Bradley Cochran
New Here
Here it is as promised. I've finally compiled what I have in notes and experience and what has been taught to me and what I have applied and read. It's going to be quite a read so sit tight, grab something to drink. Here we go.
Negative thoughts, irrational behavior, never recovering from serious losses or traumatic experiences and self doubts and upsets. The painful experiences of the past clearly have an affect on our present time lives, but to what degree and why? What causes the mind to depart from rational thought? This is what I will be getting into. Here's a bit of technical workings and why this happens.
Every moment of your life, your mind is recording everything that is happening to you. Ever sight. Every sound, taste, smell, pain, emotion, touch. Everything. These recordings form a consecutive record of all your experiences accumulated throughout your entire life from conception to death. Well refer to this as the "Time Track". Your mind uses this to solve problems relating to your survival. The better its decisions, the better you survive. Most of this data is stored in your Analytical Mind. That part which thinks, remembers, and calculates. Some of your experiences are not recorded in those analytical memory banks. It is a discovery that all of your experiences are stored in a previously unknown part of the mind. This does not have a physical make up, as it is purely how the mind categorizes these incidents. It is called the Reactive Mind.
What the Reactive mind does is it actually takes those incidents of pain or any level of unconsciousness and uses them towards what it thinks is proper survival. It throws these incidents back at you in an irrational attempt to avoid the same painful experience from happening to you again. It could be seen that this is a good thing, but it does it in an abberated and irrational way.
Let's get an example. At some point you've probably gotten sick from eating some form of tainted food. If you see or smell or possibly even think about that particular food again, you could start to feel a little nauseous. Obviously you can't just get nauseous from the thought or smell or sight of a food because you haven't actually eaten it again. Though you begin to actually experience the same sick feeling that you had before. This is your reactive mind making you reexperience the same perceptions it recorded in that earlier incident in a crude attempt to keep you away from what it believes is a dangerous situation.
It reacts solely on a stimulus response basis below your level of awareness. The painful experiences hidden in the reactive mind are the cause of fears, insecurities, negative thoughts, unwanted emotions and irrational behavior. Every single one of us have been accumulating these deeply rooted incidents throughout our existence. Truth be told, the most damaging ones occurred before you were even born while you were in the womb.
This is not science fiction. This is how the mind thinks.
We're all aware of the old saying "to err is human". In fact, this is not true. The part of your mind that analyzes data and uses it to solve problems is actually incapable of error. Think of your mind as a computing machine. It's not just any computer. It's a perfect computer. It never makes a mistake. Your very survival depends on it always being right. However its solutions are only as good as the data that it computes with. When the reactive mind enters hidden, irrational information into your calculations, you react in an irrational or abberated manner. The word "abberation" means a departure from rational thought or behavior. Basically; it means to err.
Your analytical mind doesn't know it's being corrupted by this irrational data. In fact; it doesn't even know the data exists. The reason for this is that moments in your life that contain some degree of pain, your analytical mind shuts down like any sensitive machine would. Think of it like a circuit board. Too much power through it and a fuze breaks and a possible backup power has to go on. It won't do everything that main power can, but it will activate. At this point, your reactive mind immediately takes over and starts recording. This is a cruder, more rugged part of the mind that is made to withstand the shock of pain. These incidents aren't memories as we think of them. The experiences recorded are called "engrams". They're like movies, except they contain all your perceptions. All of them. Including what people are saying around you. Engrams are complete recordings down to the last accurate detail of every perception present in a moment of pain or unconsciousness. The pain can be physical like when you're injured. It can be emotional pain like the shock you receive when you experience a loss. The unconsciousness could be total such as when you're knocked out or when you have anesthesia. It could also be times when your awareness is actually dulled such as when you are sick, injured, or when your body is poisoned such as with alcohol or drugs.
Let's take a deeper look at the example of getting sick from eating tainted food which acts as a poison to your body. When you later find yourself in a situation that is in some way similar to an engram stored in your reactive mind, it tries to get you to avoid the same painful thing from happening to you again, but it does so in a very crude and irrational way. That is because your reactive mind doesn't think the same way your analytical mind does. Your analyical mind thinks rationally. It compares things and sees the differences between them.
Here's what I want you to do. Assemble a number of different things. Don't have to be big, collect a few things around you. Three pairs of matching things so you'll have a total of six objects in front of you. If asked to arrange those objects by what those pairs have in common, your analyical mind would have no problem. That is because it sees the differences. This is Analyical Thought.
