Mood Elevation Module

The Mood Elevation Module is by far our most thoroughly researched and intricate module of the PATHS program. Its effectiveness is astounding. There are hundreds of issues addressed in this single module, from Serotonin production, absorption and utilization, to hormonal balancing unique to male and female, to healthy growing neural functions, and more.

There is common confusion regarding the Self Esteem ~ Confidence Builder Module and the Mood Elevation Module. Many times individuals choose the Confidence Builder Module when they would be better served choosing the Mood Elevation Module.

The issue of Self Esteem and Confidence can be complicated to address. In MANY situations where a person feels less than good, or less confident in themselves, it is a combination of a chemical imbalance and less than ideal habits of conscious thought.

Poor feelings brought on by an internal body terrain imbalance (chemical imbalance), cause a person to become consciously aware that they do not feel good or confident, and those thought patterns actually reinforce and exacerbate the internal chemical imbalance. It is a classic “which comes first-the chicken or the egg?” dilemma.

Since the Confidence Builder Module deals almost exclusively with habitual patterns, and the Mood Elevation Module is primarily a body chemistry balancer (although it does deal some with thought (habit) patterns), we have found that it is most effective to run the Mood Elevation Module and the Self Esteem ~ Confidence Builder Module concurrently.

If an individual only wants to run one or the other, the Mood Elevation is the correct choice 90% of the time.

The times to use the Self Esteem ~ Confidence Builder Module are:

Concurrently with the Mood Elevation Module
OR
When a person is already feeling okay to good, and they want to build on an already existing foundation
OR
After running the Mood Elevation Module for 1-3 months and then switching to the Confidence Builder Module


I have been plagued by depression for more years than I want to think about.

What a difference! Within the first week I was feeling better, during the second month I realized that I felt better than I had in years!

Thank you, thank you, thank you! Please do not ever stop with this. Shauna

Question: I heard there were some new features to the website being introduced. What are they?

Answer:

1. Renewals can now be done when you log in and click the Renewal button on the left. Whether you have time still left on your current package, or have expired, just click that button and choose what package and which modules you want for the next month!

2. You can now Add Modules to your current package! Just log in and click on the Add Modules button and choose what you want. They will become active immediately!

Question: What dosage of spirulina is optimum?

Answer: I cannot tell you how much spirulina is appropriate for you. I personally found that 1000- 2000 mg (1-2grams) a day works for me. My wife needs to takes 4000 mg a day. I did a survey of the 8 PATHS staff in the office; they range between 2000 mg to 5000 mg a day. Since each person is unique, the best way we have found to "discover the optimum" amount is to up the amount until one does not feel any fuzziness/tiredness/lack of ability to focus during the day.

Question: How come I hear of all these people experiencing all kinds of wonderful benefits in the first few days of using PATHS and I have been using it for over 10 days and notice little or no improvement?

Answer: The short answer is-They are the exception!

Typically it will take 10-14 days to start noticing improvements. Of course this varies person to person, and also is dependent on which modules one is using.

With some people, on some modules, it can be 3-4 weeks before there is noticeable improvement.

Be patient. If you are taking your spirulina, and watching your Theater presentation every week, improvement is inevitable.

Remember, most of what we are working on improving took a thousand or more weeks to get to where they are now-waiting 2-4 weeks to see a turn around begin is pretty quick when you take that into consideration.

Elderberry
Anti-Viral Hero Packs a Punch

By PATHS newsletter editor Nancy Wilson

I don't recall how I found out about the benefits of Elderberry syrup. But I do remember that when I did, I went to my local health food store and decided to give it a try. It was flu season, both of my young children were in school, and the global bird flu scare was in full swing. I was willing to test its benefits.

I'm glad that I did. For the last three months, Elderberry syrup has stayed off monthly visits of nasty viruses that plagued my family on a regular basis. And when the viruses did try to take hold, and my children complained of sore throats and achy muscles, or I felt that lymph-node marble on my neck indicative of a viral onslaught, one dropper full before bedtime nipped it in the bud.

So what is the miracle property in Elderberry, besides containing high anti-oxidants, that keeps sniffles at bay and gives mothers a heightened sense of security in this bug-ridden world? What's the secret that has been utilized by ancient Romans and used by Native Americans for centuries?

One of the most effective weapons that a virus possesses is hemagglutinin spikes. These are small macromolecular spikes, like Lilliputian grappling hooks, that allow the invading virus to latch onto and penetrate the cell wall. Enter our hero, black elderberry. What Israeli virologist Dr. Madeleine Mumcuoglu discovered was that enzymes in Elderberry smooth down and neutralize those spikes, rendering a much balder virus ineffective.

The results? According to a 2006 Biocam Magazine article, "Within 24 hours, 20% of those patients taking [elderberry syrup] had dramatic improvements in symptoms like fever, muscle aches and pains and coughing. By the second day, 73% were improved and by day three, 90%. In the untreated group, only 16% felt better after two days. The majority of that group took almost a week to begin feeling better."*

And if that news isn't encouraging enough, Elderberry has no side effects, no apparent long term effects, and is completely safe for children. But it didn't take an article to convince this mom of its effectiveness. For three months my family has been virus free, and that's enough proof for me.

