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Changing the Brain: Getting The Best Data

Reprogramming The Brain To Work For Us - Not Against Us

Why would we need new data? Can't we be OK just dealing with feelings? Not me. I don't want to do that the rest of my life. Do you? We all live in stories. Real or unreal. If the stories were OK, then we'd be OK. The silly ideas and thoughts and feelings wouldn't arise. We would not need to cope. There would be nothing to cope with. All people who live in the unreal stories and seem to be OK? They're asleep. The part of their brains that should be going nuts, is not on. They might wake up. If they do they'll have the same reactions as we trouble makers. There are also levels of awakening. But for now we might want to find some better stories to believe. Or better yet, making our own. You know that saying, "If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything"? I think that the opposite is true. We need better stories to address our "who am I" trauma. I can tell you now that who you are is good enough. I know this. You and I are good enough. You might need more convincing so you'll want to get some more data.

The way we feel about ourselves will change as we replace the false doctrine we have accepted with something sane. Something based on reality. To start with you can get a bunch of data right here on the site. The main cause of all trauma in the world today, is that we have been intentionally hypnotized and traumatized through a kind of force feeding of crappy data. You will, of course, come to believe this for yourself, or not. One can never find out and hang on to the stories that produce trauma. I have heard people, who are in the midst of suffering, say that they "know" that if they keep doing what they are doing it will all work out. Can you think of one reason for this being true? Isn't it obvious that they need to stop doing what they are doing? This happens mainly with people who have unreal religious beliefs. These folks are also the most likely to go on to the bitter end. This is because they are scared and are made to feel guilty. Thoughts about discarding their religious ideas causes more fear and guilt.

But I also know people who suffer terribly from not living up to some devised societal standard. Learning the facts about religion and society are the first moves to make in the two cases. We must start with ourselves and the stuff closest to us. What can we see from our window? What is society? Why do we really have huge cities? Where do morals come from? I have provided audio, video, news and other resources to assist you in re-examining the world we live in. I suggest you start your data input course here and absorb as much as possible. Keep in mind that we can benefit from people who we don't really like. If we are Open minded and willing to listen we might take a grain of good away from an hour of paying attention. If we can set aside our brains biases we can learn a lot. I sent some one a CD which had a ton of info on it by a guy who smart people think of as a genius. I ask him what he thought and he said he didn't really like him. There was just something about him he didn't like. I kept thinking, what's that got to do with anything? I didn't want you to date him, I thought you might find it interesting. I would suggest if we want to get data and learn about things then that's what we do.

Neuro-feedback, at healthymind.com

In 2004 a client that I was treating for ADD and anxiety (in the context of a "love addiction") found significant additional help through a form of treatment called neuro-feedback. He discovered it on the Internet and had sought out neuro-feedback on his own. His results were so positive that I investigated neuro-feedback and discovered that it not only can help with ADD and anxiety, but in relapse prevention in addiction treatment. As a result I have become trained as a Neuro-feedback provider.

Characteristics of the addictive process are:

(1) salience, obsession, abnormal or pathological importance of the substance or behavior
(2) persistence, rigidity, stereotypical inflexibility and repetition of the particular addictive
(3) relative immunity to adverse consequences and resistance to learned modification of behavior
the invocation of an interrelated system of psychological defenses which, like a string of military forts, function in concert to protect the individual from the full realization and acknowledgment of the self- and other- harmful nature of his addiction and hence provide cover and concealment for the continued expression of the addictive process.

A great tool for me has been the use of binaural beats. I use them every day and have for almost ten years. Check out the Audio Playlist. You have to have stereo headphones.

Synchronized brain waves

Synchronized brain waves have long been associated with meditative and hypnogogic states, and audio with embedded binaural beats has the ability to induce and improve such states of consciousness. The reason for this is physiological. Each ear is "hardwired" (so to speak) to both hemispheres of the brain (Rosenzweig, 1961). Each hemisphere has its own olivary nucleus (sound-processing center) which receives signals from each ear. In keeping with this physiological structure, when a binaural beat is perceived there are actually two standing waves of equal amplitude and frequency present, one in each hemisphere. So, there are two separate standing waves entraining portions of each hemisphere to the same frequency. The binaural beats appear to contribute to the hemispheric synchronization evidenced in meditative and hypnogogic states of consciousness. Brain function is also enhanced through the increase of cross-collosal communication between the left and right hemispheres of the brain.Investigate all things.

