As we saw in the previous article, it's essential to consider this triadic mechanism: external environment, nervous system, physical body. But let's take a closer look at how it works.
How do human beings manage internal and external information?
In the course of the evolution of the first multi-cellular organisms, membrane receptors, a primitive motor system and then a nervous system appeared, organizing information between the different structures of the organism.
This order of appearance must be taken into account when understanding information management. The evolution of these organisms into the more complex beings that we are has led to the appearance of more subtle and specialized receptors, such as our senses. They are all open to the outside world, allowing the environment to penetrate our body and bring in a multitude of information to be received by our nervous system.
It's generally accepted that there are five senses: touch, taste, smell, hearing and sight, but there is actually a 6th sense that relates to our entire visceral system, and not just the gut, as some books suggest.
If you pay attention to the variations in your bodily sensations, you'll have noticed that you don't feel the same whether you're in the city or the countryside, in one house or another, in the company of one person or another. These differences are induced by the influence of this environment on your body, beyond what can be perceived by the five senses. This influence exists, whether we perceive it or not, even if of course there is no consensus on it.
If we look at it from a physiological point of view, there's a whole part of the nervous system that manages visceral sensation, called interoception (reception from within). This system is governed by the prefrontal cortex, in the cingulate gyrus, and the insula, in the temples. It's like having one sense open to our entire inner world.
We therefore have a multitude of external and internal information, which is received and managed by our limbic system, the great controller of emotional information.
Once this information has been processed, we respond more or less quickly and more or less appropriately.
It's our own internal programming that gives us our personal judgement of a situation and our pre-established response mechanisms. Some of us are emotional, others enterprising, others relational, some orators, cerebral or even conciliatory.
So, despite constantly changing external information, we always come up with the same type of response, which we modulate more or less over time. Some will try to reconcile, others to impose their opinion, others will flee the conflict or situation, and still others will take refuge in their inner world.
These pre-established patterns of behavior comfort the individual in his or her comfort zone, even though the response is not always appropriate.
In addition to these automated habits, we can also see a person differently than he or she really is. For example, we may perceive a person as kind when he or she is not. Similarly, we may trust someone who is unreliable, or seek conciliation with someone who seeks conflict.
This mechanism is called the mirror effect. It means that the filter of our inner reality is superposed on the reality of the other, leading us to interpret and therefore partially deceive ourselves. However, the majority of human beings are not completely enclosed in their own bubble, unlike people with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), most of whom have a dominant inner filter, preventing them from judging and thus producing a response adapted to their environment.
What causes the stress that leads to somatization?
All these misunderstandings create stress in the nervous system, increasing the secretion of stress hormones such as cortisone. It’s the limbic system that keeps this information active, but it also maintains a neurovegetative and musculoskeletal response via the brainstem and cerebellum.
This mechanism not only leads to bodily adaptation, but also to behaviors and actions that can fuel misunderstanding. If, for example, we don't respond to the sadness we feel in any situation, this information will be maintained in the body, leading to physiological reactions directly linked to the emotion.
If the information received is too strong, i.e. a certain tolerance threshold is exceeded, we speak of somatization. The origin of the trauma may be emotional, mental, physical or toxic.
This somatization settles permanently in the nervous system, leading to permanent adaptation of the body.
It's easy to understand that all the traumas experienced in the course of a lifetime, from a very early age, accumulate and add stress to the body and psychic system, gradually creating an increasingly unbalanced and fragile terrain.
So it's obvious that a very great sadness will not have the same impact as a small sorrow. Simply because the incoming information is not of the same nature, the body's response is also not the same.
How is trauma created?
The mechanism we have just described defines the very nature of the pathology or disorder. This is one of the keys to understanding various disorders and pathologies.
If we can't understand the pathology and cure it, we can take the opposite route and read from the disorder and find out how the individual experienced stress.
The “how” is crucial, as it provides the link between the individual's intrinsic terrain, i.e. his or her emotional schema, and what he or she has experienced, in other words the situation, context and facts that induced the stimulation in the body.
