Mapping your brain: Making the subconscious visible
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Mark Evan Furman, a cognitive neuro-scientist and author of The Neurophysics of Human Behavior, has distilled over two-dozen branches of science to develop and test a process called Mind Imaging. A scientific process which brings the complex and elusive matrix of our own mind from the realm of the invisible to the realm of the visible, Mind Imaging allows each participant to craft an “image” that accurately represents the structure of their unique mind. The final image is called a NeuroPrint and includes the three raw building blocks of a mind; our thoughts and beliefs, our emotions, feelings and moods and our behaviors.
According to Furman, for those who have learned to apply this technology, the reported results have been specific and measurable. Anecdotally these include one person doubling monthly income in four weeks, another losing 20 pounds in 60 days, and another apparently overcoming depression. A teenager labeled Learning Disabled who was previously unable to spell, was able to learn how to spell backwards and forwards in 10 minutes.
In the Mind Imaging technology, the NeuroPrint acts as a feedback mechanism so people can get a visual on the matrix of their mind. The value of this feedback mechanism is compared to looking in the mirror. Every day, a common mirror provides the necessary feedback that allows us to bridge the gap between how we look when we wake up in the morning and the picture or goal of how we want to look when we leave the house. Using this simple feedback tool we gain great control over our appearance. In fact, with a little practice we can make very precise changes such as selecting and plucking a single eyebrow hair. Without the simple feedback function a mirror provides we would have very limited control over our personal appearance.
The Mind Imaging technology is based on the same premise. If the mind can objectively “see itself,” then adjustments can be made in present emotion/thought patterns to create a desired change that can enable people to more rapidly achieve their dreams and goals. The Mind Imaging process allows participants to craft a representation of their unique mind. The resulting NeuroPrint provides feedback that works just like a mirror for your mind. It allows you to see your mind at that given point in time. Once you can accurately see a representation of your mind, you can use the Mind Imaging techniques to make rapid, measurable and stable changes to the thoughts, feelings and behaviors that constitute your mind.
“Mind Imaging allows us to apply scientific measurements to our beliefs, emotions, and behaviors,” says Mark Furman states. “It allows us to precisely measure the velocity, duration, probability and trajectory of these aspects of the mind.” Furman points out that these measurements are objective and not based on a simple subjective intensity scale, such as a Subjective Unit of Disturbance (SUD). In other words it goes far beyond a subjective calculation like, “On a scale of one to ten, how angry were you.?”
“We can now precisely influence any part of the system we call mind, with tools that have been proven to work with tens of thousands of individuals from all over the world,” he says. “These tools are laser precise.”
John Freedom, an Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) specialist and counselor for over 16 years, has taken the Mind Imaging workshop twice. He says the model, though useful, is still “guesstimation” in regards to the accuracy of getting a mind image. He believes that since the mind is never static that the precision of the image created is questionable. However he adds, “The process adds greater awareness to the emotional states felt. I felt a greater sense of confidence about the possibility of achieving my goals after taking the workshop.”
In the Mind Imaging workshop, participants learn the science behind setting and achieving their dreams and goals. They examine their own thoughts, feelings and behaviors that are the biggest blocks to accomplishing those dreams and goals. Then they learn the NeuroPrinting process, listing and experiencing frequent emotional states, and applying simple mathematical calculations to them. They even measure the velocity of these states with a stopwatch. The next step is “Art Class.” In this phase of the Mind Imaging process participants convert their calculations and measurements into colored circles and lines on paper that become a “map” of their mind which includes emotions, behaviors and beliefs.
Practical tools are taught that allow individuals to create new neural pathways from their most negative emotional states to the emotional states that are most likely to move them toward their dreams and goals. The changes are even measured with a stopwatch to document effectiveness. It is common for some participants to have a 50% improvement in establishing a new neural pathway from a negative emotion to a positive one in a short period of time. For example, the emotion of depression could be linked to loving so that as soon as depression is felt it leads to a feeling of love. Because the brain operates in essentially an associative manner, Mind Imaging workshops take care to teach participants how to prevent simply expanding the neuro-net of their negative emotions to include other stimuli.
According to Dr. Fred Gallo, a clinical psychologist who coined the term Energy Psychology, the limitation of this process lies with the individual. “Not everyone who just looks at their NeuroPrint will change,” he points out. “Some will need help with the change.” In addition, the NeuroPrint is just a road map and, like any road map, it will need regular updating. If someone decides to learn this strategy, to be most effective, it is useful to update it regularly. Furman himself recommends updating the NeuroPrint every three to four weeks because your NeuroPrint will change as you achieve your dreams and goals. As you take on newer, bigger dreams and goals, new limiting thoughts, emotions and behaviors are likely to show up.
Furman cautions his students that the greatest illusion that we’ve been living is that thought controls behavior. We cannot think our way to better behaviors or emotions because our emotions and behaviors are under subconscious control and willful thinking is under conscious control. “Have you ever tried to stop being mad in the middle of being full-blown mad?” Furman asks. “Subconscious programming is hundreds of times faster than our conscious awareness. Therefore, whenever conscious programming comes into conflict with unconscious programming, unconscious programming will always win because it is 500 and 1,000 times faster than our conscious awareness.”
Bruce Lipton, in his article, Mind Over Genes: The New Biology, discusses this phenomenon, revealing that the subconscious mind is a million times more powerful as an info rmation processor than the conscious mind. Plus, as neuroscientists emphasize, the conscious mind provides 5% or less of the cognitive activity during the day. “Ninety-five to ninety-nine percent of our behavior is directly derived from the subconscious,” writes lipton. “Hence the use of the word ‘power’ in the concept of will power. It takes significant effort for the conscious mind to keep tabs on the subconscious behavior. Positive thinking is primarily effective if the subconscious supports the conscious intention.”
In other words, according to Lipton, you can’t think yourself into a good mood unless the shape of your subconscious mind has already been programmed, or reprogrammed, to function that way.
“We can use a variety of new energy psychology modalities that enable a rapid and profound reprogramming of limiting subconscious beliefs,” he says. “These new energy modalities provide the ability to rewrite limiting perceptions (beliefs) and self-sabotaging behaviors using processes that are mechanistically similar to pushing the record program on the subconscious mind’s tape player. With conscious awareness, one can actively transform the character of their lives into ones filled with love, health and prosperity.”
Mind Imaging may be one of the new modalities that can serve as a tool to bring subconscious programs to the surface - making the invisible visible so that conscious changes can be made. This was, as Mark states, “your dreams become reality.”
For more info rmation about Mind Imaging, go to www.mindimagingtechnologies.com. Janet Rae will host a web conference with Mark Furman Wednesday, February 28 at 7:00 PM MST, 9:00 PM EST. The conference call number is (641) 985-1200 and the Access Code is 1086844#.
