Andrew Hryniewicz is an architect, psychotherapist and shamanic practitioner who is an expert in the psychology of resilience, trauma recovery and peak
performance.
Since 2011, Andrew has helped over 175 executives and professionals from scientists to artists, creatives and writers – use his “deep mind“ methods to become wiser, more creative, fulfilled and happy in their professional and personal lives.
Topics:
- The journey from architect, to therapist, to shamanism
- Getting that, 'this isn't going to work out' feeling
- A lot of people are drawn to therapeutic professions because they are wounded
- Three experiences of the veil dropping
- Our ancestors lived in a world that was shamanic, where everything was experienced as being alive, the trees, the rocks, the water
- Cave art sprang from this about 30,000 years ago
- A set of methods for altering your consciousness so that you can communicate with these other dimensions of reality
- The difference between wet and dry shamanism
- Three issues with using ayahuasca
- Steady drumming allows the brain to anchor in the theta state
- Why don't you learn the universe before you blow it up?
- "I essentially get the distortion out of the nervous system, a clear flow of signal"
- 70% of the study from 'good backgrounds' had at least one of these ten traumatic things in their childhood, 40% had four or more
- Addiction to drugs or alcoholism, mental illness or depression, psychosis, emotional or sexual abuse, witnessing domestic violence etc led to 7-30 times more likelihood of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, suicide, alcoholism, stroke or early death
- Trauma is not so much what happened, it's the emotional scar tissue formed around the event that constricts and limits, the person's ability to function, be flexible
- As the Buddhists say with our mind we create the world, the root of modern mindset work and that's true, but first the world made our mind
- It's like in Jaws he says "we're gonna need a bigger boat", I realised I'm going to need a bigger me
- Most indigenous cultures look at our modern culture and they think we're crazy
- The heart and soul of the indigenous experience is that we are all connected. No such thing as being thrown out of the garden of Eden
- It links with architecture, the thread between apparently disparate things, how do we live in balance with ourselves, each other, the environment, the planet?
- Predators can spot prey, it's unconscious
- So when you release the memories, experiences, they realise they're no longer a target for the bullies, the bullies just disappear
- Integrating the physicist with the shamanic practitioner gaining insights from other dimensions of thought
- The karmic alignment day
- The haah breath
- Yawning a few times, brain scans show, it resets their nervous system
- Very slow neck roll, allows your brain to notice where it's tight
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