Mind Rewire

Subconscious Change

1. The Brain

2. Subconscious and Conscious mind

3. Neuroplasticity and pathways

4. Brain Dominance v.s. Whole Brain

5. Possibilities

6. Your chemical make-up

7. Ways to change the landscape of your mind

The Brain

We all have a brain. It is on a simplistic level the grey matter between your ears.

On a grander scale it is the grey matter between your ears that keeps your body

functioning, from all of the body’s functions, such as walking, talking, swallowing,

breathing, taste, smell, heart rate and so on, to controlling all of our thinking

functions, our emotions, how we behave and all our intellectual (cognitive)

activities, such as how we attend to things, how we perceive and understand our

world and its physical surroundings, how we learn and remember and so on.

The brain is a truly amazing piece of architecture when you think about it- and if

you ever see one outside of the human body it is a crazy looking mass of soft,

wrinkly, spongy tissue. You would never know that it is one of the major control

center of the body any more than looking at a heart muscle would give you

indication of the other operations that it has on the level of reaching out to others

and the chemical production, or even your intestines and the neuron production

there that sends signals back to the brain with information of how to take on the

world around you.

Subconscious and Conscious mind

When talking about the brain the subject of the subconscious and conscious mind

may come up. What are they? Where are they? What do they do?

There are 2 trains of thought concerning these two bodies of the mind.

The first is that they don’t exist, the second is that they do we just don’t know

where they are located.

The "subconscious mind" may not exist the way we think it does, but

subconscious brain activity is real.

Sigmund Freud gave the mind personality and drama by creating powerful

narratives Freud constructed ideas of hidden battles that rage between the ego,

id, and superego, and made our minds seem like they had separate beings in

operation.

While Freud's internal drama of the mind is no longer taken seriously in the field

of psychology research, it continues to frame in deep ways how people

understand literature, metaphor, and mythic archetypes. The drama of the

subconscious continues to be used productively in Psychology offices and with

mind/body workers across the world.

But does anything like the subconscious mind actually exist?

Is there a hidden demon in the cellar (or the attic) of the mind, secretly trying to

undermine our life goals in order to achieve its own devious and mischievous

desires?

Maybe, maybe not.

Neuroscience and subconscious Processing

Subconscious activity as a component of mental activity is a real phenomenon

and is responsible for much of our behavior -- perhaps most of it. But how should

we think about this "subconscious activity"?

The modern view in neuroscience From Bruce Lipton and Doctors like him is that

the activity of the brain is in some ways like an iceberg. The small portion of

activity that is available for awareness and introspection is like the tip of that

iceberg.

The "conscious mind" as like the visible tip of an iceberg.

What, then, is going on in the "unconscious" or subconscious part?

The brain is processing an immense amount of information, but only a portion of

that information is widely shared across the brain's neural networks at any given

moment.

It's like a room full of people having conversations, but only one person gets to

take the microphone at a time to be heard by everyone. But there are many more

conversations going on that are not heard around the room. These conversations

are what could be called the subconscious. The quiet table side conversations that

happen while the speaker is speaking.

The subconscious refers to everything going on that is not conscious.

It is this background conversation that gives the appearance of a separation of the

mind.

Certain information is kept out of one's personal narrative ("repressed desires,

beliefs or memories"?), and appears only indirectly in conscious experience when

a situation or event bring the background conversation into the conscious mind.

It may only give up what feels like outcomes on the level of consciousness and

surface as repeating patterns or thoughts that one may not understand why they

are there.

If giving the patterns a name, like "the subconscious" is a helpful way of managing

them or bringing them into awareness, then what is the harm?

While the idea of there being an actual place in the brain called the subconscious

or whether it is just an idea we can use to be able to communicate what is going

on easier it is a concept that you hear periodically and I use in my work.

So from top of the ice berg to the part under the water, the awareness that is the

conscious mind, and the table side chatter that isn’t heard or paid attention to.

