Mapping Our Thoughts

by John Veltheim

When observing people with particular talents in various areas of mental focus, we discover people who seem to instinctively find a particular spot in the mind that enables them to function at a premium for the particular activity they are doing.

There is a tendency to think that the mind just acts as one total integrated unit when performing various advanced functions. Actually, there are very specific areas of the mind and body which are ‘Energy Control Centers’ that activate a string of neurological and energic activity enabling the body/mind to function at a premium.

For example, when we want to recall something in a simple format such as an object like a banana, there is an area in the left frontal lobe of the brain which is activated for this function. If we have problems with the recall, our body will instinctively look up to the left with the eyes to activate this area more strongly. When we need to recall something more abstract, with associations, such as a purple banana with red dots, we search the right frontal lobe.

This activity should be instinctive in a healthy mind. Unfortunately, healthy minds in our society are rare. In so many activities that are not life threatening, the mind has lost its instinctive ability to focus mental energy to the appropriate areas for the appropriate task. This function is corrupted by the overriding of emotional patterns and belief systems. In the case of the belief systems, they are rigid indoctrinated thought patterns which tell us our many ‘limitations’ as dictated by our environmental conditioning.

The emotional factor intercedes when our ‘performance level’ in the function is monitored by our many emotive performance issues around approval and love. The emotional interference then usurps the normal instinctive functioning of the mind.

Some people manage to override these perceived limitations and still manage to find that ‘spot’ to give them maximum performance. I.e. they still remember the desired information by locating the specific memory spot through raising their eyes in the appropriate direction. People with performance issues around their memory don’t raise their eyes when they need to remember something difficult. Further, if they are tested and asked to roll their eyes to all the points of the clock, they are often unable to roll their eyes to the eleven o’clock or one o’clock regions where the main memory centers for imagination are. (The inability to do this can also be treated with BodyTalk.)

One should mention here that there are numerous functions of the mind which are automatic. These are the functions that keep us going on a day to day basis. The concept being discussed in this article relates to those functions which require a sophisticated level of coordination between the various areas of the brain (central nervous system) and the energy systems.

For the sake of this article I will use the concept that the brain primarily controls the central nervous system and general autonomic functions of the physical. The mind control the energy system in conjunction with the brain. The energy system being a hierarchy of energy systems starting with the chakras moving down to the main meridians of the body.

Mind and brain can function automatically for most of the day to day functions of the body. Once we evolve to the more sophisticated functions of the body, we then bring the active participation of specific levels of consciousness/awareness. These levels of consciousness can be viewed as small vortexes of nerve synapses and energy patterns varying in size from a marble to a golf ball which are functionally located in specific regions of the head and body.

When our thought focus shifts specifically to them, they initiate a control ‘program’ to enable specific specialized functioning of the bodymind complex to perform various important functions. These are usually considered non essential from the perspective of basic survival, but significant for higher and more sophisticated functions.

The degree to which each of us is able to tap into this potential, depends upon the factors which have controlled our life. - I.e. - Genetics and environmental conditioning.

As mentioned earlier, we should be able to tap into these specific consciousnesses instinctively. The fact is, most of us can only fully tap into a few we have been blessed with, or that we have specifically developed. The ability is still there, however, and we can train ourselves to empower those functions and activate them to improve our quality of life.

For example, the person who has memory recall problems can be taught that if they direct their focus of attention to the left or right frontal lobe of the brain and reinforce this by looking up to the appropriate side, they will find that, with perseverance, they will become aware of a subtle energy center about the size of a marble, that will greatly enhance their ability with memory recall. The more they deliberately practice the technique, the more powerful it will become until, eventually, it will be an automatic instinctive function fully integrated into their bodymind system.