* http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=ve558ubab.0.0.st7ngubab.0&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bicom.org.uk%2Fbicom_magazine%2Fhealth%2F%3Fcontent_id%3D1390

Part 1 of 3

Nancy: I understand that the PATH modules assist your subconscious in carrying out your selected goals. How is PATHS different than subliminal messaging? Or is it the same?

Scott: No, it's completely different. It's not the same. First, let's address subliminal messaging. You can do a search on subliminal influencing, and you will find that for the most part it has been shown to be ineffective.*

Nancy: Ineffective in commercial use, such as with products on TV?

Scott: Yes. It's been shown to be ineffective. When it first came out, back in the 50's, and people started getting in an uproar about it, the FCC actually outlawed subliminal messaging. And the advertising industry did not even bother fighting it, because their own tests showed that the effectiveness is close to none with subliminal messaging.

When we talk about subliminal, most people think of messages flashing on the screen so fast that it's below your conscious level of being able to perceive it, but that your subconscious can perceive it, and therefore it's suppose to have an influence on you. If that truly worked, then you would have the advertising world spending however many hundreds of millions of dollars they needed to reverse the laws against it. But they don't need to do that. There are studies that show it does work to a degree, but it's just not very effective.

PATHS does not use any subliminal influencing or messaging in that manner. You'll see that if you look closely at the screen during the theater presentation, occasionally certain words crop up on the screen. But the fact that you can see them tells you right up front that they aren't subliminal. You can see them. What we do is completely different.

Nancy: Is this unlike anything out there?

Scott: Yes. This is a new discovery. And after we made it-- and when I say we, I mean the Founders of the company-we couldn't believe it.

It took us several months, and thousands of experiments, before we even believed that it worked.

Even though we were looking for this technology, we did not have a great deal of hope that we would find it. But we did find it. And when we found it, we couldn't believe how effective this Rapid Data Transfer technology is. We literally had to do thousands of tests before we could even wrap our minds around it. It ran up against all our paradigms. But it does work. And it works consistently.

It is a unique technology that we've coined Rapid Data Transfer. Not subliminal. Not hypnosis. Something totally new.

Nancy: Each person is unique. With people being as individualized as they are, how does PATHS adjust for individualism?

Scott: We have a variety of preconfigured modules. Those modules are integrated when a person enters in their name, birth date, and whether they are male or female. That data integrates with the existing modules, and minor adjustments are made for age and gender, and the program becomes customized to a degree, for those uniquenesses.

Nancy: So the adjustments are strictly based on gender and age? Or does it somehow calculate your specific birth?

Scott: It calculates your age from your birth date, and so it does adjust for age, and it adjusts for gender. And the data that's downloaded is configured uniquely for that person. That's as far as the customizing goes with the preconfigured modules. On the Platinum Package, everything is customized to the exact unique details given to us by the customer.

Nancy: What kinds of details? Medical, Emotional?

Scott: Whatever information a person gives us. For example, on the Platinum package, if a person knows that their body has a difficult time absorbing calcium, we will address that issue, and modify their Platinum Package to help their body absorb calcium better. We can use as detailed information as the client provides us, to fine tune their PATHS program in the Platinum package. But if you get the preconfigured modules, there's a small amount of customization that takes place with each module, based on age and gender, but that's the extent of the customization. Now, what we found early on in the development of PATHS, is that different people can take different strengths, for example with the Just Relax, or Increased Energy, or for increased metabolism in the Take It Off module, and what level might work great for one person in the Take It Off module, might be too much for another person. So what we've done is lowered all the preconfigured modules (I'm not talking about the Platinum where the package is customized) down to the lowest level, so that even the most sensitive person isn't getting too much.

Nancy: And then do you contact the client and ask how PATHS is working for them and adjust their levels accordingly?

Scott: No, not on the preconfigured modules. That is something that we deal with on a Platinum Package. Let's give an example. This is something that we've done a lot of work on. In the Defying Gravity module, in particular, which is all about skin care and maintaining youthful skin. In that module, part of what happens is that the body is instructed to increase the amount of new skin cell production. Now let's take a 45 year old and a 25 year old. A 45 year old can take a much stronger prompting to increase skin cell production than a 25 year old. Because of the extra 20 years of aging the body is not going to respond as quickly. If PATHS is operating at 100% of its capacity, the 45 year old is not going to be producing as many skin cells as a 25 year old operating at 100%. So what could happen is, if we give an older person as strong of an instruction to produce as many new skin cells as they can take, it would be really good for them. There would be no ill affects. But if we gave that same instruction to a 25 year old, and we're speaking generally here, the probability is that they would develop a rash because the skin would be producing too many new skin cells too quickly. So because of those differences, we always err on the side of caution by having the modules adjusted to a safe level for everyone.

