Lurking beneath your consciousness is a stone age brain that can cause you to make self-destructive choices. But there are effective ways to reprogram it to achieve your goals without struggle.
When being tempted to eat junk I think "one minute in the mouth, one hour in the stomach and a life time on the hips, or of bad health". Actually one minute in the mouth is enough to stop me getting started. I know when I have indulged I will just want more. If I don't start the craving goes.
Hi Robyn, just wanted to add something that you may find helpful. With a couple of patients who are suffering negative thinking patterns, have them raise their BOLT scores by 5 points. You will notice their thinking noticably changes. If I gave advice, it would be that every person who seeks to change their minds, behaviours or personalities using EFT, PDR or ABC must first raise their BOLT score to 25. BTW, HNY!
If a person displays a particular behaviour frequently, then it's a distinguishing characteristic, a trait. How Plomin Et al. categorise emotions, thoughts, feelings, behaviours may be something new, but holds little relevance. When using PDR, we let the participant use whatever labels they wish, 2 categories are used, emotions and thoughts, and actions. When a person never experiences a behaviour that was before frequent, then it can be considered removed, I have witnessed this many times, with follow up over more than 10 years. I cannot speak about other methods such as those Plomin may use, perhaps they are less effective.
The history that you mention is but a small snapshot, predominantly history was full of very advanced civilisations, of course this is not mainstream history which is mostly lies. Food shortages and malnutrition can cause stress for sure, but I have no experience living in such societies. Who said that life in the 21st century is more stressful than at other times in history? The point is being made that most people suffer from chronic sympathetic NS dominance, some to a small degree and others to a larger degree, very few have correct balance or dominance of the Parasympathetic system. The BOLT score can be used to determine liklihood of sympathetic NS dominance. No worries, every field has similar claims, I guess this always happens when society rests on a foundation of lies.
Some people take issue with the name, but it can be interchanged with 'Removal of unwanted personality traits'. People who use it mostly call it PDR to keep it short, no need to get caught up in the label. The essense is that anything that bothers a person or others around them can be removed, in fact should be removed, although there is no guidance as to what should be removed, it's left to each person to decide for themselves. Some people are very attached to their anger, sarcasm, judgementalism, etc. I have heard of Plomin's work but am not familiar with it.
It's a drawn conclusion from various scientific studies and observations. Breathing patterns give some clues and evidence. If a person chest breathes, consciously, unconsciously or while sleeping, they will likely be sympathetic NS dominant since chest breathing mimicks physiological stress. If a person often mouth breathes, they will likely also be a chest breather since it's difficult to use the diaphragm correctly while mouth breathing. Over-breathing, that is taking in too much air (based on breathing rate and volume) will also engage sympathetic response. Researchers estimate the average person breathes 200 to 300% more air than required. Most of us learn from an early age to take deep breaths, get more oxygen into the body, this is a deep and broad misconception. Oxygen saturation (SpO2) is the level of oxygen in the red blood cells. Most people have oxygen saturation between 95% and 99% at rest. Taking deep breaths will not further saturate the blood. Nor does it deliver more oxygen to the body tissues. Because we are already at near maximal oxygen carrying capacity in our body, the solution to getting more oxygen into our cells is not to get more oxygen into the blood by breathing deeper. This does not work. (increasing CO2 threshold is the key) Sympathetic predominance can be seen as a low level chronic stress to some degree on the arousal continuum, panic at one end and calm alertness at the other. To measure breathing effectiveness, the BOLT (Body oxygen level test) can be used, a score under 25 means problems, a young healthy person will usually be at 40. I've seen people under 10, they mostly pant and remain in a stressed condition, PDR or EFT will not help such people. Aside from breathing, EMR disrupts ion channels in the cell membranes and also can modulate the ANS directly, this has been known for decades. Often sympathatic NS predominance goes undetected, it can be from a small degree to acute, but always chronic. Aside from athletes and children, I think only those who have had specific breathing training will not suffer this type of stress. Yes, I do think stress and anxiety are off the charts these days. Some people do suffer witness to terrible events that induce stress which can be overcome with EFT or PDR. Lao Zhu - 'The perfect human breathes as if they are not breathing at all'.
I am sure that many new 'therapys' or programs are based more on profit than positive results. PDR was first developed in the 1970's and has remained obscure and mostly used within India and Europe, nobody can pay to learn it, usually it's by invitation only.
Thanks for that, yes there are many therapies. I've used EFT, also used PDR (personality defect removal) and trained others in this technique. It seems common for people to hop between therapies, perhaps enjoying a honeymoon period of change effects, only to return back to old habits, then onto a new therapy, helps to explain why there are so many of them. It's interesting that breathing gives a key into the subconscious mind since it can be consciously controlled also. As well, the breath modulates the ANS, inhale sympathetic, exhale parasympathetic, all very interesting!
Re-programming the subconscious mind, not such an easy task. Mindfulness helps to generate awareness of the problems but using the mind to re-program the mind is extremely difficult. EFT or PDR can help to some degree, but it's often a long process and most stop after a while. A problem that many overlook is found in the nervous system. The majority of people have sympathetic nervous system predominance causing some degree of stress, also very difficult to cure by working at the mind level, or through diet. It’s all very interesting!
