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The Prime Directives of the Unconscious Mind:
The Prime Directives of the unconscious mind provide a framework for the
context of doing therapeutic change. The model of the Prime Directives gives us
some powerful assumptions which structure our use of the techniques. The term
Prime Directives means that the unconscious mind is "hard wired" (meaning that
it comes from the factory this way) and is set-up to perform the following
functions:
1. TO STORE OUR MEMORIES: The unconscious mind provides he
coordination for the storage of memories. Research as far back as 1957 (the
Penfield Study) indicates that everything that happens is recorded faithfully and
stored as memory. You may remember that in 1957, they probed a woman's
brain with an electrode, and she remembered everything that happened during
a birthday party when she was a very young child. She remembered the feel of
the crinoline of her dress, the taste and smell of her birthday cake, how her
mother and her friends looked, etc.., as if she were there. As a result of that
study, neuro-physicists postulated in 1957 that everything that happens to us is
stored in the brain in full detail. In 1960, Carl Pribram won the Nobel Prize for his
theory that expanded the place of storage of memories from the brain to the
entire body, when he postulated that memories were stored holographically in
the nervous system. It is the unconscious mind that is responsible for the
coordination of the storage of and for access to these memories.
2. ORGANIZES ALL OUR MEMORIES: The unconscious mind organizes all the
memories which are stored in the nervous system -- in the body. The way it
organizes these memories is that it uses "indexes" to point to the stored
memories and to allow for and to facilitate your access to these memories. Your
Time Line is one such index, the organization of your values is another such
index that the unconscious mind uses.
3. THE DOMAIN OF THE EMOTIONS: The unconscious mind is the domain of
the emotions. Even though they are often felt consciously, emotions are not the
domain of the conscious mind. They are generated by, maintained by, and are
the responsibility of the unconscious mind.
4. REPRESSES MEMORIES WITH UNRESOLVED NEGATIVE EMOTIONS:
Now, here is where some interesting paradoxical situations can begin to occur.
The unconscious mind is also charged with the responsibility of repressing
memories with unresolved negative emotion. The emphasis here is on
"unresolved." The memory will be repressed with the emotion intact until it can
be resolved. The unresolved negative emotion can cause some repression of
the content of the memory to the extent of the intensity of the emotion, and to
the unresolvedness. The repressed negative emotions are trapped in the body,
and in many cases can cause blockages to the flow of communication through
the neural network pathways of the body.
5. PRESENT REPRESSED MEMORIES TO RELEASE THE EMOTIONS:
Memories which have been repressed are then presented to release the
trapped negative emotions. This is the next function which the unconscious mind
is "supposed" to perform, and it is a function which can be a long term function.
Supposed is in quotes because in a number of cases, and with disfavor from the
conscious mind, the unconscious mind will stop presenting the memories for
release and keep them repressed. If the conscious mind can, at the time of
presentation of the memory, release the emotions by "rationalizing" (making
rational, preserving the learnings) the memory can be cleared of the negative
emotions.
6. KEEP REPRESSED EMOTIONS REPRESSED FOR PROTECTION: The
Unconscious Mind also has the option of keeping the memories repressed. In
some cases this is what the unconscious mind does. This is a short term
function, however, and in the long run the unconscious mind will continue to
attempt to present the memories so that they can be released, because
repressed emotions are just not good for the body. (See Prime Directive number
8.)
7. TO RUN THE BODY: The unconscious mind has also been called the
"body-mind" or the mind of the body, and in performing this function it provides
the consciousness, and the direction for the functioning of the body.
8. TO PRESERVE THE BODY: The unconscious mind is also in charge of
preserving the body. This means, other things being equal, that if you walk out
to the street and step in front of a bus, your unconscious mind will jump you
back out of the way, and you will be safe. In times of extreme danger, many
people notice that the unconscious mind takes over, and the conscious mind is
not at all involved at that moment.
9. TO BE A HIGHLY MORAL BEING: This is not necessarily a Prime Directive
as much as it is an instinct that is built in. The unconscious mind will enforce any
morality which it has been taught and has come to believe is true. This Prime
Directive is included, however, because it is so important in healing. If the
Unconscious Mind thinks that you have been incongruous, then of course, you
will have to be repercussions. In healing, then it is important to know if the
unconscious mind feels as though it needs to punish you. The question might
arise, "What kind of morality are we talking about?" We are talking about any
kind of morality which the Unconscious Mind has been taught and which it
believes. That is why there is honor even among thieves.
