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Now that you understand from before about the brain and the process of learning, I want to go deeper. We all know what letters are. They are represented by a phonetic symbol which can be written in lowercase print, uppercase print, lowercase cursive, uppercase cursive, be given a particular sound, and that sound will change depending upon the context of the letter within a particular word. Each word we associate with other words as well as an image or images of the particular thing(s) the word represents. These are all associations. Sounds associated with symbols that make up some form of a letter which form together to make words which associate with things or concepts. We could go deeper as well and talk about how words were derived from old Greek languages or whatever the earliest language is that they can be found to have been derived from, or perhaps even further back in time to cave drawings and sounds. But I will stop here. As I explained a bit in the first post "the mind", these phonetic symbols can represent entire words which have a particular set of meanings open to interpretation of various things that are then associated with other sights, images, and associations that ultimately form neural nets as the video in learning to unlearn part 2 showed.
The concepts and connections ultimately with the awareness of time, existence, and other things ultimately forms awareness and consciousness that can be altered both along with the particular wave length of the brain waves as well as the internal chemical releases that occur in these different states as well as the construct of individual associations. Drugs can alter consciousness and the chemical makeup not necessarily because of the drug's influence on the mind, but the body's reaction to them to release chemicals that already exist naturally in the mind for different purposes. So it's mostly all an internal function.
Now the most common "natural drug" that people probably experience is the adrenaline from the fight or flight response. If you want to unlearn you must first learn how the mind occasionally alters states and actually decreases it's cognitive ability and how to counter the effects.
I will keep it brief. The fight or flight response is a release of hormones, an elevated heart rate, and a redirection of bloodflow to your feet along with an increase of paranoia and awareness concentrated on identifying the threat and the best means of dealing with it. While the mind may become more concentrated at the task at hand and at dealing with the fear, it becomes less intune with more complex mental cognitive abilities. Unfortunately fight or flight is designed for dealing with a physical threat, not a mental one. As a result some people never are able to fully "relieve" themselves of this stress and that can lead to all kinds of unhealthy reactions and mental states and chronic stress.
One of the ways for dealing with this stress is rigorous exercise. Since fighting or fleeing involves physical activity... ultimately exercise can help many of the effects to subside this. Exercise results in the release of positive chemicals such as dopamine and serotonin to be released in the brain to reinforce this healthy activity and counter the effects of fight or flight and stressful chemicals released in the bloodstream. A rest period afterwards may be needed however to bring the heart rate down and really be able to relax afterwards.
The problem with the fight or flight response is you will look through paranoid eyes and see it through a filter of everything having some sort of danger to it. You will be stuck in the preditor-prey mentality. This is very unproductive towards you being able to connect with the "synergy" (multiple parts working to be greater than the sum of its parts), and to learn on your own as it will make you more likely to be just reacting to circumstance, keeping yourself trapped in "the matrix" and kept in fear. Now you can see fear is the manipulator used to enforce itself upon structure. It is damaging to the whole and it will come back to the individuals using them, but for the time being, those trapped in the matrix of "me vs the world" mentality are doomed to be the manipulator, likely because they were manipulated at one time or another, and may continue to be whether they know it or not.
The "fight or flight" response is necessary at times, but ask yourself, why would people courageously and almost automatically over ride this to save lives spontaneously? Why would a human dive in and help someone drowning out of urgency or rush into a burning building and put themselves first? why would a goose do everything it can to protect it's children from harm? It never was about "survival of the fittest", particularly as individuals, or there would never be a survival instinct at risk of one's own demise that completely over rides any fear which programs one to be self serving. I understand there will be disagreements, and I understand why, but trust on this that there is something greater than the individual in this realm and be patient and you are going to see it for yourself when the time comes.