When being tempted to eat junk I think "one minute in the mouth, one hour in the stomach and a life time on the hips, or of bad health". Actually one minute in the mouth is enough to stop me getting started. I know when I have indulged I will just want more. If I don't start the craving goes.
Excellent advice, Robyn in your latest email. Thank you.
Kind regards,
Ted.
Hi Robyn, just wanted to add something that you may find helpful. With a couple of patients who are suffering negative thinking patterns, have them raise their BOLT scores by 5 points. You will notice their thinking noticably changes. If I gave advice, it would be that every person who seeks to change their minds, behaviours or personalities using EFT, PDR or ABC must first raise their BOLT score to 25. BTW, HNY!
If a person displays a particular behaviour frequently, then it's a distinguishing characteristic, a trait. How Plomin Et al. categorise emotions, thoughts, feelings, behaviours may be something new, but holds little relevance. When using PDR, we let the participant use whatever labels they wish, 2 categories are used, emotions and thoughts, and actions. When a person never experiences a behaviour that was before frequent, then it can be considered removed, I have witnessed this many times, with follow up over more than 10 years. I cannot speak about other methods such as those Plomin may use, perhaps they are less effective.
The history that you mention is but a small snapshot, predominantly history was full of very advanced civilisations, of course this is not mainstream history which is mostly lies. Food shortages and malnutrition can cause stress for sure, but I have no experience living in such societies. Who said that life in the 21st century is more stressful than at other times in history? The point is being made that most people suffer from chronic sympathetic NS dominance, some to a small degree and others to a larger degree, very few have correct balance or dominance of the Parasympathetic system. The BOLT score can be used to determine liklihood of sympathetic NS dominance. No worries, every field has similar claims, I guess this always happens when society rests on a foundation of lies.
Some people take issue with the name, but it can be interchanged with 'Removal of unwanted personality traits'. People who use it mostly call it PDR to keep it short, no need to get caught up in the label. The essense is that anything that bothers a person or others around them can be removed, in fact should be removed, although there is no guidance as to what should be removed, it's left to each person to decide for themselves. Some people are very attached to their anger, sarcasm, judgementalism, etc. I have heard of Plomin's work but am not familiar with it.
It's a drawn conclusion from various scientific studies and observations. Breathing patterns give some clues and evidence. If a person chest breathes, consciously, unconsciously or while sleeping, they will likely be sympathetic NS dominant since chest breathing mimicks physiological stress. If a person often mouth breathes, they will likely also be a chest breather since it's difficult to use the diaphragm correctly while mouth breathing. Over-breathing, that is taking in too much air (based on breathing rate and volume) will also engage sympathetic response. Researchers estimate the average person breathes 200 to 300% more air than required. Most of us learn from an early age to take deep breaths, get more oxygen into the body, this is a deep and broad misconception. Oxygen saturation (SpO2) is the level of oxygen in the red blood cells. Most people have oxygen saturation between 95% and 99% at rest. Taking deep breaths will not further saturate the blood. Nor does it deliver more oxygen to the body tissues. Because we are already at near maximal oxygen carrying capacity in our body, the solution to getting more oxygen into our cells is not to get more oxygen into the blood by breathing deeper. This does not work. (increasing CO2 threshold is the key) Sympathetic predominance can be seen as a low level chronic stress to some degree on the arousal continuum, panic at one end and calm alertness at the other. To measure breathing effectiveness, the BOLT (Body oxygen level test) can be used, a score under 25 means problems, a young healthy person will usually be at 40. I've seen people under 10, they mostly pant and remain in a stressed condition, PDR or EFT will not help such people. Aside from breathing, EMR disrupts ion channels in the cell membranes and also can modulate the ANS directly, this has been known for decades. Often sympathatic NS predominance goes undetected, it can be from a small degree to acute, but always chronic. Aside from athletes and children, I think only those who have had specific breathing training will not suffer this type of stress. Yes, I do think stress and anxiety are off the charts these days. Some people do suffer witness to terrible events that induce stress which can be overcome with EFT or PDR. Lao Zhu - 'The perfect human breathes as if they are not breathing at all'.
I am sure that many new 'therapys' or programs are based more on profit than positive results. PDR was first developed in the 1970's and has remained obscure and mostly used within India and Europe, nobody can pay to learn it, usually it's by invitation only.
Thanks for that, yes there are many therapies. I've used EFT, also used PDR (personality defect removal) and trained others in this technique. It seems common for people to hop between therapies, perhaps enjoying a honeymoon period of change effects, only to return back to old habits, then onto a new therapy, helps to explain why there are so many of them. It's interesting that breathing gives a key into the subconscious mind since it can be consciously controlled also. As well, the breath modulates the ANS, inhale sympathetic, exhale parasympathetic, all very interesting!
Re-programming the subconscious mind, not such an easy task. Mindfulness helps to generate awareness of the problems but using the mind to re-program the mind is extremely difficult. EFT or PDR can help to some degree, but it's often a long process and most stop after a while. A problem that many overlook is found in the nervous system. The majority of people have sympathetic nervous system predominance causing some degree of stress, also very difficult to cure by working at the mind level, or through diet. It’s all very interesting!