What Cerebrology® means to me.
I developed these exercises and this work because I wanted to have a way to grow. I tried many things and Cerebrology was what worked for me. Cerebrology gave me the ability to open my heart. I know how important having an open heart is to all of us, so I am sharing my work with you.
The Dali Lama said, “Eliminate the negative or dark forces from our emotions and there is enlightenment.”
When I first got an understanding that there were things I was creating with my energy or intention, that were negative, I realized it may be from my insecurities. I underwent counseling for a few years and was still the same. I began to read more and more on the subject of the mind and emotions in order to have an understanding of what I could do to grow.
Many people offer self help books. I read quite a few of them. I read You Can Heal Your Life not long after it was published. Louise Hay’s book was wonderful and groundbreaking. I remember seeing Louise in West Hollywood and talking to her, she was a wonderful lady. I told her I valued her work and Louise said, “Many people love my book and have told me they have been helped by it. I had to publish it myself, I don’t know why.” I told her I didn’t see why it would not be something that publishers wanted.” Louise said, “Maybe it frightened them because it was so different.”
After reading A Course in Miracles, I attended a lecture by Maryanne Williamson and I later met her at the Center for Life. The Center for Life, a house that was built by Maryanne, was a meeting place for people interested in A Course in Miracles, healing, N.L.P and spiritual growth. I took classes in N.L.P there and learned a great deal about it.
I saw how many people were going wild for N.L.P and how much it was influencing everything from self-help, E.S.T. to positive affirmations, guided meditations, hypnosis, subconscious programming, self talk, subliminal programming, motivational seminars, even people fire walking from N.L.P.
Although I had great success working with others that had stress, in my initial work using Cerebrology, I had not yet tried to use Cerebrology for other things. I had not yet tried Cerebrology exercises to remove the reactions I had that were a shadow on my life.
I decided that while I had the opportunity, I would learn all I could about N.L.P and make the most of it by growing myself.
I was doing grief counseling for some terminally ill, at the Center for Life. The counseling I did was not N.L.P, I was just caring for people that could use some love. Counselors were provided for us as well. The counseling was available to help us with the overwhelming sadness we felt after one person after another person we cared for and loved died.
I was doing a lot of N.L.P. on myself, I really wanted to grow and become a better person. I was with a friend that passed and doing positive thought was not enough, I was too sad.
I went to get some counseling and to my amazement, I was not able to cry in counseling. I kept trying to release my feelings but I realized I was so practiced at “thought control” I was not able to be in touch with my real feelings.
I created a disconnect between who I was and my thoughts. I was hoping I could stop having bad reactions just thinking great thoughts all the time. My attempt to control my self by controlling my thoughts, was only helping me to dissociate.
I read Drama of the Gifted Child by Alice Miller and I was shocked when I realized I was just being a narcissist, I was just looking at the image I wanted to see and was not interested in looking at anything else. I was not authentic or real being this way.
I was not becoming “who I was” something I thought was essential for the characters in the Wizard of Oz to grow. I was not revealing my good and bad and working to grow.
I was thinking about my thoughts before I said them, I wanted my thoughts to be great.
Of all the things I feel I “know” or “understand”, I feel that what comes from my heart is essential. We all know that. Love is a feeling not an idea. Giving love is an experience of feelings. Saying wonderful things is not what I wanted, I wanted to improve my reality. I wanted to learn how to “create” my life and I was determined to learn.
I was ready to take responsibility for my intention and what it created.
I wanted to be able to love, create beauty, experience my life as a joy and not have reactions that altered my perceptions and gave me feelings about myself or others that made a mess.
I could think wonderful thoughts, do self talk and positive affirmations, go out and worry that I was overweight. I was not overweight when I had these thoughts, I had abs. I was onstage recently at the Santa Monica Civic, getting two standing ovations for my physique at the Mr. L.A. contest. I was ripped, why did I feel fat?
I am sure N.L.P. works well for many people. It did not help me grow to remove my crap.
I could see there were times I would still have reactions that created shadows that covered my light, it was something that I had to look at. I knew I would have to work on my heart to grow.
I thought about the exercises I developed before I learned about N.L.P. I remembered the exercises I developed were always about being in touch with what was happening in my heart and body. I remembered the exercises enhancing the reactions and perceptions I had. I went back to doing the exercises that helped me grow before I learned N.L.P.
