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LATERALIZED EMOTIONS?
Tucker and others have found that the negative emotions appear to be mediated by the right hemisphere. In lower animals the right hemisphere does mediate avoidance, withdrawal behavior and the left mediates approach behavior. We know that depression appears to be mediated by the right hemisphere. Since there is little speech ability on the right it's quite probable that pre-verbal trauma (involving negative emotional conditioning) will exist as a pre-verbal right hemisphere memory. However, it's interesting that speech behavior in children for the first 3 years is mediated by the right hemisphere primarily. If this is true then perhaps a change message that is aimed at early trauma would have to use very simple, concrete, highly intonated speech.
Shore (2000) has recommended right brain therapeutic intervention although he does not specify what this might be. He does state that cognitive therapy would not help with this problem. We would encourage research in this problem area with some of these techniques. What other ways are there to affect the right brain or unconscious process?
All of the priming and hypnosis/priming tapes created by Dr. Budzynski incorporate separate left/right messaging in which the right ear (left brain) messages were of a higher level of abstraction and syntax while the left ear (right hemisphere) messaging was more intonated with simpler syntax and highly used, concrete wording.
There are two basic requirement for developing these lateralized tapes: 1) The technique must avoid critical screening as much as possible, 2) The change message must be such as to be comprehended by the non-verbal right brain unconsciously absorbing the message beneath the critical screening.
Over the years Tom Budzynski has created and tested a number of techniques that meet these requirements. They include: priming process (a form of subliminal messaging), dichotic listening, multiple voice tracks, whisper tracks, and hypnotic/priming combinations. Each of these approaches tends to avoid critical screening and each contains messaging that can be understood by the respective hemisphere to which it is delivered.
Tucker and others have found that the negative emotions appear to be mediated by the right hemisphere. In lower animals the right hemisphere does mediate avoidance, withdrawal behavior and the left mediates approach behavior. We know that depression appears to be mediated by the right hemisphere. Since there is little speech ability on the right it's quite probable that pre-verbal trauma (involving negative emotional conditioning) will exist as a pre-verbal right hemisphere memory. However, it's interesting that speech behavior in children for the first 3 years is mediated by the right hemisphere primarily. If this is true then perhaps a change message that is aimed at early trauma would have to use very simple, concrete, highly intonated speech.
Shore (2000) has recommended right brain therapeutic intervention although he does not specify what this might be. He does state that cognitive therapy would not help with this problem. We would encourage research in this problem area with some of these techniques. What other ways are there to affect the right brain or unconscious process?
All of the priming and hypnosis/priming tapes created by Dr. Budzynski incorporate separate left/right messaging in which the right ear (left brain) messages were of a higher level of abstraction and syntax while the left ear (right hemisphere) messaging was more intonated with simpler syntax and highly used, concrete wording.
There are two basic requirement for developing these lateralized tapes: 1) The technique must avoid critical screening as much as possible, 2) The change message must be such as to be comprehended by the non-verbal right brain unconsciously absorbing the message beneath the critical screening.
Over the years Tom Budzynski has created and tested a number of techniques that meet these requirements. They include: priming process (a form of subliminal messaging), dichotic listening, multiple voice tracks, whisper tracks, and hypnotic/priming combinations. Each of these approaches tends to avoid critical screening and each contains messaging that can be understood by the respective hemisphere to which it is delivered.