You know analytically that an egg you eat today is not the same egg that made you sick when you ate it three years ago. That is rational thinking. The reactive mind is so crude it cannot differentiate between things. If it was asked to arrange those previous six objects by what is common between them, it would arrange them in a big pile because it doesn't know the differences between them. It thinks that anything is equal to anything else. This is called Reactive Thought. To the reactive mind, if a bad egg once made you very ill, all eggs you eat after that will also make you ill. This is because to the reactive mind they are all identical. It can't even tell the difference between now and then.
This goes even further.
To the reactive mind, any piece of information in an engram is identical to every other piece of information in the same experience. Let's JUST SAY that someone was playing the tuba while you were sick from eating an egg. To your reactive mind, every egg is identified with every other egg. And all eggs are identified with the feeling of being sick to your stomach. And being sick to your stomach is identified with the sound of a tuba. Later in life if you hear a tuba playing, you could start to feel nauseous. Now of course there are certain degrees of engrams and some are more intense than others. Not everything is going to have the full impact of another. A finger being jammed is not the same as being ran over by a car. Your analytical does not know this data exists, so it will start to rationalize reasons as to why you are suddenly feeling sick to your stomach. This is called Justified Thought. The excuses you make to explain irrational behavior.
In fact, your reactive mind working below your level of awareness is turning on the same pain from the original engram to stupidly warn you to stay away from that damn tuba. It's identified tubas with getting sick to your stomach. This reactive type of thinking is referred to as Anything=Anything=Anything, or A=A=A.
In lower levels of life, this reactive behavior is a survival activity of a sort. When a fish is injured, his reactive mind records all of the perceptions regarding the injury. When these later appear in his environment, his mind will make him run away. In a human being, this survival mechanism has long outlived its usefulness. But it's still there.
What if it's not merely an egg you're being irrationally warned against? Someone you know? Something you do? Something you want to achieve? Your reactive mind works on a stimulus response basis and it is trying to help you. However its wild errors are actually just suppressing your efforts to survive.
To better understand how the reactive mind can have command over you, let's take a look at what happens during hypnosis as an example. When a hypnotist installs a command on an unconscious subject, he can make that person unknowingly act irrationally. Anyone who has been hypnotized has been placed in a state of partial unconsciousness. Once in that state, the hypnotist installs a command that alters that person's behavior or actions. The person does not know that command exists, but something the person sees or hears will unknowingly follow that command. This person will now follow that hidden command without ever being aware he is doing so. The analytical mind must always be right. When it is faced with irrational behavior, it will justify it. He will be told anything and carry it out and will act as a direct order without him knowing it until that order is released by the hypnotist.
Just like a hypnotist install hidden commands in a subject, engrams install hidden commands in the reactive mind. The words heard during moments of unconciousness are faithfully recorded in the mind as commands along with their pain. "Don't trust anyone." "You're a liar." "I quit." "You're wrong." "I can't remember." And like hypnotic suggestions, these recordings can later control the way you think, the way you act, and the way you feel without you knowing it.
Now for how the mind can make the body ill.
Medical history is filled with patients whose physical problems seem to have no apparent physical cause. In fact, it's estimated that 70% of all body illnesses fall into this category known as psychosomatic illness. Psycho refers to the mind, somatic refers to pain in the body. So psychosomatic refers to the mind making the body ill, or illness which have been created physically within the body caused by the mind. It has been proven through this science that engrams are the cause of all psychosomatic illnesses.
The part of your body that was injured in an engram will replay the same pain when enough things in your environment are similar to the content of the engram, thus playing back sickness and pain. Just how many psychosomatic illnesses could a person have? That depends in part of all your previous illnesses and injuries, and in part to the number of things that could be brought about due to the words and phrases in the content of engrams. You see, the language contained in the engram can have a very damaging effect on your body, as well as on your mind. As an example, a little girl falls into a pool. In the commotion, someone near her shouts "She can't breathe!" and that is recorded in the reactive mind. This mind reads the words contained as a command and it takes them very literally. Regardless of the meaning when spoken. Even as she grows up, she suffers from asthma because her mind is literally telling her body she can't breathe. Consider how many combinations of words there are and you can only imagine how damaging these commands can be. "I can't see." They can alter your senses. "You have no taste."Make you feel sick in general. "I'm gonna be sick." Or even keep you from healing. "This ain't gonna heal any time soon." That's why many common physical problems such as allergies, ulcers, arthritis, high blood pressure, migraine headaches, chronic skin conditions, and bizarre aches and pains can be traced back to the harmful effects of engrams.
