I am now communicating directly with your Prefrontal Cortex through your Left Neo-Cortex.
My Left Neo-Cortex is talking directly to your Left Neo-Cortex by sending the signals processed in my Left up to my Motor Cortex (positioned in the top of my brain) which then activates my fingers to project my internally held ‘words’ onto an external surface which you can then read.
You produce visual signals on reading this surface and these are transferred into your brain from your eyes; first into your Thalamus, your brain’s sensory signal filtering system, which decides these are safe, unemotional ‘words’, after which it then sends these signals towards the visual processing areas at the back of your brain, then through your Left Neo-Cortex towards your Prefrontal Cortex.
If your Thalamus interpreted these same signals as dangerous they would be sent a slightly different route into your emotional brain.
The only reason I feel motivated to create these visual signals for your brain to read is because I know, in my Left Neo-Cortex, you will have roughly the same language programming in your Left Neo-Cortex as I do.
The Left Neo-Cortex is the place in which you store 'what you know' because it acts as your organic filing cabinet from which your Prefrontal Cortex later draws known information when required.
It is the place where final completion and closure of emotional information cycles takes place, where 'insights' are stripped of emotional charge and integrated as newly learned facts alongside other known 'facts' already filed away.
Once these insights and facts are stripped from an emotional experience and transferred to the Left Neo-Cortex you are now able to 'forget' emotional issues and move your attention to other things.
The symbols you are reading with your eyes right now are being processed at the rear of your left brain, near your visual cortex, They are then sent forwards to a sound association area, still in your Left Neo-Cortex, and you are identifying which sounds these symbols you see are attached to in your left, logical association memories. You name the strings formed by these associated symbols and sounds 'thoughts'. Thoughts are your brain's way of representing journeys already made, and repeatedly mapped, in your logical mind.
Now, if as you read this information I seem to be repeating myself with just a few small tweaks added each time I’d agree with you. And that’s one of the points we need to see in regards to this stage of completing an emotional information cycle.
By experiencing a blocked emotional cycle repeatedly you do two things: you release the emotional energy driving it and you develop and gather logically structured thoughts about it which you then think over and over again until they become a part of your permanent thinking structures.
By nature thoughts can be quite boring and emotionally un-stimulating but you need to pay attention to them when they appear in the midst of your more attention-grabbing feelings.
We Use Thoughts to Create Representations
If I've arranged these symbol-sounds we call words in the correct order, and by 'correct' I mean in the socially accepted order you've been trained to receive and communicate language grammatically in; you will now be able to locate the thought sequences already stored in your brain and go on to generate what I call 'representations'.
Representations are objective, unemotional viewpoints of journeys which should be taken when certain circumstances or situations present themselves again. They are beliefs of 'how things should be' and 'how things are'. They are automated procedures to follow; fast and effective in guiding you from A to B with a minimum of mental attention and almost no emotional energy production involved.
The only time we change our 'how things should be' and 'how things are' representations is when they are effectively challenged by new information arriving in conscious awareness. If new information acquired in this way is an addition to the information we're already working with this may feel like an acknowledgement of what we already know. If, on the other hand, new information received goes directly against what we currently believe or want to receive we may find ourselves feeling uncomfortable and confused about what to do with it. Feeling uncomfortable and confused means we have now started using our Right Neo-Cortex.
I refer to Representations that have had emotional energy attached in this way, and so have been transferred back over to the Right Neo-Cortex, as ‘Reflections’. Reflections are experiential full-body activities. Your Right and Left Neo-Cortices swap Representations and Reflections with each other all the time - the deciding factor of which is which is made by whether or not an emotional charge is attached.
How Do You Know When an Emotional Cycle has Completed?
Stripped of emotional energy the information regarding both the subjective content of the emotional response (for example, the imagery) and knowledge about the process of extracting the energy itself, is transferred over from the Right Neo-Cortex to be stored in your Left Neo-Cortex’ lined-up filing system.
You will remember you once had an emotional response that was difficult to clear but you also know how you removed it and how to remove it should you struggle with a similar problem again; you roughly remember the content and some of the physical responses involved - but you cannot generate the same intense emotional responses you once had in regards to the same imagery.
You may have some feelings come up, but they are mild in comparison to how you used to feel.
You have now re-established a sense of direct control over how you manage the information because your Left Neo-Cortex has several information management qualities your Right Neo-Cortex lacks such as:
- being able to resolve problems at the speed of speech
- being specific; the Left Neo-Cortex thinks convergently; drilling down onto identified targets with a specific intention in mind
- being externally focused - it communicates with the outside world and can draw on the logic of others in resolving problems
- providing structure - and in providing structure to your thought-based responses it makes your world look controllable which leads to fewer strong emotional reactions.
But of course, the best outcome of completing your emotional information cycle problem is that, unless you deliberately want to remember it so you can write about it and explain the cycle to others like I do, you are now able to file it away in your Conscious Filing Cabinet and completely forget you ever had it.
Regards - Carl
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