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<strong>David R. Cope</strong> is a pioneer in understanding the mechanics of the mind. Over the last twelve years, he has developed cutting-edge psychological protocols that reinterpret and redefine the mainstream perspective on mankind’s chronic behavioral issues. His brilliance comes from an uncanny ability to interpret and articulate the methods of the mind and to translate these methods into straightforward and profoundly effective processes that effectuate deep transformational change.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<b>Professional Employment:                                                                                                                 </b>

David is a Founder of The Center for Living from the Heart (The Center), a non-profit 501 (c)(3) organization and its affiliate The Institute for the Research and Study of Expanding Consciousness (IRSEC). The Center provides the formalized educational experience that is the testing ground for contextual material David has developed that teaches a transcendent view of one’s self and life. The educational experience effectively allows for the reorganization of the mind’s capacity to create one’s reality into a worldview that is consciously introspective and growth oriented. It capitalizes on mankind’s innate capacity to self-actualize its potentiality – the transformative process of internalizing an external reality. IRSEC is designed to provide scientific evidence for a) the evolutionary experience of the students of The Center, b) how context is the hidden determinant of the human consciousness and c) how consciousness can provide solutions to many of the mysteries of human behavior.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]

David is a Founder of GriefFree.org, a non-profit organization that is dedicated to providing grief relief to the public and to training grief professionals in its revolutionary Healthy Grieving process. David<b> </b>developed this radically new grieving process which resolves the underlying issues that cause grief and provides a reliable method for individuals to heal from the painful experience of loss. The Healthy Grieving process is grounded in the concept that grief is the experience of the loss of one’s self-identity rather than the loss of a relationship, which is a breakthrough in the fundamental understanding of the experience of grief. Over the last five years, David has taken individuals through hundreds of applications of the Healthy Grieving process with consistent and remarkable results.

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<b>Research Experience: (</b>in descending chronological order<b>)</b>

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<b>Research and Study of Emotions and Feelings</b>: Conventional psychology does not effectively differentiate between emotions and feelings. David’s research into emotions and feelings uncovered that emotions are repressed feelings and are universal to all humans, whereas feelings are how a person “feels” about him/her self and are unique to each individual. This powerful revelation opened a window to an evolutionary perspective on the experience of feeling one’s feelings and unlocked the possibility of releasing unconscious repressed feelings that are the infrastructure of mankind’s psychological experience of its self. David developed The Healing Heart Method, a dynamic process that resolves the issue of suppression and internalization of emotions and unfolds a radical new reality of the potentiality of one’s self.

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<b>Clinical Study of Internalized Illnesses: </b>David<b> </b>developed the contextual environment and processes that formed the foundation of a groundbreaking clinical study to document that a) the mind internalizes one’s reality and the body responds with a vast array of internalized illnesses, b) by introducing a new context, the mind will reorganize the construct of reality, and c) the body will respond and outgrow the internalized illness. In less than seven months the clinical study has provided preliminary evidence of the outgrowth of chronic illnesses including: migraines, Crohn’s disease, depression, anxiety disorder, hypothyroidism, paralysis, fibromyalgia, myofascial pain, severe allergies and PTSD. The results of the two year clinical study will be published.

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<b>Research Interests in DNA and Epigenetic Therapy</b>: David is currently investigating the protocol necessary to test the following hypothesis: Individuals who are outgrowing chronic illnesses in the Clinical Study for Internalized Illnesses will show either a change in DNA sequence or gene expression as a result of epigenetic changes. The research would seek to prove that the context of the clinical study is the cause of the genetic alteration or expression which allowed the individuals to outgrow chronic illnesses. The research would be conducted concurrently with the Clinical Study for Internalized Illnesses.

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<b>Anthropological Study of  How Context is the Hidden Determinant of Human Consciousness:</b> David developed the contextual environment that supports a current anthropological study which uses qualitative/quantitative and ethnographic research methods to study the effect of context on the behavioral patterns and worldview of a group of individuals. This anthropological study is to document the ability to duplicate the “subjective” experience of internalization of an externalized reality and to study the effects of context on the capacity for self actualization. The results of the eighteen month anthropological study will be published at the conclusion of the study.

