You may already know your Neo-Cortex is a layer of 'gray matter' only a few millimetres thick covering the left and right halves of your brain. You may also know the Right Neo-Cortex processes and stores imagery, with or without emotional energy attached; while the Left Neo-Cortex processes and stores logical, unemotional, word-based 'thinking'.
When you are awake the Left and Right exchange information with each other continuously, under the watchful eye of your Prefrontal Cortex.
During sleep the Prefrontal Cortex shuts down for about 75% of the time; the Left Neo-Cortex almost completely shuts down (apart from those brief moments where you come back to conscious awareness again); the Right Neo-Cortex remains active - it never sleeps.
For about a quarter of your sleep cycle your Right Neo-Cortex and Prefrontal Cortex communicate with each other and you experience ‘dreaming’ as a result. Dreams form as the Prefrontal Cortex and Right Neo-Cortex work together to create patterns of meaning from emotional signals rising up from your body. Unfortunately you cannot heal a blocked emotional response during sleep - you have to be fully conscious to do that.
If you are suffering with an emotional disorder (a blocked emotional response such as panic attacks or obsessions, for example) and you want to heal yourself, it helps to become more consciously aware of how these three brain parts, the Prefrontal Cortex, the Right Neo-Cortex and the Left Neo-Cortex, function together. In order to bring about full emotional healing, which means full completion of an emotional information cycle through the process of self-directed exposure therapy, all three need to be involved.
You need to be awake, focused, and ready to store freshly obtained ‘factual’ and logical information; both about the subjective experience (how you feel about being subjected to the experience of the content of your internal emotional story itself), and also the objective, ‘outsiders view’ of the emotional release process as your emotional cycle completes (using the Left Neo-Cortex to store the final facts revealed).
Once you start to develop an objective viewpoint, especially when you finally see successes in clearing these cycles, it becomes increasingly difficult to ignore the reality of the natural emotional process. That is not to say you will like having this new knowledge stored as a ‘fact’ in your brain. Blocked emotional responses are unpleasant whether you know how to remove them or not.
You also need to be consciously (observantly) moving inwards; towards your emotional energies and any attached imagery, using the hunting drive of your Prefrontal Cortex. Your intention is to meet, fully explore and engage with your emotional energies in addition to the images and other sensations they are attached to with the intention of disconnecting those energies and images from each other through the process of ‘feeling’.
Please remember, as I state in most of the things I write on the subject, you need the support of a doctor or other medically qualified professional while going through this process. It is a physical process and, although the symptoms are unlikely to be life-threatening, they can be very uncomfortable and frightening in themselves - there is also the possibility the symptoms are masking other things your doctor should be taking care of.
Your Prefrontal Cortex compels you to go into the hated emotional experience; your Right Neo-Cortex produces various types of imagery in relation to the energies being brought into conscious awareness and the feeling process then strips energy from the imagery involved. Imagery with no direct meaning disappears while ‘factual’ information is transferred to the Left Neo-Cortex with the Prefrontal Cortex agreeing the situation producing the information is no longer ‘active’ and can be forgotten until needed later.
During my own healing process I deliberately and knowingly completed this cycle 42 times; clearing 27 obsessions, 14 phobias and a long-term panic attack condition over a three year period. Unknowingly both you and I have completed thousands of such cycles throughout our lives.
Can you think of any?
Regards - Carl
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