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He grew up with nobody and nothing. Guess what he has today? 👉 Free Course: skillstochange.mn.co/plans/1872620 This imprint is now being utilized everywhere you go. I work with thousands of people, real problems, and I say, "What's going on today? What are you experiencing today?" And I get the model. John is a good guy. Today he's divorced from his wife. He got fired from his job. He was in the military. He's a good guy. Junk everywhere, stacks of stuff, pathways to his kitchen, to his bathroom, because all the stuff he accumulated — he didn't wanna let go of stuff. So I look at John's life. I said, "This is a repeating pattern. This is an imprint of value." I said, "Okay, John, tell me about your life growing up." He said, "Well, I had a good life until mom and dad divorced." Mom and dad divorced, and my sister went with my mom, and I went with my dad. He let his friends take care of me. So he's there with his dad's friends. He doesn't know anybody, and he feels all alone. So here it is. His life imprint is that I'm all alone, all by myself, nothing, loneliness. He grew up in this environment where he has nobody and nothing. And guess what he has today? Nobody and nothing. #eutaptics #FasterEFT #RobertGeneSmith #SkillsToChange #SubconsciousMind #InnerWork #MemoryWork #HealingWork

Why do you freeze, shut down, or go completely numb? Have you ever wondered why your mind goes blank during conflict? Why can't you speak? Why do your emotions disappear? Why do you feel disconnected from yourself? You're not broken. Your brain is doing exactly what it learned to do to keep you alive. What many people call functional freeze is actually a survival program. Long ago, your brain discovered that fighting wasn't safe, running wasn't possible, so it learned another strategy: freeze, disconnect, numb out, and survive. In this video, Robert Gene explains why this happens, where it comes from, and how you can begin changing the memories that keep this survival pattern alive. You'll discover: • Why freezing is a survival response—not a weakness. • Why you "check out" during stress or conflict. • How childhood experiences teach your brain to disconnect. • Why the freeze response is actually a gift from your unconscious mind. • How changing old emotional memories helps your brain feel safe enough to let go of the pattern. Remember: You're not broken. You're running a survival program. And if your brain learned it... It can learn something better. 👉 Take Robert Gene's free You Can Change Yourself course and begin updating the memories your brain is still using today. 00:00 - Introduction: Why do we shut down or go numb? 00:14 - Understanding "Functional Freeze" as a survival system 00:43 - Why numbing out feels like the safest option 01:05 - Case Study: Katherine’s "Pit" and 20 years of therapy 01:47 - Cleaning up the emotional system and updating programs 02:33 - Redesigning your internal space for healing instead of escape 02:54 - Katherine’s transformation: From a "pit" to a "garden" 03:36 - Your brain is protecting you from your "emotional jungle" 04:16 - How to start changing your life today The freeze was never your enemy. Your brain captured the whole emotional jungle you came from, as a survival mechanism. Not lions and tigers. Your brother. Your dad. Your psychotic mother. The mean teacher. It froze you to keep you safe, and you can redesign it to heal you. You're designed for a better life. Take my free You Can Change Yourself master training, and I'll show you how. Start working on you: skillstochange.com #eutaptics #FasterEFT #RobertGene #FunctionalFreeze #YouAreNotBroken Understanding functional freeze is the first step to stopping the shutdown response, where you go numb and glassy-eyed. Many people struggle with a nervous system response where they suddenly lock up during stressful moments. This video explains why you cannot feel your feelings and why your brain chooses to trance out as a protective mechanism. If you find yourself frequently going numb or unable to process emotions, this breakdown clarifies the biological reasons behind these reactions. We examine why functional freezing occurs rather than fight-or-flight. Learning to identify when you are in a state of functional freeze allows you to stop blaming yourself for the reaction. Understanding this specific trauma response is essential for anyone who feels disconnected from their own experience. Subscribe for weekly mental health breakdowns, and comment below with other topics you want to understand next.

10 years of pain. Then she was dancing by Friday. 👉 Free Course: skillstochange.mn.co/plans/1872620 We had Roni who came to see me in, I think it was 2017. She went to one of my students. She had 10 years of suffering, 10 years of chronic pain. Before she left to get her sessions, she wrote her suicide note. "If this doesn't work, I'm dead. I'm gonna give up." 10 years of pain. She had a $90,000 implant attached to her spine, the battery in her butt cheek, just to monitor it so she could even get up and walk a little bit. She left in a wheelchair. She was there for 5 days, and by the 3rd day, she could walk. By the 5th day, she forgot to turn her stimulator on — she was walking all the way downstairs. Then she comes to Greece. I'd done a seminar there. She volunteers, and we're dealing with the really big emotional traumas. Roni is a good kid. She wants to have fun. She's a single child. Her mom works all the time, her dad works all the time. She don't wanna work. She wanna sing, she wanna dance, she wanna have fun. But it's violating the family tradition. So we're working on some of her emotional stuff in class, and then also she booked a session with me. We're working on big stuff — relationships, issues with dad and mom, everything else in between. And by Friday — 'cause usually on Friday we go to a meal together and celebrate — she's out there dancing on the dance floor. #eutaptics #FasterEFT #RobertGeneSmith #SkillsToChange #HealingJourney #InnerWork #HealingWork

