{"id":1296,"date":"2020-02-22T11:59:28","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T11:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jungian.co.za\/?p=1296"},"modified":"2023-01-19T10:03:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T10:03:55","slug":"memory-reconsolidation-the-e-r-a-s-e-d-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jungian.co.za\/?p=1296","title":{"rendered":"Memory Reconsolidation \u2013 Rapid Somatic Emotion Regulation: The E.R.A.S.E.D. Process"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Bringing ability into accord with objectives is to bring ones ability into accord with one\u2019s intentions, purpose, goal or aim and refers to what one wants or is motivated to do or achieve, signifying a course of action one proposes to follow (American Heritage\u00ae Dictionary of the English Language, 2016).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an extraordinary feat of competition and cooperation in humans, the conscious, aware mind and the faculty of attention, as dynamics of an innate neuroplastic system that changes orientation, can combine to erase obsolete and defeating learnings and replace them with new knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This\nis achieved by means of a process developed by Leslie Zimmermann designated as\n“The E.R.A.S.E.D Process” a name that encapsulates both the protocol\nand its desired outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When\nan embedded negative learning is triggered – along with all its attendant disruptive\nemotions and a concomitant deep, unfulfilled yearning to be liberated from its\ndebilitating effects – it will typically generate the same old responses and a\nresultant acting out of a repetitive and unchanging tale over a lifetime. It is\nclear that much is at stake and much is to be gained if this type of learning\nis finally to be overcome by a new reality, by the creation of a new, more\nconstructive script.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This\nprocess acts efficiently, quickly and in the moment, in order to modify and\nsupplant old learnings with new and beneficial knowledge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This\nprocess concerns memory reconsolidation, a function that has been adapted from\nlaboratory research for psychotherapeutic use. It has engendered considerable\nexcitement in the therapeutic world because of its efficacy with patients. This\nhas in turn motivated the development of numerous varieties of reconsolidation\nprocesses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\ncapacity of neuroplastic adaptation of the brain in order to reconsolidate old\nlearnings and update them with new knowledge has existed for millennia. It functions successfully for\nboth animals and humans. Although its governing principles were only finally\nunderstood in 2004, organisms needed to experience reconsolidation frequently\nenough during the long period of this facility’s development and its\nmaintenance, for it to be selected. But understanding the governing principles\nmeans that it can now be purposefully applied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organisms\nwith minds possess the advantage of being able to deliberately create ways and\nmeans to regulate their lives, maintain homeostasis and thus further their\nsurvival. In addition, humans have not only creatively evolved many cultural\ninstruments that help to establish and support such a state but are also able\nto take survival to another level by developing ways of thriving and creating\nand living a good life. The capacity that enables this in individuals is a\nconscious, aware mind that can represent mental feelings of what the organism\nis experiencing. These feelings are subjectively felt and matter to the\nindividual, and thus guide and enable deliberate behaviour.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The principle driver behind the E.R.A.S.E.D.\nProcess is the capacity to change orientation by means of a sequence of\nspecific steps powered by the mind and valence, and the operation of attention,\nwhich harnesses the force of erasing old learnings and replacing them with new\nknowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The problems that hinder the reconsolidation\nsystem, and which need to be overcome, are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. That which an\nindividual learns from the time of birth needs to function for life. This means\nthese learnings are stored in long-term memory and then act automatically. <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n