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<b>Independent Research and Study of the Human Grieving Process: </b>David<b> </b>designed a revolutionary grieving process that consistently allows individuals to move through grief to the acceptance stage. This process – trademarked as “Healthy Grieving” – is a breakthrough in the fundamental understanding of the experience of grief and provides the first grieving process that can produce consistent and measurable results. The process is grounded in the concept that grief is the experience of the loss of one’s self identity rather than the loss of a relationship. Healthy Grieving is currently being introduced to the public and to the community of professionals who support grieving individuals. David is writing an article on the Healthy Grieving process to be submitted to major journals for publication.

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<b>Independent Research and Study of the Constructs of the Mind: </b>This study<b> </b>precipitated a shift in the ideology of psychology by introducing the process of owning, which is experientially the awareness of: “I am my experiences, not what is happening to me.” The process of owning allows for “personal causality” – a deep realization of one’s unique reaction to the experiences of life. With owning, individuals conceptually take full responsibility for their reactions and projections onto life, which leads to dramatic and rapid changes in individual’s core experience of their self and their worldview. Essentially, the process of owning allows for self -acceptance that is fundamental to an individual’s self-esteem. This process is the basis of David’s continuous stream of innovative methods that have allowed individuals to outgrow chronic patterns of behavior that have remained an enigma for mankind.

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<b>Independent Research and Study of Applied Kinesiology in a Therapy Setting:</b> David discovered that having a method to bypass the mind is critical to changing deeply-rooted behavioral patterns because individuals are unconsciously trapped in the perfected process of the construct of the mind, which is to avoid change. This study proved that by using Applied Kinesiology (muscle testing) or a similar tool to “outsmart” the mind, individuals in a therapy setting can consistently transcend the stories of their chronic behavioral patterns and make deep transformational changes. The use of muscle testing to bypass the mind supports his theory that constructive change cannot take place at the level of an individual’s stories because stories are the mind’s method of preventing self awareness. This research provided the basis for David to refine and redefine the technique of muscle testing so it can be used as an innovative tool to support the study and understanding of human behavior..

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<b>Independent Research and Study of the Mechanics of the Mind: </b>The study has uncovered the concept of separation which is defined as the capacity to define one’s experience of self as “that” (behavioral pattern). Separation effectively creates the space for individuals to see their constructs as the experience of their self. This concept overcomes the mind’s compulsion to dissociate, which is defined as: “I am not that.” The extended study and use of separation led David to extrapolate how the mind organizes itself to create the reality of one’s experience of life. From this extrapolation, David formulated intriguing processes that allow individuals to articulate the mechanics of their behavioral patterns for self reflection and outgrowing. Separation is the critical a prior to the process of owning and the first step in resolving deeply rooted behavioral issues.

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<b>Independent Study and Research of Food Allergies and Diet:</b> David’s experience of outgrowing his own chronic allergies laid the foundation for this study which proved: a) the body will outgrow chronic food allergies by a change in diet and b) by using a method such as Applied Kinesiology (muscle testing), a diet can be structured specifically for an individual that will support the outgrowing of food allergies. This treatment for food allergies is a major advancement over the traditional concept of the identification and elimination of allergic foods in a person’s diet and the use of drugs to suppress allergic responses.

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<b>Independent Research and Study of Consciousness:</b> David developed novel technologies to measure consciousness which led to the discovery of the interrelationship of individuals’ self identity and worldview, and their consciousness. The research identified the relationship of the left and right brain to consciousness and how this relationship determines an individual’s consciousness. It was discovered that an individual’s consciousness is normally constant throughout life, much like an individual’s intelligence and can be influenced by context.

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Author of <i>The Rule Book of Life</i>, which is the primary teaching methodology of The Center. <i>The Rule Book of Life</i> is a profound expression of the transformation of human consciousness. It teaches how life can be used creatively as the tool for the unfolding of self actualization.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<b>Teaching Experience:                                                                                </b>

David has created the curriculum and collateral teaching material for The Center. He teaches all courses and workshops designed to re-educate adults and children in a transformative approach to life. This course of study is the aggregate result of the nine years of research and study mentioned above.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<b>Professional Training:       </b>

Self taught through experiential awareness and application. All concepts and materials developed herein are originally inspired without teachers, educational material, or institutional learning.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<b>Education:                               </b>

University of Vermont

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