THE VISION
Out of what vision did NeuroTherapy Training evolve?
In the late 1970s, as the team of Henry Snyder and Marilyn Michael out of Seattle, Washington began developing NeuroTherapy Training they were clearly aware of the paradigm shift occurring in the systems of society. Systems built on older knowledge or ways of thinking needed to evolve.
Throughout this century, the field of psychology has gone through changes from analytical to behavioral to cognitive ways of helping people. But the underlying system was still built on making change through thought and understanding. However, the neurological sciences were showing that at the basis of individual thoughts were physical and chemical processes. There is a physiology of thought and emotion.
Reflecting a critical component of the larger shift in knowledge about ' why we are as we are ', NeuroTherapy Training moved from focusing on the structure of peoples emotional lives to a focus on the physical and chemical processes underlying emotion. Utilizing modern mental training methods, NeuroTherapy Training focuses on potentials of the state of mind going beyond symptom-based methods such as hypnotherapy which merely employ application of suggestion or directed visualization regarding specific areas or stimuli in a person's life.
NeuroTherapy Training evolved as a way of using a concentrated state of mind that helps people better manage the process or physiology of emotion. It does not merely focus on individual emotional stimuli. It offers a way of training people using neurological tools, new ways of stimulating the hardware of the brain to respond in a manner that sustains healthier states of mind and body thus, healthier feelings and behaviors. But--it goes beyond. In this time in history when it has become clear that states of mind affect states of body, it offers people a scientifically based way to play a more active mental role in the healing picture.
