New
Paradigms for Extraordinary Living
by
Ty Azeltine
This
frees us to live from that inner place of being true to
ourselves rather than from learned patterns that keep us
living in mediocrity.
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In
order for people to have truly extraordinary lives, they need to make
truly extraordinary changes. This is because most people live their
lives as the product of their learned and conditioned behaviors.
Without even realizing it, we make choices not from what would really
work for us but from what we have learned we "should" or
"can't" do.
Of
course you already know this! But perhaps you are wondering about the
most efficient ways to bring us back to a place in which we are
consistently able to be true to ourselves. Is that even possible? And
how about being able to distinguish between our automatic learned
decision-making process and making choices and decisions from an inner
place of stillness and joy?
The
key is to first understand the real nature of what drives our
decisions and actions, to understand the real mechanisms that cause
choice (or the apparent lack of it). Then, we need techniques that can
truly dismantle those default learned behaviors that we all get so
unconsciously competent at!
A
new field of medicine is emerging that provides penetrating insights
into the nature of human conditioning, how this conditioning limits
our decisions and actions, and—most importantly—how and what can
be done to eliminate the binding, limiting, influence that our
conditioning imposes on us without our even being aware of it.
Relief
from old patterns is obtained because new, easy-to-use techniques
resolve the emotional response of the memory patterns in the neural
connections that are at the root of limiting beliefs, conditioned
response, destructive behavior and dis-ease.
Recovery from such symptoms of disease is achieved because the
techniques provide simple and effective ways to respond to future
events. In addition, this frees us to live from that inner place of
being true to ourselves rather from our default learned patterns that
usually keep us choosing and living in mediocrity.
This powerful set of insights and techniques is transforming people's
lives. It is also transforming different professions that help people
resolve problems, from health practitioners and life coaches to
therapists and more. Practitioners and coaches who have learned this
body of work are abandoning other techniques that are less effective
in favor of this new methodology. As one of them said to me recently,
"My clients deserve the best that I can give them. Why should I
take months or longer to accomplish the results that I can give them
immediately? And now I can
cut to the core of their inner conflict in minutes and give them
breakthroughs that provide them with even more than what they thought
they wanted!"
There
are several techniques that can easily be learned and applied to give
you success in all areas of life.
Offered here is a simple but powerful method that you can use
the next time you feel fear, pain, sadness, anger, jealous, bitter,
resentment, grief or other emotions.
First,
just take a few minutes and allow yourself to identify with the energy
patterns in your body that contain any discomfort. If you have no
discomfort, you can usually create some by simply allowing yourself to
feel an uncomfortable emotion. This
is the same type of energy that creates dis-ease. It can be felt by
simply placing your attention on any discomfort in your body. Some
examples:
1.
Inability to express angry words may result in throat feelings.
2.
Lack of joy often creates tightness or discomfort in the chest.
3.
Not trusting intuition often leads to distress in the solar plexus.
4.
Fear of change often results with irritation in the gut.
5.
Grief may be felt in the lungs and chest.
Don’t
allow the fear of being overwhelmed stop you. Fear of being
overwhelmed by these emotions is perhaps the grandest and most
profound illusion that our mind creates.
This illusion is created from early childhood experiences of
being overwhelmed by intense feelings. Prior to emotional development,
those feelings were avoided because we lacked the capacity to process
the feelings. As adults we
have seven times more capacity (as evidenced by our abundance of
spindle cells) to process those feelings. However, our default
mechanisms are activated from the memories of infancy!
As
Joseph LeDoux’s research program at the Center for Neural Science at
New York
University
has demonstrated, any time a fearful memory is brought to mind, the
neural connections between the fearful image and the emotional
response may be increased or decreased. The memory becomes labile
(changeable) when reactivated, and thus susceptible to being
neurologically consolidated in a new way. The emotional power will
either be reinforced (by avoidance) or dissipated by the use of
techniques that process the memory of the emotion.
More
simply stated, emotional maturity is achieved by deactivating the
fearful images that are involved in the experiences of fear and pain.
This becomes possible as the fearful images present themselves.
For
this exercise to be effective, you must do the opposite of what you
normally do: you must go beyond the fear of being overwhelmed to
overcome the illusion. When
we continue to avoid feelings, our emotions remain as default programs
and thus persist in creating unconscious decisions that stand in the
way of having what we truly want for our life.
You will soon see with little effort that the fear of overwhelm
is just a memory from the past that carries no weight.
So,
allow yourself to feel the energy of the emotion in the discomfort of
the body. There is no need
to give it more energy—just feel what is there.
As you resolve parts of it, you may go deeper into the feeling
to resolve the deeper aspects without the fear of overwhelm.
Most often, the discomfort associated with these patterns of
energy can be identified in one or more of four primary locations in
the body. Stop reading now
and close your eyes for a few moments and see if you can get a sense
of one or more of these energies in your body.
This
energy may manifest as tightness in the chest, restricted breathing, a
lump in the throat, discomfort or pain in the solar plexus or gut. As
you hold your attention on this energy for a few moments, you will
notice that the intensity begins to decrease. Remain present with the
energy of the emotion wherever you feel it.
Sometimes it will move to another location. Stay with it until
it is completely gone.
The
benefits of spending a few moments every day to resolve these programs
of unresolved emotional pain are limitless.
As you begin the process, new doors of awareness and
opportunity will become available in your life.
There will also be days when you may think there is no end to
the daily work. Let me assure you that there are a finite number of
these energies to be resolved! Six
months to two years of diligence with this type of work has been
compared to the level of spiritual growth one might expect from 30
years of meditation.
Ty
Azeltine has developed a Holistic Recovery Program that teaches
many techniques to complement and expedite the healing process. For
class registration or one-on-one sessions, call 561-9922
