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The Neuro Science of the Seventh Sense

August 10, 2009 · 1 Comment

Neuro Science of the Seventh Sense

 

Since first writing about seventh sense intelligence, observations and study of the subject has already developed considerably. Just recognising the presence or existence of the seventh sense intelligence has opened a whole new insight into behaviour and limiting behaviour programming. At present this study is focused on 7th sense intelligence and the paradoxical resistance to recovery from overwhelming stress and burnout.

 

The fact is clear, there are a very large number of people who discover that recovery from overwhelming stress or burnout is far from easy regardless of their efforts. This immediately suggests to me there is possibly a flaw in the treatment or the wrong thing is being treated. This is most likely due to the old habit of treating the symptom not the cause. The people I hear from report that whatever treatment they try nothing seems to make any difference. Over the past few months since writing this series of articles on stress I have had almost 5000 readers. I realise this is just the tip of the tip of the iceberg. The problem of very slow recovery rates is certainly a major source of concern.

 

I had been working on this problem for some time when several Ah-ha moments happened in quick succession. The first of these was a sudden understanding of the deeper meaning of the word recovery. Let’s face it, anyone suffering any form of mental, emotional or physical injury just wants to recover as quickly as possible. This is where the neuro science comes into the picture. Word meanings and implications are different for all of us, which accounts for part of our individual uniqueness. Beliefs, values, education, indoctrination, traumas, dramas and highly charged stressful situations, all add special meaning to the word recovery. For those experiencing overwhelming stress or burnout will have a new subliminal meaning to this word. In all forms of communication the words we choose can make a significant difference to the outcome of intentions.

 

Recovery from a broken leg or arm will more than likely encourage the person to be particularly careful when doing whatever they were doing that led to their breaking a limb. The trauma, the drama and the emotional and physical pain or experience memory were all in real time at the time of the accident and very clear in the conscious mind. Mostly anyone having that experience will warn themselves to be careful. When they start to be in a similar situation their inner alarm bells should be enough to wake the dead. The challenge with overwhelming stress and burnout is that most people do not see it coming. Suddenly it is dominating their life and they have no idea what it is, how it happened or what to do about it. It is not a pain one can touch and shout “ouch.” It is in your mind and every part of your body but it is not something you can see hear or touch.

 

The first dawning realisation of the 7th sense of ‘recover’ was that everyone in this condition is blocking themselves from recovery. Imbedded habitual or auto-active behaviours and limiting thinking patterns are far better understood since the emergence or neuro-sciences in the past 25 years. These automatic behaviours and limiting thinking strategies for whatever reason become our own stumbling blocks. In this study I have come to the conclusion that the ‘recovery’ paradoxically is a psychological or emotional block. The seventh sense intelligence almost certainly linked to the immune and inner healing systems, seems to click into operation when there is no conscious awareness of repeating a dangerous action. For example; focusing on and working towards ‘recovery’ is the last thing your inner intelligence wants you to do. The problem lays within the fact that you have no idea about your 7th sense, your immune system or your inner healer or how to communicate with these incredible intelligences. Break a leg, seriously cut yourself, have an infectious disease or illness are all very tangible experiences of pain and discomfort. Overwhelming stress and burnout creeps up during a long time span, may be over many years. You are living and suffering with it long before it becomes apparent.

 

Imagine you could actually communicate with your 7th sense and inner healing systems and the conversation goes something like this:

 

You.  Look you guys I’m in overwhelming stress and heading into burnout. It is ruining my life, all I want to do is recover to how I was before.

 

7th sense. You’ve got to be seriously kidding us. How do you think you got into overwhelming stress in the first place?

 

You. I don’t really know, things got out of hand, I struggled for several years and then this overwhelming stress sort of snuck up on me .Suddenly I was aware that it dominated my entire life.

 

7th sense. Exactly, and you expect us to calmly take you right back there to ‘recover’ so you can do exactly the same thing or things all over again and arrive right back here in overwhelming stress.

 

You. Oh no, it not like that. I shall be careful not to do the same things as I did before.

 

7th sense. Oh, rock on! When are you going to get a little bit of reality? You don’t know how, why or when the stress started and you certainly have not a clue what to do about it. Your thinking patterns are so stuck in the thinking strategies that got you into overwhelming stress in the first place, you wouldn’t even notice the first sigh of doing again what you did before the stress overwhelm. For us the word recovery means taking you back to where you were and what you were doing before the stress symptoms stated. That is impossible because as clever as we are we cannot take you back in time. Secondly, as guardians of your life force, health and wellbeing we will not take you back mentally or emotionally to where you were before to do the same thing all over again.

 

You. OK, that is beginning to make sense. I had not thought of it like that. Right, recovery from stress actually means going back in time. But I don’t understand because all my life recovery from an injury or illness has always meant to get better.

 

7th sense. Ah yes, that is right in general. Recovery and repair from a broken leg to return the bone to how it is meant to be. That is, returning it to its most appropriate form. Returning you back in time to the thinking strategies and programs that got you into overwhelming stress is not an ideal, practical or appropriate thing to do. What you have missed is that your environment has changed dramatically in the past 15 to 30 years and now it is in the process of changing infinitely faster than you can imagine. In the past, life largely remained unchanged for centuries. Today your DNA programming system is having to evolve at a lightening fast speed. If you are not changing your beliefs, values and even environment fast enough stress starts to mount fast. It is not easy to change these things and it certainly takes time on your own. There is another solution but it requires that you begin thinking in an unusual way given your condition.

