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Parental Intelligence - Issue 61
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Bob Collier
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Sep 29, 2003 02:55 PDT
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29 September 2003
Issue 61
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"Introducing Affectology and Af-x® Release Therapy"!
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INTRODUCING AFFECTOLOGY AND AF-X® RELEASE THERAPY
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"The art of living does not consist in preserving and
clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing
happiness to change its form without being disappointed by
the change; for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to
grow up." - Charles Langbridge Morgan
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In the Af-x® Professional Practitioner Training Program that
has been in existence for several years, one of the
mandatory readings for this course is Daniel Stern's "The
Interpersonal World of the Infant." We trainers have never
seen so many people affected by this book's implications,
particularly in the realm of understanding that "as a
parent, maybe I didn't do anything wrong after all," and
"we had no control over the context of the early emotional
learnings of our kids (if what Stern says is true)!"
To try to put this into a narrative that won't take 100
pages is a great task, but we'll try, because it's important
in our understanding of why the study of affectology can
indeed be so "signal" to parenting. And why it means so much
to us as people struggling to figure out if there's
something in our early past that isn't quite "appropriate."
Something that may have been traumatic (but we're not quite
sure).
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Suggestion: if you're not overly
interested in academic qualifiers, you
might like to just go straight to the
Core Point Conclusion below, because the
text between here and there is rather
technically-oriented.
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Stern has devoted his whole life and career to research
into what is the emotional landscape of the infant
child - before narrative; the preverbal history of
learning and emotional framing that stays with us.
As a part of the theory component in the course mentioned
above, we have included a significant study into Stern's
work and the propositions that it presents us with.
Propositions that, once we consider the "likelihood"
carefully, many affectologists encase in the cloak of
"fact."
Most significant are the issues of "amodalism" and
"R.I.G."s. From the time that the infant is able to
register any sensorial experience (some research points to
around 23 or 24 weeks into gestation) until she or he is
able to start processing information cognitively, the global
reception of "feeling" experienced by that child is
registered AMODALLY; that is, she or he does not segregate
information into the five senses as do we adults. The
"feeling" of experience is accepted and registered as a
cocktail of signals with an inability to segregate those
signals into visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory or
kinesthetic modes.
Stern and his contemporaries have concluded that the
preverbal infant also receives signals of experience in what
have been called "RIGs"- Registrations of Interactions that
are Generalised. This proposes that the "general event
structures" of amodalism are registered at brain (mind)
level as neuroencodings (memories) as mere generalized
interpretations of the interactions that the preverbal
infant has with its environment. This means that much of
what that infant experiences during a vast period of its
preverbal developmental phase of life is likely to be
interpreted and misinterpreted in a way that does not
correlate with how an adult would view the same episodes
and events. A totally benign experience can be registered
as being traumatic because the child has misinterpreted
the events of the time. And, in any event, the experience
is sensorially experienced amodally - that is, experienced
as a generalized non-rational global pseudo-event.
What this means is that during this so-important
developmental time in life - the preverbal phase - our
affective neuro-encodings (at limbic brain level) are most
likely to be the result of a complete misinterpretation of
the reality of any episode or event. In other words: CHAOS!
And our professional culture spends wasted time and money
trying to unravel that which cannot be unraveled.
So what?
Well, this is actually an important aspect of the primal
emotional memories that we build on to develop our emotional
sense of self. As empirical creatures, people don't abandon
earlier learnings, particular at those infant levels. Each
memory and emotional (affect) response that's experienced
and learned builds on the last one, and on and on, until we
develop our emotional subpersonality that has causality
based in non-cognitive and misinterpretive structures. The
everyday unconscious bridging patterns that "trace" to
early life emotional learnings remain static, and defy
change through acts of rational and conscious will or
analysis.
This speaks to the way in which every human being, child,
adolescent and adult "owns" a dynamic, to a lesser or
greater degree, that reverts to infant emotional (affect)
encodings. This constitutes a variety of aspects of our
lives that we like to say are "our inner self," our "sense
of self," our "emotional sub-personality," and particularly,
"the child within."