Conscious mind = aware

Subconscious Mind = below the level of awareness

Neuroplasticity and pathways

Neuroplasticity is an umbrella term referring to the ability of your brain to

reorganize or restructure itself, both physically and functionally, throughout your

life due to your environment, behavior, thinking, and emotions. Neuro meaning

Brain cells, and plasticity meaning malleable or moldable.

The old thought was that the adult brain was pretty much a physiologically static

organ and hard-wired after critical developmental periods in childhood, basically

you were left with what you grew up in. While it’s true that your brain is much

more plastic during the early years and capacity declines with age, plasticity

actually happens all throughout your life, and the more its is utilized the mor

malleable it is.

You see this all of the time with people who seem super human and come against

all odds and make it to the big time, it’s that kid that grew up in a house of horror

and craziness and yet emerged into this amazing caring person. He had to kick

and fight and struggle his way out but the human before you is nor where a

representation of what his early life was trying to make him. Why? Somewhere

along the way he made a decision to not listen to the thoughts or follow the paths

in his head. He made choices that went against the grain of what he was taught.

And changed what could have been an otherwise rocky outcome and hard life.

All your memories (of events, words, images, emotions, and even beliefs)

correspond to the particular activity of certain networks of neurons in your brain

that have strengthened connections with one another. Every time you think a

thought you strengthen those connections. The neurons that fire together wire

together, meaning every time you go to the thought the neuron fires. If you

repeat the pattern often the firing happens faster. This is what creates the

automatic reaction and why repetitive practice make a task easier. You are

literally creating a groove/pathway/ or loop to the thing you are doing.

This seems to be the case with negative thinking or positive. If I am playing

movies in my head of the fight I had with my mother and the anger that came

from it, over and over the neuron are moving closer together, and firing faster,

and my result is an angry life. Whether you are learning and honing a skill or

changing an old belief process. If the neurons are firing rapidly they will keep you

locked into the pattern.

When learning a sport as a young person and the repeated movement become

like second nature you have brought those firing synapses so close and the firing

happens so quickly the nature of the movement has become a part of that

person. Think about Tiger wood in his younger years.

PLASTICITY IN NEURAL PATHWAYS

Every time you learn something, neural circuits are altered in your brain. A bond is

created with a protein and a neuron that becomes neuroplasticity and grooved

into a pathway- These circuits communicate with one another through special

junctions called synapses.

When you learn something, it is actually these synapses whose efficiency

increases, thus facilitating the passage of nerve impulses along a particular circuit

or pathway. The more the pathway is used the stronger it becomes.

There is a train of thought that says you can actually “break” apart unused or

unwanted neuroplasticity, this may not be fully correct. Do you break it apart or

are you overwriting the pathways? The other train of thought is that you are

overwriting the pathways. Either way the more you practice the thing the more

you strengthen the pathway.

The less you practice a movement, thought, or a belief, the synapses actually fires

less and the space between the neurons get wider.

As the firing of the neurons becomes less, then the thoughts won’t be as

pervasive, they won’t be as strong. The belief begins to change. The stronghold

breaks free.

The traps of the mind are as much as the quickened response of the neurons

firing and your ability to assert your will over the thoughts, the belief, and the

action to change what you don’t like and create what you want.

The neural pathways you travel the most will become very efficient.

Brain Dominance vs. Whole Brain

A great deal of research has been done on what was termed as the Brain

Dominance Theory or split brain research.

The idea was that each hemisphere of the brain specializes in and presides over

different functions, processes different kinds of information, and deals with

different kinds of problems.

When talked about and shown charts people are able to identify themselves as

being one or the other by what they do for a living or by how they generally react

to situations as they come up.

The old thinking that a person was generally either right brained or left brained is

true to an extent. And if you knew which you were we taught it was helpful

because then you could play to your strong suit.

In reality what is has done is give us an excuse to not be optimal in an area if it

doesn’t fall on your so called dominate hemisphere. It gives you excuses and

makes a person lazy.

Brain Dominance theory has definitely not aided us in reaching our highest

potential as humans or living lives that are fully supported by our legitimate

physiology of having a Whole Brain to use and at our disposal.