10. TO TAKE DIRECTION, FOLLOW ORDERS: The unconscious mind likes to
have direction from a conscious mind with which it is in rapport. If there is no
rapport, the unconscious mind will not follow the orders or directions from the
conscious mind. With rapport the unconscious mind will follow just about any
direction from the conscious mind. Trust is important to develop in this context,
because if the unconscious mind is in charge of our physical and many of our
mental processes, rapport with it is a must.
11. TO CONTROL AND MAINTAIN ALL PERCEPTIONS: As our sensory
perceptions come in to the neurology from outside the body, they must pass
through the unconscious mind before they become available as conscious
perceptions. The unconscious mind is in charge of filtering the massive amount
of data that comes in, and making it manageable for understanding by the
conscious mind. You may have heard that one estimate is that we have
approximately 2,000,000 bits of information coming in through all our sensory
input channels at any tme. The unconscious mind filters these down to a
manageable 7 plus or minus 2 chunks of information.
12. TO GENERATE, STORE, DISTRIBUTE AND TRANSMIT ENERGY: As the
"manager" of the body, the unconscious mind also is in charge of the energy of
the body. Most of the energy in the body is generated by the interaction of
glucose with oxygen. Since the unconscious mind is in charge of the energy, it
can be asked to increase the energy in the body for various purposes including
weight loss and healing.
13. TO RESPOND WITH INSTINCT AND HABIT: Some instincts are built-in at
birth -- such as the Fight or Flight response. Habits are cultivated over time. The
unconscious mind is responsible for generating and maintaining both instincts
and habits over time.
14. NEEDS REPETITION BUILDING HABITS: When cultivating a habit it is a
good idea to repeat it often until it is taken-over by the unconscious mind. The
unconscious mind is really in an on-going "now" most of the time, and so needs
a fair amount of repetition to build a habit.
15. TO CONTINUALLY SEEK MORE AND MORE: The unconscious mind is
directed to continually seek more and more. So the new car you just had to
have, and you finally bought seemed like "just any old car" after a short period
of time (say, three weeks), and perhaps you were prompted to wonder, "what's
next?"
16. WILL HAVE OPTIMUM FUNCTIONING WITH A MINIMUM OF PARTS: The
unconscious mind will function perfectly with a minimum of parts. In fact, the
fewer parts the better. Since more parts means more possibility of inner conflict,
and since each part cannot be expected to have the intention of the whole as its
highest intention, the fewer parts the better. The most perfect functioning occurs
as a whole integrated functioning unity.
17. IS SYMBOLIC: The unconscious mind is symbolic. It is in many areas, pre-
literate, so it creates and uses, and responds to symbols (thank you Carl Jung
for first pointing this out to us). Much of what the unconscious mind gives us is
symbolic. This does not mean that it is meaningless, quite the contrary, the
symbols can be interpreted, and will have significant meaning.
18. WORKS ON THE PRINCIPLE OF LEAST EFFORT: The unconscious mind
works on the principle of least effort, and that means it will do as little as it can
get away with. This principle serves the unconscious mind well in energy
conservation, but not necessarily in healing various symptoms. For example, if
you are asking the unconscious mind to clear up certain symptoms, you must
ask the unconscious mind when it will start and when it will finish the process, or
you may find six months later the process is incomplete. When asked, "why?"
The unconscious mind may simply say, "I haven't started yet."
19. TAKES EVERYTHING PERSONALLY: Remember that old saying when you
were a kid, "One finger's pointing out away from you, but three are pointing back
at you?" That is because the unconscious mind takes everything personally.
The good news is that what you like about your friend, is you. The bad news is
that what you dislike about your friend, is you. The saying in psychology is,
"Perception is projection." What you see is who you are. So think the best about
everybody you meet. If you are practicing as a therapist, educator, or manager,
especially, think the best about your clients or students -- think that they are
magnificent, and that they can and will change using therapeutic change
technologies and they will. Based on the work of George Estabrooks (1943) and
Andre Weitzenhoffer (1957), what the therapist (or educator, or manager) does
not believe to be true will not be actualized by the client. If you believe that they
can do anything, then they will. If you see your clients as magnificent they will be
magnificent. The more good you see in your clients the more they will actualize
that good for you, and for themselves. The more you do that, the more your own
unconscious mind will feel good about you, and prosper. Honor and respect the
unconscious mind. If you can, love the unconscious mind. You and your
unconscious mind are going to be together for a long, long time, so you might as
well get along well. If you can remember your magnificence you will be
magnificent!
20. CANNOT PROCESS A NEGATIVE: Finally, and we have already discussed
this earlier, make sure you are telling your unconscious mind what to do, think,
be; as opposed to telling it what not to do and think.
