If you’ve been experiencing “twisted intuition” – that is, your sense of things or your “inner voice” or “inner guidance” seems to be off or too often incorrect – maybe it’s time to reprogram.

Researchers at Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at the University College London have managed to image the brain while it processes subconscious subliminal cues. This is important because it demonstrates for the first time how our brain processes subconscious information. We often think of such information as intuition or inspiration from some external source when instead, it seems we develop these “signals” from within.

Dr. Mathias Pessiglione, lead researcher concludes, “We conclude that, even without conscious processing of contextual cues, our brain can learn their reward value and use them to provide a bias on decision making.”

Decision bias?

I think I read that correctly. And just what is a decision bias? It could be thought of as that “still small voice” from your intuition that many think of as their “higher self” or even God. It is that “sense” we get when one choice “feels better” than another although we don’t know why.

My thought about this phenomenon is that we learn many life-important lessons BEFORE we develop reasoning circuitry in our brains. That period of development we call infancy is also when we connect reward with context – the basis of decision bias. This could easily explain why some people feel inspired by a piece of music while another person is totally turned off by it. Context cues that trigger to reward – leading to a decision bias.

What happens when infancy is traumatic? What happens when contextual cues that would normally lead to reward (feelings of comfort and security) instead lead to pain and social exclusion? Or how about cues that would normally lead to pain and social exclusion instead lead to pleasure? What happens to later decision biases? I think it is obvious.

If you’ve been experiencing “twisted intuition” – that is, your sense of things or your “inner voice” or “inner guidance” seems to be off or too often incorrect – maybe it’s time to reprogram. By reprogram, I mean, release the old subliminal programming and instal new. If the old programming is left in place, any new programming will be based upon the old decision bias. In other words, the previous bias will affect any new programming – making it nearly impossible to create a new underlying belief if it significantly differs from the previous one. You cannot place a new coat of paint over an old one and expect the new coat to stick to the wood underneath the old paint layer. You must first remove the old paint – and maybe even apply a primer coat to help the new paint coat stick better.

This is one reason I like Rapid Eye Technology (RET). RET works at a subconscious, subliminal level to first RELEASE old programming and then install NEW programming developed by the client – “What do you want instead?” This technique avoids the problems associated with the previous decision bias by releasing it first. I think the advantage is obvious.