You can reset. You can change the memory. 👉 Free Course: skillstochange.mn.co/plans/1872620 You can reset. You can completely change the imprint. Change the memory. Change the reference. Remember, this is what most therapies out there in the world are missing. They don't have the skill, and they don't have the understanding. You can change memory. Literally change a memory where it doesn't play the same, doesn't look the same, and you don't act the same. Because it's almost like it's a taboo thing. "Don't change my bad memories, for who will I be? For fear I could get hurt again." And it's guaranteed you'll get hurt again, because your brain is recycling it. So basically, the brain creates what you call imprints. We've been taught by the psychological community that you're imprinted the first 7 years of your life. That's not true. You're imprinted all your life, and imprints are updatable, changeable, and adjustable. So what is an imprint? An imprint is a moment in time, an experience that your brain captures and utilizes as a fact of life. That becomes what you call a modus operandi. #eutaptics #FasterEFT #RobertGeneSmith #SkillsToChange #SubconsciousMind #InnerWork #MemoryWork #HealingWork

I've been repeating the same patterns. 👉 Free Course: skillstochange.mn.co/plans/1872620 He uses his coping skills. He could use porn, he could use alcohol, he can use collecting junk. He could use self-pity. He can go to AA or church to still remind him of his misery. Some of the biggest emotional components — his anger towards his mother for divorcing, his anger towards his dad for divorcing. And he's married a good woman. He's still depressed. He's still living that lifestyle of a depressed little kid. Never outgrew it. This is a repeating emotional pattern. Now, if you look at your life — when I do sessions, I say create a peace list. That's every bad event you've ever experienced from school, work, home, siblings, love experiences, school experiences. And then when you do that, you're gonna say, "It's the same feelings all the way through. I've been repeating the same patterns." Sometimes the patterns — we have them, we actually don't know where they came from, because there's what you call phantom memories, or buried memories. And sometimes the memory becomes who I am, so therefore it's not a problem. But it creates problems. When you find the problem — if you want to resolve the problem, you're gonna go and find the phantom memory. If you know how. And you know how because you've been trained. #eutaptics #FasterEFT #RobertGeneSmith #SkillsToChange #SubconsciousMind #InnerWork #MemoryWork #HealingWork

You didn't come from a dysfunctional family. 👉 Free Course: skillstochange.mn.co/plans/1872620 Back then, some of these things were like — something's there, but I don't know what it is. And then when you start working on it, the veil starts to drop. You say, "Ah." And some of these things you didn't have conscious memory of it. It was tucked away. And then you start working through, and they go, "Ah, I've got the tattoo, the T-shirt, and wrote the book. I'm up here." But there's no judgment against these people, because they have their own system. They're coming from the same system, but a different family and different program. Someone would say, "I come from a dysfunctional family." And I say, "You didn't come from a dysfunctional family. Your family functioned. It functioned so well you left home, you found another one just like it." Or you created it. Because these are what you call survival jungles that we learn from. So relationships really truly are a gift, because they show us. They reflect back to us our stuff. They stir up our inner world. And again, we pick from what we're familiar with. We pick what we know. You gotta shuffle through a lot of good people to find the perfect one that's gonna make you feel like crap, that you've always known your whole life. #eutaptics #FasterEFT #RobertGeneSmith #SkillsToChange #SubconsciousMind #InnerWork #HealingWork

Stop Feeding Your "Fat Dragon": A Song for Healing Do you have a "dragon" in your head that grows bigger every time you ask "what if"? In this song, I share the metaphor of the Fat Dragon—the trauma and anxiety we accidentally keep alive by "feeding" it with our attention and repetitive stories. For years, we might join the "midnight club," swapping stories of sadness, only to find our dragons getting bigger. But there is a way out. By choosing to stop "setting the table" for these old memories, we can watch the dragon shrink until it fits in a teacup. This is a song about neuroplasticity, reclaiming your peace, and realizing that you have the power to change how you hold your past. In this video, you'll learn: How "what-ifs" act as fuel for anxiety. Why fighting the past only feeds it. The simple power of choosing not to "set the table" for old trauma. Ready to shrink your dragon? Visit Learn more: skillstochange.mn.co/...paces/23484396 to learn more about eutaptics® and FasterEFT. #Neuroplasticity #FasterEFT #TraumaHealing #AnxietyRelief #RobertGene

Stop Feeding the Dragon Within: How to Heal Past Trauma, by Robert Gene Something bad happened once. It lasted fifteen minutes. But for three years, it’s lived on in the mind—growing fatter and meaner every time a "what if" is whispered at midnight. Learn more: skillstochange.mn.co/...paces/23484396 In this video, Robert Gene explores the mental mechanics of trauma through a powerful metaphor: the dragon we raise ourselves. When we replay the worst moments of our lives, we aren’t just remembering; we are placing an order for more fear. We join the "clubs," we wear the labels, and we keep the pain alive until it defines us. But there is a smart question that changes everything: Who has been cooking for this thing? Learn how to stop the cycle of "feeding" your internal dragon and how to change the way your brain holds onto those fifteen minutes. You don't have to slay the dragon or fight it—you just have to stop setting the table. In this video, you’ll learn: Why "what-ifs" act as fuel for your anxiety. How the brain doesn't distinguish between a past event and a current worry. The simple shift that makes the "dragon" get littler until it can't even feed a feral cat. How to change your internal "programming" to find peace. eutaptics® FasterEFT™ | trauma, anxiety, PTSD, emotional pain, physical healing I'll show you how to change the root cause, not just manage the symptoms. I'm Robert Gene Smith, creator of eutaptics® FasterEFT™ and founder of Skills to Change Institute. For over 25 years I've worked with thousands of people worldwide who were stuck in pain their doctors couldn't fix, their therapists couldn't reach, and their willpower couldn't move. What I teach is not positive thinking. It is not talk therapy. It is a process that goes directly to the memory structures running your life, and changes them.

