Archive for February, 2010

The Three Levels of Brain Function

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

 

Personal Energy Mastery works under the principle that the mind is divided into three distinct parts:

1) The Medulla or reactive / instinctual mind which is in charge of our instincts, our hormonal control, and basic drives such as hunger, reproductive drives, temperature control, respiration and heart rate.

2) The Sub cortical area deals with and stores our emotions / memories / triggers. This is where we store 1000(s) & 1000(s) of images of events and memories that continual play as though on a recorded loop, and help sustain our accepted beliefs and agreements.

3) The Cortex area deals with Self –awareness in this area we can problem solve by being aware of our thoughts and beliefs. With this portion of the mind we can choose appropriate behavior based on our self awareness, or self reflection. This is the area of brain that rarely gets used, that we let lay dormant.

 

Each of these brain levels is very important to our survival in the world, and each is activated by various stimuli. The Medulla or instinctual mind, which is always working to control our basic needs, breathing, pulse rate, urges, etc., can activated by our flight or fight response.

The Sub cortical area is constantly running, it is constantly creating our outside experience via our focus of attention, and unless, and until, we consciously take control of our focus of attention, we tend to repeat the same patterns over and over again. Notice how we will end up in the same type of relationship, the same type of jobs, the same situations / life circumstances. Some of the details may be different, but the energy is the same. This occurs because of the vibrational pattern of emotions that are tied into our prevalent images stored in this area of our brains.  The word “emotion” can be defined as “energy in motion”.  Emotions are very strong feelings such as Anger, Joy, Elation, or Fear. These emotions cause physical changes in the body. The effects can be either positive or negative dependent upon the type of emotion and the intensity of the emotion.

Sometimes we are unaware of our emotions, and how they are affecting our body, but they affect us in many ways such as tension, and stress. It has been reported that the biggest threat to our health is our stress levels. Stress affects us in five specific and measurable ways:

1)    Increases our heart rate

2)    Causes tension in the muscles and joints of our body

3)    Increases Toxins in the body

4)    Decreases our ability to flush out those toxins

5)    Lowers the body’s immune response

The Cortex is that area of the brain where our intellect is seated. It is the area where we have pure thought without attachment to emotion. When we feel centered and clear, it is this area of the brain that allows us to focus on what we want, instead of focusing on what we don’t want.

It has just been in recent years, scientists have discovered that the heart has its own independent nervous system—a complex system referred to as “the brain in the heart. This system receives and relays information back to the brain in the head, creating a two-way communication between heart and brain, by which the heart interacts with the nervous system, and the three different levels of brain functions. (See illustration on previous page).

When you learn how to meditate using the Foundations Hypnosis Personal Energy Mastery System, you will be able to effectively communicate with the three levels of the brain function that will help you achieve amazing things in your life.

 When we are upset, panicked, or anxious, it becomes hard to think clearly. Making a wise choice is very hard for everyone when they are emotional upset. BUT what if you could learn to control your e-motions (energy in motions, i.e. (personal energy mastery), and begin to feel confident and secure?  

 With Foundations Hypnosis Personal Energy Mastery you will learn how to connect with the heart of mind, and quickly release old agreements and beliefs while incorporating new beliefs, new agreements, and new desires into your life.

 

The basis of Foundations Hypnosis (Personal Energy Mastery) Seattle ~ Bellevue is a technique called Emotional Release Therapy. With this technique you will be guided through a quick process that allows you to remove old and unwanted emotions that are tied into beliefs and agreements, so that you can start adopting new POWERFUL & POSITIVE beliefs and agreements that will help you move ahead in life.

 

Through this program you will learn 

 

            1) Basic Meditation

            2) Dynamic Mediation

            3) How the brain works

            4) How to deal with change

            5) Detaching from old emotions based on old beliefs and agreements

            6) Letting go of the Ego

            7) Ridding yourself of unwanted habits and compulsive behaviors, (such as

                 drugs, cigarettes, alcohol, and food addictions.

            8) Incorporating new life beliefs

            9) Awareness of self

            10) Forgiveness

            An easy way of conceptualizing this is to think of waxing your car.  If you go out and put down a coat of wax, without first removing the old dirt and grime, that old dirt and grime will quickly show through and render the new wax job useless.

            You can take complete control of your life; stop living a life of pain and angst, and start living the life you have always wanted. Don’t delay take Foundation’s easy on line assessment, or call (206) 417-4900 and set up an appointment.  

 

 

A Will Power Approach, or A Holistic Approach

Friday, February 5th, 2010

DLScott CH.t / CDP

 

            A client recently called me to find out if Hypnosis would be a good tool to use when someone is dealing with anxiety, and phobias. 

            My first response is that Hypnosis is a good tool to use when dealing with any form of fear or phobia that is blocking you, but I also went on to add, that I hesitate in making it a one shot deal, one induction fits all type of approach.

            The most important thing to remember when you are dealing with phobias or mental blockages is to figure out what the benefits of the phobias or mental blockage are.  Think about that, if you have a fear of bees and you are allergic to bees, then your phobia has a clear benefit, it keeps you away from bees. If you are blocking yourself from performing some dangerous activity, or some perceived dangerous activity than you may not want to get rid of the blockage, at least not all together. You may want to simply modify the behavior or the blockage, or at least find out how to continue reaping the same benefit(s) without the consequences.

Think about that, Hypnosis is not a matter of will power; it is a way of using the same power of the mind that created the behavior or addiction, to easily and safely create a new option a new behavior that is healthy, beneficial, and positive for you and those around you.  Once you are able to let go of the old behavior, and gain the same benefits in another way, then the old behavior seems to melt away almost without effort.

            With Foundations Hypnosis Seattle ~ Bellevue, the first step is always in determining just what is the benefit of the behavior you are seeking to get rid of. I don’t care whether you consider that behavior an addiction, a phobia, or a compulsive behavior.

 

1)      Helping the client to determine what it is they do want, as opposed to what they don’t want.

2)      Detachment from the emotional & reactive parts of the brain, otherwise known as the sub-cortical and Medulla oblongata areas of the brain, that have kept you stuck in the problem. (Like Albert Einstein said, “you can’t solve the problem at the level of the problem).

3)      Learning and practicing very effective and simply methods of bringing balance to the body, and the brain, allowing you to take control of random and involuntary thoughts and emotions stored in the sub cortical areas of the brain.

4)      Using various levels of the trance state to allow the client to incorporate new images, and thoughts to help create the new behavior that they want to obtain. 

 

Hypnosis is one of the most power tools for change. If you are seeking to change, enhance, create the life of your dreams, or just bring more joy into your life, then don’t delay. Take one of the convenient on line assessments, and find out more about how you can deliberately manifest your future.