Much like learning to float gave me a new way of reacting to being in the water and a better perception of the water, the exercises of Cerebrology were allowing me to let go of my jealousy, my insecurities, improve my body image and other important things. My perceptions and experiences were becoming wonderful.
Cerebrology exercises were done one time. After I did an exercise and rewrote some old non-verbal programming or conditioning, I was able to enjoy things and experience them with clarity. I did an exercise and stopped being jealous. Being jealous was a real nightmare for me, it did not allow me to have the relationship I wanted to have. When I rewrote the conditioning that created my jealousy, I was able to enjoy my experience and not sabotage what I loved.
I did not have to think about my thoughts at all, I could just be myself and open my heart. I realized I was putting colored lenses on before when I was just adding some good feeling. It was good to have good feelings but it was great to have clarity because when how I saw myself improved, I realized everything I looked at was a reflection of how I felt about me.
I continued doing the work that would become Cerebrology. I was growing and feeling wonderful. I had all my feelings but I was eliminating the bad reactions that make me moody, ineffective or defensive and replacing them with a perception and experience of myself and others that gave me the star of my show.
I studied everything I could about neurology and what controlled our reactions and perceptions and I realized I was re-writing the non-verbal code of the operating system that was making decisions for us.
When other people I knew asked to try my exercises, I had a good time watching them grow too. I realized how valuable what I was doing was. Cerebrology has been working for over fifteen years. I am sharing understandings that took a life time to learn.
Cerebrology is not available because I see people with problems. I only see people that are on the road to enlightenment, the ones that have decided to take responsibility for their energy.
I offer workshops to empaths, intuitives, healers, lovers, creators and others that want to let go and find out what is possible.
The most revealed truth, or essence of understanding happens for us during a workshop. There are no ideas or thoughts that can come close to the experience you will have.
If you are reading this, I know you are on the path to enlightenment.
The first two exercises we use rewrite the conditioning that inhibits us from being able to see our beauty in the eyes of others.
The video is showing the last exercise, getting up and seeing our beauty and the love others have for us, in their eyes. Feeling beautiful is about much more than our appearance, it can be about removing shame, removing inhibitions, removing conditioning or fear and most importantly, it is about seeing ourselves clearly.
My love to you.
If you are reading this, I know you are on this path too.
A new science and practice of healing emerges, Cerebrology
Cerebrology, the door to a fresh new loving way of healing has opened…
What has been used in the past, to help people grow and what were the origins?
Let us look at where we have been..
Considered one of the largest influences on hypnotherapy, Milton Erickson has been a big influence on self-help. Richard Bandler and John Grinder who created Neuro Linguistic Programming, used Milton Erickson’s help to create N.L.P.
Milton Erickson’s ideas about an “unconscious” were different than Freud’s beliefs. Milton Erickson’s “unconscious” was a complicated explanation of a theoretical system that was a philosophy not neuroscience.
The impressive sounding “unconscious”, gave the impression of a scientific discipline but does not explain brain function. Milton Erickson stated, “In all my techniques, almost all, there is confusion.” Even that sentence is confusing.
In our past, we have seen healer-patient relationships that gave great power to the healer. One reason for the disparity in power was that the language used was not simple, understandable or consumer friendly.
Cerebrology is new, scientific and does something in our brain to help us grow
We have the ability to improve the bad reactions we have.
Recently there have been experiments on animals and humans to rewrite memory. The method is described as “re consolidation of memory”.
The memory that was re consolidated or rewritten was not a verbal memory. The work was done on the amygdala, the section of our brain associated with emotional learning. Our amygdala is part of our automatic brain, what I call our operating system.
In recent years, additional studies have replicated Nader’s studies in other mammals, and they have even extended the idea to humans. In 2009, neuropsychologists confirmed that if you activate a person’s fear, the traumatic memories associated with it can, for a brief period, be altered. The key is to provide complete safety during the reconsolidation window-which, in humans opens up minutes after a memory is recalled. The window lasts up to six hours, but then slams shut until the next time the memory is recalled.
When we put a memory into play, it is destabilized, flexible and vulnerable or ready to be permanently rewritten, adding the new information we add to it. This technique is what you are about to learn.
How can the new science of Cerebrology be an effective tool in self-help to improve what happens in our brain?
I want self-help to be user friendly, easily understood and it should have a basis in neuroscience that can be explained simply as well. I believe this type of self help will empower people and allow them the tools they need to grow and be more themselves.
