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How to Click Your Amygdala

I recently posted about Weird Self-Help techniques where I included Neil Slade’s amygdala clicking process. A couple guys emailed me for more information on how I do it.

I started it by simply following Neil’s advice. Look at Neil’s diagram or a brain anatomy textbook and find where the amygdala is located. Then simply visualize where it is on your head and imagine puhing it backwards and then forwards with a pencil. After doing this enough times, you can get a good sensation of how it feels to push forwards and backwards. After the first hour of doing it, I can click it forward easily without any visualization, feeling all the exact same sensations, by just moving it like I move a muscle.

Many times, when I’m feeling a bit confused or stress, I’ll just click it forward, close my eyes and allow myself to feel a great sensation, like sinking into a meditative state.

I often click forwards when I’m doing concentrated work. I found it helps my focus a whole lot.

When I meditate or do image-streaming, I always click forwards. It’s one of the most simple yet highly useful hacks to quickly improve your meditative state and increase the quality of your visualization.

Neil Slade makes many promises about the benefits of amygdala-clicking. Whether he is right, delusional or it’s all marketing copy like some editors at Wikipedia seem to believe, the technique is one of the most helpful, simple and practical self-help tricks I’ve ever used.

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One Response to 'How to Click Your Amygdala'

  1. Anonymous - August 15th, 2008 at 11:00 am

    Just wanted to say I enjoyed your down-to-earth approach to amygdala clicking. I also enjoy using the technique, but am highly skeptical of Neil Slade and about 95% of his claims and opinions.

    Also, you might want to check out the “Joy Touch” technique by Pete Sanders. It’s almost identical to amygdala clicking, although personally I found it easier to learn and use.

    Of course, just like Neil Slade, Pete Sanders is marketing a whole system of self-development practices and products, but again, the simple “Joy Touch” technique in itself is the only aspect of his book that I found to be of any practical value.

    If I had to choose, I would recommend learning to practice Joy Touch over Amygdala Clicking, but I can’t really recommend purchasing books or products from either author.


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