MONER SHUSHRUSHAY RABINDRA SANGEET

PRAYER -- , , , , , , , , Help me thrive and upgrade my core, O my innermost one Cleanse, brighten, and make it adorable one. Awaken, prepare, and make me audacious. Bless, energise, and make me unambiguous. Unite me with all others, break all closures. Inflict your mellow rhythm in all endeavours. Affix my mind on your lotus feet, if you please. Bliss, Bliss, make my life a Bliss. Translated by Anjan Ganguly

Rabindrik Psychotherapy aims at awakening the selfhttp://www.geetabitan.com/lyrics/A/antor-mamo-bikoshito-kar.htmlRabindrik PsychotherapyDr. D. Dutta Roy, Ph.D. (Psy.)Psychology Research UnitINDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTEKolkata 700 108Venue: Rotary club, Kolkata

About Indian Statistical InstituteIndian Statistical Institute (ISI) is a uniqueinstitution devoted to the research, teaching and application of statistics, natural sciences and social sciences. Founded by Professor P.C. Mahalanobis in Kolkata on 17th December, 1931, the institute gained the status of an Institution of National Importance by an act of the Indian Parliament in 1959. The Headquarters of ISI is located in the northern fringe of the metropolis of Kolkata. Additionally, there are four centres located inDelhi,Bangalore,Chennaiand Tezpur . Research in Statistics and related disciplines is the primary activity of the Institute. Teaching activities are undertaken mainly in Kolkata, Delhi and Bangalore.

Rabindranath Tagore and Rotary InternationalRotary international was formed on 23rd February,1905 in Chicago where professionals with diverse backgrounds could exchange ideas and form meaningful, lifelong friendships. Rotarys name came from the groups early practice of rotating meetings among the offices of each member. The functional objectives are related to Tagore's theory of universalism and confluence of culture. AbstractRabindrik psychotherapy refers to the way of self-awakening with therapeutic postulates extracted from the literary works of Rabindranath Tagore. It is the paradigm shift in treatment of psychological disorders. When classical psychotherapy emphasizes on labelling the disorders, Rabindrik psychotherapy is free from labeling. When classical psychotherapy emphasizes on talk therapy, Rabindrik psychotherapy gives stress on performing arts therapy. Both tend to reconstruct the disequilibrium states of consciousness through therapeutic customization. In classical psychotherapy, psychotherapist plays active role. But in Rabindrik psychotherapy, psychotherapist facilitates the environment and client him or her self can customize the situation through Rabindrik performing arts. Therefore, in classical psychotherapy, client assumes self as patient or client but in Rabindrik psychotherapy client never labels him or herself. In Rabindrik psychotherapy, client can not think how he or she is recovered. Rabindrik psychotherapy assumes that consciousness is composed of three layers - Murta, Raag and Saraswat. Attention, sensation, perception are adversely affected when murta layer is deformed or disoriented. Feelings and emotions affect our cognitions in Raag layer. Saraswat layer minimizes errors in cognition, emotion and strengthens harmony with environment. Saraswat layer provides feeling of peace, and negative entropy. The layers are dynamic. Dynamicity is determined by the changes in the physical environment or in the psychological field. Any change causes vibration and vibration starts to move across layers. Impact of vibration on consciousness depends on the strength, duration, properties of vibrating agents, resiliency, and acceptability of consciousness. Rabindrik therapist customizes dynamicity in the consciousness through positive vibration followed by consciousness diagnostics. Rabindrik psychotherapist must be proficient with (a) consciousness layer dynamics, (b) therapeutic postulates, (c) customization and precautions in therapy. This lecture will focus on these three things with case studies.

What is Psychotherapy ? The term psychotherapy refers to the treatment of psychological disorders through the use of psychological theories, the postulates, techniques and tools rather than physical means like administration of drugs or surgery.Psychotherapies are rooted from the theories of psychoanalysis (searching unconscious and control by Ego)Theories of conditioning (manipulation of behaviour by reinforcement)Cognitive theories (understanding faulty reasoning, overgeneralization)Cognitive behaviour therapy (manipulation of behaviour to control thought)social cognition theory (imitative learning and development of self-efficacy)The widely used psychotherapies are psychoanalysis, Behaviour therapy and Cognitive behaviour therapy. Contents of Rabindrik PsychotherapyBasic theories Consciousness theoryControl theoryFlow theoryDefinition, advantage and disadvantagesPostulatesCase Study and therapeutic procedureConsciousness theoryCONSCIOUSNESS IS NEVER ENDING MULTI-LAYERED WAVES OF AWARENESS"....Tare dola diye duliye geche kato dheuer chando,O tar anto nai go nai."Puja, 332