It's also important to understand that the same traumatic information will induce different responses in different individuals, since their terrain is different. For example, a trauma may cause a cardiovascular disorder in one person, but a stomach disorder in another.
This makes reading more complex, and can therefore be the source of many misinterpretations. We cannot, therefore, simplify the interpretation of ailments by using predefined situations.
Rather, it's a matter of correlating an ailment with an emotional feeling, which must be linked to a situation contemporary with the onset of the disorder.
Let's take a simple and very common example: eczema.
Physiologically, it's a loss of cutaneous substance (destruction of the skin) induced by an immune dysfunction that leads to the secretion of cytokines.
But what causes this disruption?
A familial and therefore genetic prevalence is accepted, but I've also observed that with the Neurolink Process, we can resolve eczema symptoms, sometimes long-standing and sometimes widespread, without affecting genetics or working directly on cytokine secretion.
So what's really going on?
If we look at it the other way round, i.e. from symptom to cause, we can analyze it as follows:
The skin being an organ of contact, the loss of this contact, whether real or symbolic (in other words, the loss of a relationship following separation, estrangement or death, for example), must be compensated for, if this suffering has not been properly managed. So, by destroying the skin, the individual is able to lower the barrier that separates him from the other, and thus regain the contact he has been missing.
Of course, not all separations lead to eczema. As we said earlier, this is correlated with the individual's emotional terrain, i.e. his or her intrinsic terrain.
The somatization induced by the stress of separation will then block the response and thus lead to the perpetuation of eczema.
With the Neurolink Process, we were able to treat in a single session a generalized eczema in a four-year-old child who had been covered in it since birth. The somatization created by the birth had been experienced as a loss of contact with his mother (induced by the emotional terrain). The mother had tried absolutely everything to treat her child's eczema, with no convincing results.
How does the Neurolink Process work and what makes it so efficient?
The Neurolink protocol, which reminds the brain of the presence of this stress so that it can resolve the problem, removed the limbic memory, and thus the brain's response to the body.
The eczema disappeared a few days later and reappeared only slightly, two years later, following a loss of contact with the mother during an event that was too stressful for the child.
In order to resolve a problem, whatever it may be, it is important not only to recall the event when possible, but also to allow the limbic system to reintegrate the information completely. This can only be done by reactivating the sensation experienced when the emotional memory was created, and by putting the brain in a special position.
Indeed, we can be systematically afraid of dogs and thus experience the same emotion without ever being able to free ourselves from it. For this to happen, the prefrontal cortex must be able to regulate the information, i.e. make it conscious so that it no longer resides in the limbic areas.
Certain techniques, such as EMDR or hypnosis, can be used to access these memories. Unfortunately, these techniques are not sufficiently effective in resolving disorders and pathologies.
The intensity and complexity of the information experienced means that the nervous system can't get rid of these memories as easily, so we need to go deeper in the therapy to liberate them more easily and generate more convincing results.
How does the Neurolink Process work on the brain?
If we consider the physiology of information integration during sleep, we need to take into account the mechanisms of sleep, and therefore the changes in brain activity that lead to changes in brain waves.
The brain goes through different stages during sleep: slow, light, deep slow and REM. During treatment, the aim is to induce this mechanism to enable the brain to dive solely into its traumatic memory.
The preliminary work we have carried out during the Neurolink Process reveals that the nervous system manifests theta, delta and sawtooth waves very quickly after the protocol has been completed.
This allows the brain to reactivate all the limbic structures involved in the trauma, making it conscious. This, in turn, erases the bodily response and thus the disorder or pathology.
It's not easy to understand pathophysiology, otherwise medicine would long have been confined to treating physical trauma. The factors creating disorders and pathologies are multi-factorial, making analysis more complex.
With the Neurolink Process, we have objective access to an individual's intrinsic schema. This enables us to correlate the individual's terrain with events contemporary with the onset of the disorder, and thus access limbic memories. It also enables us to link the pieces of the puzzle of all the factors in the bio-psychosocial field and to influence a wide range of clinical pictures.
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