Core Point Conclusion
Our culture has been hell-bent on a mode of "understanding"
the subtleties of the emotional mind because it has only
those tools that require rational observation in order to
effect change. But neuroscience is showing us that we lay
down our subconscious emotional learnings at a preverbal
time that defies rationalization because the experiences
that build those learnings are not discernable under adult
constructs.
This means that as adults, we can experience low-level
"spillovers" from that emotional matrix, but to understand
its constituency is futile because it has been formed in a
chaotic way. The implications of this are enormous when we
note that our whole cultural structure is built around an
"understand it before you can fix it" paradigm.
What does this have to do with "parenting?"
Everything. As a matter of fact, it is an across-the-board
revolutionary ideology. The notion of the building of an
"invisible unconscious table of emotional reactions that can
not be defined or verbalized" is not new to neuroscience.
It's firmly ensconced in the research and writings of such
luminaries as Goleman, LeDoux and Damasio. But, even if
scientific investigation has shown that the limbic brain
stores initial emotional material in a non-verbal and non-
cognitive context, what happened to the investigations of
the means by which "therapy" can help people to make a
difference?
Well, nothing! We seem as a society to go blindly ahead
ignoring and denying the obvious: - that if our most
important emotional learnings are indefinable, we must
abandon two important tenets of psychology, or at least,
affective psychology; and those tenets are, (1) that any
conscious, verbally and cognitively oriented memories are
to be trusted as being authentic in attending to "core,
root causes"; and (2) that those supposedly authentic
memories are to be experienced consciously and "worked on"
from a conscious rational adult perspective.
We now know that this is often futile. The adult defining
perspective and the sets of random and misinterpreted infant
learnings - out of which we are perhaps still acting -
simply do not match.
But the path to change for us and our children is close at
hand. All is not lost, just because psychotherapy has no
tools to deal with that which cannot be spoken. For over a
century, Eastern methods of attention to human change have
been effective in bringing about non-analytical modulation
to people's feeling and mood states.
In relation to "where did this come from," we must view our
children in much less analytical lights than ever before.
Infants from disadvantaged backgrounds, and even uncaring
parents do NOT necessarily grow up with emotional deficits
and personalities that we so often "think" would be the
product of that background. Infants from the "perfect"
loving family environment, on the other hand, do not
necessarily grow to be the perfectly balanced and
emotionally integrated adult that that early life
environment would indicate.
Correct us if we're wrong! And haven't you ever wondered why
that may be?
Reflect on the words gone before in this article and know
that the early emotional life of infants can spawn emotional
learnings (that stay with the individual) most often based
on misinterpretation of the emotional investment in the
event. In adult or later child life, there's a straight and
direct time-line to what is not a rational base to our
early affect encodings. Mothers often wonder what the hell
they may have "done wrong" in the raising of an infant, when
in fact, they may have done absolutely nothing "wrong."
Children may puzzle about their own personality traits that
our society tells us should be the product of disadvantaged
and abusive infancy, but their parents are loving and
supportive, and always have been.
Chaos! Randomness! However one toils over the "right" and
most supportive and loving ways to provide the "perfect"
environment for their infants, things always go amiss in the
early affect encoding process.
But, let's not beat the breast too much about that. While
the facts surrounding early preverbal development show us
that we as parents have no control over our infants' ways in
which they might interpret or misinterpret everyday
experiences, it doesn't mean that all is lost forever! The
development of a truly affect-oriented therapy that side-
steps cognitive and narrative (autobiographical) reporting
and focuses specifically on learned affect (emotion) in a
way intended to modulate that emotion, heralds the beginning
of a new era in emotion-related therapy. That therapy is
Af-x® Release Therapy.
"Affectology"
For years, the study of affective neuroscience has been
paralleled by the field of affectology, an Australian
development that has taken two decades to perfect.
This field looks at the aspects of "the invisible self" –
the emotional sub-personality - and how it has huge
influence in our daily lives, from the way in which we
conduct our business relationships, employment and financial
decisions, to the less strident aspects of family life, our
partner relationships, our relationships with our children,
siblings and parents, our sexual selves, and our manner of
pursuit of the perfect past-time, whatever that may be for
us. We now even know for certain that subtle emotional
aspects of our lives have a strong influence on many
physical diseases and problems. That's no news, but it's
"sure" news.
