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Title of the report: Changing Your Body’s Mind and The Conscious Creative
Person

Last Name: Duree

First Name: Richard & Shanti
Company: Neuroenergetic Psychology Institute
Address: 349 East Main Street Suite 1 A
City/Country: Ashland, Oregon USA
Phone: 1-541-899-7209
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E-Mail: neurogenics@usa.net
Homepage: www.neuroenergetic.com

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 Changing Your Body’s Mind and
The Conscious Creative Person
Richard and Shanti Duree
©2007 Richard Duree all rights reserved

Abstract: The neurological and psychological dynamics are discussed that

support the basic premise that we are participants in the determining the
architecture of our reality our mind and nervous systems (limbic-brainstem,
autonomic and enteric), and therefore, we can become consciously creative about
our health.

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“Health”
Originally the word “health” meant
whole or undivided. However, today the
word health has come to mean
something quite different. Today, it is
more likely to mean free from illness or
able to have enough energy to pursue
your daily activities.
Human beings are in the midst of
evolution. Our body/mind is and has
always been automatically responsive to
and focused on the patterns stored
within. Information inherited from our
ancestors mixes with our accumulated
life experiences and becomes our
‘metaphors of the flesh’. These
‘metaphors of the flesh’ are the feelings
and impulses that arise in our bodies. As
these feelings arise from our responses
to our perception of sensory input, we
rely on them for guidance and
understanding of the environment and
our place in it
Currently as we grow and change in our
modern world, our body/mind needs to
learn new patterns to prepare us for
different responses. We must look at our
reflexive response patterns in order to
attain optimum health and well being
that is grounded in self-initiated
conscious creative behavior. This new
way of processing shifts our attention
from an unquestioned automatic
response to the impulses we perceive, to
a conscious, creative responsiveness.
Once we perceive information from the
exterior or interior environment feelings
are felt, our perception of them and our
responses to them are translated into the
voices we hear in our heads, which
reinforces the feelings we have about
what we think. A new way of processing
can help us free ourselves from “knee
jerk,” reflexive responses allowing us to
create a sense of congruent alignment –
a unity of consciousness.
What is Unity of Consciousness?
We commonly understand it as being the
general capacity for awareness and
purposeful response that issues from
some physical mechanism that is far
more basic than the developed human
brain and nervous system.
All of the sensory co-ordination, motor
reflexes and apparent automatic unity of
consciousness we observer in complex
organisms is apparent in single celled
organisms and simple organisms as well
as in more complex organisms. Complex
organisms are simply a community of
interdependent single celled beings who
work together for the collective good.
Our Ability to Perceive the Whole
One of the most essential features of
human consciousness is so basic that we
usually take it for granted: it is the unity
of our conscious experience. Every note
we hear in a musical symphony is part of
the melody. We do not hear each note in
isolation, any more than each letter in a
novel or each pixel in a printed picture.
The theme of a symphony or the plot of
a novel are what have been called
‘emergent’ qualities. They only emerge
at the collective (or unified) level of
structure but are meaningless at the
component level. If we look out of a
window, we are not aware of each
individual thing in isolation. We may see
a tree in a location in a garden, together
with the sky, the landscape and the
horizon. All of these things are present
to us in a single instant. Only in their
wholeness do they compose our view
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from the window. Without such a unity,
there would be no experience of reality
as we know it, no unity of consciousness.
Our Unique, Embodied Experiences
Each experience is so much more than a
mere mental process. Each experience is
a moment of life which we record with
our whole body. These experiences are
literally woven into the fibers of our
being and become the tapestry of our
life. Our perceptions of reality are
individual and unique because we create
our ‘unity of conscious’ experience
based on how the fibers of our tapestry
are woven.
Who chooses—from among all possible
actions—what is likely to happen or not
happen? You do this either consciously
or unconsciously. You connect events
together, creating what you perceive.
You assign your attention, making the
connections between events. Your
body/mind creates the paths connecting