In many advanced bodymind control systems, the teacher has a knowledge of the specialized locations of specific consciousness centres relating to the teachers’ specific area of expertise. Part of the teacher’s training is to encourage the student to find these specific areas by endeavoring to perform certain tasks and be mindful of the specific area within the bodymind that is ‘activated’ during the performance of the task.
Once found, an ‘ah-hah’ experience often ‘solidifies’ the experience and the student can then direct his/her focus back to that specific area the next time they want to perform that task with exceptional improvement in the level of achievement.

Sometimes the teacher can decide to speed up the process by telling the student the location of the specific consciousness center so that the student can focus on that area while attempting to perform the task. Eventually the area will be empowered and the student will then be specifically aware of the area and will henceforth be able to utilize it. This second method is considered ‘cheating’ by some purists who are fixed in the rigid belief system that good things only come to those who deserve them through hard work. I don’t subscribe to that belief system and will therefore share with you a few of the major centres for your benefit - should you choose to use them. [PS If you subscribed to the belief that life isn’t meant to be easy, - read no further, cast this article into the file where you store information that enables you to experience life as (yuk) joy, then slog along working at life and live the remnants of joy which emerge after a long struggle.]

The ‘let go’ center.

In our FreeFall seminars, there is a lot of focus on the process of being able to ‘let go’ to the flow of life on all levels. So many of us are struggling to paddle life’s canoe upstream because we simply haven’t found the ability to turn the canoe around and go with the flow. What stops us from instinctively turning the canoe around and finding the Specific Consciousness Center (SCC) is our ego and the arrogant belief system that we are in charge of our lives and have to make the decisions, pull the strings etc. (There are many articles on this web site about that concept.) Probably the best way to get the canoe turned is to digest Advaita philosophy and allow those belief systems to fall away until the instinctive ‘let go’ SCC is automatically found.

Another way is to train yourself to find the ‘let go’ SCC by doing exercises which force you into a situation that you have to fully ‘let go’ in order to achieve a certain result. One such exercise is the technique practiced in the FreeFall workshop which involves having to totally relax all the muscles in your body so that you are like a rag doll. You have people holding each of your arms and legs and slowly moving them through space while you surrender (let go) to the process. (Other stress factors are included in the seminar to increase the impact.) To be able to totally surrender the body without effort requires you to find that ‘let go’ SCC in your bodymind. During the seminar, a number of people find the spot themselves through experimenting with shifting their focus to different areas while they endeavor to do the exercise properly. The ones who are completely successful all find the same spot. Once their focus goes to that spot, their body totally surrenders to the exercise and they ‘let go’ completely. Further, as the mind and body are correlated and codependent, their mind also ‘lets go’ and they find that for a while they have surrendered to the process of life at a level much deeper than ever before. With practice, the technique gets stronger and stronger. As that occurs, the detrimental belief systems I talked about earlier start ‘falling away’ and we find ourselves progressively falling into the process of flowing with life.

In the early stages, old habits come back and the doing/controlling ego takes over. However, whenever we find ourselves in a situation of being tense through the ego action, we simply have to focus back to the ‘let go’ SCC, and the bodymind will suddenly surrender and we start flowing again.

If you can do an exercise that enables you to find the spot for yourself, it will be stronger earlier and more obvious. However, if you are told the spot and focus on it while you are allowing yourself to surrender and let go mentally or physically, you will often start experiencing the SCC as a energy vortex quite quickly.

The center is at the back of the head, just below the most prominent bump and about one inch (2.5 cm) inside, slightly to the right of center. It is about half the size of a golf ball. Once it is established, it is very powerful. By shifting your thought focus to the point and ‘seeing/feeling’ it ‘light up’, you will instantly feel your whole body and mind releasing, letting go and surrendering to life.

The ideal is to develop this as an automatic function that is perpetually operating. In the short term it can be used on demand.

Examples: Find the spot before you start any meditation system; Use it to relax tense muscles, release pain, calm an agitated mind, prepare the mind for intuitive function before you go to the intuitive SCC. (I’m coming to that.)

