Code to Joy by George Pratt

Author:George Pratt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2012-08-23T16:00:00+00:00

Bringing the memory to mind stimulates the amygdala, provoking the stress response. But stimulating the acupoint at the same time sends an opposite calming or sedating impulse. In effect, you are retraining the amygdala and its associated pathways to interpret the memory differently. By addressing the biofield directly, in other words, you completely bypass the cognitive process and recondition the subconscious neural response. Dr. Feinstein calls this process acupressure-assisted exposure therapy.

Remember what happened with Chantal? Dr. Sakai had her bring the traumatic memory of her family’s murder to mind while she was tapping acupoints. In other words, this exactly followed Dr. Feinstein’s description. Her amygdala was being given two different messages: the memory was stimulating the trauma response, but the touching of the acupoints sent an opposite, calming message.

Here is the fascinating thing about this sequence. Bringing a memory to mind is a conscious act of cognition (the flea). However, the amygdala and its associated neural pathways are domains of the subconscious (the elephant). What Dr. Feinstein is describing is a process of mediating between the conscious and subconscious faculties—flea and elephant—by directly addressing the biofield.

“This is not something you can simply will yourself to do,” as Dr. Feinstein puts it, “because it is a physiological response, based on neural pathways that you built during the traumatic event.”

This sequence is reflected precisely in the first two steps of our Four-Step Process.

In step 1, you identify the specific painful memory or past experience that most closely connects to the stressed state of mind you want to release, as well as the specific negative, self-limiting belief associated with that memory. Then, with those cognitive elements freshly in mind, you engage step 2 to clear, disentangle, and dissipate them.

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