Psychological Changes

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Changing behaviors and bad habits is next to impossible for most people, partly because few people are actually taught the appropriate psychological tricks and techniques, and partly because the adult mind is not malleable. In other words, adults are very resistant to change, whether consciously or subconsciously. By puberty the brain starts to solidify its subconscious behavior-controlling mechanisms and by adulthood many behaviors are so deeply rooted that not even the strongest force of will or necessity can change them. Addictions, bad habits, emotional reactions, annoyances and anxieties are just a few of the destructive psychological patterns people suffer from today.

Patterns and Affirmations

Over the past century, researchers have discovered more about how behaviors and emotions are formed in the brain.

One way is through pattern recognition. The Brain is the world's most powerful pattern recognition machine. It bases nearly all its internal programming on association. For example, have you ever eaten something that caused you to feel nauseous? The food itself might not have even been the actual cause of sickness, but later when smelling or eating the same food, the nausea returns doesn't it? That is an obvious example of the brain associating 2 concepts together (specific food and sickness) to form a completely new behavior.

Though you may not realize it, most of your emotional reactions, behaviors and anxieties are based on the brain's many patterns of association. You can use this to your advantage by presenting to your brain the patterns you WANT to be associated. For example, if you want to be more confident in a certain situation you could associate it with a confident memory or a stimulus that makes you feel intensely confident. If done properly, the end result will be a confident reaction to the old situation! This can be done using the powerful techniques explained in the Neuro-Programmer 2 documentation.

Another way the brain builds behaviors and reactions is through language. Early on in life, language becomes intimately integrated with mental concepts, thought patterns and memories. For example, if I say the word "apple", you may instantly see red apple in your mind's eye. You know how apples taste, smell and how they feel in hand. So, simply saying a single word can stimulate your mind and reinforce an idea. Additionally, language has become an integral part of the thought process. Most people think in their native language. The amazing part is that when people think silently, their thought patterns are still in sentence form! It is because of this that language, in the form of recorded Suggestions, Hypnosis Sessions or Auto-Suggestions, can be successfully used to associate ideas, concepts and beliefs to create healthy new behaviors. However, it only works if you word your sentences properly. The patterns of reinforcement and conditioning still apply. For example, if you hear or say up the word "smoking" 100 times during a Session, the brain will be see it as reinforcement, no matter what is before or after the word.

NP2 includes a guides, hundreds of examples and, more importantly, a way to make your mind more receptive to all of these psychological techniques:

Making your brain more receptive

As mentioned above, the adult brain is very resistant to change of any kind, partly because the waking mental state we adults enjoy does not allow access to the deeper subconscious mechanisms of the mind. The goal of the brainwave stimulation in NP2 is to bring the mind to a receptive brainwave state, similar to the state induced during hypnosis - providing an ideal mental platform for self programming and psychological change.

• According to Psychologist Ernest Lawrence Rossi, a neural structure called the Limbic System works to convert words, feelings, thoughts, beliefs and visualizations into a language that the body can understand. Rossi also noted that less than 35% of the population is hypnotizable. The rest of the population has trouble reaching a state of receptivity without added stimulation, such as what NP2 provides.
• In a study called The Case for Alpha-Theta: A Dynamic Hemispheric Asymmetry Model, Thomas Budzynski, Ph.D., noted "At the low end of the arousal continuum, images and/or verbal suggestions are processed without the full effect of the critical screening, and therefore, are more likely to be accepted and acted upon."
• A study was done by Felipe at Yale University where attitude changing suggestions were given to subjects during different mental states. Only during drowsiness or sleep did the suggestions have any significant effect. During alert, waking states and deeper sleep stages, the suggestions had little to no effect on attitude and, therefore, little effect on behavior.
• Henry Adams, Ph.D., of NIMH and head of the alcoholism programs at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, found that alcoholics showed a 55% decrease in alcohol consumption after a single session combined with a brief anti-alcohol suggestion.
• Dr. Roman Chrucky, Medical Director of the North New Jersey Development Center, found that the entrainment had a strong tranquilizing effect that enhanced hypnotic induction and "suggestibility" in general.
• The study EEG Patterns Associated with High Hypnotizability, conducted by D. Corydon Hammond, Ph.D., suggests a very specific brainwave pattern associated with high levels of Hypnotizability. Using NP2 sessions, you can help your brain reach these essential brainwave patterns.
  

Research & Further Reading

EEG Patterns Associated with High Hypnotizability: Practical Clinical Implications Hammond, D. Corydon, Ph.D.

Brain Lateralization and Rescripting, Thomas Budzynski, Ph.D.

The Case for Alpha-Theta: A Dynamic Hemispheric Asymmetry Model, Tom Budzynski, Ph.D.

A Technique For Rapidly Inducing Hypnosis, Margolis, B., CAL., June 1966

Clinical Guide to Light and Sound, Thomas Budzynski, Ph.D.

Software For The Mind, Emmett E. Miller, M.D.

Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer, John C. Lilly, M.D.

Attitude change during interrupted sleep, A. Felipe, Yale University Doctoral dissertation

Verbally induced behavioral response during sleep. Evans, R J., Gustafson, L. A., O'Connell, D. N., Orne, M. T. & Shor, R. E., Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1, 1-26.

Learning and sleep. Rubin, R (1970). Nature, 226, 447.

The PsychoBiology Of Mind-Body Healing, New Concepts In Therapeutic Hypnosis, Ernest Lawrence Rossi

Suggestology and Outlines of Suggestopedy, Georgi Lazonov

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