At the root of post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, is a memory that cannot be controlled. It may intrude on everyday activity, thrusting a person into the middle of a horrifying event, or surface as night terrors or flashbacks.
…“Now we find something that potentially can explain it in the brain,” she said. “The brain doesn’t look like it’s in a state of memory; it looks like it is a state of present experience.”
Indeed, the authors conclude in the paper, “traumatic memories are not experienced as memories as such,” but as “fragments of prior events, subjugating the present moment.”
The traumatic memories appeared to engage a different area of the brain — the posterior cingulate cortex, or P.C.C., which is usually involved in internally directed thought, like introspection or daydreaming. The more severe the person’s PTSD symptoms were, the more activity appeared in the P.C.C.
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What is striking about this finding is that the P.C.C. is not known as a memory region, but one that is engaged with “processing of internal experience,” Dr. Schiller said.
OK, so this is exactly why FIML works so well.
FIML works with real-time, real-world data objectively confirmed by both partners. FIML practice short-circuits or prevents reconsolidation of traumatic memories (or thoughts or behaviors which have descended from them).
After many FIML exchanges, traumatic and erroneous memories and interpretations drop away since FIML exchanges show the mind that they do not fit into the real-time, real-world present moment that has just occurred or is now occurring.
PTSD is a severe form of bad memories screwing up your life, but we all have bad memories that screw up our lives as well as the habits and behaviors which have descended from them.
FIML clears up these memories by removing them from unwanted recall. At the same time, FIML gradually eliminates the bad behaviors and habits of thought that have descend from them. There is no better way for anyone to clean up their mind than FIML practice. All humans need it and all humans can benefit from it. ABN
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