Healing Artistry, Gene Expression and Gene Modulation
Written
Aug. 2014.
The two volume E-book By the Way provides hints and
glimpses of Healing Ways used within Laceweb Healer Networks. Holistic mindbody
processes are engaged that have transforming occurring at many integrating
aspects of the holistic systems of systems – phenomenal experiencing of moving sensing
feeling perceiving and sense making, transforming language, story and metaphor,
neurochemical information as news of difference that makes difference; pattern
interrupt; through to dynamic potential for gene expression and gene modulating
for neurogenesis.
Ernest Rossi in his book ‘The Psychobiology of Gene Expression: Neuroscience and Neurogenesis in Hypnosis and the Healing Arts‘ explores the theory, research, and practice of optimizing gene expression and neurogenesis to facilitate brain growth and healing via positive, creative experiences in the arts and sciences as well as alternative and complementary medicine, psychotherapy, and therapeutic hypnosis.
Rossi writes of creative 4 step processes including:
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Preparing
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Incubating & Illuminating
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Co-creating
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Validating & Ratifying
While Rossi writes of these as a stepwise process, Laceweb way has all of
these as simultaneously part of the phenomenal mix as appropriate to context.
Evaluating, validating and ratifying are constantly occurring in the
moment-to-moment engaging with context. One has an awareness-of-awareness
as a normal state of being in the world with others. Attending comes naturally
within an open state of surrendering to the moment prepared and ready to
‘catch’ what comes through connexity
perceiving and from deeper parts of unconscious processing. Aspects of
experience are ‘put aside’ for incubating on a semi regular basis and
illuminating insights and observations are coming through for ‘catching’ on a continuing
basis. Laceweb processes support engaging with others in this dynamic holistic
fluid creative and transforming process.
On surrender and catch refer Wolff’s 1976 book
titled Surrender and Catch - Experience and
Inquiry Today. In Boston
Studies in the Philosophy of Science. R. S.
Cohen and Wartofsky. Boston, D. Reidel Publishing.
Rossi’s Key Concepts
(Adapted from the above book)
Behavioural
State-Related Gene Expression
Different states of behaviour and consciousness—waking, sleeping, dreaming, emotions, motivation, and stress—are all associated with different patterns of behavioural state-related gene expression. Behavioural state-related gene expression is a fundamental link between psychology and biology. It is of essence in exploring the psychobiology of consciousness. Behavioural state-related gene expression is a genetic source of behaviour that can be modulated with psychosocial cues and cultural rituals to facilitate health, performance, and healing.
Activity-Dependent Gene
Expression
Learning to do something new
initiates cascades of molecular-genetic processes that are called activity-dependent
gene expression. Activity-dependent gene expression generates the proteins and growth
factors that signal stem cells residing in the brain to differentiate into newly functioning neurons
with new connections between them. Likewise, stem cells that reside in
tissues throughout the body receive psychogenomic signals that enable them to
replace injured cells with healthy ones: this is proposed as a basic dynamic of
the healing
placebo response.
The Novelty-Numinosum-Neurogenesis Effect
Numinosum refers to the experience of life’s richness being fascinating, mysterious, and tremendous. Combining Numinosum with Novelty - enriching life experiences, and
exercise associated with a positive sense of curiosity and wonder can turn on activity-dependent
gene expression to construct and reconstruct the physical brain and the way it
works throughout our entire lifetime. This is the psychobiological essence of the
relationship between the creative psychological experience, gene expression,
and neurogenesis — it is a psychosynthetic process of updating and recreating
ourselves in everyday life as well as in the arts, humanities, and
sciences. The novelty-numinosum-neurogenesis effect documents
how highly motivated states of
consciousness can turn on and focus gene expression, protein synthesis,
neurotransmitters, and neurogenesis in our daily creative work of building a
better brain.
Creative Replay and Re-synthesis
is the Essence of Psychotherapy
Replaying the 4-stage creative
process for the re-synthesis of experience is the fundamental dynamic of
psychotherapy and the healing arts (refer alternative holistic Laceweb Process way above). Our
emerging models of creativity, optimal performance, stress, and healing engage
Darwinian variation and conscious selection on all levels from mind to gene in
the natural ultradian flow of human experiencing. Immediate
early genes, behavioural state-related, and activity-dependent gene expression
are bridges between body, brain, and mind that can be accessed to facilitate
the creative replays of therapeutic hypnosis, psychotherapy, and the holistic
healing arts.
