NeuroTherapy Training: Removing the Emotion From the Thought
by Marilyn Michael
Part II of III
All your problems are caused by fear. Sound too simple or unlikely? Not when seen from the perspective of a NeuroTherapy Specialist. NeuroTherapy Training is a different kind of hypnotherapeutic approach, one that is based on the emerging scientific understanding that people are most greatly shaped by the innerworking of the mind and body. But, someone may ask, what about negative or destructive experiences, perceptions, memories and behaviors - the traditional focuses of psychotherapy including hypnotherapy? NeuroTherapy Training is clearly focused on those, but it is understood that there are physiological reactions - reactions in the body - that make each of those either damaging or not damaging to the person.
In NeuroTherapy Training, guilt, anger, frustration, and other "negative" emotions are seen as forms of fear. Fear is viewed as the most basic emotion. But, fear is taken down to another level - a set of physical, chemical reactions that are damaging to the organism. That takes negative emotions out of a subjective discussion of what may be negative to one person versus another. NeuroTherapy Training is most about training people to better manage those physical and chemical reactions that cause their experiences, perceptions, memories and behaviors to be problems for them.
Take the example of Joan who has memories of an abusive mother that continue to make her feel hurt and angry and that, she feels, have damaged her ability to respond in a mature, happy manner as an adult. As negative and inappropriate as Joan's experiences with her mother may have been, it is not those experiences that are the problem. The problem is how Joan's body reacts every time something reminds her of those experiences, consciously or unconsciously. There are many techniques used by hypnotherapists to help release Joan from the hold the experiences with her mother have had on her. They may include reframing them, anchoring them to more positive experiences, suggesting new behaviors or revisiting the experiences through regression. The problems these approaches will experience in giving Joan long-term release are, 1. The triggers for Joan's reactions are many and very diverse and, 2. Those techniques are primarily cognitive or mental techniques and the reactions Joan has are not just mental. First and foremost they are physical and chemical. Her problem IS her body reactions to the memory. Mental and physical cannot be separated.
NeuroTherapy Training uses hypnosis in new ways. It redefines it as mental training (reflecting the true client centeredness of the approach) and emphasizes the natural therapeutic effects of the state of mind. It's philosophy is "making people their own therapists," effectively integrating use of NeuroTherapy techniques into people's lives for long term use and benefit.
What makes NeuroTherapy Training a therapy of the future, though is that it goes way beyond an aggressive use of the altered mental state. Using the neurological technique, SUBVERBAL SHIFTINGã, developed by its creators, it enables people to turn on a genetically built in mental ability, the human survival response. With this, people train the intelligence of the body to completely clear away the physical and chemical reactions caused by negative experiences, memories, etc. in their lives. SUBVERBAL SHIFTING removes the emotion from the thought in negative areas of a person's life and teaches people how to recreate that emotionally neutral state daily.
Yes, emotions are important, people learn from the emotions that will reoccur in many forms daily. Nobody can afford the luxury, though, of the amount, intensity and duration of emotions that occur in most people's lives, especially when taking on the challenge of an illness but even when trying to build a more positive life. With NeuroTherapy Training people actually become more aware of negative emotions enabling them to make better life decisions - but they are able to stay more removed from them; experience the thought without the intense body reactions attached. When they are blessed with positive emotions, they can feel them with full force and intensity, not watered down by a physiology of fear or anger that may linger in their bodies.
NeuroTherapy Specialists understand that at the basis of all problems are fear but with a more sophisticated look at emotion, they know that fear isn't just a mental experience, nor is it as subjective as it has traditionally been treated by the field of psychology.
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SUBVERBAL SHIFTING is a registered trademark of The North American Institute of NeuroTherapy, Inc.
Go to Part III: NEUROTHERAPY Training: Brain Based Rather Than Idea Based
Marilyn Michael and her partner Henry Snyder developed NeuroTherapy Training and have trained practitioners in their method for fifteen years both regionally and via distance learning through the North American Institute of NeuroTherapy; 206.322.0633 www. TherapyoftheFuture.com
