532: The Brain and Learning--Cellular Memory

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532 The Brain and Learning--Cellular Memory
Time Aug 8, 345 - 500 PM
Location Governor's B
Presenter Arlene Taylor
Level K-12
Specialty General
Description In our culture learning and memory go hand in glove. There are many forms of memory. Cellular memory involves information-energy stored at the cellular level. This form of memory impacts behaviors at a subconscious level. Have you ever asked yourself, "Why in the world did I do that?" Discusses origins of cellular memory, potential implications, and strategies for achieving positive outcomes.
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PresentsThe Brain and Learning Cellular
Memory
?Arlene Taylor PhD   www.arlenetaylor.org Additio
nal Resources Brain Body Communication   URL
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ndex.htm
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The Way in Which You Learn?Arlene Taylor PhD
Realizations Inc
Is as unique as your brain, which is as unique
as your thumbprint

• Your brains uniqueness
• is influenced by your
• innate brain function in
• at least four key areas

• Learning typically involves expectations
  related
• to memory, which is intrinsic to being
  human

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When Thinking of Memory?Arlene Taylor PhD
Realizations Inc

• Many people tend to think primarily
• of verbal memory

Explicit or declarative - an ability to recall
information at a conscious level and be able to
declare it using words

•   Semantic - deals with factual information
  (e.g., name, age,
• address, phone number, counting,
  birthdate). Is believed to
• be within the capacity of many animals
  (e.g., counting).
•  
• Episodic - deals with autobiographical memory
  (e.g., recall of
• specific personal experiences including
  emotions that were
• present during the event or experience). Is
  thought to be
• characteristic of human beings.

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The Other Type of Memory ?Arlene Taylor PhD
Realizations Inc
Fewer think of non-verbal memory
Implicit or nondeclarative - behavioral,
emotional, and perceptual memories that are
reflected in behaviors more than in what is known
consciously or that can be declared

• Somatosensory (bodily) the organization of
  memory on
• an iconic level (relating to pictures and
  images rather than
• words). Includes somatic sensations,
  behavioral
• enactments, nightmares, and flashbacks
• Cellular a form of information-energy stored
  at a cellular
• level in various parts of the body that is
  immensely
• powerful and impacts every aspect of life

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Cellular Memory ?Arlene Taylor PhD
Realizations Inc
Is stored information energy

• Knowledge and understanding changes over time
• E MC2 (energy equals matter times speed of
  light squared)
• Albert Einstein, 1905
• E I (energy is interchangeable with
  information)
• Paul Pearsall, 1998
• E I M (Energy, information, and matter may
  all be
• interchangeable the
  same quantum stuff)
• 21st Century, field of cardio-energetics

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Energy Production ?Arlene Taylor PhD
Realizations Inc

• All cells contain micro-energy factories
• known as mitochondria
• Their job is to generate energy and
• they burn oxygen in the process
• By products (free radicals) are created in the
  process
• (some are oxygen free radicals)

• CQ10 molecules are the workers within the
• micro-energy factories and they do double
  duty. They are
• The spark of cell energy
• Potent antioxidants that neutralize undesirable
  
• oxygen free radicals

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Free Radicals?Arlene Taylor PhD Realizations
Inc

• Some free radicals are necessary for
• successful molecular interactions
• Some are not needed and/or are
• harmful unless neutralized

Molecule

• Unless neutralized by antioxidants, free
• radicals can accumulate in the body and
•  
• Slow energy production
• Trigger wrinkling of skin
• Accelerate the process of aging
• Kill brain cells
• Contribute most disease and illness (e.g.,
  cancer
• (e.g., cancer is a disease involving cells
  that reproduce
• at an abnormally fast rate because the DNA
  blueprint
• has been altered by free radical damage)

Free Radical
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Everything that Exists has Energy! ?Arlene
Taylor PhD Realizations Inc
Caveats

• Energy contains information
•  
• All cells have energy
•  
• All cells store information-energetic memories
• Molecular interactions are involved in
  cellular memory
• Every molecular interaction in the body is an
  
• information-energetic eventand can create
• cellular memory!

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Donated Cellular Memory?Arlene Taylor PhD
Realizations Inc

• Egg and Sperm - Human beings
• typically start life with two donated live
  cells

• Use development directions that initially come
  these cells,
• complete with genes, chromosomes, and
  information-
• energy (cellular) memories

• Egg and sperm may carry cellular memory
  forward or
• backward for 3-4 generations.
• This may help to explain the reason that
  specific types of
• behaviors (e.g., strengths, weaknesses) and
  disease
• patterns show up rather frequently albeit
  
• inconsistently -- in specific generational
  lines

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Donated Cellular Memory?Arlene Taylor PhD
Realizations Inc

• Transplantation - Donor tissue cells
• carry memories that can be released when
• the tissue cells are placed in a
  recipients body

• Transplant recipients (especially heart, liver,
  and kidney) can
• begin to participate in very specific
  cellular memories from
• the donor - surprisingly accurate dreams
  about the donor
• (e.g., heart transplants) and alteration in
  food tastes or new
• food preferences (e.g., kidney transplants)
• Some cellular memory may be lost when cells are
  removed
• from the body surgically. General anesthesia
  and conscious
• (but likely not subconscious) loss of
  sensation during surgery
• may influence cellular memory, as may
  specific life-saving
• procedures (e.g., cardiopulmonary
  resuscitation).