Individual
Response-Ability and Ethical Self-Realization
Although it is generally recognized that we are all 99.9% alike in our
genetic legacy, it is still not generally understood that there are at least
three million small variations in our genes — called single nucleotide polymorphisms — that are expressed in our individuality. This implies that we all have a profoundly
unique psychogenomic entitlement for the personal perceptions, potentials, and
problems that we alone can recognize and realize as our ultimate
response-ability. Of necessity, each person is responsible for the
facilitation his or her unique psychogenomic endowment. Parents and teachers may help us find paths,
but ultimately only we alone can know when we are really okay in our quests for
ethical self-realization — the mindful integration of our personal
psychogenomic potentials with those of society and culture.
Social
and Cultural Response-Ability
The ultimate gifts of art, music, dance, and the humanities are their
evocative effects on gene expression, neurogenesis, and healing in the co-evolution
of consciousness and culture. Play, imagination, fantasy, and dreams are all
natural exploratory efforts in the creative replay and re-synthesis of life
experiences on all levels. Gaia, gene, individual, and society co-create each
other in the self-reflective replays of the ever-emergent dynamics of
becoming. The ultimate response-ability of leadership on all
levels is to facilitate this natural evolution of the goals, philosophies, and
ethics of life.
Positive
Psychology and the New Decade of Behaviour
Experiences of creativity, happiness, humour, uplifting surprise, awe,
and that special spiritual sense of the numinousum—fascination, mysteriousness, and
the tremendous—are all
associated with immediate early, behavioural state-related,
and activity-dependent gene expression, neurogenesis, healing, and
self-realization. The ethical challenge is to discover new research
methods for the deepening exploration and the practical implementation of these
insights for the rediscovery and recreation of human nature. Let’s all go for it!
Some Micro-process Options for Holistic
Functional Integrating:
For details on using these refer:
o Natural Living Processes
Lexicon
Also
refer the literature on the
work of Dr Milton Erickson, with Hanlon’s 1987 book Taproots:
Underlying Principles of Milton Erickson's Therapy and Hypnosis being a
good place to start.
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Ambiguity
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Apposition of
opposites
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Casual, Happy,
Playful Attitude and Approach
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Fail-Safe
Alternatives Covering All Possibilities of Response
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Hitchhiking
Suggestions onto Ongoing Behaviour
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Humour
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Ideodynamic
Hand, Finger and Head Signalling
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Metaphor
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Open-Ended
Questions that the consciousness cannot easily answer
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Private Inner
Work
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Recall, Replay,
Reframe, and Re-Synthesize
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Therapeutic Double
Binds
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Therapeutic
Dissociations
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Time-Binding and
Incomplete Sentences – Wisdom Fragments
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Two or More
Levels of Functioning
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‘Um-humm’ in Many Ways
o Uncompleted Sentence Stems and Dangling
Phrases ‘…until…’ to build time-binding expectation
o Yo-Yoing Consciousness
o Experience Inducing Anecdotes, Humour, Questions, Secrets, Whispers, and Ambiguity
o Courage to Explore and Stay with the Process
o Creative Edge Between Voluntary and Involuntary
o Dissociated Behaviour
o Creative Uncertainty of Therapist and Patient
o Incubation for Facilitating Natural Variation and Selection
o Metaphorical Questions
o Metaphorical Sensory-Perceptual-Movement Wisdom of the Implicate Body
o Not knowing Questions
o Novelty-Numinosum-Neurogenesis Healing Path
o Playful Games about Not Knowing
o Privacy and creative choice
o Questions Evoking Experience and Activity-dependent Exploring
o Segmentalized Trance
o Swearing Humorously With (Not At!)
o Symptom Scaling
o Ultradian Mindbody Sensitivity and Messages
o Utilizing the Patient’s own Words and Worldview
o Weird, Unusual, Odd, Strange, Bizarre, Scary, but Interesting Experiences
For examples of using these micro-processes refer Coming to One’s Senses – By the Way.
Also refer: