The Road To Intimacy
We learn about relationships from our parents by observing them as they relate.
However there is a more subtle and more powerful influence on how we relate.
They are the protective mechanisms we adopted during childhood.
The memory of the techniques we adopted to survive our childhoods is stored in the reptillion part of our brain and in every cell of our body.
When we receive sensory input through any of the senses the brain directs it to both the reptilian brain and the frontal lobes. The frontal lobes are capable of high level reason but the reptilian brain can only decide between flight, fright and freeze. This causes us problems because the frontal lobes are relatively slow in making decisions, whereas the reptilian brain responds in a much shorter time. This is why we often react in ways we later regret.
To overcome this we need to reprogram the instinctual part of our brain so its responses are in line with our higher thinking.
This workshop does this by giving new experiences and responses to old issues. When repeated several times a new "program" is installed and subsequently we react differently when under stress.
The memory of the techniques we adopted to survive our childhoods is stored in the reptillion part of our brain and in every cell of our body.
When we receive sensory input through any of the senses the brain directs it to both the reptilian brain and the frontal lobes. The frontal lobes are capable of high level reason but the reptilian brain can only decide between flight, fright and freeze. This causes us problems because the frontal lobes are relatively slow in making decisions, whereas the reptilian brain responds in a much shorter time. This is why we often react in ways we later regret.
To overcome this we need to reprogram the instinctual part of our brain so its responses are in line with our higher thinking.
This workshop does this by giving new experiences and responses to old issues. When repeated several times a new "program" is installed and subsequently we react differently when under stress.