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The second problem that arises during the implementation of the “technological map” of an experience is the need to saturate the current phenomenon or phenomena that appeared at the first stage with vital energy. This is important for many reasons. First, this is the essence of the experiencing process. Secondly, the vitalization of field phenomena is the energetic source that feeds the experience. How does this happen technically? There are several sources of vitalization of phenomena that can form the basis of an experience. For an effective therapeutic process it is necessary, if possible, to use them all. Moreover, this thesis is relevant insofar as all these sources exist not as an alternative, but as a mutual complement. This means that all three sources of vitality, which I will describe below, do not compete with each other, but support each other. Psychological presence. The first source of field vitalization and therapeutic contact is psychological presence. Let me remind you that it is one of the main properties of contact. A phenomenon that appears and is placed in contact with a high degree of presence of the therapist and the client in it with their Lives has much more energy than a phenomenon that was simply heard in therapy. In the first case, the field itself saturates the phenomenon with its energy. Technically, this condition of vitalization is fulfilled quite simply - you need to talk about this or that phenomenon in this or that context, as if Living it, being present with your heart at the moment of the story. To do this, you need to feel the difference between “talking” and “talking-about-yourself-personally-to-another-personally”. If you talk about what you are aware of only to this person whose eyes you see opposite, and to no one else in this world, then you cannot help but feel how the air in the office is filled with vital energy. There is no one except you two at this second in this world. Perhaps in a moment everything will change, but now this is what somehow miraculously fills your Life. Closeness to the primary experience. Another source of vitalization of phenomena in therapeutic contact is their proximity to primary experience, or, in the words of the cone-layer field model, to the layer of pure phenomena. In other words, the more pure a phenomenon is from conceptualization, the higher its energy. Technically, this condition of vitalization is fulfilled through two main techniques. The first is that every time we encounter one or another phenomenon in the process of psychotherapy, we take a pause in which we ask ourselves and the client the same question - “What’s wrong with me?” happens when I realize...” By throwing a bridge in this way from one layer of the field cone to another, we find ourselves a layer closer to the primary experience. True, this only happens if we make an effort to be present in contact with our Life. This comment is important insofar as the question itself does not carry such specificity and by answering it formally, we can, on the contrary, move away from the primary experience and thereby find ourselves a layer further from it in terms of the cone-layer model of the phenomenological field. Phenomenological reduction. The second method of vitalization and approaching primary experience is phenomenological reduction. Adapted for the purposes of psychotherapeutic practice, phenomenological reduction as a technical technique represents the maximum detailing of the context, in other words, clarification of how a particular phenomenon is phenomenologically represented at the level of nuances. The fact is that when encountering one or another fact of consciousness in the process of psychotherapy, for the most part we are dealing not with a “pure” phenomenon, but with an element of the phenomenological field, burdened with certain conceptual additions or representing a more or less successful attempt at generalization a whole context or a conglomerate of phenomena. For example, when a client utters the phrase “I’m ashamed,” one may naivelyassume that we are dealing with a certain phenomenon that is familiar to us from experience. However, representation in experience may be a long way off here. By responding to this message with some kind of understanding, you are deceiving yourself and the client. Try talking to him about how phenomenologically detailed this experience is, represented by the phrase “I'm ashamed,” and you may be shocked at how different your experience turns out to be. And if you also place this conversation in contact with a high degree of psychological presence, you will find a colossal increase in vitality in the session. This happens because by this method - the phenomenological detailing of the context denoted by one or another seemingly familiar word - you split a small private concept, disguised as a phenomenon. The vitality bound within the conceptual connections is released, which energizes the therapeutic contact. As a result, you have a much more powerful starting position for the experience. Of course, with this example I only illustrated one of the steps of phenomenological reduction. In most cases, this process can be continued, taking as a basis the next phenomenon, which, in full accordance with the principle of pregnancy, appeared as a figure against the background in a detailed phenomenological context. There cannot be methodological instructions on what to do in each specific situation for the therapist, since the main source of preference for one or another therapeutic intervention for the therapist within the framework of psychotherapy focused on experience is the sensitivity of the specialist and the act of free choice. And this is also one of the most powerful sources of vitalization of phenomena to “start the engine” of experience. A free act of choice. It is choice that is the means of focusing all the energy of the field within a more or less narrow phenomenological context, focused around the figure phenomenon. It is impossible to overestimate its importance for many reasons. Here are a few of them. Firstly, choice is an act corresponding to the nature of the field. It is impossible to surrender to field processes in the process of experiencing without taking into account the fundamental principle of field nature - controllability by choice. Only by choosing do we follow the dynamics of field processes. Refusal of free choice in favor of, for example, making a certain therapeutic decision collapses the experience to certain conceptually specified field contexts. The experience stops, innovations stop coming into the field, any changes are blocked. Metaphorically speaking, the act of free choice is a qualifying round for the championship, it is the code on the electronic lock of the door behind which the prospects of experience open. Secondly, choice is a universal means that mediates the concentration of the entire volume of vitality for the desired changes in life. Choice is a kind of virtual magnet that attracts field energy in its area of ​​action. If in the process of psychotherapy we choose one or another phenomenon to initiate the process of experiencing, the vitality of all other phenomena in the field seems to be transferred to the chosen one as a delegate from this context. At the same time, it seems to me important to note here one important pattern for psychotherapy - the wider the phenomenological context of the field in which the choice occurs, and the more detailed it is phenomenologically presented, the more vitality is focused in the chosen therapeutic intervention. Here is another benefit of phenomenological reduction. By detailing the context of the phenomenological field, we find ourselves a layer lower in the field model to primary experience. Thus, the overall energy of the context increases due to the enhancement of the vitality of each of the phenomena that make up the context. The act of choice carried out in this context, therefore, borrows a much larger volume of vital energy necessary for the transformation of the field situation. Thus the field, through the sensitivity and training of the therapist, follows its dynamic nature. As a consequence, psychotherapy is also becoming increasingly