You have to feel it to heal it? It's one-fifth truth. 👉 Free Course: skillstochange.mn.co/plans/1872620 We have a great community. We work together. We help you shift and change how you internally represent things. It's a clean system. It's top shelf. The other thing I often hear is, "You have to feel it to heal it." I don't know where this came from — Louise Hay spoke about that a lot in her book. Not sure where it came from, but is there truth to it? It's half truth. One-fifth truth. Because they're going to memories. They're going to feelings as a reference. And there's also what we call fight, flight, or freeze. The feeling is like fighting or flighting. The freeze one — a lot of people say, "Well, I have problems, but I have no feelings with it. I have no emotions with it." They do, but they don't have a reference to why they have problems. So there's a lot of what we call the numb and dumb, or you check out. You freeze, you fright. There's a functional freeze, they'll call it. We're trained — this is a normal survival system. We're trained to shut up, be quiet, stand there, listen, and do nothing. And then sometimes you check out. #eutaptics #FasterEFT #RobertGeneSmith #SkillsToChange #SubconsciousMind #InnerWork #NervousSystem #HealingWork

Control what's between your ears. 👉 Free Course: skillstochange.mn.co/plans/1872620 If you're suffering, and you're really tired of chasing rainbows and rabbits, you're tired of spending money on this therapy, that therapy, you're tired of just suffering — there is a better way. There really is. Learning how to be the master of your own life. Learning how to take control of yourself. If you're tired of blaming everybody — 'cause the world is so big, you can't control everything. It's so much. How about controlling what's between your ears? Changing and adjusting what's inside of there. And it's time. It really is time. It's so easy to look outside and say, "Oh, that person. Them." But this teaches it's not just the mechanics of the brain. There's also the piece where you learn the upper model of the world, the lower model of the world, the understanding of what forgiveness is. It's just a truth. Learning truth. The real truth. The real deal. So if someone was stuck and they'd tried everything, what is step one? Step one is expose yourself to my information. Watch my videos. Listen to what people say. I remember Linda. She said she didn't trust me because she'd trusted so many other people with so many therapies, and none of it worked, and she was afraid to trust me because it sounded too good to be true. But it wasn't too good to be true. It actually was true. She did find her freedom. She did find the control. #eutaptics #FasterEFT #RobertGeneSmith #SkillsToChange #SubconsciousMind #InnerWork #HealingWork

How do you know when a memory is done? 👉 Free Course: skillstochange.mn.co/plans/1872620 There's a key to something — it's a trance. And so even when we're working on ourselves, this is why I love working with a practitioner, because what happens is I can be in the trance, and then I can go back to the memory and it's like, "Hmm. What happened? Did I shift something?" And it didn't do it because we did it. What we did created the brain to do it. So how long, and how do you know when a memory is done? When a memory is done is when the memory is a positive experience. It has been updated to where it's something you'd want to have instead. Remember, memories are designed to produce. Memories are designed to keep you in alignment with. Memories are instruction how to survive. Now, when you change and adjust the memory, you update the memory where there's smiles — we call it the smiles. You've got a really positive memory. Now you told your brain, "I don't want this. I want this instead." Now your brain has learned a new way of behaving, acting, and performing. You're updating the survival system. So until everything is smiles. Now, I come from the EFT model of the world, and even the somatic work — you do it until you feel better. But you're not done. You still got the problem. #eutaptics #FasterEFT #RobertGeneSmith #SkillsToChange #SubconsciousMind #InnerWork #MemoryWork #HealingWork

Why do you feel stuck... even when you're trying so hard to change? The truth is, you're not broken. You're not lazy. And you're not missing something. You're running old emotional programming. What feels like being "stuck" is actually your brain trying to protect you by keeping you aligned with what it learned was normal. If you grew up with rejection, anxiety, loneliness, guilt, chaos, or fear, your brain will keep recreating those familiar feelings—even when you consciously want something better. In this video, Robert Gene explains: Why trauma becomes your brain's operating system How emotional patterns keep repeating like Groundhog Day Why your nervous system keeps pulling you back to what's familiar The hidden "thermostat" that controls your comfort zone Why self-sabotage isn't weakness—it's survival programming How to update the memories driving your emotional life Practical steps to regulate your nervous system and finally move forward Your past isn't controlling you because it happened. It's controlling you because your brain keeps replaying it. The good news? Memories can be updated. When you change the emotional meaning of the memories your brain is using as references, everything begins to shift—your confidence, your relationships, your health, your identity, and your future. You're not broken. It's a memory. And memories can change. 🎓 Start Robert's FREE "You Can Change Yourself" Course 👉 skillstochange.com 🧠 Learn Eutaptics® and transform your life skillstochange.com Chapters 0:00 - Why You Shut Down: Understanding Functional Freeze 0:23 - Fight, Flight, and Freeze: The Survival System Explained 0:55 - You Aren't Broken: Your Brain’s Strategy for Safety 1:04 - Case Study: Moving Beyond the "Pit" of Trauma 1:46 - Reprogramming the System: Updating Your Emotional Software 2:20 - Turning Survival into a Gift: Clean Up the Pain 2:33 - A New Perspective on Inner Safety Remember: What you believe isn't necessarily the truth. It's often just what you've rehearsed the most. Update the memories. Change the program. Change your life. #RobertGene #TraumaHealing #NervousSystem #Eutaptics #Neuroplasticity #EmotionalHealing #MentalHealth #SelfSabotage #ChildhoodTrauma #AnxietyRelief #PTSDRecovery #PersonalGrowth #Mindset #ChangeYourLife #GetUnstuck Come learn to be the master of your own head. Clean up on aisle me. ▶️ FREE COURSE:skillstochange.mn.co/plans/1872620 🎓 You Can Change Yourself Master Training: skillstochange.com/...el-1-live-online 🌐 skillstochange.com #mentalhealth #healing #emotionalhealing #trauma #nervoussystemhealing In this short video, I walk you through why you feel stuck: • Why a “stuck point of view” works like a tunnel, you see everything through • How you can feel lonely sleeping right next to your partner, or in a room with a hundred people • The thermostat on your wall: your normal trauma level, your normal anxiety level, your normal “nobody loves me” level, and how your brain keeps dragging you back to it • Why life getting too good makes you screw it up, and why life getting too rough makes you bail • How the same system runs 50, 60 years later, until you update the memories I had a horrible fear of public speaking. Nothing public, ever. It’s gone now. I changed it. It took a little work, but I was diligent and persistent. You can do the same. Subscribe for more on how the brain actually works and how to update the memories running your life. Peace. #yourenotbroken #RobertGene #Eutaptics #ChangeYourMemories #FeelingStuck