Murta-Missing-AnomaliesRaag-Vividness-Orderliness-Complexity

SaraswatHarmony with EnvironmentAestheticsCleanliness

CONSCIOUSNESS LAYERS10MURTA, RAAG, SARASWATQ: What is this ?A1: This is a white object (Murta)A2: This is white beautiful flower (Raag)A3: This is light (Saraswat)

DISEQUILIBRIUM STAGE OF CONSCIOUSNESS

After learning the flower as white, individual still asks the question as what is this ? or is it white ? After considering the flower as light, individual asks the question is it light ?

Psychiatric disorder and Consciousness Characteristics of 3 layersPsychiatric disorder occurs due to disequilibrium across layers of consciousness. MURTA: Disequilibrium occurs at Murta layer for deformity or impairment in cognitive functions. It is the outer layer of consciousness. This is what we sense through our five sensory organs. It is tangible and measurable.RAAG: Disequilibrium occurs at this layer when cognitive functions are clouded by negative emotions. It can be measured through quasi continuous scale. It is mixed with error variance. SARASWAT: Disequilibrium occurs at this layer when individual does not find any peace, harmony, sense of aesthetics, the reliability of own understanding. It is partially measured by the quasi continuous scale. It is free from error variance. Exploring ConsciousnessConsciousness can be explored through performing arts. Performing arts customize the environment to make free association across layers of consciousness. Client him or her self can realize own self by playing active role in performing arts. Statistical modelling: Self-rating, Ranking, Semantic differential scale.

Control theoryPsychotherapy and Control theoryPsychoanalysis assumes role of Ego to control Primitive needs of Id and Conscience of Super ego. Individual client is partially active in control.Behaviour therapy assumes control of behaviour by manipulating external environment. Individual client is inactive in control. Cognitive behaviour therapy assumes control of self-cognition and related behaviour. Individual client is moderately active in control. Rabindrik Psychotherapy assumes control on flows across layers of consciousness. Each layer of consciousness is consisted of physical, mental and spiritual psyches. So it gives emphasis on control of body-mind relationship. Individual client is fully active in control. Flow theory and Rabindra SangeetMihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1990) proposed flow theory. Flowis the mental state of operation in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity. It bars the anxiety and depression by providing positive emotions.

In Rabindrik Psychotherapy, flow occurs at each layer of consciousness. Flow at the raag layer is extrinsic but at the saraswat layer, it is intrinsic. Tagore told his flow experience at Saraswat layer of consciousness. He wrote Tumi sukh jodi nahi pao, jao sukher sondhane jaoami tomare peyechhi hridhoymajhe, ar kichhu nahi chai go.Ami tomar birohe rohibo bileen, tomate koribo baasdhirgho dibos dhirgho rojoni, dirgho borosh-maas.

Observe the flow of consciousness waves, its movement pattern, its growth, peak, sustenance, its speed, associations with other flows in the consciousness layers

Speed of flow

Flow theory in Rabindrik Psychotherapy: Estimate the direction, speed, sustenance and association of flow in the layers of consciousness

Analysis from Shyama Giti natya by D. Dutta Roy, ISI., Kolkata

DefinitionWhat is Rabindrik Psychotherapy? Rabindrik psychotherapy refers to the way of self-awakening postulates extracted from the literary works of Rabindranath Tagore. Self-awakening refers to awareness of self and its impact on the environment and vice versa. So it is the understanding between interaction of self and the surroundings. It is not music therapy as it is the combination of dance, drama, music and the lyrics. It aims to understand flow of consciousness across Murta, Raag and Saraswat layers.It is not the skill based training. It includes knowledge, performing art creation and customization for diagnosis, intervention and maintenance. What is the advantage ? Rabindrik psychotherapy provides positive experience control on environment (Jadi tor dak shune keu na ase), feeling of freedom (Tomar khola haoa), optimism, feeling of harmony with the surroundings ;Client him/her self can customize situation using Rabindrik tools to explore, understand and regulate flow across layers of consciousness; It is free from labeling so client is free from identity crisis; It is less time consuming and less costly;It affects both right and left hemisphere of the brain.

