Beyond Mindfulness

The Science and Practice of Inshifting

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Borrowed from Buddhism

Incorporated into psychology treatments

Extensively researched

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Reduces rumination- meaning it helps you stop chewing over your problems and making yourself sick.

Reduces stress, depression, anxiety and physical distress.

It lifts and gives you more stable moods.


6-8 Weeks of Regular Practice

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Improved memory and focus and information

processing speed.

More cognitive flexibility- meaning you can think more creatively and get unstuck from habits of thinking and behavior.

The better you are at being aware, the more

predictive it is of relationship satisfaction.



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Improved ability to be in relationships, deal with better communication, better at expressing yourself in a variety of social situations.

Improves self-insight, morality and intuition.

Physically, it can improve your health, raise your immunity and give you a greater sense of physical wellbeing.



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Mindfulness taken to advanced stages.

A method of brain training that shows your brain how to know or ”see” itself—which is a miraculous experience.

Self-development leading to fulfillment of your highest human potential.

(Inshifting uses “awareness” instead of “mindfulness” because “mind” is defined as thoughts, ideas, images, sense of self and sense of time, etc.)


There are two opposing systems of control in the brain.

These systems affect how you experience and what you do.

There is one for the lower brain and one for the higher brain.


The lower brain

Uses l i tt le to no awareness.

Uses automatic/instinctual/autopilot mechanisms to control

What you pay attention toHow you “see” (experience) things, What you do How you think/what you believe.

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The higher brain Uses awareness to:

know what it happening around and inside you. To know itself (“self -”/reflective awareness)

Consciously guides and directs:What you pay attention toHow you “see” (experience) things, What you do How you think/what you believe.

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Higher brain

Lower brain

These two regulatory systems compete with each other.

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Higher brain

Lower brain

They compete with each other for control over what you experience, believe and do.

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What you experience, believe, do

What and how you experience, believe and do is a collection of different schemata.

One schema:

Stimulus triggering response

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Stimulus of: •Senses, •Body information, •Mind activity•Physical actions.

Responses: •Senses, •Body information, •Mind activity•Physical actions.

Seeing fruit Hunger

Hunger Thoughts of food

Being on a bicycle Pedaling

Angry face Fear

Sad emotions Negative thoughts

Flash of light Eye blink

Stimulus triggering response


Schema

S-R


The response of one schema is the stimulus for another.

Like a cartoon in a flip book, the flow of schemata creates “you!”

Schemata cluster in groups creating: •Skills, talents, •Attitudes, beliefs, •Habits in the way you experience•Memories, your identity•etc.


Higher brain

Lower brain

Each side competes for control over each schema and the flow of schemata.

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Higher brain

Lower brain

Lower brain control : (Stimulus tr iggers response) has the advantage with ingrained instincts, repetit ion of

habits, schema with survival value.

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Higher brain control: Stimulus met with awareness/control/Intention shaping responses.

Higher brain has an advantage when smarter responses need awareness of now/ context/ perspective/choice of

schemata.

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Higher brainLower brain

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Schema

Strength of the trigger or

of the schema

Energy put into awareness

(attention) and conscious control

(intention).

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It depends on…

Higher brain

Lower brain

Habit, instinct, impulse usually win.


Inshifting skil ls: helps ti lt the see-saw in this direction more of the time. (Depending on the

schema being processed.).


People’s style of processing their schemata depends on their Inshift ing skil ls and the nature of the schemata with which they are programmed. There are 4 levels of experience and functioning that reflect states and traits of functioning.

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1 2 3 4


Level 2Level 1 Level 3 Level 4

Coma

Awakened

Automatic driving

Superstitious

Stuck identity

Logical

FocusedDelirium

IntuitiveSelf-aware

Schema


Amount of automaticity and schema control

Amount of awareness and conscious controlled

Examples:Stuck in habits Resisting habits


Where is the higher and lower brain?

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Understanding the higher brain begins with this fact: You have two separate brains!

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Right half Left half

Higher Brain


Our model is that simple awareness and basic control for each side of your brain arises from…

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…a unique interaction between executive cel ls (E) in each frontal lobe directly attached to and resonating back and forth with multisensory cel ls (S) in each posterior (parietal) lobe.

Higher Brain

Frontal lobes

Parietal lobes


Our model is that self-awareness and executive control arise from…

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Higher Brain



The rest of the brain (the rest of the cortex and below) make up the lower brain...

Lower brain

Organized by schema connections (memory quanta) between senses, body, mind and actions.



Learning to selectively stimulate the 4 groups of cells (2 left and 2 right) and the connections between them….(ie self-awareness and executive control)

While releasing the power and control of the rest of the brain (i.e. separating schemata connections with awareness and control).


Heightened awareness / self-awareness and intention

/executive control.

Released, let go, defocused (put in background) “automatic” interactions between senses, body states, mind and actions.


Are there tools or reference points that you can use to Inshift?


Find your inner eye!

What is your reality…right now?

Does it go any higher?



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Awakened

Ordinary

Daydreaming

Willingly suspended

Something wrong in the brain

Dreaming/Nightmare



Lower Brain

Higher Brain

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Physical inshifitng

Psychological

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Moral inshifitng

Social

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Cultural inshifitng

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I. Get energized / alert Released / relaxed

II. Concentrate energy Soften attention /and awareness behind eyes Loosen control

I. Move energy & awareness Sense vivid, unreal reality

of back outside normal you senses-body-mind / Find inner strength

III. Find energy of & become inner Sense independent “outer

you” silence and stillness Find higher control I. Realize aliveness Allow spontaneity



Lower Brain

Physical inshifitng

Psychological

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Social

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Cultural inshifitng

Moral inshifitng

Spirit

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Physical Inshifting ………………………… Natural High and Well

Psychological Inshifting ………………… Self-Awareness & -Control

Social Inshifting……………………………. Empathy & Connection

Cultural Inshifting…………………………. Order & Acceptance

Moral Inshifting…………………………….. Values, Principles, Purpose

Traditionally Spiritual Inshifting……….. Amazement & Gratitude


Physical inshifting: Meds Natural remedies Health: Diet, Exercise, Yoga, Fasting

Psychological inshifting : Self-learning paradigms Psychotherapy Self-assessment

Social inshifting : Learning interdependence skills, Building empowering networks

Cultural inshifting : Financial Order Home and Life Order Disaster Planning

Moral inshifting : Clarify values, LifeAwakening Plan: purpose, principles

Traditionally spiritual inshifting : Mindfulness meditation, Religion Gratitude, apology repentance and amends, art and beauty,


• Beyond Illness Focus total recovery resilience and wellness

• Hope abnormal to spiritual

• Empowerment Potential of psychiatric struggle

• Normalcy Everyone struggles


Awakening

Enlightenment

Paradise on Earth

Heaven within

Cosmic Consciousness

Neurofeedback

Wellness

Psychotherapy

Meditation / Yoga

Medication/Naturopathics



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