This article gives the reader an understanding of the thinking behind what we do and how it works and why it is important. Meta medicine recognises that dis-ease begins in the psyche and therefore has to end in the psyche. The focus of the therapeutic endeavour is consciousness.
Identification is a psychological process whereby the subject assimilates an aspect, property, or attribute of the other and is transformed, wholly or partially, after the model the other provides. Quite simply the identification is expressed in the behaviour.
‘Identification is the original form of emotional tie with an object’.
Primary identification
During this process of identification children adopt unconsciously the characteristics of their parents and begin to associate themselves’ with and copy the behaviour of their parents. Freud remarked that identification should be distinguished from imitation, which is a voluntary and conscious act. Because of this process of emotional attachment a child will have similar moral values to the parents. By this process children become a great deal like their parents and this facilitates learning to live in the world and culture to which they are born.
We could say then that certain ideas of the world are internalised & become the subjective frames of reference organising our experience. That is they determine what we pay attention to & how we respond in the world.
Basic Structure of identification
Belief about Self / Other / World – A knowing & (undeniable truth) to the individual
The compensation is a
Directive – command to the bio-system (Individual) governing behaviour. Think of a director in a company. His instructions are followed by the managers.
I must / have to / need to together the
Belief – I am worthless & Directive – I have to be appreciated by others (validation).
The directive then guides and drives certain behaviours. The function is to get or avoid something, in essence a feeling of some sort
This identification is at the core of what is known as a ‘neuro-linguistic part’. A part refers to any state dependent neural network with enough functional autonomy to run its strategies without control by the rest of the brain. The “conscious mind” is, in this sense, as much a part as the unconscious.
Think of ‘parts’ as mini-sub-personalities. Certain behaviour will accompany each of these parts. The emotion is what drives the part and hence why some behaviours (actions) can seem so stubborn to change. The feeling will win out over the logical mind when determining how one should behave. The drug addict knows it would be good to stop but doesn’t.
Clues to Strongly Identified Beliefs (part)
Strong emotional reaction to something
Has a lot to say on an issue
Compulsively thinks about something from time to time
Compulsively attends to (checks) or doing of some sort.
Meta-Medicine – Psyche & Biology Directly Linked via the Brain
Depending on how the part came into being and the intensity of the emotion driving the part, can determine whether symptoms manifest in the biology. Thought / feeling / body are a unified whole so naturally conflict is at the root of disease.
Feeling Stuck & unable to move forward may cause the smooth muscle in the blood vessels to be excessively toned – blood pressure problem (can be other things).
Ovaries – profound loss
Arthritis – self devaluation – I am useless / worthless
The psyche has an energy substrate
Freud is most associated with his ideas on the human unconscious but actually according to some his great contribution was realising that the psyche exists within an energy substrate. People had known about this for millennia but it was Wilhelm Reich (who was a student of his) took this further and actually discovered this energy and was able to measure it. In other words he bought a quantitative factor into a discipline which was studying qualitative (subjective) factors like ideas. With the quantitative factor i.e. the orgone energy psycho-analysis became a true nature science
A complex is a core pattern of emotions, memories, perceptions, and wishes in the personal unconscious organized around a common theme, such as power or status
At the core of any complex is a universal pattern of experience, or archetype
Archetypes are basically defined as “a way of organizing human experience that gives it collective meaning“. The conglomeration of images, memories, and emotions surrounding an archetypal core, but unique to ourselves
They carry what can be called a “sense of meaning” when brought into consciousness by the ego, and when not conscious, come out as felt reactions
When we have individual experiences that fit into these particular collective frames of organization we are discussing, and form a pattern in us, they then enter the personal part of the unconscious, and become complexes
How do ‘Parts’ Form?
In childhood due to being in Delta / Theta brainwave activity we are in a hyper-suggestible state. The benefits of operating from Theta / Delta is that we learn super fast. The downside is we don’t challenge / question what we hear & see. What we experience or don’t experience determines how we see the world. Never experiencing something i.e. love, shapes our ideas as much as having certain experiences’ e.g. absence of love – ‘I am alone in the world.’
Big Trauma
Something happens to us which is extremely uncomfortable. There is an excitation of the energy system. In other words in a fraction of a second a belief forms about the self / other / life. The feelings (affect) associated with the experience lock the idea in place.
So an affective reaction, such as liking, disliking, evaluation, or the experience of pleasure or displeasure, is based on a prior cognitive process in which a variety of content discriminations are made. We live in a culture whose values are embodied by the family and passed onto us as children. This contextual milieu is what determines to a large degree the way we relate to stimuli in the world.
Meta Medicine – Healing the Subconscious Mind
Based on this difficult experience a decision (to cut off) occurs about how best to deal with a similar threat in the future hence the formation of the belief(s) with the corresponding directive (part). Your life experience will determine how an experience is interpreted subconsciously & in turn how you then respond in the future. These decisions are made by the subconscious mind which responds much more rapidly than the conscious mind.
These subconscious processes are automatic, characterized as “rapid, relatively inflexible and difficult to modify… (requiring) minimal attention to occur and… (capable of being) activated without intention or awareness.” These subconscious processes are what people often complain about. All they know is they feel bad.
Constellation
A constellation – (with stars) – inter-related beliefs which operate synergistically. Together the connections make a pattern – repeated behaviour.
Meta Medicine recognises that disease is caused by intra psychic conflicts. The definition of a conflict is an opposition of tendencies. Dr. Hamer also talks of constellations. These are connected conflicts that manifest primarily in the mental plane & expressed in the behaviour as opposed to in the body. It actually seems that all disease processes be they symptomatic physically or just on the mental plane are constellations.
