Beyond Mindfulness

The Science and Practice of
Inshifting

Copyright © SatoriWest
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Borrowed from Buddhism

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Incorporated into psychology treatments

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Extensively researched


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6-8 Weeks of Regular Practice

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Reduces rumination- meaning it helps you stop
chewing over your problems and making yourself
sick.

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Reduces stress, depression, anxiety and physical
distress.

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It lifts and gives you more stable moods.


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Improved memory and focus and information
processing speed.

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More cognitive flexibility- meaning you can think
more creatively and get unstuck from habits of
thinking and behavior.

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The better you are at being aware, the more
predictive it is of relationship satisfaction.


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Improved ability to be in relationships, deal
with better communication, better at
expressing yourself in a variety of social
situations.

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Improves self-insight, morality and intuition.

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Physically, it can improve your health, raise
your immunity and give you a greater sense of
physical wellbeing.

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Mindfulness taken to advanced stages.

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A method of brain training that shows your brain how
to know or ”see” itself—which is a miraculous
experience.

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Self-development leading to fulfillment of your
highest human potential.

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(Inshifting uses “awareness” instead of “mindfulness”
because “mind” is defined as thoughts, ideas,
images, sense of self and sense of time, etc.)

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There are two opposing systems of control
in the brain.
These systems affect how you experience
and what you do.
There is one for the lower brain and one
for the higher brain.

The lower brain
 Uses little to no awareness.
 Uses automatic/instinctual/autopilot
mechanisms to control
What you pay attention to
How you “see” (experience) things,
What you do
How you think/what you believe.

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The higher brain
 Uses awareness to:
know what it happening around and
inside you.
To know itself (“self-”/reflective
awareness)
 Consciously guides and directs:
What you pay attention to
How you “see” (experience) things,
What you do
How you think/what you believe.

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These two regulatory systems compete with each
other.
Higher brain
Lower brain


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They compete with each other for control over what
you experience, believe and do.
Lower brain

What you experience,
believe, do


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Higher brain

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What and how you experience, believe and do is a
collection of different schemata.

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One schema:

Stimulus triggering response
Stimulus of:
•Senses,
•Body information,
•Mind activity
•Physical actions.

Responses:
•Senses,
•Body information,
•Mind activity
•Physical actions.


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Schema

S-R

Stimulus triggering response
Seeing fruit

Hunger

Hunger

Thoughts of food

Being on a bicycle

Pedaling

Angry face

Fear

Sad emotions

Negative thoughts

Flash of light

Eye blink


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The response of one schema is the stimulus for
another.
Schemata cluster in groups creating:
•Skills, talents,
•Attitudes, beliefs,
•Habits in the way you experience
•Memories, your identity
•etc.

Like a cartoon in a flip book,
the flow of schemata creates
“you!”

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Each side competes for control over each schema
and the flow of schemata.
Higher brain
Lower brain


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Lower brain control : (Stimulus triggers response) has
the advantage with ingrained instincts, repetition of
habits, schema with survival value.
Higher brain
Lower brain


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Higher brain control: Stimulus met with
awareness/control/Intention shaping responses.
Higher brain has an advantage when s marter responses
need awareness of now/ context/ perspective/choice of
schemata.
Lower brain

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Higher brain

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It depends
on…

Energy put into
awareness
(attention) and
conscious control
(intention).

Strength of
the trigger or
of the schema
Schema

Higher brain

Lower brain


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Habit, instinct, impulse usually win.
Higher brain
Lower brain

Inshifting skills: helps tilt the see-saw in this
direction more of the time. (Depending on the
schema being processed.)
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Lower brain
Higher brain

People’s style of processing their
schemata depends on their Inshifting
skills and the nature of the schemata
with which they are programmed.
There are 4 levels of experience and
functioning that reflect states and
Lower brain
Higher brain
traits of functioning.

1

2

3

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4

Lower brain

Higher brain
Schema

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Amount of automaticity and schema
control

Level 4

Amount of awareness and conscious
controlled

Examples:

Superstitious Stuck in habits Logical Resisting habits
Delirium
Coma
Automatic driving
Stuck identity
Focused

Intuitive
Self-aware

Awakened

Where is the higher and lower
brain?

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Higher Brain
Understanding the higher brain begins with this fact:
You have two separate brains!
Right half

Left half


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Higher Brain
Our model is that simple awareness and basic
control for each side of your brain arises from…
Right half

Left half
Frontal lobes

Parietal lobes

…a unique interaction between executive cells
(E) in each frontal lobe directly attached to
and resonating back and forth with
multisensory cells (S) Copyright © SatoriWest 11/10/13
in each posterior

Higher Brain
Our model is that self-awareness and executive
control arise from…
Right half

Left half


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Lower brain
The rest of the brain (the rest of the cortex and below) make
up the lower brain...
Right half

Left half

Organized by schema connections
(memory quanta) between senses, body,
mind and actions. Copyright © SatoriWest 11/10/13

Learning to selectively stimulate the 4 groups of cells (2 left and 2 right) and
the connections between them….(ie self-awareness and executive control)

Right half

Left half

While releasing the power and control of the rest of the
brain (i.e. separating schemata connections with
awareness and control).

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Heightened awareness / selfawareness and intention
/executive control.

Released, let go, defocused (put in
background) “automatic” interactions
between senses, body states, mind
and actions.


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Are there tools or
reference points that you
can use to Inshift?


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Find your inner eye!

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What is your reality…right
now?
Does it go any higher?

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Higher
Brain Area Dominance
Lower
Low

Levels of Reality

High
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 Awakened
 Ordinary
 Daydreaming
 Willingly

suspended

 Something

wrong in the brain

 Dreaming/Nightmare


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Physical
inshifitng

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Ps
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Higher Brain

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Lower Brain
Cultural
inshifitng

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I.

Get energized / alert

Released / relaxed

II.

Concentrate energy
and awareness behind eyes

Soften attention /
Loosen control

Move energy & awareness
of back outside normal you

Sense vivid, unreal reality
senses-body-mind /
Find inner strength

Find energy of & become inner
you”
silence and stillness

Sense independent “outer

Realize aliveness

Allow spontaneity

I.

III.

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Find higher control

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Physical
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Lower Brain
Cultural
inshifitng

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Physical Inshifting ………………………… Natural High and Well

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Psychological Inshifting …………………

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Social Inshifting……………………………. Empathy & Connection

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Cultural Inshifting…………………………. Order & Acceptance

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Moral Inshifting…………………………….. Values, Principles, Purpose

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Traditionally Spiritual Inshifting………..


Self-Awareness & -Control

Amazement & Gratitude

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 Physical inshifting:
 Meds
 Natural remedies
 Health: Diet, Exercise, Yoga, Fasting

 Psychological inshifting :
 Self-learning paradigms
 Psychotherapy
 Self-assessment

 Social inshifting :
 Learning interdependence skills,
 Building empowering networks

 Cultural inshifting :
 Financial Order
 Home and Life Order
 Disaster Planning

 Moral inshifting :
 Clarify values,
 LifeAwakening Plan: purpose, principles

 Traditionally spiritual inshifting :
 Mindfulness meditation, Religion
 Gratitude, apology repentance and amends, art and beauty,


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• Beyond Illness Focus total recovery resilience and wellness
• Hope

abnormal to spiritual

• Empowerment Potential of psychiatric struggle
• Normalcy Everyone struggles


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Awakening

Wellness
Cosmic Consciousness
Meditation / Yoga

Neurofeedback
Heaven within
Enlightenment
Medication/Naturopathics

Psychotherapy
Paradise on Earth
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