativity. However, in recent decades, the idea of the advisability of cooperation between consciousness and the unconscious in hypnotic search and transformation has begun to appear in hypnotherapy. Looking at the practice of E. Rossi [18], one can see that he assigned a fairly large role to the work of consciousness. S. Gilligan speaks of the cooperation of the conscious cognitive mind with the unconscious mind within the framework of its "generative trance" [29]. And J. Becchio in his latest publications discusses hypnotherapy as "consciousness activation techniques" [30].

The modern concept of Recoding.

(Its presentation is also the text of the methodological manual "Alchemy of Recoding".)

1. The Basic Actions that make up the Recoding practices, the interaction method of which should be Optimal for overcoming an emotional and bodily problem, based on the Parameters of the "Internal Situation" - circumstances, needs, motivations and opportunities that have arisen in the Situation of my contact and struggle with this problem (including, thanks to and during the realization of the practice):

1) I restore, create and retain a sense of agency over myself and the processes in myself, I retain volitional tension of the required intensity.

The latter, together with the modes of contact and attitude towards the object of observation or influence in Recoding, are called Hypostases (of the subject), the description of which is not included in this presentation.

2) I influence the sensations and processes occurring in me (I limit, cope, transform, care, support, etc.).

3) I allow the processes and sensations occurring with me to be as they are, I "follow them".

4) I am attentive and open to everything that happens to me, I manage the direction, quality and intensity of attention.

5) I am actively involved in some initially involuntary process or one that has become at least partly involuntary after a volitional launch of:

influence;

following some trends;

experience;

arousal;

observation, etc.

6) I master the "elements", that is, experiences, energies or symptoms that control me without my consent:

I am actively involved in them, I allow them to control me only in those aspects that are harmless to me, I become like them in their dynamics;

I regain control over myself;

I feel their energy as "mine";

I use their energy and their features for my own benefit (and also to overcome the element itself);

I feel myself controlling the aspects of their manifestation.

7) I directly intercept control of the "elements" that control me or identify with them.

8) I identify (and get involved) with states, experiences, energies that are explicitly or implicitly dominant in the Internal Situation and/or hinder the realization of the planned practice.

9) I express the internal state in external manifestations, for example, actions.

10) I project problematic internal experiences into the external space (a field) and then I search for an optimal way to overcome the action of this field.

11) I form sensations and processes that promote healing.

12) I use all available energy.

13) I create contexts (I construct imagined situations in which contact with the problem unfolds), in which the manifestations of the problem are given a different meaning. They structure the design of the practice, create meaning and motivation for performing the necessary Basic Actions.

The latter is especially important if such Actions require a certain amount of courage and willingness to take risks.

14) I manage the process, selectively showing approval of what happened spontaneously or as a result of my volitional efforts.

The realization of each Basic Action occurs through more specific Meta-techniques and Techniques, the description of which is not included in this presentation.

Usually, the design of the practice includes several of the Basic Actions described above. Different Basic Actions can intersect with each other in their content. It is easy to see that some of them are oppositely directed to each other in their content and immediate result. In "simple" designs, their simultaneous application results in a balance between their actions, reducing the effect of the unfolding of at least one of them to the desired level. With a more complex design, the simultaneous application of oppositely directed Actions in their full intensity can occur, in which the effect of "extinguishing" one Action by another is absent. Then their effects add up and, moreover, can create a synergy!

The important point is that various Basic Actions can contribute to the activation of various Indirect Effects of these actions: a) the conscious volitional principle; b) unconscious regulation and unconscious search; c) unifying interaction of conscious and unconscious regulation d) the connection of the psychic with the body; e) a freer expression of energies and deep tendencies.

2. Parameters of the Internal Situation:

1) What and how is happening to me outside and against my will:

how it feels;

how and in what area it "spoils my life", is it bodily symptoms or a negative emotional state;

is it a local process felt in a separate part of my body or does it take over me entirely;

how it changes by itself;

to what extent and in what way does it control me (try to control), "what" does it make me (try to make), what does it direct me (try to direct) to?

2)To what extent is what is happening objectively and subjectively dangerous and how painful?

3)What exactly and how much do I want, do not want, am afraid of and what do I need both in this situation and globally during this period of life?

My needs for control, safety and comfort are especially important here.

4)What am I already doing involuntarily to protect myself from "negativity" or what would be convenient for me to start doing for this?

5) How strongly do I feel the desire to directly influence the problem, how energetically charged is that desire?