Feeling better doesn't mean you changed the memory. 👉 Free Course: skillstochange.mn.co/plans/1872620 The key to changing: one, intention. What do you intend to do? Two, go in, pick something, notice something, identify it. Three, come away, change your state, feel good, go back and check. This going back and check — this is when the neurology will shift and change. The brain will shift it and make it differently. And then you're gonna notice what's next. There's many pieces, many fractions in the mind that create problems. This is the system of memory reconsolidation. If you do it this way, every time you always get a change. If you're noticing your body, you feel really bad, and you just go to feel good — you're escaping the bad to feel good — no neurological shift will happen. You'll just feel better. It's no different than you go clean the kitchen and feel good about the kitchen. It's no different than drinking a bottle of Jack Daniels. You're drunk, you feel better. Or you fall in love with the cheesecake and you're licking the pan. You feel better. You may beat yourself up afterwards. But these are the elements to make a memory shift, to change. The elements to create a shift — there has to be, first of all, intention. What is your intention to do? If your intention is just to feel better, you can feel better, but it doesn't mean it's changing memory. Your intention is to update, change the memory reference. Your intention is to update what you hold. #eutaptics #FasterEFT #RobertGeneSmith #SkillsToChange #SubconsciousMind #InnerWork #MemoryWork #HealingWork

You changed states. You didn't change the memory. 👉 Free Course: skillstochange.mn.co/plans/1872620 It expresses what the mind holds. You consciously notice the body and you wanna feel better. Does it mean you feel better when you do it? It could, as long as you come out of the trance of the problem that the body is expressing. We have a natural innate system within us. I'm stressed, I feel bad, and I wanna get away from this. So you come over and drink something, or smoke something, or do some physical exercise. You watch a video. It pulls you out and away, and now you're diverting your attention away from whatever the body is feeling, and you're trying to create a new state, a new good feeling. Does that change memory? Not necessarily. There is a real science to it. So here it is. You feel bad, you feel bad, so you put on your music and you dance. Now, while you're dancing, you feel good, right? So did you change memory? You changed states. You changed feelings. It's like — the body's an innocent servant. The brain triggers the body to respond. Consciously, I don't like this, and then you're gonna do the shake-a-leg system. But I actually do go back to the memory. I dance and then I go back. You're adding the magic that makes it work. Most people don't. #eutaptics #FasterEFT #RobertGeneSmith #SkillsToChange #SubconsciousMind #InnerWork #HealingWork

Why do we think the body keeps the score? 👉 Free Course: skillstochange.mn.co/plans/1872620 You think about it logically. Why do we think the body keeps the score? There's two parts of us. There is the conscious part, which most people are aware of, and there's the unconscious part. That's the smart part about us. That's the one that encodes the internal world. It knows how to drive without you thinking about how to drive. It knows how to walk across a floor. It knows how to write your name without going back to kindergarten trying to figure out how to do that. So the smart part about us is what we're not talking about. They're talking about consciously — "I have a panic attack. I feel bad. Bad things are happening. I don't know what to do with it. It's the body making me feel bad." And so therefore, what we wanna do, and it's a natural part of our survival system, is to avoid the pain. And so we have a disruption, a pain, a frustration, a physical sensation, and we don't like it, so we're also blaming the messenger. Now, the body is the messenger of the unconscious mind. Or I call it the intelligent idiot, the intelligent servant. It's a faithful servant. And so the brain speaks to the body and also to the mind with images, intrusive thoughts, et cetera, to catch our conscious attention, and we're looking at the body — "I feel bad. I feel something gonna happen. I feel anxious. I feel nervous. I zone out. I check out. I numb out." So we notice the problem kinesthetically, but we don't really understand why, because we're not really in alignment with the smarter part about us, which is your unconscious. #eutaptics #FasterEFT #RobertGeneSmith #SkillsToChange #SubconsciousMind #InnerWork #HealingWork