The Prime Directives of the unconscious mind provide a framework for the
context of doing therapeutic change. The model of the Prime Directives gives us
some powerful assumptions which structure our use of the techniques. The term
Prime Directives means that the unconscious mind is "hard wired" (meaning that
it comes from the factory this way) and is set-up to perform the following
functions:
1. TO STORE OUR MEMORIES: The unconscious mind provides he
coordination for the storage of memories. Research as far back as 1957 (the
Penfield Study) indicates that everything that happens is recorded faithfully and
stored as memory. You may remember that in 1957, they probed a woman's
brain with an electrode, and she remembered everything that happened during
a birthday party when she was a very young child. She remembered the feel of
the crinoline of her dress, the taste and smell of her birthday cake, how her
mother and her friends looked, etc.., as if she were there. As a result of that
study, neuro-physicists postulated in 1957 that everything that happens to us is
stored in the brain in full detail. In 1960, Carl Pribram won the Nobel Prize for his
theory that expanded the place of storage of memories from the brain to the
entire body, when he postulated that memories were stored holographically in
the nervous system. It is the unconscious mind that is responsible for the
coordination of the storage of and for access to these memories.
2. ORGANIZES ALL OUR MEMORIES: The unconscious mind organizes all the
memories which are stored in the nervous system -- in the body. The way it
organizes these memories is that it uses "indexes" to point to the stored
memories and to allow for and to facilitate your access to these memories. Your
Time Line is one such index, the organization of your values is another such
index that the unconscious mind uses.
3. THE DOMAIN OF THE EMOTIONS: The unconscious mind is the domain of
the emotions. Even though they are often felt consciously, emotions are not the
domain of the conscious mind. They are generated by, maintained by, and are
the responsibility of the unconscious mind.
4. REPRESSES MEMORIES WITH UNRESOLVED NEGATIVE EMOTIONS:
Now, here is where some interesting paradoxical situations can begin to occur.
The unconscious mind is also charged with the responsibility of repressing
memories with unresolved negative emotion. The emphasis here is on
"unresolved." The memory will be repressed with the emotion intact until it can
be resolved. The unresolved negative emotion can cause some repression of
the content of the memory to the extent of the intensity of the emotion, and to
the unresolvedness. The repressed negative emotions are trapped in the body,
and in many cases can cause blockages to the flow of communication through
the neural network pathways of the body.
5. PRESENT REPRESSED MEMORIES TO RELEASE THE EMOTIONS:
Memories which have been repressed are then presented to release the
trapped negative emotions. This is the next function which the unconscious mind
is "supposed" to perform, and it is a function which can be a long term function.
Supposed is in quotes because in a number of cases, and with disfavor from the
conscious mind, the unconscious mind will stop presenting the memories for
release and keep them repressed. If the conscious mind can, at the time of
presentation of the memory, release the emotions by "rationalizing" (making
rational, preserving the learnings) the memory can be cleared of the negative
emotions.
6. KEEP REPRESSED EMOTIONS REPRESSED FOR PROTECTION: The
Unconscious Mind also has the option of keeping the memories repressed. In
some cases this is what the unconscious mind does. This is a short term
function, however, and in the long run the unconscious mind will continue to
attempt to present the memories so that they can be released, because
repressed emotions are just not good for the body. (See Prime Directive number
8.)
7. TO RUN THE BODY: The unconscious mind has also been called the
"body-mind" or the mind of the body, and in performing this function it provides
the consciousness, and the direction for the functioning of the body.
8. TO PRESERVE THE BODY: The unconscious mind is also in charge of
preserving the body. This means, other things being equal, that if you walk out
to the street and step in front of a bus, your unconscious mind will jump you
back out of the way, and you will be safe. In times of extreme danger, many
people notice that the unconscious mind takes over, and the conscious mind is
not at all involved at that moment.
9. TO BE A HIGHLY MORAL BEING: This is not necessarily a Prime Directive
as much as it is an instinct that is built in. The unconscious mind will enforce any
morality which it has been taught and has come to believe is true. This Prime
Directive is included, however, because it is so important in healing. If the
Unconscious Mind thinks that you have been incongruous, then of course, you
will have to be repercussions. In healing, then it is important to know if the
unconscious mind feels as though it needs to punish you. The question might
arise, "What kind of morality are we talking about?" We are talking about any
kind of morality which the Unconscious Mind has been taught and which it
believes. That is why there is honor even among thieves.