What is the disadvantage ? Rabindrik art carries dual meaning. Due to highly loaded with negative information, client may be prone to negative connotation. It can create positive transference.Therapist may not be able to come out from the improvised art. What is the role of Rabindrik psychotherapist ? Role of therapist is to improvise the environment with Rabindrik tools. The tools are Rabindrik dance, drama, music and songs. He or she acts as the facilitator.He must have expertise on followings:Knowledge: Performing art theories; principles of psychology specially theory of perceptual organization, learning, arousal theory of emotion, personality, developmental psychology, Bio-psychology and theories of positive psychology, postulates of Rabindrik psychotherapy;Skills: Expertise in performing arts specially Rabindrik dance, drama, music and songs; Ability to customize therapeautic environment.

Therapeutic Postulates Postulate is the statement of truth based on reasoning. As the postulates are extracted from songs of Rabindranath Tagore, they are called as Rabindrik postulates. Tagore wrote the songs from which postulates are derived in Bengali language. Therefore, in describing postulates, some Bengali songs are written with English script. The songs are translated into English as much as possible. The Bengali songs are written within .

Behaviour is caused by the changes in consciousness layers

Avoid labeling. Todays label changes tomorrow

Todays labeling one as mad or abnormal may not be appropriate in tomorrow. Tagore in his song (Je tore pagol bole tare tui bolis ne kichu) prevents us from labeling one as mad. Again he has given own reasoning for the prevention.Do not say anything when one calls on you madAssuming you as abnormal, one can throw dust on you today.Tomorrow he will come to you with garlandToday, due to self-pride, he sits on high chair.Tomorrow, he will get down and bow his head.This suggests that Rabindrik psychotherapy possesses lot of cognitive resources that guide individual toward positive life style.

Consciousness is free floating. Look at it as detached beingTagore conceptualized two beings - free floated real being and detached being. As detached being, man can understand own consciousness . Detachment helps man to understand all the incompleteness in consciousness by removing all the emotions intertwined with sensory images.The I that floats on the waves of time under the sky, I am watching at it.That I moves like moving picture and I am watching at it as silent poet. This I is not that I. I am within me. I am not floating like dead. I am free, satisfied, peaceful and lighted. I am watching at it.

Make the consciousness unbounded and experience it

Consciousness is unbounded and unlimited. One can roam and experience its changes. The experience gives feeling of completeness. It is just like journey from incomplete to complete across three layers of consciousness. Reaching at Saraswat, one wants to stay there for prolonged period. Such feeling is described in the Tagores songYou are what I want.Besides you, I have no one.If you do not find happiness, you move elsewhere.I want to stay within you.I want to be disappeared within you for long time.

Man is the pursuer of completeness.

Frustration and conflict occur when consciousness is searching for harmony around the Murta and Raag layers due to faulty learning or inability to learn. Man in his whole life, always pursue saraswat, the locus of harmonization. Tagore wrote Ami keboli swapan karechi bapan batase. When it is translated into English, it appears as:I only sow my dreams in air, so I collect day-dreams in despair.Like shadow, it vanishes, I cannot find its end.My mental images are floating in the air.

Man is the pursuer of newness

Ones feeling of completeness is transient. Todays feeling changes with new. Prolonged stay within saraswat layer does not provide variety. This leads man to be creative and innovative. Tagore wrote - Tomay natun kare pabo bole harai khane khan. It means that I want to make you out of sight in order to see you in a new way.

Self-awakening is the key to positive mental healthThe word Self-awakening implies the meaning of understanding the flows across layers of consciousness. Flows occur through activity. Tagore in his song Antaro mamo bikashito karo antartaro he suggests five specific activities for self-awakening. These are (a) auto suggestion for flourishing the self; (b) cleaning, brightening and beautifying the self; (c) free self from fear, laziness and doubt; (d) establish social network; (e) spreading peace in all activities.

Therapeutic procedure

There are four major stages of Rabindrik psychotherapy : (a) analysis of flow in consciousness , (b) Rabindrik improvisation for insight generation, (c) competency mapping and goal-setting, (d) termination. Therapist will follow certain precautions in therapy.

Case Study 1: Where all fail, Rabindrasangeet actsResponse control of OCD

A woman of 52 years old came to me with complaint of OCD to dirt. Patient reported her inability to control washing compulsion. For last 30 years, she regularly went to toilet for washing and cleaning hands. She always closed her hands tightly so that her hands would be completely cleaned. Before visit to me, she was treated by many psychiatrists and one psychologist. No notable changes are noticed except long time sleep.Patients behaviour Very inhibitive;Hand clasping tightly;Strong resistance to open clasping;Non-cooperative to participate;Not able to administer any available psychological tests.