Academic and humanistic philosopher, Ian White, whose
journey started decades ago in a Japanese Zen monastery, has
led this home-grown affectology movement.
"Where Science and Philosophy Meet"
In Zen philosophy, people are already perfect. They need no
wisdom other than that already given. Contrary to the belief
that Zen has any religious connotations, it actually
presents as a perfect fit with modern scientific studies and
research as to what makes up our emotional selves and how
very little "experts and gurus" have to offer us to bring
about positive changes to our lives. This applies to our
emotional selves as well as our rational business lives.
So, the marriage of this philosophy and the scientifically
proven existence of a "feeling self," has bred a new, yet
highly developed method for bringing about change to your
emotional self. Facts about your perfection as a human being
gel well with the good old Aussie notion of "stand firm and
discover how to fix it yourself!"
"Af-x®"
White's approach is called "Af-x® Release Therapy," the
‘af-x’ being a term deriving from affect, the technical word
describing "human feeling and emotion." Within three
sessions, this revolutionary and elegant therapy guides you
to a more mature use of feelings and emotions that have been
learned at early developmental times in your life without
the trauma and drama of bringing all that old memory-based
material up to a conscious level of mind. While the word
"release" is used, White and his practitioners eschew the
notion that immediacy is called for, and encourage a slow
release of old habitual responses over a period of time.
With a wry smile, White says, "Osmacote, the slow release
fertiliser, has got it right!"
Af-x® is not one of those therapies suddenly sprouted from
other movements; it's the ultimate in self-help therapy,
based on these many years of research and scientific
feedback study. "Affect and emotional re-arrangement" is a
given right, not a privilege just for those who want to see
the distance through months and months of "therapy."
"Sitting easy in your life" is the same as "feeling
comfortable in your own skin," a common term that relates to
the quality of the relationship you have with yourself. You
can read much more about the revolution and the revelation
of Af-x® by going to http://www.EmotionsInBalance.com.
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What follows are some excerpts from the Af-x® website:-
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"When it comes to you, only one person has all the answers –
and that's YOU; but not the 'you' that's doing the talking!"
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Sometimes we decide or know that there's something about
ourselves that we feel we need to change. That recognition
is a good start, but then whom do we turn to when we are
experiencing psychological, behavioural or emotional
problems or difficulties?
There are many different therapies and techniques available
for us to choose from, both mainstream and 'alternative'. In
many cases people will see their doctor and possibly be
referred to a specialist. With this choice, as well as
almost all the 'alternative' options available, the first
thing we'll be asked to do is to describe our symptoms and
try and explain what is wrong. We hope that the therapist or
practitioner will then be able to use her or his knowledge,
expertise and experience to help solve our problems.
However this is the dilemma. Throughout our lives, all our
feelings and emotions are influenced by our experiences and
what we learned in the pre-verbal and pre-conscious-memory
stages of early development - our own unique 'emotional
matrix'.
We can do our best to try and describe our surface symptoms
or problems, but trying to consciously reveal the underlying
affect cause is basically impossible. And when we can't
consciously explain why we react, respond or feel the way we
do, how can any another person ever accurately understand
our emotional problems, let alone work out our individual
emotional matrix or earliest emotional experiences?
Our Emotional Matrix
In our day-to-day lives as adults, we mostly rely on and
trust the logical, reasoning and conscious parts of our
minds. At a stage in our childhood we develop the ability to
think things through, solve problems rationally and learn
how to understand what is going on in the world around us.
From then on we learn to mainly rely and depend on this
ability.
But when it comes to our emotions and feelings, as children,
teenagers and adults alike, we find that our emotional
reactions seem to be driven by something deeper or beneath
our logical, rational self. Although we are instantly aware
of the feelings or emotions we have in response to
situations and events, we experience these automatically and
immediately without thinking them through, or even being
able to think them through.
Some neuroscientists are referring to this as the "amygdala
click;" the way in which those emotional response memories
are triggered at an unconscious level and hijack all reason.