With trauma the consciousness fragments and often there is multiple meaning attributed to the experience. In other words a system of inter-related beliefs form and operate together synergistically (constellation).
With conditioning (non trauma) there is what are called coex systems. (condensed experiences). All related ideas start to gravitate together whereby in unison they give off an amplified signal – directive. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Therapeutic Goal
To dissolve these belief systems (constellations) by taking the affect (emotional charge) of the ideas which act as commands to the central nervous system, so as to allow new ways of being to emerge.
How we do this
1st of all one has to accurately define the problem
Using belief scan charts & Cyber-kinetics (muscle testing kinesiology).
When complete you will have a number of beliefs which the client totally resonates with
A process is gone through which allows the subconscious to reprocess the affect,
Re-cognition happens through de-framing limiting beliefs and the processing of the emotion.
New awareness emerges. Essentially the consciousness is encouraged to grow.
How this works
‘The singing of words reveals their true meaning directly to the soul through bodily vibration.’
This quote in some way explains the importance of saying certain ideas out loud. The consciousness on hearing certain ideas & feeling the vibration is able to recalibrate from dissonance back into harmony, i.e. to update the sense it made. The conscious mind acts upon, the subconscious mind just responds.
Language always expresses’ directly the organ sensations & hence is an excellent key to how humans experience themselves. W.H. Reich
Meta Medicine is a structure for understanding these organ brain sensations which as the quote above states, the language directly reflects. Allowing the consciousness to acknowledge & express this language gives it an opportunity for a new processing and letting go…also often one is able to identify limiting beliefs contributing to the locking down of the psycho-energetic system & work through them.
The self reflective capacity of human consciousness allows a new felt sense to develop. It’s almost like the higher self is able to remind itself of it endless potential. The identification is a limitation which when reminded of dissolves as consciousness desires boundless freedom
So basically…
The consciousness is allowed to reencounter facets of experience (loops) that were previously alienated, malformed, distorted, or ignored. This is curative for a basic reason : by experiencing these facets fully, consciousness can genuinely acknowledge these elements and thereby let go of them : see them as object, and thus differentiate from them, de-embed from them, differentiated (transcend them) and integrate them – Re-cognition occurs!
The use of EFT allows the movement of stuck energy, which helps take the emotional charge off the meaning. Also certain impoverished (beliefs) can be challenged so that a more accurate understanding is developed.
The process is quite repetitive. The repetition slowly encourages a more trance like state. The conscious mind after some time thinks I have said all I can I will let the subconscious take over (go on automatic). The brainwave activity changes reflecting a deeper relaxation & it is in these states that the new learning happens. The affect dissolves off the identification and the programming is released.
Model for explaining encoding of info
INPUT – RELATE – COMPUTE – OUTPUT
INPUT– Info/ energy – Temp / Pressure / Light / Sound / Motion
RELATE– pre-existing perceptual lens determines what info is regarded as significant.
COMPUTE– the meaning is determined in relation to the perceptual frame activated, if the intensity (voltage) is too much to cope with the data is compressed ready for storage. This compression often involves distortion / generalisation / deletion etc
OUTPUT– behaviour / selective attending / feelings etc. Recursiveness (NEW INPUT)
THERAPY –MODEL– Language solidifies the intangible enough to work with it
INPUT – Questioning to help client explore the perception
RELATE – Question causes client to access referential frames connected to problem
COMPUTE – On making the implicit explicit through language the conscious and subconscious get a chance to remodel the impoverished mapping – a new felt sense is made. Just through acknowledgement the subjective becomes objectified & ceases to govern the beingness
OUTPUT – Answers to questions form the basis for next investigative question
RE-COGNITION = new behaviour / thoughts / feelings etc
Why is this Important?
In the long run these issues can cause disease
They degrade the quality of life through compulsive behaviours & negative thought patterns
They block your ability to co-create your reality with the universe.
The Benefits of Parts Work : –
- Certain negative thoughts go silent
- Strong negative feelings disappear
- Certain stimuli no longer trigger you.
- A choice in the behaviour emerges.
- With collapse of attractor fields new experiences can flow into your life.
- Certain symptoms can downgrade or even resolve – no guarantee as complex.
- Preventative – the longer they exist for the more likely symptoms will break out.
Systemic effects
- Improved metabolism – removing distortions in the bio-field which regulates all physiology allows better regulation.
- The conservation of energy. Programs require energy to run so shutting them down allows everything to run using minimal energy.
- General increase in capacity for concentration, focus and motivation. When a person has a lot on his mind he is distracted.
- Increased resilience to stress. The programs cause rigidity and so one is more likely to react very strongly when there is a perceived violation of values.
- Positive effects on blood pressure as you become calmer
Conclusion
The Trinity is ‘Matter / Energy / Consciousness. Many argue that consciousness is primary. Disease has now been proven to start in the psyche and therefore must end in the psyche. Disease is not just a physical pain but manifests 1st in the behaviour. As the name suggests – Dis-ease – a person feels uneasy within themselves. The psychoanalysts in the 30’s & 40’s realised that one needed to take the affect of an idea but didn’t have an effective method for doing this. Now many decades later we finally can. The effect ripples down & can have profound effects on the physical body. Essentially we are de-conditioning the psyche. People talk of new software with excitement. Upgrading the software of your consciousness is even more exciting….
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