Analysis of patient Patient is searching for dirt in the outer layer.In the inner layer, dirt is perceived as threatening;Patient wants to move away from inner to inner core layer. For the same, she spends most of the time in worshipping the God and keeping cleanliness. She is not happy with soaping hands as this can not help her to reach at the innercore layer of consciousness. This results approach avoidance conflict. (Approaching to the soap in order to avoid dirt, again few soaping is not sufficient, so more soaping is required ). Analysis of familyRepeated soaping consumes more water;Family assumes that it is unreasonable but patient assumes it as reasonable ;Family member is not aware of consciousness dynamics playing inside the patient.

Therpeautic analysisTarget: Preventing clasping hands;Consciousness model:Outer layer : Dirt perception;Inner layer : Dirt as threat; Innercore : Feeling of cleanliness;Currently, patient is moving around outer and inner layers only.Therapeautic target: Providing her Feeling of cleanliness.Rabindrasangeet is non-dirt area;Explore the song suitable for feeling of non-dirt area; Session-1In the first session, patient was highly inhibitive to reveal herself. Due to difficulty in rapport establishment. I started singing - "Ananda loke, mangala loke" (moving to spiritual land).Suddenly, she started singing with me in very low voice;I paid my attention to her and started moving the hands keeping with the rhythm and waves of the song loudly. She participated into my hand movement and sang the song loudly.

Session-2In the 2nd session after 6 days, the client sang with me same song by standing. She moved her hands above head when she sang " Grahataraka chandra tapana byakula drutabege" (the planets, satellites are moving speedily). It is noted that her hands now completely opened.Session-3In the 3rd sitting, patient reported that she alone practiced two songs "Ektuku chona lage...." (feeling light touch), and "Eto din je bosechinu" (waiting for long days) at home. Finally, she sang with me both songs alongwith Ananda loke, danced and she never closed her hands.

Termination : Patient herself is able to prevent stopping hand clasping.

Case Study 2: Geetbitan as Projective test.Projective testIndividual projects own feelings, conflict and desires on others;Psychologists use several tests for analysis of projection of the patient;Some widely used tests are : Rorschach, TAT, Sentence completion test, Word association test etc.Analysis of ProjectionA neurotic depressed patient came to me with complaints of suicidal desires. She was co-operative. In stead of using common psychodiagnostic test, I used Geetbitan She was asked to select 10 songs from Geetbitan, the famous Book of songs composed by Rabindranath Tagore.Patient selected following 10 songs:

1. Akash bhara surya tara2. Aloker ei jharna dharay3. Ananda dhara bahiche bhubane4. Ananda loke mangala loke5. Aji jato tara tabo6. Amar mukti aloy aloy7. Ami chini go chini8. Aro aro prabhu aro aro9. Alo amar alo ogo10. E ki labonye punya

Next, I told her to rank them. Her rank was :First : 3, Second : 10, Third : 4Finally, she sang the first rank song (Ananda dhara bohiche bhubane). I followed her in singing.I have noticed that each line of this song reflects her current mental state and it is interesting to note that the song also provides the answer as how to recover from such problems.Finally I have used that song for her psychological counseling.Therefore, I have developed following assumptions:1. Geetbitan as Psychological test;2. The words of Geetbitan advances knowledge of psychotherapy. Anandadhara bahiche bhubane, dinarajani kato amritarasa uthali jay ananta gagane.Pan kare rabi shashi anjali bhariya- sada dipta rahe akshyaya jyoti- nitya purna dhara jibone kirane.Bosiya acho keno apanmone, swarthanimagana ki karane?Chari dike dekho chahi hridaya prasari, khudra dukhosab tuchcha maniPrem bhariya laho shunya jibone. Case Study 3: Self-understandingComplaints

Over learning Poor academic performanceApprehension of dangerAnalysis of client Layer dynamics:Outer layer : Perceiving the book;Inner layer : Book is perceived as source of completeness;Innercore : Feeling of completeness;Reason for over learning: He tends to be complete being.Problem lies on over study due to extrinsic reading motivationTarget of change : Study for intrinsic motivation Case history : He can play tabla and can sing Rabindrasangeet. It is practiced in family. Session Requesting him to sing any song of Tagore;He selected Jadi tare nai chini go se ki amay nebe chine ei naba falguner dine---- jani ne, jani ne.I asked if your book asked you the same what would be your answer ?He: Jani ne (I do not know).after broodinghe said that from today I would study the lesson to understand it. Termination: Client is able to understand how to be complete.

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