bhenry,

The following is taken directly from Tom's site - www.essential-skills.com - regarding how the 3D Mind works:

The 3D Mind tm works on the following principle. Problems are the result of
a specific formula of associated states that create an unbalanced
relationship between the primal brain and the creative adaptive brain. These
create an entire environment that the world gets sorted through. In the past
I described it as a filter but I think 'environment describes it better
because it is an all encompassing reality not just a filter.

How is the 3D Mind Different?

Psychology recognizes that there is an unconscious mind but does not use the
unconscious as a tool to repair itself. They mainly use conscious
realization and desensitization to help the client have an epiphany and then
deal with the problem for 7 to 15 years. Many times with the help of drugs
to influence brain chemistry and mood.

Hypnosis operates mainly in the reflexive part of the brain. It is
structured to use mainly the unconscious or out of consciousness scripts or
processes to reprogram the brain to follow different programs than it
followed before. Many times hypnotists use generalized scripts that do not
address the individual nor validate the individuals experience. The outcome
is to provide a new program for the individual to access instead of the
program they were already using.

NLP operates very similar to hypnosis. Still the main focus is on the
unconscious mind and reprogramming that mind. 80% of all NLP techniques are
the same as classic hypnotic techniques. The difference is the focus on
linguistics. Since the foundation of NLP is the meta model and the Milton
model this is easy to understand. Whether it is reframing, metaphor, core
transformations, the meta model, or slight of mouth, the linguistic aspect
of NLP is the dominant difference between it and hypnosis.

The focus of NLP is on reprogramming the brain to patterns of behavior
through altering the strategies that people use.

The 3D Mind operates in the principle of associated states. There are no
patterns and there are no programs. There are associations and results from
those associations.

These associations create an environment not a program. If someone is out of
balance and is primarily in the creative/adaptive area of the brain, they
tend to be lazy and unmotivated. The primal brain is a movement initiator
and without it there is no movement.

If someone is primarily in the reptilian/primal brain. The react depending
directly on the input of the moment. There reactions are unpredictable and
unreasoned. The creative adaptive part of the brain is a problem solver.
Without it all decisions are emotionally based. There is constant movement
but no steering.

These are environments not strategies.

The 3D Mind deconstructs the associated states that are causing a problem
and balances so that balanced access between the creative/adaptive and the
primal/reptilian work together.

The chemical driver of the creative adaptive part of the brain is serotonin.
The chemical driver for the primal reptilian brain is dopamine. The
environment created by the associated states directly influences these two
chemicals in the brain. These brain chemicals are supposed to be balanced.
But the associated states create a group of neural connections that with the
help of acetylcholine and adrenalin becomes very strong. These associations
create an unbalanced environment.

So the 3D Mind is not just a model to follow. It has a direct connection to
the structures of the brain and how the brain works physically and
chemically. Working within that structure, changes that the other three
processes that I mentioned could not get a result from, are occurring using
the 3D Mind.

This change occurs from discovering the structure and then balancing it.
This involves the input from both the conscious and unconscious mind but no
formal trance is needed. Involving the entire consciousness in the process
generates a more powerful change that just the conscious mind or the
unconscious mind because it get input from the entire environment rather
than just from part of it.

This alters the environment and creates access to all areas of the brain. So
the client can solve their own problems.