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Developed Cellular Memory ?Arlene Taylor PhD
Realizations Inc
1. Prenatal experiences - Parts of the
body seem able to hold and express memory
patterns behaviorally (beginning with gestation)

• Fear generated by actual events (trauma, pain)
  or imaginary
• worries in the mothers mind.
•  
• Malnutrition from lack of sufficient amounts of
  food or due
• to poor quality of food
•  
• Substances ingested by the mother during
  pregnancy
• (e.g., caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, drugs)
•  
• Gestational learning (e.g., self-esteem, music
  harmony,
• fear, anxiety, anger, emotional tone)
•  
• Exposure to viruses (envelope proteins bind to
  receptor
• molecules). Some viruses may be connected
  with birth
• defects (e.g., autism, schizophrenia)

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Developed Cellular Memory ?Arlene Taylor PhD
Realizations Inc
2. Life Experiences after birth -
Especially if emotion is involved

• Happy, pleasant, positive, exciting events
•  
• Actual or vicarious types of abuse
•  
• Unhealed woundedness (e.g., emotional and/or
  physical pain of
• childhood) that can trigger overreactions in
  the present
•  
• Unfinished business (e.g., generational)
•  
• Traumas. Note old traumas may be stored in the
  body as
• cellular memory and may be sensed as a color,
  or look like
• shapes or images, especially if experienced
  prior to development
• of spoken language

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Developed Cellular Memory ?Arlene Taylor PhD
Realizations Inc
3. Thinking Patterns - Every cell is aware
of what you think and feel

• Mind over matter - allergies and pain come and
  go, walk across
• live coals without being burned
•  
• Placebo effect - up to 70 of the effects from
  treatment is
• thought to be due to the persons belief in
  the treatment

• Conscious thoughts (perceptions, ideas,
  emotional tone) can
• become chronic due to frequent use, as can
  patterns in the
• subconscious as it interprets information
  from environment
• Alteration in behavior when re-entering a
  familiar system -
• cellular memory stored during an altered
  state may be
• more readily activated in a similar altered
  state (e.g., family
• gatherings, substances, environments)

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Developed Cellular Memory ?Arlene Taylor PhD
Realizations Inc
4. Lifestyle choices - Every cell is aware of
what you do and how you move

• Behaviors and actions can become chronic due to
  frequent use,
• and the patterns can be loaded as cellular
  memories.
• Habitual posture and movement
•  
• Exposure to sound / music (every cell is
  influenced by energy
• reflected in sound waves)

•  
• Mind set (positive or negative) can influence
  the progression of
• disease. Estimates are that over 80 of all
  illness may originate
• in the mind. The subconscious portion of the
  psychosomatic
• network is the source of all psychosomatic
  illness. You Cant
• Afford the Luxury of a Single Negative (Peter
  McWilliams).

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Developed Cellular Memory ?Arlene Taylor PhD
Realizations Inc
5. Lifestyle choices - Every cell is aware
of your response to stressors

• Subconscious memories are particularly likely
  to be formed
• during stressful events because the
  hormones/neurotransmitters
• released make amygdalae more excitable. If
  stress/trauma is
• severe, damage to the hippocampus may result
  in any conscious
• memories being fragmented or incomplete

• Other examples of potential contributors
•  
• Living an unbalanced lifestyle
• Repeated exposure to substances (e.g.,
  caffeine, nicotine,
• alcohol, cocaine, medications, refined
  sugar, chemicals)
•   Ingesting raw seafood
• Chronic or unmanaged pain

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Implications for Everyday Living ?Arlene Taylor
PhD Realizations Inc
1 Behaviors Cellular memory may push
you to repeat behaviors in the present
that were learned in previous environments
(e.g., childhood) even when those
behaviors may be currently undesirable or
inappropriate
Generally, people tend to feel safewhen
they believe themselves competent to
handle basic developmental tasks in each
area of lifecommensurate with their age,
education, experience, maturity levels, and etc.
When people feel unsafe they may develop
reactive behaviors such as phobias. . .
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Implications for Everyday Living ?Arlene Taylor
PhD Realizations Inc
2 Health and wellness Disease-related
stress may be an overwhelm of unprocessed sensory
input at the cellular level (e.g.,
suppressed trauma, undigested emotions, lack of
awareness)
The brain is usually the first body system to
recognize a stressor. It reacts with split-second
timing and can stimulate the stress reaction
for as long as 72 hours after a traumatic
incident. If chronic stress, the brain may be
directing a chronic stress response that can
destroy brain cells.
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Implications for Everyday Living ?Arlene Taylor
PhD Realizations Inc
3 Adaption (living inauthentically)
Forcing yourself to be someone you are not, or
stuffing down who you really are innately, is
incredibly taxing and can shorten your life (by
14-25 years according to some estimates).

