PNRI Introduction
Prenatal Re-Imprinting (PNRI) - PNRI is a new interdisciplinary science and methodology that makes it possible to re-pattern or re-imprint, in a very natural and safe way, the central part of the brain (paleocortex) in order to remove maladaptive and self-destructive personality patterns. The emotional center of the brain (within the paleocortex) is re-imprinted to establish more positive and beneficial foundations for personality.
From the earliest period of our development in the womb our neuronal tissues become harmonized to our mother's physical and emotional experiences. This period of pregnancy (from the stage of germination through embryonic and fetal periods) establishes our foundational personality patterns. These patterns are imprinted as the mother experiences her life, and especially as her experiences relates to her prenatal baby. When the mother is contented and happy, and she is fulfilled nutritionally and emotionally, then there is an opportunity to nurture the developing prenate to attain developmental levels that are truly astonishing. Properly nurtured babies will have strengths and capabilities far beyond the norm.
If on the other hand the mother's pregnancy is filled with negativity, then the prenate's potential in later life is diminished. These negative prenatal patterns become an integral part of the personality that will develop throughout childhood and into adult life. The negative imprinting tends to operate in the background and is sometimes referred to as the "hidden dragons of the paleocortex." These "dragons" impose limitation on our full potential; they not only shape the way we perceive the world, they actually project a reality field in which we seek out life experiences that replicate the cascade of neurochemicals that were part of the prenatal shared experience with our mother.
Negative imprinting happens during periods of extreme stress to the mother and her prenate. These stressful experiences imprint as patterns and non-verbal associations at a cellular level in the rapidly developing neuronal tissue of the prenate. Negative imprinting creates maladaptive personality patterns, that is, things don't work as well as they could, and very often result in frustration and failure. Negative imprinting becomes embedded in the very formation of our perceptual filters, and thus they affect the way that we later perceive and cope with life.
For example:
- Problem pregnancies with too much maternal emotional distress imprint patterns of INSECURITY.
- Not enough resources, with physical lack and financial stress, will imprint patterns of INADEQUACY.
- Fathers who withdraw support during pregnancy can cause feelings of abandonment, imprinting patterns of INFERIORITY.
- Mother and father who are not properly bonded imprint foundational patterns of UNCERTAINTY.
- Neglect of the prenate with inadequate attention imprints foundational PERSONALITY PROBLEMS.
Far too many mothers face a pregnancy filled with negativity and deficiency; thus, the potential of their baby in later life is diminished by the imprinted "dragons" in the earliest-forming part of the brain that is called the paleocortex. These "dragons" shape the way we perceive the world, and they can create a reality field that is filled with frustration, failure, conflict, and suffering. Dragons are imprinted from the emotional neurochemicals, such as produced by the adrenal glands.
"The adrenal glands are in continual action from the time they are first formed in prenatal development at the age of six weeks. The adrenal glands are essential for body functioning, and are therefore fully developed at such an early age in fetal development. They handle stress in the fetus, and may even supplement the mother's adrenals if her own are in the third stage of exhaustion. If the mother is in a chronic state of adrenal exhaustion, the child can be born with its own glands being in the exhausted stage. The fetal adrenal gland produces androgens, which contribute to fetal growth, and after birth, to the development of musculature and other organs such as kidneys." (David C. Walters, in Applied Kinesiology, The Adrenal Approach, p 226)Thus, severe stress of the mother can have significant physiological effects on developing brain, and all organ systems of the rapidly developing prenate.
A pregnant mother who is in frequent fear and anxiety will overload her nervous system with fight-or-flight neurochemicals, primarily adrenaline (norepinephrine). That rush of adrenaline can then be metabolized to form the hallucinogen (adrenochrome), and the pattern can become addictive to the mother, and imprinted on her prenate. Are you possibly generating crisis situations in your life today to satisfy a prenatally imprinted need for an adrenaline rush?
Maternal stress produces various neurochemicals in addition to adrenaline, perhaps the most important is the stress hormone norepinephrine. Norepinephrine acts in the developing nervous system to suppress the growth of irrelevant and undesirable neural connections, while at the same time facilitating the formation of relevant synaptic connections. Norepinephrine also provides protection in the brain, especially a part of the emotional center (limbic system) that is called the amygdala. It prevents damage to the amygdala and suppresses abnormal kindling activity (seizure activity) when the brain is operating under of peak activity conditions.
Under conditions of acute or repetitive stress, norepinephrine levels are depleted. This is typically accompanied by the secretion of natural opiates that also exert an inhibitory effect on the release of norepinephrine. During pregnancy these natural opiates are passed through the placenta and influence the development of the prenate. At any stage of a developing brain, the depletion of norepinephrine, along with excessive amygdala activation (see below under the Section "Human Brain Structure"), accompanied by opiate release, can lead to structural and functional alterations affecting brain cell interconnections, synaptic size and densities, and receptor site sensitivities.
To determine what negative imprinting may be lurking in your paleocortex you only need to look at your life. Our relationship to the world around us gives us feedback as to what is imprinted in our paleocortex. What is going on in your life? Are you truly happy, and are your loved ones truly happy? Or is there too much irritation, frustration, depression, or similar negative patterns? Could things be better in your life, and the life of your loved ones?
