= ~~ ——~Approved For-Retease-200. ; “004 = M.1.A.S. BULLETIN A COMMUNICATION FROM THE MONROE INSTITUTE OF APPLIED SCIENCES : "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 we have found that the tapes encourage tooks a great deal younger than she did the focusing of brain energy (it can be before, she has her pain under control measured as with a light bulb, in watts) and does not need any physical support into a narrower and narrower "frequency for it. Most strikingly, other parts band". This focusing of energy is not of her life from which she had been unlike the yoga concept of one pointed- very withdrawn, have now become a ness, which we may translate in Western source Of gratification to her". 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. The following is a portion of a report from one Institute research as- sociate, Psychiatrist Stuart Twemlow: . "In our studies of the effect of the Monroe Tape system on brain waves, ; "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 "Although the significance of this of these symptoms related to some sev- is not clear, it could be speculated that the tape system encourages the recruit- ere surgical trauma which occured when ment of neurons in the brain to focus their he was a young child. In this case.we attention on a single task, whether that combined the tape exercises, especially. be to reduce tension on the muscles, to the Focus 10 exercise with the sorts of improve sleeping, or control pain". 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 .10 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". "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". ",..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 "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 regan po rehax the parts of her body which ad not relax were thos i connected with psychological problene for my last week of his lite, was completely which the pain was serving the function ‘ pain free and at peace". of secondary gas That is, the pain “Our feeling was that both the ar e i PPe Pp ber cope with some of the experience with acheiving control of sychological stresses in h ‘et i PSY Og er everyday life the part of his body that was painful in a sense was kept going because it ~ pe gong ery and preparing himself for death of his ed this adaptive function. P Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RRP9G-D07BSROM 7ORRA1N051-Bess frightened
51-6 Approved For Release 2003/09/10 : CIA-RDP96-00788R001 7002100 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 noticec, 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- maining 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 dpperars 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 mich 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 a.reinfor- Cing effect", "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 '0 state to relax their bodies while they are actively engaged in work, and certain- ly to relax their bodies in between some highly stressfy] 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 isomnia have found themselves sleeping very restfully". "One patient had noticed that a very fow tiinutes of sleep in Focus 10 seened equivelent to him, in terms of restful- n@ss,to many hours of Sleep with his nor- 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 Carlier than most Other people ". "A number of patients who have reg- ularly practiced with the tapes have found that they've become Much more reflec- tive ,less Physically active, and more satisfied with quieter sorts of hobbies and day-to-day activities. Becoming more in- wardly turned is a Characteristic of people who learn to utilize sources of gratification within their own heads rather than having to constantly turn to the outside world for gratification". Nel STeeping pathern. | Sqnet ines, 2rakbanses10 : C1A-RDP96-00788R001700210054-6 Approve