Nancy: Is that one of your core principles.

Scott: There are three principles that we base everything on. Number one principle, before anything else, is do no harm. Number two is to produce results that are measurable and beneficial. And number three; produce modules that are desired by the public. So the very first principle, do no harm, means that we have everything throttled down to the point that even the most sensitive person is not going to have a bad response.

Nancy: So if there was an older person and a younger person that both ordered the preconfigured module on the skin care, would it then adjust for their age?

Scott: It will adjust for their age to a degree. But it's not just their age, because even though people have different biological ages, they also age differently as far as what shape their body is in, what kind of condition it's in, how well it responds, what it's gone through, what kind of diet they use. So everyone is unique. And you can have a 40 year old who might actually respond better to new skin cell production than a 30 year old, because of their genetics, or because they've kept better care of their body, or have a better diet, or whatever. So what we do is have all the modules down to the lowest level of strength. Those physical differences in people are part of the reason why you see some people responding more quickly, and seeing results more quickly than others.

Nancy: I would think some people reading this would say, now wait a minute, I'm paying for this, I don't want the lowest amount, put me on the max, thinking that they'll get more benefit out of it.

Scott: They can. That's exactly what the Platinum Package is designed for. All of the modules give results. We have not had anyone who has been on PATHS for the four week program who has not seen beneficial results. Now can a person get even better results? Yes, if we fine tune it for them to get the maximum benefit out of it for their personal uniquenesses. But that means that we have to spend hours finding specifics about a person and fine tuning it for their specific situation. And so that's what the Platinum Package is for. Not only for fine tuning the preexisting modules, but we can also do custom modules that aren't even on the menu. If there's something that isn't on the menu of modules, and they want to do something completely outside of what the prepackage choices offer, we can do that.

Nancy: Like to quit smoking? I noticed there's not a module for that.

Scott: Yes, if a person wanted to deal with an addiction, smoking or alcohol for example, then we could custom design something for them on that.

Nancy: It sounds like PATHS is virtually limitless to the possibilities of what you can program.

Scott: It is.

Nancy: How do you test the new modules?

Scott: We have about 100 people that over the course of the last few years have voluntarily been tested on. We vary the volunteers. Some of them have been in the testing program since we started 3 years ago. It's quite an intensive test. The average module has had 100's of hours of development, and then usually thousands of tests done on it on anywhere from 30 to 60 people.

Nancy: Why is PATHS not suggested for children under 18?

Scott: The only reason why PATHS is not suggested for children, or why you have to be 18 or older to sign up, is due to parental concerns. For example, there are high schoolers out there running around with credit cards. We don't want a high schooler, a minor, signing up for packages without their parent's permission. I'll give you an example of how the PATHS program used by a minor affected the parents. In our development of the Self Esteem and Confidence Building module, we had a 13 year old that we ran it on.

Nancy: With the parent's consent?

Scott: Oh yes, of course. This kid was a bench warmer, wasn't doing well at all in little league. And it wasn't for lack of skill. It had more to do with his confidence level. So we put him on the Self Esteem Confidence Builder module, and also on the Sports module. He started to do much better. Long story short, he is now the star player on his team. In a 3 month period he literally went from a bench warmer who just got sympathy play, to being the star player on the team. In a little less than a 3 month period of time. However, there was a side effect. He stopped obeying his mother.

Nancy: That's not good. Why did he stop obeying her?

Scott: Because, one of the things being run on him was the self esteem confidence builder. He got over confident, so what we had to do is adjust that down. And now with him, we've reached a balance, where he has sufficient confidence to deal with the main thing that they were concerned with, which was the baseball, but not too much confidence that he's being disobedient and not listening to his mother.

Nancy: You also have some modules relating to sexual pleasure enhancement that might cause some concern regarding usage by minors as well, I would think.

Scott: Yes. The last thing we want is for a parent to find out that their 15 year old daughter signed up for that. So we'll be putting together a program, in the not too distant future, where a parent can sign up their child. We'll have to have adjusted modules for minors, for example on the Self Esteem Confidence Builder, and it will be different for a minor than it will be for an adult who's responsible for their own life.

Nancy: Having your child use the PATHS modules is certainly a fresher and safer approach than putting them on Ritalin or some other medication alternative that parents are turning towards today. It's very positive.

Scott: Yes it is. And safe.

Part 2 of 3 wll be in the next Newsletter.


*[Source: Wikipedia]

The term subliminal message was popularized in a 1957 book entitled The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard. This book included results from a study of a theater that supposedly flashed subliminal messages during a movie to increase the sales of popcorn and Coca-Cola at their concession stands. However, the author of the study, James Vicary, later admitted the study was fabricated.

Research findings do not support the conclusion that subliminal suggestions are peculiarly powerful, or even have any effect at all. However, some olfactory subliminal messages might work, be it in advertising, be it otherwise.