10. TO TAKE DIRECTION, FOLLOW ORDERS: The unconscious mind likes to
have direction from a conscious mind with which it is in rapport. If there is no
rapport, the unconscious mind will not follow the orders or directions from the
conscious mind. With rapport the unconscious mind will follow just about any
direction from the conscious mind. Trust is important to develop in this context,
because if the unconscious mind is in charge of our physical and many of our
mental processes, rapport with it is a must.
11. TO CONTROL AND MAINTAIN ALL PERCEPTIONS: As our sensory
perceptions come in to the neurology from outside the body, they must pass
through the unconscious mind before they become available as conscious
perceptions. The unconscious mind is in charge of filtering the massive amount
of data that comes in, and making it manageable for understanding by the
conscious mind. You may have heard that one estimate is that we have
approximately 2,000,000 bits of information coming in through all our sensory
input channels at any tme. The unconscious mind filters these down to a
manageable 7 plus or minus 2 chunks of information.
12. TO GENERATE, STORE, DISTRIBUTE AND TRANSMIT ENERGY: As the
"manager" of the body, the unconscious mind also is in charge of the energy of
the body. Most of the energy in the body is generated by the interaction of
glucose with oxygen. Since the unconscious mind is in charge of the energy, it
can be asked to increase the energy in the body for various purposes including
weight loss and healing.
13. TO RESPOND WITH INSTINCT AND HABIT: Some instincts are built-in at
birth -- such as the Fight or Flight response. Habits are cultivated over time. The
unconscious mind is responsible for generating and maintaining both instincts
and habits over time.
14. NEEDS REPETITION BUILDING HABITS: When cultivating a habit it is a
good idea to repeat it often until it is taken-over by the unconscious mind. The
unconscious mind is really in an on-going "now" most of the time, and so needs
a fair amount of repetition to build a habit.
15. TO CONTINUALLY SEEK MORE AND MORE: The unconscious mind is
directed to continually seek more and more. So the new car you just had to
have, and you finally bought seemed like "just any old car" after a short period
of time (say, three weeks), and perhaps you were prompted to wonder, "what's
next?"
16. WILL HAVE OPTIMUM FUNCTIONING WITH A MINIMUM OF PARTS: The
unconscious mind will function perfectly with a minimum of parts. In fact, the
fewer parts the better. Since more parts means more possibility of inner conflict,
and since each part cannot be expected to have the intention of the whole as its
highest intention, the fewer parts the better. The most perfect functioning occurs
as a whole integrated functioning unity.
17. IS SYMBOLIC: The unconscious mind is symbolic. It is in many areas, pre-
literate, so it creates and uses, and responds to symbols (thank you Carl Jung
for first pointing this out to us). Much of what the unconscious mind gives us is
symbolic. This does not mean that it is meaningless, quite the contrary, the
symbols can be interpreted, and will have significant meaning.
18. WORKS ON THE PRINCIPLE OF LEAST EFFORT: The unconscious mind
works on the principle of least effort, and that means it will do as little as it can
get away with. This principle serves the unconscious mind well in energy
conservation, but not necessarily in healing various symptoms. For example, if
you are asking the unconscious mind to clear up certain symptoms, you must
ask the unconscious mind when it will start and when it will finish the process, or
you may find six months later the process is incomplete. When asked, "why?"
The unconscious mind may simply say, "I haven't started yet."
19. TAKES EVERYTHING PERSONALLY: Remember that old saying when you
were a kid, "One finger's pointing out away from you, but three are pointing back
at you?" That is because the unconscious mind takes everything personally.
The good news is that what you like about your friend, is you. The bad news is
that what you dislike about your friend, is you. The saying in psychology is,
"Perception is projection." What you see is who you are. So think the best about
everybody you meet. If you are practicing as a therapist, educator, or manager,
especially, think the best about your clients or students -- think that they are
magnificent, and that they can and will change using therapeutic change
technologies and they will. Based on the work of George Estabrooks (1943) and
Andre Weitzenhoffer (1957), what the therapist (or educator, or manager) does
not believe to be true will not be actualized by the client. If you believe that they
can do anything, then they will. If you see your clients as magnificent they will be
magnificent. The more good you see in your clients the more they will actualize
that good for you, and for themselves. The more you do that, the more your own
unconscious mind will feel good about you, and prosper. Honor and respect the
unconscious mind. If you can, love the unconscious mind. You and your
unconscious mind are going to be together for a long, long time, so you might as
well get along well. If you can remember your magnificence you will be
magnificent!
20. CANNOT PROCESS A NEGATIVE: Finally, and we have already discussed
this earlier, make sure you are telling your unconscious mind what to do, think,
be; as opposed to telling it what not to do and think.
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