When I first started this work, I was afraid myself. Not because someone could "do something" to my mind. But because images would suddenly rise up in front of me — vivid, alive, sometimes strange, sometimes frightening — and I had no idea what to do with them.
What does this figure mean? Why this color? Why did this scene suddenly appear, and what is it trying to tell me?
I didn't understand the language my own psyche was trying to speak to me in. And that is the real root of the fear almost everyone feels the first time they touch this subject.
People aren't afraid of the technique. They're afraid of an unfamiliar language
When the conversation turns to working with the subconscious, anxiety shows up right away. It seems like the frightening part is the act itself — entering that state, relaxing, letting images appear.
But if you look closer, that's not really what's frightening.
What's frightening is meeting a space with none of the usual landmarks. No words, no logic, no linear cause and effect the mind is used to. An image appears — and you don't know if it's a memory, a metaphor, a warning, or just random noise from the psyche.
That's the real source of the fear: not the state itself, but the feeling of standing in a room whose language you don't know, with no light switch you can find.
My own experience of confusion
I remember the period when images had already started appearing, but understanding hadn't caught up yet. I would see something — and couldn't say with any confidence what it meant. Was it a symbol, a literal picture, or a projection of my own fear?
Back then I didn't yet know: the subconscious doesn't speak in sentences. It speaks in images, in bodily sensations, in colors, in symbols that repeat. It's a separate language — just as real as any other, simply different in structure.
And until you know that language, every image feels threatening for one reason only — it's unfamiliar. The unknown is automatically read by the psyche as dangerous. That's a basic, very old self-protection mechanism.
Why the alfa state is actually safe
The alfa state is simply a level of relaxed, lowered — but still conscious — brain activity. Your will doesn't disappear in it. Your sense of self doesn't disappear. If anything, the opposite happens: the internal noise quiets down, the critical filter softens, and because of that, signals that were always there become easier to hear — signals that usually get lost in the noise of daily life.
What feels frightening about this state isn't the state itself. It's that things long hidden suddenly become visible in it.
How to learn to speak with the subconscious
The first step is accepting that this is a language that can be learned, like any other. Images don't repeat by accident. Bodily sensations don't show up in certain places by accident. Over time, you start to recognize your own "vocabulary" — what a particular symbol means for you, which sensation signals tension, and which signals relief.
The second step is letting go of the need for the subconscious to give you instant, logical explanations. It shows — it doesn't explain. Understanding often doesn't arrive in the moment the image appears; it comes a little later, once the mind has had time to connect what it saw with a real event or feeling.
The third step is trusting the process without needing to control every stage of it. That doesn't mean losing control. It means letting the inner space speak in its own language, instead of trying to translate everything into the language of logic right away.
The bottom line
People aren't afraid of the technique, the state, or whatever name it's given. They're afraid of meeting the part of themselves they don't understand.
But that space isn't an enemy. It's a part of you that has been trying to reach you for a long time — just in a different language than the one you're used to.
As you learn to understand it, fear gradually turns into curiosity. And curiosity turns into a trust in yourself that was missing before.
A real example of this kind of work is available on my YouTube channel — showing what this process looks like in practice.
Alfa Vita Contacts:
Website: https://alfavita.space
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX7IiUoeYoWrdRqDdVg9e0Q
Email: victoria@alfavita.space