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THE
LINK BETWEEN THEM IS ONLY
OCCASIONALLY BRAIN DAMAGE.
EVERY
TYPE OF PHYSICAL TRAUMA
(and
some mental) IS A
ROOT CAUSE OF
DEMENTIA - WHICH CAN BE AVOIDED
AND PREVENTED, ONCE THE
TOTAL
CAUSE IS WELL KNOWN &TACKLED
EARLY & APPROPRIATELY
ENOUGH.
The
records of earlier human existence, when the average life span of men
and women was under 40 years, report nothing about "Dementia",
which is not mentioned until the early 1900's, when life expectancy
had started to regularly exceed three score years and ten - i.e. 70
plus years.
Insofar
as life's activities on this planet depend on the physical existence
of our bodies, from the moment of conception, the tiny new body under
production in its mother's womb is protected by what Freud described,
a trifle inaccurately, as the "unconscious" mind, a
stimulus-response mental mechanism which records a lifelong history
of injuries to the developing body, PLUS - for future reference
and usage - a matching history of exactly how each injury
incident was handled and how continuing survival of the body
was thus achieved.
Unlike
other flesh and blood, brain and "unconscious mind"
equipped Earth species, a human being is demonstrably additionally
provided with an Analytical Mind Function, plus what has become known
over the centuries as the "Soul" or if you like as the
Chief Executive Officer - i.e. the spiritual being or person
"owning", in charge of and directing the destinies of each
human body.
Because
nature's Genetic Entity (which is responsible for the implementation
of the DNA genetic codes and genome pattern) is concerned solely
with THE PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES & PRESERVATION OF
THE DEVELOPING BODY (without which neither the body nor
the Soul can survive on Earth) - in physical emergencies,
nature chooses to assign control of the whole organism to the
stimulus-response "unconscious mind" mental mechanism
capable of automatically "reacting" to injurious
emergencies and / or threats thereof on the basis of that
Reactive Mind's earlier recorded survival experiences.
In
addition to extra years of life, what longer survival has brought to
us is an increasing
number of incidents in life comprised of pain, injury, impact, shock,
attempted abortions, burning, genital mutilation of young males and
females, scalding, breaking, threat, unconsciousness, toothache,
headache, drug attack, morning sickness, drunkenness, accidents,
sprains, bruises, poisonings, scratches, stabbings, falls and a
further wide variety of other physical injury, PLUS - because of the
protective workings of the reactive mind - an increasing number of
re-triggerings of earlier "was-hurt-but-survived" actions
when earlier past time records are again brought into play by stimuli
in the environment.
The
Reactive Mind has the power to switch off the Analytical Mind plus
the executive Soul (producing the state known as
semi or full unconsciousness) in order to allow the
Reactive Mind to get on with what it is programmed to recognise as
its body saving duty based on its earlier recorded survival records.
Therefore,
as the quantity of physical injuries builds
up over the years, so the likelihood of reactive mind
restimulation by the environment increases along with takeover of
control of the whole organism, and reduction of that human from a
fully aware "in the here and now" logical being, to a
stimulus-response automaton mainly operating on earlier past time
physical injury data instead of on the up-to-date rationality of
present time perceptions.
Which
is why, in such dementia episodes, we
find the affected individual confused, illogical and uncertain about
persona, places and events.
This is
basically a question of the QUANTITY of painful and threatening
incidents continuously being added to the Reactive Mind, resulting in
more and more Reactive Mind activity AND more and more shutting down
of the Analytical Mind and the controlling Soul. As a result, whilst
at 40 years of age there is insufficient irrational Reactive Mind
activity to be noticeable by others (plus the fact that its
content does on many occasions work as nature intended) it is
only when reactive activity starts to be present more often
than analytical activity, that others start to be aware of the
demented person's problem.
Investigation
reveals various ways of combatting this increasing descent into more
and more reactivity and the confusion, uncertainty and illogical
attitudes it engenders.
The
basic problem is that the contents of the Reactive Mind & the
increasing re-stimulative factors in the individual's environment
push the individual's attention out of Present Time, and into
"no-longer-with-us" past time distressing events.