The miracle happened inside her own head. 👉 Free Course: skillstochange.mn.co/plans/1872620 There are certain steps that must occur in order to update and change a memory. What I do is I help people go to their worst memories and turn it into their best memories — to where it was, "I was so grateful, I learned, I became a better person. They're not doing this to me anymore, and I'm free." I worked with a woman just the other day, and this is very typical. She can't stand being around her parents. She thinks everybody can read how she feels. She feels like a real victim of her parents, a victim of her son, a victim of her daughter. But there's a common theme amongst all those stories — and that's herself. So we started working on how she feels and presumes and imagines her parents, 'cause she thinks her parents don't like her. All we did was work on her feelings about how she internalizes and represents her mother and her father. This is really big, big emotional work. By the time we're done — and I just recently did a session with her — she goes, "It's a miracle. They're acting so much different. Our relationship has completely changed." They didn't change. Who changed? She did. How she acted, how she felt, how she operated with them, which also makes them respond differently. So what we did is we let go of her hurt, her pain, her judgment, her criticisms of them — which is only removing how she represents people outside, but also how she represents herself inside. She said, "I can't believe this. It's a miracle." And the miracle really happened inside of her own head. #eutaptics #FasterEFT #RobertGeneSmith #SkillsToChange #SubconsciousMind #InnerWork #HealingWork #HealingJourney

Why am I getting pissed off? It's just a song. 👉 Free Course: skillstochange.mn.co/plans/1872620 I didn't know I wasn't gonna die, but it sure felt like it. And it happened two different times. So now, the third time going to the airport, it is using that on me even though I'm not running, I don't have a gate to hurry to. That's what it does. It'll take things and put things together and create something. And logically it doesn't make sense, but neurologically, that's how the brain is trying to protect you. Think about driving your car. You remember the first time? I was in a white Volkswagen, and in a Volkswagen, the floor has three pedals. A brake, a clutch, and an accelerator. And if you don't get it right — boom, always die, boom, always die. But it puts these things together and creates the skill of laying out the clutch, applying the brake properly, and giving acceleration. So it puts things together very smartly. But here's the thing — while a song was playing in the background during a painful experience, your brain focused on that song. And today you hate that song, and you don't know why. It links things together and creates programs. That's why we call it the intelligent idiot. It puts things together for survival. But logically — I'm older now. It's just a song. But why am I getting pissed off? #eutaptics #FasterEFT #RobertGeneSmith #SkillsToChange #SubconsciousMind #InnerWork #HealingWork

To your brain, there are no bad experiences. 👉 Free Course: skillstochange.mn.co/plans/1872620 No one wants a panic attack. No one wants to feel those emotions. But it is an indicator. Panic attacks are designed to keep you safe based on programming. You're gonna die in an airport and you gotta run to the other gate. But that's not logical and practical. It remembers. And that's how it creates and produces. Trauma is when you have an event. Remember, your brain is designed for survival. So to the brain, there are only experiences. Good ones, and we would deem bad ones. To the brain, neither one of them are bad or good. They're just experiences. You're a little girl, and you go to school, kindergarten, and you ride the bus home to your friend because she invited you. You go have a good time. You say, "Well, I better go back home." And you go home, and your mom or your grandma's very upset, gets the switch and spanks you. Now you have learned — and it depends on how you think about it, how you process it — you may have learned, "I should come home and not go to my friend's house, or I'm gonna get a switching." That's called a trauma, but it's also an education. If you don't know who I am, I have worked with the worst traumas you could ever imagine. I worked drug rehabs for 10 years. In drug rehabs, we're talking about people who have lived through the most severe experiences a person can go through — deaths, violence, abandonment, and every kind of trauma you can imagine. They were the black sheep, the ugly child, the child that wasn't worth anything. #eutaptics #FasterEFT #RobertGeneSmith #SkillsToChange #SubconsciousMind #InnerWork #HealingWork

You're not broken. You just had an experience. 👉 Free Course: skillstochange.mn.co/plans/1872620 All traumas are the same to the brain. Neither one of them are bad. Neither one of them are good. They're just for survival. So trauma is an education, and your brain will take what happened and internalize it. Even though you had a bad experience, the experience didn't screw you up. And that's the big problem — we think it screwed us up. Gabor Maté says it's a wound, an injury to the brain. And it's not. It's an education. The brain will internalize what it witnessed. So it gives meaning to it. It creates a story, creates a feeling, creates a survival system. So it's not what happened to you that gives you panic attacks, freeze, fright, et cetera — but rather what your brain created because of the event. So they didn't screw you up. But what your brain kept, internalized, your brain utilized — and now you think you're broken. You just had an experience. You've been educated in the world. It's not a good education, and now your brain is trying to give you panic attacks, anxiety, and fear because you've had bad experiences, not so good experiences. Consciously, we know it's not good. It's a bad experience. That's our consciousness. But to the unconscious, it's just an experience. We're gonna internalize it. We're gonna use it to keep you safe. This is where we can really personalize the things that have happened to us. Now we hold the grudge, and now we hold that information within us. And this is where people have a hard time letting go. #eutaptics #FasterEFT #RobertGeneSmith #SkillsToChange #SubconsciousMind #InnerWork #HealingWork

We hold onto memories as facts. They're just programming. 👉 Free Course: skillstochange.mn.co/plans/1872620 There's two elements to this. One — how she projects upon him with her own emotional hurts and pains, her memory references. And two — when you walk into the home, every time you walk in the home, you kick the dog. The dog eventually figures out it's better to be drinking beer with my buddies than be around when my wife comes home. That means her attitude about him shifted. Therefore, the relationship shifted too. So there's two elements to this, and this is how memories are updated. The problem is we hold onto memories as actual facts, and they're just programmings. So in order to update a memory, to change a memory, is introducing new things into the memory — to allow the memory to shift and adjust the many fractions, or elements, or pieces in the memory. And of course memories have many pieces and elements, based on the brain's holdings. So that's how memories are updated. #eutaptics #FasterEFT #RobertGeneSmith #SkillsToChange #SubconsciousMind #InnerWork #HealingWork

