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Sunday, December 6, 2015
Epigenetics and Primal Therapy: The Cure for Neurosis (Part 15/20)
The Brain’s Hemispheres
A natural cure must coincide with our knowledge of the way the brain is structured. First, we know that the brain has two sides, one more feeling and the other (left side) more thinking, grosso modo. Also, we know that the right side develops earlier than the left and absorbs so much early trauma long before we can understand it and give it a name. We are driven by those right-side imprints so that by the time we are born we are allergic, nervous, restless, colicky and choleric (bad tempered), and so on. So we are taken to the doctor who is mystified. We do know that it is the right brain that is active when we retrieve old memories and when we relive those memories, and it is only through that brain that we can get to those memories, very early ones, that were registered on the right. Otherwise, no matter how much we dig down, when we leave those memories intact,they will continue to drive us.(19) But eventually we will need to dig down with the help of the deep-right, orbito-frontal brain which functions as a dredge to lift up instinct/feeling memories to the fore. And we don’t even have to do it; the brain itself, when given the chance, will perform its proper function. And if we don’t force it, the brain will find the right time to do it, and not process it prematurely. We need to take great care about dredging up traumas too early. We can get flooding and being overwhelmed, rather than connected.
To retrieve the memory we need to “live” on the level of its existence for a time, use the right brain to lift it toward conscious/awareness, and bit by small bit integrate parts of the memory into the brain and the entire system. Thus, we need to de-methylate the memory. Until we do that there can be no profound change in anyone despite all claims to the contrary. Not meditation, not cognitive therapy, not mindfulness or hundreds of other nonsense approaches that ignore neurobiology. No one can make real change when two-thirds of our brains are unacknowledged. We have the tail and the feet but we still don’t know what it is. How can we treat it?
(19) See all of Wilder Penfield.
This is good to know. I would think parents who have children that went through a birth trauma, (and those children are labeled as "just not quite right" , even though they appear and act "normal", ...so close to be absolutely normal but "just absolutely not", I would think the parents would help the child out at some point in their lives, if they can, and spend the money (if they can afford it) on the child or the adult child to get primal therapy. It is important. They go through life acting normal, but deep down they want to be feeling normal: they want to get rid of the anxiety, the disabling allergies, the fears, the blushing shyness/nervousness around others when they have to be social, get rid of all the distractions that they cause and put upon themselves. If a parent really knew the pain that the child endures growing up, and if the child (he/she) comes from a loving parental atmosphere, they would right away want help for their child....because this type of parent would want their child to be a success: mentally, financially, socially, etc.... Some parents realize nothing can be done because they just cannot afford Primal Therapy even for their adult child and they have to just "settle" with what was handed to them: As Dr. Janov said, "We have the tail and the feet but we still don't know what it is." Nothing is absolute cure for this....they try everything, and then they settle for what works the best for them to get through life. Meanwhile, people form opinions of this traumatized child or traumatized adult that are "totally off the wall". I often wonder how the person who wasn't born with the chord wrapped around it's neck several times, I often wonder how that person feels.....most of the time I think that person must feel more carefree , less distracted, and more connected. Of course I'm thankful for many things....just to be alive. But if I had the money and could better myself, I wouldn't hesitate to get Primal Therapy. My parents did the best they could throughout my life; they never pressured me, they just said "do the best you can", "be yourself", and "don't care what people think of you if your are doing nothing wrong". They didn't know about Primal Therapy until I told them a little while ago. I honestly believe had my parents known about it 30 years ago, that they would have contributed financially to my getting Primal Therapy.
ReplyDeletebeachcoast7, your comment resonates...
Deleteparents are not therapists but they can help with the access, with their understanding. my father would give me time to prepare for the shot of antibiotics when i was a kid. we would go one more circle around health center, talking... it meant a lot to me.
this could help us remain humans. if not less traumatized, then at least less strangers to ourselves.
Vuko,
DeleteTrue, yes, I agree. The times my parents spent with me, were important. If someone just doesn't come from a family that pays attention to them, it is difficult for that child. Looking back, yes, I am very thankful for the way I was treated , even "the little things" meant a great deal. I am very thankful for the parents I have. Sure a lot of parents aren't therapists, but my parents are very intelligent as to what was going on. I went to years of college part-time, took many many psychology/therapy courses because of the curriculum I was in, and I can honestly say that my parents knew a lot that I was going to school for. I just didn't know, and even now after going to school and graduating, I can't say I even know more than my parents do as far as dealing with people at times and in certain situations. I am thankful for them.
Looking back, now that I'm older, I know when I was a child, and all the things that were done for me, many times, I just didn't understand what was going on....why would someone do something for me? So many situations I couldn't comprehend, but many children that are normal don't. Now I try to make it up to my parents, and I tell them, "when I was younger, growing up, I had really not much of an idea of all that you were doing for me. It's too bad, and now that I'm older, I want them to know, it wasn't because I was just "not interested" or "really didn't like what they handed me or did for me"....I just think was "too upset" with myself, too "hyper", and also I wasn't the brightest of students (sometimes I think I had ADD....but now I'm not like that at all).
DeleteBeachcoast, lucky you! art
DeleteI know Art. I am lucky...now what else can I do but remember how it was and revert to some type of structure and organization in my mind. I thought of your upbringing as I wrote that. Parental love and structure from the parents is so important ....to me, your accomplishments are absolutely outstanding. You are very strong, not only physically but one would have to be mentally strong also to turn out the way you did....such a success. A sense of accomplishment is so important also.
DeleteBeachcoast, Thanks again. art
Deleteahh... how to build a sense of accomplishment if the house is below tide line?
Delete"Classic clinical evidence suggests that the orbitofrontal cortex is involved in critical human functions, such as social adjustment and the control of mood, drive and responsibility, traits that are crucial in defining the ‘personality’ of an individual".
ReplyDeleteSo what we can say is that the orbitofrontal cortex are "listening" to the limbic system which carries catastrophic memories (orbitofrontal cortex... which is a buffer... a time delay?) it as long as we do not use our neocortex for its intellectuals capacity in name of listening to the limbic system... listening to the frequency suffering are broadcast. Neocortex can not do anything as long as the will... the understanding is not there to listen to the limbic system... the understanding and the will folks! So it remains isolated as long as the intellectual capacity are not used in order to hook up to the limbick system. But not to forget life-sustaining effects depending on threats to our life... it with the consequences of what the "personality of an individual" is now showing... which also represents the enormous obstacles intellectuals constitute around primal therapy.
Frank