There is definitely more to this, but this gives the basic sciences and reasoning as to what causes so many things. PTSD is included on this. Feel free to ask any questions or discuss and I will do my best to answer.
Negative thoughts, irrational behavior, never recovering from serious losses or traumatic experiences and self doubts and upsets. The painful experiences of the past clearly have an affect on our present time lives, but to what degree and why? What causes the mind to depart from rational thought? This is what I will be getting into. Here's a bit of technical workings and why this happens.
Every moment of your life, your mind is recording everything that is happening to you. Ever sight. Every sound, taste, smell, pain, emotion, touch. Everything. These recordings form a consecutive record of all your experiences accumulated throughout your entire life from conception to death. Well refer to this as the "Time Track". Your mind uses this to solve problems relating to your survival. The better its decisions, the better you survive. Most of this data is stored in your Analytical Mind. That part which thinks, remembers, and calculates. Some of your experiences are not recorded in those analytical memory banks. It is a discovery that all of your experiences are stored in a previously unknown part of the mind. This does not have a physical make up, as it is purely how the mind categorizes these incidents. It is called the Reactive Mind.
What the Reactive mind does is it actually takes those incidents of pain or any level of unconsciousness and uses them towards what it thinks is proper survival. It throws these incidents back at you in an irrational attempt to avoid the same painful experience from happening to you again. It could be seen that this is a good thing, but it does it in an abberated and irrational way.
Let's get an example. At some point you've probably gotten sick from eating some form of tainted food. If you see or smell or possibly even think about that particular food again, you could start to feel a little nauseous. Obviously you can't just get nauseous from the thought or smell or sight of a food because you haven't actually eaten it again. Though you begin to actually experience the same sick feeling that you had before. This is your reactive mind making you reexperience the same perceptions it recorded in that earlier incident in a crude attempt to keep you away from what it believes is a dangerous situation.
It reacts solely on a stimulus response basis below your level of awareness. The painful experiences hidden in the reactive mind are the cause of fears, insecurities, negative thoughts, unwanted emotions and irrational behavior. Every single one of us have been accumulating these deeply rooted incidents throughout our existence. Truth be told, the most damaging ones occurred before you were even born while you were in the womb.
This is not science fiction. This is how the mind thinks.
We're all aware of the old saying "to err is human". In fact, this is not true. The part of your mind that analyzes data and uses it to solve problems is actually incapable of error. Think of your mind as a computing machine. It's not just any computer. It's a perfect computer. It never makes a mistake. Your very survival depends on it always being right. However its solutions are only as good as the data that it computes with. When the reactive mind enters hidden, irrational information into your calculations, you react in an irrational or abberated manner. The word "abberation" means a departure from rational thought or behavior. Basically; it means to err.
Your analytical mind doesn't know it's being corrupted by this irrational data. In fact; it doesn't even know the data exists. The reason for this is that moments in your life that contain some degree of pain, your analytical mind shuts down like any sensitive machine would. Think of it like a circuit board. Too much power through it and a fuze breaks and a possible backup power has to go on. It won't do everything that main power can, but it will activate. At this point, your reactive mind immediately takes over and starts recording. This is a cruder, more rugged part of the mind that is made to withstand the shock of pain. These incidents aren't memories as we think of them. The experiences recorded are called "engrams". They're like movies, except they contain all your perceptions. All of them. Including what people are saying around you. Engrams are complete recordings down to the last accurate detail of every perception present in a moment of pain or unconsciousness. The pain can be physical like when you're injured. It can be emotional pain like the shock you receive when you experience a loss. The unconsciousness could be total such as when you're knocked out or when you have anesthesia. It could also be times when your awareness is actually dulled such as when you are sick, injured, or when your body is poisoned such as with alcohol or drugs.
Let's take a deeper look at the example of getting sick from eating tainted food which acts as a poison to your body. When you later find yourself in a situation that is in some way similar to an engram stored in your reactive mind, it tries to get you to avoid the same painful thing from happening to you again, but it does so in a very crude and irrational way. That is because your reactive mind doesn't think the same way your analytical mind does. Your analyical mind thinks rationally. It compares things and sees the differences between them.
Here's what I want you to do. Assemble a number of different things. Don't have to be big, collect a few things around you. Three pairs of matching things so you'll have a total of six objects in front of you. If asked to arrange those objects by what those pairs have in common, your analyical mind would have no problem. That is because it sees the differences. This is Analyical Thought.