They're blaming the physical reaction, not the cause. 👉 Free Course: skillstochange.mn.co/plans/1872620 They call it the vagus nerve. So now they're saying it's the vagus nerve, there's a disruption, there's something wrong with the vagus nerve. Again, they're pointing at the body. Now, if you understand what the vagus nerve is — basically it's a system that expresses and communicates from the mind to the body, from the body to the mind. It's an information highway. So the vagus nerve will create love, it'll create joy, it'll create peacefulness. And it will also express fear, trauma, worry, etc. So it's just an information highway. Again, they're still blaming the physical reaction, not the cause. I wanna go back to the deer. The animal kingdom. I'm still thinking about the deer, the gazelle. There she is. She's shaking. She was just chased. She lays down. She starts shaking. How do animals reprogram their body? It seems very natural. You're calling the body the problem. But the body's shaking because they got exposed. They're shaking 'cause they got scared, and now they're shaking because they need to calm down. They're just trying, they're shaking it off. But it doesn't mean the event has changed. It means that they had a traumatic experience with a guy with a gun or an arrow. And now they're gonna run and hide, but they also remember and consciously record, "People may wanna shoot me with a gun or wanna shoot me with an arrow." So it's still a learning. But again, you can't stay tense all the time. #eutaptics #FasterEFT #RobertGeneSmith #SkillsToChange #SubconsciousMind #InnerWork #HealingWork

Your memory isn't the original event. 👉 Free Course: skillstochange.mn.co/plans/1872620 The memory you hold inside your mind is usually not the original event. It is a distortion of how it's internalized. You have an experience outside. Your brain internalizes it. It filters it and translates what happens. So your memory that you currently have is your personalized version of it — based on your emotions and your feelings. Your filters distort it and give your unique spin to this. The brain does it all the time anyway. It always updates memories. It's neuroplastic. It's adjustable. Most likely the memory you have today, and you recall it, is not the original memory. By the mere act of visiting the memory — and the reason why you visit — will adjust the memory. Here's a great example. Let's say you had a boyfriend in high school, and you really loved him. Great feelings and emotions with him. This is your real memory of him. When you talk to your friends about him, you're gonna have a really good experience. And the memory you use is really embellished by each time you visit — and why you visit. It actually expands and makes it stronger. That's how memories are. You do the same with the bad memories too. Next thing you hear one of your friends say, "Isn't Jack your boyfriend? I saw him kissing Susan the other day." Not only did I see him kiss Susan, but he's kissing Susan's sister and her brother too. #eutaptics #FasterEFT #RobertGeneSmith #SkillsToChange #SubconsciousMind #InnerWork #HealingWork

I wrote this song after watching Gabor Maté on YouTube. He gets the diagnosis right. It’s not what happened to you; it’s what your brain built from what happened. I’ve been teaching that for thirty years, so watching him felt like watching my own videos. Then he calls it a wound and reaches for the same old fixes: microdosing, antidepressants, and talking about your problems. That’s halfway there. And halfway is where most people park for the rest of their lives. Learn more: skillstochange.mn.co/...paces/23484396 Here’s the other half. Trauma is an education, not a wound. Your brain recorded what happened and built a program to keep you safe, and that program will run for fifty years if nobody touches it. Memories aren’t scars. They’re data. Data can be updated. This song is about the difference between understanding your pain and changing the memory that produces it. If the song hits something in you, the work behind it goes deeper. It’s called eutaptics/FasterEFT, a process for updating the memories that drive your behavior, emotions, and body. Find it at skillstochange.com. You’re not broken. You’re running a program. And a program can be rewritten. — Robert Gene #YoureNotBroken #GaborMate #Trauma He drinks until he falls asleep. He wakes, and drinks some more. They fired him for coming in drunk... The junk's piled to the door. He told the VA doctor, I just wish I were dead. Not that I'd ever do it... He's doing it slow instead. He says, when I make the decision, There ain't no stopping me. I'm gonna drink, and I'm gonna get drunk... And that's how it's gonna be. They hand him the spirits in a paper bag... The only spirit that ever shows. Cup is full... and the communion begins... And that's how the service goes. There's two churches at the end of the road, And only one has a cross. Both of them want him on his knees... The wrong one gets him when he's lost. He swears his faith to the steeple, But he pays his tithes at the till. Two churches at war for one man's soul... And the wrong one's winning still. He prayed two years for a wife. God gave him what he asked. He says, everything God blessed me with... I pretty much destroyed. On Sunday he sings in the steeple church, And he means it... every word. But when the dark comes down, the other church calls... And hers is the voice he hears. There's a meeting in a basement, Folding chairs set in a ring. They save his seat, they know his name, They all sing the same sad thing: Once an alcoholic, always one... You'll fight her all your life. Any gospel that says you'll never be free Was written by the other side. When he's down on his knees at midnight, There ain't no steeple overhead... Just the bathroom floor and the porcelain And the prayers he never said. He swears his faith to the steeple, But he pays his tithes at the till. Two churches at war for one man's soul... And the wrong one's winning still. Some nights he lies on the kitchen floor And cries... why can't I stop? They called it a disease. They called him broken. Nobody asked him why. Here's why. ...A boy. Age eight. Mom in another man's arms. Sister went with Mom. He stayed with Dad... But Dad had to work. Daddy disappeared too. A different couch. A stranger's door. Count them: mother, sister, father, home. Everything a boy can love... All Gone. And look at him tonight... He's living that same life still: Nobody... nothing... miserable... The way it's always been. The junk piled up around him, Drinking himself to sleep, He's still that little boy at eight... In a house that ain't a home. 'Cause the ones you love will leave you. That's what eight years old found out. And a bottle never packs a bag... She's there at dawn and dark. She never once walked out on him. She never said goodbye. The only one who never left him... Is the one that's killing him. The wife... the job... the house... the whiskey... It was never about the whiskey. Age eight. A hurt, lonely, scared little boy... Wanting to be loved. Wanting someone... to be safe. That's where the war got started. There's still two churches at the end of the road, And only one has a cross. He's on his knees in one of them tonight... A new decision, And you know which one. I'll show you how to change the root cause, not just manage the symptoms. I'm Robert Gene Smith, creator of eutaptics® FasterEFT™ and founder of Skills to Change Institute. For over 25 years I've worked with thousands of people worldwide who were stuck in pain their doctors couldn't fix, their therapists couldn't reach, and their willpower couldn't move. What I teach is not positive thinking. It is not talk therapy. It is a process that goes directly to the memory structures running your life, and changes them.

