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3D Mind ™ is a breakthrough in personal empowerment. Created by Tom Vizzini and Kim McFarland, two leaders in their field, 3D Mind ™ is one of the most effective tools for clearing out the limiting beliefs and behaviors that keep people from overcoming their problems. It takes the traditional notion that overcoming personal problems and changing one’s life takes months or years… and blows it away.
We all have problems in life where something is getting in the way of what we want or want to do. Some people want to start a business or advance their career but they’re intimidated. Some people want to meet people and find a special someone, but their insecurity stops them. Some people want to travel, but they’re afraid to leave the their comfort zone. Some people want a better life, but not feeling that they deserve it keeps them from trying. Some people just want to feel “normal” but they have what they’ve been told is a “mental illness” that they have been told they have to cope with for the rest of their lives. These are all problems.
3D Mind ™ is the solution to problems because it removes the things that block you from what you want. You look at the world through the window of your mind, and when that window gets mucked up with garbage beliefs, the whole world looks like garbage. To be able to see clearly to get what you want, you need to clear that garbage away.
What Do I Mean by Garbage?
3D Mind ™ works on a unique presupposition: problems are caused by limiting beliefs which are driven by the strong emotional states that are associated to them. These emotional states cause behaviors that are reactive, instead of adaptive. The result is that people end up “stuck” in their problems, without the ability to change and get past them. Because these emotional states drive beliefs, people end up with the perception that the problems are real, define who they are, and are unchangeable.
The nature of emotions seems to be complex, but it’s really quite simple if you look at it in a way that you might not be used to. Imagine that emotional states are the lenses that we look at the world through. If you take the emotional state that you’re in when you procrastinate and look at the world through it, you won’t get much done. If you change that emotional state, though, procrastination is no longer the natural result. For instance, it actually becomes more difficult to procrastinate when you’re feeling focused urgency.
There’s more, though. These emotional states give strength to the limiting beliefs we have. These limiting beliefs make it so that instead of simply having a problem, the problem is instead a person’s reality. This perception makes dealing with a problem extremely difficult.
Now, if you’re the kind of person who doesn’t want to have to define yourself by your problems, I’ve got great news for you. All you have to do to “fix” a problem is to change the emotions at the root of it. Strong, unbalanced emotions lead to limiting beliefs, which lead to a false perception of reality, which leads to all sorts of problems. If you fix a problem where it begins–at the emotional level–then it’s gone forever with a minimum of fuss. That’s what 3D Mind ™ does.
It’s like growing a garden. You want to have the most beautiful and vibrant garden, but maybe it’s overgrown with weeds. You can spend a lifetime of effort mowing the weeds and pouring fertilizer on the garden to help the flowers grow, but you’ll never get rid of the weeds. They’ll continue to grow back and leech nutrients from the other plants until you dig out the roots of the weeds.
3D Mind ™ is the mental equivalent of the very best weedkiller you can get for your personal limitations and problems.
But What Is It Like?
3D Mind ™ is essentially a mental exercise that helps you identify emotional drivers and directly change them. Because it makes use of normal brain processes, anyone can use it and the result is that the emotions that make up a problem may just seem to disappear. It sometimes feels like there never was a problem in the first place and the change that results feels natural and effortless instead of forced.
Think about it. Imagine what it would be like to be free of a problem in a way that you don’t have to fight against anything; in a way where you feel relaxed and natural because not having that problem isn’t a big deal–it’s just the way you are. How different would your life be? How much easier? That’s the great thing about 3D Mind ™.
How It Compares
There are several methods and techniques for personal change that are used today. There is psychology, psychiatry (psychology with drugs), hypnosis, NLP, and meditation. There are, of course, also a multitude of other techniques that fall under the category of “New Age” that involve many different outlandish ideas and theories that you have to accept first. Let me describe the more prominent ones briefly and give a picture of what’s really going on with each of them.
First of all, psychology and psychoanalysis have long been established as professional fields. Therapists encourage clients to talk about their problems and examine themselves until they either have an epiphany and somehow understand something new that allows them to change or until talking it over and over desensitizes them to the emotions involved. This doesn’t work, which is possibly why therapists are the butt of so many jokes. What happens is that they end up attempting to change the problem at an intellectual level, and remember that beliefs happen after emotions. Because they work on changing beliefs and hope that changes the emotions, it takes a lot of talking and most of time the special insight they’re looking for is never found.
