Human Brain Structure
The structure of the human brain is important to understanding why PNRI works, while other techniques are ineffective. Most current therapeutic techniques are based on the false premise that our emotions follow our thoughts. In reality, the thoughts and emotions are experienced in parallel in two separate regions of the brain:
- Cognitive-mental processes are in the neocortex.
- Emotions are in the limbic system within the paleocortex
- Frontal Lobe
- Parietal Lobe
- Occipital Lobe
- Cerebellum
- Limbic system (Includes: amygdala, hippocampus, hypothalamas, cingulate)
- Pons
- Medulla Oblongata
As a prenate, the emotional center of our brain develops first, before the large outer portion of the brain develops. This large outer portion (neocortex) will develop to become 80% of the brain. This neocortex is where we will later develop verbal ability, and where judgment, planning, and creative thinking are developed. But, it is the innermost emotional center (limbic system) that guides our attention, awareness, mood, emotion, and motivation. It is the innermost part of the brain that is so foundational to the formation of personality. Our personality is our unique collection of emotional, behavioral, and thinking patterns that tend to remain constant over time.
Our limbic system operates from its primary neurochemical encoding. The limbic system has many different cortical and sub-cortical structures that differ from one reference book to another. Of major importance are the amygdala, hippocampus, and hypothalamus. All of these are involved in fear conditioning. We have two amygdalae that encode Pavlovian stimulus-response learning, starting from our embryonic period of development. Our two amygdalae associate negative events with neutral and positive events and thus establish basic patterns of discernment. This process of reactive response conditioning is imprinted in a neurochemical code, and this conditioning continues after birth until age five when the amyglala's reactive memory capacity is full.
Our prenatal imprinting shapes the foundations of our personality, and for most individuals, the methods used to change our personality fail to produce desired changes at the foundational level of personality. This is because of the way our brain is structured, and thus, words experienced through the dominant neocortex are ineffective in changing the neurochemical foundations in our brain's emotional center.
Our prenatal imprints become our default settings (set points) from which our personality patterns develop. Our negative prenatal experiences imprint negative personality traits; for example low self esteem, and persistent feelings of irritability, frustration, insecurity, inferiority, and obsessive-compulsive disorders.
PNRI techniques have adapted to the structure of the brain, and thus, one is able to shift the neocortex out of dominance, and thus open up the inner emotional core of the brain to re-imprinting (writing over) prenatal patterns in the basic neurochemical language of emotions.
Our mind automatically fuses our cognitive and emotional experiences together into a seamless whole experience. Because of the dominance of the neocortex it is very difficult to "write over" or to alter the non-verbal imprinting in the paleocortex. Prenatal Re-Imprinting (PNRI) techniques, however, are able to reverse the dominance of the neocortex and to remove and "write over" prenatal patterns. In addition to removing unwanted dysfunctional patterns, PNRI methods are able to re-imprint beneficial and self-actualizing patterns.
The science of PNRI recognizes that strong emotional experiences after we are born can have a profound influence on our lives. However, all of later-life traumas are experienced within the context of our prenatally imprinted patterns.
Furthermore, when the foundational negative imprinting is transformed, the subsequent negative experiences are processed out much more easily. The cerebral hemispheres form the neocortex which constitutes some 80-percent of the three pounds of an adult brain. Verbal and cognitive abilities develop in the neocortex. PNRI is effective because it places the neocortex into the background, bringing the paleocortex into dominance. As noted above, this effectively opens up the the foundational patterns imprinted into the paleocortex to be changed, and such changes become a new foundation. A subject with a personality disorder can be tested before a session of PNRI (e.g. With Myers-Briggs, or MMPI), and then tested soon after a single PNRI session. Comparison of these two test results by an independent evaluator should show significant changes. Positive personality changes can be immediate and dramatic, and these positive changes are permanent.
