Frequently Asked Questions

Q. What is "imprinting," and how does it work?
A. Maternal stress generates an emotional pattern of hundreds of different neurochemical messenger molecules activating many hundreds of different types of cellular receptor sites. From very early in a pregnancy, there is a pattern of neurochemicals imprinted through a process of cellular conditioning; a process that might be thought of as an orchestration of biochemical "music" that becomes a set point for cellular balance (homeostasis). After birth, and throughout later life, we all attempt (in various ways) to create a reality field around us that recreates the same prenatal neurochemical orchestration imprinted during gestation.

Q. What are dragons and dragon seeds?
A. Our "dragons" are the maladaptive and dysfunctional patterns in our lives; they are the disowned part of us, that part that is very often hidden from ourselves and from others. Our prenatal "dragons seeds" become "woven" into the "fabric" of our personality, and generally grow stronger throughout our lives causing problems and keeping us from realizing our full potential. For example, chronic patterns of impatience have their roots in the regions of the brain that are involved in deferred gratification and opposed by impulsive choice. Impatience typically imprints through prenatal experiences of not having enough oxygen. Thus, the resulting alarm response produces a cascade of neurochemicals that are imprinted in the rapidly developing fetal brain. Now, we can revisit and revise our neurochemical predispositions for the "dragon" of impatience, and other dragons as well.

Q. Is Transforming Dragons like hypnosis?
A. No! While the works of Milton H. Erickson, MD are an important part of science behind our Personality Transformational Program, hypnosis operates primarily through the verbal pathways in the neocortex. The TDPTP audio program acts through the limbic system that is brought into dominance. Traditional hypnosis techniques tend to "paper over" the dragons and are thus very limited in their long term benefit.

Q. What is Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP)?
A. NLP was developed in the early 1970's by John Grinder, professor of linguistics, and his student Richard Bandler, in association with Gregory Batson, a British anthropologist and cyberneticist. NLP grew out of their study of subjective human experience, and developed their main principle: Our subjective reality drives our perceptions, beliefs, and behavior. NLP techniques are based on axioms and techniques that alter the way our mind (Neuro), and our language patterns and associations (Linguistic), as well as our perceptual/cognitive patterns (Programming) may be manipulated to alter our subjective reality, and subsequently, our behavior. NLP is sometimes criticized as pseudo-scientific psychobabble, however, keep in mind that our medical establishment took over 40-years to recognize the antioxidant benefits of vitamins. Nonetheless, NLP techniques tend to be superficial because of a limited understanding of how the mind and brain really work. NLP techniques are largely limited in the emotional depth of their action because the neocortex is dominant, and thus the "dragons" of the inner most part of the brain (limbic system) remain unchanged in any fundamental way. Prenatal Re-Imprinting (PNRI) techniques were developed to overcome many of these limitations (See: Prenatal Re-Imprinting) .

Q. What is an alternative memory?
A. In the four Transforming Dragons audio modules, listeners are guided through an alternative prenatal experience, and they re-imprint a positive alternative. Listeners are guided to a state of limbic-system dominance in an alternative gestational experience, and they are opened to receive carefully designed positive emotional re-imprinting. Listeners may have had a prenatal experience of their mother contemplating an abortion. They then re-imprint positive alternatives, such as their imagined mother singing to them inside her womb: "You bring so much joy and love to life."

Q. What is a Personality Transformational Program?
A. This is the TDPTP audio program that guides you in a scientifically designed re-imprinting of your foundational negative "dragon seeds" Your "dragon seeds" are neurochemical emotional patterns that were formed while you were carried inside your mother's womb. Four audio modules stimulate transformational experiences in the innermost part of your brain and re-imprint your "dragons" into lifeless shadows.

Q. What is the Transforming Dragons Network?
A. This network is our collective efforts to communicate with each other about personal experiences of the TDPTP audio CD. It involves registering via a post card provided inside the TDPTP audio CD case. It also involves our Transforming Dragons newsletter, and also those who choose to participate in online exchanges.