The familiar statements "I don't know why I got so angry",
"I'm not sure why I feel so sad" or "I can't help how I am
feeling" and many others, all confirm that our emotional
reactions are driven by something other than our reasoning
minds and conscious will. If this were not the case, we
would all be able to just consciously control or change any
uncomfortable feelings or emotional reactions. We'd just
"think ourselves better!"
In our infant years we can only interpret things around us
through our feelings and emotions, we have no other choice.
So by the time any of us are able to talk, think or develop
conscious memories, we have already learned how to respond
to the world at the emotional or affect (feeling and
emotional) level. This is a protective mechanism and it's
unavoidable. These early experiences and learnings form the
basis for our own unique emotional matrix that unconsciously
influences all our future emotional responses and reactions.
This goes a long way towards explaining why we have so much
difficulty in identifying and describing the real causes of
our emotional discomforts and why we can't just consciously
change how we feel and respond. "I've talked all about it,
tried to analyse and understand it but it hasn't changed how
I feel."
Over the past decade or two, science has been catching up
with the reality about human emotions and the existence of
our own very individual and unknowable emotional matrix.
Various independent researchers have been instrumental in
alerting the world to the fact that our talking selves, our
conscious perceptions and our reasoning minds play very
little part in our actual ability to resolve our emotional
problems.
This knowledge has steered the development of a very
different therapeutic approach called 'affectology', a
revolutionary approach based on a thorough understanding of
how we learn, develop and maintain our subconscious
emotional matrix, and how this understanding can be used to
help us privately and permanently resolve our emotional
problems, without the difficulty and pain of trying to talk
about them.
Affectology and Af-x® Therapy
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“Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to
conceal thought.” - Sir William Osler
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Most mainstream therapies rely on professional diagnosis and
analysis to arrive at an in-the-present version of what is
wrong with a person. This can take any number of sessions,
followed by either medication or various techniques to try
and treat the identified symptoms. Also, many problems are
seen as 'disorders' or 'conditions' that the sufferer can do
little about, without external "expert" advice.
But what if there was an approach that focused directly on
the underlying affect (feeling or emotional) cause of the
problem? One where you didn't talk about your surface
symptoms, personal history or past experiences. One that
focuses on your feelings and acknowledges that at some
level, you already "know" the true causes of your problems
(and only you could ever truly "know"). An approach to
therapy that understands that you already have the resources
needed to bring about positive change and simply aims to
guide you in doing that. One that involves just three
contact sessions, that help your subconscious, self-
correcting resources back onto the right track.
Developed by Australian academic and therapist Ian White
over many years, this is the unique, revolutionary and
highly effective approach used in affectology and Af-x®
Release Therapy and is the much-needed move away from the
second-hand interpretation and analysis of the other
therapies. It is the result of a new understanding of the
nature of the human emotional matrix, that is, how we
learned to unconsciously respond to things at feeling and
emotional level. This new scientifically based view of how
people develop and maintain their emotional problems now
provides the means for people to privately and permanently
resolve them.
'Affectology' is the term coined by White to describe the
field of study that investigates how we learn and develop
affect (feeling and emotional) patterns very early in life,
that form our underlying emotional matrix or 'sense of
self', and how that influences all our future emotional
responses and reactions. It makes a clear distinction from
'psychology', a field that has concentrated on the
'thinking processes', rather than the 'feeling' self.
Af-x® Release Therapy is the practical application of
affectology. Its training program is run under the auspices
of the Sydney-based School of Affectology, of which Ian
White is the Principal, and the Euro-Scandin School of
Affectology in Sweden.
How we learn our emotions and feelings
Just as we are not consciously aware of most of what goes on
within our physical bodies, our minds are also constantly
processing thoughts, memories and feelings at subconscious
levels.
It is a scientifically proven fact that we feel emotions (as
infants) long before we are able to consciously think and we
began to learn our initial feeling (or emotional) responses
at this subconscious level.
Our early feeling level reactions were formed without
conscious thought, reason or logic because we had not yet
developed the ability to consciously think about or analyse
what we were responding to.
Research shows that we repetitively respond to things
throughout our lives the way we first learned to respond in
our childhood and even earlier, in our pre-verbal infanthood.
