Welcome friends!
This is the most important article on this new blog. Today I’m going to reveal how some very basic psychology/neurology can totally revolutionize how we think about healing.
This extremely simple theory, known as the triune brain model will let you:
- understand the difference between thoughts, feelings and gut instincts;
- know how the real origin of our blocks lie;
- clearly understand why working with beliefs or emotions doesn’t make permanent changes in your life;
- learn a simple test (the “fish test”) to know if you have reached the bottom block.
This is extremely valuable and cutting edge information. In 2009 we charged thousands of dollars for this information on our Level 3 course. Now we’ve decided to give it away for free here and include it in our revised Level 1 course. [Don’t worry; we have plenty of new material for the Level 3 course.]
Just a reminder that this information is owned by a charitable foundation and protected by international copyright. You are most welcome to use it to your heart’s content, but you cannot sell it or incorporate it into your own courses or manuals without asking us first.
The New Reference Point Therapy
The new RPT is a development and simplification of the technique we launched in 2009. After teaching the courses almost non stop for 6 months, things really “clicked”. It was in Slovenia, in December 2009, that we could finally say we were happy with the new work.
For those who read our blog or took our courses in 2009, what’s changed is that there’s a lot less focus on trauma, and a lot more focus on finding the key “tone” that holds the trauma in place. If you acknowledge the key tone, all the trauma and negative beliefs, feelings etc can disappear at the one time. There’s a trick to it of course, which I’ll be sharing here over the coming weeks.
How does it work? A basic introduction to the Triune Brain
I’m using an adapted triune brain model to explain the new work. [It's a basic psychological model, refer to this Wikipedia link for more info.] Please note that we don’t use the triune brain as a healing technique; it just a model that helps us to teach you. This is a teaching concept; I’ll cover the healing technique in a later blog.
Part (a): Humanity’s greatest asset makes healing too complicated
In really really simple terms, it’s like this. As humans we have an advanced brain called the neocortex which allows us to do complex human things, like create language. All of our belief systems exist here, because they exist in language. (This is why animals don’t really have beliefs, not in the sense the humans do.) When you do any “belief work” healing technique – and there are many such as psychology, NLP and others I used to practice, you are healing or working on the neocortex.
Working on the neocortex is appropriate when the origin of the problem is IN the neocortex. It sometimes is – but most of the time the original of your “stuff” arose before the neocortex was developed. This could be in your early childhood, in the womb, or sometimes it’s genetic – going so far back to our ancestors who did not use the neocortex. If McFetridge is right in suggesting that over 90% of our problems relate to trauma prior to our birth, then healing techniques working on the neocortex are simply not going to get to the bottom of things.
This is a simple psychological / neurological explanation for why (as I’ve repeatedly stated), belief work just can’t get to the bottom of your stuff. It works on the wrong part of your brain – the part that holds beliefs just didn’t exist when the problem started.
The reason why our greatest strength can be our weakness is that we have such a tendency to make things over-complicated. Healing, like spirituality, is meant to be incredibly simple. But before it becomes simple you have to get out of your head, or be “out of your mind”.
Part (b): With a hand on my heart
The second brain is the mammalian brain or limbic system. In the Peak States literature this is associated with the heart chakra. When you feel your deeper feelings by putting a hand on your heart, you are moving beyond words and into your limbic system. There is a huge range of emotions – everything from fear to love – which we can attribute to intelligent animals such as dogs. These emotions rest in the mammalian brain. Trying to heal them with words doesn’t work as they are pre-verbal.
There are many healing techniques which work on feelings through the heart chakra / limbic system. This includes Family Constellations and many yogic or meditative techniques, especially those that activate the heart chakra. These techniques usually get deeper than the neocortex “mental” techniques because they allow you to access pre-verbal trauma, i.e. blocks with no beliefs associated with them.
It was my spiritual coach Soleira who first taught me that feeling things by putting your hand on your heart is very limited. We are only accessing heart energy (which I now know is the limbic system), not our full consciousness. Soleira teaches her students to feel things with their whole Beingness – something we adopt in RPT.
Part (c): Could a fish feel this?
The R-complex is the most primitive of the brains. It is a part of the brain which, in a limited sense, is common to all mammals, fish, bird and reptiles. In my research I haven’t found an existing technique that specifically works on the R-complex, but I’m sure that there are some. The Peak States research associates the R-complex with the dan tien in Chinese medicine, which is loosely associated with the solar plexus chakra in the Indian system.
In simple terms, what this means is that when you put you hand on your solar plexus or dan tien and access a gut feeling, you are reaching a much deeper place than working through your heart. It is more primitive, which means it’s less complex. Usually primitive has a negative connotation, but here, primitive means “basic” and “easier to heal”.
A simple test I developed to loosely gauge whether something is in the R-complex is to ask my clients “could a fish feel that?” It’s generally accepted that ht R-complex first appeared in fish. Fish don’t feel fear or other “heart” emotions. In fact a fish or little lizard will only have the most basic of instincts and impulses. These usually have to do with survival, safety, eating and reproduction.
If a client tries to tell me that the bottom line underneath their problems is fear, shame, guilt, abuse, anger or any other emotions, I know they haven’t reached the bottom yet. A fish would have no concept of those feelings, they simply don’t exist in the R-complex. The client needs to go deeper – and simpler.
It is my belief that almost every problem that holds humans (and mammals) back can be traced back to one of these core instincts in the R-complex. In other words, a fish does not suffer worthiness issues or depression; but a fish that’s been attacked (and escaped) does have a type of trauma (“tone” is more accurate) about survival. It’s this survival tone which is the ultimate core of our worthiness problems.
Not every problem has it’s origin in the R-complex, but we find that most of them do – probably more than 90%. What our research shows is that identifying and clearing problems in the R-complex allows you to heal things much more quickly and simply. Because it’s truly non-verbal (not just pre-verbal), you certainly don’t need to worry about finding the rights words. And because we trace the origin back to the very beginning (think 500 million years of neurological development), we really are getting to the bottom of things.
I also love the fact that the R-complex unites all birds, reptiles, mammals and fish (I’m not too sure about insect brains!). This sits really well with the idea of healing through Being one with all. Since the original block in the R-complex may have occurred millions of years ago, healing it heals not just humanity, but LIFE itself.
So how do we heal the R-complex?
I am going to tell you on this blog, but not quite yet. I need to edit some videos so you can see it in action. The main reason is you don’t need to do anything really, but you may need to see this to believe it! (It’s harder to teach people to do nothing than it is to teach people to do something! For that reason we still use a range of “training-wheel” techniques on our course.)
OK, enough theory for today, I hope this little lesson has you excited to start exploring the magical new world of instant healings through Beingness. Please share your comments, thoughts and questions here.
Blessings
Simon
Janet Gardiner 
Paul 
Ruthy 
Adani 
Holly Brennan Shabtai 
Simon,
This is really great stuff, and I hope you can see my smile from there! Truly revolutionary, and how joyously simple. I cannot wait to see that dose of the new work and get to learn it myself.
Thanks you to and Evette for your commitment and drive to make RPT the best it can be.
Athena
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