NeuroTherapy Training - The Future of Therapy Today: July 2019

Wednesday, July 17, 2019

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A Natural Psychoanalytic Effect

Before turning to NeuroTherapy Training, periodically students and clients have experienced analytical methods. Analytical methods of psychotherapy have a theoretical basis of ‘We are as we are largely because of deep seated memories, and inner conflicts". The methods involve bringing to the surface those memories, often using catharsis of emotion as a “releasing factor”.

NeuroTherapy Training is not based on an analytical model. Instead you improve and develop greater self control by stimulating change in the inner working of your brain and body through effective guidance in and regular use of mental training. It certainly doesn’t discount that we are affected and emotionally challenged at times by things that have happened to us. It is not those incidents, however painful, that are considered the problem, though. It is your continued response to those incidents.

NeuroTherapy Training is a powerful method of changing your responses to life and having those changes sustained for the long term. It actually creates a natural psychoanalytic effect as you are more able to “deal” with or “bring up” painful incidents when fear is less of a factor for you.

An important statement from Chapter 15 of The Snyder Michael Method A Neurotherapeutic Approach:
“As emotional strength is built, people commonly experience a natural rise of previously suppressed emotional material. This happens, though, without the negative emotional intensity previously carried with it. It is much more beneficial to help people build emotional strength, whereupon facing the sensitive material will automatically become less of an unsettling experience.”

When Life Is Threatening

I can still see the exhausted faces and bodies of clients, effective in their careers, but who were literally drained - exhausted. At the end of a week they looked beaten down having fought off “Feel guilty”… “Feel afraid”… “Feel inadequate” messages daily and having pushed their brains and bodies through wee hour marathons of work

Negative emotions and their physiology wreck havoc on mental strength and clarity and on the human body. And, the brain and body have limited endurance. These folks needed help managing the effects of the destruction, and destruction isn’t too heavy a word. More critically, they needed to learn how to stay more removed from the emotional assaults, dissipate the effects of the assaults that manage to play out on the body and they needed to learn how to rejuvenate the brain and body. That is the focus of NeuroTherapy Training.

Further engaging their intellects in examining the “issues”of their lives is a less effective approach, their intellects are engaged to their limits. The methods of psychotherapy designed to help people understand their lives better in order to respond better; or to help people to reframe how they perceive things or communicate more effectively are dealing with a flawed machine. *

We have specialized for years with people facing life threatening illnesses. It has always been clear to us that these people “do not have the luxury of time” to work through the issues of their lives in a traditional therapeutic sense. They cannot afford to have emotions such as fear (which looms larger than ever) weaken immune responses and sap limited energy. They cannot afford to expend as many of the body’s resources meeting the demands of daily life. They need to be helped to dramatically and quickly change how they respond to life and be able to sustain those healthier responses.

Over time, we came to see an irony. The ways in which many people respond to the pressures of modern daily life is “life threatening”.Though not facing the specter of a disease they, also, do not have the luxury of time to work through the issues of their lives in the traditional sense.

We are living in exceptional times. Knowledge about mind body interaction has given us powerful insights into better ways of helping people manage the destruction their interactions with the modern world brings about. We took those insights and developed an amazing therapeutic process that helps people make major changes in how they respond to life, make those changes in a timely manner and learn how to sustain those changes.

You can learn more about NeuroTherapy Training through the Article Index and the newsletter archive in the blog heading, and through our website www.TherapyoftheFuture.com

*The practicing psychotherapeutic professionals and life coaches who’ve taken our professional training have greatly enhanced the effectiveness of their work by being able to offer training that improves the “mind-body mechanism”. When the brain and body are less assaulted, when people have the ability to regularly dissipate the physiology of fear and other limiting emotions, they can then truly engage in and benefit from more cognitively based programs of improvement.

Are You Moving Fluidly Through Life?

You can learn more about NeuroTherapy Training through the Article Index and the newsletter archive in the blog heading, and through our website www.TherapyoftheFuture.com

Are You Demanding Too Much Of Your Brain?

In our busy, highly intellectual world, taking time out to rest and clear the brain, to shift into a mental state different than required for intellectual thought, to basically reboot the brain quieting the nervous systems, is not a task rated highly.

To say there are many functions our brains perform is an understatement. For a moment, think of the brain like a computer, as I type this document the process is similar to the thoughts that appear to me as I go through a day. There is a whole lot going on under the surface of this computer to allow these words to appear in a coherent manner on this nice virtual page in front of me.

I have a nephew who is a computer engineer. He understands all the inner workings of this computer in the manner a neurologist or neurosurgeon might understand the inner workings of my brain that allow coherent thoughts to emerge. They certainly aren’t as far along with understanding the connection between minute brain functions and the emergence of coherent thoughts, but it’s critical for us to consider the mechanism behind our thoughts and our states of mind.