Shaking it off doesn't release the trauma. 👉 Free Course: skillstochange.mn.co/plans/1872620 The body is a speaker attached to the stereo. The stereo is your memory and your brain utilizing what it captured. They show these videos where a bear or a deer has a trauma, and then they shake it off. And we're giving, we're translating the meaning of that. If a deer or a bear had the same trauma we have experienced, shaking off doesn't release the trauma. It may change how they physically feel now, but the traumatic education is still in the brain. That means now they're gonna jump faster and move quicker when they see you arrive, because you tried to hurt them. I call it the shake-a-leg system — where you try to create a shaking in your body, thinking that it will release the trauma. It may make you feel better. You may spend 30 minutes shaking and say, "Well, that was a great experience." But does it actually change the memory? There's key points — there's a real science to updating memory. You're stressed out, you feel really bad, and you're gonna roll your ears and sing Happy Birthday. Does that release the trauma? It diverts your attention away from how you feel. Remember, the body is an innocent servant. #eutaptics #FasterEFT #RobertGeneSmith #SkillsToChange #SubconsciousMind #InnerWork #HealingWork

You've been tapping for months... maybe even years. So why are you still stuck? If you've ever said, "Tapping doesn't work for me," this video is for you. The truth is, you don't have an energy problem. You have a memory problem. Your brain is faithfully replaying emotional programming that was built from your life experiences. The anxiety, fear, panic, self-sabotage, and emotional pain you're feeling today aren't random—they're learned patterns your brain believes are keeping you safe. Tapping isn't the cure. It's a tool. If you're only tapping on your feelings without changing the memories driving them, you're trying to stop the fire while ignoring the person who's still lighting the matches. In this video, Robert Gene explains why traditional EFT often falls short and introduces the missing piece: The Robert Gene Effect™—a memory updating process using defractionation that helps your brain rewrite old emotional programming instead of simply calming it down. In this video you'll learn: Why tapping alone doesn't solve emotional problems The biggest mistake people make with EFT Why you don't have an "energy blockage" How memories create anxiety, fear, and emotional triggers What defractionation is—and why it changes everything The simple process your brain uses to update memories Why changing memories changes your life You're not broken. You're simply running old programming. And what your brain learned... It can learn differently. 🎓 Take Robert's FREE "You Can Change Yourself" Course 👉 skillstochange.com 🧠 Learn Eutaptics® and master lasting emotional change skillstochange.com 📅 Work with Robert or attend a live training skillstochange.com Chapters 00:00 Why Tapping Isn't Working 01:48 The Biggest EFT Misunderstanding 03:35 You Don't Have an Energy Problem 06:12 Memories Create Your Emotional Life 09:18 Why Staying in the Memory Doesn't Work 12:04 The Robert Gene Effect Explained 15:06 What Is Defractionation? 18:10 How Your Brain Updates Memories 21:15 Stop Chasing Symptoms—Change the Cause 23:40 Learn to Change Yourself Remember: Tapping doesn't change your life. Changing the memories your brain keeps pulling from does. It's a memory. Update the memory... and you update your future. #RobertGene #Eutaptics #FasterEFT #EFT #Tapping #TraumaHealing #Neuroplasticity #EmotionalHealing #AnxietyRelief #PTSDRecovery #MentalHealth #SelfHelp #MemoryReprogramming #PersonalGrowth #Mindset Your Next Step: If you found this helpful, watch our full "Beginner’s Guide to FasterEFT" here: skillstochange.mn.co/plans/1872620 I'm Robert Gene. I've taught this full-time since 1999, EFT first, then FasterEFT, now eutaptics. The question I get more than any other is "Why doesn't tapping work for me?" Here's the real answer. You don't have an energy problem. You have mental and emotional programming. You have memories running the show, and tapping by itself won't touch them. A big memory is a hypnotic state. You can't "let go" of something you're still wrapped around. The fix is a system. I call it the Robert Gene Effect, and the tool is defractionation. Specific steps to update a memory: know you have the problem, go to it, find a detail, come out of it, shift your state (tap, breathe, say "peace," go to a happy memory), then go back and visit. When you revisit the memory in a new state, the brain updates it. That's memory reconsolidation. That's learning. That's the part EFT skips. Take the free course. You'll learn more in it than you'd expect. When you're ready to go deeper, the Master Training course teaches you the whole system, so you can train the intelligent idiot, the faithful servant, and become the master of your own brain. Know thyself. Clean up your history, and your future will be a mystery. Peace. Robert Gene 00:00 - Why tapping doesn't solve the problem 01:00 - You don't have an energy problem 02:28 - Why the "cause" of your problems isn't what you think 03:40 - How to update a memory with De-fractionation 04:24 - The Robert Gene Effect explained 06:05 - The science of shifting your emotional state 07:00 - How to take control of your "faithful servant" (the brain) SUBSCRIBE: Join the Robert Gene eutaptics® community for weekly deep dives into mind-body healing. FREE COURSE: skillstochange.mn.co/plans/1872620 MASTER TRAINING: skillstochange.com/...el-1-live-online WEBSITE: skillstochange.com

