In recent times I've been forced to pause, and take stock of my life and current happenings. In the process I've been doing quite a bit of soul searching. Some of that is reflection on past regression therapy results, and techniques for dealing with limiting beliefs and how they impact our patterns of behaviour and response.
In that process, I've found that new psychological research is starting to come to light that has strong alignment with the Tetroidian World View about individuals and the role of families in their education. However, this research basically focuses on the differences between the Conscious and Subconscious minds and their interaction in how we learn. It also deals with some of the reasons as to why Self-Help modalities usually don't work and why Positive Affirmation and Manifesting takes time.
Neuroscientists, Psychiatrists, and Psychologists have long reasoned that there are two critical brain functions, the Subconscious and the Conscious. The subconscious mind is our autopilot. It takes care of all our bodily functions and actions so that we don't have to conscious think to breath, pump the heart, concentrate on each step we take, etc. The conscious mind is our thinking and focused attention setter. It is responsible for our presence of mind and analysing of whatever our attention is set on. Not surprisingly there is a vast difference in the processing capacity of each of these minds.
Another thing that both minds are involved in is education and how we learn. Neuroscientists are now saying that up until the age of seven, a child observes and learns much of their functional, social, emotional, and interactional skills hypnotically. That is everything they learn and experience goes directly into the subconscious mind unfiltered and the subconscious then constructs neural pathways for each of those thoughts and experiences.
After the age of seven, the subconscious mind takes a back seat and the conscious mind takes over and starts to sort and filter our experiences and that in order to learn something new so that it reaches the subconscious and is processed into a fixed neural pathway then rote, habitual, repeated exposure is required.
It is the Tetroidian assertion that the Family is the single most important building block in any society. We are born into a family, we take our values, ethics, mores, and beliefs from that early education and they stick firm and fast inside of us. The new scientific understanding of early childhood learning and its impact on our subconscious gives us a secular mechanism for explaining just how important this factor is.
From children in a family unit, we join social networks such as school classes, sports and other interest groups and we learn our socialisation strategies. we then move into the workforce, and out into society, interact and make our contributions, we then pair off and form our own families, and interact with subsequent generations of children in varying ways.
Unfortunately, not all families are perfect, and not all families teach their children the same lessons in the same ways. This results in certain patterns of behaviour being reinforced in the subconscious mind and eventually become our survival strategies. The nature of a survival strategy is to give us an automatic response to protect us from a perceived negative trigger.
Self-help modalities recognise that not all personal survival strategies are useful, valid or are potentially debilitating in our adult lives and relationships. Neuroscientists now explain that the reason many self-help modalities DON'T work is because they rely on addressing the conscious mind to change a subconscious pathway of thinking. For such change to take place repeated exposure to the new thought pattern or behavioural response over 30-60 days is necessary. "Fake it 'til you make it."
Sometimes if a particular survival strategy is deeply entrenched, no matter how your conscious mind tells the subconscious mind to change, the subconscious mind might its just not having a bar of it. After all, its role is to keep you safe and stop your conscious mind from doing something potentially stupid. The only thing to date to successfully address such entrenched patterns has been clinical hypnotherapy. However, with this new understanding of the mind there are new tools being developed.
Once such tool is Psych-K which is a method of directly accessing the subconscious mind and asking it to permit a change of behaviour and patterning. When used with other modalities such as meditation, Reiki, self-hypnosis, Brain Hemisphere balancing, Focussing, and/or EFT, the potential for self-guided personal healing and effective change may truly be possible.
A lot of our personal challenges and interpersonal problems unfortunately stem from early childhood education at the hands and feet of our parents and extended family. These lessons we take with us into society, and if we do not adequately address them, unfortunately we take that into the families we create and subsequently teach that to our children, thus reinforcing and perpetuating such lessons intergenerationally.
Such considerations have certainly given me cause to pause, deliberate, and think.