the events. This is how consciousness
affects your physical body and the
universe in general—by creating
pathways.
Attention Directs Energy
All of our habits—on the conscious,
unconscious, and body levels—arise
through the creation of ‘least-action-
paths.’ They are the actions we
experience in our everyday lives and are
also the literal pathways for neural,
hormonal and other kinds of energy,
including light, sound, heat, chemical
energy, gravity, and elastic energy
information. They are the habits that we
use for our survival—physical,
emotional, mental and spiritual.
Many of these habits, these least-action-
paths, were developed over the genetic
history of our species and are stored as
genetic (innate) memories. Other
memories have been developed through
the experience of our lives (acquired
memories). Most of these response
pathways are reflexive-stimulated from a
level beneath our conscious awareness.
The sub-conscious body level memory is
fully alert at all times; most of us are just
unaware of its actions and processes.
Being driven by the survival instinct,
there is an inherent danger in that we
may tend to live our lives robotically—
just going through the motions—
repeating the same responses or
behaviors over and over again, and not
examining the motivations of our actions
and emotions. We make many important
choices automatically, which may not be
in our best interests. This takes us out of
choice, and most often we are not
consciously aware that a choice is even
being made as these habituated actions
are not related to frontal lobe function.
If the brain, neuropeptide and nervous
systems specific signals are weakened
by massive use of resources (through
stress, worry, habituated behaviors, or
state dependent memories – memories
recreated by a particular perception of
prerecorded sensory input that alters the
correct signals), then the cells become
unable to receive the proper information
and aberrant gene transcription can take
place. Disease can develop due to the
cells being unable to heal themselves
normally. This also helps to explain why
people manifest disease when they have
strong body reactions, emotional trauma
or conflicting beliefs and feelings around
an event that inhibits energy to a part of
the body.
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Conscious Creative Individuals create
their reality not only by setting their
intention consciously, they also re-
pattern their responses to State
Dependent Memory patterns held in the
body/mind to create new least-action
paths that reflect the their desired
reality, thus changing the information in
the environment around the cells. States
can change the way value you evaluate
something at any moment in time. The
management of state is the biggest
control you have. Life mastery comes
down to one thing – Being able to
manage your state.
We Are the Creators of
What We Observe.
There is no such thing as an independent
observer who can stand on life's
sidelines watching nature run its course
without influencing it. The distinction
between objective and subjective reality
is a myth, and this realization has led to
a new understanding of the relationship
between us and the universe. This
realization brings into sharp focus the
awareness of the importance of our
thinking process, beliefs and feelings
that we use to observe our reality.
Physicist John Wheeler sees the
involvement of the observer as the most
important feature of quantum theory:
"Nothing is more important about the
quantum principle than this: that it
destroys the concept of the world as
‘sitting out there,’ with the observer
safely separated from it by a 20
centimeter slab of plate glass. To
describe what has happened, one has
to cross out that old word ‘observer’
and put in its place the new word
‘participator’. In some strange sense,
the universe is a participatory
universe."
In order to participate fully as a
conscious creative individual and attain
optimum health, it is imperative that we
free ourselves from destructive patterns
and habituated behaviors. Due to the
consequences of our rapid social and
technological changes, our programmed
behaviors become progressively less
suitable as a survival mechanism.
NeuroEnergetic Psychology (NEP)
We use NEP Techniques to provide the
necessary skills to understand and work
with how we participate in shaping our
own reality. We use the techniques to:
1. Consciously create a healing state in
yourself. You experience the work
yourself while in the process of
learning the skills.
2. Be present with and assist the client
in their ‘personal’ evaluation of
acquired beliefs, behaviors and
reactions, their relationships and
interactions with innate memory, and
their creation of least-action paths
that block desired states of being.
3. Use muscle testing to explore
creative alternatives with the client,
and to find new choices, which will
care for the client’s integrity and
enrich their quality of life while
using resources that they already
