Mindshock: Transplanting Memories?

In my private practice I am constantly coming across the phenomena of “cellular memory.” This happens with embedded trauma memory/emotions that tend to be felt by the patient in various parts of their bodies. I have also noticed that some patients who have experienced severe types of traumas have shut off feelings to parts of their bodies. They can feel anger in their stomach area or, as in the case of some violent types, in their hands. These same individuals cannot feel emotions such as sadness and joy, which tend to be localized in most of my patients in the heart chest area. There are other examples dealing with other locations of the body that the patient might shut down.

Some time back I came across a documentary broken into four parts called, “Mindshock: Transplanting Memories?”

I had always heard stories about organ transplant recipients experiencing different memories, feelings, taste for different foods, etc. Some of the seminal research that the documentary presents simply confirmed what I have all along believed and encountered in my experience with patients. That is that your brain is not the only place where memories and feelings are stored. The Chinese have been right when they attribute circuit-like descriptions of the body system and assigning certain organs to specific emotions.

This paradigm is different from the traditional medical model that sees organs such as the heart only as a large pumping muscle. This paradigm explains many phenomena related to intuition, “gut-feelings, sensing things in other persons, etc.

I hope you will enjoy and consider examining this documentary as a new possibility.

Mindshock: Transplanting Memories? – Part 1

Mindshock: Transplanting Memories? – Part 2

Mindshock: Transplanting Memories – Part 3

Mindshock: Transplanting Memories? – Part 4