probably prevent any adverse reactions. However, some people could be triggered by the content of this book. For people who know when they are being triggered and have tools and techniques to handle the emotional flooding, there is no danger. But for people who may be triggered and have no clue as to what is happening or why, there is a danger of being overwhelmed. If you find yourself overwhelmed, seek professional support from a therapist familiar with dissociative processes who can help you on your healing journey.
Chapter 3 gives all the information for teaching the Process Healing Method to yourself or others. The strategy and interventions for clearing or treating barriers are listed. When you follow the directions, you will usually teach your subconscious the treatment method. Then you will have the opportunity to experiment with the treatment process.
Chapter 3: Teaching the Process Healing Method
Outline
The Process Healing Method is a change process. It is based on my clinical experience. In this chapter, I will tell you how to get started. The first step involves establishing rapport and teaching you and, at the same time, your subconscious, how the personality develops. Then you are taught how to organize all aspects of your personality and get them to work together. I will give you detailed instructions on how to motivate aspects of your personality so they want to join with the Main Personality — specifically, what to say to describe the advantages and to resolve any barriers an aspect may have to receiving treatment. When all aspects of you want treatment and give permission, you will read the metaphor teaching the treatment method to your subconscious. Then, I will give an overview of the treatment process and ways to resolve additional barriers to treatment. Much of this information will be taught by giving you a script of what to say. Though the information in this overview may seem repetitive, I want you to fully understand the 10-step procedure summarized in the flow diagram on page 49.
This chapter is designed to teach you the Process Healing Method by presenting you the Education Process that gets every part of your personality on the internal Treatment Team. Sections 3-2 through 3-8 describe the Education Process. Mainly, the Education Process is a sequence of interventions you and your subconscious are taught. You will learn a theory or an analogy explaining how your personality came to be the way it is. You learn the advantages for treatment and examples for resolving barriers to joining the Treatment Team and receiving treatment. The goal of the Education Process is to get all aspects to adopt common goals and join the Treatment Team. You will learn an ordinary hypnotic technique of using finger movements that signal “Yes” or “No” and so forth. This gives you a means to communicate with the subconscious and aspects of your personality. (Normally, the reader or patient will not go into hypnotic trance.)
The Education Process is completed when all active aspects of the personality have 100 percent agreement to complete the Education Process by giving permission for the subconscious to learn the treatment method. The two remaining Sections (3-9 and 3-10) teach the subconscious how to treat emotional issues and resolve barriers to treatment. The subconscious is also freed to give unconscious, independent, self-directed treatment to negative beliefs, memories, and experiences whenever they become active in your unconscious or conscious experience. The subconscious can also use other strategies for automatically treating several common issues.
The flow diagram on page 49 summarizes the steps in the Education Process for getting all aspects to join the Treatment Team and teaching the subconscious how to treat trauma. The Education Process and the treatment process are separate treatment procedures. The numbered boxes identify the different tasks in the Education Process. Each number corresponds to a section in this chapter that describes the task in detail. Later chapters provide more advanced treatment interventions used in the treatment procedure.
The following is a summary of the Education Process that corresponds to the 10 steps in the flow diagram. Each numbered step is summarized below. By reading the following steps and referring to and read-ing the choices in the Flow Diagram, you will get a clearer picture of how the Education Process works. This will help you as you read the sections in this chapter and fit them into the organization described in the flow diagram. Here are Summaries of the 10 sections.
1. Introducing the Process Healing Method — This section describes how to introduce Process Healing to the patient.
2. The formation of the personality — This section describes how the personality forms. This information enables the patient and parts of the personality to feel comfortable with the treatment process because believable explanations are given for the role of memory, the subconscious, and the development of various parts of the personality.
3. The advantages for treatment — There may be many aspects or parts of the personality invested in protecting the patient or themselves. This section gives all the advantages for treatment. However, the main reason for treatment is to get more happiness or satisfaction and less pain.
4. Introduction to the Treatment Team idea — The goal is to get all aspects of the personality to want treatment, to want to work together, to want their good coping skills strengthened with positive emotions, and to want to join with the Main Personality. When all aspects are on the Treatment Team, treating the person becomes easier.
5. Removing barriers to wanting treatment — Often, aspects have reasons for not wanting treatment, which, therefore, become barriers to treatment. This section identifies barriers and provides a way to resolve most reasons an aspect might have for not wanting treatment. The goal is to get each aspect to join the Treatment Team.
6. Learning to communicate with the subconscious — Up to this point, we have been talking through the conscious mind to active aspects in the unconscious. This section teaches you several ways to communicate directly with your aspects and the subconscious.
7. Assessing the readiness to teach the treatment process — This section explains how to be sure all aspects are on the Treatment Team and want the subconscious to learn the treatment process.
8. Teaching the treatment method — A final check is made to be sure that teaching the subconscious the treatment process will be respectful to all parts that are active. The subconscious learns the treatment process with a simple metaphor. This metaphor always works. Of course, other similar metaphors will also work.
9. Resolving barriers to treatment — Sometimes, there are aspects of the personality who do not become active during the Education Process. When they become active later, they can become barriers to treatment. This section identifies and provides solutions for beliefs and other issues that are the reasons an aspect may have for not wanting treatment.
10. The first interventions — Once the subconscious knows the treatment technique, it can then help create treatment plans for each member on the Treatment Team. The subconscious then learns some aids to improve the speed and quality of treatment, and is guided to treat some problematic beliefs, memories, and habits that will free it to automatically treat issues in the unconscious as needed.
It is important to know that when you read these sections as if you were the patient, you will also build rapport with all aspects of your personality. This will prepare your entire personality to be comfortable with treatment and the notion of the subconscious’ learning how to treat negative memories without your help. To be respectful to all of your aspects, it would be both instructive and helpful for you to follow all directions carefully.
These 10 sections are presented in the order in which you should read and use them — one section after the other. If you read them out of order, you will lose the structure of the chapter, and this will prevent you from experiencing the step-by-step procedure preparing all aspects to want treatment. Read the sections of this chapter one at a time, from one through 10. If you have to stop before you complete the 10 sections,