possess or have access to.
4. Decondition old and reorient new
autonomic and somatic memory
responses by using physical
techniques that are blended with
awareness gained in the exploration
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 process, creating new least-action
paths for congruent body mind and
spirit interaction.
5. Deep personal understanding of the
complex interplay between learned
responses, body memory, lifestyle,
genetic memory and personal energy
states.
What are the Possible Mechanisms
that Maintain our Version of Reality?
When a conflict from our life experience
is uncovered, a new intra-cerebral
neuronal connection is made from the
limbic system to the cortex. The client
becomes more “conscious”. The
conflict-induced electrical energy from
areas in the limbic system can now flow
to the cortex, instead of constantly
arousing areas in the hypothalamus and
automatic responses from those
locations.
Conscious access to conflict-induced
electrical energy becomes a source of
greater vitality and clarity for the client.
However, the pathway from the conflict
to the hypothalamus is habituated and
needs to be uncoupled, or we say in
NEP, “deconditioned.” While the client
remembers the past event and creates
new resource connections, other
ganglion-vasomotor protocols are used
to balance sympathetic, parasympathetic,
enteric and extracellular matrix
responses to the “State Dependent”
reaction. This breaks the habituated
response regulated by these systems.
Successful NEP Sessions will
Fulfill 3 criteria:
1. Target conflicts and stress
situations experienced in the past
and present that bring up “state
dependent memory” states in the
body/mind, revealing least-action
paths and their related
connections.
2. Uncover these conflicts through
process work.
3. Decondition the patterning of the
intricate neuronal network in the
brain that links the limbic system
with the hypothalamus (and
virtually any other body
structure). Reinforce new
patterns based on the client’s
needs and wishes using
information and resources the
client already possesses or can
gain access too. Many
problematic issues – such as,
chronic stress and related
dysfunctions, vasomotor
dysfunction, emotional stress,
chronic pain, and other dis-ease
states – can be successfully
neutralized
addressing
the psycho-
emotional
ganglion-
vasomotor
components
with the NEP techniques.
NeuroEnergetic Psychology can assist us
on our journey back to the original
meaning of the word "health" by
recognizing and working with the areas
where the mind, body and spirit
communicate using these connections to
create new least action paths to
wholeness.
Richard and Shanti Duree
The Richard and Shanti Duree have been
involved in field of kinesiology and
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energy medicine for over 33 years
teaching seminars worldwide at
professional schools of natural healing
and working privately with clients. They
were both former Touch for Health
instructor trainers. Richard is a Diplomat
Master Kinesiologist and contributor to
the books Touch for Health buy Dr. John
Thie, Stay Young buy Dr. Ivan Popov
and Energy Medicine buy Donna Eden.
They created the Neuroenergetic
Psychology and Structural Kinesiology
programs. Richard and Shanti also serve
on the Board of Directors of the
Neuroenergetic Psychology Foundation.
A nonprofit research and educational
foundation created to research the effects
of and educate the public in areas related
to somatic psychology. IRS 501(c) 3
They both matain private practice in
Ashland Oregon and Santa Barbara
Califorina USA.
For more information on NeuroEnergetic
Psychology Programs and how these
programs can assist you and your clients
contact:
The NeuroEnergetic Psychology
Institute
349 East Main Street Suite 1A
Ashland, Oregon 97520 USA
1-541-899-7209
neurogenics@usa.net
www.neuroenergetic.com
©2007 Richard Duree all rights reserved
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 NEP Enteric Release Exercise
Have you ever experienced a Gut Feeling? Who hasn’t? With out a doubt if you are alive you gut
talks to you from time to time. Over the years of working with the enteric system we have seen
remarkable changes in people using this technique.

1. Start testing slowly around the navel spiraling out in the direction of the illustration on the
next page.
2. When you get an indicator weakness place one hand on the reactive spot and press into the
area firmly. Then make a second contact on any other muscle on the body.

Hold the two points until a pulse comes up in the enteric and/or the area below your hand softens, or
the client tests that you have held the point long enough. You are to continue this process until there
are no more reactive points in the abdominal area on a given issue.

Choose a partner now and do the N.E.P. Enteric Release Technique with each other.

Change partners and repeat the process

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