6) To what extent do I retain control over myself or, on the contrary, am I a helpless victim of what is happening, can I mobilize and feel the volitional principle?

7) Can I directly influence the negative that is happening to me (to weaken, remove, stop the dynamics of its own changes; its management of me; to put under my control, to transform)?

8) Can I directly influence involuntary defenses against the manifestation of the problem, can I put them under my volitional control?

9) What resources, including energy, do I possess?

Especially what self-help technologies and experience in their application do I possess?

10) Am I ready for a temporary partial loss of control, safety and comfort to overcome the problem.

11) Is there something dominant in what is happening to me (its tendencies) and what is it?

12) Is there a sense (or awareness in some other way) of what "wants to happen" to overcome the problem?

13) What exactly and how exactly hinders (if such an obstacle exists):

a) free contact with bodily, including problematic, sensations;

b) allowing the manifestation of the nature of problematic experiences and allowing the free dynamics of problematic sensations;

c) manifestation of agency;

d) involvement in some involuntary process?

3. What constitutes the Optimum of matching the design of practice to the Internal Situation:

The use of various Basic Actions is determined by the Parameters of the situation of struggle with an emotional and bodily problem (Internal Situation). The effectiveness of the practice depends on how Optimally the interaction of various Basic Actions occurs in the design of the practice.

Such Optimum in relation to a given Situation includes:

a) the maximum possible number of Indirect Effects;

b) the set of Basic Actions used in the practice is combined into a non-contradictory, balanced, holistically functioning system;

c) this system promotes compromise and even consensus of the parties to the Internal Situation;

d) the functioning of the system of Basic Actions facilitates the realization of trends that arise in the interaction of the parties of the Internal Situation.

4. Finding the Optimum

In order to create a design of a practice that is optimal for the situation as a whole, one must either feel the situation as a whole, or, by analyzing it, understand what "wants to happen" here or what its Parameters naturally contribute to!

Finding such an Optimum is a creative process. Such creativity can manifest itself both in the formation of new practices with a new Optimal design, and in the selection of an existing practice that is optimally suited to a given case. It is clear that the former can be carried out as an intuitive insight in the process of a holistic feeling of the situation of experience and struggle with the problem, as well as in the process of purposeful construction of a new practice.

5. Safety of using Recoding practices

"Simple" simultaneous use of oppositely directed Actions in the design of one practice in a certain sense resembles a conflict within the very situation of contact and struggle with the problem. Coping Influence aimed at a negative experience or symptom is usually "aimed" at directly solving the problem. Meditative-Process practices, including Allowing the negative to be as it is and Following the dynamics of its changes with your attention, can be more effective than direct Coping. However, in certain cases, the intensity of negative experiences and symptoms can be perceived by the practitioner as unbearable, and their "freedom of action" - as excessively dangerous for losing control. Moreover, such fears may not be unfounded! One of the options for maintaining a sense of security, control and relative comfort can be reducing the intensity and "freedom of action and influence" of the negative with the help of Limiting Influence. A correctly created context can also give a sense of security and motivate contact with an unpleasant experience that does not pose a real danger to the practitioner. And distraction from the content aspect of the experience and keeping the focus of attention only on its energetic aspect (as well as other techniques) can protect against an experience that is really dangerous for the practitioner and from falling into a state of loss of control over oneself.

6. Reasons and mechanisms ensuring the effectiveness of Recoding practices

The mechanisms of influence of the Optimality of the Recoding practice design on the effectiveness of this practice, described below, are sometimes separate, but more often, transitioning into each other or subordinate factors. (Their listing begins with the most "banal".)

1) Various Basic Actions are naturally determined by various Parameters of the Internal Situation and their combinations, as if "expressing their interests" in some interaction that creates a consistent integrity. The "parties" of the Internal Situation are in some kind of compromise or even consensus in relation to the practice. Therefore, the realization of the practice as a whole does not cause resistance within the practitioner and can use his resources to the maximum extent.

2) The Optimal design of the practice presupposes the consent of those parties of the Internal Situation (such as, for example, the unsatisfied need for safety, comfort and control over what is happening), which would otherwise be "interested" in blocking both the free development of the dynamics of changes in the experiences associated with the problem and the influence of these experiences on the state and actions of the practitioner. The possibility of free unfolding of the nature of certain, for example, energetic aspects of experiencing negativity, if "healing" tendencies are somehow formed in the latter, can also lead to the unfolding of these tendencies into a full-fledged "healing process".

This point is a description of the initial understanding of the nature of the effectiveness of Recoding and, at the same time, its process nature.