Psychiatry with its psychopharmacology is much more accepted. After all, it doesn’t take much effort on anybody’s part to pop a few pills every day. Of course, drugs never fix the problem because as soon as someone stops taking them, the problem comes right back. In short term, emergency use–such as for those who are severely depressed–they can have benefits, but in the long term these drugs only create people who are dependent on them.
Hypnosis is older than psychology, although it’s much less accepted. Hypnosis attempts to bypass the conscious mind to give a new set of suggestions that unconsciously become a new program of behavior to follow. There are several disadvantages to hypnosis, however. First of all, in order to go into a deep trance and have a new behavior implanted, most people have to have someone else do it for them. Also, because it works on the level of changing behaviors, it wears off eventually when the emotional drivers pop up again. It takes reinforcement to have a lasting effect, if it takes at all since many hypnotists use generalized scripts that may not be applicable to a client’s needs.
NLP is a branch of hypnosis, so the same limitations apply.
Meditation is becoming a very popular practice. It can help build feelings of relaxation and well-being, but like taking drugs it has to be practiced regularly. Meditation works by either learning to suppress all thoughts by focusing on a single neutral stimuli (like breathing) or by learning to detach from one’s own thoughts and observe them as if they were someone else’s. This can have benefits in the short run–it’s a bit like exercise for the brain–but meditating one’s problems away can actually create more problems. Because meditation teaches the student to suppress or detach from problematic thoughts, if the problem isn’t solved suppressing it takes more and more effort until it can’t be suppressed anymore. The result can be a mental breakdown.
Now, with the exception of psychiatric drugs, all of these methods attack the problem by either trying to directly change the behavior or change how the person thinks about them. None of these things directly attack the core of the problem, which makes any kind of permanent change either difficult to maintain or simply a matter of chance. Trying to reprogram a behavior doesn’t change the person’s beliefs, changing how someone thinks about their problem doesn’t change how they feel about it, and suppressing thoughts and feelings doesn’t mean they’re actually gone.
3D Mind ™ Works When Nothing Else Does Because….
3D Mind ™ works completely differently. First, we find the specific formula of emotional states that cause the problem. Then, instead of deleting the emotions or trying to replace them with something else, push them away, accept them or ignore them, they’re balanced. In order to understand what this means, you have to understand how the brain works.
Dr. Ken Guiffre, an anesthesiologist and author of the book “The Care And Feeding of Your Brain” has pieced together what he calls the 3D Brain Model(tm) from modern brain research. It’s a model of how problems are formed in the brain. Let me give you the Cliffs Notes version.
In this model, there are four layers of the brain involved in behavior and problem-solving. There’s the creative-adaptive layer, the jelly layer, the reactive layer, and there’s the reptile brain. These four areas all work together to determine how we react to the world. Let’s go into a little bit of detail on each one.
First of all, the reptile brain is the most basic part of the brain and is involved with initiating movement. It is the area responsible for what scientists call the “4 F’s” of movement. They are the drives toward fight, flight, food, or fornication, and all of them have direct impact on survival of both the individual and the species. This is where the emotions anger, fear, hunger, and desire have their root. Because these four basic drives are direct initiators of movement, the emotions that these drives make up are themselves initiators of movement, not just feelings.
Second, the creative adaptive layer, also known as the neocortex, is literally the outer layer of the brain. It’s involved with reason, language, self-control and creativity. You could almost think of it as the civilized, intelligent part of the brain. The most important characteristic of this part of the brain is that it is highly interconnected as a complex web of neural connections. This allows connections between seemingly different concepts and ideas to produce the creativity that allows you to solve problems.
Then there’s the reactive layer. This is the part of the brain that’s responsible for patterns of behavior, and this is where emotions get involved. The reactive layer of the brain is more like a series of on/off switches. When presented with a particular stimulus, these pathways will activate and lead directly to a behavior of some sort.
The final piece is the jelly layer. This is essentially the gatekeeper. When information enters the brain, it either gets directed to the creative adaptive layer where an adaptive response is generated, or in situations that elicit extreme emotion it goes straight to the reactive layer where immediate movement happens. This is actually a survival mechanism. After all, in a survival sense, if a ravenous tiger is coming for you it makes more sense to feel fear and start running right away instead of stopping to think about it or talk to the creature. The problem with this, however, is that the intense fear blocks out any creative resources that might allow you to, for instance, think up a plan to escape from it.