You have also heard that humans can only utilize or use only 10 % of the brain.

The other 90 % is not something we can use or “access”. This is an urban myth.

This is not true according to Doctor Bruce Lipton- So where did all this miss

information come from? According to Lipton a study of the brain revealed a very

important fact that your brain is made up of 10% Neuron cells. 90% are Glial cells

which were called supporting and connective tissue. In The Neuron Doctrine it

was believed that the neurons cells were the cells that did all the work, they are

the functional cells of the brain and the other 90% the glial cells where just

support.

Lipton goes on to say that by definition then we were lead to believe that if only

10% is neurons that are the functioning cells then that is all we use.

The glial cells, for a long time, were thought to be just the connective supportive

tissue for nutrition and physical support to the neurons.

What we know now is that they do way more- they are way more important in

neural function that just support, they can inhibit or activate neurons, they

connect to neurons and can control the activity of neurons- they are not just

passive cells within the brain they are an integral part of the way the brain works.

Without the glial cells the neurons will not do their job. So knowing this is

powerful, you don’t only have access to 10%, you have access to the whole thing

and the whole thing is vital to your existence.

The good doctor goes on to explain that it doesn’t mean we actually use all of the

brain all of the time, because when you live in patterns or habits- you will use the

neuronal pathways that are form by habituation- or doing the same thing over

and over again. These pathways seem to get a preference in your everyday life-

which are your repeated cycles and patterns and why you fill stuck in areas…

So just like being pigeon holed into the idea that you are either right brained or

left brain, only using 10% of the capacity of the brain can severely limit a person

even just by the theory.

If you have access to and can understand that by having a whole brain and being

in a whole brain state you will lend yourself to a mentality that will allow you to

keep unwanted garbage out of your life and your brain. That the cycles and

patterns you repeat are merely stored in your brain as neuro plasticity and not

really who you are at all. But that you grow up identify with these patterns and

issues like they are part of your personality when in reality they are simply just a

part of the story.

A whole brain state allows for you to explore without fear, understand without

restraint, and care, love, and grow without worrying about what anyone else is or

isn’t doing.

If you are left or right brained centric and so overly creative that you have no

structural controls in your life, is that profitable? If you are so strict and rigid in

rules and logic that you can’t understand the beauty and love around you or

interact in a creative way through it, is that a life?

Such as being Ordered and structured even when being Creative.

Or being emotional with logic included.

Think about how many times you were over board one way or the other, in

regards to different subjects...

Like being totally in a creative mind or so over board with intuition that you lost

focus on what was in front of you, and had no logic or structure to work with.

Or maybe it was with reason, and structure and you couldn’t move ahead

because you needed a little bit of creativity?

Possibilities

A whole brain state- a whole brain society- what a different culture that would be.

An open minded whole being platform to learn , engage, train, move, feel, heal,

and live…

Living out of wholeness instead of struggling for ground and need for things you

never are able to grasp.

A whole brain state allows you the ability to easily rewrite the neuropathways.

Your physical body has the infrastructure already in place to do this. We have just

been taught to live in fear, to not listen to our bodies or our spirt. We question

the wrong things and cause or on physical body to work against us. The question

of what medicine should I take, what doctor do I listen to- we gave away our

ability to reason our own existence and heal our own bodies because of what we

were told a doctor could do. The belief itself that our health is in the control of a

government system that demands insurance and that pharmaceuticals are the

road back to health is absolutely crazy.

Absolute change is the change in the condition of your heart, and also a change in

your physiology which is a change in your brain. Your heart and your brain are

connected and not separable. While your physiology dictates that they serve

different functions in the body- they both have a spiritual connection and

energetic value that keeps them functioning on different levels together.

They each connect us to each other, the world around us and to God, Creator and

to creation.

Your chemical make-up

Utilizing your chemical make-up will play an important role.

The neurotransmitters and chemicals that are secreted in conjunction with good

or bad feelings are a good que for a person to recognize and even utilize.