We store our first ever feeling experiences (fear, love,
discomfort pleasure, trauma, joy and all our range of
emotions) and unconsciously learn, almost immediately, which
feeling or emotional reactions get the best results,
therefore 'rationalising' that we should develop and
maintain these reactions as though time stood still.
Significantly, we can't ever remember what our first feeling
responses were, because we did not have the capacity to
develop conscious memories of them at the time they were
learned.
We build our "emotional matrix" or personal response
patterns (emotional personality) based on early feeling
learnings that are stored subconsciously, beneath our
ability to recall and understand. We unconsciously "memory-
trace" or "bridge" back to these primary encodings in order
for them to be continuously repeated.
As we mature, some of these automatic response patterns may
be altered or adjusted to suit our development, while others
are not.
Well-learned and entrenched early feeling level reactions,
that are no longer useful or protective, can form the basis
for and influence the development of the uncomfortable
feelings, physical symptoms or uncontrollable behaviours
that we may experience in later life.
This is particularly relevant for people who have
experienced traumatic events and seemingly developed
problematic symptoms, conditions or behaviour as a result.
It is never an event that is the real cause of problems, but
rather our learned emotional response that we unconsciously
apply to that event. This explains how two people can
experience the same traumatic situation or similar sort of
situation, and why one can develop significant long-term
problems while the other may be relatively unaffected.
Nothing, including any amount of therapy, will ever change
the fact that a person experienced a certain event. What can
be changed is the person's learned emotional response
pattern that is doing the damage and maintaining the
problematic symptoms, conditions or behaviour.
By their very nature, early feeling level learnings and
reactions are not revealed to the conscious mind, they are
automatic and reflexive. Because they are unconsciously
learned and maintained they can not be affected by conscious
efforts to identify, analyse, understand or change them.
They can however be privately re-assessed and permanently
resolved by the subconscious mind.
About The Therapy - "Mind Over Chatter"
From the moment you decide to undertake Af-x® Release
Therapy, what you can expect is likely to be very different
to any other therapy you've experienced in the past.
Af-x® is about helping your subconscious mind learn how to
respond to things differently than before. It seeks to deal
with the real cause of your problems. So don't be surprised
if your practitioner seems to discourage discussion of any
presenting symptoms that may have unconsciously developed
from that cause.
Unlike the sessions in most other therapies, your Af-x®
Practitioner will do most of the talking and this approach
only ever involves three contact sessions.
In session one, you are helped to fully understand a number
of very important facts. Why this work is about your
feelings and not your thoughts or any particular event in
your life. How we all have the ability to change unconscious
affect (feeling or emotional) response patterns by privately
re-assessing old outdated affect learnings. And why you must
do this in the privacy of your subconscious mind without any
intervention from the practitioner, other than a skilful
guidance through this inner process.
Once you are comfortable with all this, your practitioner
will introduce you to the 'inner work' or quite simply
'assisted self-attention'. This introduction is designed to
show you how easy this is, as "self-attention" is a natural
state available to us all with a little guidance.
Session two and three mainly involve this subconscious
'inner re-learning work', with no emphasis on "experiencing
past events". It's a fact that we are all constantly taking
on information at levels we're not consciously aware of;
just look at the effect advertising and marketing have on us
at times! It doesn't matter what you consciously think
happens during these sessions, what is really important is
what happens afterwards, as a result of the subconscious
communication and learning that took place.
This three-session format has proven through therapy
feedback research to get the best results. Change can
sometimes take a little time, so your practitioner will not
be pressuring you for information about what you've
experienced during your sessions. He or she understands that
the session-work is just the very beginning of an ongoing
process of subconscious change that you will experience in
your own way and one that allows for continuous improvement.
You will be encouraged to simply allow that to gently go
ahead and let it happen, without consciously thinking too
much about it.
Many people come along to Af-x® Therapy sessions after
hearing about the experiences and successful outcomes of
others. The thing to keep firmly in mind is that no two
people are exactly the same. Even those that appear to have
the same symptoms will have different underlying affect
(feeling or emotional) causes. Therefore, every individual
must be allowed to resolve their own inner conflicts within
the privacy of their own emotional mind. And this needs to
be done without the conscious burden of expecting they'll
have the same experience as someone else.
