By Jeff Schoener
From archived newsletter articles, January 2008
Through this past year, you, my loyal readers have read about what motivates us to maintain and build healthy habits and how to be resolute in your resolutions. For this moment, in this New Year, and all of the moments which follow, you have become aware of your internal dialogue and you have learned tips on how to adjust your attitude in order to help you to create a better life.
The American national year-end holiday season has come to a close. From Thanksgiving through the year end, I continue to reflect back, only to realize just how grateful I am. I count my blessings for what I have, for what I’ve accomplished and for what I’m about to accomplish.
I’ve worked with Parkinson’s and stroke support groups and I have become extremely excited about how people store and access memories, for the long and the short term. For some, how they support the very fiber of who they have become, for others, how they seem to hurt. Realizing how we act and react to these memories, as well as our thoughts surrounding them, determines who we may become as well as who we have already become.
My renewed sense of gratitude stems from an invitation that I accepted to speak at a senior assisted living facility. While they were all delightful, some of them failed to store what was newly in their short term memory. At first I thought they may have Alzheimer’s, or some other brain lesions, possibly due to a stroke. In many cases I soon realized it had far more to do with their own internal dialogue that kept them from making and storing memories. As I had them access memories from their past, I would subtly link the newer memories around the kinesthetics of their previous ones. Not to alter their previous memories, but to use them as a bookmark, so they could maintain far more of what we did that day. Bypassing their thoughts of their own physical limitations, I lead them to take control of their internal dialogues to the point where everyone was participating and having fun while also learning.
This is the subject of my new book titled ‘Just Before …©’ a memory enhancement guide book which facilitates an environment that will activate the audio, visual and emotional cortexes within yourself and anyone you interact with. This will also be a useful tool for rapid trance inductions and powerful state elicitations for anchoring.
Your memories are your personal and individual history. We may learn from the past, yet unless we access them completely, we will not be able to fully share them or even learn from them. In an entertaining format, we lead you through your own experiences while adding many aspects of newness to them. Through these techniques, you will be able to access memories from different areas of the brain. Using specific questions, you will be able to link memories through both long and short term for faster access and profound experience.
As for the seniors mentioned earlier, the magic in this was just how more alive they became. Now I ask you, what would it take for you to become more alive? What would you now notice? How would you feel? What might you hear, and when you look around, would you be looking into your past, present or future? Learn what motivates you and look into the future. Learn from your past and act in the present, beginning today, and every day in the years to come.
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Freedom for some is never having to deal with the aspects of life, even the annoying ones. This to me is death. 