TRANSFORMING DRAGONS NEWSLETTER

Dear Subscribers,

Our ninth Transforming Dragons newsletter continues to present articles related to the science of prenatal re-imprinting. In this newsletter there are three articles: Enhancing Re-Imprinting Mechanisms, Human Intention and Imprinting, and Causes of Depression.
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We want acknowledge those of you who have not only purchased a Transforming Dragons audio CD for yourselves, you have also purchased a second CD for another person close to you. What greater gift to give to someone than the gift of transformation. With the holiday season approaching, it would be a very good idea for all of our Transforming Dragons listeners to consider purchasing additional CDs as gifts.

Also, we greatly appreciate hearing from you. I have been able to respond to each of the emails that I have received. Thank you all for taking the time to send us your personal comments and questions.

What to Expect After Listening

Patti is one of our Transforming Dragons listeners, and she has received great benefit from her experience. Patti offers the following excellent advice to others for listening to their Transforming Dragons audio experience.

Fellow Transforming Dragons listeners,

There are several reasons you may not be getting the results you desire. In my experience of Transforming Dragons, I have found the following five points to be helpful. They are presented to you to help listeners get more out of their listening experience.

1. Practice getting into the fetal position. Rehearse several times without actually going through a Transforming Dragons module. Sometimes, new experiences seem "strange" or "weird". Your Transforming Dragons experience will be more profound if you can quickly and easily slip into the feeling of being in the womb to begin your Transforming Dragons experience.
2. You must really exercise your imagination. If you feel you cannot imagine being in the womb, substitute the word "pretend". If an internal voice then answers "I'm not sure if what I'm feeling (or seeing or hearing) is correct", ask yourself "If I DID know what it felt like (sounded like, felt like) what would that experience be for me? The unconscious mind will give you an answer; trust that answer to be the correct one for you. Some people notice a floating sensation. Some feel that there is not quite enough room for them. Hint: stretch out a little (as a fetus), and this sends a signal to mom to straighten up and give you more room. Some people notice a cozy, warm feeling. Some hear the sound of the mother's heartbeat; others hear the sound of the placental "swoosh". . Whatever you hear, feel or sense is right for you!
3. Listen to at least one module daily. Be sure you are in a quiet place where you will not be disturbed or distracted. Transforming Dragons begins an inner healing process that can be accelerated by private sessions with a Pre-Natal Re-Imprinting (PNRI) practitioner. In private sessions, specific instances of negative prenatal imprinting can be identified and re-imprinted, making immediate and lasting change. Transforming Dragons is designed to re-imprint positive experiences over the negative experiences and thus may take a little longer. But it DOES work, and you WILL experience positive changes in your life.
4. Expand your awareness and notice the changes. Take notice of even those subtle changes, they can have a profound impact on your life. You may, for instance, notice that someone you used to fight with every few days is no longer as "combative" as they used to be. It may be that three weeks goes by without disagreements with this person instead of three days. As you change your personality what you project into the world changes, and you will no longer attract those negative experiences into your life. Why? Remember - you are born with certain neurochemical "needs" that were imprinted while you were in the womb. As you listen to the Transforming Dragons Modules, you re-imprint these "negative feeling" chemicals with neurochemicals that produce positive thoughts, feelings and emotions. In other words, you no longer project the "need" for that particular negative experience into your world; and then poof - another dragon has been transformed. Many people are not aware of negative "self-talk" that goes on in their head almost constantly. After a few weeks of listening to a Transforming Dragons Module daily, you will more than likely notice that either the voices have disappeared or have been magically transformed into positive "self-talk" and encouraging thoughts that are life-affirming.
5. Commit yourself to the listening process. Looking at the Transforming Dragons CD case will not produce changes for you. You must take the CD out of the case and play it while you are in the proper posture. If necessary, listen to the introduction again. The correct listening posture is critical to opening your mind to the transformational process. Lying down in bed and curling up is not the same as sitting in a chair and assuming the prenatal position. This is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself. It takes, at the most, about 15 minutes per day to complete one module. Each of the module-stories is designed to stimulate a release of positive neurochemicals in your brain. So listening to a different module each day is very beneficial. You ARE worth 15 minutes a day. And if you don't feel you are worth it, do it anyway, because after a few weeks your brain will be re-imprinted with positive neurochemicals. Then, you will KNOW you ar e worth it!

When you follow these five steps, you cannot help but see positive changes in your life.