An important message of NeuroTherapy Training is that we must think of ourselves as caretakers of our brains like we are caretakers of our computers and other machines. When we are tired, when we have not ‘fueled” our brains and bodies appropriately, when we are expecting our brains to multitask continuously, the mechanism can let us down. Just like with our computers, though, instead of responding to the brain’s needs, many of us get very frustrated when our brains don’t work as efficiently as we want them to. What have we done, though, to enable the brain to perform its functions flawlessly?

Making a form of daily mental training primary in your life is just common sense. NeuroTherapy Training does just that. And, with the addition of SUBVERBAL SHIFTING as part of that brain training, you are truly getting that ‘reboot’ at regular intervals so critical for an effectively functioning brain.

We're Shaped By How Our Brains And Bodies Work Not Just By What We Understand

Neurodiversity is a relatively new term but something we have understood, taught clients about and honored for many years. My husband has lived with extreme dyslexia and dysarthria (mispronouncing of words) paired with an extremely high IQ, some clear signs of his more right hemisphere dominance. This made us aware personally of neurological differences and that they weren’t necessarily just negative but were part of how a person processes their world. In my husband’s case that 'processing' was often interesting and very enlightened and sometimes humorous. Some of the unique aspects of NeuroTherapy Training came out of his looking at the world and the field of psychology in nontraditional ways. Our emphasis on examining neurological dominance and getting people thinking about how their lives are shaped by the inner working of their brains and bodies began very early in our work.

We are shaped by how our brains and bodies work not just by what our minds understand. That is a lot of what NeuroTherapy Training is about. Teaching people to better understand and honor their ‘neurodiversity’ and to enable the brain and body to work at optimum efficiency to meet the demands of the world most effectively in ways that come natural to them.

I just finished an excellent book, The Power of Neurodiversity Unleashing the Advantages of Your Differently Wired Brain By Thomas Armstrong. It takes a fascinating look at different neurological ways of functioning, ADD/ADHD, Asperberger’s Sydrome/Autuism, Dyslexia, Mood Disorders (Depression), Anxiety Disorders (OCD, Panic attacks, etc.) and the Intellectually Challenged. It views them through a different lens. Some things it examines are:

1.Their potential positive function in evolution of the species,
2.Their benefits
3.Ways of constructing life to help a person be more comfortable and effective functioning differently in a world with, sometimes narrow, values and demands for thinking and acting in certain ways.

Understanding and celebrating neurodiversity is a topic so close to our hearts and our work. I am going to talk more about the topic and the book in the primary article of the next newsletter, so stay tuned. If you aren’t subscribed yet, here is a link to the current newsletter. NeuroTherapy Newsletter: The Challenge of Change

How Facebook Might Not Hurt Your Productivity After All

For everyone who tweets,“tumbls,” pins, posts, “likes” or Skypes during business hours, a bit of good news: your social media accounts might not be damaging your work performance as much as your boss thinks. In fact, according to two pieces of new research, your social media involvement might actually be helping your productivity...

This quote above was inspired by the information in a blog post by Maggie McGrath. To read the post click on the link above

As I read this post it spurred some thoughts about how "small talk" is shifting. Most Right Brains, observed over our years of work and research are "not fond" of small talk. Their brains work too fast, they get bored and they live in a part of their brain more idea-focused than language-focused. An example, taken to the extreme of a characature, is the character, Sheldon Cooper, on the television series, The Big Bang Theory.

In real life, there are social needs at times, though, for engaging others in things of interest to them; of respecting that there are other folks who think differently and have different, sometimes slower, interactive needs. Some Right Brains have figured out small talk strategies. One example that still makes me laugh was the night my husband got bored at a party in which a group he was sitting with was one-upping each other about their recent trips, and fancy cars and golf excursions...so he interjected, "Well, I bought a new metal detector." It was sort of like that commercial where quiet instantly overtakes the room and all heads turn toward the bizarre intrusion into the boring rumble of predictable small talk occuring around the room.

Other Right Brains, more like the Sheldon Cooper character, aren't as creative when small talk is an important part of the immediate social discourse. They may appear self centered, always talking about themselves and their interests or aloof, seemingly unfriendly. If small talk is a part of their professional world, they struggle and sometimes feel their difficulty with it hinders their success. My husband's strategy has been two-fold, limiting his attendance at potentially small talk-centered events and bringing a wealth of humor and engaging storytelling to social interactions.

