M.I.A.S. BULLETIN - A COMMUNICATION FROM THE MONROE INSTITUTE OF APPLIED SCIENCES

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• Publication Date: January 1, 1983
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M.I.A.S. BULLETIN
A COMMUNICATION FROM THE MONROE INSTITUTE OF APPLIED SCIENCES
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The following is a portion of a
report from one Institute research as-
sociate, Psychiatrist Stuart Twetnlow:
"In our studies of the effect of
the Monroe Tape system on brain waves,
we have found that the tapes encourage
the focusing of brain energy(it can be
measured as with a light bulb, in watts)
into a narrower and narrower "frequency
band". This focusing of energy is not
unlike the yoga concept of one pointed-
ness, which we may translate in Western
terms as single-mindedness. As Focus 10
counts down, there is a gradual increase
in brain-wave size, which is a measure
of brain energy or power.
"Although the significance of this
is not clear, it could be speculated that
the tape system encourages the recruit-
ment of neurons in the brain to focus their
attention on a single task, whether that
be to reduce tension on the muscles, to
improve sleeping, or control pain".
"I'll describe three situations where
we have applied the Monroe tapes with un-
usually striking results. ,The types of
patients with whom the tapes have
been tried, generally speaking,have been
chronic that is, have had their problem
for long periods of time".
"One such case was a middle-aged lady
who had severe pain resulting from problems
in the healing of an old fracture. In
combining the tapes with a structured hos-
pital milieu, we determined that as she
began to.relax the parts of her body which
had not been relaxed, were those pains
connected with psychological problems for
i,Aiich the pain was serving the function
of "secondary gains". That is, the pain
"As we were able to deal with
this, she began to feel in control of
her life and her need to keep the pain
decreased. After. discharge from the hos-
pital, this patient has continued to be
almost unrecognizable physically. She
looks a great deal younger than she did
before, she has her pain under control
and does not need any physical support
for it. Most strikingly, other parts
of her life from which she had been
very withdrawn, have now become a
source of gratification to her".
"The next case concerns a middle-
aged man with a very long history of
psychosomatic problems affecting prac-
tically every organ in his body. A
psychological investigation found many
of these symptoms related to some sev-
ere surgical trauma which occured when
he was a young child. In this case.we
combined the tape exercises, especially.
the Focus 10 exercise with the sorts of
stimuli in his enviroment that would
make him very anxious,that is, the sti-
muli that reminded-him of the surgical
trauma as a child. Over a period of
weeks we exposed him,both to the Focus
110 deeply relaxed'state and to the sti-
muli that would make him very anxious
and upset. Gradually he became desen-
sitized to the stimuli and was able to
feel a-lot more in control of. his life".
"...Dying man utilized the tape
system. He also had severe pain which
had been impossible to control with
massive doses of narcotic. Over a per-
iod of weeks, he also acheived control.
Since he died, we've had a communication
from his wife. She stated that he
played the. tapes until he died and the
last week of his life, was ccxnpletely
pain free and at peace".
appeared to help her cope with some of the Our feeling was that both the
psychological stresses in her everyday life experience with acheiving control of
in a sense was kept going because it serv- the part of his body that was painful
ed this adaptive function. and preparing himself for death of his
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and panicky. The control and preparation
made him, therefore, more able to make
peace with the family- so important in
dying people. In fact, as we have notices.
with a number of people who are dying,he
was able to give support to those around
him who will suffer the loss. Coming to
terms with the loss of his own physical
body enabled him to intergrate the re-
mainirig fears he had in this direction.
"Use of the tapes in a clinical set-
ting has pointed out that their effect
on reduction of stress and tense muscles
is startling. As a matter of fact, it
apperars that not only muscles under vol-
untary control but also those under in-
voluntary control (Smooth muscles, such
as the muscles of the bladder) may be re-
laxed with the Focus 10-exercise".
"Patients who are chronic feel very
much out of control of the various symp-
toms they have. As with a number of the
newer therapeutic techniques, giving them
a sense of control has a "snowball" ef-
fect on the control of other symptoms
and aspects of their interpersonal re-
lationships. As they begin to aceive in
other areas resulting from this "snowball"
effect, each small success has areinfor-
cing effect".
can be created by this. For example,
one patient noted that he has had periods
of very high energy in which he finds that.
he is creative, but which represent a
change in his ordinary level of function-
ing to which other people take some time
to adjust. He has noticed, for example,
that he needs fewer hours of sleep at
night and this is ready to start the
day's work a great deal earlier than most
other people ".
"A number of patients w#io have reg-
ularly practiced with the tapes have
found that they've become nab more reflec-
tive.,less physically active, and more
satisfied with quieter sorts of hobbies and
day-to-day activities. Beccudng more in-
wardly turned is a characteristic of
people who learn to utilize sources of
gratification within their c heads
rather than having to constantly turn
to the outside world for gratification".
"it seems that focus 10 is the basic
state which is essential to master before
being able to proceed. Some of our pat-
ients have learned to induce the Focus
10 state to relax their bodies while they
are actively engaged in work; and certain-
1V to relax their bodies in between
some highly stressful day-to-day working
situations. Some patients are now able
to program their sleep, so that they wake
at certain times. A number of them with
insomnia have found themselves sleeping
Very restfully".
"urge patient had noticed that a very
f ow minutes of sleep in Focus 10 seeliied
k uivElent to him, in terms of restful-
r,ess,to many hours of sleep with his nor-
nial sleepinc, pattern. t.
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