When learning to feel your body in module 2 of MIND REWIRE, it is these

chemicals that come into play.

The neurotransmitters leave a feeling in your body. When you can tap into this

feeling and recognize the control you do have over the chemicals you are injecting

into your own system by way of a thought or replaying an old memory, or even

the movies and stories you write to help you get understanding of situations in

your life, you can start to change your life, outcomes and new situations – your

perception and attitude all change. In correlation to these neurotransmitters you

are able to utilize you free will to be happy or not- engage in angry and behaviors

that drive you there, or realize that gets you nowhere (most times) and just be

able to relax and find joy! Odd and interesting that it is a choice you make, and

not just your lot in life.

These neurotransmitters are characterized by what they do in your system and

catalogued good and bad- which for our purposes here works but isn’t entirely

true- even the ones under the bad area have good qualities that your body needs

to function and thrive if balanced with the rest. Same with the good- While

oxytocin is thought of as the love neurotransmitter, It makes you feel good it also

can heighten the feeling of cortisol if your or in a state where that is in your

system.

So here is a list and how they interact with your system, how to up them manually

(thinking, interaction, life) or where possible by the food you eat and aligning

yourself with health.

Neurotransmitters

Chemicals of Connection, Pleasure and Calm *In conversation, these chemicals are activated through trust, caring, courage, candor, and appreciation

Dopamine: https://bebrainfit.com/increase-dopamine/

Motivation Molecule

Productivity

Focus

Pleasure -Reward Center “I did it!” Thrill of the chase

Feelings of enjoyment, bliss, euphoria

If you have Too little- You may feel Lethargic, unmotivated, unfocused, depressed

Lack a zest for life

You can boost dopamine by gratitude practice, appreciation, completion of tasks and expressing “yes”, celebrate, exercise, meditation, creative hobbies, listening to music, take on new challenges, be creative, enjoy the quest (the act of seeking and finding), set short and long term goals and celebrate your accomplishments Dopamine Boosting Foods

Dopamine is made from the amino acid tyrosine.

Eating a diet high in tyrosine will ensure you’ve got the basic building blocks needed for

dopamine production.

Here’s a list of foods, drinks, and spices known to increase dopamine:

all clean animal products

almonds

apples

avocado

bananas

beets

chocolate

coffee

fava beans

green leafy vegetables

green tea

lima beans

oatmeal

sea vegetables

sesame and pumpkin seeds

turmeric

watermelon

wheat germ

Foods high in natural probiotics such as yogurt, kefir, and raw sauerkraut can also increase

natural dopamine production.

The health of your intestinal flora impacts your production of neurotransmitters.

Oxytocin: https://bebrainfit.com/oxytocin-love-hormone/

Love Hormone- released when we hug, cuddle, make love

Increases trust and empathy, forms bonds

Strengthens traits such as generosity, trust, altruism, openness and generosity

Strengthens bonds

Down- side: It can intensify bad feelings as well as producing good. It can Intensify fear and mistrust in those not in your social circle

At its worst it fuels prejudice, aggression and xenophobia

Boost oxytocin by: Physical touch, words of encouragement, listening, smiling and laughing, meditating and praying, exercise, cry, give, create, and spend time with animals There are no foods that specifically help bump or release Oxytocin, although eating foods that one thoroughly enjoys is reported to give that bump.

Oxytocin is sold as nasal spray (Syntocinon)

Serotonin: https://bebrainfit.com/serotonin-deficiency/

Happy molecule

In the brain it regulates mood, well-being, social behavior, libido, learning, memory and sleep.