Returning to the blog post noted above, my thoughts turned to how the digital world of social media could be offering Right Brained, small talk-challenged folks new, more comfortable strategies for engaging others. You may be one of those folks who doesn’t feel inclined to offer much in the way of general chit chat; who isn’t too engaged by another person’s interests but know you need to be social and seem caring. You may know you should do more “networking” but hate the whole chit chat aspect of those events. Why not use social media to engage with an acquaintance or customer or even a family member with whom you should interact more. Send them something once in a while, out of the blue, along the lines of their interests. It may be a blog post, a news article, some humor? This is offering yourself “socially”, respecting their interests, without having to engage with them in a way that is uncomfortable for you. There is no agenda, they’ll feel your respect and acknowledgement of their interests and you don’t have to spend uncomfortable time in conversation about it. It’s not being rude, just realistic, the two of you may have two very different ways of needing to communicate and engage others.

We examine and discuss different neurological approaches in NeuroTherapy Training sessions. It's helpful for more healthy life coping if we understand more about our unique neurological approaches and learn more about our preferred communication styles. It can help us figure out how to engage others in new ways instead of continuing to bemoan that “I hate small talk”, “I’m never good at small talk”. "Get" why there are going to be certain social events, even certain people, you will prefer over others. And, when you find yourself “caught” in a situation, be polite but understand why you are uncomfortable, take charge and think of some strategies like having some engaging or humorous (humor is always appreciated) tales to tell. And don't forget about possibly doing more digital interacting, use digital "small talk" to stay connected with and honor the interests of folks who need or would like to hear from you but with whom you really have trouble interacting in a social way.

PS: In regards to "digital small talk", there is a bunch of gals I've known over many years or have met recently and enjoy but rarely get to interact with. I decided I wanted to stay connected, so I created what I call my "Salad Gals" emails. Every once in a while I will share with them an email with a special or unusual salad recipe plus a few thoughts about what I'm up to. It's a way of staying connected and offering a personal, positive and appeciated note amidst all the more impersonal emails they receive.

Pain Is In Your Brain

Pain is in your brain...Pain is in your brain. Yes, I repeated that to cause you to pause for thought. We so associate pain with the part of our body from which it emerges, that we forget it is our brain’s perception of stimuli coming from that area of the body. We can, with our minds play a real role in pain management.

Before my husband’s knee replacement, his ‘knee bones” were rubbing on each other – bone on bone. There was massive stimuli being sent through his nerves up the spine to his brain alerting him to this. Pain is our alert system that something isn’t working right. When I recently broke my arm, if I moved it in the wrong way there was a major alert to my brain that something was wrong. When we have conditions of chronic pain, such as my husband’s knee before it was replaced or folks with arthritis or fibromyalgia, our brains are perceiving ‘alerts’ continuously. Too bad there can’t be an on/off switch telling the brain “OK, I know there’s a problem there, let’s just turn off the alerts for a while.” Lots of pain medications sort of act in that way.

Often, though, people want to lessen reliance on or don’t want to rely on medication for pain management. Brain training, with NeuroTherapy Training can help you add your mental abilities as part of what you use to tackle pain.

Some aspects of brain training that help in pain management

Regular and effective relaxation of your body.

The build-up of stress and constriction of your muscles accelerates pain. Take a second to pay attention to your body right now. Feel the constriction? If you have a condition of pain, that constriction happening daily isn’t helping. It restricts blood flow and can cause you to hold damaged areas in unnatural positions.

Effective relaxation increases blood flow enabling more effective healing and rebuilding of damage to the body.

Lessening secondary pain.

Learning to effectively relax the body will help you lessen secondary pain. That is muscles that contract around painful nerves to ‘protect them’. That armor that our nervous system sets up can create pain of its own. It takes effective mental work to coax the body to relax the armor, lessening secondary pain.

Distracting the brain away from its perceptions of pain.

Training your brain involves becoming very good at concentrating. That can benefit your life in many ways but for pain management it’s critical. When I was in the emergency room with my broken arm, I instinctually turned to using my mental training exercises to focus my brain (while simultaneously calming my body). Yes, my brain wanted to switch back to focus on a very intense pain but I ‘stubbornly’ coaxed it away from the pain as much as was possible. You can do a lot with regular use of mental training to coax the brain from a pattern of continuous focus on the pain.

There is so much to be offered by learning and practicing the tools of NeuroTherapy Training, helping you manage pain is just one such benefit.

Note about the term Neurotherapy

The term Neurotherapy has come to be widely used to refer to numerous methods of helping people, often methods that use biofeedback hardware sometimes called Neurofeedback. The method, NeuroTherapy Training, that is discussed here, differs from any method relying on biofeedback hardware.

NeuroTherapy Training, is a powerful mental training method that teaches people how to use natural mental training to diminish and better manage the eruptions of emotions throughout the brain and body. It is a full psychotherapeutic method with important benefits for improving physical health.

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Wednesday, July 17, 2019