Attempting
to handle the demented individual "subjectively" tends to
interiorise them into their reactive recordings, whilst dosing them
with a drug prescription (because most drugs are to a greater or
lesser degree toxic) normally serves to accelerate the onset of
demented episodes simply because the drugs are essentially yet
another attack upon the body.
It
follows that handling the individual "objectively" in terms
of their environment and the body, plus especially taking steps to
reduce the content of the Reactive Mind, are fruitful directions in
which to proceed as early as possible.
However,
before going further into avoidance and prevention methodology, it is
hoped that the following diagram will help a fuller understanding of
the demented state and its development.
BAR-CHART
NOTIONALLY REPRESENTING
DAILY
AVERAGE LIFELONG REACTIVE ACTIVITY (R)
- versus -
DAILY
AVERAGE LIFELONG ANALYTICAL ACTIVITY (A)
9
| decade | decade | decade | decade | decade | decade | decade | decade | decade
mth | 0 -
10 | 10 – 20 | 20 – 30 | 30 - 40 | 40
- 50 | 50 - 60 | 60 - 70 | 70 - 80 | 80
-90
preg
| years | years | years | years
| years | years | years | years
| years
| R | R |
A
|
R
|
A
|
R
|
A
|
R
|
A
|
R
|
A
|
R
|
A
|
R
|
A
|
R
|
A
|
R
|
A
|
Periods
of Reactive ACTIVITY (shown in Black) INCREASE in line with
expanding Reactive Mind CONTENT, as more and more
painful anti-survival incidents occur and accrue.
Periods
of Analytical Activity (shown in Grey) DECREASE BECAUSE OF
increasing Reactive Mind Activity, which can partly or
totally shut down the Analytical Function.
N.B.
Symptoms of Dementia can start appearing at any age, but
usually from 50 years on.
The
pain motivated increase in Reactive Mind CONTENT is NOT on a smooth
gradient as shown above, but varies from person to person and from
time to time for each person.
A
huge variety of serious
physical injury is of course capable of occurring
from
conception
onwards, whilst other forms
of major trauma - before and
after birth -
(including
failed abortion, rape, birth, male and
female circumcision)
can at any age
create mental abnormalities
as well as, or
instead of, the purely
physical.
It
will be seen from the above that the demented state itself, in
addition to presenting increasingly irrational and confused behaviour
to family, friends and colleagues, at the same time increasingly
inhibits the subject's own analytical facilities. i.e. the
Dementia suppresses those abilities which make Man superior to
animals, and which would have been capable of handling the
overall problem - if appropriately informed action had been
earlier taken.
In fact,
we are faced with a condition which can often be relieved but seldom
cured, yet for most can likely be avoided or prevented if tackled
early enough.
RECOGNISING
THAT THE BASIC PROBLEM IS:-
that
the contents of the Reactive Mind plus the
increasing number of re-stimulative
factors in the subject's environment are
irresistibly pushing the individual's
attention more and more often out of Present Time and
onto earlier recorded traumatic
events, essentially tells us that:
1) the
restimulative environment should be moved away from the individual or
the individual moved out of the restimulative environment, OR,
2) in
advanced cases, which have NOT been subjected to drugging or any
other so-called psychiatric "treatment", we can show
you how to apply "objective" exercises or assists intended
to bring the individual back into Present Time and to maintain them
therein, OR,
3) in
the case of those younger subjects who are yet to exhibit Dementia
symptoms, we can use 67 year proven counselling techniques to reduce
- or better still - empty the content of the Reactive Mind, and hand
it's protective function over to the subject's own much superior
Analytical Mind.
In
fact the third alternative above is what the 90 year old author of
this blog did 44 years ago - as have also done various other
individuals in the same age group and who also consequently also show
no signs of Dementia today.
If you
want to know more, may I respectfully suggest that you buy my book:
"WHAT IS DEMENTIA? What Causes It, and HOW TO AVOID AND
PREVENT IT !"
It is
ISBN Number: 978-0-9933283-3-6 @ £4.99 +
postage and packing £2.00 (total £6.99), and
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______________________________________
Kenneth
Eckersley at: S.A.F.E.
keneck@btinternet.com
the
Society
for an Addiction
Free
Existence
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