Postmenopausal Women NEED RET (with Life Skills)

(from the discontinued RET Forum)

A study of 3369 community-dwelling, generally healthy postmenopausal women (aged 51-83 years) enrolled between 1997 and 2000 in the Myocardial Ischemia and Migraine Study showed an increased risk of heart attack after panic attack. The study gathered data from ten clinical centers of the 40-center Women’s Health Initiative.

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Neurological Integration Question

Why does the client look only into our left eye?
(from the discontinued RET Forum)
As one of the original research and development team who worked with Neurological Integration (NI), maybe I can shed some light on this. First of all, I really don’t think it matters at all which eye the client looks into. According to the newest research into how our brains are connected, both eyes can access the base (called “deep affect”) emotions necessary to make NI occur. However, the left eye connects the right brain and theoretically – backed by quite a bit of scientific research – the right brain connects more directly with those deep affect emotions. In testing and developing NI, we found this to be true for everyone we did NI with. That probably meant that ALL the research team (about 10 of us) were brain-wired in the same way – our right brains were more directly connected to these deep affect emotions than were our left brains.

In practical terms that meant that we could do NI with the right eye (which connects to the left brain), but the process would take hours rather than minutes to perform. From what I’ve read, as much as 5-10% of the population is brain-wired in this way.

If, when you do NI with your clients and they seem to take an inordinate amount of time (say 5 minutes or longer), you might try reversing which of your eyes the client looks into and see if it speeds things up. If it does, you may have your deep affect emotions connected differently than the research team did.

When Ranae suggested that instead of using our own affect emotions (like when thinking about deep grief or fear), we used love thoughts, we found the right eye (connected to left brain) simply could not make that trip – meaning we could do NI in seconds now with the left eye but not at all with the right. Further, the indicators that NI had been accomplished were more pronounced when we used love thoughts and the left eye. It was always difficult to detect the indicators when we used our right eyes.

Overall, through quite a bit of testing and some inspiration, we found that when the client gazed into the technician’s left eye and the technician thought love and acceptance thoughts, the NI process worked quicker and was easier to detect when it occurred in the client.

When Ranae added the hand connections as well, the deep affect love thoughts were far easier to access and transmit than when we did not touch our clients. This addition made the process much more reliable and easier to perform as some technicians could detect the indicators of successful NI through the sensation channel in addition to the visual channel – they could “feel” or “sense” it and see it. Some technicians report feeling a slight but noticeable shock or electrical sensation when NI occurred. This would invariably occur simultaneous to the eye indicators (pupil jumps, instantaneous iris blooming, and/or very rapid pupil swelling and shrinking).

Scientific Evidence of the Value of Reframing

(from the discontinued RET Forum)

Researchers at New York University have demonstrated scientifically that a specific fearful memory can be rewritten in the brain without the use of drugs – purely behaviorally. Of course, alternative practitioners like hypnotherapists and Rapid Eye Technicians have seen this over and over and are sold on the fact that fearful memories can be rewritten (in NLP it’s called “Reframing”).

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Eye Movement and Blinking Links to Thought and Emotion

Evidence Links Eye Movement and Blinking to Thought and Emotion

(from the discontinued RET Forum)

According to an article in the August 2007 issue of Scientific American, the brain turns blindness from micro-movements of the human eye into the capacity for vision – and a window into the mind.

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Research into Eye Movements to Assess Memory

(from the discontinued RET Forum)

Scientists may have discovered a way to glean information about stored memories by tracking patterns of eye movements, even when an individual is unable (or perhaps even unwilling) to report what they remember. The research, published by Cell Press in the September 10th issue of the journal Neuron, provides compelling insight into the relationship between activity in the hippocampus, eye movements, and both conscious and unconscious memory.

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Winson’s Research Confirms Efficacy of RET

(from the discontinued RET Forum)
by Ranae Johnson, MRET

Brain and Psyche
The Biology of the Unconscious
by Jonathan Winson

Jonathan Winson is a neuroscientist who has dedicated a great deal of his life working at the frontier of brain research. His research lead him to believe that recent neuroscientific findings may provide the long-sought link between the brain and the psyche. Dr. Winson’s groundbreaking theory, called by noted anthropologist Robin Fox: the most significant breakthrough into the unconscious mind since “The Interpretation of Dreams”, suggests that the link between the brain and psyche began with an evolutionary change in the brains of mammals 140 million years ago – which now, in the brain of man, constitutes the biological basis of the Freudian unconscious.

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