After you have followed the suggestions above and noticed the transformative changes they have produced in you, consider this. Why not give your friends and relatives (and even your enemies) the wonderful gift of Transforming Dragons, and the opportunity to transform their own lives? Purchase a Transforming Dragons CD for friends, relatives and anyone you know who would like to have peace and joy in their lives. What greater gift could you give someone than the gift of a lifetime of peace, happiness and joy?

Patti G.

Enhancing Re-Imprinting Mechanisms
by Gerald Vind, PhD

An article in the January 2007 issue of Cognition Magazine reports that episodes from our past are remembered faster and better while we are in a body position that is similar to the physical posture that one was in when experiencing an event.

Thus, the PNRI and Transforming Dragons prenatal posture seeks to achieve a body position that is similar to our prenatal experience where we are confined in our mother’s womb. This simple mechanism has a profound effect on our mental-emotional processes. Tilting our head fully forward activates mechanoreceptors in the base of the head-joint area that is made up of the first cervical vertebra, the atlas (C1) and occipital bone (base of the skull); and also the second cervical vertebra, the axis (C2).

This, along with our seated posture emulating our body in a confined in a cramped womb, produces a stimulus-response (SR) reflex arc that signals the dominant cognitive neocortex (some 80% of our brain) to release dominance, and thus allow the emotional center (the limbic system) in the paleocortex (first developing part of the brain) to become dominant. This SR reflex arc is the primary mechanism for opening up our foundational “master control panel” to be reprogrammed. Anything less than this will only “paper over” our emotional core; and thus our dragons will only be exercised, and not transformed and blown away.

In the Transforming Dragons experience, we are asked to use our imagination in our prenatal journey. When we are guided to imagine some prenatal experience shared with our mother, we are activating neural circuits down to their prenatal point of origin.

When your imagination is properly directed, it has virtually the same intensity as a direct primary experience. This is shown clearly in a study at UCLA , reported in the 11/16/2000 issue of the journal Nature. UCLA neurosurgeon Dr. Itzhak Fried headed the study, and discovered the important role that individual neurons play in the brain during actual visual imagery, and during imagined or recalled imagery.

"Our research helps clarify how the mind's eye works. Visual images can be generated in our mind's eye in the absence of actually looking at the image. Our study reveals that the same brain cells that fire when a person looks at a picture of the Mona Lisa are, in fact, the same neurons that excite when that person is asked to imagine the Mona Lisa."

Dr. Fried and his research team found that when their study subjects were imagining various previously observed photo images, the firing rate of the neuronal brain cells was almost as high as when the study subjects were actually looking at the photos. In Dr. Fried words:

"When you look at something, it's really vivid and when you close your eyes to imagine it, the image is not so vivid. So, we were surprised that the brain cells fired at almost the same intensity.”

Transforming Dragons (and PNRI) utilize the power of your imagination (even if you believe that you are lacking in imagination) to bring you into profound inner healing. Our listeners have experienced results that are profoundly beneficial.

Thus, a warm and loving visualization can re-imprint an alternative foundation and “over-write” some negative prenatal imprint. It is important to recognize that the four Transforming Dragons Modules (and now an added Module 5) are designed to create alternative prenatal memories. They are more than visualizations. When fully invested with a listener’s attention and intention, they become a whole alternative experience. In other words, you are changing your personal history from one of negative experience to one of positive experiences. As one client has reported, "Now I know what it was like to have a happy childhood".

Mental practice has been used to improve skills in throwing darts, karate, and shooting basketball free throws. Mental practice utilizes the imagination in mental imagery and mental rehearsal. The practiced imagery activates the same neural circuits used in actually doing the physical action. In much the same way, a listener’s Transforming Dragons Module experience activates neural circuits that are the same as an actual physical experience.

Mental practice in skills-enhancement training is well studied, and it provides some insights for the PNRI and Transforming Dragons experiences. It is a composite of mental activities involving the recall of visual, auditory, and kinesthetic cues. Thus, it is not just visualization alone. Coaching skills-enhancement training involves the use of three main properties: vividness, controllability, and exactness of reference.

