The Origins of PNRI
Prenatal Re-Imprinting (PNRI) is the result of the work and creative insights of Dr. Joseph A. DiRuzzo. Dr. Joe, as most people call him, has integrated his studies in the fields of obstetric medicine, oriental medicine, hypnosis, psychoneuroimmunology, neurology, and neuro linguistic programming. He then molded these fields together on the foundation of his training and work as a doctor of chiropractic medicine.
Dr. Joe was greatly influenced in his development by the works of Milton Erickson, and Richard Bandler. Richard Bandler is co-founder of neuro linguistic programming (NLP), and Dr. Joe studied his work and became a master instructor of NLP. He has a great sensitivity and awareness of others, and this has helped him greatly in his efforts to guide people out of their problems.
Early in his work as a chiropractic physician, he noticed that some of his patients were creating patterns of illness in their lives. With his extensive studies of human behavior, Dr. Joe began to use this knowledge to help his patients find and release maladaptive patterns that were central to their physical-emotional problems.
One day about ten years ago, Dr Joe was working with a patient who was a business executive (let's call him Ted) who had a personality quirk. Every time Dr. Joe would say something positive, Ted would negate it with specific response pattern. For example, someone would say to Ted: "It looks like a beautiful day today." Ted would respond with his nervous tic, turning his head several clicks to the left, and invalidating what had just been said to him: "But it is not as nice as it was yesterday."
In an effort to help Ted get rid of his personality quirk, Dr. Joe guided him back to search for its origins in his early childhood. Guiding Ted back to the time of his birth, and still not finding the root of the problem, Dr. Joe had Ted go back to the time he was in his mother's womb. They discovered that Ted's mother experienced such extreme stress during her pregnancy that is caused Ted (as a fetus) to defecate into the amniotic fluid. Dr. Joe realized that this prenatal experience had been imprinted in Ted, and was the cause of the personality quirk. Ted's nervous tic of his head was an imprinted fetal pattern of avoiding the fecal matter (called meconium) floating in his face.
Working with Ted to stimulate the use of creative imagination, Dr. Joe had him imagine that all of that irritating material floating near his face was now moved away, far away. This process removed Ted's nervous tic forever. It also started Dr. Joe's studies of prenatal imprinting, and led to the development of ever better techniques for reprogramming or re-imprinting, and thus removing negative prenatal imprints and the maladaptive patterns that are the result of such imprints.
One of the major developments in PNRI was Dr. Joe's discovery that imprinting begins very early in the embryonic stage, and that the foundations of personality are imprinted in a particular pattern of neurochemicals that are generated from extremely stressful events during prenatal development. He also found that he was practically alone in his realization of the importance of this embryonic period. Through several years of using PNRI techniques, Dr. Joe came to the realization that all of our maladaptive patterns, without exception, are the result of extremely stressful prenatal experiences. And he discovered that when the prenatal foundations of a problem are re-imprinted, the problem is gone forever.
Dr. Joe became aware that the architecture of the human brain, and its developmental process makes most psychotherapeutic methods ineffective, because these methods assume that feelings follow thoughts. In reality, feelings and thoughts are experienced in parallel in separate parts of the brain. Feelings and emotions are experienced in the first-forming part of the brain, called the paleocortex. The paleocortex includes the so-called reptilian brain (autonomic nervous system), and the so-called mammalian brain (emotional center). During fetal development the paleocortex is over grown by the massive cognitive-thinking parts of the brain that are collectively called the neocortex. The neocortex will grow to become some 80% of the total brain, and it is where language and cognitive processes develop after birth.
Psychotherapy is limited by the dominance of the neocortex, and thus the mental structures tend to limit access to core emotional problems, particularly to the foundational prenatal patterns. Dr. Joe gained insight to the solution of this therapeutic problem from his medical internship in obstetrics. He found that when he placed a person into a seated fetal position, with the upper neck curved forward, that the neocortex was taken out of dominance.
This posture produces a stimulus-response reflex that shifts dominance to the paleocortex, and opens it up to be re-imprinted with various methods. The neocortex is aware of what is happening, and is likely nattering in the background, "this isn't going to work." But, the neocortex does not block re-imprinting of the paleocortex.
Over a period of some eight years, Dr. Joe continued to develop improvements to the techniques of PNRI. He was assisted in his development of PNRI by a clinical psychologist named Ross Stewart. Dr. Stewart applied PNRI methods to his clinical practice with excellent results. Dr. Stewart found that PNRI was ten-times more effective than current psychotherapeutic methods.
Gerald Vind met Dr. Joe in 2003, and he worked with him to transform not only his own maladaptive patterns, he continued on and mastered the application of PNRI techniques to others. Dr. Vind was inspired by his work with PNRI to develop Transforming Dragons, with the help of Claire Papin.
Gerald Vind has over 20-years of experience in neuroscience, serving as president of a medical electronics company (EPI), that is the pioneer in micro-current cranial stimulation. He was a founding member of the National Institute for Electromedical Information in 1987. Later, he was chief scientist of a start-up company that was advancing medical device technology based on the once-secret Russian SCENAR, a remarkably effective healing device developed for the Russian space program. During 2004 he conducted a clinical evaluation of SCENAR under the supervision of a Professor of Internal Medicine at UTMB Galveston. He is currently the founder and director of the Applied Neurosciences Institute, and he is conducting research on Prenatal Re-Imprinting.
The task ahead for PNRI is to move from a collection of anecdotal success stories, to scientific validation through controlled studies. This is necessary to produce change in the established system. Currently, support is being sought from all who are interested in making PNRI more widely available. Contact Gerald Vind.
