anthony
Founder
Mental imagery itself is not new and has been present since the dawn of time. From the caveman era of scribbling images onto walls to denote an emotional experience within life, to the Egyptians with hieroglyphics, mental imagery has been a part of history the entire time. With research and experience interpreting images, colours and objects into emotions, the power of the mind's secret language has been a growing trend.
A handful of physicians in the world actively study and use mental imagery with patients, all of which have profound healing responses compared to EMDR, CBT and other known therapies. Why? EMDR, for example, is inherent with flawed dangers of the mind releasing too much emotion at once - thus a risk of mild to permanent brain damage occurs, and does occur. There is one member on this very forum that knows all too well the dangers of EMDR, and has experienced a mild brain damage from it. CBT is a known effective method which often provides greater results over the long term, though is flawed by its ability to rely upon the patient to provide their real emotional state; thus CBT can drag out for years, decades even. Exposure therapy is another part of the CBT cycle.
So, does that mean mental imagery is the godsend of all therapies? Not a chance, because the emotional aftermath that mental imagery presents a patient with must still be reasoned with, and must still be engaged in active therapy to ensure a patient understands what they have just found emotionally.
The business side of therapy! Here is the cruncher of what most physicians become truly afraid of: the bottom line and a life to which they have become accustomed. Money! Let's face it; the psycho-therapy industry has moved in line with what the pharmaceutical industry has been doing for decades, creating addiction and dependence, thus creating a returning customer. Let's be honest; there is no money in curing people. Now there is nothing wrong with the business end of psycho-therapy industries, as those within the industry have devoted a lot of time towards education, and money as a result of that education, so there is no reason why those within the industry should not be financially compensated well for providing their services.
Whilst this is a part of the business model, another way to look at maintaining the business end of being a physician is by truly helping patients heal completely so they no longer require your services full-time, though by doing so, patients talk. They refer others to you for services, and so the business side is still taken care of. Mental imagery is not a cure for trauma, by no means. Mental imagery can be used on any single person in life, because every single person suffers trauma to some extent during their life, thus its scope is not merely to the seriously ill, PTSD sufferers and so forth. Mental imagery can be used constantly, for every patient, from MS, Bi-Polar, MPD, and so forth. Its limits have no bounds. This means the business end is open further, and instead of marketing oneself to the sick only, a physician can market themselves to everyone, from marital therapy, struggling at school from bullies, severe trauma, family death - no bounds, no limits, and if anything, more financial increase for business overall.
Why is mental imagery not used by 99% of the psycho-therapy industry? Because those who make up the industry fail to understand or comprehend it. Let's go back to the Egyptians for a minute. It has been learnt how to read their language, how to interpret hieroglyphics, the symbols and pictures of what they felt at the time, and were trying to interpret, though could not put words directly towards. To this day, we still do not understand, nor can we replicate, the precise and intricate method in which pyramids where built. Engineers and technology cannot replicate what they knew then. So what do we do now? We ignore what was achieved, because we fail to understand how they did it. We marvel to look at them, but ignore the science behind them. Ignorance is the mind's way to move on, to continue life paying little regard to more advanced methods. Ignorance is what the industry has done with mental imagery. Instead, people try to invent new strategies: EMDR, CBT and so forth, trying to find something that they can understand, or put scientific fact towards. Why do we ignore mental imagery then, if it has been around since the dawn of time? Why do we ignore the universal language of the mind itself for other methods which are less effective? Ignorance, maybe! The fact that we cannot understand the method or the language, so we forget it, discard it, dispel it even, and find something we do understand.
The idea of this thread is to highlight to those within this industry that patients want more from the field. No more just business; more focus upon the patient themselves, more focus upon fixing patients, not creating dependence upon them for financial and capital gain. Those gains can still be achieved, it's merely that most fail to understand marketing, thus they fail to move outside of a narrow vision of ignorance.
Even though Dr. Roerich has 20 years of collected data, the purpose of this forum is to move away from what you desire to ignore, and instead focus on allowing people themselves to present images and their interpretation for your own viewing. As data builds, you will be able to look across many threads and view like data, like responses and personal interpretations, not those merely given from the data I have to use. Instead, this is about starting from scratch to show the hidden language does exist, is real, and is more powerful and easily tapped in order to provide a patient their real current emotional state, determined by their own drawings, their own interpretation of current mind images to express their emotions.
