Neurographics: how to manage life through drawing

We do most of our daily activities automatically. Everyone has patterns of behavior formed and strengthened by time that we use in certain situations. They are based on their own and other people’s experience gained during life. For example: boiling water is hot, current can strike, and not knowing the answer to a question is fraught with a bad grade.

Each pattern is associated with a specific response, and each such pattern is a neural connection in our brain. The more often this pattern knowledge is used, the stronger the bond becomes. The accumulated neural connections form a large neural network in the brain, which is similar to a knowledge base, from where the necessary information is obtained at the right time, after which we make some kind of decision.

It turns out that each concept and the action associated with it is part of a neural network, a certain neural code, a pattern of neurons in our head. It is closely related to the impressions that we have ever received in connection with similar tasks.

If you can’t establish a personal life or find a job you like, there is not enough time for everything you want to do, these are programs in the mind, our internal limitations that we are not aware of, but which greatly affect our lives. Let’s imagine that two people with exactly the same knowledge and experience go to an interview in the same company, where the manager will ask them the same questions and choose a future employee.

The first goes with the idea that he will be evaluated, that he does not know how to answer correctly, remembers that he has already failed at such interviews, and is afraid of repetition. The second goes with the idea that he will now quickly answer questions, get the necessary information, then do a couple of personal things, and tomorrow he will start this job.

It is easy to guess that the employer will rather choose the second applicant, because his behavior pattern in this situation was more advantageous. It turns out that all the decisions that we make depend on the pattern of behavior or neural code that we have. And the obvious conclusion suggests itself: if you are not satisfied with the result, then you need to change the program. But how to do that?

What is neurographics?

If you say to yourself: “Today at the meeting you feel confident and behave in such and such a way,” will it work? Will the brain accept such a message? This is very unlikely, as practice shows. The pattern formed in the head is much stronger, and most likely it will work, and not a sudden attempt to tune in to a different wave. And we repeat it again and step on the same rake.

The good news is that there is a language that is well understood by the brain and in which we can rewrite existing patterns or create new programs of behavior. This allows you to open up new possibilities. The language is called neurographics, it was invented by Pavel Piskarev, Ph.D., psychologist, coach and graphic facilitator.

Neurographics is a graphical method of organizing thinking, transforming one’s state and attitude to a problem without words and a conceptual process. This is contact with your inner space through drawing.

The language is based on 4 archetype elements: a circle, a triangle, a square and a special neurographic line with two characteristics. It is she who allows you to change patterns and open up new opportunities on the way to the goal, transform existing neural connections and create new ones.

When we begin to give meaning to the figures, consciousness fixes this connection, and we have emotions in relation to each figure. By creating compositions on a sheet of simple shapes and connecting them with a line, we form impressions. In this way, we create a simple graphical change code for consciousness. There is a reconfiguration of neural connections, and we begin to think and act differently, which naturally changes the attitude of people towards us, the environment, and makes it possible to make non-standard decisions.

Neurographics makes it possible to remove internal restrictions and form a new neural code that will correspond to the task. Drawing, we change our impressions of reality, form new ones. We “animate” this new reality for consciousness and begin to control the circumstances. Neurographics is a train ticket to a new reality built by our own hands.

How to reconfigure neural connections?

Exercise 1. Draw our thoughts

This exercise shows how much you hear yourself and are able to transfer control of the process from your head to your body.

Put a marker on a sheet of paper in any place, start drawing a line along the sheet, simply following your hand. For simplicity, you can close your eyes. Tune in to the desires of your hand and just follow this desire – where it pulls, we go there. Draw a line across the sheet, turning and changing direction until you feel like stopping.

There are no rules and prohibitions here, the line may cross itself in several places, or it may not cross at all. The main thing is that the line is not a segment. It is endless, so you can easily fill the entire sheet with it.

Did you manage to draw something on the sheet? Was it easy for you to follow the hand? Did the line change directions chaotically or did you follow a certain structure? If everything worked out for you, congratulations, you hear yourself and are ready to broadcast your desires and thoughts to the world through your body. And now they draw their thoughts.

By turning on kinesthetics, you transferred thoughts from your head to a piece of paper through a marker. You put one of your neural codes on paper. Now you can work with it with the help of neurographics: transform, complete and bring it to the state that you like.

Exercise 2. Are you ready to change your life?

For this exercise, you will need the skill of drawing the main asset of neurographics – the neurographic line. Having learned to lead this line, you will automatically begin to create new opportunities for yourself and take a step towards a new reality.

Put a marker on a sheet of paper in any place, start drawing a line along the sheet, following the desires of the hand. Once this is done, start drawing a line that often changes direction. At the moment when you want to change direction, go not where your hand is pulling, but in any other direction.

This is how you begin to lead a neurographic line that does not repeat itself in every section of the movement and always goes in the wrong direction where we expect it to. By leading this line, you connect the desires of the unconscious – patterns of behavior – with conscious decision making. You begin to lay new paths in your mind, preparing it for the fact that changes in your life are normal and positive.

The easier it is to draw a neurographic line, the better prepared you are for changes in life. Next, you can think about a topic that interests you. What would you like to change? Career development, family relationships? Start drawing those lines. Firstly, you will check how ready you are to change something now, and secondly, your consciousness will begin to prepare for the fact that changes are possible in a given topic.