We always look for two things "Is it real? - Does it work?"

"Brain research"

" is beginning to produce concrete evidence for something that Buddhist practitioners of meditation have maintained for centuries: Mental discipline and meditative practice can change the workings of the brain and allow people to achieve different levels of awareness."

"What we found is that the longtime practitioners showed brain activation on a scale we have never seen before," said Richard Davidson, a neuro-scientist at the university's new $10 million W.M. Keck Laboratory for Functional Brain Imaging and Behavior. "Their mental practice is having an effect on the brain in the same way golf or tennis practice will enhance performance." It demonstrates, "he said, "that the brain is capable of being trained and physically modified in ways few people can imagine."

It seems that science is finally catching up to practices that are literally thousands of years old. It is always amazing and somewhat frustrating that for centuries, millions of people have realized they can rewire their brains; however, science is just now beginning to understand the process and accept that it can actually occur.

Biofeedback

"...and neuro-feedback practitioners use equipment to undergo the same changes that the Buddhist monks undergo through training in the process of meditation. The machines used in biofeedback and neuro-feedback allow the user to move into the same states as Buddhist monks. Sensors are attached to the scalp which permit the neuro-feedback practitioner to view what the brain is doing, called brainwave activity, as it immediately happens via the computer screen. Repeating the practice of neuro-feedback can be very similar to meditation. The Keck Laboratory verifies that physical activities or training can actually rewire the brain and this has been demonstrated for feedback practitioners too."

"The brain uses an enormous amount of the body's energy. Even under normal circumstances it uses about 20 percent of your body's entire energy production. When you work your brain harder, [meditate, use neuro-feedback or biofeedback] you use more. The blood flow goes to the brain and it's really like working out, "says Duke University neuro-biologist Dr. Lawrence Katz.

Executive Director of the Center for Brain Health and professor of behavioral and brain sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas, Dr. Sandra Chapman says she wants to dispel the myth that the brain is "an untouchable black box. The brain is highly modifiable by everything we do." Everything we do includes physical exercise, social interaction, meditation, prayer, or playing. Chapman says, "Whatever you spend time doing is what part of your brain is going to strengthen. Don't do random things. Ask yourself if that's the part of your brain you want to build. We see people who lose a lot of their ability, but the first thing to come back is the thing that they did the most."

From our new knowledge of the working brain, it is evident that the opportunity exists to rewire the circuits that are weakest in persons with ADHD, i.e., those circuits that don't allow attention to low-level stimuli like balancing a checkbook, cleaning your room, finishing homework, staying organized, or finishing a project at work. The object is to practice mindfulness and work on the aforementioned specific tasks. I developed Play Attention for just this purpose and science is finally catching up to us.

In referring to rewiring and strengthening the brain, research psychiatrist, Jeffrey Schwartz, of UCLA's Neuro-psychiatric Institute says, "The key really is the refocusing. When you refocus you activate alternative brain machinery... [It] really is like going to the gym; you're strengthening your brain. When you stop doing it, you have a stronger brain... (See: Play Attention.com/attention deficit articles re-wiring your brain meditation ADHD a self service guide)

Good Data

Information on health and Detoxification at Get a Life.net

Also - Encognitive.com is a "Really Useful Site"

Intuition and the Absolute - Henri Bergson

Henri Bergson defined metaphysics as the science that dispenses with symbols to grasp the absolute.[1] Hence metaphysics involves an inversion of the habitual modes of thought and is in need of its own method, which he identified as intuition.

Henri Bergson defined intuition as a simple, indivisible experience of sympathy through which one is moved into the inner being of an object to grasp what is unique and ineffable within it. The absolute that is grasped is always perfect in the sense that it is perfectly what it is, and infinite in the sense that it can be grasped as a whole through a simple, indivisible act of intuition, yet lends itself to boundless enumeration when analyzed.