Mental imagery is not a 100% interpreted language, in that one image does not come with one concrete emotion. Instead, an image often comes with a 90% concrete emotion, though every image must be clarified for personal interpretation with the patient themself in order to find what their true and personal meaning is to the image. Whilst 90% will be the same, there is that 10% that will have a different meaning. Let's look at known examples from Dr. Roerich's already current base of knowledge.
The cup of commitment used in The Road Interview can serve different meanings from the one content. Let's use coffee as an example:
Coffee in the cup is a sign of commitment towards someone or something less than totally honest.
Take note of those two meanings, "someone" or "something." This means that an emotional response 90% of the time would likely be a commitment towards someone less than totally honest, i.e., hiding secrets from their partner, family, friend, etc. The other 10% of the time could be interpreted as a commitment towards their job - "workaholism" for example.
There are limits, and simple clarification from a person of their interpretation of the image can often find the deeper meaning.
The threads contained in this forum will outline to the industry just how common mental imagery is between people, a resemblance in methods, objects and techniques used to navigate The Road Interview, and the interpretations will often come back with the same overall meaning or purpose, thus a common language for a better term.
This forum is about one thing, showing the true potential of the power mental imagery displays in helping trauma be identified into actually felt emotional states. Once the subconscious comes to terms with the emotional state, the logical brain can then process the feelings and move onto healing. Unlike EMDR with its inherent dangers, mental imagery is still paced by the subject themselves, in that once knowing their emotional state, their mind will still only allow them to process what they are capable of at any one time, and not release an overwhelming amount of emotions to create brain damage or the possibility of such occurring.
It's time to take notice, and stay tuned to this forum and learning for yourself the hidden language of the mind, so that more physicians can get involved and start helping those with trauma, and not just plodding along at a snail's pace. Dr. Roerich's work has already proven dramatically increased recovery times from trauma, as opposed to common methods, all because a sufferer is faced with their actual emotional state instead of having to rely on them finding the words to determine it. A forced method of current emotions, basically!
Our mental image changes constantly, day to day, week to week, as our lives change, as old and new stressors enter and leave us; our current emotional turmoil can be determined at any time by using the hidden language. This means that even though a person heals, assessments and discussion can be ongoing at any time within their lives as life itself becomes stressful and out of control, thus they fail to see the real issues surrounding themselves.
Mental imagery is the new approach...it's time to unlock the secret language and begin really helping trauma suffers heal.
A handful of physicians in the world actively study and use mental imagery with patients, all of which have profound healing responses compared to EMDR, CBT and other known therapies. Why? EMDR, for example, is inherent with flawed dangers of the mind releasing too much emotion at once - thus a risk of mild to permanent brain damage occurs, and does occur. There is one member on this very forum that knows all too well the dangers of EMDR, and has experienced a mild brain damage from it. CBT is a known effective method which often provides greater results over the long term, though is flawed by its ability to rely upon the patient to provide their real emotional state; thus CBT can drag out for years, decades even. Exposure therapy is another part of the CBT cycle.
So, does that mean mental imagery is the godsend of all therapies? Not a chance, because the emotional aftermath that mental imagery presents a patient with must still be reasoned with, and must still be engaged in active therapy to ensure a patient understands what they have just found emotionally.
The business side of therapy! Here is the cruncher of what most physicians become truly afraid of: the bottom line and a life to which they have become accustomed. Money! Let's face it; the psycho-therapy industry has moved in line with what the pharmaceutical industry has been doing for decades, creating addiction and dependence, thus creating a returning customer. Let's be honest; there is no money in curing people. Now there is nothing wrong with the business end of psycho-therapy industries, as those within the industry have devoted a lot of time towards education, and money as a result of that education, so there is no reason why those within the industry should not be financially compensated well for providing their services.
Whilst this is a part of the business model, another way to look at maintaining the business end of being a physician is by truly helping patients heal completely so they no longer require your services full-time, though by doing so, patients talk. They refer others to you for services, and so the business side is still taken care of. Mental imagery is not a cure for trauma, by no means. Mental imagery can be used on any single person in life, because every single person suffers trauma to some extent during their life, thus its scope is not merely to the seriously ill, PTSD sufferers and so forth. Mental imagery can be used constantly, for every patient, from MS, Bi-Polar, MPD, and so forth. Its limits have no bounds. This means the business end is open further, and instead of marketing oneself to the sick only, a physician can market themselves to everyone, from marital therapy, struggling at school from bullies, severe trauma, family death - no bounds, no limits, and if anything, more financial increase for business overall.