You know analytically that an egg you eat today is not the same egg that made you sick when you ate it three years ago. That is rational thinking. The reactive mind is so crude it cannot differentiate between things. If it was asked to arrange those previous six objects by what is common between them, it would arrange them in a big pile because it doesn't know the differences between them. It thinks that anything is equal to anything else. This is called Reactive Thought. To the reactive mind, if a bad egg once made you very ill, all eggs you eat after that will also make you ill. This is because to the reactive mind they are all identical. It can't even tell the difference between now and then.
This goes even further.
To the reactive mind, any piece of information in an engram is identical to every other piece of information in the same experience. Let's JUST SAY that someone was playing the tuba while you were sick from eating an egg. To your reactive mind, every egg is identified with every other egg. And all eggs are identified with the feeling of being sick to your stomach. And being sick to your stomach is identified with the sound of a tuba. Later in life if you hear a tuba playing, you could start to feel nauseous. Now of course there are certain degrees of engrams and some are more intense than others. Not everything is going to have the full impact of another. A finger being jammed is not the same as being ran over by a car. Your analytical does not know this data exists, so it will start to rationalize reasons as to why you are suddenly feeling sick to your stomach. This is called Justified Thought. The excuses you make to explain irrational behavior.
In fact, your reactive mind working below your level of awareness is turning on the same pain from the original engram to stupidly warn you to stay away from that damn tuba. It's identified tubas with getting sick to your stomach. This reactive type of thinking is referred to as Anything=Anything=Anything, or A=A=A.
In lower levels of life, this reactive behavior is a survival activity of a sort. When a fish is injured, his reactive mind records all of the perceptions regarding the injury. When these later appear in his environment, his mind will make him run away. In a human being, this survival mechanism has long outlived its usefulness. But it's still there.
What if it's not merely an egg you're being irrationally warned against? Someone you know? Something you do? Something you want to achieve? Your reactive mind works on a stimulus response basis and it is trying to help you. However its wild errors are actually just suppressing your efforts to survive.
To better understand how the reactive mind can have command over you, let's take a look at what happens during hypnosis as an example. When a hypnotist installs a command on an unconscious subject, he can make that person unknowingly act irrationally. Anyone who has been hypnotized has been placed in a state of partial unconsciousness. Once in that state, the hypnotist installs a command that alters that person's behavior or actions. The person does not know that command exists, but something the person sees or hears will unknowingly follow that command. This person will now follow that hidden command without ever being aware he is doing so. The analytical mind must always be right. When it is faced with irrational behavior, it will justify it. He will be told anything and carry it out and will act as a direct order without him knowing it until that order is released by the hypnotist.
Just like a hypnotist install hidden commands in a subject, engrams install hidden commands in the reactive mind. The words heard during moments of unconciousness are faithfully recorded in the mind as commands along with their pain. "Don't trust anyone." "You're a liar." "I quit." "You're wrong." "I can't remember." And like hypnotic suggestions, these recordings can later control the way you think, the way you act, and the way you feel without you knowing it.
Now for how the mind can make the body ill.
Medical history is filled with patients whose physical problems seem to have no apparent physical cause. In fact, it's estimated that 70% of all body illnesses fall into this category known as psychosomatic illness. Psycho refers to the mind, somatic refers to pain in the body. So psychosomatic refers to the mind making the body ill, or illness which have been created physically within the body caused by the mind. It has been proven through this science that engrams are the cause of all psychosomatic illnesses.
The part of your body that was injured in an engram will replay the same pain when enough things in your environment are similar to the content of the engram, thus playing back sickness and pain. Just how many psychosomatic illnesses could a person have? That depends in part of all your previous illnesses and injuries, and in part to the number of things that could be brought about due to the words and phrases in the content of engrams. You see, the language contained in the engram can have a very damaging effect on your body, as well as on your mind. As an example, a little girl falls into a pool. In the commotion, someone near her shouts "She can't breathe!" and that is recorded in the reactive mind. This mind reads the words contained as a command and it takes them very literally. Regardless of the meaning when spoken. Even as she grows up, she suffers from asthma because her mind is literally telling her body she can't breathe. Consider how many combinations of words there are and you can only imagine how damaging these commands can be. "I can't see." They can alter your senses. "You have no taste."Make you feel sick in general. "I'm gonna be sick." Or even keep you from healing. "This ain't gonna heal any time soon." That's why many common physical problems such as allergies, ulcers, arthritis, high blood pressure, migraine headaches, chronic skin conditions, and bizarre aches and pains can be traced back to the harmful effects of engrams.
There is definitely more to this, but this gives the basic sciences and reasoning as to what causes so many things. PTSD is included on this. Feel free to ask any questions or discuss and I will do my best to answer.
