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The Limbic System
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Getting to the 'heart' of your brain …
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 The 'longest lever'…
Alex Concorde has developed a number of powerful principles to guide her work and the work of the professionals who come to learn her applications.
One of them is: 'longest levers for greatest gains'™ (LL4GG!™). The idea is profound but simple: to create transformational shifts, you have to work with the longest lever…
So when we decided to create a new 'transformational approach' for working with the mind and in mind'body medicine, we looked for the 'longest lever' of the human being, the human brain and the human body systems…
This is the crucial-to-life area of the brain called 'The Limbic System'.
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 Transformational shifts
Transformational shifts are 'non-incremental' shifts. Incremental shifts come about through a slow accumulation of adaptations and small changes which gradually mount up to something useful over time.
In transformational medicine or transformational personal development you are not really looking to acquire a number of piecemeal changes over a long period.
That is what most psycho-therapies already are able to achieve. That has great value - but we were looking for something different…
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Transformational change
We were looking for a means of creating rapid and total transformation - a dramatic 'pole-vault' effect that gets you totally over and beyond whatever has been holding you back.
 This is because many people tell us that, when they are already overwhelmed or totally depleted by their psychological issues, the last thing they want is to have to wade through them… particularly if they already have health issues.
We assessed anyway that once you are where you want to be you can always look back and learn whatever you want to learn from your previous experiences.
So we thought that there might be an advantage to finding a way for getting you to wherever you want to be first… This is the basis of how Psycho-Transformance® works in practice.
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The 'longest lever' of the human mind
The Limbic System is the master modulator - the chief executive - of both the mind and of the body....
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We believe that Psycho-Transformance® has been made possible through Dr Concorde's development of a means of working consciously with the Limbic System.
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This means that we are able to work with the 'unconscious' (subconscious) processes of the Limbic System that influence both mind and body pathways - while you are fully 'with it' and alert and involved!
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This is how it all came about...
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The 'Wiring of the Mind' Insight
At the outset of this journey, Alex Concorde realised that psychotherapy tends to focus on singular emotional issues and sources of current conflicts largely at a 'conscious' level working with the area of the brain called the 'cognitive mind'.
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However when she looked at the wiring of the mind - and the wiring of the mind with the body - she realised that in fact the area of the brain that she needed to work with is the 'Limbic System'.
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 The master modulator of the
human mind...
In the mind the Limbic System is the supreme governor of all cognitive processes and maintains a complete library of an individual's experiences.
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The Limbic System keeps a log of how it thinks these experiences are relevant to you as an individual.
It is the depository for all your deepest emotions, the source of your anxieties and your sense of stress... The Limbic System drives all your thoughts and behaviours accordingly.
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 The master modulator of the
human body...
The Limbic System also provides the highest level (central) influences over all physiological pathways to do with:
- Stress responses
- Immune system processes
- Hormone systems
- The 'whole constitution' of the individual
(e.g. nutrition, sleep, weight, pain, eating)
And the Limbic System provides the highest level influences over your physical posture or 'physical deportment'.
And so the Limbic System is chief executive of your body systems (bio-physiology) and your body structure, as
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The regenerating mind...
What Alex Concorde realised is that the Limbic System has the capacity to 'regenerate' and to fully update its own 'hard-drive' - not in a piecemeal way but completely.
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She spent many years working out how to make this happen for any given individual. But it so transpires that the Limbic System can 'revive' and 're-vitalise' itself - while maintaining and gaining personal value, insights and learnings from previous experiences.
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This is true for virtually ALL individuals (people with personality disorders are one key exception).
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The health-focused and healing mind...
And in the process of doing this 're-vitalising' work with the Limbic System, 'stuck' bio-physiology (body pathways) can be 're-geared' and 'refreshed'.
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 This creates the opportunity to fundamentally and sustainably change aspects of body function that are implicated in health.
So Dr. Concorde worked out how the Limbic System needs to be worked with in order to change body processes that are not optimal (ie not ideal) because of central (mind) influences.
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The 'need for well-being' Insight
Critically, the Limbic System is the centre of well-being, of fundamental happiness, of individuality, of subjectivity and spirituality (how you make sense of others and how you connect with/fit into the 'bigger picture').
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 Alex Concorde realised that it is NOT enough to just remove 'glitched subjectivity' and singular personal issues to totally overcome individual compromise.
Indeed even if ALL sources of negativity (even subconscious negativity) can be removed, this is still not enough, in her opinion, to alter the course of stress-related mental and physical problems that are so profoundly influenced by mind'body pathways.
She has found that you also need fundamental (i.e. not manufactured!) positive-ness, happiness and well-being to achieve profound, sustainable biological changes.
However it is possible to work with the Limbic System to gain or restore well-being and happiness on an individual by individual basis.
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Stress and the 'buffer of well-being' insight
Happiness and well-being, it seems, also provide a source of 'personal bounce' - a sort of 'shock-absorber' property within the Limbic System.
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This has the added ongoing value of offsetting day-to-day stresses. To achieve this you also need to work with the Limbic System in a particular way and you need to learn how to use your brain somewhat differently from how we usually now do so in the 'developed world'.
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Emotions and health
And so it is clear that if someone has health challenges simply focusing on singular personal and emotional issues, even at the Limbic level, isn't actually enough.
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There is much to be achieved including the need to minimise the negative impact of current and future stresses by creating this buffer of well-being ('From Happiness to Health?').
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So it is necessary to:
- Remove key stresses in and on the system
- remove negativity and
- Create fundamental happiness and well-being.
All are necessary to really influence the mind and mind'body pathways in a meaningful and ongoing way ('Specialist Mind  Body Medicine').
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This is why we created our specialised Psycho-Transformance® approaches.
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THE LIMBIC SYSTEM IS ABOUT YOU - YOU AS AN INDIVIDUAL.
THIS IS WHY ALL WORK MUST BE TOTALLY INDIVIDUAL.
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Psycho-Transformance®
Specialist Mind-Body Medicine
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