Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
3D MindTM
Origin
3D Mind was developed and pioneered by NLP Gurus Tom Vizzini and Kimberly McFarland at Essential Skills. 3D Mind therapy is an alternate way to achieve about the same results as NLP or hypnotherapy provide without using any hypnosis. Eyes will remain open during the 3D Mind session.
Visit the founder's website for more detailed information:
www.essential-skills.com
How it works
(explained by Tom Vizzini and Kimberly McFarland)
"3D Mind works on the following principle. Problems are the result of a specific formula of associated states that create an unbalanced relationship between the primal brain and the creative adaptive brain. This creates an entire environment that the world gets sorted through. In the past, it was known as a filter but I think the 'environment' describes it better because it is an all encompassing reality not just a filter."
The 3D brain model
Dr. Ken Guiffre discovered the visual cortex of the brain. What it demonstrates is the levels of the brain and how they construct problems and what parts of the brain are cut off from activity when problems occur.
For instance, the outer layers of the brain are where the creative/adaptive areas operate. The next layer in is the reflexive part of the brain. This is where most hypnosis and NLP processes install new sequences to cut off the old pattern. It operates purely on reflex, which means that it is where patterns of behaviour, good or bad, exist.
Then there is the primal/reptilian brain located in the center of the brain itself. This functions on the survival level of the brain. It has four primary states that it functions on, Fight, Flight, Food and Fornicate.
Where problems occur is when there is an over stimulation from the outside. This goes straight into the reflexive area and builds a direct neural pathway to the primal area of the brain. This bypasses the creative adaptive area of the brain completely. So the problem becomes self sustaining, and then it associates to other neural pathways to become a behaviour. For instance, fear, frustration and embarrassment are the structure of a really good social phobia.
The chemical driver of the creative/adaptive area of the brain is serotonin. The chemical driver for the primal/reptilian area of the brain is dopamine. The environment created by the associated emotional states directly influences these two chemicals in the brain. These brain chemicals are supposed to be balanced. But the associated emotional states create
unbalanced environment.
It gets even more sensitive through time which means that it takes less input to fire off the same response.
Where this ties into the 3D Mind is that the drivers of the behaviour, in the 3D Mind, are those neural connections. By balancing one connection, the behaviour can no longer function and forces the brain to activate the creative/adaptive pathway. This bypasses the old reflexive pattern and build a new behaviour. This is the core of the 3D Mind. Behaviours and beliefs are dependent upon the emotional state not the other way around."
Presuppositions of the 3D mind
- Problems are a symptom and not the cause.
- Beliefs are constructed of a group of associated emotional states.
- Balancing is more important than overpowering or removing problems.
- Where you are now is much more important than how you got here.
- Reality is nothing more than the filter that you look at the world through.
- Change your filter and you will change your world."