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Your holding hands with me constitutes your connection to all the strength and resources you have as an adult woman. There were experiences in your past, namely those connected with this phobia, which were going to go back and relive, but in a way that involves no discomfort at all, a way that involves total comfort. And I call to your mind the notion of dissociation that we talked about yesterday. We told you during the exercise you did yesterday afternoon to be sure you step inside the picture so that you recover the full kinesthetics. The opposite holds true here. For years, Tammy has been exposed to certain kinds of reallife situations and responded with a lot of emotion, a lot of kinesthetic feelings over and over again. To have her go back and relive that experience again and have those feelings again will simply reinforce it. Thats ridiculous. And most peoples unconscious minds say Bullshit We arent going back there that hurts and they are called resistant clients, right Respect that resistance as a statement that says Look, make some new arrangements so we dont have to go through the pain again. The specific arrangements might go like this Id like you to close your eyes, Tammy. You can vary the pressure in your hand any time you need more strength. You can draw it directly from here, and thats also a way for me to know where you are. In a moment, Im going to reach over and touch you here on your arm. Thats going to help you remember a little bit of the feelings of pinking. I dont want you to go through the feelings again. I want you to take these feelings—only as much of them as you need—and drift back until there comes before your eyes a scene in which you see yourself over there at a younger age in a situation which has some connection with how you first learned to respond that way. At some point, while you see those images which are connected intimately with these feelings of pinking, Im going to say What do you see now I would like you to stabilize the image at that point. Likely it will be an image of yourself at a younger age, dressed in some particular way, in some colors, in some context. I dont know what any of that will be and at the moment you dont either because you dont know where this came from. As soon as I ask you to stop the image, I want you to form a snapshot and just hold it stable. I dont want you to run any movies yet, because we need to make one more arrangement to make you even more comfortable before you run the movie. Remember that you can modulate how much of these feelings He touches the phobia anchor on her arm. you are going to use to drift back until you see a clear focused visual image connected with these feelings, that represents where this original learning took place. Thats right, you draw on all the strength you need here, as you drift back through time, even further, take your time ... even more. Theres no rush. Be perfectly comfortable. Now look at that image. And simply nod your head when you clearly see an image of yourself at a younger age.... Tammy I see myself at a younger age but Im not in any situation. Im just— Thats fine. Can you see what color shoes you are wearing Tammy Black. OK. Now I want you slowly to look at the surface thats right under the shoes. From there let your eyes slowly notice what is around you as you stand there in those little black shoes. Remembering to breathe, remembering to use these feelings of strength and competence. You’ve demonstrated adequately that you know about those old feelings. Now I want you to demonstrate that you can have these feelings of strength as you watch that image. Remembering to breathe oxygen is essential for this whole process. Thats right. When you have the still image, just nod.... OK. Now, I would like you to hold that image constant, just a snapshot. Relax your right hand—not your left. Your left can be as tight as you need it to be in order to get access to these feelings of strength that you need. And you are breathing nicely now. Continue your breathing. Now, I would like you slowly to float up and out of your body so that you can actually see yourself sitting here holding hands with me, ridiculous as that may sound. Take all the time you need. And when you have succeeded in floating out of your body so that you can see yourself from above or the side or the front or the back, just nod that you have succeeded. Excellent. Now, staying in that third position, I want you to look past yourself sitting here holding my hand and feeling the feelings of strength and adult resourcefulness. This time, with feelings of strength and comfort, I want you to watch and listen carefully to everything that happened to young Tammy way back there, so that you can make new understandings and learnings about what occurred, and therefore have new choices. You are to do this, watching from the third position, having the feelings of resourcefulness and strength connected with my hand here. Knowing that you did live through that and you won’t have to again, let that younger part of you feel the old feelings over there as she goes through that old experience for the last time. When youve seen and heard it all, adequate for your making new understandings, simply nod your head and stay there. You can begin the movie now.... She nods. All right, now very, very slowly I want you to float down from the third position and step back in and reunite with your body, sitting here with feelings of resourcefulness and strength.... And now I want you to do something very powerful and important for yourself. Younger Tammy did something very powerful for you she went through those feelings again for you, and she let you watch and listen with comfort and strength to stimuli which in the past have triggered overwhelming responses. This time you were able to see and hear those without pinking. I want you to walk over to young Tammy in your minds eye. I want you to reach out and use all of the adult female resources you have, to comfort her and reassure her that she will never have to go through that again. Thank her for living through the old feelings for the last time for you. Explain to her that you can guarantee that she lived through it because you are from her future. And when you see on her face and in her posture and in her breathing that she is reassured that you will be there to take care of her from now on, I want you to really reach out, take her by the shoulders and pull her close and actually feel her enter your body. Pull her inside. She is a part of you, and shes a very energetic part. That energy is freed now from that phobic response. I would like your unconscious mind to select some particular pleasurable activity that some of that energy can now be used for, for yourself here in the present and in the future. Because energy is energy and you deserve it. Just sit there and relax and enjoy those feelings. Let them spread through your whole body. Take your time. You’ve got plenty going on inside. Im going to talk to the group. Do you understand the anchors First, she holds hands with me. This is a bailout anchor, a resource anchor that will always get her out of trouble and says Here, youre grounded right here. Its also a really exquisite biofeedback mechanism. By temperature and pressure and moisture changes in her hand, I get an incredible amount of information about her complex internal experience. An anchor here on her arm stabilizes the phobic feelings to use as a lead to go back and find some visual experience that will serve as a metaphor for her entire set of experiences called the phobic response. Once she sees herself at an earlier age over there, using the feelings to lead her back to something she had never known about consciously before, then I dissociate her a second step—I ask her to float up out of her body. You could see the changes in posture and color and breathing and so forth which indicated which position she was operating from. Once the twostep dissociation has been established, I have her watch and listen with comfort to the old experience. She saw and heard things today which have never been available to her before. Tammy Thats true. She was so overwhelmed in the past by the kinesthetic phobic response that she couldnt see and hear what was going on. Consciousness is limited. As she watches and listens to herself at a younger age, the competent feelings of comfort and resourcefulness are being associated with the auditory and visual stimuli from the past. And when shes gone through the whole thing, then we reintegrate. Every model of therapy, every psychotheology, is built on dissociation and sorting to help people reorganize. Whether you call it parentchildadult, topdogunderdog, using chairs or words doesnt matter as long as you label and sort a persons behavior, dissociating parts of them, one from the other. You have the responsibility as a professional communicator to put your clients back together before the session is over. One easy way to make sure the dissociations that you create are reintegrated before the end of the session is to simply reverse the process by which you create the dissociation. In this particular case, the dissociation is 1 see yourself over there at a younger age, 2 float up and out of your body. For the integration, 1 float back down and rejoin yourself here—and you could see the tremendous change in her that indicated that she had succeeded in doing that, 2 then walk over in your minds eye, reach out, comfort and reassure the younger Tammy, thank her for going through this so that you could learn, pull her into you, reintegrate her and feel the feelings of energy. What were doing here is structured regression. Primal Therapy claims to get complete regression back to infancy. If that were true, then Primal Therapy would achieve change only insofar as it doesnt work If Primal Therapy really got complete regression, it would be doing exactly what Tammy has been doing with the phobic response up until today. Complete regression simply means that you relive the experience in all systems. If you do that, you reinforce it.