Why is mental imagery not used by 99% of the psycho-therapy industry? Because those who make up the industry fail to understand or comprehend it. Let's go back to the Egyptians for a minute. It has been learnt how to read their language, how to interpret hieroglyphics, the symbols and pictures of what they felt at the time, and were trying to interpret, though could not put words directly towards. To this day, we still do not understand, nor can we replicate, the precise and intricate method in which pyramids where built. Engineers and technology cannot replicate what they knew then. So what do we do now? We ignore what was achieved, because we fail to understand how they did it. We marvel to look at them, but ignore the science behind them. Ignorance is the mind's way to move on, to continue life paying little regard to more advanced methods. Ignorance is what the industry has done with mental imagery. Instead, people try to invent new strategies: EMDR, CBT and so forth, trying to find something that they can understand, or put scientific fact towards. Why do we ignore mental imagery then, if it has been around since the dawn of time? Why do we ignore the universal language of the mind itself for other methods which are less effective? Ignorance, maybe! The fact that we cannot understand the method or the language, so we forget it, discard it, dispel it even, and find something we do understand.
The idea of this thread is to highlight to those within this industry that patients want more from the field. No more just business; more focus upon the patient themselves, more focus upon fixing patients, not creating dependence upon them for financial and capital gain. Those gains can still be achieved, it's merely that most fail to understand marketing, thus they fail to move outside of a narrow vision of ignorance.
Even though Dr. Roerich has 20 years of collected data, the purpose of this forum is to move away from what you desire to ignore, and instead focus on allowing people themselves to present images and their interpretation for your own viewing. As data builds, you will be able to look across many threads and view like data, like responses and personal interpretations, not those merely given from the data I have to use. Instead, this is about starting from scratch to show the hidden language does exist, is real, and is more powerful and easily tapped in order to provide a patient their real current emotional state, determined by their own drawings, their own interpretation of current mind images to express their emotions.
Mental imagery is not a 100% interpreted language, in that one image does not come with one concrete emotion. Instead, an image often comes with a 90% concrete emotion, though every image must be clarified for personal interpretation with the patient themself in order to find what their true and personal meaning is to the image. Whilst 90% will be the same, there is that 10% that will have a different meaning. Let's look at known examples from Dr. Roerich's already current base of knowledge.
The cup of commitment used in The Road Interview can serve different meanings from the one content. Let's use coffee as an example:
Coffee in the cup is a sign of commitment towards someone or something less than totally honest.
Take note of those two meanings, "someone" or "something." This means that an emotional response 90% of the time would likely be a commitment towards someone less than totally honest, i.e., hiding secrets from their partner, family, friend, etc. The other 10% of the time could be interpreted as a commitment towards their job - "workaholism" for example.
There are limits, and simple clarification from a person of their interpretation of the image can often find the deeper meaning.
The threads contained in this forum will outline to the industry just how common mental imagery is between people, a resemblance in methods, objects and techniques used to navigate The Road Interview, and the interpretations will often come back with the same overall meaning or purpose, thus a common language for a better term.
This forum is about one thing, showing the true potential of the power mental imagery displays in helping trauma be identified into actually felt emotional states. Once the subconscious comes to terms with the emotional state, the logical brain can then process the feelings and move onto healing. Unlike EMDR with its inherent dangers, mental imagery is still paced by the subject themselves, in that once knowing their emotional state, their mind will still only allow them to process what they are capable of at any one time, and not release an overwhelming amount of emotions to create brain damage or the possibility of such occurring.
It's time to take notice, and stay tuned to this forum and learning for yourself the hidden language of the mind, so that more physicians can get involved and start helping those with trauma, and not just plodding along at a snail's pace. Dr. Roerich's work has already proven dramatically increased recovery times from trauma, as opposed to common methods, all because a sufferer is faced with their actual emotional state instead of having to rely on them finding the words to determine it. A forced method of current emotions, basically!
Our mental image changes constantly, day to day, week to week, as our lives change, as old and new stressors enter and leave us; our current emotional turmoil can be determined at any time by using the hidden language. This means that even though a person heals, assessments and discussion can be ongoing at any time within their lives as life itself becomes stressful and out of control, thus they fail to see the real issues surrounding themselves.
Mental imagery is the new approach...it's time to unlock the secret language and begin really helping trauma suffers heal.