A practical example. There is a SCC for the primary regulation of blood pressure. This SCC should be automatic in most people but it is often easily overridden by emotional input and stress factors.

The blood pressure SCC is located on the back surface of the ears. (Particularly the left one.) There are small veins there constituting a physical manifestation of the blood pressure SCC. In Chinese medicine, we temporally bring down blood pressure in a crisis situation by bleeding those veins. (Which are engorged in a person with high blood pressure.) By shifting your mental focus to that area at the back of the ear, you will help to quickly regulate your blood pressure. The idea is to do it several times to re-train the automatic function once again. In the meantime it can be used in the short term.

Recently I had a period of great stress with traveling and a virus which caused an elevated temperature and full headaches of the type you get with high blood pressure. I had my blood pressure taken and it was 160/108 which is high for me. I focused my thoughts to my ‘let go’ SCC, then also shifted the focus to incorporate the blood pressure SCC behind the ears. Twenty minutes later, my blood pressure was taken again and it was 138/82. By repeating the exercise daily for a few days, I re-established my automatic system and the blood pressure is perfectly normal.

One of my original Reiki Masters taught students to Reiki the ears to control blood pressure. You now know why it worked!

Gravity SCC

Another important SCC is the one that controls the ability of the body to fight the detrimental effects of gravity. This point is found under the Acupuncture point - GV20. It is the a meeting point that every meridian in the body sends an internal branch to because of its importance. The physical location is right on the top of the head. If you draw a line directly up from the tips of the ears to the very top of the head, it is a small SCC about the size of a marble which has its upper part in the skin and the rest of the vortex ball is through the skull bone and just into the brain.

This uplifting SCC can physically help to draw the body up. Hence it helps any form of prolapse in the body. More importantly, it is associated with a feeling of depressed collapse of life. "Down in the dumps"; "My life is collapsing around me": "I feel as though I am dragging myself through life". All symptoms that this SCC is not operating as part of our automatic regulating system within our consciousness. Further, whenever we want to ‘raise’ our thoughts to ‘higher’ levels of consciousness, this is the SCC we should automatically go to. If we don’t, then our thoughts will not elevate to those concepts. This SCC is also the center that often gives people a ‘spiritual’ feeling of higher consciousness which can be mistaken for spiritual advancement. We will see later that the SCC for true spiritual advancement lies in the right hand side of the chest about one inch (2.5cm) to the right of the sternum. (It is also to the right of the heart chakra which has a different function.)

Very often our thinking (ego) mind located in the frontal lobes of the brain will link to the uplifting SCC to elevate the processing capacity of our thinking mind when we need to think in more complex patterns and systems. This can become a problem when the thinking mind (Ego) spends a bit of time linked to this SCC because it also causes the Ego to identify with this uplifting feeling and interpret it as a spiritual elevation with associated false concepts of grandeur. I.e. The Ego goes on a ‘spiritual’ ego trip because it doesn’t know the difference between higher thinking and true spiritual understanding which can only be found in the big Self SCC in the right chest. (A place where the Ego dares not travel for fear of its disintegration.)

The general mind Map

Generally all the SCC’s located in the front of the head are associated with the thinking mind and therefore form the Ego. This is where we hold our rigid belief systems and Ego support systems. These can often be seen in the way the Ego drops a curtain mask over the face to produce one of the many masks we show the world. Just behind the frontal lobes on the superficial sections of the cortex lie the motor areas of the brain which help control the physical structure of the body. This area lies intimately close to the Ego so that it can project its mask into the physical structure of the body as well.

Immediately behind the frontal (Ego) area in the center of the brain lies the Pituitary area.

Pituitary and Pineal SCC

The Pituitary SCC is an extremely important functional SCC which incorporates the Yang (action) aspect of the yin (intuitive) functions of the mind. This area is the go-between that translates activity between the inner intuitive functions of the bodymind and the outer Ego functions. It controls the hormonal and endocrine systems and is the active component of our intuition. To its front lies the Ego, to the sides are the controls for physical functional holding, and behind it are all the inner areas of deeper intuitive processes.