You change the memory. You change your identity. 👉 Free Course: skillstochange.mn.co/plans/1872620 When you adjust the memory, we're not creating an alternative memory. We're adjusting how you internalize the external world. We have people in our life that were not nice. They were mean to us. Our brain internalized that event, and it's gonna keep us safe because we don't wanna get it happen again — but also keeps us in a loop of it, because that's the real world. Every person inside of your memory is yourself. And if you change how you internalize and hold the memory, you change your identity. You change your value. You change your operation. But you're not stupid. You learn from the experience. You'll never do that again. It doesn't make you vulnerable. You will not allow it to be a part of your life, because you've got the T-shirt, you wrote the book, and you're out. But here's the bizarre thing. If people hold on to bad memories thinking it keeps them safe — in reality, it keeps them locked into that pain and that misery, and they keep recycling, rehearsing, and re-feeling it. Never getting off of it. #eutaptics #FasterEFT #RobertGeneSmith #SkillsToChange #SubconsciousMind #InnerWork #HealingWork

Your brain is programmed by your environment and experiences. 👉 Free Course: skillstochange.mn.co/plans/1872620 Some people's brain will keep them tense all the time because in their brain they've been programmed by their culture and experiences. Deer in the wild are used to hunters hunting them and lions hunting them, so they're super skittish. Why is that? Because that's your environment. But you take a deer that's been raised on a farm, raised by kids and pets and dogs, and all of them — they're just all family. They're not skittish like that. This is reminding me of being yelled at. When you're a kid and you're being yelled at — as an adult, someone yells at you, you're gonna be there, shaking in your chair. Right back in that trauma. That's very similar to what the deer is experiencing. It's an education. And they say, "I'm glad that's over." But they don't forget. They learn. And again, when they see the deer with black hair and big earrings on, they go, "Oh, sh!t. Stop it. Let's get out of here." Oh, they know, "Oh, she's gonna feed me." That's the ones that are at the petting zoo, right? Well, I create the friends, so I feed the crows. #eutaptics #FasterEFT #RobertGeneSmith #SkillsToChange #SubconsciousMind #InnerWork #HealingWork

Learn more: skillstochange.mn.co/...paces/23484396 eutaptics® FasterEFT™ | trauma, anxiety, PTSD, emotional pain, physical healing I'll show you how to change the root cause, not just manage the symptoms. I'm Robert Gene Smith, creator of eutaptics® FasterEFT™ and founder of Skills to Change Institute. For over 25 years I've worked with thousands of people worldwide who were stuck in pain their doctors couldn't fix, their therapists couldn't reach, and their willpower couldn't move. What I teach is not positive thinking. It is not talk therapy. It is a process that goes directly to the memory structures running your life, and changes them.

It's not what happened to you. It's what you kept. 👉 Free Course: skillstochange.mn.co/plans/1872620 Your brain recorded, created, and internalized an event from the outside. Your recording is replaying and rehearsing. You're reliving something your brain internalized from what did happen. We're not saying it didn't happen. We know it did. But what traumatizes us and causes problems is what we kept — and what your brain is utilizing and producing today. It's not what happened to you. It's how your brain learned from it and manifests from it. Memories are malleable and adjustable. The reason people stay stuck is they hold the memory as a reality and a value — and that keeps them locked in. It becomes an identity. It becomes a lifestyle and a behavior. It becomes who I am. We built our whole life around one experience. Seemingly keeping us safe — but also keeping us looped in to the event and the trauma. #eutaptics #FasterEFT #RobertGeneSmith #SkillsToChange #SubconsciousMind #InnerWork #HealingWork

The brain doesn't distinguish bad from good. It just internalizes. 👉 Free Course: skillstochange.mn.co/plans/1872620 The whole system of our brain and our existence is for survival. Each child has a different environment. Your personalized jungle. Different components that make us respond differently. The intelligent idiot is gonna bring in what you personally experience, what you've heard, witnessed, felt — and it's gonna take it in, and organize it. There's conscious awareness too. You may consciously notice the sounds, the smells, some visual. That's the element where the unconscious will record stuff. This angles how the brain records. It's an intelligent idiot. Super smart. It knows how to organize stuff, put stuff together, and spit it out. Panic attack, anxiety, great sports performance, love, pain, fantasy. But it doesn't say, "Panic attacks are bad. We shouldn't keep these bad experiences close." Because it doesn't know that it's bad. It just says, "This is our environment. We're gonna internalize it. We're gonna use it to keep you safe and in alignment with what you captured." It's not gonna say, "We probably shouldn't link this to that." Chocolate to love. A smell to danger. A look to love. The brain is smart. But it's not very practical. #eutaptics #FasterEFT #RobertGeneSmith #SkillsToChange #SubconsciousMind #InnerWork #HealingWork