What is unique about PMA?
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EnglishProgressive Mental Alignment® (PMA) is a training program designed for professionals in the medical and business coaching and in the consulting world.
A new generation
We call PMA a 'next generation' program of mental training because it:
1. introduces a previously unknown type of subconscious material;
2. is based on the neuroscientific concept of unity of mind and body;
3. removes hidden inhibiting factors in the subconscious that stop you from reaching your goals;
4. cooperates with the protection mechanism of the brain in a new way;
5. generates permanent results.
These five points make all the difference, as we'll explain.
1. Two types of subconscious material
All current methods which affect our thinking and feeling make a distinction between the conscious and the subconscious part of our mind. PMA takes a decisive step further on a previously unknown terrain. It distinguishes between two different types of subconscious material.
Two processes
These two different types of subconscious material are the result of two ways in which the human brain can function. The normal mode of processing and the "protection mode". In the protection mode our emotional system is being protected against overload, resulting in a different process in our brain. When in this protection mode, the contents of our experiences are not analyzed and catalogued as they are in the normal mode. Because we have an innate mechanism that tries to protect us against any alleged threat, the protection mode is activated as soon as there is too much pain, fear or loss of control.
Clusters
The first type of subconscious material belongs to the normal mode of operation of our brain. It is stored in our memory as the original events that occurred, together with the connected physiological content that determines our emotions.
It is processed by subconscious mechanisms that assign a code to every incoming piece of sensory data. These codes are stored in an index that enables our subconscious brain to use this data as comparison material for future experiences.
Everything we experience is stored in our brain in what we call 'clusters'. Our clusters determine how we feel and think about what we experience because they act as comparison material.
Different processing modes
The second type of material originates from our brain's protective mode of operation. This mode acts as a fuse against the over-load of our emotional system. Whenever emotional strain that is caused by what we experience, reaches the limit of what we can handle, the protective mode kicks in. It switches back to 'normal' when the emotional danger has gone. What enters our brain in between will be processed differently from normal experiences.
Everything that enters through our senses will still be stored, but in the protective mode it will not be analyzed and classified and it will not be linked to other clusters.
This way our protection mechanism, designed to take us 'away from pain', shields our consciousness from experiences that are too harmful for us at that moment. These experiences are always accompanied by strong negative emotion, although that does not imply that they all must be of a dramatic nature. Especially when we are very young, many events can trigger our protective mode: an angry parent, a threat from a classmate or a lie from a friend, with the storage of unanalyzed material as a result. This can influence us for the rest of our lives, as we are about to see.
Bad clusters
We call these type-two datasets 'bad clusters', like the data on a computer disk that cannot be read. We also call them Bad because they are actually bad for our system. By their very nature we are not aware they exist, but even more than our normal clusters, they determine how we feel about things.
Because they have not been analyzed by our brain, mere coincidental resemblances in our sensory input can activate them. They can influence our feelings at any time. While our conscious mind has no notion of their content, we will experience their strong physiological effects on the body.
Our protection mechanism helps us design all kinds of beliefs and habits to make us ignore the constant physiological influence of the bad clusters. But the beliefs and habits do not change their destructive influences.
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2. The mind/body unity
The second unique aspect of PMA is it's basis on the physiological link between experiences and their emotional value, which are both stored in our 'chemical brain'. The concept of the chemical brain is the result of recent neuroscientific discoveries that show a completely new picture of how our brain operates.
Emotions are our prime motivators and inhibitors. They are more fundamental to our being than our rational faculties. It is not the factual data that controls our decisions, but the feelings that originate from the attached physiology, since our emotions are physiological processes.
The stronger the physiology (or emotion), the more it determines our belief systems and actions. The strongest physiology is attached to these hidden bad clusters, which are not touched by first generation techniques. They all leave this material unchanged.
Working on our mental state through these first generation methods is like working on the corroding body of a car. We can prime and polish and spray it with paint. For a while it may look good, probably long enough to sell the car, but the day will certainly come when the corrosion will break through again.
As soon as incoming sensory data activates bad cluster material, we feel the attached physiology (or emotions) and our old belief systems and habits pop up again and take over. That is what we experience in spite of having temporary success with first generation techniques.
By acknowledging the physiological nature of emotions, PMA succeeds in making lasting changes. It actually transforms hidden bad clusters into harmless normal clusters.
3. The protection mechanism
Where other methods use the power of our innate protection mechanism to compensate for negative influences, PMA identifies the relative position of the protection mechanism. PMA discerns that in the case of bad clusters, the protection mechanism is actually preventing us from clearing out material with harmful physiological effects.
To illustrate this we can compare our protection mechanism to a parachute. If you have to leave a plane that is about to crash you will be very grateful for the parachute on your back. But, once on the ground, you'd better take it off, for it is hard walking or swimming with the parachute still attached. So what once was a protective device can later work against your interest.
Our protection mechanism will protect us against any conscious approach of our bad clusters, because this data is full of painful and fearful emotion. So the mechanism will prevent every method that is based on its protective faculties from reaching and neutralizing bad cluster data.
PMA uses a special method of inquiry and routing, which is based on our brain's storage principles and the insights into the behavior of this protection mechanism. In PMA we successfully go against this protection mechanism and reach the bad cluster data.
After reaching its content the subconscious programs of our brain turn the bad cluster into a normal cluster that is fully approachable for the conscious brain. It becomes a normal memory without the disruptive physiology and the random activation.
4. Permanent results
To avoid damage to the system, the analysis mechanism of the brain was temporarily shut down when it went into "protective mode". But afterwards, under safe circumstances, the content of the bad clusters is revealed to our conscious mind through PMA techniques and the mechanisms of the normal mode will yet analyze the material and transform it into an normal cluster.
The extreme emotional load will be permanently gone. It will never be activated again by coincidental similarities.
Nothing else is needed to make this happen, it's all elementary processes that do the job. The result is permanent.
If for instance a bad cluster was the source of a person's fear for flying or making sales calls, that fear will be gone and will not come back again.
In conclusion
PMA is a practical approach, based on neuroscientific findings. The proof of this method lies in its immediate results that demonstrate our brain actually works this way.
PMA is a next generation program because it is the first to:
- identify bad clusters;
- show that the protection mechanism actually can work against our interest;
- trace and eliminate the bad clusters and make the protection mechanism work to our advantage.
- focus on removing hidden programs that inhibit our performance and are the root-cause of all our
psychosomatic health problems.
PMA attains its results by using a totally new way of cooperating with the protection mechanism of our brain. This has not been done before. The ever expanding irrational influence of bad clusters in everything we do and feel can now be stopped and erased.
Unnecessary fears and blocks disappear, and many of them we weren't even aware of. They release the energy they were consuming. Now we have both the energy and the freedom to develop our potential.
PMA is a decisive step forward in regaining our mental integrity. It eliminates the negative physiology that is responsible for psychological and psychosomatic complaints. It is an immediate boost to the achievement of our goals and ambitions. It progressively releases the mental power and energy that is in us and aligns it with what we want to accomplish.
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