In the gut it regulates appetite and digestion and is just starting to be studied. Low serotonin is depression and the accompanying loss of pleasure and anxiety among a long list of other things

Increased by: eating healthy carbs, tryptophan rich protein, decreasing sugar, exercise, sunshine, massage

Gaba: Nature’s Valium

Inhibitory neurochemical- slows, calms and decreases the activity of certain neurons

Puts the brakes on brain activity on an as needed basis

Makes us feel relaxed in body and emotions

Too little leaves us feeling anxious, dysregulated, overstimulated, stressed out, overwhelmed

Increase Gaba by eating high glutamate foods (such as banana and almond), exercise, improve sleep quality with calming ingredients like magnesium

Endorphin: Group of 20 plus known neurotransmitters

“Runner’s High”- a state of euphoria, bliss and pain tolerance brought on by extreme physical exertion

Natural painkillers

Helps us respond to and cope with fear and pain

Maintain pleasurable internal states

Flowing endorphins create whole body good feelings

Activated by tuning into something you love (appreciation mediation), think of someone saying nice things to you, exercise, chocolate, and feeling emotionally and socially secure, love and laughter, connection, shared experiences, speaking sweetly to a pet, nature, making music, the smell of vanilla and lavender

Neurochemicals of Arousal & Stress

*In conversation, these chemicals are activated through fear, judgement, and distrust

Cortisol: Stress hormone

Mobilizes energy, enhances memory, helps with fight or flight reactions

High levels long term: increase inflammation, weakens immune system, damages neurons, impacts memory, resilience and emotional regulation

Cause distrust

Adrenaline: Increases our heart rate and respiration helping us react to threats or calls to action with heightened energy and awareness

Noradrenaline: Similar to adrenaline without the rush

Feel energized and focused, able to shift focus and attention to keep in tune with what surroundings require

High levels alert stress response. Diet A poor diet high in bad carbs and sugar. Processed food and GMO’s will heighten these chemicals

From Conversational Intelligence, Judith Glaser, tells us is that the good

transmitters come in slower and hang out for a short period of time. The bad ones

come quicker and hang out longer. I have question whether this is simply by our

own conditioning and we have genetically set up our systems to respond this way

or if it is part of the blueprint? Have we set our systems up to stay longer in these

situations of stress and negative feelings and swimming deep in the

neurotransmitters that correspond by way of how the last number of generations

lived and reacted? Or was that simply by design… I’ll leave you to question that…

When the neurotransmitters are in balance and there is not an overabundance of

anything or a lack of anything- the system works well and you feel good…

Ways to change the landscape of your mind

Subconscious change

So how do you cause/create change?

There are 3 ways to initiate change from a subconscious stand point-

1 is hypnosis

2 is habituation- it take 30 days to create a habit. Repetitive action in an area

3 is energy psychology protocols- EMDR- Tapping, and the like all fall under this

bubble- these are methods that work on the level of the subconscious- not just

conscious. The work to “take apart neuroplasticity and create new

neuropathways. They can be talked about and leave you with the idea that there

is some hocupocus going on. The woowoo of spirituality and new age practice.

Which, when the spirit is added to the equation we can get a whole different mix

of and action to life. But, this is merely about the physical part of the system- how

it works and how much you can have control you have over it.

In Mind rewire we learn how to use the physical Built in processes and for lack of

a better term, applications of the body.

While I do not believe you can remove the spirit from the equation –the more you

take authority of the physical the more the spirit can come to light.

Illness and disease are part of the physical. They affect your soul not your spirit-

you do have total authority.

I use the simplest method possible that will put power back into your hands-

Becoming aware and knowing what is in your mind and then seeding the mind

with what you want is the best way to do it.

Being in a whole brain state allows for this to happen easily and effectively.

So to be in a whole brained state is what Mind Rewire is all about, and a rapid

change method that allows for quick overwriting of the subconscious thoughts

and beliefs that have seemingly deep grooves.

You will learn a technique with mind Rewire that will teach you exactly how to do

it and give you support to turn it into a practice that will benefit you the rest of

your life.

Life is an incredible adventure an when you are free to participate, you can use

your freedom of will, and learn to utilize the processes of your physical body –

when they a cohesive and functioning together, your quality of life is better and

you are in alignment with your best life.

Mind Rewire wants to give that back to you, and show you how it’s done-

But it’s up to you to make it happen… The possibilities are truly endless!!