No two experiences of therapy are alike and no two paths to
wellness are alike. This is why Af-x® outcomes can be so
varied between different people. Your experience both during
and after the sessions may be profound or subtle, immediate
or gradual, recalled or below the level of awareness, or a
combination of these. It's best to just let the process
happen and wait and see, rather than putting conscious
pressure on yourself to experience "something" in particular.
This is one of the reasons an Af-x® practitioner doesn't
pressure you for information about how things are going
during your sessions. If positive change did rely on you
having to have "something" happen that you can consciously
recall and explain, then therapy sessions could go on
indefinitely. Research and feedback from ex-clients has
shown that only three contact sessions are needed to begin
an ongoing process of subconscious change and it's not
necessary for anything in particular to be consciously
experienced during those sessions for that to occur.
Sometimes it is the very people who think that "nothing"
happened during their sessions that are the most surprised
by their success over time and the positive changes they
make to the way they feel and respond. Other people ask if
they will have to re-do their sessions if other problems
arise in the future? The answer to this question is no.
The Af-x® sessions help you learn how to unconsciously
reassess your earliest experiences and how suitable the
affect responses you developed from them are now. This
process only needs to be learned once. It can be a complex
task dealing with well-entrenched patterns you've been
repeating for years. But as you are doing this work and
changing at a deep affect level, it has an ongoing effect
into how you feel about yourself, all areas of your life and
your past. This work is a way of dealing with your surface
symptoms by permanently resolving the cause.
The nature of subconscious change, how it is experienced and
how long it takes very much depends on the individual and
the complexities of their own emotional matrix (how they
learned to unconsciously respond to things at an emotional
level).
About Ian White
From a formal monastic background in Zen therapy and
mindfulness meditation teaching, Ian White has moved through
many years of application of "private" therapy to his
current position as Principal of the School of Affectology.
He trained in Morita Therapy and has taught meditation in
Zen and Taoist mindfulness traditions for 28 years.
Until 1993 he was a Senior Lecturer at the Australian
National University (A.N.U.), at which time he moved from
Canberra to establish therapy practices in Sydney, and
continue with research into the neurophsycological aspects
of psychosomatics and the development of emotional sub-
personalities.
He has been instrumental in the successful application of
Af-x® programs with executives looking to improve decision-
making and communication skills, futures trading market
operators seeking to improve performance, artists needing to
"get unstuck" from creative blocks, and Olympic level
sportsmen and sportswomen looking to achieve peak
performance.
He has a particular interest in and concern for the
emotional well-being of the youth of today, particularly
related to the burgeoning incidence of depression and
suicide in teens, and the (seemingly) socially-endorsed
drugging of school kids with amphetamines and SSRI
antidepressants.
Ian is the Director of the original International Centre for
Subconscious-mind Training and Research (I.C.S.T.R.) and
Principal of the School of Affectology and the Euro-Scandin
School of Affectology (Sweden).
He is a member of the Advisory Council of the International
Center for Studies in Psychiatry and Psychology (ICSPP) in
New York, U.S.A.
You can contact Ian White on 61+2+4571 3902 or email at
iwh-@emotionsinbalance.com or af-@hawknet.com.au
Or visit his website at:
http://www.emotionsinbalance.com/
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"We have not inherited the Earth from our ancestors, we have
borrowed it from our children." - From "The Truth" (a novel)
by Peter James
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Copyright © 2003, Ian White
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THE CANDLELIGHT PROJECT
This week, a few representative excerpts from an article
that I discovered on my internet travels only a matter of
days ago, concerning the area in which biopsychiatry has, it
seems to me, most comprehensively misled the world at large.
Please go to the website linked to below the excerpts and
read the complete article. Then you will not be bamboozled
should a doctor, teacher, journalist, ad man, politician,
family member, friend, some bloke in your local pub, or
whoever, start waffling on at you about 'mental illness'
being caused by 'chemical imbalances' in the brain. You
will know better!