3) The set of interacting Parameters of the Internal Situation forms a dynamic system in which certain "resulting vectors" can be formed, as well as certain tendencies of optimal development of the system of Parameters of the Internal Situation. And since the design of the practice corresponds to the dynamic system of interaction of the Parameters of the Situation of contact and struggle with the problem, this may well lead to the realization of the "resulting vector". Which, in this case, will lead to the transformation of the negative emotional state or to bodily healing.

4) Due to the qualitative diversity of the Basic Actions, Recording can be considered a synthetic method, that is, including both the features of the process method and the method realizing intentional transformation. Some of its Basic Actions, meta-techniques and specific techniques provide the activation of the activity of the unconscious, the unconscious search; others contribute to the activation of the energy of will, the feeling of agency and conscious control of the unconscious and bodily processes; the third facilitate the connections of the psychic and the bodily; the fourth help to activate of unconscious energy and realize deep tendencies. That is, they contribute to Indirect Effects. When the simultaneous application of such heterogeneous Basic Actions and meta-techniques occurs in an Optimal way in the design of a single practice, then this forms a greater conjugacy and integrity of the work of consciousness and the unconscious, as well as better interaction of the psychics as a whole with bodily processes. Thus, a certain greater complexity of the interaction of consciousness, the unconscious and the body is formed. Apparently, the processes occurring in all three interacting systems are in synergy. This complexity can provide new opportunities, both in the realization of search activity and in regulating the processes, as well as in the energy supply of these types of activity. And this opportunity can be realized in the healing process, which can be attributed to the same type as the healing process in the method of E. Rossi.

5) One of the assumptions of the Evolutionary Concept of psychosomatogenesis is the assumption that the mechanism of increasing the power of systems to counteract pathogenic factors, including, among other things, increasing the conjugation of work and mutual influence of physiological processes in the body, can be "turned on" not only by active psychic evolution, but also by other processes [5,6]. Here the author assumes that the strengthening of consciously - unconsciously - bodily conjugation during the realization of Recoding practices with the Optimal design can increase the power of self-healing systems and, among other things, the Intelligence of Somatic Processes.

6) Strengthening the power to counteract pathogenic factors can be launched in the process of developing the design of a new Optimal practice, since the latter process is an active psychic evolving of the practitioner [5,6].

7. Requirements for the design of the practice.

1) The realization of the practice should not lead to the increase of helplessness and the position of a victim, but on the contrary, should lead to the formation of a sense of agency and the increase of real control over oneself (except, perhaps, the very initial stage of the work).

2) The intensity of contact with painful and frightening experiences and the intensity of the feeling of the risk of losing control over what is happening should maximally correspond to the motivation of the practitioner and his readiness to take risks and withstand contact with the "negative" at this moment.

3) The balance between Allowing and Coping Actions, the Context and the way of dealing with "negative" experiences, realized in the practice, should protect against an unbearable level of discomfort and a feeling of insecurity, as well as from the loss of control over what is happening.

Otherwise (this applies to the conditions set out in both the third and second points), we always block the permission for the nature of negative experiences and painful symptoms to be expressed, shifting the balance as much as possible towards Coping, which is not always effective and optimal.

4) The practice should involve the maximum possible number of Basic Actions matching the Internal Situation precisely in the maximum possible intensity.

5) It is necessary to use natural trends (opportunities, needs, involuntary defenses) that arise in the process of contact with the problem to select the Basic Actions, meta-techniques and techniques.

6) If there is something dominant in the Internal Situation, an experience or side that controls the possibility of expression and realization of other sides, the possibility of performing the practice itself, then it is necessary to start working with it, joining to this side or mastering it as an element (if the latter is possible).

Sometimes there is something dominant that pushes towards a certain kind of healing actions. In this case, it is necessary to simply realize this trend. However, the "voice of the healing path" is far from always "loud"! 

Rule: the more Optimally the design of the practice corresponds to the set of Parameters as a holistic system and the tendencies of its development that are formed in it (tendencies to overcome the problem), the more intensive is the healing process caused by the use of this practice!

Caution: it is necessary to remember the problem of abuse of self-regulation practices, when the resolution of more surface problems allows for a long time not to resolve deeper ones (for example, not to satisfy needs that have long become urgent or not to resolve a deep conflict that already requires it!