This SCC links them all. It is the center to shift our focus to when we need coordinate the inner and outer functions of the bodymind. This SCC helps to synthesize the demands of the Ego with our inner intuitive knowing.

Right behind the Pituitary SCC is the Pineal SCC which is on a midpoint drawn straight through the brain from the tips of the ears. This Pineal SCC is the ultimate yin (intuitive) function of the bodymind. It is the yin of the yin whereas the Pituitary is the yang of the yin. The Pituitary is the active component of the intuition while the Pineal is the passive (contemplative) component of the intuition.

In practical terms, we focus on the Pituitary SCC when we want to actively harness our intuition to bring forth a result. E.g. When we want to perform an intuitive function that needs to harness thought processes. This is why the Ego is so often involved with applied intuition because the function of the Pituitary is intimately connected with the Yang frontal (Ego) lobe.

The Pineal SCC is used when we want to eliminate the thinking mind and allow contemplation of a deeper sort to occur to synthesize and integrate something at a deep ‘knowing’ level. It is also often referred to as our passive antennae which receives ‘higher’ information from the rest of the world.

Ultimately, at some stage it is necessary for the Yang thought and the Yin integration to communicate and fuse. This is when we focus on the Pituitary SCC and the Pineal SCC at the same time, which is harder than you think and is one of the great goals of advanced metaphysical studies. When this occurs, this more profound integrated knowledge is ready to make a decent down the internal duct to the heart SCC.(Which has many names according to the school of thought.) At the heart SCC the integrated knowledge is translated to awareness and becomes part of the ‘shen’ (spiritual understanding and directive) of the heart which is the specific consciousness that constitutes the higher spiritual awareness of the small self of the individual. It is like the army general of the energy systems.

The heart SCC is located in the upper section of the physical heart. It is not in the Heart Chakra which is in the center of the body in front of the spine and has different functions again although along a similar line to the Heart SCC.

[The seven major Chakras have to process their stuff thought the Pineal and Pituitary SCC’s first before they can descend into the Heart SCC consciousness. Therefore anything processed in the Heart Chakra can’t go directly into the Heart SCC even though it is very close. The process has to go up the kundalini to the Pituitary and Pineal SCC’s and then descend to the Heart SCC. This is why there is such importance placed upon the development of moving the kundalini energy up the spine.

We therefore focus on the Heart SCC when we want to strengthen our awareness of the world at the purist level, and assimilate the fruits of our deeper intuitive knowledge gained in the mind. The integrated knowledge won’t descend to the heart SCC unless the Heart SCC is ready, willing and able to receive it. Hence the need to ‘open our hearts’ or else the fruits of our learning and intuition will become stagnant in the brain and create frustration and detachment from life.

I AM - THAT

As mentioned earlier, there is the major SCC located about one inch to the right of the sternum. This could be described as the ‘I am’ SCC. The concept being that the only true reality is our sentient feeling of existence. The inner awareness that we exist and are alive is the concept - I am. This concept is deeply experienced in the ‘I am’ SCC. This is often seen in a person wanting to strongly assert themselves in presence by thumping their chest. (Nobody ever thumps their head when saying emphatically "I want it".) This SCC contains the highest level of spiritual consciousness in the bodymind. It is the linkage point to the universal ‘I AM’.

Beyond the ‘I am’ is the formation of the illusion of the Ego. THAT which exists separately to the ‘I am’. This is the ‘I am John or Jane’. This feeling of separateness which constitutes the Ego, resides in the heart SCC.

Both concepts are located in the chest - side by side. ‘I am’ in the right chest and THAT (John or Sue) in the left chest.

There are dozens of SCC’s all with specific functions located throughout the bodymind. The above has been a brief introduction which I hope will whet your appetite and give you something to reflect on.

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