1. Vividness. Those who can imagine better learn better. Thus, some instruction on imagination, along with practice exercises, will probably improve the effectiveness of the Transforming Dragons process. Mastery of any overt skill increases the vividness of imagery. Thus, superior athletes are able to imagine their skills better than others.
2. Controllability. Those who can generate and hold a persistent image will have a better Transforming Dragons experience than those who cannot. Sometimes there is too much suppressed and/or repressed chaos in the brain and central nervous system to generate persistent images. For Transforming Dragons and for skills-enhancement athletic training, persistent images are desirable. Use of techniques to quiet the inner chaos by relieving the underlying stress is very beneficial. Listening to the Transforming Dragons Modules themselves is very calming to the listener’s central neuraxis. Thus, the second and subsequent listening experiences will progressively calm imprinted prenatal chaos.
3. Exactness of reference. For skills-enhancement training, events have to be an accurate representation for the effects of the mental practice to transfer effectively to real-life situations. For the Transforming Dragons experience, this means imagining more detail. Thus, one can listen to their Transforming Dragons CD again with an intention to develop more reality through the experience of more imagined detail.

Thus, our Transforming Dragons experience and similar active-meditative experiences can be enhanced with work in these three coaching areas. Also, after listening several times to the Transforming Dragons Module experiences, one can assume the prenatal posture and expand into their own imagined positive prenatal experiences.

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Human Intention and Imprinting
by Gerald H. Vind

Very ancient Polynesian Huna traditions teach of an inner core of human will, and they call it: Kanaloa. Within the ancient Huna traditions, Kanaloa is one of four aspects of self:

1. Aumakua - The High Self
2. Lono - The Conscious Self
3. Ku - The Subconscious Self
4. Kanaloa - The Core Self (will)

A Polynesian shaman (kahuna) develops an ability to use their will power (their focused intention) to do seemingly magical or paranormal things.

For centuries philosophers have dealt with issues of free will, volition and intention. Discourse, for example, about people who are intrinsically motivated and do what is in their best interest; and this is contrasted with others who are labeled as "weak-willed" because they are extrinsicly motivated and thus easily influenced by others.

More recently, interest in human intention has been addressed in studies that bridge quantum physics and the paranormal. The growing evidence that there are skills and abilities for directing human intention in order to influence physical reality, and this evidence points to a significantly larger human potential.

In an article in our June Transforming Dragons Newsletter titled, “Thoughts, Intentions, and Emotions Influence Prenatal Development” we presented information about human intention and the nonlocal aspects of our mind.

In our current article we address the ability of human intention to imprint. This is important to the science of Prenatal Re-Imprinting (PNRI). Controlled scientific experiments have demonstrated an ability of human intention to physically imprint, thus, providing another mechanism for early prenatal imprinting. This mental-intentional imprinting is shown in some remarkable mind-over-matter experiments and studies conducted by William Tiller.
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William Tiller, (featured in the film: “What the Bleep”) has conducted several experiments that show that the human intention can imprint physical things, and can animate (and inanimate) materials in the physical world.

Tiller’s experimental design used two physically identical, simple electronic devices called Intention Imprinted Electrical Devices (IIED's). These IIEDs were housed in plastic cases seven inches by three inches by one inch in size. The following summarizes Tiller’s description:

“We take one of these [two identical IIED] devices and wrap it in aluminum foil and place it in an electrically grounded container called a Faraday cage. This is our control device. The other device [to be]… imprinted with a specific intention for a particular target experiment… [was] also wrapped in aluminum foil and placed in a separate Faraday cage...

Four individuals highly skilled at meditation and who exhibit a high level of mental and emotional inner self-management carry out the imprinting. On entering a deep meditative state, they mentally cleanse the area surrounding the [test IIED] device to create a ‘sacred space’ and, when accomplished satisfactorily, they first verbalize and then mentally hold the specific intention for about 10 -- 15 minutes. Then they release the intention and mentally seal the [test IIED] device before returning to their normal state of consciousness.”

Tiller describes three separate experiments that all demonstrated the ability of human intention to significantly change measurable properties of matter. The intention imprinted devices (IIEDs) were used to capture and convey an assigned specific intention of the skilled mediators. In the experimental design, the IIED device would be wrapped and returned in the same protected way that it was sent to the mediators. The following is Tiller’s description of one of three target experiments:

“For the third target experiment, the intention was to increase the in-vitro thermodynamic activity of the liver enzyme alkaline phosphatase (ALP) by a significant amount. This was achieved with an increase of about 20 percent with the [imprinted] IIED compared to the control device and once again the statistics were excellent with a probability factor of p<0.001.”

