Lecture on Overcoming Trauma and Building Resilience

Key Concepts

• Success and Happiness: Not accidents, but created by ways of thinking and acting.
• **Common Issues During Tough Times: **
  • Anxiety, worry, and stress
  • Lack of motivation due to unpredictability and changing rules

Psychosensory Therapy

• Demonstrated with audience member Mabel, dealing with grief from her father's death
• Technique: Touch, lateral eye movement, and visualization
  • Helps rewire the brain to reduce trauma
• **Steps: **
  1. Physical Touch: Comforting, mimics a mother’s touch producing delta waves.
  2. Visualization: Walking on a beach, counting steps
  3. Lateral Eye Movements: Moving eyes side to side while recalling trauma and then a happy memory
  4. Dual Attention: Holding grief in one hand, peace in the other
• Result: Immediate sense of relief for Mabel, demonstration shown to work on audience

Effects and Validation

• Immediate Impact: Quick results, like in Mabel's case
• Long-term Efficacy: Supported by scientific studies, technique is known as 'havening'
• Developed by Dr. Ronald Rooney (Harvard Ph.D. in Neuropharmacology)

Powers of the Mind

• Thought Experiments: Guide internal dialogue and pictures to improve mental states
• Exercises for managing internal dialogue and visual imagery

Overcoming Negative Internal Dialogues

• Steps to reframe harmful remarks
  • Example: Transforming negative remarks by changing tone (used Toots' negative experience)
• Impact of Mind Chemistry: Positive visualizations and internal dialogue improve state

State Creation and Influence

• State Control: Visual and auditory elements combined with physiology
• Internal and External Influences: Behaviors driven by neurophysiological state

Adaptive Resilience

• Flexibility: Adapting to changes in difficult times
• Steps to think differently about problems, enhancing resilience and creativity
  • Use visualization and thought experiments to reframe problems
• Decision Theory Process: Questions to consider for problem-solving

The Importance of Future Visualization

• **Programming Success: **
  • Visualizing a successful future and steps required to achieve it
  • Creating a future timeline with milestones
• Established through relaxing and thorough meditation

Generating Feel-good States Through Physiology

• Smiling and Physiology: Simple act of smiling releases serotonin
• Silly Exercises: Engaging the body to elevate mood quickly

Trance Induction and Meditation

• Guided Visualization: Deep relaxation and visualization for mental programming
• Meditation technique for expanding consciousness and consistent positive states
• Focus on eliciting personal values and aligning with future goals

Enhancing Luck and Positive Outlook

• Belief in Luck: Believing oneself to be lucky can enhance actual luck
• **Visualization Technique: **
  • Recall a time when you felt lucky
  • Amplify the feeling using color and body mapping еф>>()