The neural self appears to be continuously and consistently re-constructed from the ground up. Most of the time unnoticed by the Quantum Self. Thus the brain produces and holds in working memory: neural representations, circuits or images, of an object, neural representations, circuits or images, of the organism responding to the object observed, neural structures…
According to Antonio Damásio, the process of making images, and the wakefulness and arousal that are needed for the formation of them are just as relevant as the Self. We experience the Self as the observer, knower and owner of those images. The neural basis for the Self appears to be connected to endlessly updated…
Antonio Damásio, a well known neuroscientist, researcher, and author of books about consciousness, concludes that the Mind is ’em-bodied, not just em-brained’, and images are ‘the currency of our minds’. In his view, an image is more than a visual representation; it is a ‘pattern in any of our senses, such as a sound image,…
Have you ever experienced a conversation where your partner’s face and body suddenly lost animation and the eyes were fixed on some point in the room, like a deer in the headlight? You said something but they didn’t respond. He or she suffered from an impairment of consciousness, a dysfunction in the brain. He or…
Fortunately, the same immense energies that create the symptoms of trauma, can transform that trauma and propel us into new heights of healing, mastery, wisdom. We have the ability to feel, respond and reflect, and as such we possess the innate potential to heal even the most debilitating traumatic injuries. Trauma resolved is a great…
At a very early age, we are taught to shortcut the natural trauma response of our bodies, and thus trauma fixing in the tissues begins almost immediately. This energy will persist in the body’s tissues and joints, and often forces the formation of a wide variety of symptoms, such as anxiety, depression, physical and behavioral…
Are the traumatic symptoms caused by the traumatic event itself? Or do they stem from the frozen residue of response-energy that has not been discharged? As this resistance-residue remains trapped in our nervous system and the star-tetrahedrons of our lightbody, it can consequently wreak havoc on our body and mind. The long-term alarming, debilitating, and…
Did you ever leave a ‘freeze in fear’ situation, and later thinking “I should have said or done this or that”? This “replay” of a trauma is a clue that the body is storing an image, for the purpose of replaying the drama later in order to complete the process of trauma discharge. Most of…
The involuntary and instinctual parts of our brains that are activated by a perceived life threatening situation are the parts similar to animal brains. That’s why we can learn much from studying how certain prey animals avoid traumatization. One key to healing trauma in humans lies in mimicing wild animals when they complete their cycle…
Is Trauma an emotion charged Memory? Human cultures tend to judge a surrender in the face of an overwhelming threat as cowardice. They fear and avoid it because it is a state very similar to death, but in fact it is the strongest survival response, because if you completely relax you may live long enough…
Human health shows us the effects of the bully <> victim dynamic in a host of physical and psychiatric disorders that result from what we label as “resistance” or “stress”. This almost benign term, camouflages the mortal gravity of the condition of constant rage and panic that characterizes this bully <> victim dynamic. Human health…
Victim of Abuse or Trauma? The effects of aggression permeate every layer of our social fabric. The roles of victim & aggressor are deeply embedded in human consciousness. They play out their dramas in personal, virtual, local, national and international theaters. Is this the insanity that plagues humanity every day? What aspect of our human…