4 Relationships Can impacts
relationships via likes and dislikes even
when you are unable to recall reasons
consciously. This can be especially
problematic in areas related to intimacy
and/or sexual activity, especially if traumatic
cellular memory exists from previous
relationships.
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Cellular Memory Theory?Arlene Taylor PhD
Realizations Inc

• May form a basis for understanding
• That a variety of therapeutic modalities have a
• potential to contribute to a healthier and
  more
• functional lifestyle

• That some modalities are more effective with
• specific individuals than with others - as in
  different
• strokes for different folks
• A plethora of therapeutic modalities exist

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Therapeutic Modalities?Arlene Taylor PhD
Realizations Inc

• Visualization (active mental picturing)
• Giving the brain specific pictures to
  follow has
• been found to be helpful and effective in
• creating and sustaining long-term change.

• Affirmation (a positive-mindset communication
  style)
• Affirmation is the minds preferred
  programming
• language. It can be perceived by all three
  brain layers and
• is the most effective way to program the
  subconscious
• mind.

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Therapeutic Modalities, Contd?Arlene Taylor PhD
Realizations Inc

• Energy Medicine
• Changes in the life force of the body
  (e.g., electric and
• electromagnet) can promote healing. Energy
  medicine
• includes light therapy, acupuncture,
  acupressure, touch and
• movement therapies, cranial-sacral work,
  spiritual healing,
• therapeutic massage, neuromuscular
  reprogramming), music

• Homeopathy (may be a form of energy medicine)
• Exogenous information substances provided
  by the
• homeopathy practitioner are designed to
  attach to receptor
• molecules in the brain/body and provide
  instructions to
• the cells toward healing.

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Therapeutic Modalities, contd?Arlene Taylor PhD
Realizations Inc

• Music therapy
• Every cell in the body registers and is
  influenced by the
• energy reflected in sound waves. Sound
  vibrations that
• strike the skin as well as those that
  enter the ear impact
• cellular memory. The natural acoustical
  ability of cells
• allows them to remember the tones of ones
  life.

Different types of evocative and emotional music
have been found to stimulate receptor molecules
on cell surfaces into a dynamic vibrational
state, unstick tissue and free up the flow of
information, synchronize specific neuronal
fields, and trigger specific emotional states.
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Therapeutic Modalities?Arlene Taylor PhD
Realizations Inc

• Meditation (prayer is a form of meditation)
• Trying to prevent information from moving
  up into
• conscious awareness requires a great deal
  of energy.
• Meditation can help to dissipate
  repressed information
• and thus release energy.

• Honing ones Spirituality
• A pervading sense of inspiration and a
  personal vision about
• what has personal meaning in life can
  contribute to an
• energetic sense of wellness. This may
  include one
• connection with a Higher Power as well as
  meaningful rituals
• (e.g., religious, spiritual, traditional,
  social, educational).

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Therapeutic Modalities?Arlene Taylor PhD
Realizations Inc

• Recovery work
• Memories stored in the psychosomatic
  network extending
• into the body can sometimes be made
  conscious (e.g., abuse
• recovery, grief recovery, family-of-origin
  work). You can
• manage what you can bring to conscious
  awareness.

There is a close relationship between emotions
and memory. Learned patterns include the
information plus the emotions that were
experienced while the learning took place. If
pain and fear were present, for example, the
individual may be reluctant to recall the
information in later years to avoid remembering
the pain and fear. Thus, both recall and
learning can be impaired.
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Predictions ?Arlene Taylor PhD Realizations
Inc
Researchers have predicted that
high-level-wellness living in the 21st century
will begin to revolve more around prevention than
around the diagnosis of illness and its treatment
with prescription drugs.
Prevention strategies will take into account
cellular memory in ways never before understood
and/or in ways never before seen on such a large
scale.
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Prevention Strategies?Arlene Taylor PhD
Realizations Inc
Will likely address specific behaviors that have
been shown to impact cellular memory positively

• Affirmation
• Visualization
• Meditation (prayer)

Create your own cellular memory recovery and/or
prevention program -- NOW!
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Speaker Information
If you ask Arlene Taylor what she does in life
that absolutely energizes her, she will likely
reply, Im a brain-function specialist and I
help people thrive! She incorporates
cutting-edge brain-function research into her
empowering seminars, highlighting strategies
that, when practically applied, can help people
be more successful?by design.
A recipient of the American Medal of Honor for
Brain-Function Education (American Biographical
Institute Inc, 2002), Taylor holds earned
doctorates in Health and Human Services and in
Clinical Pastoral Counseling. In 1989 the Loma
Linda University Nursing Alumni Association
selected Taylor as Alumna of the year. She has
life membership in the National Registry of Whos
Who, 2000 edition. A member of the National
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