The Somatophobic Somality

This is the memory of motor skills, and it is responsible for learning how to do things. This memory is automatic; Procedural memories are non-declarative and recalled automatically for in processes that involve motor skills. For example, riding a cycle is a type of this type of memory. Our bodily systems are subject to all kinds of effects of the unconscious and conscious beliefs that the mind is holding. This includes our beliefs about the supposed effects of various foods, allergens, menopausal and menstrual disorders, infections, and all other diseases associated with specific belief systems, coupled with the underlying stress proneness due to the presence of suppressed negative feelings. Norman Cousins, editor-in-chief of the Saturday Review for three decades, demonstrated this principle when he cured himself of serious physical illness by means of laughter. He wrote Anatomy of an Illness, a article about his experience of recovery from a crippling arthritic disease through heavy doses of vitamin C and belly laughter induced by films featuring the Marx brothers. He discovered that laughter had an anesthetic effect that could alleviate his pain for two hours. Laughing is a method of letting go of negative energy fields. Through laughter, Cousins kept letting go of the underlying emotional pressure and canceling negative thoughts. This resulted in very positive and beneficial changes within his body and facilitated his eventual recovery. OVERCOMING NEGATIVE PROGRAMS The way to change our bodies is to change our thoughts and feelings by letting go of negative ideas, emotions, and belief systems. Good days and bad days are part of the process and persistence keeps moving you when the original excitement of motivation is fading. The good news is that your motivation and sense of excitement will kick in again later, every time you get past a hard part. The high spirits of motivation sometimes need to catch a ride on the wide back of plodding persistence. Motivation is powerful, but delicate and reactive at the same time. That is why hopelessness can so easily throw it off track. Never entrust an important project or career move to motivation alone.

It should be very clear in your mind that you will be switching to persistence when the challenge temporarily loses its fun. Motivation is designed to take you right up to the gates of persistence, then it steps back to give you a chance to develop endurance. After reading this article and gaining more self-knowledge, you hopefully now have a new awareness of how frightened you can become of your motivation - and why. Also, you now know why the excitement of motivation might signal danger to you rather than optimism. Associative memory Associative memory usually indicates the storage and retrieval of specific data through association. The addition of this type of memory is carried out with two types of conditioning. One is operant conditioning, and the other is classical conditioning. Classical conditioning manages the learning process in which behavior and stimuli are associated. Operant conditioning , on the other side, is a learning process in which new behaviors develop according to the consequences. Non-associative Non-associative memory means the learning of new behaviors, mainly through repeated exposure to the same type of stimuli. The new behavior is classified into sensitization and habituation. Habituation is the decrease in response to some stimuli, while sensitization is an increased response to repeated stimuli. We have to cancel the negative programming that comes from the world, as well as our own belief systems. The more fearful we are, the more quickly we become programmed, and then the body responds accordingly. Fear of substances, foods, air, energies, and stimuli of all kinds has gotten to the point of environmental paranoia. Each day a new chemical or substance is announced to have harmful effects! We can see the deleterious effects of fearful negative programming in people who become subject to fear of foods, chemicals, and substances in the environment. On the Map of Consciousness, Fear is an energy field that corresponds to Withdrawal due to anxiety and a belief that ordinary life is frightening.

Some people become so phobic about the environment and everything in it that their world gets smaller and smaller. They become more fearful every day. Some people even succumb to the point where they flee the world, victims of their own minds. There are only a few things left on the planet that they can safely eat, and they carry them around in a brown bag. You have learned how your past experiences as well as your inexperience may have impeded the forward movement in your life. Once you realize that you feared your motivation was threatening to your loved ones, you will be able to mistrust the fear instead of mistrusting the motivation. Then you will be realigned with your inner power, that inspired source of forward movement called motivation. Loyalty, Guilt, and Growth Even though we want to experience the thrill of exploration, there can be a lingering tug at the heartstrings when we see our family receding in the distance. My father had polio, and when I was a little girl I can remember matching my steps to his, limping in syncopated adoration. To think that my healthy six-year-old stride might show up his infirmity was painful to me, and I felt better when I made myself like him. It was my version of survivor guilt. I have been amazed at how many of my clients use similar rationalizations. Physical illnesses, depression, panic and sexual dysfunction are just some of the ways that we match our parents' crooked gait and thereby show our love. Due to exposure to only certain stimuli affects the response of an individual to stimuli that are presented afterward. This effect of last memory on new information is what we named priming. It is thought that long-term memory is different from short-term memories in the aspect of their long time. But the difference between these two types relies upon their definition. Describing both types of memories in clear terms in the basic step of differentiating between them. These memories differ in the basic two fundamental areas.

