Private Subconscious-mind Healing is an innovative approach to therapy which utilises an evidence-based understanding of natural subconscious processes. P.S.H. is an approach that empowers people to help themselves heal and solve problems within the privacy of their own mind, similar to what we do naturally during REM (dream) sleep.
When a person is unable to change unwanted thoughts, feelings, responses or behaviours, through will power, conscious effort, or ordinary medical or psychological procedures, it is usually an indication that those symptoms result from negative subconscious emotion stored as implicit emotional memory.
P.S.H. is then the therapy of choice.
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Emotional Healing
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THE SCIENCE BEHIND P.S.H. THERAPY
To better understand how P.S.H. can be of help in resolving difficult emotions, it is important to understand a little more about the way we, as human beings, process emotion.
The first step is in understanding that we actually have two emotional processing systems.
The first is a subconscious automatic response that occurs outside of conscious level awareness. For example when a threat is perceived, a defence response occurs in the emotional part of our brain to protect us. This you may know as the Limbic System.
Almost (but not quite) simultaneously, other parts of the brain swing into action and send a message up to the conscious level, that something has occurred which we register as conscious level thoughts and feelings.
It is important to understand that these are two separate systems.
It is also important to understand that while the subconscious response always occurs, the conscious response may not.
In other words, we can experience an emotional response outside our conscious awareness which can influence our thoughts, feelings, behaviours and even health without us knowing anything about it.
Most psychological techniques and mainstream approaches to emotional and mental health do not address these subconscious emotional pathways and responses, or implicit emotional memory. They are more geared to managing the symptoms, and they can teach some great management tools, but they do not address the original emotional response at the subconscious level. In addition, because of the way these two separate systems are linked neurologically, the cognitive approach is very limited in its ability to influence the workings of the emotional brain. This is one of the reasons why people can be in therapy for years and gain many insights, but still feel the same way.
As neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux says, ‘because there are both conscious and unconscious processes at work when anxiety (or any other negative emotion – my addition) spirals out of control… effective treatments would have to engage differently on each level — the whirling subliminal, automatic circuitry that patients aren’t even aware of needs to be subdued before the second-step project of addressing the higher level of conscious thoughts and feelings can begin.’
Sleep scientist, Professor Matthew Walker, further expands our understanding of our innate ability to heal emotionally and problem solve during REM (dream) sleep. If we think of the brain like gears in a car, it is during the REM cycle of sleep, when the thinking mind is quiet, that we are able to access our innate healing abilities.
In the words of Dr Matthew Walker...
What are the functions, then, or the benefits of dreaming? Well we know that dream sleep, which principally comes from a stage that we call rapid eye movement sleep or REM sleep, dream sleep actually provides at least two benefits for the brain.
The first is actually creativity, because it's during REM sleep and dreaming specifically when the brain starts to collide all of the information that you've recently learned together with all of this back catalog of autobiographical information that you've got stored up in the brain. And it starts to build novel connections... so that you wake up the next morning with new solutions...
The second benefit of dream sleep is essentially a form of overnight therapy. It's during dream sleep where we start to actually take the sting out of difficult, even traumatic, emotional experiences that we've been having... So it's not time that heals all wounds, but it's time during dream sleep that provides you with emotional convalescence.*
As we learn more about the brain, it becomes even easier to understand the P.S.H. model of therapy as an approach that aligns with our innate neurobiological ability to heal emotional difficulties.
Disclaimer:
Please note that P.S.H. is not meant to be, nor is it claimed to be a substitute for medical treatment. It is the most effective means we have to help people deal quickly, effectively and with a wide range of problems and issues that are the result of subconscious dynamics. If you have concerns about a medical or physical condition, we recommend you first seek the advice of your medical practitioner.
------*https://www.businessinsider.com/matthew-walker-what-happens-to-your-brain-when-you-dream-2018-2