In all of Tiller’s three different kinds of target experiments, all of the imprinted IIED devices demonstrated significant changes when compared to the control IIED devices. Professor Tiller concludes:

“These are very remarkable results that are certain to confound our physics, biology, and medical colleagues; however, the experimental data speaks for itself in spite of the entrenched belief systems held by others.”

Now, considering the moment of human conception, and the subsequent prenatal period, let us ask the question: Is it possible that intense emotions and feelings can be imprinted not only by the expectant mother, but also by the father and others who are close to her?

With our awareness expanded by Transforming Dragons, we can answer from our own personal experience. Of course the answer to the question above is: yes. Now, let us move to a greater understanding of human intention and prenatal imprinting that is based on the science of Prenatal Re-Imprinting.

Causes of Depression
by Gerald H. Vind

Major depression is generally a recurrent disorder, occuring as either unipolar depression, or as bipolar disorder (manic depression). It is estimated that depressive symptoms are affecting somewhere between 13% to 20% of the population at any given time. Depression occurs in women more than men, with a lifetime probability of depression in women somewhere between five to nine-percent, and in men between three to four percent.

While major depression is thought to involve inherrited or genetic factors because it occurs much more frequently in pairs of identical twins than in fraternal twins, scientists have been unable to locate a "depression gene."

Depression is a neurobiological process operating primarily within the limbic system of the brain. Severely depressed people have unusual high levels of the hormone cortisol, and reduced levels of the neurotransmitters serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine. These neurochemical imbalances are also found in severe stress. The reduced level of these chemicals may be inherited in our DNA, which some use to explain why depression tends to run in families. However, this genetic attribution ignores possible prenatal imprinting that influences the expression of the DNA. Prenatal imprinting has been largely ignored in mainstream science.

There are various theories that have been used to explain depression. In cognitive and psychodynamic theories, causality is found in past exposure to an emotionally difficult environment, and also exposure to distorted negative thinking. Biologic theories find causality of depression related to neurotransmitter and neurohormonal imbalances, and to irregular circadian rhythm (sleep) cycles. Again, few people have considered the profound importance of the prenatal experience.

Imprinting occurs while we are inside our mother's womb, and our embryonic-fetal brain is imprinted by a neurochemical emotional "soup" from our mother experiences. Our mother’s emotional responses to her life, while we are in the womb, establish our foundational personality patterns.

For example, when a mother does not want to be pregnant, there is an emotional pattern that creates a cascade of emotional neurochemicals that bathe the developing baby and adapts neuronal patterns of response to the mother's emotional "soup" as foundational set points.

Very often this prenatal experience of being unwanted, results in patterns low self-esteem and depression in later life. The underlying neurochemical imprint is likely to be verbalized as a suicidal-prone complex generalization, such as: “When the going gets tough, then it is time for me to go away.”

Research has yet to identify any definitive medical tests for major depression, and so the diagnosis relies on clinical eveluation in accordance with the official reference guide, DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders). In order to be considered depressed, you must have at least five of the following nine symptoms, and they must represent changes in your life:

1. Depressed mood most of the day, nearly every day
2. Markedly diminished interest or pleasure in all, or almost all, activities
3. Significant weight loss when not dieting or weight gain, or decrease or increase in appetite nearly very day
4. Insomnia or sleeping too much (hypersomnia) nearly every day
5. Psychomotor agitation or retardation nearly every day
6. Fatigue or loss of energy nearly every day
7. Feelings of worthlessness or excessive or inappropriate guilt
8. Diminished ability to think or concentrate, or indecisiveness
9. Recurrent thoughts of death, recurrent suicidal ideation, or a suicide attempt or a specific plan for committing suicide.

If you or someone close to you has five of the nine symptoms listed above, you can find relief and an end to depression quickly and permanently. However, lay PNRI practitioners should be careful since depression is considered a medical condition; and so technically, depression should only be treated by a licensed health care provider. So lay PNRI practitioners, you know that you are not treating depression per se, you are transforming dragons through the imprinting of alternative memories. If depression should disappear in the process, so be it.

Those readers who are familiar with Transforming Dragons or with Prenatal Re-Imprinting (PNRI) know that these are very powerful tools for re-imprinting positive prenatal foundations and thus eliminating the foundations of depression. With the prenatal foundation of major depression re-imprinted , the depressive pattern that flowed forward into one’s life can be revised quickly so that major depression is gone forever.

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