Harvey’s Most Basic Discovery Put on Ice no More!

Already 65 years ago, Harvey made his basic discovery: discharge cleans up emotional distress (in ways we don’t understand) and sometimes also (parts of) physical suffering (unblocking whatever blocks or slows down healing, and removing fear so that pain becomes bearable). Tears don’t indicate suffering but rather accompany a mental recovery process.

We now know that this works though we don’t know how. Doctors work with proven approaches all the time even if the mechanism of their helpfulness is yet unknown. Sleep (even just bed rest) helps healing, restores energy and freshness of the mind, so they prescribe bed rest and sleep hours though no one knows how this works. But brain research is taking a higher flight than ever. We need to tell (show) brain researchers what is re-evaluation so that they can study how this works.

It is clear that re-evaluation is a very deep process. It’s quite unthinkable that it can ever be replaced by medication or another quick fix. That would be like assuming that an enzyme could substitute for DNA or anything as basic as oxygen in the cell could be replaced by anything else.

Over the years it also became clear that no taken substance or manipulation (hypnosis) could enhance this basic human recovery process. In facts, anything that chemically or artificially steers the brain rather slows down or blocks re-evaluation and even creates a distress recording. (When a new person visited my mother and she asked what he would drink, he replied: Water please. She didn’t miss a beat: What, you’re in counseling too?) Also, to provoke tearing (onion peeling) does not do the job, nor is healing of sadness explained by the shedding of salt by tears. It’s simply not that simple.

Re-evaluation restores flexibility to the human brain where there was rigidity from distress recordings (see: The Human Side of Human Beings by Harvey Jackins). This means that we can’t experiment on animal and expect to find answers to how re-evaluation works. This despite the fact that reportedly elephants may weep and many animals yawn.

The furthest parts of the Universe are studied and nano-science looks very promising. Yet, re-evaluation is not studied. This while what really slows down human’s blossoming and the flourishing of human society, what often kills or murders us, is enslavement to distress recordings, a lack of re-evaluation. Since humans are the most advanced part of the Cosmos, we may say that distress recordings hamper Creation’s progress.

So, even if we miss the curiosity to want to find out how re-evaluation works, at least it should be studied in depth to give it more weight and recognition. These studies should promote insight into the excellence of the human brain and human beings and help us value and honor the uniqueness of our lives and the lives of everyone else.

As part of popularizing of our basic Theory, brain researchers need to start studying how re-evaluation works.