There Are No "Chemical Imbalances"
"The hypothetical disturbances of neurochemical function
that are said to underlie "mental illness" are just that:
hypothetical. No experiment has ever shown that anyone has
an "imbalance" of any neurotransmitters or any other brain
chemicals. Nor could any conceivable experiment demonstrate
the existence of a "chemical imbalance," simply because no
one, least of all the biopsychiatrists, has the slightest
idea what a proper and healthy chemical "balance" would look
like."
"… the views and beliefs of biopsychiatry have nothing to do
with the answers to scientific questions in any case: the
hunt for biological "causes" of "mental illness" is an
entirely fallacious enterprise in the first place; the non-
existence of data to support its assertions is quite beside
the point."
"The latest edition of one pharmacology text has this to say
about the status of depression as a disease: "Despite
extensive efforts, attempts to document the metabolic
changes in human subjects predicted by these [biological]
hypotheses have not, on balance, provided consistent or
compelling corroboration." This is a long-winded way of
admitting that not even a scrap of evidence supports the
idea that depression results from a "chemical imbalance."
Yet patients are told every day - by their doctors, by the
media, and by drug company advertising - that it is a proven
scientific fact that depression has a known biochemical
origin. It follows directly that millions of Americans are
being lied to by their doctors; and people surely can't give
informed consent for drug treatment when what they're being
"informed" by is a fraud. . . . To sum up: there is no
evidence whatsoever to support the view that "mental illness"
is biochemical in origin; in other words, things like
"Unipolar Disorder" and "Attention Deficit Disorder" simply
do not exist."
Read the complete article, There Are No "Chemical Imbalances"
by Eaton T. Fores, at the Eaton T. Fores Research Center:
http://www.etfrc.com/ChemicalImbalances.htm
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If you're not up to speed with The Candlelight Project and
would like to read about it from the beginning, please
visit the following web page and read from Parental
Intelligence Issue 49:
http://www.topica.com/lists/pintel/read
If you'd like to read The Parental Intelligence Report on
'ADHD', published May 2003, please send a blank email to:
pire-@getresponse.com
To discover more of the truth about 'ADHD', please visit:
ADHD Fraud
http://www.adhdfraud.org/
Death From Ritalin
http://www.ritalindeath.com/
A.S.P.I.R.E.
http://www.aspire.us/
Wildest Colts Make the Best Horses
(Download a free copy of "A Colt of a Booklet" while you're
there!)
http://www.wildestcolts.com/
Citizens Commission on Human Rights
http://www.cchr.org/
Able Child - Parents for Label and Drug Free Education
http://ablechild.org/
Fight For Kids
http://www.fightforkids.org/
See you next week on the Candlelight Trail!
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LIVING FREE: HOW TO BEAT THE SYSTEM - AND GROW RICH
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no-one's ever heard of".
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It's a funny thing, confidence. Like money, we all feel at
times that we could do with more of it and those who have
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Would you like to feel you could do anything?
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DOUG BENCH'S BRAIN STUFF
VITAL EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT: Without Question, The Beginning
of a NEW ERA in Brain-Science Research and Human Achievement!
Here it is! The most important statements I have read yet
in over 60,000 pages!
This is it! Listen carefully. If you have been with us for
some time, you know that we have mostly taken what the
neuroscientists have been discovering through MEDICAL
research on the brain, and trying to translate, transpose and
apply it to the Science for Self-Motivation, Achievement and
Success.
Sometimes this has been a real struggle to make that
transformation at all, let alone make sure we keep intact
the integrity of the research methods and findings.
Now comes word in a just released book that totally made me
break down and cry when I read it! This is such fantastic
news! I read it about 6 days ago, and I have been unable to
sleep since because I am filled with so much excitement!
I just last week purchased a brand new book, written by Dr.
Richard Restak. Dr. Restak is a neurologist,
neuropsychiatrist, a clinical research professor at George
Washington University Medical Center in Washington, D.C. and
is the author of over 15 books on the brain, including "The
Secret Live of the Brain" for PBS, and “Mozart's Brain and
The Fighter Pilot" (which I positively reviewed last month
in the [Possibilities!] Newsletter!).
His new book, just released a few weeks ago is entitled "The
New Brain: How the Modern Era is Rewiring Your Mind". So
many times we have picked up books that appear on the cover
to have potential to convince and prove to people that they
can be anything they desire by just changing what they
think, only to be let down after reading the books filled
with the same tired old clichés.