8. Illustration: description of the practice "Two Channels" [4]

This practice differs significantly from similar in design Recoding practices, but nevertheless, in the author's opinion, it is this one that "personifies" better than others both the synthesis of the volitional, influencing principle with the meditative-process principle, and the method as a whole. Therefore, it was on this example that the author decided to demonstrate the creation of the Optimal Correspondence of the practice Design to the Parameters of the Internal Situation. At the same time, he reproduced the course of its real (rather spontaneous) formation in his search for a solution to a certain self-regulatory problem.

In the situation that prompted the author to create this practice, he experienced an acute, extremely unpleasant, intense experience throughout his body. It was a bodily experienced sensation of protest against circumstances that could not be changed at the moment. (However, this practice was also tested in successful work with purely somatic problems.) This integral sensation, consisting of impulses, tensions and irritations locally felt in the body, could be characterized by the word "contortion". The unpleasantness and intensity of the experience pushed for the fastest possible deliverance from it, however, there was clearly no possibility of getting rid of the latter by volitional influence. At the same time, the thought of allowing and facilitating the spontaneous dynamics of this experience caused a pronounced protest and fear. However, the energy of the desire to counteract this experience was great and the author caught himself involuntarily continuing to try to overcome this negative experience, although unsuccessfully. Apparently, the focus on overcoming was dominant at that moment. Naturally, everything that was happening made the author feel himself not only a victim of circumstances, but also of this extremely unpleasant sensation in the body. So, such was the author's Internal Situation at the time of attempts to overcome this negative experience.

Having begun a more conscious resistance, the author identified with the energy of protest and became involved in maintaining the dynamics of changes in the protest experience itself. Which, by the way, began to return him to the feeling of agency. Soon the author managed to "freeze" the problematic sensation, which did not become less unpleasant because of this, but this result made him feel even more like a subject, not a victim, and also gave him a feeling of greater security and control over events. It is important that the realization of, although maintaining the dynamics, but continuing contact with the negative experience, gave some "accounting for the interests" embedded in its energy. Then the author, continuing the contact with this sensation, put "on hold", guessed to close his eyes and become involved in observing the dynamics of changes in the visual spots under the closed eyelids, confirming any change in them with a self-ratifying "yes".

Note that both contacts were carried out naturally and without effort. Contact with the "negative" was not difficult to realize because the intensity of the sensation "attracted" attention to it, and contact with the visual spots was pleasant, "amusing" and corresponded to the desire to "escape" from contact with the unpleasant, which arose simultaneously with the desire to overcome the negative. It is clear that such a natural division of attention did not require effort.

A very important point: the author did not try to make the visual spots somehow correspond to bodily sensations. (We have no reason to believe that these visual spots somehow "spontaneously" reflect what is happening in the body, just as there is no reason to believe the opposite!)

After a few minutes of such work, an abrupt transformation of this previously unchangeable sensation arose in the body (most often in such work, a positive transformation occurs in this way), the sensations became more comfortable and calmer. The self-regulatory task was achieved.

From the above description it is clear that the set of Basic Actions used in the Design of the practice, on the one hand, directly followed from the Parameters of the Internal Situation, on the other hand, constituted a consistent, harmoniously functioning system. An obvious "find" (and an atypical move for Recoding) in this design is that the holding influence and allowing spontaneous dynamics here were not only applied to different objects, but also occurred in different modalities (channels)!

Since the author in this work has not yet described which different Basic Actions lead to the above-described Indirect Effects, he considers it necessary and appropriate to do so now.

1) Identification with counteraction to the negative, active holding of its dynamics clearly returned agency and activated the conscious volitional principle in managing the processes.

2) Contact with a bodily felt negative experience allowed his energy to remain in the field of this work.

3) This contact also improved the interaction of the psychic with the bodily.

4) Allowing spontaneous dynamics of visual spots helped to activate the processes of unconscious search and regulation.

5) Approval of changes occurring in the visual series contributed not only to the activation of unconscious processes, but also to their better connection with conscious regulation.

6) The latter was also facilitated by involvement in fairly involuntary processes in both channels of perception.

Conclusions

1) The originally created concept of Recoding is included in the concept presented in this paper as a part or aspect.

2) The proposed concept is more consistent with the entire variety of practices of the method than the original one.

3) The proposed concept of Recoding corresponds to the task of expanding the area of its application.

4) The form of presentation of the concept, realized in this article, corresponds to the goals of professional training in the Recoding method.

5) The concept of Recoding presented in this paper requires its clarification, as well as further development along with further expansion of the area of application of the method and development of the arsenal of its practices.

6) The concept presented in this paper is largely based on fairly hypothetical grounds and requires further theoretical justification and empirical evidence.