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How do you find your car keys when you want to go to the store and you dont know where they are Woman I start feeling around through my pockets. Man I go through the house and look. Man I search my mind, going back to try to visualize where they are. Woman I shake my purse so I can hear them. Man OK. If all else fails, you can go back to the front door and walk in again. Now, if you think about the responses we just got, those include the three main representational systems. If you have any fragment of any experience, you can have it all by overlap. She had the feelings here. The feelings, once anchored, stabilized her state of consciousness. Everything that she accessed as she closed her eyes and went back in her personal history had that set of feelings in common, guaranteeing that whatever picture she selected would be in the class called phobic experiences. I used the same principle to help her have a complete focused visual image of herself at a younger age. At first she had only a picture of herself, but no context. I ask her what color shoes she is wearing. I presuppose that she can see her feet and her shoes, and that she can see colors. She accepts the presupposition she says Black. Since she can see the shoes, then obviously, logically, she can see what they are on top of, the surface shes standing on. I request that. When she gets the surface, it blends into walls and into trees, or whatever the rest of the image was. Its a very easy overlap, or intersection, technique that allows me to assist her in recovering the image by constructing portions of it, a little at a time. Man Whats the difference between this technique and systematic desensitization Man About six months. Thats the major difference, which is a very expensive difference. My understanding is that its straight conditioning. We have simply associated a new set of feelings, namely competence and strength, with the auditory and visual stimuli. There is another very important difference. We are picking a specific set of feelings and associating it, instead of just trying to wipe out the set that is there. The people that Ive observed do desensitization are usually trying to eliminate a certain kind of behavior rather than replacing it with something which is a positive response. They are the kind of people who answer Not bad when you ask How are you feeling We claim that every piece of behavior has a positive function. Its the best choice a person has in context. It was far better for Tammy to be phobic about bridges than it was to have no program at all. If you do systematic desensitization, and you dont replace the negative behavioral pattern with something positive, it takes a long time because the person will fight. Its their only defense. Thats why it takes six months, because a person has to randomly put something else in its place. Man There is a replacement, though, with relaxation. Man Sometimes its done that way, but relaxation is not the resource that everyone is going to need in a phobic situation. If youre driving across a bridge, you dont want to become relaxed suddenly. If somebody is in a situation in which they need to cope and you give them feelings of relaxation, they may not cope There may be real, genuine dangers in that situation, so one of two things will happen either the symptom will come back later because its protective, or the person will get hurt. We got a very strong anchor for confidence and for the resources that she has as an adult woman. We used that we did not use relaxation. She was very alert during this process. Desensitization was an important step, in that people were able to cure phobias with it. I think that it just needs to be dressed up a little bit. Instead of using relaxation and associating it with everything, try associating other things besides relaxation. There are much more powerful resources in people. There is nothing that we have offered you so far, nor is there anything we will offer you during the rest of this seminar or in an advanced workshop, that isnt already in someones behavior somewhere. What weve done as modelers is to figure out what the essential elements are, and what is unnecessary. Every therapy has dissociation. Every therapy has the kinds of sorting techniques were using here, whether its chairs or knee anchors or words. What is useful to have in every therapy is some way of doing all that some way of sorting, some way of dissociating, some way of integrating. The names you use are wholly irrelevant, and most psychotheologies are also irrelevant. Theres really nothing that different between what we did and what gestalt people do by taking people back through time. TA people do a process called redecision. They are all very, very similar. We looked at all those different processes and tried to find out what the essential elements were, and what was extra and unnecessary. Then we streamlined it to try to find something that works systematically. I dont think theres anything wrong with desensitization, except that sometimes it doesnt work. Thats because there are a lot of things that are extra, and some things that are essential are not always there. Some people who do desensitization also add the necessary resources unconsciously. But when they teach somebody else to do it, they dont teach that, because its not in their consciousness. Our function as modelers is to sort those things out. The other thing is that I dont know what kind of desensitization you are referring to specifically. Some use meters and machines. I am a far more sophisticated biofeedback mechanism than any set of machines. I use really sophisticated sensory apparatus and internal responses as a way of amplifying or diminishing certain parts of the response that I am receiving. Thats part of what makes onetrial learning possible in the kind of work weve been doing here with anchoring. Man What if a client is unable to use visual imagery Man It is not essential that people visualize to be able to do the phobia process, because the same formal pattern can be done auditorily or kinesthetically. The pattern of this technique does not require visualization. We wanted to use all systems as a demonstration. We dont need to do it with all systems. You could also first take a little time to teach the person how to visualize, using overlap. Woman Could you do this process without touching Man Sure, you can use a tonal anchor or a visual anchor. You can do it without touching. However, I would recommend that you do it with touching. Kinesthetics is an irresistible anchoring system. When somebody is touched, they feel it. When you make a visual sign at someone, they may look away or close their eyes. Man So the bailout anchor could be a certain tone of voice Man Yes. Tonal anchors in this society are the most powerful because most Americans do not hear consciously. The number of people in this country who hear is almost nil, slightly more than the number of cardcarrying musicians. In England its considered important to make class distinctions. In order to make class distinctions, you have to be able to hear different accents and tonalities. So English people are more acute at hearing tonal changes. Anyone who is bilingual or polyglot, and who has learned a tonal language, will have a good sensitivity to those kinds of changes. Most people in the U.S. do not actually hear the sequence of words and the intonation pattern of what they, or other people, say. They are only aware of the pictures, feelings and internal dialogue that they have in response to what they hear. Very few people are able to repeat back, in the same intonation, what you say to them. We hear people literally. We do not add anything or subtract anything from what they say. That is a rare human experience, and for a long time we didnt realize that we thought everybody heard words.