 

You. How can I think in a different way?

 

7th sense. That is a good question. The quickest way to think in a different way is to change those beliefs and values that controlled current or previous thinking. For example: Find all the beliefs, values and thinking patterns that got you into overwhelming stress and change them all for new beliefs to live your life in a different way. This does require that you also do something you may not have done consciously before. This is consciously planning a new future complete with a detailed plan. Changing your environment will also help this process so long as the new environment supports the new planned future life style. In simple terms, your social environment is changing so fast it is important to adopt new beliefs and values that support a modern life and replace those that got you into so much stress thinking. Old familiar and redundant thinking may seem comfortable but in reality it leads you into creating many new problems. Normally changing is a difficult process if working on your own or even with a partner. The best option is to engage a personal life coach that specialises in this subject.

 

You. OK. I understand that I need to plan my future also get myself specialised guidance but what can I do to start the ball rolling?

 

7th Sense. The first thing you can do is change the words you use regularly that actually undermine your efforts. Start with changing the word ‘recovery’ to ‘moving forward into your future.’ So in the future, instead of saying you want to recover from overwhelming stress, you will say; I want to move out of stress and move forward into a less stressful fulfilling future. Notice the word move also that it is repeated. Get the feeling of moving forward into a better future. This simple change permits us to stop blocking you. Then we can start to help and support you in every way we can. You see making that one simple change will cause a huge shift at your unconscious and 7th sense intelligence levels. Now, make the experience. First say I want to recover from overwhelming stress. Notice how you feel as you say it and after. Secondly, say I want to move out of stress and into a less stressful future. Again notice how you feel having said the new words.

 

Next stage; start designing that new less stressful fulfilling future and make your mind-movie until you can see yourself living it. The more you show us what you want the more we can help you obtain it. That’s all for now, we’ll see you in your new less stressful future, Bye for now.

 

Robert Denton    Mind-power and performance coach without the stress.

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  • rjreset // September 12, 2009 at 8:12 am |

    My Story: First I want to say how much I appreciate the articles on your blog, which I have discovered today. You said that you would like comments and case studies to help the knowledge of moving forward from burnout, so here’s my story.

    I was laid off from a high-stress job several months ago. I was an employee at the company for seven years. What started out as me being very enthusiastic, passionate, and idealistic about the work I was doing, over time, deteriorated into the power-play, office politics dynamics you have described in your blog. It was an extremely abusive, competitive, harsh work environment. Towards the end of my time there, I was having very dark thoughts.

    I felt powerless: everyone at my workplace hated each other, and everyone was afraid for their own position of power. The work itself was stressful, but manageable. It was the personalities, the vindictiveness, the back-stabbing at the office, which took all the joy of life, out of me. I just couldn’t give enough of myself to make things go better, and eventually, I ran out of things to give. When I was not at the workplace, thoughts of the office dominated my thoughts. I was unable to have a satisfying social life, or to enjoy the company of others… I really wanted to, but all I could think about was my job, and all the people I was competing with for power, the cruelty of my boss. My passion for life died, And my passion for my work, which previously I absolutely loved, completely disappeared.

    This made looking for a new job difficult, as I was so burned out that I didn’t want to work AT ALL, but I couldn’t think of any other way out of my predicament. Ultimately, I guess my 7th Sense kicked in, and I realized that the stress was literally going to destroy me. So, I gave up. I stopped expecting things to get better. I accepted that the situation was not going to change, that I was no longer going to fight to maintain my position of influence in the company, and that I was going to start taking care of my inner needs and reduce my stress as much as possible, for as long as it took to find a new job.

    What ended up happening is I got laid off with several other co-workers. This was several months ago. I was relieved. I was going to receive an unemployment check, so my bills would be paid. I recognized and embraced this opportunity to “recharge my batteries”. It took a while, but I started to be comfortable with just not doing much but relaxing and taking it easy. I also worked on improving many areas of my life that I had abandoned due to stress making it impossible for me to develop non-work related skills and abilities, especially regarding socializing.

    However, I realized I must move forward and continue with my life. So I found myself trying to “get some work done”… to take steps towards getting a new job, improving my skills… and just like you explained, each time I tried to “get my act together”, I just shut down, completely. I was literally unable to move forward. And I would think to myself “what is wrong with me? Am I just lazy? Am I unwilling to do what is necessary to be successful?”

    At my workplace, I was used to never-ending, tight deadlines, of getting to work early, staying at work late, doing a high volume of productive work, finishing many projects…. and now, it’s a major achievement if I can even get out of bed in the morning.

    I had a sense that I was burned out, but I did not know until today about how deep and powerful this 7th sense was, and how it was literally making me unable to move forward, because it was trying to protect me. I am NOT lazy, or unambitious…. I just had years and years of damage to my mind and body that my body is doing its best to protect me from repeating. Now that I know this, I can take the steps you mentioned of moving forward to a better future.

    What you said rings true as well regarding unused talents. I do have a talent that I love and I have been neglecting it for years. I agree with you that the answer is to move towards embracing that talent, and I know for sure that the universe will arrange itself to allow me to do just that.

    Thanks again for your articles. It is such a RELIEF to see something I was confused about and didn’t really understand, be explained in such detail. I’m glad to discover I am not a lazy person who isn’t willing to be successful… in fact what I’m doing is starting a new chapter of my life, and for that I’m grateful.

    I hope my own story is helpful to you and other readers.

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