Now this is where the real nature of problems comes in. Physical survival is one thing, but most of the time we aren’t actually in physical danger but we still develop irrational responses. New situations coupled with strong emotions lead us to form immediate associations to the situation, so that, for instance, the first time someone of the opposite sex laughs at you or rejects you, the emotions involved will be there to direct your behavior in similar situations in the future. In the case of this example, they might lead you to avoid the opposite sex. So, essentially, this learning experience creates the problem.
This is What the Real Problem Is
In a balanced brain, the creative adaptive part of the brain is able to creatively respond to the world and direct the reactive part of the brain appropriately. When there’s a problem, however, the creative adaptive part is left out of the loop and, as an unreasoned survival instinct, the reactive part of the brain is accessed immediately and the reptile brain is initiated to create action. In this unbalanced state, it’s a bit like trying to drive a car without a steering wheel. The drive is there, but there’s very little way to control it.
So how does this relate to 3D Mind ™? Isolating the emotions of a problem isolates the neural connections in the reactive part of the brain, and the process of balancing them creates neural connections that lead to the creative adaptive part of the brain, returning your brain to equilibrium and allowing you to be able to choose how to react, instead of being unable to control your reaction.
Now that you know a little bit about the mechanics of how the brain works, take a look at the other methods again. If the part of the brain responsible for reasoning is actually cut out of the loop and that is part of what’s causing the problem, then it doesn’t make sense to try to solve the problem there. Also, trying to create a new pattern of behavior still leaves the creative adaptive layer out of the loop, so if any hypnotic changes wear off or a similar situation that’s not covered by the reprogramming occurs, the creative adaptive part can’t generate new behaviors and thus you go back to the old one when the old emotional drivers are triggered again. And, finally, things like meditation that suppress the problem by forcing the mind to activate the creative adaptive layer not only uses up physical energy in overriding the reflexes that are already there, but it also cuts off the reactive part of the brain so no movement to take action happens, whether it’s problematic behaviors or beneficial ones.
Enough of the Technical. Let’s Get Practical!
Now, during a 3D Mind ™ session, none of this really applies. There’s brain chemistry and its function, and then there are our subjective perceptions that are a result of them. While there’s an advanced understanding of the brain underlying the principles and techniques of 3D Mind ™, it isn’t brain surgery (pun intended). Anyone can learn it because 3D Mind ™ is a technique, a tool, that doesn’t require you to believe in any kind of theory for it to work. It’s more like a simple recipe that if you follow it correctly, you’ll be able to find and clear out the emotional blockages that keep you from getting what you want. Most importantly, however, it doesn’t rely on an intellectual idea of what should be going on in your head to cause the problem; what’s more important is finding out for each individual what’s there and balancing it.
The technique itself is easy and takes only about five minutes. The real skill is in learning to recognize the drivers of the problem, and anyone can do that, given enough time and practice. There are, of course, people who are already skilled in it who could save you time too. Whichever way you go, the benefits from this technique can be astonishing.
We’ve already discussed how balancing the problem emotions allows our natural creativity to come out, but what does that mean? Let’s say that someone is shy and avoids people. That’s the result of an unbalanced emotional response. If you balance it, then instead of reacting immediately with fear or discomfort, that person is freed up to evaluate the situation better and choose how they want to react. Some situations it may actually be a good idea to be shy, such as if the person is physically dangerous, but otherwise that person could choose to start a conversation, merely say hi, or just walk on by, but in all cases that person could feel comfortable with however they react because that’s what they chose to do.
The Power of Choice
Now, I’ve already discussed the technical aspects of 3D Mind ™, but the one thing I want to make clear is this: 3D Mind ™ actually allows you to choose the kind of person you want to be so that you don’t have to be stuck in the same patterns of behavior and thought. It allows you to change the parts of yourself that get in the way of what you want so that you can be happy with your life, instead of frustrated or out of control. That is perhaps the most valuable thing that anyone can offer. It’s true personal empowerment and the ability to lead a life that you find satisfying.
Now, if you’re looking to take control of your life, your own mind, and your happiness, there are two things I can do for you.
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