Every day people drive to work in traffic that poses a mild form of a physical threat that seems much more significant. The biggest problem is they never send the signal to alleviate the trigger! What's more, the aggressive driving and honking horns that results, often puts everyone else into that state. Then they will be put in situations with heightened aggression and have to deal with bosses and employees, and conflict that they cannot resolve for the sake of their financial health they must repress the natural urge to flee or fight. They deal with deadlines, stresses, and many of them have developed a dependency on caffeine (a stimulant) to stay awake and alert which heightens their nervous system and responses to stress and makes it more sensitive, and more likely to trigger fight or flight. The withdrawal of caffeine and desire for more can also trigger a lighter, less dangerous, but still significant stage of addiction and withdrawal including an inability to focus to the extent one needs to. They are trapped.
Although moments of solitude and spending time alone perfectly still with time to reflect with increased cognitive ability may be helpful, you also want periods of the opposite when you are perhaps running, exercising or exerting force for extended periods of time prior to relaxation. If you are able to combat the effects of the subconscious you can learn to reflect on your own.
The mind filters everything through the amygdala. This way if you see something move in the room you can react to it before you even process and consciously realize what it is. If you for example have ever had that adrenaline go when you think you saw a spider or perhaps actually did, you know what I am talking about. The amygdala during fight or flight is hyperactive, constantly looking for a threat. When this and fear is triggered, you also will actually remember things more clearly as a result of a greater association and significance applied to things that go on during this time period. This is designed to protect you. If whenever your life is threatened you (physically) remember how best to respond, you will be better positioned to deal with a similar circumstance. This still applies with mental and emotional threats that are not physical as well, but are usually not as necessary.
So the fear tactic is actually a powerful form of manipulation, and the adrenaline rush can actually also be somewhat addictive. Remember that a TV show or movie is like a projected memory and thus responded to as if it is a real event to the subconscious. Combine this with some subliminal advertising and people can actually be addicted to scary movies or develop the desire or compulsion to watching them, and the heightened memory that occurs so that an individual will be prepared to deal with it next time creates much more significance of the associations made in the mind during fear. As a result people may potentially put too much emphasis on "avoiding pain" and "avoiding dangers" in situations in which they have experienced a lot of fear, or misrepresent how best to proceed in the future based upon a few unfortunate circumstances. And people watch TV to relax since it tends to put them in an alpha state!
Remember, these neural associations are created because the subconscious mind takes in everything and stores it for later recollection and will make associations through certain sensory input that is reinforced into neural networks the more those associations come up over time. The networks reconnect and associate to others, so the more neural associative networks are created and connected together with a common association, the more likely that association will connect all areas together and be triggered by more and more things, the more it becomes a thought that you think came from you, an idea which connects those thoughts that you think you constructed, and is reinforced into a belief and entire paradigm. In the same way most people don't understand how language works, in the same way they may not understand how learning works, through the same means that people don't understand where thoughts, ideas and beliefs come from so they misattribute it to their own originality, the process of organizing data, stimulating emotions, and elliciting responses is already automatically conditioned over enough of these associations. That is how they get you to watch horror films, then mke you feel guilty for it after the fact, and link it to shame and guilt, and other compulsions and addictions and how the cycle feeds upon itself. They are being partly honest in the same manner when they say that subconscious messages and hypnosis cannot "make you" do anything you don't want, but they aren't telling you that they will associate something you already want with what they want, and their will be a strong emotional compulsion that they can tap into and connect with to manipulate you into the system where you will be subjected to even further manipulation. It cannot do this for you, but it is only a matter of time before your mind assimilates data in that manner it was made to do.
YES, subliminal messages are constructed "to sell" products, but it also reinforces ideas and beliefs and reactions, emotions and paradigms which will be associated with compulsory behavior, autonomic responses, and preprogramed responses/reactions.
It's important that you know for the next step, how to disassociate yourself from the fear reaction and also how to maintain the health and reduced stressed more in detail. For now, you might need to take some time to work off the fight or flight response through exercise, even if it is simple chair pushups and air squats and then take some time to reflect upon this from the right emotional state, and really begin to access your own understanding from a perspective of compassion and understanding and get ready for the next one.
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