The first is the time, and the second being chunk capacity limits. There is a big difference between the timing of these types of memories. Long-term memory has a time period of months and years, while short-term memories are thought to stay only a few seconds. There is a gap inability as well. This person goes to a banquet where everybody is eating food full of what he considers to be nothing but poison. He thinks, They are killing themselves with the steak and the pesticides on the peas, fruit, and lettuce. While, in his view, they are killing themselves, he eats out of his brown bag. He sits in the back corner at a table filled with other brown-bag people. Why is he dead, this man who ran every day and strived to be so healthy? He died because he became a bubble person with the paranoid view of the world that began to close in on him. He could not breathe the air with trust. He could not even enjoy the carpets because they were probably emitting toxic off-gases and allergens such as fiber particles that caused him to choke. Other things--such as the fumes emanating from paints or insulation, or smoke particles from a cigarette that were going to give him cancer--caused his life to become smaller and smaller. What happens in this type of situation is the progressive denial of the truth about ourselves, along with progressively giving away the power of our being to the illusion of causality from the world, which is actually powerless to affect us. In an instant we will sacrifice ourselves, our true selves, in order to sustain our loyalties and bonds. We become who we think we need to be in order to carry our parents' pain and expectations, to confirm their view of the world. We have such a strong need to belong, to be a member of a group, that we will deny our own perceptions in order to do it. These are the wrong ideals to live by. Childhood loyalty and guilt exist to be grown out of. Think of how many times our loyalties must change in the process of growing up.

Really good loyalties are not so binding that you have to stop growing. Good loyalties continue to give something back to you. Sometimes guilt is simply a growing pain, not a sign you have done something wrong. When we start exploring our individual destiny, we may have strong feelings if it looks like our purpose will take us away from our family. Short-term memory stores only a small bit of data. On the other hand, long-term memory ability is believed to be infinite. The process of establishing long-term memory physiologically differs from that of short-term memory. It entails a change in the arrangement of the neurons, ie, long-term potentiation. New neural networks are created and reinforced. The neurons interact by synapses with each other. The release of neurotransmitters in synaptic clefts facilitates cell-to-cell contact. During the formation of short-term memories, this whole process does not take place. Unlike short-term memory, long-term memory is forgotten only when a new neural network is superimposed over the older network. Through consolidation, a process involving preparation and association of memory, short-term memories can be transformed into long-term memories. This is the reversal of truth, and by believing in a falsehood about ourselves, we become increasingly vulnerable and a victim. We end up having the total paranoia of a bubble person with environmental allergies who can live only within a protective bubble of purified air and eat raw food from a brown bag. This can happen to a reasonable person, even to a physician. It started with pollens, ragweed, horse dander, dog and cat hair, dust, feathers, wool, chocolate, cheese, and nuts (all believed to cause allergies). Later, sugar was prohibited (hyperglycemia) plus food additives (cancer), eggs and dairy products (cholesterol), and organ meats (gout). Next on the harmful list came food dyes, saccharine, caffeine, coloring matter, aluminum, synthetic fabrics, noise, fluorescent lights, insect sprays, deodorants, food cooked at high temperatures, minerals in the water, chlorine in the water, nicotine, cigarette smoke, petrochemicals, car exhaust fumes, positive ions, low-level electric vibrations, acidic foods, pesticides, and foods with seeds.