Let me give you some of those tools today.
We need to understand where our reactions and perceptions come from so we can understand why this works so effectively on our brain.
How we react can come from conditioning but most of the time our reactions come from affect. Affect is something we learned before we were verbal, when we empathized with our parents, emulated the relationship they had with others and modeled the feelings our parents had about themselves.
Just as we watch someone dance and feel the feeling in our body, later this feeling is what gives us the ability to do the same dance. This is the way we learned affect before we were verbal.
Learning affect takes place the same way in animals and is what makes the difference between a feral cat and one that is comfortable sitting in our lap. The part of our brain that makes one person react differently than another or have a different self image than another, does not understand verbal language any more than a cat does.
Now we need to understand how to do the work of Cerebrology, to improve the reactions in our brain. Here is an example
I am proud to say Cerebrology exercises give people what they need to open their curtains and drapes, so they can see by their own light.
I believe people want to love themselves unconditionally and with this new science it is easy to achieve.
I predict that people will be attractive because of the beauty within.
I have already worked with people that have made this happen.
An example of an exercise that makes us able to see the beauty within, is the exercise for a better self image. It helps a person find exactly what it is that is impeding them from feeling their beauty and allows them to automatically see their beauty all the time.
THE EXERCISE: SEE WITH YOUR EYES HOW ATTRACTIVE YOU ARE
Step One
The exercise begins, we start by standing 6-10 feet from a mirror and to the side so we can not see our image. Next we walk up to the mirror but not so we can see ourselves and just before the mirror we stop and close our eyes.
Next we take a few deep breaths and relax.
If we are more relaxed after a few breathes, it may be because we have some apprehension.
If we were to look in the mirror when we are apprehensive, we add the feeling of apprehension to what we see.
After we assess how we feel we go back to where we started several feet away from the mirror.
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Step Two
We do what we did to begin with again, we walk towards the mirror and stop to assess how we feel. We do the relaxation exercise again and assess how we feel. We continue doing this exercise of just walking up to the mirror, until we can go to the mirror and find ourselves automatically relaxed when we get there.
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Step Three
The next step is similar but we add one more thing.
We walk up again and close our eyes before we look at our image. We do a self check to see if we feel beautiful in our body before we look at ourselves.
How we feel about ourselves inside our body is added to the picture we see and if we do not have a feeling we are beautiful we will not see ourselves as beautiful.
We do a self check after arriving at the mirror with our eyes closed, if we do not feel beautiful in our body, we allow ourselves to feel beautiful in our body and then we return to the starting place a few feet away from the mirror.
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Step Four
We repeat this step until we are able to walk up to the mirror with our eyes closed and feel beautiful in our body.
When we are able to walk up to the mirror and have a feeling that allows us to feel beautiful, we open our eyes and discover our real beauty.
We do the exercise a couple times to reinforce the visual understanding.
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The Next Step
We then do the next exercise, which involves seeing ourselves as beautiful in someone’s eyes.
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What Have We Done To Improve Our Brain and Why Can We See Our Beauty?
Let us discuss what we are doing.
As if it was a nightmare, we allow ourselves to experience this automatic feeling that prepares us before we see ourselves.
We then understand that like a nightmare the feeling we automatically have that is preparing us, is giving us a distorted image of ourselves.
Next we let the feeling we have that is erroneous go, as we bring in the feeling we are beautiful and have it prepare us for the experience of seeing our image in the mirror. The beautiful feeling is “recondensed” and is rewriting the old memory or affect. Now the automatic feeling we have that comes up before we look in the mirror is that we are beautiful and this feeling is the one preparing us, so we SEE our true beauty.
We are able to permanently improve the feeling we automatically have. We do what is necessary to find the exact automatic preparation that inhibits us from having an experience of ourselves that has clarity. When we connect to the automatic preparation that gives us the altered perception or reaction, we can let go of the preparation or rewrite it.
It is simple, we put the information we want, in the file it belongs in. This technique is similar in some ways to just feeling good but the little extra is worth it.
Harvard psychiatrist Dr. Roger Pitman likened reconsolidation to a file in an office cabinet; if you want to adjust the contents, first you have to retrieve the file. But you can only make changes when it is opened.
Improving how we automatically prepare or react is important, the future will tell us just how important it is.
