Multi Brain

MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES

We are all made by a multiple legion of different personalities. Like an actor can channel characters for a role using method or character acting, we can also slip on a mask to choose our persona – or allow our persona to choose us.

We are in charge. Yet, we all tend to blindly conform to rules set out by and for a well-functioning society, with rules installed in us by our parents and our teachers. By the age of seven, the programmes have been set. We run on autopilot for most of our waking moments and the voices we hear in our heads, tell us when and what to eat, who to talk with and how to speak, when to listen/speak and what to say or not say. These are our habitual patterns.

So are 'we' really in control? Let us define what the 'we' actually is. Even the words used to describe ourselves – 'we' and 'us' – are all plurals. That is because multiple minds exist within our being, and make up the individual 'group mind' to formulate the character.

Bruce Lipton reveals the influence we have over our decisions. We can choose to wallow in self-pity or we can change our attitudes to focus on the positives. We choose the roles we want to play. 

Positive projections of energy will resonate with other positive mindsets, for positive interactions. Likewise, the negative emotions and energies will hold us entrained within those similar resonating fields of energy. The important thing is to recognise when the mind or the characters we are playing, are holding us back from being our best selves. Internal dialogue wakes us from this state – as Bruce implies in the above video by saying: 'Are you going to put up with this self-loathing attitude?'.

When there are stressful situations at play or things are just not going your way – simply ask yourself 'is the sun shining?'.

A simple assessment of something so banal as the weather can wake us from the drama playing out in our heads. Like watching a TV becomes dull or uninteresting, we simply switch channels to something more engaging on the telly instead. The same process applies when we actively decide to switch channels in the mind and take on a different attitude. We can also switch off the telly or detach ourselves from the noise by meditating.

Healing The Inner Child

When we experience pain as a child, the development of 'alters' (alter-egos) can create protective personalities which surface again in later life. Many of life's difficult periods, create alternative states of being and repeated traumas, can lead to a multiple personality disorder (now called DID or Disasociated Identity Disorder). These different states or 'alters', can detach our true selves from the alter self – leaving someone 'lost'. 

Many experiments were conducted throughout the 50's and right up until the late 70's (and likely far beyond), under the various secret programs called M K Ultra, for a better understanding of ways to control the mind using trauma (electric shock therapy) and drugs (also other covert programs like Monarch and Artichoke). When a person is subjected to overwhelming amounts of stress, the organism protects itself, including shutting down the mind. Because the natural way of being is to follow natural laws, breaking taboos or even telling lies, creates a kind of micro-trauma with self-deceit programs severing our connection to the collective and bonding 'natural forces' and disconnecting from the true 'self'.

To unlock childhood conditioning and repair any fracturing of self which has been the result of various types of mind control, and to break through the multiple protecting layers, to uncover the being we really are, can take a fair amount of inner-searching for re-connection with our innocent inner-child persona. This child character is our playful and imaginative, trusting and fearless self. When the inner child has been let down or harmed in any way, their inner child will not be receptive to living in the 'open state' and through trapped emotions associated with past childhood experiences, be wreaking havoc in the present-day adult lives.

Internal Family Systems Therapy is a new form of therapy for connecting to the 'family' of characters. In acting circles, the process is also used to get more authentic characters, By 'relaxing the 'instrument' to remove protective blocks (much like a chaneller does) – or deactivating protective mechanisms, to allow for sub-personalities within the individual to channel through the individual's body, overriding the standard persona when to deliver whatever the alternative personality requires for specific acting roles.

Multi Brain
The brain has two hemispheres, which act independently and connect via the corpus callosum to bring both sides together to better understand our worldview. All the sensory inputs are mirrored, such as the left hand corresponding with the right brain hemisphere and visa versa. Our brains have a dominant side and functions usually managed by the left hemisphere for right-handed people, can be reversed in the opposite brain hemisphere of a left-handed person. 

The right hemisphere is usually associated with the creative aspects and forms an image of ourselves. The left tends to handle logic more and processes information for language. It can be said the right is our feeling and intuitive processor and the left is our reasoning computer-type brain. 

Due to fundamental laws found everywhere in nature, one of the 12 natural laws is the 'Law of Gender', which magnetically governs our body much in the same way as the poles on a bar magnet do. The female aspect is the 'attractive' and creative side, and the male aspect is the logical left side of the brain. Not to say men and women are specifically dominant in either hemisphere determined by biology, as both men and women can access the two hemispheres and utilise the brain function as a preference, usually due to physical make-up and conditioning. Ways of working and practices can help the individual to strengthen both sides of the brain to better work both independently and collaboratively.

To understand theories about how our brain communicates - sometimes with voices that seem to be like another person is in our heads, the Julian Jaynes Institute has some interesting information on their website, including historical references about how 3000 years ago, the voice in our heads was believed to be 'God' directing us – and can be referenced as 'God's plan' or to outcomes where it's been claimed by the guilty party that "God made me do it'. Links to the book here: Theory of consciousness and the Bicemerial brain

Brain injury and severance of the corpus callosum can mean the left and right hemispheres are unable to share information. This can result in our inner voice not being 'heard', but body function can autonomously act out the desires of the independent brain 'unconsciously'. 

Oliver Sachs covered a lot of the anomalies, not so easily identified but expressed under certain circumstances where brain function impaired by traumas have separated the hemispheres, – in his book 'The man who mistook his wife for a hat'. Similarly, Robert Trivers explains the phenomena of independent ghost hands even happening in people who haven't suffered brain damage. He references this kind of spooky action when his left hand automatically 'touches people' without any apparent awareness of doing it and he lays blame on this rogue hand for the multiple times losing his car keys when keys were last held by the left hand. His book, 'The Folly of Fools' uncovers a lot of the brain's deceptive ways, including cognitive biases and habitual patterns which trick us all the time into understanding who we really are.

The eyes can work both independently without the other, but share all information. Our vision is actually inverted as it projects onto the optical nerve at the back of our eyes – so we can be said to be both upside down and back to front in everything we do!

Monkey Brain
The Chimp Paradox explains how our primal brain reacts to triggers, including the fears and need for protection, which can result in angry outbursts and even violence towards others. This great article explains the details in a deeper way. Essentially, the chimp brain needs to be restrained, so our rational, logically developed parts of the brain, can avoid activation of the animal instincts, which can result in priming of fight mode – shutting down all non-essential cognitive functions, to allow for maximum power. People who have suffered extreme traumas and abuse, are the most prone to having intense violent outbursts, which can last for less than 10 minutes and in some cases up to more than 30 minutes.