OOOOOOOHHHHHH my friends, not this one. Not this book.
This is it! If you have read or studied or applied any of
our Science for Success Systems, this next set of quotes
should just give you goose-bumps all over!
Here it is, quoting directly from the book, in Dr. Restak's
own words:
". . .the old brain was remote and mysterious, deeply hidden
within the skull and inaccessible except to specialists
daring enough to pierce its three protective layers. ...
therefore, brain experts knew little about the functioning
of the NORMAL brain.”
“The New Brain, in contrast, doesn't require dangerous
intrusions but can now be depicted using sophisticated
computer-driven imaging techniques with abbreviated names
like CAT, PET, MRI, and MRA. These techniques reveal
exquisitely subtle operational details and provide windows
through which neuroscientists (brain scientists) can view
different aspects of brain functioning without opening the
skull or performing other risky procedures.”
“Thanks to the new developments, brain science is capable of
providing us with insights into the human mind that only a
few years ago would have been considered the stuff of
science fiction.”
“We can now study the brain in "real time" when we are
thinking, taking a test, practicing a craft, experiencing an
emotion, or making a decision. Brain tests can even
indicate when we're telling the truth."
Neuroscientists refer to this new field as Cognitive Science.
In the era of the New Brain, the emphasis is shifting from
diseases and dysfunctions to an understanding of the brains
of the average man and woman. An exciting consequence
follows from this new emphasis on the NORMAL brain:
. . .Research can now provide us with useful guidelines
about our everyday lives. For instance, recent findings,
[discussed in the book] indicate that by following certain
brain-based guidelines ANYONE can achieve expert performance
in sports, athletics, or academic pursuits.
Such findings, of course, run counter to the traditional
theory that sports achievers and geniuses are born not made,
that our genes and other factors outside of our control
impose limits on our individual capabilities. Not so.
Instead, it is now clear that by learning about and applying
this new research, most of us can reasonably expect greatly
enhanced personal levels of achievement.
Thanks to such advances and the promises of even greater
ones in the near future, it seems fair to say that
technology, rather than biology, will play the major role in
the evolution of the human brain.
Ladies and Gentlemen, a new Era has begun. No longer can
any of us hold self-limiting beliefs! Learn the Scientific
"How" and "Why"; apply the 'brain-based guidelines'; and
anything, ANYTHING can be achieved. Join us on that
exciting journey.
Learn the SCIENCE of PERMANENT Self-Motivation. So you
don't have to go back again and again and again, and spend
more and more and more money for a short term fix!
Scientific facts do not lie and do not fail, and neither
will you! Guaranteed!
*** 7 Mini-Science Lessons for Maxi-Success ***
This Course is FREE, and a great starting point for you to
run toward the Science of Permanent Self-Motivation.
Subscribe to the 7 Mini-Science Lessons for Maxi-Success
course and to Doug Bench's free Neuroscience Self-Motivation
News at his Science for Success website:
http://www.mcssl.com/app/aftrack.asp?afid=69141
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PROJECTS OF INTEREST
The Natural Child Project
Parent, homeschooler, author and psychologist Jan Hunt
shares her vision of the world in which all children are
treated with dignity, respect, understanding and compassion.
http://www.naturalchild.org/
The Parenting Project
A non-profit organization founded in 1995 by parent advocate
and mother of three Suzy Garfinkle Chevrier working to bring
parenting, empathy and nurturing skills education to all
school age children and teens.
http://www.parentingproject.org/
Project HappyChild
Penny Rollo Midas' extraordinary extravaganza of resources
for children and parents. Started in 1998, it's now more
than 7,000 pages and still growing!
http://www.happychild.org.uk/
Project Renaissance
Creative thinking pioneer Win Wenger's core mission is to
enable as many human beings as possible to become more than
a match for the situations, opportunities and problems or
difficulties that they find around them, and to enjoy a
richer quality of life and experience.
http://www.winwenger.com/
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I hope you've enjoyed this issue of Parental Intelligence!
Issue 62 will be published on 6 October 2003
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