IST – Holistic Meditation Therapy

ABOUT INNER SPACE TECHNIQUES

The process uses emotional release and metaphysical opening to shift and change unconscious patterns. These patterns tend to drive our day-to-day lives and actions – and can keep us feeling energetically stuck, circling in mental limits, and holding us back from achieving what we really want in life.

Developed by Samuel Sagan, Inner Space Techniques bring an emotional stability and a greater self-knowledge to all areas of your life. As you address the root causes in your consciousness, you experience yourself differently from the vantage point of the inner space.

Once you have experiences of this depth, problems become small and insubstantial. Your life changes, your meditation is deeper, and there is a greater flow in everything you do.
Without such metaphysical openings, psychological and health issues could go around in circles, escaping resolution.
IST breaks recurring patterns and conditional behaviour.
IST takes negative imprints and resolves them at their source. The problem is not solved as such – rather, it disappears because the cause is no longer active.
Although the inner space is close to the space of meditation, it has a different purpose, and different results.
When you meditate, things come up: thoughts, emotions, ideas, discomfort. And if you are meditating you let them come, let them go. But when things come up in IST, you dive into them further. You want to see what they are and where they come from.

No prior meditation experience is required for IST to work, as the process is facilitated by the practitioner. This is not a form of hypnotherapy. The client is fully aware of everything that takes place during a session.

HOW WAS IST DEVELOPED?

Dr. Samuel Sagan developed the Clairvision Inner Space Techniques with a team of doctors, psychologists, homeopaths, naturopaths, and other health practitioners, over a period of 20 years.
In ancient times, meditation by itself was a powerful tool for transformation, but the world has moved on, is faster paced, with much greater levels of mental stimulation, and we are all getting more neurotic! Meditation alone is not enough to get beyond the chatter of the ordinary mind. This method of self-exploration has been practiced in Australia for over 20 years, and has been available in Europe since 2002.

INTAKE

After a short, informal discussion about your background and the reason for your visit, I take time to ensure we feel comfortable with each other to enable a therapeutic relationship of trust to develop.
It’s important that you feel comfortable with me before we proceed with working together.
In this initial session, I will ask you some simple questions about your general health and well-being, and we will explore a little about what brought you to see me.

THE PROCESS

No knowledge or training in meditation is required. The role of the IST practitioner is to facilitate and support your journey inside by holding the inner space for you and asking questions. This is not a form of hypnotherapy. You, the client, are fully aware of everything that takes place during a session.
IST is practiced lying down, fully clothed, and in a meditative third-eye state.
IST does not use imagination or creative visualization. It does not ask you to believe in anything, only to follow a process. The fewer beliefs you bring with you, the more chance of success. Beliefs generate expectations that tend to distort the purity of the experience.
In an IST session, the client sinks into a meditative state, guided by a practitioner. The practitioner utilizes a deep inner space of meditation (as developed by the Clairvision School) to gently guide the client out of the ordinary mind. There is interaction between the client and the practitioner where the client sees for themselves the layers and protection mechanisms that cover up parts of the psyche, which are referred to as samskaras in the Clairvision model. These sessions can lead to big realizations where transformation can take place. This is where healing can happen, as well as emotional release and resolution. This is where you become the real you and not your issues! To know yourself from a place of clarity is what the service of IST is ultimately about.

SESSIONS

How long is a session?
90 minutes

How many sessions will I need?
It depends on how far you want to go!
In only a few sessions, some issues can be significantly resolved. The deepest and most long-term imprints do not usually let go so quickly. These can require regular sessions over weeks or months. Do not let this put you off. Working on these long-term imprints brings the greatest releases and therefore the greatest rewards. It is an amazing journey of self-discovery and healing.

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SAMSKARAS

So, what are samskaras?
Samskara is a Sanskrit term meaning “scar of the mind”.
Samskaras are the mental impressions left by all thoughts, actions, and intents that an individual has ever experienced. They can be thought of as psychological imprints. They are below the level of normal consciousness and are said to be the root of all impulses, as well as our innate dispositions.
Through practices, such as meditation, it is possible to look within and come into contact with one’s inner samskaras, below the threshold of consciousness.
In some ways, samskaras are like an addiction. But instead of being addicted to a substance, you get addicted to a particular emotional state that leads to suffering and pain. The samskaras have a familiarity to them and even though they lead to suffering, they are also how you experience your life. Their familiarity is also their temptation because the pattern is so well established and you are so attached to its righteousness that it actually hurts to let them go.
Each moment we have the possibility of being fresh and new, but very often we live of our lives from a habit pattern established in the past. Once these patterns are established, the flow of human consciousness gets organized into certain repetitive patterns. The Sanskrit word for these repetitive patterns is a samskara. These are essentially habit patterns of the mind that have been practiced so much so that they run on auto-pilot, unconsciously generating the same cyclical type of interactions you perform in the world, again and again.

An example of a samskara:
Now imagine that you have had an intense trauma when you were a young child. So intense that you have blocked it from your conscious memory. You may not have any conscious memory of the event, but the samskara remains hidden and active in your psyche, which pulls you one way or another in your emotions, beliefs, and the choices you make.

For example, if as a child a big dog gave you a fright when it barked and jumped on you, every time you saw a dog thereafter you would have the expectation it would jump on you and you would feel the same fear. The original event formed a samskara that conditions your thinking and emotions whenever you are near a barking dog. Whether or not the dog has ill intent towards you is not relevant, you experience the fear anyway. You can’t stop it, because it is a reflex action and every encounter with a dog from the original incident until now has reinforced your belief system.
Samskaras do not remain silent. They have to express themselves, either consciously or unconsciously. Whether you realize it or not, in the depth of yourself your samskaras are perpetually crying out. This is the same for all samskaras.

The IST process is about going back to the source of the reaction, re-experiencing the event from a different standpoint, and neutralising the emotional ‘charge’ held there. This can lead to profound states of peace and stillness, a cognising of your higher Self, beyond the ordinary mind.

An experience of yourself beyond time and space.

You can find a more in-depth exposition of the samskara process in Samuel Sagan’s book Regression: Past-Life Therapy for Here and Now Freedom, available from the Clairvision School website.